Getting ready for release 3.0.0

ANNOUNCE.rst

@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
-Announcing Python-Blosc2 3.0.0rc3
-=================================
+Announcing Python-Blosc2 3.0.0 final
+====================================
 
-The Blosc development team is pleased to announce the third release release of
-Python-Blosc2 3.0.0. Here, we are making easier to produce conda packages, as
-well as fixing some bugs and improving the documentation.
+The Blosc development team is pleased to announce the final release for
+Python-Blosc2 3.0.0. Now, we will be producing conda(-forge) packages,
+as well as providing wheels for the most common platforms, as usual.
 
-You can think of Python-Blosc2 3.0 as a replacement of numexpr, but better :-)
+With the new compute engine, you can think of Python-Blosc2 3.0 as a
+replacement of numexpr, but better :-)
 
-As always, we would like to get feedback from the community before the final
-release. We are providing binary wheels that you can easily install from PyPI
-with:
+We are providing binary wheels that you can easily install/upgrade from
+PyPI with:
 
-    pip install blosc2==3.0.0rc3
+    pip install blosc2 --upgrade
+
+For conda:
+
+    conda install -c conda-forge python-blosc2
 
 For more info, you can have a look at the release notes in:
 

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ add_custom_command(
   OUTPUT src/blosc2/version.py
   COMMAND ${Python_EXECUTABLE} generate_version.py
   DEPENDS generate_version.py pyproject.toml
+  WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
   VERBATIM
 )
 

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@
 
 ## Changes from 3.0.0-rc.3 to 3.0.0
 
-XXX version-specific blurb XXX
+* A persistent cache for cpuinfo (stored in `$HOME/.blosc2-cpuinfo.json`) is
+  now used to avoid repeated calls to the cpuinfo library.  This accelerates
+  the startup time of the library considerably (up to 5x on my box).
+
+* We should be creating conda packages now.  Thanks to @hmaarrfk for his
+  assistance in this area.
 
 
 ## Changes from 3.0.0-rc.2 to 3.0.0-rc.3

RELEASING.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-python-blosc2 release procedure
+Python-Blosc2 release procedure
 ===============================
 
 Preliminaries

pyproject.toml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "py-cpuinfo",
     "httpx",
 ]
-version = "3.0.0.dev"
+version = "3.0.0"
 
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]

src/blosc2/version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "3.0.0rc3"
+__version__ = "3.0.0"