• Source distributions on Linux now default to building with configure and
  make as it is faster and has less dependencies than CMake.
• Python 3.12 support was added. Python 3.7 support was dropped as it is end
  of life.
• Enabled installation on BSD
• Update embedded zlib-ng version to 2.1.5. This comes with some speed
  improvements and changes with regards to the compression levels. Also
  several bugs were fixed. For full
  details checkout the zlib-ng 2.1.2 release notes <https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/releases/tag/2.1.2>_ as well as
  those for the bugfix releases 2.1.3 <https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/releases/tag/2.1.3>,
  2.1.4 <https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/releases/tag/2.1.4> and
  2.1.5 <https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/releases/tag/2.1.5>_.