[svn-r29459] Maintenance: Updated docs files for the upcoming release. Added contributors for the release to the

 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, added 1.8 compatibility build to the INSTALL file; updated Known Problems section 
in the RELEASE.txt.

3 files changed, 25 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS b/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
index c1e5679..eadbf08 100644
--- a/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+++ b/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
-Acknowledgments - November 2010
--------------------------------
+Acknowledgments
+----------------
 
-We would like to thank the following people who have contributed directly
-or indirectly to HDF5:
+We would like to thank the following people who provided code contributions
+to the HDF5 1.10.0 and eralier eleases:
+
+Steffen Kieß, for contributing code used to specify locations of the external
+files included in the 1.10.0 release. 
+
+Jason Newton, for contributing code used to improve the C/C++ Packet Table
+included in the 1.10.0 release.
 
 Werner Benger, for contributing code used to add support for the Windows 
 Threading library included in the 1.8.6 release.
@@ -10,7 +16,6 @@ Threading library included in the 1.8.6 release.
 John A. Biddiscombe, Mike Jackson, and Sean McBride for contributing and
 testing CMake code included in the HDF5 1.8.5 distribution.
 
-Jason Newton, for contributing code used to improve the C/C++ Packet Table.
 
 The HDF5 community for helping shape the development of HDF5 by contributing
 bug reports and patches, joining in on forum discussions, and continually
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL
index 2dcb9be..d09aaa9 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL
@@ -466,11 +466,13 @@ CONTENTS
             http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/TechNotes/ThreadSafeLibrary.html
 
 4.3.12. Backward compatibility
-        The 1.8 version of the HDF5 Library can be configured to operate
+        The 1.10 version of the HDF5 Library can be configured to operate
         identically to the v1.6 library with the 
             --with-default-api-version=v16
+        and to the v1.8 library with the
+            --with-default-api-version=v18
         configure flag. This allows existing code to be compiled with the
-        v1.8 library without requiring immediate changes to the application 
+        v1.10 library without requiring immediate changes to the application 
         source code.  For addtional configuration options and other details, 
         see "API Compatibility Macros in HDF5":
 
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 6964084..a0676f5 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ INTRODUCTION
 
 This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.* and
 HDF5 1.10.0 release, and contains information on the platforms
-tested and known problems in HDF5-1.10.0.
+tested.
 
 
 Links to HDF5 1.10.0 source code can be found on The HDF Group's
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ Issues Addressed in this Release since alpha1
      - Control over the location of the external files
 
        New API H5Pset_efile_prefix was added to specify locations of the external files.
-       This enhancements was contributed by Steffen Kieß.
        (DER 2016-02-04 HDFFV-8740)
   
 
@@ -318,15 +317,14 @@ Issues Addressed in this Release since alpha1
      
 Issues Addressed in this Release since alpha0 
 =============================================
-    - h5format_convert tool didn't downgrade version of the superblock. Fixed. See
-      Known Problems section.  
+    - h5format_convert tool didn't downgrade version of the superblock. Fixed. 
       (EIP 2016-01-11)
 
     - It was reported that alpha0 crashed when used with multiple threads. 
       The issue exists in the HDF5 library versions 1.8 and 1.9. 
       The problem is related to a shared file pointer used in the misc. data 
       structures. The thread-safe library exposed paths in the library where 
-      file pointer becomes invalid. Alpha1 release contains the fixes for the specific 
+      file pointer became invalid. Alpha1 release contains the fixes for the specific 
       use case as decribed in HDFFV-9643.
       We will keep working on identifying other paths in the library with similar problem
       and fixing the issue.  
@@ -508,10 +506,13 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
-WARNINGS: This section is under contsruction. It will be updated for the first HDF5 1.10.0-beta
-release. 
+The problems reported for alpha releases were adressed in the HDF5 1.10.0-pre1 release.
+
+There are no known problems for the newly released features listed in the "New Features"
+section of this document. 
+
+We didn't verify that the known problems listed in the RELEASE.txt version HDF5 1.8.16 are
+still valid. This section will be updated for the final release of HDF5 1.10.0.
+
 
-  - h5format_convert only works with the files that contain chunked datasets.
-  - h5repack tool fails to downgrade object layout message to make file 
-    1.8 compatible.