[svn-r16866] Maintenance: Update file in preparation for the HDF5-1.8.3 release

             Update information for Mac Intel 10.5.6.

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index bc9918e..efb2a1a 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -5,21 +5,21 @@ INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
 This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.2 and 
-HDF5 1.8.2-snap*, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.2-snap*. 
+HDF5 1.8.3, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.3. 
 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 1.8.2 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+Links to the HDF5 1.8.3 source code, documentation, and additional materials
 can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/
 
-The HDF5 1.8.2 release can be obtained from:
+The HDF5 1.8.3 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.2 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.3 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 1.8.2 (current 
-release) versus Release 1.8.1":
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.3 (current 
+release) versus Release 1.8.2":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
 
@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@ New Features
     - Regenerated Makefile.ins using Automake 1.10.2. MAM 2009/04/19.
     - Added a Make target of check-all-install to test the correctness of
       installing via the prefix= or $DESTDIR options. AKC - 2009/04/14
-    - Add description here. Do not exceed 80 characters per line.
-      EIP - 2008/11/12
 
     Library
     -------
@@ -88,7 +86,8 @@ New Features
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
-
+    - None
+     
     Tools
     -----
     - h5diff new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable.
@@ -96,16 +95,17 @@ New Features
     - h5diff new flag, -N, --nan, avoids NaNs detection. PVN - 2009/4/2
     - h5dump correctly specifies XML dtd / schema urls ADB - 2009/4/3 - 1519
     - h5repack now handles group creation order. PVN - 2009/4/2 - 1402
-    - h5repack: When user doesn't specify a chunk size, h5repack now defines a default 
-            chunk size as the same size of the size of the hyperslab used to read the chunks. 
-            The size of the hyperslabs are defined as the size of each dimension or a 
-            predefined constant, whatever is smaller. This assures that the chunk 
-            read fits in the chunk cache. PVN - 2008/11/21
+    - h5repack: When user doesn't specify a chunk size, h5repack now 
+      defines a default chunk size as the same size of the size of the 
+      hyperslab used to read the chunks. The size of the hyperslabs are 
+      defined as the size of each dimension or a predefined constant, 
+      whatever is smaller. This assures that the chunk read fits in the 
+      chunk cache. PVN - 2008/11/21
 
     High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - Table: In version 3.0 of Table, the writing of the "NROWS" attribute (used to store 
-            number of records)was deprecated. PVN - 2008/11/24
+    - Table: In version 3.0 of Table, the writing of the "NROWS" attribute 
+      (used to store number of records) was deprecated. PVN - 2008/11/24
 
 
     F90 API
@@ -116,11 +116,12 @@ New Features
             h5iis_valid_f
             h5pset_chunk_cache_f
             h5pget_chunk_cache_f
-          (MSB - 2009/04/17)
+           				MSB - 2009/04/17
      
      
     C++ API
     ------
+    - None
 
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
       can only be successfully opened with write access. NAF - 2009/03/23 - 1189
     - Removed the long_long #define and replaced all instances with 
       "long long". This caused problems with third party products. All 
-      currently supported compliers support the type. (ADB - 2009/03/05)
+      currently supported compliers support the type. ADB - 2009/03/05
     - Fixed various bugs that could prevent the fill value from being written
       in certain rare cases. NAF - 2009/02/26 - 1469
     - Fixed a bug that prevented more than one dataset chunk from being cached
@@ -204,26 +205,28 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
             that have a datatype datum size greater than H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE, a 
             constant defined as 1024Kb, such as array types with large 
             dimensions. PVN - 2009/4/1 - 1501
-     - h5import: By selecting a compression type, a big endian byte order was being 
-            selected. PVN - 2009/3/11 - 1462
+     - h5import: By selecting a compression type, a big endian byte order 
+       was being selected. PVN - 2009/3/11 - 1462
      - zip_perf.c had missing argument on one of the open() calls. Fixed.
       AKC - 2008/12/9
 
     F90 API
     ------
+    - None
 
     C++ API
     ------
 
     High-Level APIs:
     ------
-     - Dimension scales: The scale index return value in H5DSiterate_scales was not always 
-          incremented. (PVN - 2009/4/8 - 1538)
+     - Dimension scales: The scale index return value in H5DSiterate_scales 
+       was not always incremented. PVN - 2009/4/8 - 1538
 
    Fortran High-Level APIs:
     ------
-     - Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about a dataset) 
-           was not correctly returning the dimension array (PVN - 2009/3/23)
+     - Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about 
+       a dataset) was not correctly returning the dimension array 
+                                   PVN - 2009/3/23
 
 
 
@@ -321,7 +324,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Windows Vista                 Visual Studio 2005
 
-    MAC OS  10.5.4 (Intel)        i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
+    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