Release v0.12.0

[jakirkham]

Suggesting we do another release. Could do an alpha if we wanted, but that doesn't seem necessary.

Here's the changes

Thoughts?

[martindurant]

I support a release

[joshmoore]

Shall we roll out 0.12.0 and 2.15.0 together, @jakirkham?

[jsolbrig]

Will 0.12.0 be released sometime soon? I'm really anticipating #428 being released.

[jakirkham]

There was a bug encountered with NumPy 1.26+, which would be good to fix: #470

Given Python 3.12 is out, we might want to add that to CI (wouldn't expect other changes needed)

IDK if we want to wait to release for these things or release and then re-release whenever those fixes land

[joshmoore]

I'd tend to get a release out ASAP (or ASAJIH -- "as soon as John is happy") and then roll another.

[jakirkham]

On further investigation, looks like the NumPy issue was an issue resolved in main. So a release will fix that problem (more reason to get a release out)

In terms of Python 3.12, things largely worked, but had to fix an entrypoint test issue: #471

Side note: Think it is time for us to drop Python 3.8. Have raised as issue ( zarr-developers/community#65 ). If we would rather have a release with Python 3.8 first, then drop Python 3.8 right after, that is fine. That is, as long as CI remains cooperative (there were some issues cropping up recently with Python 3.8 builds in the Python 3.12 PR). Though would also be ok just dropping it in the Python 3.12 PR (as part of this release)

[jakirkham]

Went ahead and merged PR: #471

Going to kick off the release

[jakirkham]

Have tagged the release here: https://github.com/zarr-developers/numcodecs/releases/tag/v0.12.0

[jakirkham]

Seeing some sporadic issues with macOS CI where it tries to use AVX2 instructions. We might want to just turn this off completely. Doubt CI has hardware to cover this instruction. Though unsure why this issue is coming up now

Tracking in issue: #473

[jakirkham]

Now available on PyPI & conda-forge! 🚀

Closing...

[jakirkham]

As noted elsewhere, there were a couple bugs that surfaced recently. Most notably issue ( #478 ). Fixes for these are now in

Have cut 0.12.1. Wheels are already up. Conda-forge packages are in progress: conda-forge/numcodecs-feedstock#101