More bug fixes and small features

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This is a minor release with a handful of bug fixes and small enhancements. Most of the bug fixes are small improvements to the documentation or error messages. Thanks again to Alexandre Villares for raising the majority of the now fixed bugs.

Enhancements

• New methods for saving and loading data. The new methods are load_strings(), save_strings(), load_bytes(), save_bytes(), load_pickle(), and save_pickle()
• New join_thread() method

Pull Requests

There was one pull request from zztkm to fix the bug they reported. Thank you!

Bug fixes

• # 160
• # 163
• # 164
• # 165
• # 171
• # 176
• # 177

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