Release v0.5.3

• Add support for chunked v4 datasets with b-tree chunk indexing
• Improve exceptions for unsupported b-tree records
• Improve test coverage
• Upgrade to Gradle 6.0.1

Release v0.5.2

• Fix #124 String padding not handled correctly.
• Fix #132 Multi dimensional fixed length string datasets read incorrectly.

Release v0.5.1

• Fix bug in chunked v4 datasets (added in v0.5.0) where incorrect data was returned if, fixed array or extensible array indexing was used and the dataset dimensions were not a multiple of the chunk dimensions.
• Adds support for enum datasets (which are returned in string form) #121
• Adds HdfFile convenience constructors for URI and Path
• Fix #125
• Update dependencies
• Refactors test files to separate HDF5 files from scrips.
• Improvements to test coverage.

Release v0.5.0

• Adds support for some types (the most common) of chunked v4 datasets:
  • Single chunk
  • Fixed array
  • Extensible array
• Fixes #113 fixed length UTF8 datasets can now be read correctly.
• Fixes #112 multiple accesses to a global heap object now behave correctly.
• Lots of code cleanup and minor improvements
• Updates dependencies

Release v0.4.8

• Add support for reference data type. Thanks to Gisa Meier and JCzogalla #106
• Creation order tracking is skipped allowing these files to be read
• FileChannel can now be accessed allowing more low-level access to datasets
• Add version logging when the library is used

Release v0.4.7

• Fix bug #101 #101
• Add additional testing of attributes
• Add attribute example

Release v0.4.6

• Adds support for compound datasets
• Adds support for array data type
• Adds support for reading chunked datasets with Fletcher32 checksums, Note: the checksum is not verified.
• Improved performance of Dataset.isEmpty method
• Dependency updates

Release v0.4.5

• Fix #49 - Big (>10x) performance improvement for chunked dataset reads. Chunks are now decompressed in parallel and the resulting data copies are a large as possible.
• Update Gradle to 5.5
• Update test dependencies

Release v0.4.4

• Fix #88 error when running on Java 8
• Improvements to IDE support
• Improvements to exceptions in currently unsupported cases

Release v0.4.3

• Initial work for #49 slow chunked dataset reads
• Lots of typos cleaned up
• Add additional build data to MANIFEST.MF