Version 1.2.0 (Bioconductor 3.23)

New features

• Add initial support for reading and writing .zarr stores (PR #190)
• Allow manually setting chunk size for HDF5 writes
• Add auto-chunking for HDF5 writes to improve performance (PR #424)
• Optimise sparse matrix reading performance by avoiding Matrix::sparseMatrix and constructing objects manually (PR #417)

Bug fixes

• Handle unnamed SingleCellExperiment assays in as_AnnData() by automatically assigning names with a warning (PR #420)
• Improve warnings when items fail to convert between objects and add new warnings and checks (PR #407, PR #396, PR #393, PR #402)

Documentation

• Updates to vignettes (PR #394, PR #438)
• Fix broken links
• Update author details

Testing

• Add a benchmarking system to monitor function performance (PR #423, PR #425, PR #447)
• Improvements to roundtrip tests
• Improvements to HDF5 tests
• Improvements to GitHub Actions CI (PR #379, PR #378, PR #403, PR #416, PR #418)

New Contributors

• @Bisaloo made their first contribution in #403
• @keller-mark, @Artur-man made their first contribution in #190

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.2.0