v0.5

update release workflow, bump version

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -11,14 +11,16 @@ on:
 jobs:
   ghrelease:
     name: Publish sources on GitHub Release
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Configure
         run: |
           ./bootstrap && ./configure
+          sudo apt update
           sudo apt install bzip3 -y
+          bzip3 --version
       - name: Build source packages
         run: |
           make update-ChangeLog

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
+2024-10-17  Kamila Szewczyk  <[email protected]>
+
+	ensure that -i3 pads to full block size
+	otherwise we lose the nominal burst error correction capability. if a feature to remove the padding existed, it'd probably be based on shortenings to RS codes (i.e. we know exactly which values must be zero judging just from the block length, so they don't count towards the errors, allowing us to get better parity to data ratio)
+
+	todo: finally got rid of getopt
+
+	getopt_long -> yarg
+
 2024-10-16  Kamila Szewczyk  <[email protected]>
 
+	todo: triage tasks
+
+	Sharded mode: OpenMP support.
+
+	v0.4: update NEWS, regenerate changelog
+
 	TODO: update tasks.
 
 	mention interlacing parallelism

NEWS

@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 This file contains release notes for major and minor releases of xpar.
 For a complete list of source-level changes, consult the ChangeLog file.
 
+===============================================================================
+v0.5 (17-10-2024)
+- OpenMP support for sharded mode (which unfortunately seems bottlenecked by
+  I/O). 
+- Switch to yarg for command-line parsing, remove dependency on Rich Felker's
+  `getopt_long`.
+- Hopefully the last v0.x release. Hopefully, it will receive some feedback
+  which will help to introduce future improvements and release v1.0. The file
+  format will not change from now on, unless there is a bug or another major
+  misfeature that needs to be fixed.
+
 ===============================================================================
 v0.4 (16-10-2024)
 - x86_64 static Linux binaries are no longer provided.

configure.ac

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 m4_define([xpar_version_major], [0])
-m4_define([xpar_version_minor], [4])
+m4_define([xpar_version_minor], [5])
 m4_define([xpar_version], [xpar_version_major.xpar_version_minor])
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])