Merge pull request #643 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~LRKNOX/hdf5_lrk:hdf5_1_8 to hdf5_1_8

* commit '7f758f2eea5c918a9100e6e7e6e0744a85e4c571':
  Commit changes to release version strings in README.txt and RELEASE.txt from release.
  Put back link targets for dynamically loaded libraries in Makefile.ams that avoid linking with libhdf5 dependencies.  Some configurations failed unnecessarily to find and link with lz and lsz when these targets were removed.
  Update URL for obtaining source inINSTALL file.
  Disable building of libdynlib* dynamically loaded plugin test libraries on CYGWIN. Added known problem entry to RELEASE.txt. Set version for 1.8.19 release. Barbara updated contents of README.txt file.
  Moved libdynlib* plugin test libraries to noist_LT_LIBRARIES with added flag '-rpath /nowhere' to stop them being installed while keeping them from linking with libhdf5, etc. Incremented version to 1.8.19-pre1 and ran bin/release to create tar and zip files for testing.
  HDF5 1.8.19-pre1 released.
  Add RELEASE.txt entry for H5Dget_chunk_size.
  Remove test entries
  Ran bin/reconfigure after so number change.
  Update hl lib .so numbers:  new function was added. Update RELEASE.txt:  move H5DOread_chunks entry to new features, clarify entry for HDFFV-10051.
  Updated notes for test fixes and added bug fix for h5diff help text.
  Update h5vers and release scripts for 1.8.19 branch, set version to 1.8.19-pre1.
  Update version to 1.8.19-pre1.

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL
index 0fb2787..812d7ec 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL
@@ -56,21 +56,10 @@ CONTENTS
 
 1. Obtaining HDF5
         The latest supported public release of HDF5 is available from
-        ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src.  For Unix and UNIX-like 
-        platforms, it is available in tar format compressed with gzip.  
+        https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html.  For Unix and 
+        UNIX-like platforms, it is available in tar format compressed with gzip.  
         For Microsoft Windows, it is in ZIP format.
 
-        The HDF team also makes snapshots of the source code available on
-        a regular basis. These snapshots are unsupported (that is, the
-        HDF team will not release a bug-fix on a particular snapshot;
-        rather any bug fixes will be rolled into the next snapshot).
-        Furthermore, the snapshots have only been tested on a few
-        machines and may not test correctly for parallel applications.
-        Snapshots, in a limited number of formats, can be found on The
-        HDF Group's development FTP server:
-
-            ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots 
-
 
 2. Quick installation
 2.1. UNIX platforms
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index cc499a0..4907706 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -90,6 +90,22 @@ New Features
     - None
 
 
+    High-Level APIs
+    ---------------
+    - H5DOread_chunk
+
+      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.
+    
+      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.
+
+      (VC - 2017/05/02, HDFFV-9934)
+
+
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
 
@@ -335,6 +351,12 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 Known Problems
 ==============
 
+    The dynamically loaded plugin test libraries require undefined references 
+    to HDF5 functions to be resolved at runtime in order to function properly.
+    With autotools on CYGWIN this results in build errors, and we have not 
+    found a solution that satisfies both.  Therefore the dynamically loaded 
+    plugin tests have been disabled on CYGWIN.
+
     Known problems in previous releases can be found in the HISTORY*.txt files
     in the HDF5 source. Please report any new problems found to
     help@hdfgroup.org.