Merge pull request #1106 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~LRKNOX/hdf5_lrk:1.8/master to 1.8/masterhdf5-1_8_21

* commit '664186b91d9198915baca4c6dca3f7b03695d316': (124 commits)
  Commit HDF5 1.8.21 release version strings.
  Update INSTALL and INSTALL_parallel files to remove references to ancient systems and add generic steps for building HDF5 on HPC clusters.
  Update various INSTALL files for 1.8.21 release.
  Add missing space and correct typo.
  Modified a section for newly supported systems and compilers (vs. 1.8.20 release); Brought edits for tools bug fixes from 1.10.2 RELEASE.txt as we agreed with Allen.
  It is my test under Larry's guidance.
  Remove build directory which was unintentionally committed.
  Updated MANIFEST
  Switch default build mode to production. Update version to 1.8.21 in anticipation of release.
  Fixed EED-319 Description:     Added an html version for the C++ function mapping table and removed     the single web page version.     Updated cpp_doc_config to use the html file.     Fixed some typos.     Running "doxygen cpp_doc_config" successfully.
  HDFFV-10473 fix HDFFV-10398 attribute location
  Add missing C++ entries to RELEASE.txt.
  pre1 release.
  Add missing RELEASE.txt entries for C++.
  Update Windows test machines
  Fix soversion naming and update cmake scripts
  Update version in RELEASE.txt. Correct merge errors from hdf5_1_8.
  Fixed typos
  Fixed typos
  Fixed typos
  ...

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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 2050a1c..2b54b44 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
-HDF5 version 1.8.20 released on 2017-11-28
+HDF5 version 1.8.21 released on 2018-06-04
 ================================================================================
 
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.19 and
-HDF5-1.8.20, and contains information on the platforms tested and
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.20.
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.20 and
+HDF5-1.8.21, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.21.
 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 1.8.20 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+Links to the HDF5 1.8.21 source code, documentation, and additional materials
 can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
 
      https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
 
-The HDF5 1.8.20 release can be obtained from:
+The HDF5 1.8.21 release can be obtained from:
 
      https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.20 can be accessed directly at this location:
+User documentation for 1.8.21 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/
 
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ in 1.8.0?" document:
      https://support.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 1.8.20 (current
-release) versus Release 1.8.19
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.21 (current
+release) versus Release 1.8.20
 
      https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html
 
@@ -55,252 +55,373 @@ CONTENTS
 New Features
 ============
 
-    Tools
-    -----
-    - h5diff
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - CMake
+
+      Change minimum version to 3.10.
+
+      This change removes the need to support a copy of the FindMPI.cmake module,
+      which has been removed, along with its subfolder in the config/cmake_ext_mod
+      location.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/03/09)
 
-      h5diff has new option enable-error-stack.
+    - CMake
 
-      Updated h5diff with the --enable-error-stack argument, which
-      enables the display of the hdf5 error stack. This completes the
-      improvement to the main tools; h5copy, h5diff, h5dump, h5ls and
-      h5repack.
+      Add pkg-config file generation
 
-      (ADB - 2017/08/30, HDFFV-9774)
+      Added pkg-config file generation for the C, C++, HL, and HL C++ libraries.
+      In addition, builds on linux will create h5cXXX scripts that use the pkg-config
+      files. This is a limited implementation of a script like autotools h5cc.
 
+      (ADB - 2018/03/08, HDFFV-4359)
+
+    - CMake
+
+      Refactor use of CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE for new variable, which understands
+      the type of generator in use.
+
+      Added new configuration macros to use new HDF_BUILD_TYPE variable. This
+      variable is set correctly for the type of generator being used for the build.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/08, HDFFV-10385, HDFFV-10296)
 
     C++ API
     -------
-    - The following C++ API wrappers have been added to the C++ Library:
+    - The following C++ API wrappers have been added to class H5Location
+      + H5Lcreate_soft:
+        // Creates a soft link from link_name to target_name.
+        void link(const char *target_name, const char *link_name,...)
+        void link(const H5std_string& target_name,...)
+
+      + H5Lcreate_hard:
+        // Creates a hard link from new_name to curr_name.
+        void link(const char *curr_name, const Group& new_loc,...)
+        void link(const H5std_string& curr_name, const Group& new_loc,...)
+
+        // Creates a hard link from new_name to curr_name in the same location.
+        void link(const char *curr_name, const hid_t same_loc,...)
+        void link(const H5std_string& curr_name, const hid_t same_loc,...)
+
+        Note: previous version CommonFG::link will be deprecated.
 
-        // Creates a binary object description of this datatype.
-        void DataType::encode() - C API H5Tencode()
+      + H5Lcopy:
+        // Copy an object from a group of file to another.
+        void copyLink(const char *src_name, const Group& dst,...)
+        void copyLink(const H5std_string& src_name, const Group& dst,...)
 
-        // Returns the decoded type from the binary object description.
-        DataType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
-        ArrayType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
-        CompType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
-        DataType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
-        EnumType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
-        FloatType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
-        IntType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
-        StrType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
-        VarLenType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        // Copy an object from a group of file to the same location.
+        void copyLink(const char *src_name, const char *dst_name,...)
+        void copyLink(const H5std_string& src_name,...)
 
-        // Three overloaded functions to retrieve information about an object
-        H5Location::getObjectInfo() - H5Oget_info()/H5Oget_info_by_name()
+      + H5Lmove:
+        // Rename an object in a group or file to a new location.
+        void moveLink(const char* src_name, const Group& dst,...)
+        void moveLink(const H5std_string& src_name, const Group& dst,...)
 
-      (BMR - 2017/10/17, HDFFV-10175)
+        // Rename an object in a group or file to the same location.
+        void moveLink(const char* src_name, const char* dst_name,...)
+        void moveLink(const H5std_string& src_name,...)
 
-    - New constructors to open existing datatypes added in ArrayType,
-      CompType, DataType, EnumType, FloatType, IntType, StrType, and
-      VarLenType.
+        Note: previous version CommonFG::move will be deprecated.
 
-      (BMR - 2017/10/17, HDFFV-10175)
+      + H5Ldelete:
+        // Removes the specified link from this location.
+        void unlink(const char *link_name,
+            const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT)
+        void unlink(const H5std_string& link_name,
+            const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT)
 
-    - A document is added to the HDF5 C++ API Reference Manual to show the
-      mapping from a C API to C++ wrappers.  It can be found from the main
-      page of the C++ API Reference Manual.
+        Note: An additional parameter is added to CommonFG::unlink and it
+              is moved to H5Location.
 
-      (BMR - 2017/10/17, HDFFV-10151)
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11 - HDFFV-10445)
 
+    - New property list subclasses
 
-    High-Level APIs
-    ---------------
-    - H5DOread_chunk
+      Property list subclasses StrCreatPropList, LinkCreatPropList, and
+      AttrCreatPropList are added for the C property list classes
+      H5P_STRING_CREATE, H5P_LINK_CREATE, and H5P_ATTRIBUTE_CREATE.
 
-      Users wanted to read compressed data directly from a file without any
-      processing by the HDF5 data transfer pipeline, just as they were able
-      to write it directly to a file with H5DOwrite_chunk.
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11 - HDFFV-10445)
 
-      New API function, corresponding to existing function H5DOwrite_chunk.
-      H5DOread_chunk reads a raw data chunk directly from a chunked dataset
-      in the file into the application buffer, bypassing the library’s internal
-      data transfer pipeline, including filters.
+    - Another argument, LinkCreatPropList& lcpl, is added to the following
+      functions for the use of link creation property list.
+        Group createGroup(const char* name, size_t size_hint = 0,
+                    const LinkCreatPropList& lcpl = LinkCreatPropList::DEFAULT)
+        Group createGroup(const H5std_string& name, size_t size_hint = 0,
+                    const LinkCreatPropList& lcpl = LinkCreatPropList::DEFAULT)
+
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11 - HDFFV-10445)
 
-      (VC - 2017/05/02, HDFFV-9934)
 
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
 
-    - Added NAG compiler
-
+    - Added support for Visual Studio 2017 w/ Intel Fortran 18 on Windows 10 x64.
 
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.19
+    
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.20
 ===========================
 
-    Configuration
-    -------------
-    - cmake
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a filter pipeline message with a 'number of
+      filters' field that exceeds the maximum number of allowed filters,
+      the error handling code will attempt to dereference a NULL pointer.
 
-      The hdf5 library used shared szip and zlib, which needlessly required
-      applications to link with the same szip and zlib libraries.
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17505.
 
-      Changed the target_link_libraries commands to use the static libs.
-      Removed improper link duplication of szip and zlib.
-      Adjusted the link dependencies and the link interface values of
-      the target_link_libraries commands.
+      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.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/11/14, HDFFV-10329)
+      This problem arose because the error handling code assumed that
+      the 'number of filters' field implied that a dynamic array of that
+      size had already been created and that the cleanup code should
+      iterate over that array and clean up each element's resources. If
+      an error occurred before the array has been allocated, this will
+      not be true.
 
-    - cmake MPI
+      This has been changed so that the number of filters is set to
+      zero on errors. Additionally, the filter array traversal in the
+      error handling code now requires that the filter array not be NULL.
 
-      CMake implementation for MPI was problematic and would create incorrect
-      MPI library references in the hdf5 libraries.
+      (DER - 2018/02/06, HDFFV-10354)
 
-      Reworked the CMake MPI code to properly create CMake targets.Also merged
-      the latest CMake FindMPI.cmake changes to the local copy. This is necessary
-      until HDF changes the CMake minimum to 3.9 or greater.
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a filter pipeline message which contains
+      a 'number of filters' field that exceeds the actual number of
+      filters in the message, the HDF5 C library will read off the end of
+      the read buffer.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/11/02, HDFFV-10321)
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17506.
 
+      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.
 
-    - Fixed Fortran linker flags when using the NAG Fortran compiler (autotools).
+      The problem was fixed by passing the buffer size with the buffer
+      and ensuring that the pointer cannot be incremented off the end
+      of the buffer. A mismatch between the number of filters declared
+      and the actual number of filters will now invoke normal HDF5
+      error handling.
 
-      (HDFFV-10037, MSB, 2017/10/21)
+      (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10355)
 
-    - cmake
+    - 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.
 
-      Too many commands for POST_BUILD step caused command line to be
-      too big on windows.
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17507.
 
-      Changed foreach of copy command to use a custom command with the
-      use of the HDFTEST_COPY_FILE macro.
+      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.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/07/12, HDFFV-10254)
+      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.
 
-    Library
-    -------
-    - filter plugin handling in H5PL.c and H5Z.c
+      (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10356)
+
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed compound type which contains
+      a member of size zero, a division by zero error will occur while
+      processing the type.
 
-      It was discovered that the dynamic loading process used by
-      filter plugins had issues with library dependencies.
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17508.
 
-      CMake build process changed to use LINK INTERFACE keywords, which
-      allowed HDF5 C library to make dependent libraries private. The
-      filter plugin libraries no longer require dependent libraries
-      (such as szip or zlib) to be available.
-             (ADB - 2017/11/16, HDFFV-10328)
+      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.
 
-    - Fix rare object header corruption bug
+      Checking for zero before dividing fixes the problem. Instead of the
+      division by zero, the normal HDF5 error handling is invoked.
 
-      In certain cases, such as when converting large attributes to dense
-      storage, an error could occur which would either fail an assertion or
-      cause file corruption. Fixed and added test.
+      (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10357)
 
-      (NAF - 2017/11/14, HDFFV-10274)
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed symbol table node that declares
+      it contains more symbols than it actually contains, the library
+      can run off the end of the metadata cache buffer while processing
+      the symbol table node.
 
-    - H5Zfilter_avail in H5Z.c
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17509.
+
+      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.
+
+      Performing bounds checks on the buffer while processing fixes the
+      problem. Instead of the segmentation fault, the normal HDF5 error
+      handling is invoked.
+
+      (DER - 2018/03/12, HDFFV-10358)
+
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Library
 
-      The public function checked for plugins, while the private
-      function did not.
+      Moved the location of gcc attribute.
 
-      Modified H5Zfilter_avail and private function, H5Z_filter_avail.
-      Moved check for plugin from public to private function. Updated
-      H5P__set_filter due to change in H5Z_filter_avail. Updated tests.
+      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 - 2017/10/10, HDFFV-10297, HDFFV-10319)
+      (ADB 2018/05/22, HDFFV-10473)
 
-    - Fix H5Sencode bug when num points selected is >2^32
+    - CMake
 
-      Modified to fail if the 32 bit limit is exceeded when encoding either
-      offsets or counts in the selection.
+      Update CMake commands configuration.
 
-      (HDFFV-10323, VC, 2017/09/07)
+      A number of improvements were made to the CMake commands. Most
+      changes simplify usage or eliminate unused constructs. Also,
+      some changes support better cross-platform support.
 
-    - Fix H5HL_offset_into()
+      (ADB - 2018/02/01, HDFFV-10398)
 
-      (1) Fix H5HL_offset_into() to return error when offset exceeds heap data
-          block size.
-      (2) Fix other places in the library that call this routine to detect
-          error routine.
+    - CMake
 
-      (HDFFV-10216, VC, 2017/09/05)
+      Correct usage of CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable.
+
+      The use of the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is incorrect for multi-config
+      generators (Visual Studio and XCode) and is optional for single
+      config generators. Created a new macro to check
+        GLOBAL PROPERTY -> GENERATOR_IS_MULTI_CONFIG
+      Created two new HDF variable, HDF_BUILD_TYPE and HDF_CFG_BUILD_TYPE.
+      Defaults for these variables is "Release".
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/10, HDFFV-10385)
+
+    - CMake
+
+      Add replacement of fortran flags if using static CRT.
+
+      Added TARGET_STATIC_CRT_FLAGS call to HDFUseFortran.cmake file in
+      config/cmake_ext_mod folder.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/08, HDFFV-10334)
+
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Utility function can not handle lowercase Windows drive letters
+
+      Added call to toupper function for drive letter.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/12/18, HDFFV-10307)
 
 
     Tools
     -----
     - h5repack
 
-      h5repack failed to copy a dataset with existing filter.
+      h5repack changes the chunk parameters when a change of layout is not
+      specified and a filter is applied.
 
-      Reworked code for h5repack and h5diff code in tools library. Added
-      improved error handling, cleanup of resources and checks of calls.
-      Modified H5Zfilter_avail and private function, H5Z_filter_avail.
-      Moved check for plugin from public to private function. Updated
-      H5P__set_filter due to change in H5Z_filter_avail. Updated tests.
-      Note, h5repack output display has changed to clarify the individual
-      steps of the repack process. The output indicates if an operation
-      applies to all objects. Lines with notation and no information
-      have been removed.
+      HDFFV-10297, HDFFV-10319 reworked code for h5repack and h5diff code
+      in the tools library. The check for an existing layout was incorrectly
+      placed into an if block and not executed. The check was moved into
+      the normal path of the function.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/10/10, HDFFV-10297, HDFFV-10319)
+      (ADB - 2018/02/21, HDFFV-10412)
 
-    - h5repack
+    - h5dump
 
-      h5repack always set the User Defined filter flag to H5Z_FLAG_MANDATORY.
+      the tools library will hide the error stack during file open.
 
-      Added another parameter to the 'UD=' option to set the flag by default
-      to '0' or H5Z_FLAG_MANDATORY, the other choice is '1' or H5Z_FLAG_OPTIONAL.
+      While this is preferable almost always, there are reasons to enable
+      display of the error stack when a tool will not open a file. Adding an
+      optional argument to the --enable-error-stack will provide this use case.
+      As an optional argument it will not affect the operation of the
+      --enable-error-stack. h5dump is the only tool to implement this change.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/08/31, HDFFV-10269)
+      (ADB - 2018/02/15, HDFFV-10384)
 
-    - h5ls
+    - h5dump
 
-      h5ls generated error on stack when it encountered a H5S_NULL
-      dataspace.
+      h5dump would output an indented blank line in the filters section.
 
-      Adding checks for H5S_NULL before calling H5Sis_simple (located
-      in the h5tools_dump_mem function) fixed the issue.
+      h5dump overused the h5tools_simple_prefix function, which is a
+      function intended to account for the data index (x,y,z) option.
+      Removed the function call for header information.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/08/17, HDFFV-10188)
+      (ADB - 2018/01/25, HDFFV-10396)
 
-    - h5dump
+    - h5repack
 
-      h5dump segfaulted on output of XML file.
+      h5repack incorrectly searched internal object table for name.
 
-      Function that escape'd strings used the full buffer length
-      instead of just the length of the replacement string in a
-      strncpy call. Using the correct length fixed the issue.
+      h5repack would search the table of objects for a name, if the
+      name did not match it tried to determine if the name without a
+      leading slash would match. The logic was flawed! The table
+      stored names(paths) without a leading slash and did a strstr
+      of the table path to the name.
+      The assumption was that if there was a difference of one then
+      it was a match, however "pressure" would match "/pressure" as
+      well as "/pressure1", "/pressure2", etc. Changed logic to remove
+      any leading slash and then do a full compare of the name.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/08/01, HDFFV-10256)
+      (ADB - 2018/01/18, HDFFV-10393)
 
-    - h5diff
+    - h5repack
 
-      h5diff segfaulted on compare of a  NULL variable length string.
+      h5repack failed to handle command line parameters for customer filters.
 
-      Improved h5diff compare of strings by adding a check for
-      NULL strings and setting the lengths to zero.
+      User defined filter parameter conversions would fail when integers
+      were represented on the command line with character strings
+      larger than 9 characters. Increased local variable array for storing
+      the current command line parameter to prevent buffer overflows.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/07/25, HDFFV-10246)
+      (ADB - 2018/01/17, HDFFV-10392)
 
-    - h5import
+    - h5diff
 
-      h5import crashed trying to import data from a subset of a dataset.
+      h5diff seg faulted if comparing VL strings against fixed strings.
 
-      Improved h5import by adding the SUBSET keyword. h5import understands
-      to use the Count times the Block as the size of the dimensions.
-      Added INPUT_B_ORDER keyword to old-style configuration files.
-      The import from h5dump function expects the binary files to use native
-      types (FILE '-b' option) in the binary file.
+      Reworked solution for HDFFV-8625 and HDFFV-8639. Implemented the check
+      for string objects of same type in the diff_can_type function by
+      adding an if(tclass1 == H5T_STRING) block. This "if block" moves the
+      same check that was added for attributes to this function, which is
+      used by all object types. This function handles complex type structures.
+      Also added a new test file in h5diffgentest for testing this issue
+      and removed the temporary files used in the test scripts.
 
-      (ADB - 2017/06/15, HDFFV-10219)
+      (ADB - 2018/01/04, HDFFV-8745)
 
 
     C++ API
     -------
-    - Marked the following functions deprecated because they were moved to
-      class H5Object:
-        H5Location::createAttribute()
-        H5Location::openAttribute()
-        H5Location::attrExists()
-        H5Location::removeAttr()
-        H5Location::renameAttr()
-        H5Location::getNumAttrs()
+    - Removal of memory leaks
+
+      A private function was inadvertently called, causing memory leaks.  This
+      is now fixed.
 
-      (BMR - 2017/10/17)
+      (BMR - 2018/04/12 - User reported in email)
+
+    - Changes in exception classes
+
+      Some exception classes are reorganized to reflect the HDF5 object
+      hierarchy and allow customization.
+        DataSetIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+        DataTypeIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+        GroupIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+        AttributeIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+        FileIException -> GroupIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+      Member functions in H5Location and H5Object now throw specific exceptions
+      associated with the invoking objects.
+
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11)
+
+    - H5Location::closeObjId is made static
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11)
+
+    - H5A wrappers in H5Location are removed as they have been in H5Object.
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11)
 
 
 Supported Platforms
@@ -314,10 +435,10 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
                                      Versions 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 16.10-0
+                                      Version 17.10-0
                                   Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
                                   compilers:
-                                     Version 17.0.0.196 Build 20160721
+                                     Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20160721
                                   MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
                                   OpenMPI 2.0.1 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
 
@@ -341,25 +462,18 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
                                   Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
 
-    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
-                                  Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
-                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
 
     Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2017 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2015 w/ MSMPI 8 (cmake)
-                                  Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.0(0.309/5/3)
-                                      gcc and gfortran compilers (GCC 5.4.0)
-                                      (cmake and autotools)
 
     Windows 10                    Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
-                                  Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.0(0.309/5/3)
-                                      gcc and gfortran compilers (GCC 5.4.0)
-                                      (cmake and autotools)
 
     Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2017 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
 
     Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5     Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)
     64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
@@ -401,7 +515,6 @@ Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                    n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 Windows 10                              y        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Windows 10 x64                          y        y/y    n        y    y     y
-Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 64-bit            n        y/y    n        y    y     y
@@ -411,7 +524,7 @@ CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
 CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
-Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 
 Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
                                          C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
@@ -423,7 +536,6 @@ Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
 Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                       n       n         n         y
 Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
 Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
-Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
 Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
 Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit         y       n         y         y
 Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 64-bit               y       n         y         y
@@ -433,7 +545,7 @@ CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
 CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         y
 CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
 CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
-Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         y
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         y
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
 "Supported Platforms" table.