Version History
0.7.0 (released 2017-02-07)
- Added zstd.get_frame_parameters() to obtain info about a zstd frame.
- Added ZstdDecompressor.decompress_content_dict_chain() for efficient decompression of content-only dictionary chains.
- CFFI module fully implemented; all tests run against both C extension and CFFI implementation.
- Vendored version of zstd updated to 1.1.3.
- Use ZstdDecompressor.decompress() now uses ZSTD_createDDict_byReference() to avoid extra memory allocation of dict data.
- Add function names to error messages (by using ":name" in PyArg_Parse* functions).
- Reuse decompression context across operations. Previously, we created a new ZSTD_DCtx for each decompress(). This was measured to slow down decompression by 40-200MB/s. The API guarantees say ZstdDecompressor is not thread safe. So we reuse the ZSTD_DCtx across operations and make things faster in the process.
- ZstdCompressor.write_to()'s compress() and flush() methods now return number of bytes written.
- ZstdDecompressor.write_to()'s write() method now returns the number of bytes written to the underlying output object.
- CompressionParameters instances now expose their values as attributes.
- CompressionParameters instances no longer are subscriptable nor behave as tuples (backwards incompatible). Use attributes to obtain values.
- DictParameters instances now expose their values as attributes.
0.6.0 (released 2017-01-14)
- Support for legacy zstd protocols (build time opt in feature).
- Automation improvements to test against Python 3.6, latest versions of Tox, more deterministic AppVeyor behavior.
- CFFI "parser" improved to use a compiler preprocessor instead of rewriting source code manually.
- Vendored version of zstd updated to 1.1.2.
- Documentation improvements.
- Introduce a bench.py script for performing (crude) benchmarks.
- ZSTD_CCtx instances are now reused across multiple compress() operations.
- ZstdCompressor.write_to() now has a flush() method.
- ZstdCompressor.compressobj()'s flush() method now accepts an argument to flush a block (as opposed to ending the stream).
- Disallow compress(b'') when writing content sizes by default (issue #11).
0.5.2 (released 2016-11-12)
- more packaging fixes for source distribution
0.5.1 (released 2016-11-12)
- setup_zstd.py is included in the source distribution
0.5.0 (released 2016-11-10)
- Vendored version of zstd updated to 1.1.1.
- Continuous integration for Python 3.6 and 3.7
- Continuous integration for Conda
- Added compression and decompression APIs providing similar interfaces to the standard library zlib and bz2 modules. This allows coding to a common interface.
- ``zstd.__version__` is now defined.
- read_from() on various APIs now accepts objects implementing the buffer protocol.
- read_from() has gained a skip_bytes argument. This allows callers to pass in an existing buffer with a header without having to create a slice or a new object.
- Implemented ZstdCompressionDict.as_bytes().
- Python's memory allocator is now used instead of malloc().
- Low-level zstd data structures are reused in more instances, cutting down on overhead for certain operations.
- distutils boilerplate for obtaining an Extension instance has now been refactored into a standalone setup_zstd.py file. This allows other projects with setup.py files to reuse the distutils code for this project without copying code.
- The monolithic zstd.c file has been split into a header file defining types and separate .c source files for the implementation.
History of the Project
2016-08-31 - Zstandard 1.0.0 is released and Gregory starts hacking on a Python extension for use by the Mercurial project. A very hacky prototype is sent to the mercurial-devel list for RFC.
2016-09-03 - Most functionality from Zstandard C API implemented. Source code published on https://github.com/indygreg/python-zstandard. Travis-CI automation configured. 0.0.1 release on PyPI.
2016-09-05 - After the API was rounded out a bit and support for Python 2.6 and 2.7 was added, version 0.1 was released to PyPI.
2016-09-05 - After the compressor and decompressor APIs were changed, 0.2 was released to PyPI.
2016-09-10 - 0.3 is released with a bunch of new features. ZstdCompressor now accepts arguments controlling frame parameters. The source size can now be declared when performing streaming compression. ZstdDecompressor.decompress() is implemented. Compression dictionaries are now cached when using the simple compression and decompression APIs. Memory size APIs added. ZstdCompressor.read_from() and ZstdDecompressor.read_from() have been implemented. This rounds out the major compression/decompression APIs planned by the author.
2016-10-02 - 0.3.3 is released with a bug fix for read_from not fully decoding a zstd frame (issue #2).
2016-10-02 - 0.4.0 is released with zstd 1.1.0, support for custom read and write buffer sizes, and a few bug fixes involving failure to read/write all data when buffer sizes were too small to hold remaining data.
2016-11-10 - 0.5.0 is released with zstd 1.1.1 and other enhancements.