Release: 0.14.2

[ax3l]

https://github.com/openPMD/openPMD-api/milestone/1

Various Reader Fixes

This releases fixes regressions in reads, closing files properly, avoiding inefficient parsing and allowing more permissive casts in attribute reads. (Inofficial) support for HDF5 vlen string reads has been fixed.

Thanks to @franzpoeschel and @ax3l for contributing to this release!

Which version am I running?

Python

import openpmd_api
print(openpmd_api.__version__)

C++

#include <openPMD/openPMD.hpp>
#include <iostream>

int main() {
    // query compile-time macros:
    std::cout << OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_MAJOR << "."
              << OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_MINOR << "."
              << OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_PATCH << std::endl;
    // there is also: OPENPMDAPI_VERSION_LABEL (e.g. "alpha")

    // or query the runtime API (since 0.12.0):
    std::cout << openPMD::getVersion() << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

CLI

# command line option (since 0.12.0):
openpmd-ls --version