[svn-r7436] Snapshot version 1.7 release 2

1 files changed, 65 insertions, 39 deletions

diff --git a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
index b0dfb4c..821679a 100644
--- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.7.1 released on Sun Aug 24 03:40:13 CDT 2003
+HDF5 version 1.7.2 released on Sun Aug 31 03:30:53 CDT 2003
 ================================================================================
 
 
@@ -36,32 +36,33 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration:
     --------------
-      - Prefix default is changed from /usr/local to `pwd`/hdf5.  AKC - 2003/07/09
+        - Prefix default is changed from /usr/local to `pwd`/hdf5.
+            AKC - 2003/07/09
 
     Library:
     --------
-      - Changed 'objno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]'
-        to 'haddr_t'.  QAK - 2003/08/08
-      - Changed 'fileno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]'
-        to 'unsigned long'.  QAK - 2003/08/08
-      - Changed 'hobj_ref_t' type from structure with array field to 'haddr_t'.
-        QAK - 2003/08/08
-      - Object references (hobj_ref_t) can now be compared with the 'objno'
-        field in the H5G_stat_t struct for testing if two objects are the same
-        within a file.  QAK - 2003/08/08
-      - Switched over to new error API. SLU - 2003/07/25
+        - Changed 'objno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]'
+            to 'haddr_t'.  QAK - 2003/08/08
+        - Changed 'fileno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]'
+            to 'unsigned long'.  QAK - 2003/08/08
+        - Changed 'hobj_ref_t' type from structure with array field to 'haddr_t'.
+            QAK - 2003/08/08
+        - Object references (hobj_ref_t) can now be compared with the 'objno'
+            field in the H5G_stat_t struct for testing if two objects are the
+            same within a file.  QAK - 2003/08/08
+        - Switched over to new error API. SLU - 2003/07/25
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
 
     Tools:
     ------
-      - Changed output of "OID"s from h5dump from "<number>-<number>" to
-        "<number".  This affects both the "regular" and XML output.
-        QAK - 2003/08/08
-      - Changed output of file IDs and "OID"s from h5ls from
-        "<number>:<number>:<number>:<number>" to "<number>:<number>"
-        QAK - 2003/08/08
+        - Changed output of "OID"s from h5dump from "<number>-<number>" to
+            "<number".  This affects both the "regular" and XML output.
+            QAK - 2003/08/08
+        - Changed output of file IDs and "OID"s from h5ls from
+            "<number>:<number>:<number>:<number>" to "<number>:<number>"
+            QAK - 2003/08/08
 
 
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
@@ -73,36 +74,61 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
 
     Library
     -------
-      - Corrected bugs in H5Gget_num_objs, H5Gget_objname_by_idx and
-        H5Gget_objtype_by_idx to allow them to accept location IDs, not just
-        group IDs.  QAK - 2003/08/21
-      - Corrected bug when using scalar dataspace for memory selection and
-        operating on chunked dataset.  QAK - 2003/08/18
-      - Corrected bugs with multiple '/' characters in names for H5Glink
-        and H5Gunlink.  QAK - 2003/08/16
-      - Corrected bug with user blocks that didn't allow a user block to
-        be inserted in front of a file after the file was created.
-        QAK - 2003/08/13
-      - Corrected errors with using point selections to access data in
-        chunked datasets.  QAK - 2003/07/23
-      - Corrected error with variable-length datatypes and chunked datasets
-        caused H5Dwrite to fail sometimes.  QAK - 2003/07/19
-      - Modified library and file format to support storing indexed storage
-        (chunked dataset) B-tree's with non-default internal 'K' values.
-        QAK - 2003/07/15
-      - Returned H5T_BKG_TEMP support to library after it was accidentally
-        removed.  QAK - 2003/07/14
+        - Return rank of the array datatype on successful call to
+            H5Tget_array_dims().  QAK - 2003/08/30
+        - Corrected bug in H5Tdetect_class which was not correctly detecting
+            datatype classes of fields in nested compound datatypes in some
+            circumstances.  QAK - 2003/08/30
+        - Corrected bug in sieve buffer code which could cause loss of data
+            when a small dataset was created and deleted in quick succession.
+            QAK - 2003/08/27
+        - Corrected bug in H5Gget_objname_by_idx which was not allowing NULL
+            for the name when just querying for the object name's length.
+            QAK - 2003/08/25
+        - Corrected bug in variable-length string handling which could
+            generate a core dump on writing variable-length strings as part
+            of a compound datatype on certain architectures.  QAK - 2003/08/25
+        - Corrected bug in H5Tget_native_type which would incorrectly compute
+            the size of certain compound datatypes and also incorrectly
+            compute the offset of the last field for those compound datatypes.
+            QAK - 2003/08/25
+        - Corrected bug in H5Tget_native_type which would drop string datatype
+            metadata (padding, etc.)  QAK - 2003/08/25
+        - Corrected bugs in H5Gget_num_objs, H5Gget_objname_by_idx and
+            H5Gget_objtype_by_idx to allow them to accept location IDs, not just
+            group IDs.  QAK - 2003/08/21
+        - Corrected bug when using scalar dataspace for memory selection and
+            operating on chunked dataset.  QAK - 2003/08/18
+        - Corrected bugs with multiple '/' characters in names for H5Glink
+            and H5Gunlink.  QAK - 2003/08/16
+        - Corrected bug with user blocks that didn't allow a user block to
+            be inserted in front of a file after the file was created.
+            QAK - 2003/08/13
+        - Corrected errors with using point selections to access data in
+            chunked datasets.  QAK - 2003/07/23
+        - Corrected error with variable-length datatypes and chunked datasets
+            caused H5Dwrite to fail sometimes.  QAK - 2003/07/19
+        - Modified library and file format to support storing indexed storage
+            (chunked dataset) B-tree's with non-default internal 'K' values.
+            QAK - 2003/07/15
+        - Returned H5T_BKG_TEMP support to library after it was accidentally
+            removed.  QAK - 2003/07/14
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-      - Fixed the error that cause "make install" to fail because of the
-        macro definition syntax of "prefix?=..."  AKC - 2003/07/22
+        - Fixed the error that cause "make install" to fail because of the
+            macro definition syntax of "prefix?=..."  AKC - 2003/07/22
 
     Performance
     -------------
 
     Tools
     -----
+	- Fixed a segmentation fault of h5diff when percentage option is used.
+	    AKC - 2003/08/27
+
+        - Switched away from tools using internal "fixtype" function(s) to use
+            H5Tget_native_type() internally.  QAK - 2003/08/25
 
     Documentation 
     -------------