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

Release v0.4.2

• Add support for byte shuffle filter
• Many filter management improvements including support for dynamically loaded filters
• #74 Add support for reading dataset fill values
• Checkstyle added to improve code consistency - not full code formatting yet...
• Update Gradle to 5.4
• Update commons-lang3 to 3.9 (Java 8)
• Update mockito-core to 2.27.+

Release v0.4.1

• Add support for broken links
• #70 Add support for attribute and link creation order tracking
• Allow superblock v1 files to be loaded
• Improve exceptions thrown when lazy loading fails
• Fix bug to allow non-cached groups to be loaded
• Improvement to documentation
• Update Gradle
• Update test dependencies
• Code base cleanup
• Improvements to CI builds and PR validation