Merge pull request #77 from jeromekelleher/json-reshape

Included array shape in JSON encoding.

Author: alimanfoo

docs/release.rst

@@ -1,7 +1,22 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
-* Updated the msgpack dependency (by :user:`Jerome Kelleher <jeromekelleher>`; :issue:`74`, :issue:`75`).
+.. _release_0.6.0:
+
+0.6.0 (in development)
+----------------------
+
+* The encoding format used by the :class:`JSON` and :class:`MsgPack` codecs has been
+  changed to resolve an issue with correctly encoding and decoding some object arrays.
+  Now the encoded data includes the original shape of the array, which enables the
+  correct shape to be restored on decoding. The previous encoding format is still
+  supported, so that any data encoded using a previous version of numcodecs can still be
+  read. Thus no changes to user code and applications should be required, other
+  than upgrading numcodecs. By :user:`Jerome Kelleher <jeromekelleher>`; :issue:`74`,
+  :issue:`75`.
+
+* Updated the msgpack dependency (by :user:`Jerome Kelleher <jeromekelleher>`;
+  :issue:`74`, :issue:`75`).
 
 .. _release_0.5.5:
 

fixture/json2/array.00.npy

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+    "allow_nan": true,
+    "check_circular": true,
+    "encoding": "utf-8",
+    "ensure_ascii": true,
+    "id": "json2",
+    "indent": null,
+    "separators": [
+        ",",
+        ":"
+    ],
+    "skipkeys": false,
+    "sort_keys": true,
+    "strict": true
+}