[svn-r24332] Bring revision #24330 from revise_chunks. h5committested.

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
index 5406820..d78cd85 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Preconditions:
 --------------
 
-1. Installed Cygwin 1.7.5 or higher
+1. Installed Cygwin 1.7.15 or higher
 
    To install the Cygwin net release, go to http://www.cygwin.com and 
    click on "Install or update now!" icon. This will download a GUI 
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ Preconditions:
    Cygwin packages.
 
    To build HDF5 on Cygwin, Devel package (including gcc,gcc-g++,
-   gcc-g77, and gcc-java compiles, and gdb tool) should be installed.
+   gcc-gfortran, and gcc-java compiles, and gdb tool) should be installed.
 
 2. Compilers Installed
 
    2.1 C/C++ Compilers HDF5-1.8 Supported
 
-       gcc (4.3.4), which includes:
+       gcc (4.5.3), which includes:
             gcc4-core    : C compiler
             gcc4-g++     : C++ compiler
             gcc4-fortran : fortran compiler
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Preconditions:
 
    3.1 Zlib
 
-       zlib-1.2.2 or later is supported and tested on Cygwin.
+       zlib-1.2.5 or later is supported and tested on Cygwin.
 
    3.2 Szip
        The HDF5 library has a predefined compression filter that uses
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ Preconditions:
        http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc_resource/SZIP/index.html.
       
        The latest supported public release of SZIP is available from
-       ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.0. Binary distribution can be 
-       found under ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.0/bin/cygwin
+       ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.1. Binary distribution can be 
+       found under ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.1/bin/cygwin
 
 
 Install HDF5 on Cygwin
@@ -76,19 +76,19 @@ Install HDF5 on Cygwin
 
    The HDF5 source code is distributed in a variety of formats which
    can be unpacked with the following commands, each of which creates 
-   an `hdf5-1.8.5' directory.
+   an `hdf5-1.8.x' directory.
 
    2.1 Non-compressed tar archive (*.tar)
 
-            $ tar xf hdf5-1.8.5.tar
+            $ tar xf hdf5-1.8.x.tar
 
    2.2 Gzip'd tar archive (*.tar.gz)
 
-            $ gunzip < hdf5-1.8.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
+            $ gunzip < hdf5-1.8.x.tar.gz | tar xf -
 
    2.3 Bzip'd tar archive (*.tar.bz2)
 
-            $ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.8.5.tar.bz2 | tar xf - 
+            $ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.8.x.tar.bz2 | tar xf - 
 
 2. Setup Environment
 
@@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ Install HDF5 on Cygwin
 
 8. Known Problems 
    
-   Shared libraries can not be built on Cygwin In release 1.8.
+   dt_arith tests may fail due to the use of fork. This is a known issue
+   with cygwin on windows.
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index e3e92b6..b844ac5 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,11 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration:
     -------------
-    - CMake minimum is now 2.8.10. (ADB 2013/1/14)
+    - New configuration option added to change the default plugin path.
+      configure option is --with-default-plugin=location
+      cmake option is -DH5_DEFAULT_PLUGIN:PATH=location
+      HDFFV-8513.  (ADB 2013/09/04)
+    - CMake minimum is now 2.8.10. (ADB 2013/01/14)
     - A new tool, cmakehdf5, which is a build command script similar to
       buildhdf5 is added and is available in the bin directory.
       (AKC - 2012/12/12)
@@ -278,6 +282,7 @@ New Features
 
     Tools:
     ------
+     - h5repack: Added ability to use plugin filters. HDFFV-8345 (ADB - 2013/09/04).
      - h5dump: Added option -N --any_path, which searches the file for paths that
                match the search path. HDFFV-7989 (ADB - 2013/08/12).
      - h5dump: Added optional arg 0 to -A, which excludes attributes from display.