Release v0.5.1

Version 0.5.1

2025-08-22

• Add a Changelog #87 by David Hassell
• Improved documentation #84 by Kai Mühlbauer
• When getting object by address, do not fully instantiate when iterating #83 by Kai Mühlbauer
• Add documentation for Pyfive #81 by Valeriu Predoi
• Setup documentation builds on Readthedocs #80 by Valeriu Predoi

Issue and authors

• Closes #91
• Authors@ @davidhassell @kmuehlbauer @valeriupredoi

Release v0.5.0

Pyfive v0.5.0 release

Closes #75

Main highlights:

• Functionality enhancements to address lazy loading of chunked data, variable length strings, and other minor bug fixes: a completely new approach to handling thread-safe loading of HDF5 files by @bnlawrence and @davidhassell in #68
• Various improvements towards the pyfive Python package by @valeriupredoi #69 #72 #73 #74 #76 #79

Notes:

• the repository has now moved permanently to NCAS-CMS https://github.com/NCAS-CMS and will be maintained by NCAS-CMS
• a release cycle will be set up in the future, for now we are releasing on a "whim" ie when major updates are merged in main

Special thanks:

• many thanks to @jjhelmus for all his help passing the Pyfive baton
• many thanks to @kmuehlbauer for willing to help out here

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pyfive v0.4.0

pyfive v0.4.0

pyfive version 0.3.0

Some highlights from the release:

• support for dimension scales via the Dataset.dims attribute
• reading from BytesIO objects
• File can be used as a context manager
• references
• Support for a number of new attribute types:
  • complex64
  • complex128
  • variable length sequences
  • arrays
  • references
• Dataset.fillvalue attribute
• fletcher32 checksums