v3.0.0-beta1

Version 3.0.0-beta - 2024-08-20

This version is a major one and is breaking some usage compare to v2.
Read the migration guide from the documentation: https://bluebrain.github.io/HighFive/md__2home_2runner_2work_2_high_five_2_high_five_2doc_2migration__guide.html

The minimum version for C++ has been moved to C++14.

Removed

• Removed read(T*, ...), use explicit read_raw(T*, ...) for Slice or Attribute. (#928)
• Removed FixedLenStringArray, use any container with strings instead. (#932)
• Removed FileDriver and MPIOFileDriver, use file access properties instead. (#949)
• Removed default constructor for Group and DataSet. (#947, #948)
• Broadcasting have been removed. Use squeeze and reshape feature instead. (#992)
• ObjectCreateProps and ObjectAccessProps those don't map well to HighFive and are unused. (#1002)

New Features

• Added support for std::span. (#987)
• Added squeezeMemSpace and reshapeMemSpace for Attribute and Slice to reshape the memory space. (#991)
• Added ProductSet to select a Cartesian products of (generalized) slices. (#842)

Improvements

• Optimized chained hyperslab selection. (#1031)
• Type T[N] or T[N][M] will work better. (#929)
• DataspaceType is now an enum class for dataspace_scalar or dataspace_null. (#900)
• File::AccessMode is now an enum class. (#1020)