Release 3.6.1

Maintenance release to fix packaging issues.

No new features or bugfixes.

Release 3.6.0

Changes from 3.5.3 to 3.6.0
===========================

PyTables 3.6 no longer supports Python 2.7 see PR PyTables#747.

Improvements
------------
 - Full python 3.8 support.
 - On Windows PyTables wheels on PyPI are linked to `pytables_hdf5.dll` instead
   of `hdf5.dll` to prevent collisions with other packages/wheels that also
   vendor `hdf5.dll`. This should prevent problems that arise when a different
   version of a dll is imported than the version to which the program was
   linked to. This problem is known as "DLL Hell".
   With the renaming of the HDF5 DLL to `pytables_hdf5.dll` these problems
   should be solved.

 Bugfixes
 --------
 - Bugfix for HDF5 files/types with padding. For details see :issue:`734`.
 - More fixes for python 3.8 compatibility: Replace deprecated time.clock
   with time.perf_counter
     Thanks to Sergio Pascual (sergiopasra). see :issue:`744` and PR PyTables#745.
     - Improvements in tests as well as clean up from dropping Python 2.7 support.
       Thanks to Seth Troisi (sethtroisi).

Release 3.5.2

Maintenance release to fix compatibility with Python 3.8

Get ready for a 3.5.1 release

Sometimes admitting the defeat is the wisest thing to do

Merge pull request PyTables#696 from PyTables/develop

Release 3.4.4

Merge pull request PyTables#681 from PyTables/develop

Release 3.4.3

Merge pull request PyTables#622 from tomkooij/v3.4.2

release 3.4.2

Release 3.4.1

Changes from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1
===========================

Bugs fixed
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 - Fixed bug in ptrepack

Release 3.4.0

Changes from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0
===========================

Improvements
------------

- Support for HDF5 v1.10.x (see :issue:`582`)
- Fix compatibility with the upcoming Python 2.7.13, 3.5.3 and 3.6 versions.
  See also :issue:`590`. Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko
- Internal Blosc version updated to 1.11.3
- Gracefully handle cpuinfo failure. (PR PyTables#578)
  Thanks to Zbigniew Jdrzejewski-Szmek
- Update internal py-cpuinfo to 3.3.0. Thanks to Gustavo Serra Scalet.

Bugs fixed
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- Fix conversion of python 2 `long` type to `six.integer_types` in atom.py.
  See also :issue:`598`. Thanks to Kyle Keppler for reporting.
- Fix important bug in bitshuffle filter in internal Blosc on big-endian
  machines. See also :issue:`583`.
- Fix allow for long type in nextafter. (PR PyTables#587) Thanks to Yaroslav Halchenko.
- Fix unicode bug in group and tables names. :issue:`514`