TileDB-SOMA 1.12.0

New features added

• [Backport release-1.12] [r] Connect re-indexer to blockwise iterator by @github-actions in #2748
• [r] Port re-indexer to the R API by @mojaveazure in #2637
• [python] Append-mode tutorial: "atlas model" by @ryan-williams in #2582
• [python] TileDB-SOMA append-mode tutorial by @ryan-williams in #2571
• [c++/python] Enable optional global-order writes for sparse arrays by @nguyenv in #2564
• [python] Include guidance for older CPU architectures by @johnkerl in #2643
• [r] Better handling of timestamps in $reopen() by @mojaveazure in #2497
• [c++] Improve default buffer sizes by @johnkerl in #2681
• Update to core 2.24, tiledb-py 0.30, tiledb-r 0.28 by @johnkerl in #2715

Breaking changes

• [Backport release-1.12] [python] Deprecate tiledb_ctx usage in TileDBSOMAContext by @github-actions in #2724

Minor changes

• [Backport release-1.12] [python] Pin to numpy < 2.0 for 1.12 release by @github-actions in #2746
• [python] Document build improvements, unshallow clone (fix dev builds) by @ryan-williams in #2560
• [python] Trivial neaten by @johnkerl in #2567
• [python] Better version numbers during development by @ryan-williams in #2563
• [python] version.py: guard git calls during wheel builds (sans .git) by @ryan-williams in #2590
• [python/ci] Build wheel from sdist outside of Git repository by @jdblischak in #2589
• [python/ci] Use macos-11 -> macos-12 for python-packaging.yml by @johnkerl in #2594
• [python/c++] Typo fixes / nits by @ryan-williams in #2596
• [c++/python] Address C++ warnings in Python build by @jp-dark in #2581
• [python/ci] Stop wheel-smoke-test failures for MacOS > 11 by @johnkerl in #2620
• [r] Prep on main for release-1.11 branch by @johnkerl in #2550
• [r] Fix builds against current TileDB Embedded by @johnkerl in #2573
• [r] Correct four \link{} references in help pages by @eddelbuettel in #2626
• [r] Update changed URL in three vignette files by @eddelbuettel in #2632
• [r] Set minimum version of Arrow to 15.0.1 by @mojaveazure in #2678
• [r] Use arrow minimum 14, not 15 by @johnkerl in #2690
• [r/ci] Adjust file download timeout to 300 seconds by @mojaveazure in #2649
• [r] Fix dependency of a test on fixed buffer sizes by @johnkerl in #2685
• [r/ci] Unbreak pkgdown CI by @johnkerl in #2703
• [r,py,c++] Support data frame write path by @eddelbuettel in #2704
• [r/ci] Unbreak r-valgrind CI by @johnkerl in #2711
• [c++] Allow row-major and col-major in SOMArray::create by @johnkerl in #2561
• [c++] PlatformConfig refactoring by @nguyenv in #2541
• [c++] Correct platform_config to tiledb_config by @nguyenv in #2597
• [c++] Also map "NONE" to TILEDB_FILTER_NONE by @nguyenv in #2599
• [ci] Move Python wheel-builds from macos-11,macos-12 to macos-12,macos-latest by @johnkerl in #2491
• [c++] Fix nightly build failure on formattable of json type by @johnkerl in #2609
• version.py: prevent Git version computation from raiseing by @ryan-williams in #2624
• Restore/add wheel smoke-tests, parallelize wheel builds by @ryan-williams in #2640
• [c++] Pass in a shared_ptr<Context> to _create_dim_aux by @nguyenv in #2645
• [ci] Switch from 16MB to 32MB buffer sizes for tiny GHA runners by @johnkerl in #2688
• [doc] Update README.md badge for Python CI (closes #2694) [ci skip] by @eddelbuettel in #2695
• [r] TileDB-SOMA 1.12 by @johnkerl in #2747
• [Backport release-1.12] [c++] Fix a nightly-build issue by @github-actions in #2725

Bug fixes

• [Backport release-1.12] [python] Support tiledbsoma.io.update_obs with post-nullable non-string attributes by @github-actions in #2728
• [python] Correctly handle string vs large string in Enumerations by @nguyenv in #2668
• [r] Switch 'UNORDERED' cell order to 'ROW_MAJOR' on schema creation by @eddelbuettel in #2575
• [c++] Handle 32-bit string and binary in writes by @nguyenv in #2519
• [c++] Fix validity buffer bit unpacking by @nguyenv in #2650
• [c++] Fix indexer memory leak by @johnkerl in #2665
• [Backport release-1.12] [c++] Fix enum-of-bool leveling by @github-actions in #2727

Upcoming deprecation notices

Full Changelog: 1.11.4...1.12.0