Getting ready for release 2.17.0

Author: FrancescAlted

ANNOUNCE.md

@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
-# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.16.0
+# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.17.0
 A fast, compressed and persistent binary data store library for C.
 
 ## What is new?
 
 This introduces some new features and improvements:
 
-* Use _fseeki64/_ftelli64/_stat64 on Windows for large file (>2 GB) support.
-  Thanks to Abhi Jaiantilal (@ajaiantilal) for the report and help.
-* Add 12-byte unshuffle for avx2. Thanks to Tom Birch (@froody).
-* Add 12-byte sse2 unshuffle implementation. Thanks to Tom Birch (@froody).
-* Better description of the Blosc2 format as a whole.
+* New b2nd_copy_buffer2() function for copying buffers with typesizes
+  larger than 255.  The previous b2nd_copy_buffer() function is now
+  deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
+
+* Support repeated values larger than 8-bit, also for n-dim arrays.
+  This is useful for compressing arrays with large runs of repeated
+  values, like in the case of images with large areas of the same color.
+
+* Fix a leak in the pthreads emulation for Windows.  Fixes #647.
+  Thanks to @jocbeh for the report and fix (#655).
+
+* Update zstd to 1.5.7.  Thanks to Tom Birch.
 
 For more info, please see the release notes in:
 

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ Changes from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0
   larger than 255.  The previous b2nd_copy_buffer() function is now
   deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
 
+* Support repeated values larger than 8-bit, also for n-dim arrays.
+  This is useful for compressing arrays with large runs of repeated
+  values, like in the case of images with large areas of the same color.
+
+* Fix a leak in the pthreads emulation for Windows.  Fixes #647.
+  Thanks to @jocbeh for the report and fix (#655).
+
+* Update zstd to 1.5.7.  Thanks to Tom Birch.
+
+* Add BLOSC2_MAXTYPESIZE constant.
+
 ### Deprecated Functions
 
 - `int b2nd_copy_buffer(...)` is deprecated and will be removed in

include/blosc2.h

@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ extern "C" {
 
 /* Version numbers */
 #define BLOSC2_VERSION_MAJOR    2    /* for major interface/format changes  */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_MINOR    16   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_RELEASE  1    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_MINOR    17   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_RELEASE  0    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
 
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_STRING   "2.16.1.dev"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2025-02-12 #$"    /* date version year-month-day */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_STRING   "2.17.0"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2025-02-26 #$"    /* date version year-month-day */
 
 
 /* The maximum number of dimensions for Blosc2 NDim arrays */