v5.0.3

What's Changed

• spelling + formatting by @LDRyan0 in #172
• Fix for Pytest 8 by @mr-c in #179
• Fix for failing tests with numpy 1.24.1 by @EdwardBetts in #171
• Fix test to work with Python 3.11 by @mr-c in #180
• Update tox.ini by @telegraphic in #182
• Support h5py version 3.9+ by @mr-c in #181

New Contributors

• @LDRyan0 made their first contribution in #172
• @mr-c made their first contribution in #179

Full Changelog: v5.0.2...5.0.3

v5.0.2

Minor release, two small bugfixes:

• Fix for 2D astropy Time objects from strings #162
• Fix for propagating filename arg #155

v5.0.1

Minor release without dill dependency (for PyPi)

v5.0.0

• Support for newer versions of numpy >= 1.21 and h5py >= 3.0
• Improved internal HDF5 structure for python dictionaries (no longer trailing /data)
• Deprecated use of dill in favor of in-built pickle (given the updates to pickle functionality in Py3, and issues with numpy dtypes)
• Switched to github actions for CI
• Objects referred to multiple times are now only dumped once within the HDF5 file (HEP002)

v4.0.3

This is a minor patch release for v4 that fixes backward compatibility issues with v3 files.

v4.0.1

This is a minor patch release for v4 that fixes a problem with hickling AstroPy SkyCoord objects.

v3.4.8

This is a minor patch release for v3 that fixes a problem with hickling AstroPy SkyCoord objects.

v4.0.0

This is the major v4.0.0 release of the hickle package.

Changes:

• Dropped support for Python 2.7;
• Dropped legacy support for hickle files made with v1 and v2;
• OrderedDict is now supported (#65);
• Subclasses of supported classes can now be properly dumped;
• data_0 is no longer used if there is only a single data group/set (#44);
• HDF5 groups can now be dumped to and loaded from (#54);
• Integers using Python's arbitrary-precision (integers larger than 64-bit) can now be dumped and loaded properly (#113);
• Replaced broken link to pickle documentation with proper one (#122);
• Objects that appear to be iterable are no longer considered as such unless hickle knows for sure they are iterables (#70 and #125);
• Dict keys with slashes are now supported (#124);
• Loaders are only loaded when they are required for dumping or loading specific objects (#114);
• hickle now has 100% test coverage;
• NumPy arrays containing unicode strings can be properly dumped and loaded;
• NumPy arrays containing non-NumPy objects can be dealt with as well (#90);
• Removed the use of 'track_times' (#130);
• If an object fails to be hickled using normal means, hickle will now fall back to pickling the object;
• Massively simplified the way in which builtin Python scalars are stored, making it easier for the user to view.

3.4.6

Fix for not being able to dump and load certain serialized objects.