v0.4: update NEWS, regenerate changelog

Author: kspalaiologos

ChangeLog

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 2024-10-16  Kamila Szewczyk  <[email protected]>
 
+	TODO: update tasks.
+
+	mention interlacing parallelism
+
+	-j
+
+	parallel decode
+
+	CI: Stop providing Linux binaries.
+
+	CI: Install OMP
+
+	speed up interlacing modes -i2 -i3 with OpenMP
+
+	fix overflowing shifts
+
+	xpar-x86_64: missing align
+
+	fix off-by-1 in asm code
+
+	xpar-x86_64.asm: clean up the source, add 3-way saturating CRC32C.
+
+	smode: restrict on vector-scalar product
+
+	v0.3
+
 	to-do: strike down some performance-related goals
 
 	avx512 version in xpar-x86_64.asm

NEWS

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 This file contains release notes for major and minor releases of xpar.
 For a complete list of source-level changes, consult the ChangeLog file.
 
+===============================================================================
+v0.4 (16-10-2024)
+- x86_64 static Linux binaries are no longer provided.
+- OpenMP support has been added to improve encoding and decoding performance
+  in joint mode with high interlacing factors on multi-core machines.
+- 3-way saturating CRC32C implementation has been added to improve performance
+  on x86_64 machines that support SSE4.2.
+- Slightly improve the performance of the sharded mode.
+- Fix undefined behaviour in sharded mode regarding int shifts.
+
 ===============================================================================
 v0.3 (16-10-2024)
 - Improve joint encoding performance on x86_64 machines.

configure.ac

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 m4_define([xpar_version_major], [0])
-m4_define([xpar_version_minor], [3])
+m4_define([xpar_version_minor], [4])
 m4_define([xpar_version], [xpar_version_major.xpar_version_minor])
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])