The purpose of this pre-release series is to make it easier to test and tune nsmith-'s read coalescing algorithm in a large test environment.
New features
* feat: Implement read coalescing algorithm by nsmith- in https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot5/pull/1198
Bug-fixes and performance
_(none!)_
Other
* test: reinstate 'deflate', now that it works on MacOS by jpivarski in https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot5/pull/1206
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot5/compare/v5.3.7...v5.3.8rc1