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author | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2013-04-09 17:48:11 (GMT) |
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committer | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2013-04-09 17:48:11 (GMT) |
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[svn-r23567] Post v1.8.11 branch-off, changed version to 1.8.12-snap0.
Reset RELEASE.txt for next release (1.8.12).
Tested: h5committest.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 4c3c498..4fdf8ea 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,25 +1,25 @@ -HDF5 version 1.8.11-snap17 currently under development +HDF5 version 1.8.12-snap0 currently under development ================================================================================ INTRODUCTION ============ -This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.10 and -HDF5-1.8.11-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and -known problems in HDF5-1.8.11-*. +This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.11 and +HDF5-1.8.12-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and +known problems in HDF5-1.8.12-*. 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 1.8.11 source code, documentation, and additional materials +Links to the HDF5 1.8.12 source code, documentation, and additional materials can be found on the HDF5 web page at: http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/ -The HDF5 1.8.11 release can be obtained from: +The HDF5 1.8.12 release can be obtained from: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html -User documentation for 1.8.11 can be accessed directly at this location: +User documentation for 1.8.12 can be accessed directly at this location: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ 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 1.8.11 (current -release) versus Release 1.8.10": +from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.12 (current +release) versus Release 1.8.11": http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ CONTENTS - New Features - Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers -- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10 +- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.11 - Supported Platforms - Supported Configuration Features Summary - More Tested Platforms @@ -57,22 +57,11 @@ New Features Configuration ------------- - - CMake minimum is now 2.8.10. (ADB 2013/1/14) - - A new tool, cmakehdf5, which is a build command script similar to - buildhdf5 is added and is available in the bin directory. - (AKC - 2013/01/16) + - None Library ------- - - The library can load filter libraries dynamically during runtime. Users - can set the search path through environment variable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH - and call H5Pset_filter to enable a dynamic filter. (SLU - 2013/04/08) - - Added new API functions H5Dscatter and H5Dgather to scatter data to and - and gather data from a selection within a memory buffer. - (NAF - 2013/02/05) - - The library now supports the data conversion from enumeration to numeric - (integer and floating-point number) datatypes. See Issue 8221. - (SLU - 2012/10/23) + - None Parallel Library ---------------- @@ -80,27 +69,15 @@ New Features Tools ----- - - h5dump: added new option -O or -ddl to output the ddl text to a file. This - is a complement to the -o or --output option, which redirects the data to - a file. HDFFV-8229 (ADB - 2013/2/25) + - None High-Level APIs --------------- - - A new API function, H5DOwrite_chunk. This function writes a data chunk - directly into a file, bypassing hyperslab selection, data conversion, - and the filter pipeline. The user must be careful with the function and - clearly understand the I/O process of the library. (SLU - 2013/2/11) + - None Fortran API ----------- - - New API functions added (MSB - 2013/3/23): - - h5odecr_refcount_f, h5oexists_by_name_f, h5oget_comment_f, - h5oget_comment_by_name_f, h5oincr_refcount_f, h5oopen_by_idx_f, h5oset_comment_f, - h5oset_comment_by_name_f, h5oset_comment_by_name_f - - F2003: h5oget_info_f, h5oget_info_by_idx_f, h5ovisit_by_name_f - + - None C++ API ------- @@ -111,39 +88,16 @@ Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers =================================================== - None -Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10 -========================== +Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.11 +=========================== Configuration ------------- - - Configure will check the result of header searches before searching for - the library. - Fixes HDFFV-8257 (ADB 2013/03/04) - - HDF does not support building SHARED Fortran libraries on OSX. Added CMake - code to check for this condition. - Fixes HDFFV-8227 (ADB 2013/03/04) - - CMake builds on Windows will no longer use legacy naming for libraries, - the "dll" tag will no longer be added to the name of *.lib and *.dll. - The option HDF_LEGACY_NAMING is now OFF by default. - Fixes HDFFV-8292 (ADB 2013/01/30) + - None Library ------- - - The library now behaves correctly when performing large I/O operations on - Mac OS-X. Previously, single I/O operations > 2 GB would fail since the - Darwin read/write calls cannot handle the number of bytes that their - parameter types imply. - Fixes HDFFV-7975 and HDFFV-8240 (DER 2013/01/07) - - Fixed a bug in the core VFD that cause 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 - 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 - intended functionality for them was never fully implemented and they - have always been fundamentally broken. NOTE: This does not affect setting - the multi VFD or any expected VFD functionality. Multi VFD usage - remains unchanged. Fixes HDFFV-8296. (DER 2013/03/30) + - None Parallel Library ---------------- @@ -155,54 +109,19 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10 Tools ----- - - h5repack: Fixed failure for converting a layout of small chunked dataset - (size < 1K) to contiguous layout. HDFFV-8214 (JKM 2013/03/26) - - h5dump: Fixed displaying compression ratio for unknown or user-defined - filters. HDFFV-8344 (XCAO 2013/03/19) - - h5dump: Changed UNKNOWN_FILTER to USER_DEFINED_FILTER for user defined filter. - HDFFV-8346 (XCAO 2013/03/19) - - h5diff: Fixed to return correct exit code 1 when detect unique extra - attribute. Prior to this fix, h5diff returned exit code 0 indicating - two files are identical. HDFFV-7643 (JKM 2013/02/15) - - h5dump: Fixed writing nulls to a binary file when exporting a dataset - with compound string datatype. HDFFV-8169 (ADB 2013/1/31) - - The following h5stat test case failed in BG/P machines (and potentially - other machines that display extra output if an MPI task returns with a - non-zero code.) - Testing h5stat notexist.h5 - The test script was fixed to ignore the extra output. HDFFV-8233 (AKC - - 2012/11/30) - - h5diff: Improved speed when comparing HDF5 files with lots of - attributes. Much slower performance was identified with release version - from 1.8.7 to 1.8.10 compared to 1.8.6. (JKM 2012/10/19) + - None F90 API ------- - - The integer type of the 'offset' argument in h5pset_external_f and - h5pget_external_f was changed to INTEGER(KIND=OFF_T) to support 8-byte - integers, matching the C type definition of off_t. (MSB - 2013/3/23) - - - h5fc updated to recognize .f95, .f03 and .f08 file extensions. + - None C++ API ------ - - The C++ wrappers DSetMemXferPropList::setMulti/getMulti are removed because - the C functions H5Pset/get_dxpl_multi functions are removed from the library. - Fixes HDFFV-8296 by DER. (BMR 2013/03/30) - - An exception thrown by an internal function was not propagating to the - test program during stack unwinding, so it couldn't be caught by the - test and the program terminated "without an active exception." It seemed - that the problem happened when c_str() was used to generate an equivalant - const char* from a std::string and the resulting string was passed to - the internal function. As a work-around, we added a try/catch around - the the call to the internal function and when the exception is caught there, - it is re-thrown. Fixes HDFFV-8067. (BMR 2013/03/30) + - None High-Level APIs: ------ - - Fixed problem with H5DSget_scale_name including the NULL terminator in - the size calculation returned by the function. The API was changed to NOT - include the NULL terminator in the size of name returned (MSB- 2013/2/10) + - None Fortran High-Level APIs: ------ @@ -210,17 +129,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10 Testing ------- - - In some Mac system, testlibinfo.sh failed with this error: - Check file ../src/.libs/libhdf5.7.dylib - strings: object: ../src/.libs/libhdf5.7.dylib malformed object \ - (unknown load command 15) - 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 - 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) + - None Supported Platforms =================== |