v0.12.0

MAT v0.12.0

Diff since v0.11.5

Breaking changes

• Read-write behavior of Char arrays has been changed. This was ill-defined up to now
• Empty strings are now returned as String[] instead of ""
• Strings in arrays are no longer trimmed automatically to keep read-write behavior consistent.

New features

• Better Char array support, including unicode

Fixes:

• mat v7.3 (HDF5 format) performance issue fixed

Merged pull requests:

• RW for char arrays with unicode support (#234) (@foreverallama)
• avoid HDF5.name when possible (#238) (@matthijscox)

Closed issues:

• Incremental reading of complex matrix from MatlabHDF5File (#76)
• Function handle support (#221)
• HDF5 slow reading performance (#237)