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| author | Elena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org> | 2016-03-17 12:31:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Elena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org> | 2016-03-17 12:31:26 (GMT) |
| commit | f2a23580091a41573e414ba760f91916c4a8c7b9 (patch) | |
| tree | bd2ca0a2610febb70dd7e0606305fd2856837037 | |
| parent | 94eeb14f38839b93c642479239be96fb60edcbb4 (diff) | |
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[svn-r29462] Maintenance: Added a note about 1.8 compatibility flag for configure.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index a0676f5..2d1d6e0 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.10.0-pre1 currently under development +HDF5 version 1.10.0-pre1 released on 2016-03-16 ================================================================================ @@ -38,6 +38,14 @@ This release supports the following features: Configuration ------------- + - API compatibility with HDF5 1.8 flag was added + + The 1.10 version of the HDF5 Library can be configured to operate identically + to the v1.8 library with the --with-default-api-version=v18 configure flag. + This allows existing code to be compiled with the 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": + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/APICompatMacros.html - Autotools configuration has been extensively reworked |