Brings over minor changes in root, bin/, and release_docs (#1699)

17 files changed, 125 insertions, 114 deletions

diff --git a/.github/FUNDING.yml b/.github/FUNDING.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c4daaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/FUNDING.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# These are supported funding model platforms
+
+custom: "https://hdfgroup.org/about-us/donate-to-the-hdf-group/"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-check.yml b/.github/workflows/pr-check.yml
index 65bf42b..5dd923f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pr-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-check.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
-name: hdf5 dev CI
+name: PR hdf5 dev CI
 
 # Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push or pull request
 on:
   pull_request:
     branches: [ develop, hdf5_1_12, hdf5_1_10, hdf5_1_8 ]
-
+    paths-ignore:
+    - '.github/**'
+    - 'doc/**'
+    - 'release_docs/**'
+    - 'ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS'
+    - 'COPYING**'
+    - '**.md'
+ 
 # A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
 jobs:
   # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
diff --git a/bin/README b/bin/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c77043..0000000
--- a/bin/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The daily tests run copies of some of the scripts in this directory from another repository, notably snapshot and runtest.  The copies in this directory should work, but are not used in daily tests, though they should be tested occasionally.  
-
diff --git a/bin/buildhdf5 b/bin/buildhdf5
index 113a278..786c35d 100755
--- a/bin/buildhdf5
+++ b/bin/buildhdf5
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ LOCATE_SZLIB()
 	    esac
 	    ;;	# end of case ncsa
 	unknown)
-	    # Unknow domain. Give a shot at the some standard places.
+	    # Unknown domain. Give a shot at the some standard places.
 	    szlibpaths="/usr/local"
 	    ;;
     esac	# end of case $mydomain
diff --git a/bin/cmakehdf5 b/bin/cmakehdf5
index da1aef8..e59c772 100755
--- a/bin/cmakehdf5
+++ b/bin/cmakehdf5
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ DUMP_LOGFILE()
 # Show a start time stamp
 TIMESTAMP
 
-# Initialize njobs if $AMKE is defined
+# Initialize njobs if $MAKE is defined
 if [ -n "$MAKE" ]; then
     # assume all arguments are for --jobs
     njobs=`echo $MAKE | cut -s -d' ' -f2-`
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ STEP "Test the library and tools..." "ctest . -C Release $njobs" $testlog
 #      7. Create an install image with this command:
 STEP "Create an install image..." "cpack -C Release CPackConfig.cmake" $packlog
 
-# The implementation of installation is imcomplete (only works for linux).
+# The implementation of installation is incomplete (only works for linux).
 # Screen it out for now till it is completed.
 if false; then
 #      8. Install with this command:
diff --git a/bin/genparser b/bin/genparser
index 462c2c2..9ea3152 100755
--- a/bin/genparser
+++ b/bin/genparser
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 # IMPORTANT OS X NOTE
 #
 # If you are using OS X, you will probably not have flex or bison
-# installed. In addtion, even if you do have bison installed, the bison
+# installed. In addition, even if you do have bison installed, the bison
 # version you have installed may also have a bug that makes it unable to
 # process our input files.
 #
diff --git a/bin/h5cc.in b/bin/h5cc.in
index 6024b4d..966bb40 100644
--- a/bin/h5cc.in
+++ b/bin/h5cc.in
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ HL="@HL@"
 ##    $CLINKER $H5BLD_CPPFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $H5BLD_CFLAGS $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS   ##
 ##    $LIBS $clibpath $link_objs $link_args $shared_link                  ##
 ##                                                                        ##
-## These settings can be overriden by setting HDF5_CFLAGS,                ##
+## These settings can be overridden by setting HDF5_CFLAGS,               ##
 ## HDF5_CPPFLAGS, HDF5_LDFLAGS, or HDF5_LIBS in the environment.          ##
 ##                                                                        ##
 ############################################################################
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ usage() {
   echo "                                           shared libraries]"
   echo " "
   echo " You can also add or change paths and flags to the compile line using"
-  echo " the following environment varibles or by assigning them to their counterparts"
+  echo " the following environment variables or by assigning them to their counterparts"
   echo " in the 'Things You Can Modify to Override...'" section of $prog_name
   echo " "
   echo "  Variable              Current value to be replaced"
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ fi
 
 if test "x$do_link" = "xyes"; then
   shared_link=""
-# conditionnaly link with the hl library
+# conditionally link with the hl library
   if test "X$HL" = "Xhl"; then
    libraries=" $libraries -lhdf5_hl -lhdf5 "
   else
diff --git a/bin/h5vers b/bin/h5vers
index a067ae7..04d5d03 100755
--- a/bin/h5vers
+++ b/bin/h5vers
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ use strict;
 # ./H5public.h or ./src/H5public.h.
 #
 # If the version number is changed (either `-s' or `-i' was used on
-# the command line) then the first line of the README.md and RELEASE.txt files
+# the command line) then the version line of the README.md and RELEASE.txt files
 # one directory above the H5public.h file is also modified so it looks
 # something like: This is hdf5-1.2.3-pre1 currently under development.
 # The AC_INIT macro in configure.ac will also change in this case to be
diff --git a/bin/make_vers b/bin/make_vers
index 5236e01..ca63557 100755
--- a/bin/make_vers
+++ b/bin/make_vers
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use warnings;
 # (The max_idx parameter is the only thing that needs to be changed when adding
 #       support for a new major release.  If support for a prior major release
 #       is added (like support for 1.4, etc), the min_sup_idx parameter will
-#       need to be decremented. - QAK)
+#       need to be decremented.)
 
 # Max. library "index" (0 = v1.0, 1 = 1.2, 2 = 1.4, 3 = 1.6, 4 = 1.8, 5 = 1.10,  etc)
 $max_idx = 5;
diff --git a/bin/newer b/bin/newer
index e60ec45..5f0fdca 100755
--- a/bin/newer
+++ b/bin/newer
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # Created Date: 2005/07/06
 # Modification:
 #    Albert Cheng 2005/8/30
-#    Changed from two arguments to mulitple arguments.
+#    Changed from two arguments to multiple arguments.
 
 if test $# -lt 2; then
     exit 1
diff --git a/bin/restore.sh b/bin/restore.sh
index 47dde11..0597572 100755
--- a/bin/restore.sh
+++ b/bin/restore.sh
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ rm -f bin/missing
 rm -f bin/test-driver
 rm -f bin/depcomp
 
+echo "Remove files generated by autoheader"
+rm -f src/H5config.h.in
+
 echo "Remove files generated by bin/make_err"
 rm -f src/H5Epubgen.h
 rm -f src/H5Einit.h
diff --git a/bin/warnhist b/bin/warnhist
index 742a6b5..0150138 100755
--- a/bin/warnhist
+++ b/bin/warnhist
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ sub do_help {
     print "\t-S <file string list>\tDisplay warnings for files which contain a string, <file string list>\n";
     print "\t\t<file string list> is a comma separated list, with no spaces\n";
     print "\t\tFor example: 'H5Fint' or 'H5Fint,H5Gnode'\n";
-    print "\t-l\tDisplay line nunbers for file/warning\n";
+    print "\t-l\tDisplay line numbers for file/warning\n";
     print "\t-u\tLeave 'unique' types in warnings, instead of genericizing them\n";
     print "\t-i <name list>\tIgnore named files, <name list>\n";
     print "\t\t<name list> is a comma separated list, with no spaces\n";
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt
index f23a2c5..3669f4d 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ New Features
             -JML 2006/6/21
         - If both shared and static libraries are installed, now both will be
             tested during 'make install'. -MAM 2006/06/21
-        - Added support to explicity enable stream_vfd or shared libraries
+        - Added support to explicitly enable stream_vfd or shared libraries
             when using parallel via the '--enable-stream_vfd' and
-            '--enable-shared' options, respectively. If not explicity defined,
+            '--enable-shared' options, respectively. If not explicitly defined,
             These settings default to enabled when parallel is not used,
             and disabled when parallel is used. -MAM 2006/06/17
         - Remove the flexible parallel code and the --enable-fphdf5
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ New Features
               variable $FC, not $F9X.  F9X still works, but is depreciated.
             The output of make may be different.  This should be only a
               cosmetic effect.
-            make depened (or make dep) is no longer recognized, since automake
+            make depend (or make dep) is no longer recognized, since automake
             handles dependency tracking.
             Some new configure options exist.  --enable-dependency-tracking
               and --disable-dependency-tracking are used to control automake's
@@ -306,11 +306,11 @@ New Features
         - Added managements of collective IO supports for chunking storage
              inside parallel HDF5
              1) Implemented One IO with collective mode for all chunks in the
-                application by building one MPI derived datatype accross all
+                application by building one MPI derived datatype across all
                 chunks.
              2) Implemented the decision-making support to do collective IO inside
                 MPI-IO per chunk.
-             3) Added the decision-making support to do one IO accross all chunks
+             3) Added the decision-making support to do one IO across all chunks
                 or to do multiple IOs with each IO per chunk.
              4) Added the support to handle the case some processes won't do any IOs in
                 collectively.
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ New Features
                 contributions to IOs, a special macro is added to change
                 collective IO mode to independent IO mode inside HDF5 library.
 
-                Currently we find that MPICH at Linux and vender MPI-IO package at NCSA
+                Currently we find that MPICH at Linux and vendor MPI-IO package at NCSA
                 Altix cannot handle this case.
 
              "hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works=${hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works='no'}"
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ New Features
             object's object header.  QAK 2003/10/06
         - Added new H5Fget_freespace() routine to query the free space in a
             given file.  QAK 2003/10/06
-        - Added backward compatability with v1.6 for new Error API. SLU -
+        - Added backward compatibility with v1.6 for new Error API. SLU -
             2003/09/24
         - Changed 'objno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]'
             to 'haddr_t'.  QAK - 2003/08/08
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ New Features
         - Add options of using atomicity and file-sync to test_mpio_1wMr.
             AKC - 2003/11/13
         - Added parallel test, test_mpio_1wMr, which tests if the
-            underlaying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX
+            underlying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX
             write/read requirement.  AKC - 2003/11/12
 
     Fortran Library:
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ New Features
             and H5LTdtype_to_text.  H5LTtext_to_dtype creates a HDF5 data type
             given a text description; H5LTdtype_to_text converts a data type
             to text description.  Only DDL definition is supported as text
-            desciption now. SLU - 2006/05/17
+            description now. SLU - 2006/05/17
         - Added Packet Table API for creating tables with less overhead than
             H5TB API.  Added C++ wrapper for Packet Tables.  See documentation.
             JML - 2004/03/28
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
         - Added support for HPUX11.23 for both 32 and 64-bit; HDF5 C++
         - Added support for 64-bit Windows with Visual Studio .NET and 2005.
             SJW - 2007/06/25
-        - Added suport for HPUX11.23 for both 32 and 64-bit; HDF5 C++
+        - Added support for HPUX11.23 for both 32 and 64-bit; HDF5 C++
             shared library is not supported with +DD64 flag.
                                                      EIP - 2006/06/22
         - Added support for VAX floating numbers for Alpha Open VMS 7.3.2
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
         - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on Mac OSX with IBM XL Fortran
             compiler version 8.1. This is a default compiler.
         - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with Absoft F95 compiler
-            version 8.2; set F9X environment varibale to f95, for example
+            version 8.2; set F9X environment variable to f95, for example
             setenv F9X f95
             Use --disable-shared --enable-static configure flags when Absoft
             compiler is used.
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
                 - Re-open the file
                 - Delete one of the attributes on the object
                 - Add a smaller attribute to the object
-                - Delete the smaller atttribute on the object
+                - Delete the smaller attribute on the object
                 - Add a larger attribute on the object
 
             After this, the number of header messages stored for the object
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
         - Fixed dtypes "sw long double -> double" failure in QSC class
             machines.  AKC - 2004/4/16
         - Fixed problem with fletcher32 filter when converting data of different
-            endianess. PVN - 2004/03/10
+            endianness. PVN - 2004/03/10
         - Fixed problem with H5Tget_native_type() not handling opaque fields
             correctly.  QAK - 2004/01/31
         - Fixed several errors in B-tree deletion code which could cause a
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ Known Problems
   causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 * For HPUX 11.23 many tools tests failed for 64-bit version when linked to the
   shared libraries (tested for 1.8.0-beta2)
-* For SNL, Red Storm: only paralle HDF5 is supported.  The serial tests pass
+* For SNL, Red Storm: only parallel HDF5 is supported.  The serial tests pass
   and the parallel tests also pass with lots of non-fatal error messages.
 * For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel pass.  Zeus: serial passes but
   parallel fails with a known proglem in MPI.  ubgl: serial passes but
@@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@ Known Problems
   sometimes. This can be verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 * On IRIX6.5, when C compiler version >7.4, the complicate MPI derived data type
   code will work. However, the user should be aware to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX environment
-  variable to some certian value in order to use collective irregular selection code.
+  variable to some certain value in order to use collective irregular selection code.
   For example, the current parallel HDF5 test needs to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX to
   200,000 to make the test pass.
 * The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ Known Problems
 
     exit $RETURN_VALUE
 
-  You get the HDF make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
+  You get the HDF make files and test scripts to execute your filter script
   by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
   script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to
   "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
@@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.5 Release
                 - Re-open the file.
                 - Delete one of the attributes on the object.
                 - Add a smaller attribute to the object.
-                - Delete the smaller atttribute on the object.
+                - Delete the smaller attribute on the object.
                 - Add a larger attribute on the object.
 
             After this, the number of header messages stored for the object
@@ -2399,11 +2399,11 @@ Known Problems
 
   For 32-bit:
   You may do this, under csh:
-  setenv LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH .......(existing pathes):[full path of HDF5
+  setenv LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH .......(existing paths):[full path of HDF5
   directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs]
 
   For 64-bit:
-  setenv LD_LIBRARY64_PATH ......(existing pathes):[full path of HDF5
+  setenv LD_LIBRARY64_PATH ......(existing paths):[full path of HDF5
   directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs]
 
   NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you
@@ -2723,7 +2723,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.4 Release
     -------
         - Fixed collective IO in chunking-storage.  HDF5 may have called the
             wrong routine when the shape of the dataspace in the file and in
-            the bufferred chunk were different. This bug was fixed to make sure
+            the buffered chunk were different. This bug was fixed to make sure
             the correct routine is called. KY - 2005/10/19
         - Fixed core dump when closing root groups opened through two different
             file handles that operate on the same actual file.  QAK - 2005/10/02
@@ -2744,7 +2744,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.4 Release
             together all have the same "file close degree".  QAK - 2005/07/19
         - More bug fixes on holding open files that are mounted and have
             IDs open.  QAK - 2005/07/14
-        - Dataset sieve buffer cache was inadvertantly disabled; it has been
+        - Dataset sieve buffer cache was inadvertently disabled; it has been
             re-enabled.  QAK - 2005/07/08
         - Don't unmount child files until the parent file actually closes.
             (Previously, if an object was holding open a file, the child files
@@ -3024,7 +3024,7 @@ Known Problems
      to intel forum.
 
 * When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 at IRIX
-  6.5, set enviroment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for example
+  6.5, set environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for example
   120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside parallel
   HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside parallel HDF5 library. You can
   always set a bigger number in your system.
@@ -4448,7 +4448,7 @@ New Features
             verbosity via the '-v' option.  The default is less verbose
             than before.  AKC - 2004/01/23
         - Added parallel test, test_mpio_1wMr, which tests if the
-            underlaying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX
+            underlying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX
             write/read requirement. This version includes options of using
             atomicity and file-sync.  AKC - 2003/11/27
 
@@ -4821,7 +4821,7 @@ Known Problems
       Testing random sw long double -> double conversions
   If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to 1**-308.
   If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly 0.0 but
-  occassionaly as 1**-308.  This has been reported to the system staff.
+  occasionally as 1**-308.  This has been reported to the system staff.
   All other tests have passed.
 
 * On AIX 5.1 when 64-bit parallel C Library is built with zlib configured in,
@@ -5187,7 +5187,7 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel  y       n       y    n    y        y           y
 Known Problems
 ==============
 * Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver information.
-  The fix willl be available in the 1.6.2 release.
+  The fix will be available in the 1.6.2 release.
 * There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5)
   failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and Release
   dll work fine.
@@ -5368,7 +5368,7 @@ Library:
     * The first version of szip compression support were implemented.
       User should have static szlib library installed. Using function
       H5Pset_szip to pass the szip parameters to the HDF5 library.
-      More detailed decription of the process will be followed.
+      More detailed description of the process will be followed.
       KY-2003/04/01
     * Added Fletcher32 checksum as a filter in pipeline.  It only works in
       chunked dataset.  SLU - 2003/2/11
@@ -5416,15 +5416,15 @@ Library:
       be in different locations in the same file.  The old functions H5Glink
       and H5Gmove remain valid.  SLU - 2002/04/26
     * Fill-value's behaviors for contiguous dataset have been redefined.
-      Basicly, dataset won't allocate space until it's necessary.  Full details
+      Basically, dataset won't allocate space until it's necessary.  Full details
       are available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/RFC/Fill_Value, at this moment.
       SLU - 2002/04/11
     * Added new routine "H5Dfill" to fill a selection with a particular value
       in memory.  QAK - 2002/04/09
     * Improved performance of "regular" hyperslab I/O when using MPI-IO and the
-      datatype conversion is unneccessary.  QAK - 2002/04/02
+      datatype conversion is unnecessary.  QAK - 2002/04/02
     * Improved performance of single hyperslab I/O when datatype conversion is
-      unneccessary.  QAK - 2002/04/02
+      unnecessary.  QAK - 2002/04/02
     * Added new "H5Sget_select_type" API function to determine which type of
       selection is defined for a dataspace ("all", "none", "hyperslab" or
       "point"). QAK - 2002/02/07
@@ -5438,7 +5438,7 @@ Library:
       compatibility is enabled.
     * Added a new file access property, file close degree, to control file
       close behavior.  It has four values, H5F_CLOSE_WEAK, H5F_CLOSE_SEMI,
-      H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT.  Two correspont functions
+      H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT.  Two correspond functions
       H5Pset_fclose_degree and H5Pget_fclose_degree are also provided.  Two
       new functions H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids are offerted to assist
       this new feature.  For full details, please refer to the reference
@@ -5458,7 +5458,7 @@ Library:
     * Improved regular hyperslab I/O by about a factor of 6 or so.
     * Modified the Pablo build procedure to permit building of the instrumented
       library to link either with the Trace libraries as before or with the
-      Pablo Performance Caputure Facility.
+      Pablo Performance Capture Facility.
     * Added new F90 APIs for generic properties, new filters, and
       time/space allocation properties.
     * C++ API:
@@ -5536,7 +5536,7 @@ Library
     * Fixed data corruption problem which could occur when fill values were
       written to a contiguously stored dataset in parallel.  QAK - 2002/08/27
     * Fixed VL memory leak when data is overwritten.  The heap objects holding
-      old data are freed.  If the fill value writting time is set to
+      old data are freed.  If the fill value writing time is set to
       H5D_FILL_TIME_NEVER, the library prohibits user to create VL type dataset.
       The library free all the heap objects storing VL type if there is nested
       VL type(a VL type contains another VL type).  SLU - 2002/07/10
@@ -6157,7 +6157,7 @@ Known Problems
 
     * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec.
 
-    * The executables are always dynamic on Solaris 2.7 ans 2.8(64 and n32)
+    * The executables are always dynamic on Solaris 2.7 and 2.8(64 and n32)
       even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec.
 
     * The HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES optimization code in the parallel HDF5 will cause
@@ -6175,7 +6175,7 @@ Known Problems
       compiler optimization causes errors in many HDF5 Library tests. Use -g -h zero flags
       to build HDF5 Library.
 
-    * On Cray SV1 10.0.1. 0 datatype convertion test fails. Please check HDF FTP site
+    * On Cray SV1 10.0.1. 0 datatype conversion test fails. Please check HDF FTP site
       if patch is available. We will try to provide one in the nearest future.
 
     * For configuration, building and testing with Intel and PGI compilers see
@@ -6932,7 +6932,7 @@ Known Problems
       HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES to a non-zero value such as 1.
 
     * On IA64 systems one has to use -DIA64 compilation flag to compile
-      h4toh5 and h5toh4 utilites. After configuration step manually modify
+      h4toh5 and h5toh4 utilities. After configuration step manually modify
       Makefile in the tools/h4toh4 and tools/h5toh4 directories to add
       -DIA64 to the compilation flags.
 
@@ -6998,7 +6998,7 @@ New Features
       and other version information in the source code.
     * Parallel HDF5 now runs on the HP V2500 and HP N4000 machines.
     * F90 API:
-        - Added aditional parameter "dims" to the h5dread_f/h5dwrite_f and
+        - Added additional parameter "dims" to the h5dread_f/h5dwrite_f and
           h5aread_f/h5awrite_f subroutines.  This parameter is a 1-D array
           of size 7 and contains the sizes of the data buffer dimensions.
           This change enables portability between Windows and UNIX platforms.
@@ -7012,8 +7012,8 @@ New Features
     * F90 static library is available on Windows platforms.
       See INSTALL_Windows_withF90.txt for details.
     * F90 APIs are available on HPUX 11.00 and 10.20 and IBM SP platforms.
-    * H5 <-> GIF convertor has been added. This is available under
-      tools/gifconv. The convertor supports the ability to create animated
+    * H5 <-> GIF converter has been added. This is available under
+      tools/gifconv. The converter supports the ability to create animated
       gifs as well.
     * Verified correct operation of library on Solaris 2.8 in both 64-bit and
       32-bit compilation modes.  See INSTALL document for instructions on
@@ -7064,7 +7064,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.1 Release
       when --enable-hdf5v1_2 configure flag is enabled.
     * Added --enable-linux-lfs flag to allow more control over whether to
       enable or disable large file support on Linux.
-    * Fixed various bugs releated to SDS dimensional scale conversions in H4->H5
+    * Fixed various bugs related to SDS dimensional scale conversions in H4->H5
       converter.
     * Fixed a bug to correctly convert HDF4 objects with fill value into HDF5.
     * Fixed a bug of H5pubconf.h causing repeated definitions if it is included
@@ -7345,7 +7345,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0 Release
      causing errors during I/O
    * The RCSID string in H5public.h was causing the C++ compiling problem
      because when it was included multiple times, C++ did not like
-     multiple definitions of the same static variable. All occurance of
+     multiple definitions of the same static variable. All occurrence of
      RCSID definition are removed since we have not used it consistently
      before.
 
@@ -8111,7 +8111,7 @@ Known Problems
 o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  hyperslab selections will
   fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level.
 o TFLOPS: dsets test fails if compiled with optimization turned on.
-o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with a compound datatype.
+o J90: tools fail to display data for the datasets with a compound datatype.
 
 Platforms Tested
 ================
@@ -8379,7 +8379,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 * New query functions for selections.
 
 * I/O operations bypass the stripmining loop and go directly to
-  storage for certain contiguous selections in the absense of type
+  storage for certain contiguous selections in the absence of type
   conversions.  In other cases the stripmining buffers are used more
   effectively.
 
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt
index d95b372..e21bfd8 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt
@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ New Features
             YES                   NO          Default to STATIC
             NO                    YES         Default to SHARED
             NO                    NO          Default to SHARED
-      The defaults can be overriden by setting the config option
+      The defaults can be overridden by setting the config option
          HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN to one of NO, SHARED, or STATIC
 
       (ADB - 2020/07/09, HDFFV-11116)
@@ -1556,7 +1556,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.6 release
     - h5diff fixed a command line parsing error.
 
       h5diff would ignore the argument to -d (delta) if it is smaller than DBL_EPSILON.
-      The macro H5_DBL_ABS_EQUAL was removed and a direct value comparision was used.
+      The macro H5_DBL_ABS_EQUAL was removed and a direct value comparison was used.
 
       (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-10897)
 
@@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.6 release
 
       h5diff would ignore all objects with a supplied path if the exclude-path argument is used.
       Adding the exclude-attribute argument will only eclude attributes, with the supplied path,
-      from comparision.
+      from comparison.
 
       (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-5935)
 
@@ -2380,7 +2380,7 @@ Known Problems
     and thus does not suffer from the 32 bit size limitation described here.
     OpenMPI releases prior to v3.1.3 appear to have other datatype issues however,
     e.g. within a single parallel test (testphdf5) the subtests (cdsetr, eidsetr)
-    report data verfication errors before eventually aborting.
+    report data verification errors before eventually aborting.
     The most recent versions of OpenMPI (v3.1.3 or newer) have evidently
     resolved these isses and parallel HDF5 testing does not currently report
     errors though occasional hangs have been observed.
@@ -2582,7 +2582,7 @@ New Features
 
       (DER - 2019/02/03, HDFFV-10696)
 
-    - Add ability to minimze dataset object headers.
+    - Add ability to minimize dataset object headers.
 
       Creation of many, very small datasets resulted in extensive file bloat
       due to extra space in the dataset object headers -- this space is
@@ -3083,7 +3083,7 @@ Known Problems
     and thus does not suffer from the 32 bit size limitation described here.
     OpenMPI releases prior to v3.1.3 appear to have other datatype issues however,
     e.g. within a single parallel test (testphdf5) the subtests (cdsetr, eidsetr)
-    report data verfication errors before eventually aborting.
+    report data verification errors before eventually aborting.
     The most recent versions of OpenMPI (v3.1.3 or newer) have evidently
     resolved these isses and parallel HDF5 testing does not currently report
     errors though occasional hangs have been observed.
@@ -3811,7 +3811,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2 release
 
       When the function is called with the 'allgather' parameter set
       to a non-true value, the function will receive data from all MPI
-      ranks and gather it to the single rank specied by the 'root'
+      ranks and gather it to the single rank specified by the 'root'
       parameter. However, the bug in the function caused memory for
       the received data to be allocated on all MPI ranks, not just the
       singular rank specified as the receiver. In some circumstances,
@@ -4377,11 +4377,11 @@ New Features
       file driver in HDF5 by previously having called H5Pset_fapl_mpio().
 
       HDF5 parallel file operations which do not employ multiple ranks
-      e.g. specifiying MPI_COMM_SELF (whose MPI_Comm_size == 1)
+      e.g. specifying MPI_COMM_SELF (whose MPI_Comm_size == 1)
       as opposed to MPI_COMM_WORLD, will not be affected by this
       optimization.  Conversely, parallel file operations on subgroups
       of MPI_COMM_WORLD are allowed to be run in parallel with each
-      subgroup operating as an independant collection of processes.
+      subgroup operating as an independent collection of processes.
 
       (RAW - 2017/10/10, HDFFV-10294)
 
@@ -4520,7 +4520,7 @@ New Features
       (ADB - 2017/12/20)
 
     - The H5I_REFERENCE value in the H5I_type_t enum (defined in H5Ipublic.h)
-      has been marked as deprectated.
+      has been marked as deprecated.
 
       JNI code which refers to this value will be removed in a future
       major version of the library. The code will remain unchanged in the
@@ -4841,7 +4841,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.1 release
 
       Use of this VFD feature flag was not in line with the documentation in
       the public H5FDpublic.h file. In particular, it was being used as a
-      proxy for determining if SWMR I/O is allowed. This is unecessary as we
+      proxy for determining if SWMR I/O is allowed. This is unnecessary as we
       already have a feature flag for this (H5FD_SUPPORTS_SWMR_IO).
 
       (DER - 2017/05/31, HDFFV-10214)
@@ -5742,7 +5742,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.0-patch1 release
       files to ensure that the library fails gracefully in these cases:
 
       * Writing to a corrupted file that has an object message which is
-        incorrectly marked as sharable on disk results in a buffer overflow /
+        incorrectly marked as shareable on disk results in a buffer overflow /
         invalid write instead of a clean error message.
 
       * Decoding data from a corrupted file with a dataset encoded with the
@@ -6204,7 +6204,7 @@ This release supports the following features:
       identically to the 1.8 library with the --with-default-api-version=v18
       configure flag. This allows existing code to be compiled with the 1.10
       library without requiring immediate changes to the application source
-      code. For addtional configuration options and other details, see
+      code. For additional configuration options and other details, see
       "API Compatibility Macros in HDF5" at
       https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/APICompatMacros.html.
 
@@ -6288,7 +6288,7 @@ This release supports the following features:
 
     Library
     --------
-    - Concurrent Access to HDF5 Files - Single Writer/ Multple Reader (SWMR)
+    - Concurrent Access to HDF5 Files - Single Writer/ Multiple Reader (SWMR)
 
       The Single Writer/ Multiple Reader or SWMR feature enables users to
       read data concurrently while writing it. Communications between the
@@ -6916,7 +6916,7 @@ This release supports the following features:
       identically to the 1.8 library with the --with-default-api-version=v18
       configure flag. This allows existing code to be compiled with the 1.10
       library without requiring immediate changes to the application source
-      code. For addtional configuration options and other details, see
+      code. For additional configuration options and other details, see
       "API Compatibility Macros in HDF5" at
       https://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/APICompatMacros.html.
 
@@ -7000,7 +7000,7 @@ This release supports the following features:
 
     Library
     --------
-    - Concurrent Access to HDF5 Files - Single Writer/ Multple Reader (SWMR)
+    - Concurrent Access to HDF5 Files - Single Writer/ Multiple Reader (SWMR)
 
       The Single Writer/ Multiple Reader or SWMR feature enables users to
       read data concurrently while writing it. Communications between the
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt
index da3d849..1e31010 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt
@@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ New Features
         H5PLreplace - Replace the path at the specified index.
         H5PLinsert  - Insert a plugin path at the specified index, moving
                       other paths after the index.
-        H5PLremove  - Remove the plugin path at the specifed index and
+        H5PLremove  - Remove the plugin path at the specified index and
                       compacting the list.
         H5PLget     - Query the plugin path at the specified index.
         H5PLsize    - Query the size of the current list of plugin paths.
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ New Features
         // Returns a copy of the creation property list of a datatype.
         DataType::getCreatePlist() - C API H5Tget_create_plist()
 
-        // Opens an object within a location, regarless its type.
+        // Opens an object within a location, regardless its type.
         H5Location::openObjId() - C API H5Oopen()
         H5Location::openObjId() - C API H5Oopen()
 
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
       files to ensure that the library fails gracefully in these cases:
 
       * Writing to a corrupted file that has an object message which is
-        incorrectly marked as sharable on disk results in a buffer overflow /
+        incorrectly marked as shareable on disk results in a buffer overflow /
         invalid write instead of a clean error message.
 
       * Decoding data from a corrupted file with a dataset encoded with the
@@ -4622,7 +4622,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
 
       Removed the module name from the package list of Fortran modules because
       that module was never generated. This was only an issue for Fortran
-      compliers that are not F2003 compatible.
+      compilers that are not F2003 compatible.
 
       (ADB - 2014/10/16, HDFFV-8932)
 
@@ -4632,7 +4632,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
       change was made which required the renaming of several public symbols in
       H5Ppublic.h.
 
-      The shared libary interface version number ("soname") has been increased
+      The shared library interface version number ("soname") has been increased
       on account of these changes. For a full list of the changed symbols, see
       the interface compatibility report, which is available as a link off of
       the 'HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release' document:
@@ -5891,7 +5891,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 * 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
+  is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernel
   (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:
@@ -6746,7 +6746,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
     - Fixed a bug in the core VFD that causes failures when opening files
       > 2 GB.
       Fixes HDFFV-8124 and HDFFV-8158 (DER 2013/01/07)
-    - Fixed a bug where unintialized memory was read during variable-length
+    - Fixed a bug where uninitialized memory was read during variable-length
       type conversion.  This caused segfaults in netCDF.  Fixes HDFFV-8159.
       (DER 2013/03/30)
     - Removed the H5Pset/get_dxpl_multi functions from the library.  The
@@ -7094,7 +7094,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 * 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
+  is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernel
   (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:
@@ -7718,8 +7718,8 @@ Known Problems
   (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 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
-  is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
+  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 kernel
   (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:
@@ -8317,8 +8317,8 @@ Known Problems
   (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 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
-  is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
+  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 kernel
   (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:
@@ -8696,7 +8696,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.8
     ------
     - h5ltget_attribute_string_f: The h5ltget_attribute_string_f used to return
       the C NULL character in the returned character buffer. The returned
-      charactor buffer now does not return the C NULL character; the buffer
+      character buffer now does not return the C NULL character; the buffer
       is blank-padded if needed. (MSB - 2012/03/23)
 
 
@@ -8799,7 +8799,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8  i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (gcc)
     Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0  i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (g++)
     Intel 64-bit                      (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
-    (fred)                        GNU Fortan (GCC) 4.6.1 (gfortran)
+    (fred)                        GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.1 (gfortran)
                                   Intel C (icc), Fortran (ifort), C++ (icpc)
                                       12.1.0.038 Build 20110811
 
@@ -8976,8 +8976,8 @@ Known Problems
   (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 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
-  is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
+  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 kernel
   (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:
@@ -9394,7 +9394,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7
     Tools
     -----
     - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different
-      dimention or rank, along with '-c' option to display details.
+      dimension or rank, along with '-c' option to display details.
       (JKM - 2011/10/24 - HDFFV-7770)
     - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable objects and attributes
       regardless of detecting non-comparables. (JKM - 2011/09/16 - HDFFV-7693)
@@ -9433,7 +9433,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7
       (-d, -p and --use-system-epsilon) are used together.
       (JKM - 2011/07/07 - HDFFV-7600)
     - Fixed h5dump so that it displays the first line of each element in correct
-      position for multiple dimention array types. Before this fix,
+      position for multiple dimension array types. Before this fix,
       the first line of each element in an array was
       displayed after the last line of previous element without
       moving to the next line (+indentation).
@@ -10024,7 +10024,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6
       ibm-aix. (AKC - 2011/4/14)
     - Shared C libraries are no longer disabled on Mac when Fortran
       is enabled. Shared Fortran libraries are still not supported on Mac,
-      so configure will disable them by default, but this is overrideable
+      so configure will disable them by default, but this is overridable
       with the new --enable-unsupported configure option. The configure
       summary has been updated to reflect the fact that the shared-ness of
       the C++/Fortran wrapper libraries may not align with the C library.
@@ -10666,7 +10666,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
     - Added a new set of unit tests that are run during 'make check' to verify
       the behavior of the metadata accumulator. (MAM - 2010/10/15)
     - Modified library to always cache symbol table information.  Libraries
-      from version 1.6.3 and earler have a bug which causes them to require
+      from version 1.6.3 and earlier have a bug which causes them to require
       this information for some operations. (NAF - 2010/09/21 - Bug 1864)
     - Fixed a bug where the library could generate an assertion/core dump when
       a file that had been created with H5Pset_libver_bounds(fapl,
@@ -11826,7 +11826,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3
       created files exhibiting this problem should now be readable.
       NAF - 2009/10/27 - 1483
     - Fixed error in library's internal caching mechanisms which could cause
-      an assertion failure (and attendent core dump) when encountering an
+      an assertion failure (and attendant core dump) when encountering an
       unusually formatted file.  (QAK - 2009/10/13)
     - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_preserve. AKC - 2009/10/08 - 1628
     - Fixed an assertion failure that occurred when H5Ocopy was called on a
@@ -12350,7 +12350,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
       can only be successfully opened with write access. NAF - 2009/03/23 - 1189
     - Removed the long_long #define and replaced all instances with
       "long long". This caused problems with third party products. All
-      currently supported compliers support the type. ADB - 2009/03/05
+      currently supported compilers support the type. ADB - 2009/03/05
     - Fixed various bugs that could prevent the fill value from being written
       in certain rare cases. NAF - 2009/02/26 - 1469
     - Fixed a bug that prevented more than one dataset chunk from being cached
@@ -13488,7 +13488,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0
         - The h5tset(get)_fields subroutines were missing the parameter to
           specify a sign position; fixed.  (EIP - 2008/05/23)
         - Many APIs were fixed to work with the 8-byte integers in Fortran vs.
-          4-byte integers in C. This change is trasparent to user applications.
+          4-byte integers in C. This change is transparent to user applications.
 
         C++ API
         ------
@@ -13882,7 +13882,7 @@ Known Problems
 
         exit $RETURN_VALUE
 
-  You get the HDF5 make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
+  You get the HDF5 make files and test scripts to execute your filter script
   by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
   script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to
   "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
@@ -14419,7 +14419,7 @@ Known Problems
 
         exit $RETURN_VALUE
 
-  You get the HDF5 make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
+  You get the HDF5 make files and test scripts to execute your filter script
   by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
   script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to
   "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt
index 616aa24..7b84fbc 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ New Features
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
-    - Add H5Pget_mpio_no_collective_cause() function that retrive reasons
+    - Add H5Pget_mpio_no_collective_cause() function that retrieve reasons
       why the collective I/O was broken during read/write IO access.
       (JKM - 2012/08/30 HDFFV-8143)
     - Special Collective IO (IO when some processes do not contribute to the
@@ -331,10 +331,10 @@ New Features
     - h5repack: Improved performance for big chunked datasets (size > 128MB)
                when used with layout (-l) or compression (-f) option.
                It would perform much better prior to the improvement,
-               especially for cases that chunk dimentions looks like
+               especially for cases that chunk dimensions looks like
                "1024x5x1" (compare to "1x5x1024"). When bigger numbers
                are toward front and smaller number is toward back in chunk
-               dimentions.  HDFFV-7862 (JKM - 2012/03/01)
+               dimensions.  HDFFV-7862 (JKM - 2012/03/01)
     - h5dump: Added new option --no-compact-subset. This option will not
                interpret the '[' character as starting the compact form of
                subsetting. This is useful when the "h5dump error: unable to
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
     - Fixed rare corruption bugs that could occur when using the new object
             header format. (NAF - 2012/3/15 - HDFFV-7879)
     - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused seg fault when the file
-            is closed.  It's fixed.  The attemp to create a dataset will fail
+            is closed.  It's fixed.  The attempt to create a dataset will fail
             with the error stack indicating the file is read-only. (SLU -
             2012/1/25. Issue 7756)
     - Fixed a seg fault that could occur when shrinking a dataset with chunks
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
             (NAF - 2009/03/23 - 1189)
     - Removed the long_long #define and replaced all instances with
             "long long". This caused problems with third party products. All
-            currently supported compliers support the type. (ADB - 2009/03/05)
+            currently supported compilers support the type. (ADB - 2009/03/05)
     - Fixed various bugs that could prevent the fill value from being written
             in certain rare cases. (NAF - 2009/02/26 - 1469)
     - Fixed a bug that prevented more than one dataset chunk from being cached
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
     - h5ls: fixed segfault when access region reference data in an
           attribute. HDFFV-7838 (JKM 2011/12/29)
     - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different
-          dimention or rank, along with '-c' option to display details.
+          dimension or rank, along with '-c' option to display details.
           HDFFV-7770 (JKM 2011/10/24)
     - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable object and attribute
           regardless of non-comparables. HDFFV-7693 (JKM 2011/09/16)
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
           when mutually exclusive options (-d, -p and --use-system-epsilon)
           are used together. HDFFV-7600  (JKM 2011/07/07)
     - Fixed h5dump to display the first line of each element into correct
-          position for multiple dimention array type.
+          position for multiple dimension array type.
           Before this fix, the first line of each element in array were
           displayed after the last line of previous element without
           moving to the next line (+indentation).
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
           as source file. (XCAO 2011/3/8)
     - Fixed h5dump for skipping some values for long array type dataset on
           Windows. This issue only occurred on Windows due to the different
-          return behavior from _vsnprintf() funtion. Bug#2161 (JKM 2011/3/3)
+          return behavior from _vsnprintf() function. Bug#2161 (JKM 2011/3/3)
     - Fixed h5dump for skipping array indices every certain number
           when the array type dataset is relatively big. The certain number
           varies according to the size of array. Bug#2092 (JKM 2011/2/15).
@@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
     ------
 
     - Lite: The h5ltget_attribute_string_f used to return the C NULL character in the
-              returned character buffer. The returned Fortran charactor buffer now does
+              returned character buffer. The returned Fortran character buffer now does
               not return the C NULL character. (MSB - 2012/3/23)
     - Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about a dataset)
            was not correctly returning the dimension array. (PVN - 2009/3/23)
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
       The strings command of Mac inspects library files and older
       versions of strings may not know newer library format, resulting
       in errors.  Fixed by sending the library file as stdin to the strings
-      coommand to avoid this problem. (AKC - 2013/03/08 HDFFV-8305)
+      command to avoid this problem. (AKC - 2013/03/08 HDFFV-8305)
 
     - Fixed a typo in the ERROR macro in test/testhdf5.h. It segmentation
       faulted when used before. (AKC - 2013/02/12 HDFFV-8267)
@@ -1535,8 +1535,8 @@ Known Problems
   of GCC. (Issue 8017. SLU - 2012/6/12)
 
 * The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer
-  conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
-  is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
+  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 kernel
   (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower down the
   optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of
   "configure" like:
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ Known Problems
   causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 * For HPUX 11.23 many tools tests failed for 64-bit version when linked to the
   shared libraries (tested for 1.8.0-beta2)
-* For SNL, Red Storm: only paralle HDF5 is supported.  The serial tests pass
+* For SNL, Red Storm: only parallel HDF5 is supported.  The serial tests pass
   and the parallel tests also pass with lots of non-fatal error messages.
 * on SUN 5.10 C++ test fails in the "Testing Shared Datatypes with Attributes" test
 * configuring with --enable-debug=all produces compiler errors on most
@@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ Known Problems
 
   exit $RETURN_VALUE
 
-  You get the HDF make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
+  You get the HDF make files and test scripts to execute your filter script
   by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
   script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to
   "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
index e28b633..2f6e783 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
          HDF5 Build and Install Instructions for Cygwin
 ************************************************************************
 
-This document is a instruction on how to build, test and install HDF5 libary on
+This document is a instruction on how to build, test and install HDF5 library on
 Cygwin.  See detailed information in hdf5/INSTALL.
 
 NOTE: hdf5 can be built with CMake, see the INSTALL_CMake.txt file for more guidance.
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Preconditions:
     2.2.2 Szip
        The HDF5 library has a predefined compression filter that uses
        the extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm for chunked
-       datatsets. For more information on Szip compression, license terms,
+       datasets. For more information on Szip compression, license terms,
        and obtaining the Szip source code, see:
 
           https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/Szip+Compression+in+HDF+Products