[svn-r16825] Description:

	Bring revisions 16636:16821 from trunk to revise_chunks branch

Tested on:
	FreeBSD/32 6.3 (duty)
	Mac OS X/32 10.5.6 (amazon)
	(h5committest not needed on this branch)

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 8a08a69..9ebaf0e 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.9.36-FA_a1 currently under development
+HDF5 version 1.9.39-FA_a1 currently under development
 ================================================================================
 
 
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration:
     -------------
+    - Added libtool version numbers to generated c++, fortran, and 
+      hl libraries. MAM 2009/04/19.
+    - 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
     - Configuration suite now uses Libtool 2.2.6a. MAM 2008/10/24
 
     - Configuration suite now uses Autoconf 2.61, Automake 1.10.1. 
@@ -51,6 +56,10 @@ New Features
 
     Library:
     --------
+    - Separated "factory" free list class from block free lists. These free
+      lists are dynamically created and manage blocks of a fixed size.
+      H5set_free_list_limits() will use the same settings specified for block
+      free lists for factory free lists. (NAF - 2009/04/08)
     - Added support for dense attributes to H5Ocopy. (XCao/NAF - 2009/01/29)
     - Added H5Pset_elink_cb and H5Pget_elink_cb functions to support a
       user-defined callback function for external link traversal.
@@ -75,6 +84,14 @@ New Features
     Fortran Library:
     ----------------
 
+        - Added for the C APIs the Fortran wrappers:
+            h5dget_access_plist_f
+            h5iis_valid_f
+            h5pset_chunk_cache_f
+            h5pget_chunk_cache_f 
+          (MSB - 2009/04/17)
+
+
     C++ Library:
     ------------
         - These member functions were added as wrapper for H5Rdereference to
@@ -97,9 +114,11 @@ New Features
 
     Tools:
     ------
-
-     - h5import: By selecting a compression type, a big endian byte order was being 
-            selected (PVN - 2009/3/11)
+     - h5diff new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable.
+        PVN - 2009/4/10 - 1368
+     - h5diff new flag, -N, --nan, avoids NaNs detection. PVN - 2009/4/10
+     - h5dump correctly specifies XML dtd / schema urls (ADB - 2009/4/3 - 1519)
+     - h5repack now handles group creation order. (PVN - 2009/4/2 - 1402)
      - h5dump: added a printing of the compression ratio of uncompressed and compressed 
          sizes for cases where compression  filters are present. (PVN - 2008/05/01)
      - h5dump: added an option to allow a user defined formatting string for printf 
@@ -126,20 +145,11 @@ New Features
             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, "NROWS" (used to store number of records) was 
            deprecated (PVN - 2008/11/24)
 
-    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)
-
     
     Documentation 
     ------------- 
@@ -152,6 +162,21 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
 
     Library
     -------
+      - Added versioning to H5Z_class_t struct to allow compatibility with 1.6
+            API. (NAF - 2009/04/20 - 1533)
+      - Fixed a problem with using data transforms with non-native types in the
+            file. (NAF - 2009/04/20 - 1548)
+      - Added direct.h include file to windows section of H5private.h 
+            to fix _getcwd() warning. (ADB - 2009/04/14 - 1536)
+      - Fixed a bug that prevented external links from working after calling
+            H5close(). (NAF - 2009/04/10 - 1539)
+      - Modified library to write cached symbol table information to the
+            superblock, to allow library versions 1.3.0 to 1.6.3 to read files
+            created by this version. (NAF - 2009/04/08 - 1423)
+      - Changed skip lists to use a deterministic algorithm.  The library should
+            now never call rand() or srand(). (NAF - 2009/04/08 - 503)
+      - Fixed a bug where H5Lcopy and H5Lmove wouldn't create intermediate
+            groups when that property was set. (NAF - 2009/04/07 - 1526)
       - Fixed a bug that caused files with a user block to grow by the size of
             the user block every time they were opened.
             (NAF - 2009/03/26 - 1499)
@@ -272,6 +297,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
 
     Tools
     -----
+        - Fixed many problems that could occur when using h5repack with named
+            datatypes. (NAF - 2009/4/20 - 1516/1466)
+        - h5dump, h5diff, h5repack were not reading (by hyperslabs) datasets 
+            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)
         - zip_perf.c had missing argument on one of the open() calls. Fixed.
             (AKC - 2008/12/9)
         - h5dump now checks for uniqueness of committed datatypes.
@@ -298,6 +331,18 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
            was done incorrectly. Removed printing of attributes when doing binary 
            output. PVN - 2008/06/05
 
+    High-Level APIs:
+     ------
+      - 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)
+
+
+