fpzip Release Notes

1.3.0 (December 20, 2019)

Changed license to BSD.
Added CMake support.
Added regression tests.
Added library version string and identifiers.
Added user-defined 64-bit integer types for code portability.
Renamed include directory and reorganized source file structure.

1.2.0 (June 10, 2017)

Added fpzip command-line utility for (de)compressing files.
Replaced C99 comments in fpzip.h with C89 comments.

1.1.0 (June 8, 2014)

Modified API to pass arguments via a parameter object (FPZ).
Modified API to support reading the header before decompressing the floating-point data, thus allowing the floating-point array to be allocated based on the dimensions stored in the header.
Modified API to allow header to be included/excluded at run time rather than at compile time.
Modified testfpzip to allow the floating-point type to be specified on the command line.
Deprecated Fortran interface.

1.0.2 (May 30, 2014; internal release only)

Added support for specifying the precision in increments of one (floats) or two (doubles) bits for lossy compression.
Added support for data sets larger than 4 GB.
Added compile-time support for excluding header information, e.g. for in-memory compression of many small arrays.
Modified API to use size_t in place of unsigned int where appropriate.
Changed error handling to set fpzip_errno instead of writing to stderr and aborting.
Added more functionality to the testfpzip example program.

1.0.1 (August 7, 2008)

Added modes for bitwise type conversions beyond reinterpret_cast, which caused aliasing problems with gcc 4.1.2.

1.0.0 (March 20, 2008)

Initial release.