# zarr 0.4.0

- Reading of sharded Zarr stores is now supported.
- The Zarr-registered "string" data type, an extension to the core specification, is now supported. This uses the "vlen-utf8" codec, also a registered extension to the core specification. For Zarr v.2 stores, this corresponds to the "|O" data type; the "<U*" data type is also supported, using a mocked-up "ucs-4" codec (it is not a true codec or Zarr v.2 filter) to provide the mandatory "array -> bytes" codec. This means that you can now read Zarr arrays that have character data. You can also create new Zarr arrays with character data.
- Nested attributes print better to the console.
- `zarr_conventions()` function returns `data.frame` of supported conventions.
- Ref convention code updated.
- Malformed "NaN", "Infinity" and "-Infinity" in metadata solved.
- Better testing of fill values.
- Fixed deeply nested consolidated metadata.
- Fixed handling of scalar arrays.
- R dependency bumped to 4.2
- Using Rcpp for performance bottlenecks, using `future` for optional parallel processing of chunks and shards.

# zarr 0.3.0

- Extensible domain and convention mechanisms added, following [ZEP0004](https://zarr.dev/zeps/draft/ZEP0004.html). This enables developers to extend this Zarr implementation with domain-specific interfaces.
- Metadata is now writable as a complete object - expert use only.
- Fixed listing of keys in memory stores.
- Expanded documentation.

# zarr 0.2.0

- Zarr version 2 stores can be read. Data types supported are those also included in the v.3 core specification. The `compression` codec has to be one of those supported by the v.3 core specification or `zstd`. Filters are not yet supported.
- HTTP stores can be read but only for Zarr v.3 and v.2 single-array stores and Zarr v.2 stores with consolidated metadata present in the root group of the Zarr store.
- Chunk key encoding from v.2 and "default" and "v2" from v.3 supported.
- The `blosc` package is now imported as it is the default compression codec.
- `zstd` compression codec added.
- Fixed reading `integer64` data.

# zarr 0.1.1

- Initial code base. This release contains a fairly complete implementation of the Zarr core v.3 specification. As such, it will not be able to access Zarr v.2 stores.
- Support for adding and deleting attributes to groups and arrays.
