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authorQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2012-04-06 02:57:06 (GMT)
committerQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2012-04-06 02:57:06 (GMT)
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[svn-r22254] Description:
Bring r22085:22251 from trunk to revise_chunks branch. Also tackle some testing issues in test/objcopy.c test and clean up some warnings. Tested on: FreeBSD/32 8.2 (loyalty) w/gcc4.6, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode FreeBSD/64 8.2 (freedom) w/gcc4.6, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in debug mode Linux/32 2.6 (jam) w/PGI compilers, w/default API=1.8.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-amd64 2.6 (koala) w/Intel compilers, w/default API=1.6.x, w/C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Solaris/32 2.10 (linew) w/deprecated symbols disabled, w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/szip filter, w/threadsafe, in production mode Linux/PPC 2.6 (ostrich) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in debug mode Linux/64-ia64 2.6 (ember) w/Intel compilers, w/paralle, C++ & FORTRAN, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.7.3 (amazon) in debug mode Mac OS X/32 10.7.3 (amazon) w/C++ & FORTRAN, w/threadsafe, in production mode Mac OS X/32 10.7.3 (amazon) w/parallel, in debug mode
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 00df5c6..91b4694 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.9.111-FA_a5 currently under development
+HDF5 version 1.9.113-FA_a5 currently under development
================================================================================
@@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ New Features
Library:
--------
+ - The data sieve buffer size was for all the datasets in the file. It
+ could waste memory if any dataset size is smaller than the sieve buffer
+ size. Now the library picks the smaller one between the dataset size
+ and the sieve buffer size from the file access property. See Issue 7934.
+ (SLU - 2012/4/2)
- I added a new parameter of object access property list to the function
H5Rdereference (Issue 2763). It's called H5Rdereference2 now. The former
H5Rdereference function has been deprecated to H5Rdereference1. (SLU -
@@ -172,6 +177,11 @@ New Features
Fortran Library:
----------------
+
+ - Added for the C API the Fortran wrapper:
+ h5ocopy_f (MSB - 2012/03/22)
+
+
HDF5 Fortran library was enhanced to support Fortran 2003 standard.
The following features are available when the HDF5 library is configured
using --enable-fortran --enable-fortran2003 configure flags AND
@@ -352,7 +362,7 @@ New Features
- New API: h5ltpath_valid (Fortran: h5ltpath_valid_f) which checks
if a path is correct and determines if a link resolves to a valid
- object and does not dangle. (MSB- 2012/3/15)
+ object and checks that the link does not dangle. (MSB- 2012/3/15)
Documentation
-------------
@@ -368,6 +378,16 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
Library
-------
+ - Fixed an error that would occur when copying an object with attribute
+ creation order tracked and indexed. (NAF - 2012/3/28 - HDFFV-7762)
+ - Fixed a bug in H5Ocopy(): When copying an opened object, call the
+ object's flush class action to ensure that cached data is flushed
+ so that H5Ocopy will get the correct data.
+ (VC - 2012/3/27 - HDFFV-7853)
+ - When an application tries to write or read many small data chunks and
+ runs out of memory, the library had a seg fault. The fix is to
+ return the error stack with proper information. (SLU - 2012/3/23.
+ Issue 7785)
- H5Pset_data_transform had seg fault in some cases like x*-100. It
works correctly now and handles other cases like 100-x or 2/x.
(SLU - 2012/3/15. Issue 7922)
@@ -379,6 +399,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
2012/1/25. Issue 7756)
- Fixed a seg fault that could occur when shrinking a dataset with chunks
larger than 1 MB. (NAF - 2011/11/30 - HDFFV-7833)
+ - Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption when copying named
+ datatypes to a file using shared messages. (NAF - 2011/11/14)
+ - Fixed a bug that could cause H5Oget_info to return the wrong address
+ after copying a named datatype. (NAF - 2011/11/14)
- The library allowed the conversion of strings between ASCII and UTF8
(Issue 7582). We have corrected it to report an error under this
situation. (SLU - 2011/11/8)
@@ -593,6 +617,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
Configuration
-------------
+ - Fixed Makefile issue in which "-Wl," was not properly specified
+ prior to -rpath when building parallel fortran libraries with
+ an Intel compiler. (MAM - 2012/03/26)
+ - Makefiles generated by other packages using h5cc as the compiler
+ no longer error when 'make' is invoked more than once in order
+ to 'rebuild' after changes to source. (MAM - 2012/03/26)
- Added --enable-fortran2003 flag to enable Fortran2003 support
in the HDF5 Fortran library. The flag should be used along with the
--enable-fortran flag and takes affect only when Fortran compiler
@@ -666,6 +696,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
Tools
-----
+ - h5diff: Fixed failure for comparing same named object with different
+ object types in comparing groups. Prior to the fix, h5diff resulted
+ in error. After the fix, h5diff detects such case as non-comparable
+ and display messages accordingly. HDFFV-7664 (JKM 2012/03/28)
+ - h5diff: If unique objects exists only in one file and try to exclude
+ the unique objects with --exclude-path option, h5diff missed
+ excluding some objects.
+ Fixed to exclude objects correctly in such case.
+ HDFFV-7837 (JKM 2012/03/20)
- h5dump: Added tools library error stack to properly catch error
information generated within the library.
HDFFV-7958 (ADB 2012/03/12)
@@ -873,6 +912,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
Fortran High-Level APIs:
------
+
+ - Lite: The h5ltget_attribute_string_f used to return the C NULL character in the
+ returned character buffer. The returned Fortran charactor buffer now does
+ not return the C NULL character. (MSB - 2012/3/23)
- Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about a dataset)
was not correctly returning the dimension array. (PVN - 2009/3/23)
- Lite: the h5ltread_dataset_string_f and h5ltget_attribute_string_f functions