Christoph Gohlke

> could we validate those wheels and upload them? Probably not those numpy wheels. They include customization such as `_distributor_init` and runtime DLLs that should not be distributed in an...

Thank you for confirming. Linking to static `zlib-ng` does indeed work.

Thanks. I'll reconsider this when ready to test free-threading. It's probably better to enable `freethreading_compatible` per module after individual review and testing. The criteria for `freethreading_compatible` must be stricter than...

Thanks again. This will be in the next release, which requires Cython 3.1. Imagecodecs and tifffile tests pass on my Windows system with Python 3.13t.

Testing with [pytest-run-parallel](https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/pytest-run-parallel) has identified a few places, which need to be wrapped with [`cython.critical_section`](https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/userguide/freethreading.html#critical-sections).