Getting ready for 1.12.0 release

ANNOUNCE.rst

@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
 ===============================================================
- Announcing C-Blosc 1.11.3
+ Announcing C-Blosc 1.12.0
  A blocking, shuffling and lossless compression library for C
 ===============================================================
 
 What is new?
 ============
 
-Fixed an important bug in bitshuffle filter for big endian machines.
-This prevented files written in bigendian machines to be read from
-little endian ones.  See issue https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc/issues/181.
+In order to avoid problems with platforms with incomplete development
+library codecs, the default is now to compile the internal codecs.
+Users can still compile Blosc with external codecs by properly setting
+cmake options like PREFER_EXTERNAL_SNAPPY, PREFER_EXTERNAL_ZLIB or
+PREFER_EXTERNAL_ZSTD.
 
-Also, the internal Zstd codec has been updated to 1.1.3.
-
-Finally, the blocksize for compression level 8 has been made 2x larger.
-This should help specially Zstd codec to achieve better compression ratios.
+Also, the internal Zstd codec has been updated to 1.3.0.
 
 For more info, please see the release notes in:
 

blosc/blosc.h

@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ extern "C" {
 
 /* Version numbers */
 #define BLOSC_VERSION_MAJOR    1    /* for major interface/format changes  */
-#define BLOSC_VERSION_MINOR    11   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
-#define BLOSC_VERSION_RELEASE  4    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
+#define BLOSC_VERSION_MINOR    12   /* for minor interface/format changes  */
+#define BLOSC_VERSION_RELEASE  0    /* for tweaks, bug-fixes, or development */
 
-#define BLOSC_VERSION_STRING   "1.11.4-dev"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
+#define BLOSC_VERSION_STRING   "1.12.0"  /* string version.  Sync with above! */
 #define BLOSC_VERSION_REVISION "$Rev$"   /* revision version */
-#define BLOSC_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2017-03-09 #$"    /* date version */
+#define BLOSC_VERSION_DATE     "$Date:: 2017-07-06 #$"    /* date version */
 
 #define BLOSCLZ_VERSION_STRING "1.0.5"   /* the internal compressor version */