v2.9.0

Version 2.9.0 - 2024-01-25

New Features

• Add named ctors for scalar and null dataspaces. (#899)
• Named ctor for empty property lists. (#904)

Improvements

• Enable running tests in parallel. (#849)
• Wrap all used HDF5 function calls and always check status codes. (#863)
• Utilities for writing tests in a container independent manner. (#871)
• Improve test rigour.

Bug Fix

• Log messages were slightly misformatted. (#854)
• Fix bug in enforce_ascii_hack. (#856)
• Fix create_datatype<bool>(). (#869)
• Guard functionality introduced in 1.10.0. (#905)
• inspector guard for empty containers. (#913)
• Avoid non-collective behaviour. (#912)