0.4.0

0.4.0 (October 3, 2023)

Enhancements

• Enhanced ZarrIO to resolve object references lazily on read similar to HDMF's HDF5IO backend. @mavaylon1 #120
• Updated storage of references to also save the object_id and source_object_id. While not strictly necessary this information is useful for validation and rigor of references. @oruebel #57

New Features

• Added parallel write support for the ZarrIO for datasets wrapped with GenericDataChunkIterator. @CodyCBakerPhD #118 @oruebel #128

Dependencies

• Updated HDMF and PyNWB version to the most recent release @mavaylon1 #120
• Updated minimum Python version from 3.7 to 3.8 @mavaylon1 #120
• Added threadpoolctl dependency for parallel write. @CodyCBakerPhD #118
• Added support for specifying optional dependencies and add optional dependency for tqdm used in parallel write. @CodyCBakerPhD #118

Bug fixes

• Fixed error in deploy workflow. @mavaylon1 #109
• Fixed build error for ReadtheDocs by degrading numpy for python 3.7 support. @mavaylon1 #115
• Fixed bug in the resolution of references to Containers. Previously references were only resolved to Builders. @mavaylon1 #120