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diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt index abe3ee3..334197b 100644 --- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt +++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt @@ -14,7 +14,498 @@ This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch %%%%1.8.4%%%% -RELEASE.txt for 1.8.4 will go here when released. + +HDF5 version 1.8.4 released on Tue Nov 10 15:33:14 CST 2009 +================================================================================ + +INTRODUCTION +============ + +This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.3 and +HDF5 1.8.4, and contains information on the platforms tested and +known problems in HDF5-1.8.4 +For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt +and HISTORY-1_8.txt in the release_docs/ directory of the HDF5 source. + +Links to the HDF5 1.8.4 source code, documentation, and additional materials +can be found on the HDF5 web page at: + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/ + +The HDF5 1.8.4 release can be obtained from: + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html + +User documentation for 1.8.4 can be accessed directly at this location: + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ + +New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general +descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New +in 1.8.0?" document: + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/WhatsNew180.html + +All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes +from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.4 (current +release) versus Release 1.8.3": + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html + +If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk: + + help@hdfgroup.org + + +CONTENTS +======== + +- New Features +- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers +- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3 +- Platforms Tested +- Supported Configuration Features Summary +- Known Problems + + +New Features +============ + + Configuration + ------------- + - Configuration suite now uses Automake 1.11 and Autoconf 2.64. + MAM 2009/08/31. + - Changed default Gnu fortran compiler from g95 to gfortran since + gfortran is more likely installed with gcc now. -AKC 2009/07/19- + + Library + ------- + - The embedded library information is displayed by H5check_version() if a + version mismatch is detected. Also changed H5check_version() to + suppress the warning message totally if $HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK is 2 + or higher. (Old behavior treated 3 or higher the same as 1, that is + print a warning and allows the program to continue. (AKC - 2009/9/28) + - If a user does not care for the extra library information insert + in the executables, he may turn it off by --disable-embedded-libinfo + during configure. (AKC - 2009/9/15) + + Parallel Library + ---------------- + - None + + Tools + ----- + - h5diff: h5diff treats two INFINITY values different. Fixed by checking + (value==expect) before call ABS(...) at h5diff_array.c. This will make + that (INF==INF) is true (INF is treated as an number instead of NaN) + (PC -- 2009/07/28) + - h5diff: add option "--use-system-epsilon" to print difference if + (|a-b| > EPSILON). + Change default to use strict equality (PC -- 2009/09/12) + + High-Level APIs + --------------- + - None + + F90 API + ------- + - Added H5Oopen_by_addr_f MSB - 9/14/09 + + C++ API + ------- + - None + + +Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers +=================================================== + - PathScale compilers are recognized and can build the HDF5 library + properly. AKC - 2009/7/28 - + + +Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3 +========================== + + Configuration + ------------- + - Removed the following config files, as we no longer support them: + config/dec-osf*, config/hpux11.00, config/irix5.x, + config/powerpc-ibm-aix4.x config/rs6000-ibm-aix5.x config/unicos* + MAM - 2009/10/08 + - Modified configure and make process to properly preserve user's CFLAGS + (and company) environment variables. Build will now properly use + automake's AM_CFLAGS for any compiler flags set by the configure + process. Configure will no longer modify CFLAGS directly, nor will + setting CFLAGS during make completely replace what configure has set up. + MAM - 2009/10/08 + - Support for TFLOPS, config/intel-osf1, is removed since the TFLOPS + machine has long retired. AKC - 2009/10/06. + - Added $(EXEEXT) extension to H5detect when it's executed in the + src/Makefile to generate H5Tinit.c so it works correctly on platforms + that require the full extension when running executables. + MAM - 2009/10/01 - BZ #1613 + - Configure will now set FC and CXX to "no" when fortran and c++ + are not being compiled, respectively, so configure will not run + some of the compiler tests for these languages when they are not + being used. MAM - 2009/10/01 + - The --enable-static-exec flag will now properly place the -static flag + on the link line of all installed executables. This will force the + executable to link with static libraries over shared libraries, provided + the static libraries are available. MAM - 2009/08/31 - BZ #1583 + - The PathScale compiler (v3.2) was mistaken as gcc v4.2.0 but it fails to + recognize some gcc options. Fixed. (see bug 1301). AKC - 2009/7/28 - + + Library + ------- + - Fixed a bug where writing and deleting many global heap objects (i.e. + variable length data) would render the file unreadable. Previously + 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 + 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 + dataset using a vlen inside a compound. NAF - 2009/10/02 - 1597 + - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_filter_by_id1/2 in H5Ppublic.h. + NAF - 2009/09/25 - 1620 + - Fixed a bug where properties weren't being compared with the registered + compare callback. NAF - 2009/09/25 - 1555 + - Corrected problem where library would re-write the superblock in a file + opened for R/W access, even when no changes were made to the file. + (QAK - 2009/08/20, Bz#1473) + - Fixed a bug where H5Pget_filter_by_id would succeed when called for a + filter that wasn't present. NAF - 2009/06/25 - 1250 + - Fixed an issue with committed compound datatypes containing a vlen. Also + fixed memory leaks involving committed datatypes. NAF - 2009/06/10 - 1593 + + Parallel Library + ---------------- + - None + + Tools + ----- + - h5dump/h5ls display buffer resize fixed in tools library. + ADB - 2009/7/21 - 1520 + - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file. + ADB - 2009/06/11 -1504 + + + F90 API + ------ + - Fixed bug in h5lget_info_by_idx_f by adding missing arguments, + consequently changing the API. New API is: + + SUBROUTINE h5lget_info_by_idx_f(loc_id, group_name, index_field, order, n, & + link_type, f_corder_valid, corder, cset, address, val_size, hdferr, lapl_id) + + MSB - 2009/9/17 - 1652 + + - Corrected the values for the H5L_flags FORTRAN constants: + H5L_LINK_ERROR_F, H5L_LINK_HARD_F, H5L_LINK_SOFT_F, H5L_LINK_EXTERNAL_F + MSB - 2009-09-17 - 1653 + + - Added FORTRAN equivalent of C constant H5T_ORDER_NONE: H5T_ORDER_NONE_F + MSB - 2009-9-24 - 1471 + + C++ API + ------ + - None + + High-Level APIs: + ------ + - Fixed a bug where the H5TB API would forget the order of fields when added + out of offset order. NAF - 2009/10/27 - 1582 + - H5DSis_attached failed to account for different platform types. Added a + get native type call. ADB - 2009/9/29 - 1562 + + Fortran High-Level APIs: + ------ + - Lite: the h5ltread_dataset_string_f and h5ltget_attribute_string_f functions + had memory problems with the g95 fortran compiler. (PVN � 5/13/2009) 1522 + + + +Platforms Tested +================ +The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release. + + AIX 5.3 xlc 7.0.0.8 + (LLNL Up) xlf 09.01.0000.0008 + xlC 7.0.0.8 + mpcc_r 7.0.0.8 + mpxlf_r 09.01.0000.0008 + + Cray XT3 (2.0.41) cc (pgcc) 7.1-4 + (SNL red storm) ftn (pgf90) 7.1-4 + CC (pgCC) 7.1-4 + + FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386 gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 + (duty) g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 + gcc 4.3.5 20091004 + g++ 4.3.5 20091004 + gfortran 4.3.5 20091004 + + FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE amd64 gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 + (liberty) g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 + gcc 4.4.2 20091006 + g++ 4.4.2 20091006 + gfortran 4.4.2 20091006 + + Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 + #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Jun 24 2009) + (jam) GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 + (Red Hat 4.1.2-46) + PGI C, Fortran, C++ 8.0-5 32-bit + PGI C, Fortran, C++ 8.0-1 32-bit + Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Versions 11.0, 11.1 + Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Version 11.0, 11.1 + Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit + applications, Version 11.0, 11.1 + Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.7 + MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with + gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 and G95 + (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) + + Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP gcc 4.1.2 20080704 + x86_64 GNU/Linux G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Jun 24 2009) + (amani) tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries + Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for + applications running on Intel(R) 64, + Versions 11.1. + PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 9.0-4 + for 64-bit target on x86-64 + gcc 4.1.2 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) + MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with + gcc 4.1.2 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) + GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 + (Red Hat 4.1.2-46) + + + Linux 2.6.16.60-0.42.5 #1 Intel(R) C++ Version 10.1.017 + SGI Altix SMP ia64 Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 10.1.017 + (cobalt) SGI MPI 1.38 + + SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-11 2009/04/30 + (linew) Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc + Patch 127000-11 2009/10/06 + Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc + Patch 124863-16 2009/09/15 + + Intel Xeon Linux 2.6.18- Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.026 + 92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp- Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0.026 + perfctr #6 SMP Open MPI 1.2.2 + (abe) MVAPICH2-0.9.8p28p2patched-intel-ofed-1.2 + compiled with icc v10.0.026 and ifort 10.0.026 + + IA-64 Linux 2.4.21-309.tg1 gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 + #1 SMP ia64 Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1.037 + (NCSA tg-login) Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1.033 + mpich-gm-1.2.7p1..16-intel-8.1.037-r1 + + Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for + .1.4.11.1smp #1 SMP applications running on Intel(R) 64, + SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux Versions 10.1. + (SNL Thunderbird) + + Linux 2.6.18-76chaos #1 SMP Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for + SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux applications running on Intel(R) 64, + (SNL Glory) Versions 10.1. + + Windows XP Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1 + Cygwin(native gcc compiler and g95) + + Windows XP x64 Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1 + + Windows Vista Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1 + + Windows Vista x64 Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1 + + MAC OS 10.5.6 (Intel) i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 + GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.3.0 20070810 + G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Apr 24 2008) + Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers 10.1 + + +Supported Configuration Features Summary +======================================== + + In the tables below + y = tested and supported + n = not supported or not tested in this release + C = Cluster + W = Workstation + x = not working in this release + dna = does not apply + ( ) = footnote appears below second table + <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform + +Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP + parallel parallel +Solaris2.10 32-bit n y n y y y +Solaris2.10 64-bit n y n y y y +Windows XP n y(4) n(4) y y y +Windows XP x64 n y(4) n(4) y y y +Windows Vista n n n y y y +Mac OS X 10.5 Intel n y n y y y +AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit n y n y y n +FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit n y n y y y +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 GNU (1)W y y(2) y y y y +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 Intel W n y n y y n +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 PGI W n y n y y n +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 GNU(1)W y y(3) y y y y +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 IntelW n y n y y n +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 PGI W n y n y y y +SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64 C y y y y y y +RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre C y y y y y n +SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel C y y y y y n +Cray XT3 2.0.62 y y y y y n + + +Platform Shared Shared Shared Thread- + C libs F90 libs C++ libs safe +Solaris2.10 32-bit y y y y +Solaris2.10 64-bit y y y y +Windows XP y y(4) y y +Windows XP x64 y y(4) y y +Windows Vista y n n y +Mac OS X 10.5 y n y n +AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit n n n n +FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit y y y y +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 GNU (1)W y y(2) y y +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 Intel W y y y n +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 PGI W y y y n +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 GNU(1)W y y y y +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 IntelW y y y n +RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 PGI W y y y n +SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64 C y n +RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre C y y y n +SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel C y y y n +Cray XT3 2.0.62 n n n n + + (1) Fortran compiled with g95. + (2) With PGI and Absoft compilers. + (3) With PGI compiler for Fortran. + (4) Using Visual Studio 2005 or Cygwin + Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding + "Platforms Tested" table. + + +Known Problems +============== +* Parallel mode in AIX will fail some of the testcheck_version.sh tests where + it treats "exit(134) the same as if process 0 had received an abort signal. + This is fixed and will be available in the next release. AKC - 2009/11/3 + +* Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is used. + The error is due to insufficient memory requested. Request a large amount + of runtime memory by setting the following environment variable for more + memory. + LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA + AKC - 2009/10/31 + +* The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would + cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file is not + existing. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has + the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (See bug 1468 for details.) AKC - 2009/8/11 + +* Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5 + / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with + collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks + with MPI IO. CMC - 2009/04/28 + +* There is a known issue in which HDF5 will change the timestamp on a file + simply by opening it with read/write permissions, even if the file is not + modified in any way. This is due to the way in which HDF5 manages the file + superblock. A fix is currently underway and should be included in the 1.8.4 + release of HDF5. MAM - 2009/04/28 + +* For gcc v4.3 and v4.4, with production mode, if -O3 is used, H5Tinit.c + would fail to compile. Actually bad H5Tinit.c is produced. If -O (same + as -O1) is used, H5Tinit.c compiled okay but test/dt_arith would fail. + When -O0 (no optimizatio) is used, H5Tinit.c compilete okay and all + tests passed. Therefore, -O0 is imposed for v4.3 and v4.4 of gcc. + AKC - 2009/04/20 + +* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh and + tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh will fail some of its sub-tests. These sub-tests + are expected to fail and should exit with a non-zero code but the yod + command does not propagate the exit code of the executables. Yod always + returns 0 if it can launch the executable. The test suite shell expects + a non-zero for this particular test, therefore it concludes the test has + failed when it receives 0 from yod. Skip all the "failing" test for now + by changing them as following. + + ======== Original tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh ========= + TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5 + ======== Change to =============================== + echo SKIP TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5 + ================================================== + + ======== Original tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh ========= + TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d grp_rename + TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets + TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets + TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested + H5LSTEST $FILEOUT + ======== Change to =============================== + echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d grp_rename + echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets + echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets + echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested + echo SKIP H5LSTEST $FILEOUT + ================================================== + AKC - 2008/11/10 + +* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the + message, "yod allocation delayed for node recovery". This interferes with + test suites that do not expect seeing this message. See the section of "Red + Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem. + AKC - 2008/05/28 + +* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, + use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of + optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. + +* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and + the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 + processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be + verified with t_mpi test under testpar. + +* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read + with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled. + There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the + library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big- + endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3. + However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as + before on little-endian system. Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read + datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before. + SLU - 2005/6/30 + +* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error + messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...". This is from the command `poe'. + Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages + and run the tests again. + + The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use", + but HDF5 does not use sockets. This failure is due to problems with the + poe command trying to set up the debug socket. To resolve this problem, + check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around. + These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed + commands. First, ask your system administrator to clean them out. + Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket. + +* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries + if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version + of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac, + for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a + successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be + fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the + executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library. + +* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports + when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used. %%%%1.8.3%%%% |