Changes since the v0.2.8 release:
* fix for numpy deprecation warning - use frombuffer not fromstring
* support broadcast for dset
* fix for external links with relative paths
* fix for creating dataset with initial data
* fix for create_dataset with `**kwds` args
* return dset.chunks as tuple not list (for h5py compatibility)
* several fixes that improve dimension scale functionality and h5py compatibility