Release v1.11.4

• Changed: restrict publishing of a new version of a database
  with dependencies to a previous version
  to the same repository
  as the previous version
• Changed: skip media files without audio
  when requesting a flavor,
  e.g. don't raise an error for a JSON file
• Fixed: audb.stream() for pyarrow>=21.0.0

Release v1.11.3

• Changed: reduce the timeout for acquiring a lock for a cache folder
  from infinity to 24h
• Changed: show a user warning
  if a lock for a cache folder cannot be acquired within 2s.
  The warning message suggests how to check
  whether the existing lock file needs to be deleted manually

Release v1.11.2

• Added: support for Artifactory backend in Python 3.12
• Changed: depend on audbackend>=2.2.2

Release v1.11.1

• Added: repositories argument to audb.available()
  to limit it to selected repositories
• Changed: ensure audb.Repository is hashable
• Fixed: default value for audb.config.REPOSITORIES
  in documentation

Release v1.11.0

• Added: a sampling rate of 24000 Hz as flavor
• Added: a sampling rate of 22050 Hz as flavor
• Added: support for Python 3.13
  (without Artifactory backend)
• Added: support for Python 3.12
  (without Artifactory backend)
• Changed: switch default repository
  to audb-public,
  hosted on S3
• Changed: audb.Repository.create_backend_interface()
  and audb.publish()
  now raise a ValueError
  for a repository with non-registered backends,
  or an Artifactory backend under Python>=3.12
• Changed: skip non-registered backends
  without raising an error
  in all functions with read-only access to repositories
• Changed: simplify quickstart section
  of the documentation
• Changed: depend on audbackend>=2.2.1
• Changed: depend on audeer>=2.2.0
• Deprecated: a sampling rate of 22500 Hz as flavor
• Removed: file-system repository from default configuration
• Fixed: handle an empty configuration file

Release v1.10.2

• Fixed: remove extra "/" at end of dataset names
  in audb.available() for S3 and Minio backends

Release v1.10.1

• Added: "s3" as a registered backend name
• Changed: depend on audbackend>=2.2.0
• Changed: make Artifactory backend optional,
  to allow importing audb in Python>=3.12
• Fixed: speedup audb.available() for S3 and Minio backends

Release v1.10.0

• Added: support for repositories
  on S3 and MinIO servers,
  using the minio backend
  of audbackend
• Changed: depend on audbackend>=2.1.0

Release v1.9.0

• Added: pseudo-streaming support with audb.stream(),
  which returns the new audb.DatabaseIterator object.
  In each iteration
  it will load a few rows from a requested table
  and downloads corresponding media files
• Added: map argument to audb.load_table(),
  which behaves identical to the map argument
  of audformat.Database.get()
• Added: pickle_tables argument
  to audb.load(),
  audb.load_to()
  and audb.load_table()
  with default value of True.
  It can be used to disable
  storing tables as pickle files
  in cache/root folder
• Fixed: audb.load_table() now only loads additional misc tables,
  that are used as scheme labels inside the requested table,
  and not in the whole database

Release v1.8.0

• Added: support for publishing tables as parquet files
• Changed: depend on audeer >=2.1.0
• Changed: depend on audformat >=1.2.0
• Changed: depend on pandas >=2.1.0
• Fixed: update progress bar at least every second
  in audb.load(),
  audb.load_attachment(),
  audb.load_media(),
  audb.load_tables(),
  audb.load_to(),
  audb.publish()
• Removed: support for Python 3.8