Add contents of HDF5 1.10.3 RELEASE.txt to HISTORY-1_10.txt and update

RELEASE.txt for continuing development.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 477 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index ca30d10..609202c 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ CONTENTS
 - New Features
 - Support for new platforms and languages
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3
-- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2
 - Supported Platforms
 - Tested Configuration Features Summary
 - More Tested Platforms
@@ -46,81 +45,14 @@ CONTENTS
 New Features
 ============
 
-    Library
-    -------
-
-    - Moved the H5DOread/write_chunk() API calls to H5Dread/write_chunk()
-
-      The functionality of the direct chunk I/O calls in the high-level
-      library has been moved to the H5D package in the main library. This
-      will allow using those functions without building the high-level
-      library. The parameters and functionality of the H5D calls are
-      identical to the H5DO calls.
-
-      The original H5DO high-level API calls have been retained, though
-      they are now just wrappers for the H5D calls. They are marked as
-      deprecated and are only available when the library is built with
-      deprecated functions. New code should use the H5D calls for this
-      reason.
-
-      As a part of this work, the following symbols from H5Dpublic.h are no
-      longer used:
-
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_FLAG_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_FILTERS_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_OFFSET_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_DATASIZE_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_FLAG_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_OFFSET_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_FILTERS_NAME
-
-      And properties with these names are no longer stored in the dataset
-      transfer property lists. The symbols are still defined in H5Dpublic.h,
-      but only when the library is built with deprecated symbols.
-
-      (DER - 2018/05/04)
-
     Configuration:
     -------------
-    - Add missing USE_110_API_DEFAULT option.
-
-      Option USE_110_API_DEFAULT sets the default version of
-      versioned APIs. The bin/makevers perl script did not set
-      the maxidx variable correctly when the 1.10 branch was
-      created. This caused the versioning process to always use
-      the latest version of any API.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/08/17, HDFFV-10552)
-
-    - Added configuration checks for the following MPI functions:
-
-      MPI_Mprobe - Used for the Parallel Compression feature
-      MPI_Imrecv - Used for the Parallel Compression feature
-
-      MPI_Get_elements_x - Used for the "big Parallel I/O" feature
-      MPI_Type_size_x - Used for the "big Parallel I/O" feature
-
-      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
-
-    - Added section to the libhdf5.settings file to indicate
-      the status of the Parallel Compression and "big Parallel I/O"
-      features.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
-
-    - Add option to execute swmr shell scripts from CMake.
-
-      Option TEST_SHELL_SCRIPTS redirects processing into a
-      separate ShellTests.cmake file for UNIX types. The tests
-      execute the shell scripts if a SH program is found.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/07/16)
+    -
 
     Library:
     --------
     -
 
-
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
     -
@@ -129,91 +61,13 @@ New Features
     ----------------
     -
 
-
     C++ Library:
     ------------
-    - New wrappers
-
-      Added the following items:
-
-      + Class DSetAccPropList for the dataset access property list.
-
-      + Wrapper for H5Dget_access_plist to class DataSet
-        // Gets the access property list of this dataset.
-        DSetAccPropList getAccessPlist() const;
-
-      + Wrappers for H5Pset_chunk_cache and H5Pget_chunk_cache to class DSetAccPropList
-        // Sets the raw data chunk cache parameters.
-        void setChunkCache(size_t rdcc_nslots, size_t rdcc_nbytes, double rdcc_w0)
-
-        // Retrieves the raw data chunk cache parameters.
-        void getChunkCache(size_t &rdcc_nslots, size_t &rdcc_nbytes, double &rdcc_w0)
-
-      + New operator!= to class DataType (HDFFV-10472)
-        // Determines whether two datatypes are not the same.
-        bool operator!=(const DataType& compared_type)
-
-      + Wrappers for H5Oget_info2, H5Oget_info_by_name2, and H5Oget_info_by_idx2
-        (HDFFV-10458)
-
-        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object.
-        void getObjinfo(H5O_info_t& objinfo, unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC) const;
-
-        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object, given its name.
-        void getObjinfo(const char* name, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
-                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
-                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
-        void getObjinfo(const H5std_string& name, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
-                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
-                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
-
-        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object, given its index.
-        void getObjinfo(const char* grp_name, H5_index_t idx_type,
-                H5_iter_order_t order, hsize_t idx, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
-                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
-                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
-        void getObjinfo(const H5std_string& grp_name, H5_index_t idx_type,
-                H5_iter_order_t order, hsize_t idx, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
-                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
-                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
-
-      (BMR - 2018/07/22, HDFFV-10150, HDFFV-10458, HDFFV-1047)
-
+    - 
 
     Java Library:
     ----------------
-    - JNI native library dependencies
-    
-      The build for the hdf5_java native library used the wrong
-      hdf5 target library for CMake builds. Correcting the hdf5_java
-      library to build with the shared hdf5 library required testing
-      paths to change also.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/08/31, HDFFV-10568)
-
-    - Java iterator callbacks
-
-      Change global callback object to a small stack structure in order
-      to fix a runtime crash. This crash was discovered when iterating
-      through a file with nested group members. The global variable
-      visit_callback is overwritten when recursion starts. When recursion
-      completes, visit_callback will be pointing to the wrong callback method.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/08/15, HDFFV-10536)
-
-    - Java HDFLibraryException class
-
-      Change parent class from Exception to RuntimeException.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/07/30, HDFFV-10534)
-
-    - JNI Read and Write
-
-      Refactored variable-length functions, H5DreadVL and H5AreadVL,
-      to correct dataset and attribute reads. New write functions,
-      H5DwriteVL and H5AwriteVL, are under construction.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/06/02, HDFFV-10519)
+    - 
 
     Tools:
     ------
@@ -262,336 +116,17 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release
 
       (JTH - 2018/08/25, HDFFV-10501)
 
-    Configuration
-    -------------
-    -
-
-    Performance
-    -------------
-    -
-
-    Fortran
-    --------
-    -
-
-    Tools
-    -----
-    -
-
-    High-Level APIs:
-    ------
-    -
-
-    Fortran High-Level APIs:
-    ------
-    -
-
-    Documentation
-    -------------
-    -
-
-    F90 APIs
-    --------
-    -
-
-    C++ APIs
-    --------
-    -
-
-    Testing
-    -------
-
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2 release
-==================================
-
-    Library
-    -------
-    - Performance issue with H5Oget_info
-
-      H5Oget_info family of routines retrieves information for an object such
-      as object type, access time, number of attributes, and storage space etc.
-      Retrieving all such information regardless is an overkill and causes 
-      performance issue when doing so for many objects.
-
-      Add an additional parameter "fields" to the the H5Oget_info family of routines
-      indicating the type of information to be retrieved.  The same is done to
-      the H5Ovisit family of routines which recursively visits an object 
-      returning object information in a callback function.  Both sets of routines
-      are versioned and the corresponding compatibility macros are added.
-
-      The version 2 names of the two sets of routines are:
-        (1) H5Oget_info2, H5Oget_info_by_idx2, H5Oget_info_by_name2
-        (2) H5Ovisit2, H5Ovisit_by_name2
-
-      (VC - 2018/08/15, HDFFV-10180)
-
-    - Test failure due to metadata size in test/vds.c
-
-      The size of metadata from test_api_get_ex_dcpl() in test/vds.c is not as expected
-      because the latest format should be used when encoding the layout for VDS.
-
-      Set the latest format in a temporary fapl and pass the setting to the routines that 
-      encode the dataset selection for VDS.
-
-      (VC - 2018/08/14 HDFFV-10469)
-
-    - Java HDF5LibraryException class
-
-      The error minor and major values would be lost after the
-      constructor executed.
-
-      Created two local class variables to hold the values obtained during
-      execution of the constructor. Refactored the class functions to retrieve
-      the class values rather then calling the native functions.
-      The native functions were renamed and called only during execution
-      of the constructor.
-      Added error checking to calling class constructors in JNI classes.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/08/06, HDFFV-10544)
-
-    - Added checks of the defined MPI_VERSION to guard against usage of
-      MPI-3 functions in the Parallel Compression and "big Parallel I/O"
-      features when HDF5 is built with MPI-2. Previously, the configure
-      step would pass but the build itself would fail when it could not
-      locate the MPI-3 functions used.
-
-      As a result of these new checks, HDF5 can again be built with MPI-2,
-      but the Parallel Compression feature will be disabled as it relies
-      on the MPI-3 functions used.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
-
-    - User's patches: CVEs
-
-      The following patches have been applied:
-
-      CVE-2018-11202 - NULL pointer dereference was discovered in
-                       H5S_hyper_make_spans in H5Shyper.c (HDFFV-10476)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11202
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11202
-
-      CVE-2018-11203 - A division by zero was discovered in
-                       H5D__btree_decode_key in H5Dbtree.c (HDFFV-10477)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11203
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11203
-
-      CVE-2018-11204 - A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in
-                       H5O__chunk_deserialize in H5Ocache.c (HDFFV-10478)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11204
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11204
-
-      CVE-2018-11206 - An out of bound read was discovered in
-                       H5O_fill_new_decode and H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c
-                       (HDFFV-10480)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11206
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11206
-
-      CVE-2018-11207 - A division by zero was discovered in
-                       H5D__chunk_init in H5Dchunk.c  (HDFFV-10481)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11207
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11207
-
-      (BMR - 2018/7/22, PR#s: 1134 and 1139,
-       HDFFV-10476, HDFFV-10477, HDFFV-10478, HDFFV-10480, HDFFV-10481)
-
-    - H5Adelete
-
-      H5Adelete failed when deleting the last "large" attribute that
-      is stored densely via fractal heap/v2 b-tree.
-
-      After removing the attribute, update the ainfo message.  If the
-      number of attributes goes to zero, remove the message.
-
-      (VC - 2018/07/20, HDFFV-9277)
-
-    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused partial
-      parallel reads of filtered datasets to return incorrect data. The
-      library used the incorrect dataspace for each chunk read, causing
-      the selection used in each chunk to be wrong.
-
-      The bug was not caught during testing because all of the current
-      tests which do parallel reads of filtered data read all of the data
-      using an H5S_ALL selection. Several tests were added which exercise
-      partial parallel reads.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10467)
-
-    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused parallel
-      writes of filtered datasets to trigger an assertion failure in the
-      file free space manager.
-
-      This occurred when the filter used caused chunks to repeatedly shrink
-      and grow over the course of several dataset writes. The previous chunk
-      information, such as the size of the chunk and the offset in the file,
-      was being cached and not updated after each write, causing the next write
-      to the chunk to retrieve the incorrect cached information and run into
-      issues when reallocating space in the file for the chunk.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10509)
-
-    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused the
-      H5D__mpio_array_gatherv() function to allocate too much memory.
-
-      When the function is called with the 'allgather' parameter set
-      to a non-true value, the function will receive data from all MPI
-      ranks and gather it to the single rank specied by the 'root'
-      parameter. However, the bug in the function caused memory for
-      the received data to be allocated on all MPI ranks, not just the
-      singular rank specified as the receiver. In some circumstances,
-      this would cause an application to fail due to the large amounts
-      of memory being allocated.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10467)
-
-    - Error checks in h5stat and when decoding messages
-
-      h5stat exited with seg fault/core dumped when
-      errors are encountered in the internal library.
-
-      Add error checks and --enable-error-stack option to h5stat.
-      Add range checks when decoding messages: old fill value, old
-      layout and refcount.
-
-      (VC - 2018/07/11, HDFFV-10333)
-
-    - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed compound datatype with a
-      suitably large offset, the type conversion code can run off
-      the end of the type conversion buffer, causing a segmentation
-      fault.
-
-      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17507.
-
-      NOTE: The HDF5 C library cannot produce such a file. This condition
-            should only occur in a corrupt (or deliberately altered) file
-            or a file created by third-party software.
-
-      THE HDF GROUP WILL NOT FIX THIS BUG AT THIS TIME
-
-      Fixing this problem would involve updating the publicly visible
-      H5T_conv_t function pointer typedef and versioning the API calls
-      which use it. We normally only modify the public API during
-      major releases, so this bug will not be fixed at this time.
-
-      (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10356)
-
-
-    Configuration
-    -------------
-    - Applied patches to address Cywin build issues
-
-      There were three issues for Cygwin builds:
-      - Shared libs were not built.
-      - The -std=c99 flag caused a SIG_SETMASK undeclared error.
-      - Undefined errors when buildbing test shared libraries.
-
-      Patches to address these issues were received and incorporated in this version.
-
-      (LRK - 2018/07/18, HDFFV-10475)
-
-    - The --enable-debug/production configure flags are listed as 'deprecated'
-      when they should really be listed as 'removed'.
-
-      In the autotools overhaul several years ago, we removed these flags and
-      implemented a new --enable-build-mode= flag. This was done because we
-      changed the semantics of the modes and didn't want users to silently
-      be exposed to them. The newer system is also more flexible and us to
-      add other modes (like 'clean').
-
-      The --enable-debug/production flags are now listed as removed.
-
-      (DER - 2018/05/31, HDFFV-10505)
-
-    - Moved the location of gcc attribute.
-
-      The gcc attribute(no_sanitize), named as the macro HDF_NO_UBSAN,
-      was located after the function name. Builds with GCC 7 did not
-      indicate any problem, but GCC 8 issued errors. Moved the
-      attribute before the function name, as required.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/05/22, HDFFV-10473)
-
-    - Reworked java test suite into individual JUnit tests.
-
-      Testing the whole suite of java unit tests in a single JUnit run
-      made it difficult to determine actual failures when tests would fail.
-      Running each file set of tests individually, allows individual failures
-      to be diagnosed easier. A side benefit is that tests for optional components
-      of the library can be disabled if not configured.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/05/16, HDFFV-9739)
-
-    - Converted CMake global commands ADD_DEFINITIONS and INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
-      to use target_* type commands. This change modernizes the CMake usage
-      in the HDF5 library.
-
-      In addition, there is the intention to convert to generator expressions,
-      where possible. The exception is Fortran FLAGS on Windows Visual Studio.
-      The HDF macros TARGET_C_PROPERTIES and TARGET_FORTRAN_PROPERTIES have
-      been removed with this change in usage.
-
-      The additional language (C++ and Fortran) checks have also been localized
-      to only be checked when that language is enabled.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/05/08)
-
-    Performance
-    -------------
-    - Revamped internal use of DXPLs, improving performance
-
-      (QAK - 2018/05/20)
-
-    Fortran
-    --------
-    - Fixed issue with h5fget_obj_count_f and using a file id of H5F_OBJ_ALL_F not
-      returning the correct count.
-
-      (MSB - 2018/5/15, HDFFV-10405)
-
-
-    Tools
-    -----
-    -
-
-    High-Level APIs:
-    ------
-    -
-
-    Fortran High-Level APIs:
-    ------
-    -
-
-    Documentation
-    -------------
-    -
-
-    F90 APIs
-    --------
-    -
-
-    C++ APIs
-    --------
-    - Adding default arguments to existing functions
-
-      Added the following items:
-      + Two more property list arguments are added to H5Location::createDataSet:
-        const DSetAccPropList& dapl = DSetAccPropList::DEFAULT
-        const LinkCreatPropList& lcpl = LinkCreatPropList::DEFAULT
-
-      + One more property list argument is added to H5Location::openDataSet:
-        const DSetAccPropList& dapl = DSetAccPropList::DEFAULT
-
-      (BMR - 2018/07/21, PR# 1146)
-
-    - Improvement C++ documentation
-
-      Replaced the table in main page of the C++ documentation from mht to htm format
-      for portability.
+    Java Library:
+    ----------------
+    - JNI native library dependencies
+    
+      The build for the hdf5_java native library used the wrong
+      hdf5 target library for CMake builds. Correcting the hdf5_java
+      library to build with the shared hdf5 library required testing
+      paths to change also.
 
-      (BMR - 2018/07/17, PR# 1141)
+      (ADB - 2018/08/31, HDFFV-10568)
 
-    Testing
-    -------
-    -
 
 Supported Platforms
 ===================