ZMat 1.0 RC1 (Foxy the Fantastic Mr. Fox - RC1)

• Copyright (C) 2019-2023 Qianqian Fang <q.fang at neu.edu>
• License: GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3), see License*.txt
• Version: 0.9.9 (Foxy the Fantastic Mr. Fox - RC1)
• URL: https://github.com/NeuroJSON/zmat
• Acknowledgement: This project is part of the NeuroJSON project
  supported by US National Institute of Health (NIH)
  grant U24-NS124027

Download

• Please download zmat by filling out a brief registration form
• The pre-compiled Octave mex file can only be used with Octave 8.x on Windows and MacOS (on Linux, the Octave mex file supports all Octave versions). The MATLAB mex files can run across a wide range of MATLAB versions.

Whats New

Starting in v0.9.9, we added support to a high-performance meta-compressor,
called blosc2 (https://blosc.org). The blosc2 compressor is not single
compression method, but a container format that supports a diverse set of
strategies to losslessly compress data, especially optimized for storing and
retrieving N-D numerical data of uniform binary types. Users can choose
between blosc2blosclz, blosc2lz4, blosc2lz4hc, blosc2zlib and
blosc2zstd, to access these blosc2 codecs.

The key updates of thi release include

• support blosc2 (https://blosc.org) meta-compressor (blosc2blosclz, blosc2lz4, blosc2lz4hc, blosc2zlib and
  blosc2zstd)
• support ZStandard (zstd) compression
• use miniz instead of zlib to make the package self-contained to ease deployment
• Octave mex files are organized in folders and support multiple OSes in one package
• Octave/MATLAB mex files are both forward and backward compatible (universal)
• add unit-testing scripts
• extensive development on github action based CI/CD, with automated testing and packaging
• migrate upstream git repository to https://github.com/NeuroJSON/zmat
• many bug fixes

ChangeLog

ZMAT 0.9.9 (Foxy the Fantastic Mr. Fox - RC1), FangQ <q.fang (a) neu.edu>

2023-10-22 [c79f969] use valgrind to test memory error on Linux,run example scripts
2023-10-22 [48ba900] fix memory error using valgrind, run full tests on all OS
2023-10-13 [d5b2c40] revert blosc2 to v2.8.0 to remove new dependency libdl
2023-10-13 [f2eadb5] fix broken test
2023-10-13 [e6bbda1] update cmake file, update README
2023-10-13 [bc760d5] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:NeuroJSON/zmat
2023-10-13 [7472d29] update blosc2 to v2.10.5, update zstd to 1.5.5
2023-10-13 [437f300] rename zstd folder without version number
2023-10-13*[f4408f6] use miniz by default, rename zstd folder name
2023-10-13 [fcaa396] update lz4 to 1.9.4
2023-10-13 [57115dd] Update README.rst
2023-09-14 [e50dc6b] build octave mex with octave 8.3 on windows
2023-09-14 [edbeae9] update compilezmat.m without blosc2 and zstd support
2023-06-27 [906d422] run a simpler version of octave test on windows
2023-06-25 [d628473] run demo
2023-06-25 [8c97c17] run full test on windows
2023-06-25 [a28f9c7] use simple test on windows
2023-06-25 [f443ef7] skip error testing on windows and mac
2023-06-25 [2d6732c] add matlab mex build on ubuntu 16.04
2023-06-24 [68eede3] add new octave mex for windows and mac
2023-06-24 [7416b2c] double quote windows libloc
2023-06-24 [d9f239c] static link zlib again
2023-06-24 [cf8b9d4] fix windows matlab path
2023-06-24 [05be0d6] add additional path for libmx
2023-06-23 [30beb86] test ubuntu 20.04 build error
2023-06-23 [3383f74] fix windows mx/mex not found issue
2023-06-23 [910be8b] fix quotation mark issue
2023-06-23 [fb1a63d] upload all zip files
2023-06-22 [6f6b493] upload only the allinone package
2023-06-21 [2751923] strip mex file to reduce size
2023-06-21 [1461b9b] remove -lz from static linking on linux
2023-06-21 [df92d96] add LDFLAGS to mkoctfile
2023-06-10 [e3303c5] base64 no longer add new line by default, use level=3 to restore
2023-06-06*[ff150ae] support miniz-based gzip compression and decompression, update test
2023-06-06 [e098fd2] use miniz for gzip decompression
2023-06-03 [0acc9e3] allow using HAVE_ZLIB/HAVE_LZ4/HAVE_ZSTD=yes/no with make
2023-04-11*[2caae69] add github action based CI
2022-10-24*[c655c56] add miniz
2022-09-20*[e557c65] let zmatlib C function handle base64 encoding newline instead of zmat.m
2022-09-20 [afe5654] make flag compatible with zmat v0.9.8 convention
2022-09-20*[6f1e437] add speed benchmark
2022-09-18 [84892ca] update fortran90 example
2022-09-18 [edb768b] update octave mex using octave 5
2022-09-18 [e5107bb] fix zstd default clevel, force make rebuild, update octave mex
2022-09-18 [2be1661] add zstd tests, fix blosc condition, fix zstd error code
2022-09-18 [2526367] fix mac ci error
2022-09-17*[877f2d7] add zstd compression support, fix #5
2022-09-15 [ad4605d] statically link libblosc2 and libzstd to libzmat.a
2022-09-15 [b1b0ad7] add c example in CI, add blosc2 tests
2022-09-15 [a5c072d] adjust makefile for building so file
2022-09-14 [98ab1df] force CC as dll linker
2022-09-13 [b8bdc8d] change xcode version
2022-09-13 [d863adf] remove warning
2022-09-13 [ef9ace9] debug travis on windows and osx
2022-09-13 [269a972] use system MAKE variable
2022-09-13 [7431bfc] debug travis error
2022-09-13 [78b1fa9] fix typesize, fix composit flags, make pretty
2022-09-12 [552a007] add the missing blosc2 makefile
2022-09-12 [944fb12] support blosc2 compressors
2022-09-11 [3f9542e] update zstd makefile
2022-09-11 [f07c09a] revert c-blosc2 to stable release v2.3.1
2022-09-10 [65ae09f] add blosc2 code tree
2022-08-22 [a471522] revert ci setting
2022-08-22 [9d4293e] switch CI to NeuroJSON
2022-08-22 [290a46c] switch upstream git repo owner to NeuroJSON org
2022-08-22 [59d092d] run test on matlab R2010
2022-08-22 [63b3f3d] manually patch easylzma PR lloyd/easylzma#7 to prevent memory leak
2022-08-22 [16cb296] matlab/octave are different in exp(1) and mexErrMsgTxt format
2022-08-21*[3bc5d6f] allow zmat to return error status without throwing an error
2022-08-20 [138be0b] test return status, clear memory in c example
2022-08-20 [b914a67] zlib memory tweaks
2022-08-20 [ccf0546] reformat c example
2022-08-20*[eab19fb] add unit tests, zlib memory optimization
2022-08-18 [5fe4360] test older octave (3.8)
2022-08-18 [e542838] test built in portable octave mex file
2022-08-18 [2cdc1b4] revert demo script to print outputs
2022-08-18 [675c922] add ubuntu 22.04 in CI
2022-08-18*[11b858b] allow oct file built with 5.x or newer to run in 4.x and 3.x
2022-08-16 [8291ebe] fix a warning picked by fedora package building flags
2022-08-15 [af61014] remove CXX=mkoctfile to prevent infinite loop in octave 7, fix #9
2022-06-07 [617618d] complete reformat using miss_hit
2022-05-21 [ef858a5] reformat C source code using astyle
2022-05-19 [b7cf723] add ubuntu 20.04 in ci
2022-05-19 [4b6a87e] update PKG_ADD to use locally compiled mex file first
2022-04-28*[08bd437] autoload octave mex file when addpath, thanks to cdf and mmuetzel
2021-11-20 [5f31756] port debian package patch to respect CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, fix #7