Merge pull request #126 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~MAMCGREE/hdf5_mamcgree:hdf5_1_8_18 to hdf5_1_8_18

* commit '419637e7abd5e5db6237f8b5b3726e4859eeb353':
  Updates to RELEASE.txt to account for changes in the 1.8.18 release
  Updates to RELEASE.txt to account for changes in the 1.8.18 release
  Updates to RELEASE.txt to account for changes in the 1.8.18 release.
  Updates to RELEASE.txt to account for changes in the 1.8.18 release.

1 files changed, 103 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index d9ed734..ae5430a 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
 This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.17 and
-HDF5-1.8.18-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.18-*.
+HDF5-1.8.18, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.18.
 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.
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
 from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.18 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.17
 
-     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
 
@@ -57,23 +57,30 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-    - CMake
-      Added NAMESPACE hdf5:: to package configuration files
-    - CMake: change CTEST_BUILD_CONFIGURATION to CTEST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE, which is
-      recommended by CMake documentation.
-      HDFFV-9971 (ADB 2016/8/22)
 
+    - CMake: Added NAMESPACE hdf5:: to package configuration files to allow
+      projects using installed HDF5 binaries built with CMake to link with
+      them without specifying the HDF5 library location via IMPORTED_LOCATION.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/10/17, HDFFV-10003)
+
+
+    - CMake: Changed the CTEST_BUILD_CONFIGURATION option to
+      CTEST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE as recommended by the CMake documentation.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/10/17, HDFFV-9971)
 
 
     Library
     -------
-    -None
+    - None
 
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - None
 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - None
@@ -81,9 +88,6 @@ New Features
 
     High-Level APIs
     ---------------
-
-    C Packet Table API
-    ------------------
     - None
 
 
@@ -107,29 +111,95 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-    - None
+
+    - Fixed a problem preventing HDF5 to be built on 32-bit CYGWIN by
+      condensing cygwin configuration files into a single file and
+      removing outdated compiler settings.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/07/12, HDFFV-9946)
+
+
+    - CMake: Fixed a command length overflow error by converting custom
+      commands inside CMakeTest.cmake files into regular dependencies and
+      targets.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/07/12, HDFFV-9939)
+
+
+    - CMake: Fixed a timeout error that would occasionally occur when running
+      the virtual file driver tests simultaneously due to test directory and file
+      name collisions.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/09/19, HDFFV-9431)
 
 
     Library
     -------
-    - Fixed a bug that could occur when using H5Pset_alignment.
+
+    - Fixed a memory leak that would occur when the library allocated memory
+      for an external file prefix (H5Pset_efile_prefix) and failed to free it.
+
+      (DER, 2016/04/29)
+
+
+    - Fixed an error that would occur when calling H5Adelete on an attribute
+      which is attached to an externally linked object in the target file and
+      whose datatype is a committed datatype in the main file.
+
+      (VC, 2016-07-04, HDFFV-9940)
+
+
+    - Fixed a problem where a plugin compiled into a DLL in the default plugin
+      directory could not be found by the HDF5 library at runtime on Windows
+      when the HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable was not set.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/08/01, HDFFV-9706)
+
+
+    - Fixed an issue where H5Pset_alignment could result in misaligned blocks
+      with some input combinations, causing an assertion failure in debug mode.
 
       (NAF, 2016/08/11, HDFFV-9948)
 
-    - Fixed a memory bug that could occur when a message was improperly marked
-      as sharable on disk.
 
-      (NAF, 2016/07/01, HDFFV-9950)
+    - A number of issues were fixed when reading/writing from/to corrupted
+      files to ensure that the library fails gracefully in these cases:
+
+      * Writing to a corrupted file that has an object message which is
+        incorrectly marked as sharable on disk results in a buffer overflow /
+        invalid write instead of a clean error message.
+
+      * Decoding data from a corrupted file with a dataset encoded with the
+        H5Z_NBIT decoding can result in a code execution vulnerability under
+        the context of the application using the HDF5 library.
+
+      * When decoding an array datatype from a corrupted file, the HDF5 library
+        fails to return an error in production if the number of dimensions
+        decoded is greater than the maximum rank.
+
+      * When decoding an "old style" array datatype from a corrupted file, the
+        HDF5 library fails to return an error in production if the number of
+        dimensions decoded is greater than the maximum rank.
+
+      (NAF, 2016/10/06, HDFFV-9950, HDFFV-9951, HDFFV-9992, HDFFV-9993)
+
+
+    - Fixed an error that would occur when copying an object with an attribute
+      which is a compound datatype consisting of a variable length string.
+
+      (VC, 2016-10-17, HDFFV-7991)
 
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
+
     - Fixed a bug that could occur when allocating a chunked dataset in parallel
       with an alignment set and an alignment threshold greater than the chunk
       size but less than or equal to the raw data aggregator size.
 
       (NAF, 2016/08/11, HDFFV-9969)
 
+
     Performance
     -------------
     - None
@@ -137,6 +207,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
 
     Tools
     -----
+
+    - Fixed an error in the compiler wrapper scripts (h5cc, h5fc, et al.)
+      in which they would erroneously drop the file argument specified via
+      the -o flag when the -o flag was specified before the -c flag on the
+      command line, resulting in a failure to compile.
+
+      (LRK, 2016/06/08, HDFFV-9938, HDFFV-9530)
+
+
     - h5repack User Defined (UD) filter parameters were not parsed correctly.
 
       The UD filter parameters were not being parsed correctly. Reworked coding
@@ -147,6 +226,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
 
     Fortran API
     -----------
+
     - Fortran library fails to compile and fails tests with NAG compiler.
 
       * Removed the non-standard assumption that KIND=SIZEOF, in the HDF5
@@ -158,6 +238,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
 
       (MSB, 2016/9/22, HDFFV-9973)
    
+
     - Fortran segfaults for F03 tests with NAG compiler
 
       * Removed INTENT(OUT) from 'fillvalue' in F2003 interface 
@@ -168,18 +249,18 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
 
     C++ API
     -------
-    - The macros H5_NO_NAMESPACE is deprecated from the HDF5 C++ API library.
+
+    - The macro H5_NO_NAMESPACE is deprecated from the HDF5 C++ API library.
       In future releases, the macros H5_NO_STD and OLD_HEADER_FILENAME may
       also be removed.
+
       (BMR, 2016/10/27, HDFFV-9532)
 
 
     High-Level APIs:
     ---------------
 
-    Packet Table APIs:
-    ------------------
-    - The high-level API Packet Table (PT) did not write data correctly when
+    - The high-level Packet Table (PT) API did not write data correctly when
       the datatype is a compound type that has string type as one of the
       members.  This problem started in 1.8.15, after the fix of HDFFV-9042
       was applied, which caused the Packet Table to use native type to access
@@ -191,6 +272,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
       data, then the application will request that.  However, the Packet Table
       doesn't provide a way to specify memory datatype in this release.
       Please refer to the Known Problems section for a work-around.
+
       (BMR, 2016/10/27, HDFFV-9758)