v2.7.0

[alkino]

Version 2.7.0 - 2023-03-31

New Features

- Properties can now be read (#684).
- Adding a property for LinkCreationOrder (#683).
- Adding a logging infrastructure (#690).
- Support of bool in the way of h5py (#654).
- Support `std::bool` in C++17 mode (#698).

Improvements

- Catch2 move to v3 (#655).

Bug Fix

- To avoid build failure in certain circumstances, user can not set `Boost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE` (#687).
- Fix leak when reading variable length strings (#660).
- Use `H5free_memory` instead of `free` in error handler (#665). Thanks to Moritz Koenemann.
- Fix a bug with old GCC due to templated friend classes (#688).
- Fix regression in broadcasting support (#697).
- Fix bug related to zero-length datasets (#702).

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

Merging #696 (c3e5887) into master (7acd5ba) will not change coverage.
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[pramodk]

With the diff of this PR itself, LGTM.