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author | HDF Admin <hdfadmin@ncsa.uiuc.edu> | 2002-01-05 09:55:08 (GMT) |
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committer | HDF Admin <hdfadmin@ncsa.uiuc.edu> | 2002-01-05 09:55:08 (GMT) |
commit | cb7800feee85ec1dc62ceeb9ed1f8ac59a526c16 (patch) | |
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[svn-r4780] Snapshot version 1.5 release 17
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diff --git a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt index 9906e68..ef35424 100644 --- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt +++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.5.16 released on Thu Dec 6 10:06:46 CST 2001 +HDF5 version 1.5.17 released on Sat Jan 5 04:50:34 CST 2002 ================================================================================ @@ -90,6 +90,17 @@ Library properly if they caused close() to fail. * Fixed a bug in internal B-tree code where a B-tree was not being copied correctly. + * Fixed an off-by-one error in H5Sselect_valid when hyperslab selections + which would allow hyperslab selections which overlapped the edge of the + selection by one element as valid. + * Fixed the internal macros used to encode & decode file metadata, to avoid + an unaligned access warning on IA64 machines. + * Corrected behavior of H5Tinsert to not allow compound datatype fields to + be inserted past the end of the datatype. + * Retired the DPSS virtual file driver (--with-gridstorage configure + option). + * Fixed bug where variable-length datatypes for attributes was not working + correctly. Configuration ------------- @@ -104,6 +115,8 @@ Configuration HDF version 4.1r3 and newer meets this requirement. The compress2 uses a newer compression algorithm used by the HDF5 library. Also, 4.1r3 has an hdp tool that can handle "loops" in Vgroups. + * Can use just enable-threadsafe if the C compiler has builtin pthreads + support. Tools @@ -185,6 +198,25 @@ New Features writing. * Improved performance of non-contiguous hyperslabs (built up with several hyperslab selection calls). + * Removed H5P(get|set)_hyper_cache API function, since the property is no + longer used. + * 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 + 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 + manual under the description of H5Fcreate, H5Fopen, H5Fclose and the + functions mentioned above. + * Changed internal error handling macros to reduce code size of library by + about 10-20%. + * Added H5Rget_obj_type() API function, which performs the same functionality + as H5Rget_object_type(), but requires the reference type as a parameter + in order to correctly handle dataset region references. Moved + H5Rget_object_type() to be only compiled into the library when v1.4 + compatibility is enabled. + * Parallel HDF5 is now supported on HP-UX 11.00 platforms. + Platforms Tested ================ |