Merge branch 'main' of github.com:Blosc/python-blosc2

Author: FrancescAlted

RELEASE_NOTES.md

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 # Release notes
 
-## Changes from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1
+## Changes from 4.0.0 to 4.1.0
 
-XXX version-specific blurb XXX
-
-- Add initial read-only mmap support for store containers:
+- Add DSL kernel functionality for faster, compiled, user-defined functions which broadly respect python syntax and implement the `LazyArray` interface.
+- Add read-only mmap support for store containers:
   `DictStore`, `TreeStore`, and `EmbedStore` now accept `mmap_mode="r"`
   when opened with `mode="r"` (including via `blosc2.open` for `.b2d`,
   `.b2z`, and `.b2e`).
+- Add `cumulative_sum` and `cumulative_prod` functions for Array API compliance
+- Add Unicode string arrays, support comparison operations with them, and optimised compression path
+- Add ``endswith`` and ``startswith`` and extend ``contains`` to support strings and offer `miniexpr` multithreaded computation when possible
+- Use DSL kernels to accelerate `arange`/`linspace` constructors by 6-10x
+- Improve documentation for `filters` and `filters_meta`
+- Fix edge case issues with `resize` and `constructors` so that `chunks` may be set independently of shape, and arrays may be extended from empty consistently.
+- Continued work on `miniexpr` integration, interface, and support
+- Ruff fixes and implementation of PEP recommendations
 
 ## Changes from 4.0.0-b1 to 4.0.0