- Fix reading numeric data which is not in the native endianness, e.g. big-endian data on a little-endian system (:issue:`1729`).
- Fix using bytes as names for :meth:`.Group.create_dataset` and :meth:`.Group.create_virtual_dataset` (:issue:`1732`).
- Fix writing data as a list to a dataset with a sub-array data type (:issue:`1735`).
- Allow building against system lzf library by setting
H5PY_SYSTEM_LZF=1. See :ref:`custom_install`.
- If pytest is missing pytest-mpi it will now fail with a clear error.
- Fix a test which was failing on big-endian systems.