v1.4.0

What's Changed

• Cross-compile the FreeBSD release binaries from Linux by @mnightingale in #300
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #298
• Bump cross-platform-actions/action from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #299
• Skip the redundant whole-file MD5 during verification by @mnightingale in #303
• Cleanup minor items after review by @BlackIkeEagle in #302
• Verify the blocks of a file in parallel by @mnightingale in #304
• add follow symlinks flag to create par2 by @BlackIkeEagle in #305
• Scan each file with a reader thread feeding worker threads by @mnightingale in #307
• Run the checks on pull requests from forks, which pushes never reach by @mnightingale in #315
• Reduce test suite runtime by @mnightingale in #316
• Bump cross-platform-actions/action from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #317
• Count the tail of a scanned file when built without OpenMP by @mnightingale in #311
• Replace wstring_convert with the Win32 conversion functions by @mnightingale in #308
• Check the 16k hash again, and make the whole file hash opt-in by @mnightingale in #310
• Roadmap 2.0 items by @BlackIkeEagle in #314
• Suppress reachable blocks from libgomp init and sync_with_stdio by @mnightingale in #318
• Blank the whole scan buffer beyond the end of the file by @mnightingale in #319
• version 1.4.0 Changelog by @BlackIkeEagle in #321

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline/blob/v1.4.0/ChangeLog