Blosc/c-blosc v1.16.0

Release 1.16.0

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Now the functions that execute Blosc decompressions are safe by default
for untrusted/possibly corrupted inputs. The additional checks seem to
not affect performance significantly (see some benchmarks in #258), so
this is why they are the default now.

The previous functions (with less safety) checks are still available with a
'_unsafe' suffix. The complete list is:

• blosc_decompress_unsafe()
• blosc_decompress_ctx_unsafe()
• blosc_getitem_unsafe()

Also, a new API function named blosc_cbuffer_validate(), for validating Blosc
compressed data, has been added.

For details, see PR #258. Thanks to Jeremy Maitin-Shepard.

Fixed a bug in blosc_compress() that could lead to thread deadlock under
some situations. See #251. Thanks to @wenjuno for the report and the fix.

Fix data race in shuffle.c host_implementation initialization. Fixes #253.
Thanks to Jeremy Maitin-Shepard.