Getting ready for 1.21.1 release

Blosc · Oct 6, 2021 · 7e4ff2d · 7e4ff2d
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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE.rst b/ANNOUNCE.rst
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 ===============================================================
- Announcing C-Blosc 1.21.0
+ Announcing C-Blosc 1.21.1
  A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library for C
 ===============================================================
 
 What is new?
 ============
 
-This is a maintenance release.  Vendored lz4 and zstd codecs have been
-updated to 1.9.3 and 1.4.8 respectively.
-
-Also, this should be the first release that is officially providing
-binary libraries via the Python wheels in its sibling project python-blosc.
-Thanks to Jeff Hammerbacher for his generous donation to make this happen.
+This is a maintenance release.  Fix pthread flag when linking on ppc64le.
+Vendored BloscLZ, Zlib and Zstd codecs have been updated to their latest
+versions too; this can bring important performance improvements, so if
+speed is a priority to you, an upgrade is recommended.
 
 For more info, please see the release notes in:
 

diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@
 Changes from 1.21.0 to 1.21.1
 =============================
 
+* Fix pthread flag when linking on ppc64le.  See #318.  Thanks to Axel Huebl.
+
+* Updates in codecs (some bring important performance improvements):
+  * BloscLZ updated to 2.5.1.
+  * Zlib updated to 1.2.11
+  * Zstd updated to 1.5.0
 
-* BloscLZ updated to 2.5.1
-* Zlib updated to 1.2.11
-* Zstd updated to 1.5.0
 
 Changes from 1.20.1 to 1.21.0
 =============================

diff --git a/blosc/blosc.h b/blosc/blosc.h
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ extern "C" {
 #define BLOSC_VERSION_MINOR    21   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
 #define BLOSC_VERSION_RELEASE  1    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
 
-#define BLOSC_VERSION_STRING   "1.21.1.dev0"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
+#define BLOSC_VERSION_STRING   "1.21.1"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
 #define BLOSC_VERSION_REVISION "$Rev$"   /* revision version */
-#define BLOSC_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2020-12-22 #$"    /* date version */
+#define BLOSC_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2021-10-06 #$"    /* date version */
 
 #define BLOSCLZ_VERSION_STRING "2.5.1"   /* the internal compressor version */