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* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  Add support for `append` mode for Azure Blob Storage (#865)
  Bump softprops/action-gh-release in the github-actions group (#918)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  Fix pylance complaint (#917)
  Add more references to README.rst (#915)
  Pin github-release-commenter (#914)
  Fix doctest (#913)
  Bump softprops/action-gh-release in the github-actions group (#912)
  Bump minimum supported version to Python 3.10 (#911)
  Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates (#910)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  [s3] Support very large buckets in iter_bucket, add client_kwars (#908)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  [http] Re-introduce read optimization when buffer is empty (#907)
  [http] Eliminate _read_iter and simplify read (#906)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  [http] Avoid using response.iter_content (#905)
  [docs] Readability fixes in release instructions (#904)
  Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates (#903)
  Simplify WHENCE_END logic (#902)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  Add test for seek to end + defer_seek (#901)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  [s3] Add lower version to boto3 requirement (#899)
  Prefill target branch and new tag on the new GitHub release page (#897)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  Use compression.zstd (PEP-784) (#895)
  Drop python 3.8, add python 3.14 (#896)
  [s3] Add range_chunk_size param to read using multiple GET requests (#887)
  Run tests in parallel (#893)
  Optimize forward seeks within buffered data to avoid redundant GET (#892)
  Add macos to CI (#891)
  Simplify CI, use uv (#890)
  [s3] Improve handling of InvalidRange and seek on empty file (#889)
  Protect against hanging tests (#888)
  Bump the github-actions group with 2 updates (#886)
  build: fix invalid `fallback_version` when builing with `uv` (#884)
  Remove travis leftover (#881)
  Disambiguate URI examples in README.rst (#879)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  Add .xz and increase performance of compression module (#875)
  Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish in /.github/workflows (#878)
  Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 in the github-actions group (#877)
  Fix release.sh for the final merge back into develop (#872)

Merge branch 'develop' into master

* develop:
  Update CHANGELOG.md
  Drop 3.7 support in pyproject.toml (#871)
  Fix CI badge (#869)
  Bump softprops/action-gh-release in the github-actions group (#867)
  Fix release.sh merge message and final merge (#868)