Getting ready for release 2.16.0

Author: FrancescAlted

ANNOUNCE.md

@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
-# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.15.2
+# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.16.0
 A fast, compressed and persistent binary data store library for C.
 
 ## What is new?
 
-This is a maintenance release in which we are fixing some issues
-that have been reported by the community. The most relevant changes are:
+This introduces some new features and improvements:
 
-* Support wasm32 by disabling ZLIB WITH_OPTIM option. Thanks to Miles Granger.
-
-* Added support for nvcc (NVidia Cuda Compiler) in CMake. Thanks to @dqwu.
-
-* Fix public include directories for blosc2 targets. Thanks to Dmitry Mikushin.
+* 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.
 
 For more info, please see the release notes in:
 

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 Release notes for C-Blosc2
 ==========================
 
-Changes from 2.15.2 to 2.15.3
+Changes from 2.15.2 to 2.16.0
 =============================
 
-#XXX version-specific blurb XXX#
-
+* 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.
 
 Changes from 2.15.1 to 2.15.2
 =============================

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    15   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_RELEASE  3    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_MINOR    16   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_RELEASE  0    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
 
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_STRING   "2.15.3.dev"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2024-11-28 #$"    /* date version year-month-day */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_STRING   "2.16.0"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2025-02-12 #$"    /* date version year-month-day */
 
 
 /* The maximum number of dimensions for Blosc2 NDim arrays */