Getting ready for release 3.6.0

Author: lshaw8317

ANNOUNCE.rst

@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-Announcing Python-Blosc2 3.5.1
+Announcing Python-Blosc2 3.6.0
 ==============================
 
 In this release:
-✅ Dramatically reduced memory usage when computing slices of lazy expressions
-   (up to 20x less memory)
-✅ Added fast path for small slices that fit in memory (up to 20x faster)
-✅ Renamed blosc2.concatenate() to blosc2.concat() (following Array API standard)
-✅ Improved mode handling for concatenating arrays stored on disk
-
+✅ Blosc2 now suppports fancy indexing (and orthogonal indexing)
+✅ Added fast path for 1D fancy indexing
+✅ More complex slicing is now supported for lazy expressions
+✅ Blosc2 indexing more consistent with NumPy
+✅ Comprehensive ``squeeze`` function which squeezes only specified dimensions
 
 You can think of Python-Blosc2 3.x as an extension of NumPy/numexpr that:
 

RELEASE_NOTES.md

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 # Release notes
 
-## Changes from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2
+## Changes from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1
 
 XXX version-specific blurb XXX
 
+## Changes from 3.5.1 to 3.6.0
+
+* Expose the `oindex` C-level functionality in Blosc2 for `NDArray`.
+
+* Implement fancy indexing which closely matches NumPy functionality, using
+`ndindex` library. Includes a fast path for 1D arrays, based on Zarr's implementation.
+
+* A major refactoring of slicing for lazy expressions using `ndindex`. We have also
+added support for slices with non-unit steps for reduction expressions, which has introduced
+improvements that could be incorporated into other lazy expression machinery in the future.
+More complex slicing is now supported.
+
+* Minor bug fixes to ensure that Blosc2 indexing does not introduce dummy dimensions when NumPy does not,
+and a more comprehensive `squeeze` function which squeezes specified dimensions.
+
 ## Changes from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1
 
 * Reduced memory usage when computing slices of lazy expressions.

pyproject.toml

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "py-cpuinfo; platform_machine != 'wasm32'",
     "requests",
 ]
-version = "3.5.2.dev0"
+version = "3.6.0"
 
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]

src/blosc2/version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "3.5.2.dev0"
+__version__ = "3.6.0"