Version 5.3.0rc1

[jpivarski]

The main new feature (and motivation for a new minor release, 5.3.0), is that Uproot now strictly depends on the cramjam library for compression, rather than optionally depending on lz4, xxhash, and zstd (prompting users to install them when needed, rather than upfront when Uproot is installed).

New features

• feat: use cramjam for lzma, lz4, and zstd, opt-in use of isal for zlib by @lgray in feat: use cramjam for lzma, lz4, and zstd, opt-in use of isal for zlib #1090

Bug-fixes and performance

• fix: missing '_fh' and '_file' attributes after unpickling by @jpivarski in fix: missing '_fh' and '_file' attributes after unpickling #1118
• fix: fix dask_write docs by @zbilodea in fix: fix dask_write docs #1122
• fix: attempt to concatenate numpy and awkward arrays by @ioanaif in fix: attempt to concatenate numpy and awkward arrays #1114
• fix: test suite creates files not in tmp_path by @ioanaif in fix: test suite creates files not in tmp_path #1123

Other

• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in chore: update pre-commit hooks #1110
• chore: update pre-commit hooks by @pre-commit-ci in chore: update pre-commit hooks #1119

Full Changelog: v5.2.2...v5.3.0rc1

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This discussion was created from the release Version 5.3.0rc1.