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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ HDF5 History
 
 This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch
 
+15.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.13
 14.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.12
 13.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.11
 12.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.10-patch1
@@ -20,8 +21,768 @@ This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch
 
 [Search on the string '%%%%' for section breaks of each release.]
 
+
+%%%%1.8.13%%%%   
+
+
+HDF5 version 1.8.13 released on 2014-05-05
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.12 and 
+HDF5-1.8.13, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.13. 
+For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+and HISTORY-1_8.txt in the release_docs/ directory of the HDF5 source.
+
+Links to the HDF5 1.8.13 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/
+
+The HDF5 1.8.13 release can be obtained from:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
+
+User documentation for 1.8.13 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
+
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+in 1.8.0?" document:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/WhatsNew180.html
+
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes 
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.13 (current 
+release) versus Release 1.8.12":
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+
+- New Features
+- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
+- Supported Platforms
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Autotools: Automake updated to 1.14.1 (ADB - 2014/04/08)
+
+    - CMake: Moved minimum CMake version to 2.8.11 which enables better library
+      include processing. (ADB - 2014/03/26)
+    
+    - When configuring a thread-safe HDF5 Library it is no longer necessary 
+      to specify --enable-threadsafe with --with-pthreads if the Pthreads 
+      library is in a standard location.  (DER - 2014/04/11 HDFFV-8693)
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Added an H5free_memory API call. This should be used to free memory 
+      that has been allocated by HDF5 API calls. H5Tget_member_name and 
+      H5Pget_class_name are two examples. The main motivation for this call 
+      is Windows, where it is common for application code and the HDF5 Library 
+      to be using different C run-time libraries (CRT). Using the new call 
+      ensures that the same CRT handles both the allocation and free. This 
+      new function can also be useful in any case where the library uses a 
+      different memory manager than the application, such as when a debug 
+      memory manager is in use or when the HDF5 Library is wrapped for use 
+      in a managed language like Python or Java. Fixes HDFFV-7710, 8519, 
+      and 8851. (DER - 2014/04/11)
+
+    - The Core VFD (aka Memory VFD) can now be configured to track dirty 
+      regions in the file and only write out the changed regions on 
+      flush/close. Additionally, a "page aggregation" size can be set that 
+      will aggregate small writes into larger writes. For example, setting 
+      a 1 MiB page aggregation size will logically partition the the 
+      in-memory file into 1 MiB pages that will be written out in their 
+      entirety if even a single byte is dirtied. The feature is controlled 
+      via the new H5Pset/get_core_write_tracking() API call. A new 
+      "core_paged" target has been added to the check-vfd target in 
+      test/Makefile.am that exercises the feature over all HDF5 VFD-aware
+      tests. (DER - 2014/04/12)
+ 
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - Removed MPI-POSIX VFD, as it wasn't helping anyone and was just
+      generating support questions. Application developers performing
+      parallel I/O should always use the MPI-IO VFD.
+     (QAK - 2014/03/28 HDFFV-8659)
+
+    - Improved parallel I/O support to allow collective I/O on point
+      selections. (QAK - 2014/03/15)
+ 
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - None
+
+    High-Level APIs
+    ---------------
+    - None
+
+    Fortran API
+    -----------
+    - Wrappers h5pset_file_image_f and h5pget_file_image_f were added to the 
+      library. (MSB - 2014/1/2014)
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - The following new features are added:
+      + Wrappers to class H5Object to get an object's name (HDFFV-8548).
+            ssize_t getObjName(char *obj_name, size_t buf_size = 0)
+            ssize_t getObjName(H5std_string& obj_name, size_t len = 0)
+            H5std_string getObjName()
+      + Wrappers to class H5CommonFG to get a child object's type from a
+        group or file (HDFFV-8367).
+            H5O_type_t childObjType(const H5std_string& objname)
+            H5O_type_t childObjType(const char* objname)
+            H5O_type_t childObjType(hsize_t index,
+                H5_index_t index_type=H5_INDEX_NAME,
+                H5_iter_order_t order=H5_ITER_INC, const char* objname=".")
+      + Wrappers to class DSetMemXferPropList for setting/getting a transform 
+        property list (HDFFV-7907).
+            DSetMemXferPropList(const char* expression);
+            void setDataTransform(const char* expression)
+            void setDataTransform(const H5std_string& expression)
+            ssize_t getDataTransform(char* exp, size_t buf_size=0)
+            H5std_string getDataTransform()
+      + Wrapper to CompType for setting size to compound datatype (HDFFV-8642).
+            void setSize(size_t size)
+      + Overloaded functions to provide prototypes that declare constant 
+        arguments const (HDFFV-3384).  These include:
+            DataSet::fillMemBuf
+            DataSet::getVlenBufSize
+            DataSpace::extentCopy
+            DataType::commit
+            FileAccPropList::setSplit
+            H5File::getVFDHandle
+      + Additional overload to class H5Location to get a comment as a char*
+            ssize_t getComment(const char* name, size_t buf_size, char* comment)
+      + Additional overloads to class Attribute to get an attribute's name for
+        convenience:
+            ssize_t getName(char* attr_name, size_t buf_size=0)
+            ssize_t getName(H5std_string& attr_name, size_t buf_size=0)
+            (BMR, 2014/04/15)
+      + A static wrapper to Exception for printing the error stack without an 
+	instance of Exception
+	    static void printErrorStack(FILE* stream = stderr,
+						hid_t err_stack = H5E_DEFAULT);
+	    (BMR, 2014/04/25)
+
+
+Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+===================================================
+    Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is not supported by Apple any more. In view of
+    the added support of Mac OS X 10.9, Mac OS X 10.6 is retired from HDF5
+    supported platforms. (AKC - 2014/03/14 HDFFV-8704)
+
+    Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks is supported. (AKC - 2014/03/04 HDFFV-8694)
+                                  
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
+===========================
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - CMake: When CMake commands are executed individually on the command line
+      and the external filters are being built, the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE define
+      must be set to the same value as the configuration
+      (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release if using -C Release). This is needed 
+      by the the szip and zlib filter build commands. (ADB - HDFFV-8695)
+
+    - CMake: Removed use of the XLATE_UTILITY program. 
+      (ADB - 2014/03/28 HDFFV-8640)
+
+    - CMake: Added missing quotes in setting the CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS for the
+      MPI option. (ADB - 2014/02/27 HDFFV-8674)
+
+    - CMake: Configuration of the HDF5 C++ or Fortran libraries with the 
+      thread-safety feature.
+
+      C++ and/or Fortran + thread-safe is enforced as a non-supported
+      configuration. This matches the autotools. (DER - 2014/04/11)
+
+    - CMake: Configuration of static HDF5 C library with the thread-safety
+      feature. 
+
+      Static + thread-safe + Win32 threads is not a supported configuration
+      due to the inability to automatically clean up thread-local storage. 
+      This is expected to be fixed in a future release. In the meantime, a 
+      work-around that uses internal functionality may allow the combination 
+      to be used without resource leaks. Contact the help desk for more 
+      information. (DER - 2014/04/11)
+
+    - Autotools: Several changes were done to configure and installcheck. 
+
+      An export of LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<szip library location> was
+      removed from configure; make installcheck was revised to run
+      scripts installed in share/hdf5_examples to use the installed h5cc, etc. 
+      to compile and run example source files also installed there. 
+
+      Make installcheck will now fail when a shared szip or other external lib 
+      file cannot be found in the same manner that executables compiled and 
+      linked with h5cc will fail to run when those lib files cannot be found 
+      after install. Make installcheck should pass after setting 
+      LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the szip location. (LRK - 2014/04/16)
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - A Gnu Make directive (.NOTPARALLEL) is added to fortran/test/Makefile.
+
+      AIX native make does not support this directive and would fail if
+      parallel make (e.g. make -j4) is used to build the library. AIX users
+      either do not use parallel make or install Gnu Make to build the library.
+      (AKC 2014/04/08 HDFFV-8738)
+
+    - H5R.c: H5Rget_name gave an assertion failure if the "name" parameter 
+      was NULL.
+
+      Fixed H5Rget_name to return the size of the buffer needed to read a
+      name of the referenced object in this case. The size doesn't include 
+      the NULL terminator. H5Rget_name returns negative on failure. 
+      (MSB - 2014/01/22 HDFFV-8620)
+
+    - H5Z.c: H5Zfilter_avail didn't check if a filter was available as a
+      dynamically loaded filter. The error manifested itself in the h5repack
+      tool when removing user-defined dynamically loaded filter.
+
+      Added a code to find the filter among the dynamically loaded filters 
+      after the function fails to find it among the registered filters. 
+      (ADB - 2014/03/03 HDFFV-8629)
+
+    - Memory leak: a memory leak was observed in conjunction to the 
+      H5TS_errstk_key_g thread-local variable allocated in the H5E_get_stack 
+      function in H5E.c. 
+
+      The shared HDF5 thread-safe library now no longer leaks thread-local 
+      storage resources on Windows with Win32 threads. Currently, there is 
+      no solution for this problem when HDF5 is statically built. We 
+      disabled the build of the static HDF5 thread-safe library with 
+      Win32 threads. (DER - 2014/04/11 HDFFV-8518)
+
+    - H5Dio.c: Improved handling of NULL pointers to H5Dread/H5Dwrite 
+      calls. Credit to Jason Newton (nevion@gmail.com) for the original patch.
+
+      H5Dwrite/read failed when a NULL pointer was passed for a data buffer 
+      and 0 elements were selected. Fixed. (QAK - 2014/04/16 HDFFV-8705)
+
+    - Deprecated API (1_6 API): Improved handling of closing the library and
+      re-accessing it with a deprecated routine.
+
+      When a program used a deprecated API (for example, H5Gcreate1), 
+      closed the library, and reopened it again to access a group, dataset, 
+      datatype, dataspace, attribute, or property list, HDF5 failed to 
+      provide an identifier for the object. Fixed.
+      (NAF, QAK - 2014/04/16 HDFFV-8232)
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - Fixed a missing H5F_Provisional module in HDF5mpio.f90 
+      (MSB - 2014/2/7 HDFFV-8651)
+
+    Performance
+    -------------
+    - None
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - The h5diff tool would report that a datafile compared with an exact
+      copy of the same datafile had differences. This was due to the issue
+      below of reading un-written chunks. This problem is also fixed.
+      (AKC - 2014/05/01 HDFFV-8637)
+
+    - The h5dump and h5diff utilities occasionally produced different output
+      between Linux and Windows systems. This has been fixed.
+ 
+      This happened to datasets that used chunked storage, with default fill 
+      values, and some of the chunks had not been written. 
+      When the dataset was read, the library failed to write the default fill 
+      values to parts of the use buffer that were associated with the unwritten 
+      chunks.  (JP - 2014/05/01 HDFFV-8247)
+
+    - The compress option is retired from bin/release.
+      (AKC - 2014/04/25 HDFFV-8755)
+
+    - bin/release has a new option "zip" that produces a release zip file for
+      the Windows platform. (AKC - 2014/04/24 HDFFV-8433)
+
+    - h5diff: Several failures relating to handling of strings attributes 
+      are fixed. 
+
+      The tool crashed or gave an error message when one of the strings had
+      fixed size type and another variable-length size type. h5diff now flags such
+      strings as "not comparable". We plan to enhance the tool to handle
+      strings of the different types in the future releases.
+      (AKC - 2014/04/18 HDFFV-8625, 8639, 8745)
+
+    - h5repack: h5repack would not remove user-defined filters.
+      Fixed by modifying h5repack to check if the filter is registered or 
+      can be dynamically loaded. (ADB - 2014/03/03 HDFFV-8629)
+
+    F90 API
+    -------
+    - H5D_CHUNK_CACHE_NSLOTS_DFLT_F and H5D_CHUNK_CACHE_NBYTES_DFLT_F were 
+      changed from the default KIND for INTEGER to INTEGER of KIND size_t. 
+      (MSB - 2014/3/31 HDFFV-8689)
+
+    C++ API
+    ------
+    - Added throw() to all exception destructors.  Credit to Jason Newton
+      (nevion@gmail.com) for the patch.  (BMR - 2014/4/15 HDFFV-8623)
+    - Changed the default value for H5Location::getComment from 256 to 0
+      to conform to C function and because it makes more sense.
+      (BMR - 2014/4/15)
+
+    High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - None
+
+    Fortran High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - None
+
+    Testing
+    -------
+    - testhdf5 now exits with EXIT_SUCCESS(0) if no errors, else 
+      EXIT_FAILURE(1). (AKC - 2014/01/27 HDFFV-8572)
+
+    - The big test now pays attention to the HDF5_DRIVER environment variable.
+      Previously, it would run all tests with the family, stdio, and sec2
+      virtual file drivers (VFDs) for each VFD in the check-vfd make target, 
+      regardless of the variable setting. It now checks the variable and 
+      either runs the appropriate VFD-specific tests or skips as needed. 
+      This saves much testing time. Fixes HDFFV-8554. (DER - 2014/04/11)
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+The following platforms are supported and have been tested for this release.
+They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
+
+    AIX 5.3                       xlc 10.1.0.5
+    (NASA G-ADA)                  xlC 10.1.0.5
+                                  xlf90 12.1.0.6
+				  gmake v3.82
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5PAE  GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         compilers for 32-bit applications;
+    (jam)                             Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)
+                                      Version 4.8.2
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ Compilers for 32-bit
+                                  applications;
+                                      Version 13.7-0
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
+                                  applications;
+                                      Version 14.0.2 (Build 20140120)
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-371.6.1.el5      GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 64-bit applications;
+    (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)
+                                      Version 4.8.2
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  x86-64;
+                                      Version 13.7-0 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                      Version 14.0.2 (Build 20140120)
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6    GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (platypus)                       Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Version 4.8.2
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  x86-64;
+                                      Version 13.7-0 
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 14.0.2 (Build 20140120)
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)
+                                  IBM XL C/C++ V11.1
+                                  IBM XL Fortran V13.1
+
+    SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+
+    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
+                                  Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) gcc(4.8.2) compiler and gfortran)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
+                                  
+    Windows 8.1                   Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 8.1 x64               Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
+
+    Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3          Apple clang/clang++ version 3.0 from Xcode 4.6.1
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2
+    (duck)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 13.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X Mt. Lion 10.8.5      Apple clang/clang++ version 5.0 from Xcode 5.0.2
+    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    (swallow/kite)                Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 14.0.2
+
+    Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.2     Apple clang/clang++ version 5.1 from Xcode 5.1
+    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    (wren/quail)                  Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 14.0.2
+
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested 
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 8.1                             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 8.1   x64                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                  n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU    y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel  n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+OpenVMS IA64 V8.4                       n        y/n    n        y    y     n
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y        
+Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
+Windows 8.1                                y       y         y         y
+Windows 8.1 x64                            y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y        
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y        
+Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y        
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y        
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n        
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n        
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y        
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n        
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         n
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n     
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n 
+OpenVMS IA64 V8.4                          n       n         n         n
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5PAE  MPICH mpich 3.1 compiled with
+    #1 SMP i686 i686 i386             gcc 4.8.2 and gfortran 4.8.2
+    (jam)                         g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-431.11.2.el6     MPICH mpich 3.1 compiled with
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           gcc 4.8.2 and gfortran 4.8.2
+    (platypus)                    g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)   
+
+    FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386       gcc 4.5.4 [FreeBSD] 20110526
+    (loyalty)                     gcc 4.6.1 20110527
+                                  g++ 4.6.1 20110527
+                                  gfortran 4.6.1 20110527
+
+    FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64      gcc 4.5.4 [FreeBSD] 20110526
+    (freedom)                     gcc 4.6.1 20110527
+                                  g++ 4.6.1 20110527
+                                  gfortran 4.6.1 20110527
+
+    Debian7.1.0 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
+                                  GNU Fortran (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Fedora20 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2 20130603 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    SUSE 13.1 3.11.6-4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.1
+                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.8.1
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Ubuntu 13.10 3.11.0-13-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) 4.8.1
+                                  GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) 4.8.1
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+    
+    Cray Linux Environment (CLE)  PrgEnv-pgi/4.0.46
+    hopper.nersc.gov              pgcc 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
+                                  pgf90 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
+                                  pgCC 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+* When reading or writing a dataset (H5Dread/H5Dwrite) with a large selection
+  size (e.g., 2GB ~= 500 million of 4 bytes integers or floating point
+  numbers), some I/O systems may not be able to process it correctly.
+  We advise users to find out system limits before using large selections. If
+  I/O size limits exist, application should use HDF5 partial I/O capabilities
+  (e.g., H5Sselect_hyperslab(...)) to divide large requests into smaller sizes.
+  In this case we also advise users not to use chunk storage sizes larger that
+  2GB since the HDF5 library performs I/O on the entire chunk.  We will work
+  on the HDF5 library to divide large data requests to smaller I/O requests.
+  (AKC 2014/05/02 HDFFV-8479)
+
+* Due to an Intel compiler bug introduced in version 14.0.1, the HDF5 FORTRAN
+  wrappers do not work with configure option --enable-fortran2003. 
+  However, the option --enable-fortran works with Intel 14.0.1. The compiler 
+  bug was fixed in Intel version 14.0.2 and resolved the issue. 
+  (MSB - 2014/4/15)
+
+* Due to a PGI compiler bug introduced in versions before 13.3 and versions 
+  after 14.2, the FORTRAN test 'Testing get file image' will fail. 
+  (MSB - 2014/4/15)
+
+* On CYGWIN, when building the library dynamically, testing will fail on 
+  dynamically loaded filters. The test process will build dynamic filter 
+  libraries with the *.dll.a extension, and the HDF5 Library will be looking 
+  for *.so libraries. Entered as issue HDFFV-8736. (ADB - 2014/04/14)
+  
+* A Gnu Make directive (.NOTPARALLEL) is added to fortran/test/Makefile.
+  AIX native make does not support this directive and would fail if
+  parallel make (e.g. make -j4) is used to build the library. AIX users
+  either do not use parallel make or install Gnu Make to build the library.
+  (AKC 2014/04/08 HDFFV-8738)
+
+* CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv
+  catches some undefined behavior in the alignment algorithm of the macro
+  DETECT_I in H5detect.c. Since the algorithm is trying to detect the alignment
+  of integers, ideally the flag -fcatch-undefined-behavior should not to be
+  used for H5detect.c. In the future, we can separate flags for H5detect.c
+  from the rest of the library.  (SLU - 2013/10/16 HDFFV-8147)
+
+* Make provided by Solaris fails in "make check". Solaris users should use
+  gmake to build and install the HDF5 software. (AKC - 2013/10/08 - HDFFV-8534)
+
+* On OpenVMS, two soft conversion functions (H5T__conv_i_f and H5T__conv_f_i)
+  have bugs.  They convert data between floating-point numbers and integers.
+  But the library's default is hard conversion.  The user should avoid
+  explicitly enabling soft conversion between floating-point numbers and
+  integers. (Issue VMS-8; SLU - 2013/09/19)
+
+* On OpenVMS, ZLIB 1.2.8 library doesn't work properly.  ZLIB 1.2.5 works
+  fine.  So please use ZLIB 1.2.5 to build HDF5 library. (Issue VMS-5;
+  SLU 2013/09/19)  
+
+* When building using the Cray compilers on Cray machines, HDF5
+  configure mistakenly thinks the compiler is an intel compiler and
+  sets the -std=c99 flag which breaks configure on Cray. To build HDF5
+  properly on a Cray machine, please consult with the instructions in
+  INSTALL_parallel for building on Hopper.
+  (MSC - 2013/04/26 - HDFFV-8429)
+
+* The 5.9 C++ compiler on Sun failed to compile a C++ test ttypes.cpp.  It 
+  complains with this message:
+      "/home/hdf5/src/H5Vprivate.h", line 130: Error: __func__ is not defined.
+  
+  The reason is that __func__ is a predefined identifier in C99 standard.  The
+  HDF5 C library uses it in H5private.h.  The test ttypes.cpp includes 
+  H5private.h (H5Tpkg.h<-H5Fprivate.h<-H5Vprivate.h<-H5private.h).  Sun's 5.9
+  C++ compiler doesn't support __func__, thus fails to compile the C++ test.
+  But Sun's 5.11 C++ compiler does.  To check whether your Sun C++ compiler 
+  knows this identifier, try to compile the following simple C++ program:
+      #include<stdio.h>
+
+      int main(void)
+      {
+          printf("%s\n", __func__);
+          return 0;
+      }
+  (SLU - 2012/11/5)
+
+* The C++ and FORTRAN bindings are not currently working on FreeBSD with the
+  native release 8.2 compilers (4.2.1), but are working with gcc 4.6 from the
+  ports (and probably gcc releases after that).
+  (QAK - 2012/10/19)
+
+* The following h5dump test case fails in BG/P machines (and potentially other
+  machines that use a command script to launch executables):
+
+   h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
+     tno-subset.h5
+  
+  This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
+  by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
+  arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
+  not via the test script.
+  (AKC - 2012/05/03)
+
+* On hopper, the build failed when RUNSERIAL and RUNPARALLEL are set
+  to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated
+  properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because
+  configure was able to automatically detect that it's a Cray system
+  and used the proper launch commands when necessary. 
+  (MSC - 2012/04/18)
+
+* The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer
+  conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernel) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
+  is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
+  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the 
+  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of 
+  "configure" like:
+
+      CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure
+
+  This will overwrite the library's default optimization level.
+  (SLU - 2012/02/07 - HDFFV-7829)
+  This issue is no longer present on Ubuntu 12.10 (3.5.0 kernel) with 
+  gcc 4.7.2.
+
+* The STDIO VFD does not work on some architectures, possibly due to 32/64
+  bit or large file issues.  The basic STDIO VFD test is known to fail on
+  64-bit SunOS 5.10 on SPARC when built with -m64 and 32-bit OS X/Darwin
+  10.7.0.  The STDIO VFD test has been disabled while we investigate and
+  a fix should appear in a future release.
+  (DER - 2011/10/14 - HDFFV-8235)
+
+* h5diff can report inconsistent results when comparing datasets of enum type
+  that contain invalid values.  This is due to how enum types are handled in
+  the library and will be addressed in a future release.
+  (DER - 2011/10/14 - HDFFV-7527)
+
+* The links test can fail under the stdio VFD due to some issues with external
+  links.  This will be investigated and fixed in a future release.
+  (DER - 2011/10/14 - HDFFV-7768)
+
+* After the shared library support was fixed for some bugs, it was discovered
+  that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
+  still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
+  install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
+  (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
+
+* The parallel test, t_shapesame, in testpar/, may run for a long time and may
+  be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
+  alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
+  environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
+  to a larger value.
+  (AKC - 2011/05/07)
+
+* The C++ and FORTRAN bindings are not currently working on FreeBSD.
+  (QAK - 2011/04/26)
+
+* Shared Fortran libraries are not quite working on AIX. While they are
+  generated when --enable-shared is specified, the fortran and hl/fortran
+  tests fail. We are looking into the issue. HL and C++ shared libraries
+  should now be working as intended, however.
+  (MAM - 2011/04/20)
+
+* The --with-mpe configure option does not work with Mpich2.
+  (AKC - 2011/03/10)
+
+* While working on the 1.8.6 release of HDF5, a bug was discovered that can
+  occur when reading from a dataset in parallel shortly after it has been
+  written to collectively. The issue was exposed by a new test in the parallel
+  HDF5 test suite, but had existed before that. We believe the problem lies with
+  certain MPI implementations and/or file systems.
+
+  We have provided a pure MPI test program, as well as a standalone HDF5
+  program, that can be used to determine if this is an issue on your system.
+  They should be run across multiple nodes with a varying number of processes.
+  These programs can be found at:
+  http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/known_problems/
+  (NAF - 2011/01/19)
+
+* All the VFL drivers aren't backward compatible.  In H5FDpublic.h, the
+  structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8.  There is new parameter added to
+  get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
+  get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
+  out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
+  (SLU - 2010/02/02)
+
+* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
+  if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
+  of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
+  (MAM - 2009/11/04)
+  
+* Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
+  / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
+  collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
+  with MPI IO.
+  (CMC - 2009/04/28)
+
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+  with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  (SLU - 2005/06/30)
+
+
 %%%%1.8.12%%%%   
 
+
 HDF5 version 1.8.12 released on 2013-11-04
 ================================================================================
 
@@ -611,8 +1372,10 @@ Known Problems
   datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
+
 %%%%1.8.11%%%%   
 
+
 HDF5 version 1.8.11 released on 2013-05-08
 ================================================================================
 
@@ -1228,6 +1991,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 %%%%1.8.10-patch1%%%%   
 
+
 HDF5 version 1.8.10-patch1 released on 2013-01-22
 ================================================================================