Getting ready for release 2.14.0

ANNOUNCE.md

@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
-# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.13.2
+# Announcing C-Blosc2 2.14.0
 A fast, compressed and persistent binary data store library for C.
 
 ## What is new?
 
-This is a patch release for improving of SSSE3 detection on Visual Studio.
-Also, documentation for the globally registered filters and codecs has been
-added:
-https://www.blosc.org/c-blosc2/reference/utility_variables.html#codes-for-filters
-https://www.blosc.org/c-blosc2/reference/utility_variables.html#compressor-codecs
+This is a minor release for adding an accelerated path in `b2nd_append()`.
+Also, many fixes and improvements have been added.
 
 For more info, please see the release notes in:
 

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -1,10 +1,36 @@
 Release notes for C-Blosc2
 ==========================
 
-Changes from 2.13.2 to 2.13.3
+Changes from 2.13.2 to 2.14.0
 =============================
 
-#XXX version-specific blurb XXX#
+* Fixed a bug preventing buffers to be appended to empty (0-sized) b2nd arrays.
+
+* New acceleration path for `b2nd_append()`.  This new path is
+  much faster (up to 4x) than the previous one, specially for large arrays.
+  See `bench/bench_stack_append.c` for the bench of use.
+
+* New examples for using the `b2nd_set_slice_cbuffer()` and
+  `b2nd_append()` functions for adding data into existing b2nd arrays.
+  See `examples/example_stack_images.c`.
+
+* Now, ``python3`` is used for finding plugins instead of ``python``.
+  This is because many linux distros do not have ``python`` as a symlink
+  to ``python3`` anymore.
+
+* New round of fixing warnings.  Now, C-Blosc2 should be relatively free of them.
+
+* Small performance tweak for clevel 1 in BloscLZ codec.
+
+* Fixed a leak in frame code.  Closes #591.  Thanks to @LuMingYinDetect.
+
+* Disable shuffle repeat in filters pipeline.  This was broken
+  since the initial implemented, and it was never documented.
+  Also, compression ratios do not seem to be improved in our experiments,
+  so this capability has been removed completely.
+
+* Support for new Intel compilers (2023.0.1 and on).  Fixes #533.
+  Thanks to Nick Papior.
 
 
 Changes from 2.13.1 to 2.13.2

include/blosc2.h

@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ extern "C" {
 
 /* Version numbers */
 #define BLOSC2_VERSION_MAJOR    2    /* for major interface/format changes  */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_MINOR    13   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_RELEASE  3    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_MINOR    14   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_RELEASE  0    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
 
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_STRING   "2.13.3.dev"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
-#define BLOSC2_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2023-02-07 #$"    /* date version */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_STRING   "2.14.0"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
+#define BLOSC2_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2023-04-01 #$"    /* date version */
 
 
 /* The maximum number of dimensions for Blosc2 NDim arrays */