[svn-r4184] Purpose:

    Roll a snapshot for the FLASH folks at Argonne to test with.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
index a6492b5..6ae73e3 100644
--- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.5.6 released on Sat May 19 22:32:57 CDT 2001
+HDF5 version 1.5.7 released on Wed Jul 11 07:20:09 CDT 2001
 ================================================================================
 
 
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ Library
       got dropped in some 1.3.x version. Re-implemented it with "new and
       improved" algorithm.  It keeps track of "wasted" file-fragment in
       the free-list too.
+    * Removed limitation that the data transfer buffer size needed to be
+      set for datasets whose dimensions were too large for the 'all' selection
+      code to handle.  Any size dimensioned datasets should be handled
+      correctly now.
+    * Changed behavior of H5Tget_member_type to correctly emulate HDF5 v1.2.x
+      when --enable-hdf5v1_2 configure flag is enabled.
+    * Tweaked a few API functions to use 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned' or
+      'hsize_t', which may cause errors in some cases.
 
 Configuration
 -------------
@@ -85,6 +93,7 @@ New Features
           7 and contains the sizes of the data buffer dimensions. 
     * F90 static library is available on Windows platforms. See
       INSTALL_Windows.txt for details.
+    * F90 APIs are available on HPUX 11.00 and IBM SP platforms.
     * File sizes greater than 2GB are now supported on Linux systems with
       version 2.4.x or higher kernels.
     * Added a global string variable H5_lib_vers_info_g which holds the
@@ -95,6 +104,14 @@ New Features
     * H5 <-> GIF convertor has been added. This is available under 
       tools/gifconv. The convertor supports the ability to create animated
       gifs as well.
+    * Parallel HDF5 now runs on the HP V2500 and HP N4000 machines.
+    * Verified correct operation of library on Solaris 2.8 in both 64-bit and
+      32-bit compilation modes.  See INSTALL document for instructions on
+      compiling the distribution with 64-bit support.
+    * 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.
+    * Improved regular hyperslab I/O by about a factor of 6 or so.
 
 Platforms Tested
 ================
@@ -108,10 +125,13 @@ Platforms Tested
                                 g++ 2.95.2
   HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32.30
   HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.00.13
+                                HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
   IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
   IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1m
                                 mpt.1.4.0.2
                                 mpich-1.2.1
+  Linux 2.4.4                   gcc-2.95.3
+                                g++ 2.95.3
   Linux 2.2.16-3smp             gcc-2.95.2
                                 g++ 2.95.2
                                 pgf90 3.1-3
@@ -143,7 +163,7 @@ Known Problems
   libraries on Solaris are available in a static format.
 
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
-  on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode.  The parallel mode works fine
+  on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
   with this option.
   
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
@@ -202,7 +222,7 @@ Known Problems
 * The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform
   to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. 
 
-      http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
+     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
 
   Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace 
   is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is 
@@ -210,8 +230,3 @@ Known Problems
 
      http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.htm
 
-* The test_compression in ./c++/test/dsets.cpp failed on Linux.  A size
-  value that is passed to a memcpy mysteriously becomes very large resulting 
-  in a Segnmentation Fault.  This specific test is disabled until we can 
-  figure out the problem and come up with a solution.
-