Getting ready for release 0.5.0

ANNOUNCE.rst

@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
-# Announcing cat4py 0.4.2
+# Announcing python-caterva 0.5.0
 
 
 ## What is new?
 
-In this release the package is compiled using the scikit-build tool for a better integration
-with the C dependencies.
+In this release the package has been completely rebuilt in order to improve the slicing capabilities.
+Now, users can update the values of the arrays as many times as they want.
 
-A complete API renaming has been introduced to facilitate the use of cat4py by the community.
-
-Finally, the buffer protocol and the array interface have been implemented.
+In addition, the buffer and array protocols has been improved and the data type support has been removed
+to simplify the library.
 
 For more info, you can have a look at the release notes in:
 
-https://github.com/Blosc/cat4py/releases
+https://github.com/Blosc/python-caterva/releases
 
 More docs and examples are available in the documentation site:
 
-https://cat4py.readthedocs.io
+https://python-caterva.readthedocs.io
 
 
 ## What is it?
@@ -26,17 +25,17 @@ multidimensional, chunked, compressed datasets. Data can be stored either
 in-memory or on-disk, but the API to handle both versions is the same.
 Compression is handled transparently for the user by adopting the Blosc2 library.
 
-cat4py is a pythonic wrapper for the Caterva library.
+python-caterva is a pythonic wrapper for the Caterva library.
 
 
 ## Sources repository
 
 The sources and documentation are managed through github services at:
 
-http://github.com/Blosc/cat4py
+http://github.com/Blosc/python-caterva
 
 Caterva is distributed using the BSD license, see
-[LICENSE](https://github.com/Blosc/cat4py/blob/master/LICENSE) for details.
+[LICENSE](https://github.com/Blosc/python-caterva/blob/master/LICENSE) for details.
 
 
 ## Mailing list

RELEASE_NOTES.rst

@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
-Changes from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3
+Changes from 0.4.2 to 0.5.0
 ---------------------------
 
-XXX version-specific blurb XXX
+* Big c-core refactoring improving the slicing performance.
+* Implement `__setitem__` method for arrays to allow to update the values of the arrays.
+* Use Blosc special-constructors to initialize the arrays.
+* Improve the buffer and array protocols.
+* Remove the data type support in order to simplify the library.
 
 Changes from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2
 ---------------------------

RELEASING.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cat4py release procedure
+python-caterva release procedure
 ========================
 
 Preliminaries
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Preliminaries
     git commit -a -m "Getting ready for release X.Y.Z"
     git push
 
-* Check that the documentation is correctly created in https://cat4py.readthedocs.io.
+* Check that the documentation is correctly created in https://python-caterva.readthedocs.io.
 
 
 Tagging
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Tagging
     git push
     git push --tags
 
-After the tag would be up, update the release notes in: https://github.com/Blosc/cat4py/releases
+After the tag would be up, update the release notes in: https://github.com/Blosc/python-caterva/releases
 
 Packaging
 ---------
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ Packaging
   re-clone and re-build::
 
     cd /tmp
-    git clone --recursive [email protected]:Blosc/cat4py.git
-    cd cat4py
+    git clone --recursive [email protected]:Blosc/python-caterva.git
+    cd python-caterva
     python setup.py build_ext
 
 * Check that all Cython generated ``*.c`` files are present.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Uploading
 
 It takes about 15 minutes for it to be installed using::
 
-    pip install cat4py
+    pip install python-caterva
 
 
 
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ Announcing
 Post-release actions
 --------------------
 
-* Change back to the actual cat4py repo::
+* Change back to the actual python-caterva repo::
 
-    cd $HOME/blosc/cat4py
+    cd $HOME/blosc/python-caterva
 
 
 * Create new headers for adding new features in ``RELEASE_NOTES.rst``

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.4.3.dev0
+0.5.0