NEWS

rhdf5filters 1.20.0

Small changes to compilation of internal blosc and vbz libraries to cope with the C23 compiler becoming the default in R-4.5.0

Ensure PKG_CPPFLAGS are passed to all compilation step. This was an issue in the case where R was installed via conda and package binaries were not available. Backported to version 1.18.1.

rhdf5filters no longer sets the HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable when it is loaded. Instead this is handled by the H5PLprepend() function in rhdf5.

Fixed issue compiling VBZ filter when R was installed via conda. Backported to version 1.14.1. (Reported in https://github.com/grimbough/rhdf5filters/issues/20)

The package will now test for system libraries for several compression tools and will use those libraries rather than compiling from source if they are found.

Compression libraries updated:
- lz4: 1.9.2 🠪 1.9.4
Added the standalone Zstandard filter. The distributed version of Zstandard is now 1.5.5.
Added the VBZ filter.

Ensure ranlib is applied to the lzf library after it is compiled. This cause linking failures on some systems. (Thanks to Sergey Fedorov for the report https://github.com/grimbough/rhdf5filters/pull/18)

Compression libraries updated:
- blosc: 1.16.3 🠪 1.20.1
- lz4: 1.8.3 🠪 1.9.2
- zstd: 1.3.8 🠪 1.4.5
Added LZF filter

Fixed some missing references to CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS & LDFLAGS in package compilation (https://github.com/grimbough/rhdf5filters/pull/4)
Improved CPU detection on non-x86 architecture to allow compilation to proceed with default instruction sets, rather than failing to install. (https://github.com/grimbough/rhdf5filters/issues/3)
Address issue in compilation where message printed while processing .Rprofile where added to LDFLAGS (https://github.com/grimbough/rhdf5filters/issues/11) (#11)

Now passes R CMD config LDFLAGS to the compilation of the BLOSC filter. (https://github.com/grimbough/rhdf5filters/issues/2)