[svn-r29454] Description:

    Updated changes for C++ API and C/C++ Packet Table APIs.

1 files changed, 84 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index fb0bdaa..0c8c6da 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -143,6 +143,16 @@ This release supports the following features:
     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/docNewFeatures/NewFeaturesFileSpaceMgmtDocs.html 
 
 
+    C++ Library:
+    ------------
+     - New member function added to H5::ArrayType
+
+       The assignment operator ArrayType::operator= is added because ArrayType
+       has pointer data members.
+
+       (BMR, 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9562)
+
+
     Tools:
     ------
     - h5watch 
@@ -161,12 +171,85 @@ This release supports the following features:
     using SWMR access, can be converted to be accessed by the HDF5 1.18 library 
     and tools. The tools doesn't rewrite raw data, but HDF5 metadata only. 
 
+
+
     High-Level APIs:
-    ------
+    ----------------
     - H5DOappend
 
     The function appends data to a dataset along a specified dimension.
 
+
+     C Packet Table API
+     ------------------ 
+     - Replacement of a public function
+
+      The existing function H5PTcreate_fl limits applications to deflate
+      compression only.  The public function H5PTcreate is added to replace
+      H5PTcreate_fl.  H5PTcreate takes a property list ID to provide
+      flexibility on creation properties.
+
+	hid_t H5PTcreate(hid_t loc_id, const char *dset_name,
+                         hid_t dtype_id, hsize_t chunk_size, hid_t plist_id);
+                                               (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623)
+
+     - New public functions
+
+      Two accessor functions were added per HDFFV-8623/patch 003.
+	/* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table  */
+	   hid_t H5PTget_dataset(hid_t table_id);
+
+	/* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */
+	   hid_t H5PTget_type(hid_t table_id);
+                                               (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623)
+
+     - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED
+
+      The #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED blocks are removed from the PT library source
+      except the following cases:
+      + H5PTis_varlen() is made available again.
+      + H5PTfree_vlen_readbuff() now became H5PTfree_vlen_buff()
+                                               (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-442)
+
+     C++ Packet Table API
+     -------------------- 
+     - New constructor
+
+      An overloaded constructor is added to FL_PacketTable and takes a property
+      list ID to provide flexibility on creation properties.
+
+	FL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, hid_t plist_id, const char* name, hid_t dtypeID, hsize_t chunkSize);
+
+       (BMR, 2016/03/08, HDFFV-8623)
+
+     - New public functions
+
+      Two accessor wrappers to class PacketTable, per HDFFV-8623/patch 004.
+	/* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table  */
+	   hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset()
+
+	/* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */
+	   hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset()
+
+        (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623)
+
+     - Member functions having "char*" as an argument
+
+      Overloaded functions were added to provide "const char*" argument, the
+      existing version will be deprecated.
+
+        (BMR, 2016/03/04)
+
+     - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED
+
+      The #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED blocks are removed from the PT library source
+      except the following cases:
+	+ VL_PacketTable::IsVariableLength() is moved to PacketTable
+	+ VL_PacketTable::FreeReadBuff() now became PacketTable::FreeBuff()
+
+        (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-442)
+
+
     Java wrapper library
     --------------------