hdf5 1 12 release text (#110)hdf5-1.12.1-rc1

* merge updates from develop

* remove extension on command

* Run autogen before chkmanifest

* Update release text files and whitespace cleanup

* Update list

7 files changed, 9200 insertions, 4320 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt
index 964d374..f23a2c5 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 HDF5 HISTORY
 ============
 This file contains history of the HDF5 libraries releases starting with
-HDF5-1.0.0 and ending with HDF5-1.8.0-rc3 (the state of the code before i
+HDF5-1.0.0 and ending with HDF5-1.8.0-rc3 (the state of the code before
 the HDF5 1.8.0 release).
 
 CONTENTS
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ CONTENTS
 4.      Changes from Release 1.0.0 to Release 1.0.1
 3.      Changes from the Beta 1.0.0 Release to Release 1.0.0
 2.      Changes from the Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the Beta 1.0.0 Release
-1.      Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the 
+1.      Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to the
                 Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release
 
 [Search on the string '%%%%' for per-release section breaks.]
@@ -35,15 +35,15 @@ CONTENTS
 %%%%1.8.0-rc3%%%%   Changes from 1.6.0 to 1.8.0-rc3
 
 
-HDF5 version 1.8.0-rc3 
+HDF5 version 1.8.0-rc3
 ================================================================================
 
 
 INTRODUCTION
 
 This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.* and
-Hdf5 1.8.0 release candidate "HDF5-1.8.0-rc3", and contains information 
-on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.0-rc3. 
+Hdf5 1.8.0 release candidate "HDF5-1.8.0-rc3", and contains information
+on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.0-rc3.
 For more details check the HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source.
 
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Links to HDF5 1.8.0-rc3 source code, documentation, and additional materials
 can be found on THG's development server (www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu) at the
 following location:
      http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/beta/obtain518.html
-User documentation for the beta can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for the beta can be accessed directly at this location:
      http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/
 
 New features of the upcoming 1.8.0 release are described in
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ and will be listed in the "HDF5 Software Changes" document:
 
 
 For more information, see the HDF5 home page:
-   
+
     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
@@ -89,120 +89,120 @@ New Features
     Configuration:
     --------------
         - Removed stream-vfd from the HDF5 library. - AKC 2007/11/19.
-        - Updated versions of autotools. HDF5 now uses automake 1.10.0, 
-          autoconf 2.61, and libtool 1.5.22. MAM - 2007/7/25.
+        - Updated versions of autotools. HDF5 now uses automake 1.10.0,
+            autoconf 2.61, and libtool 1.5.22. MAM - 2007/7/25.
         - Changed default fortran compiler to g95 when gcc is used. - AKC
-          2007/2/17.
+            2007/2/17.
         - 'make check-vfd' can now be run from the top level directory. Not all
-          tests that 'make check' invokes work with certain Virtual File Drivers,
-          so those tests have been skipped. - MAM 2006/7/17  
+            tests that 'make check' invokes work with certain Virtual File Drivers,
+            so those tests have been skipped. - MAM 2006/7/17
         - Added the variable HDF5TestExpress to control how long tests run.
-          Setting it to a value between 0 and 3 controls how thoroughly the
-          library is tested, with 0 being an "exhaustive run" and 3 being a
-          very quick "smoke test."  1 (a "full run") is the default.
-          -JML 2006/6/21
+            Setting it to a value between 0 and 3 controls how thoroughly the
+            library is tested, with 0 being an "exhaustive run" and 3 being a
+            very quick "smoke test."  1 (a "full run") is the default.
+            -JML 2006/6/21
         - If both shared and static libraries are installed, now both will be
-          tested during 'make install'. -MAM 2006/06/21
+            tested during 'make install'. -MAM 2006/06/21
         - Added support to explicity enable stream_vfd or shared libraries
-          when using parallel via the '--enable-stream_vfd' and
-          '--enable-shared' options, respectively. If not explicity defined, 
-          These settings default to enabled when parallel is not used, 
-          and disabled when parallel is used. -MAM 2006/06/17
+            when using parallel via the '--enable-stream_vfd' and
+            '--enable-shared' options, respectively. If not explicity defined,
+            These settings default to enabled when parallel is not used,
+            and disabled when parallel is used. -MAM 2006/06/17
         - Remove the flexible parallel code and the --enable-fphdf5
-          configure option, it was never up to production standards
-          anyway.  -QAK 2006/4/20
+            configure option, it was never up to production standards
+            anyway.  -QAK 2006/4/20
         - Added a macro hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works to filter out
-          some mpi-io packages that don't support collective IO for no IO
-          contributions in some processes. -KY 2006/2/16
-	- Added -shlib option to link against installed shared libraries to
-	  h5c++ and h5fc.  -JML 2005/11/1
-	- Added --enable-build-all option to configure, which only developers
-	  should need to use.  -JML 2005/10/24
-	- Configure uses the 'TR' variable to let the user override the path
-          to the 'tr' utility. -JML 2005/10/17
-	- Configure can recognize -lmpich as a form of MPI library. -AKC-
-	  2005/9/28.
+            some mpi-io packages that don't support collective IO for no IO
+            contributions in some processes. -KY 2006/2/16
+        - Added -shlib option to link against installed shared libraries to
+            h5c++ and h5fc.  -JML 2005/11/1
+        - Added --enable-build-all option to configure, which only developers
+            should need to use.  -JML 2005/10/24
+        - Configure uses the 'TR' variable to let the user override the path
+            to the 'tr' utility. -JML 2005/10/17
+        - Configure can recognize -lmpich as a form of MPI library. -AKC-
+            2005/9/28.
         - MD5 checksumming has been added to snapshot releases.  Release
-          tarballs will be accompanied by .md5 checksum files, which can
-          be verified using the md5sum utility.  -JML 2005/9/6
+            tarballs will be accompanied by .md5 checksum files, which can
+            be verified using the md5sum utility.  -JML 2005/9/6
         - Some configure flags are incompatible (e.g., the C++ APIs cannot
-          be built using the parallel version of HDF5).  configure will now
-          output errors when some common incompatible features are used
-          together.  -JML 2005/9/6
+            be built using the parallel version of HDF5).  configure will now
+            output errors when some common incompatible features are used
+            together.  -JML 2005/9/6
         - A new API function, H5Tis_hard(), was added to the library.  It
-          checks if a conversion function is a compiler (hard) conversion.
-          SLU - 2005/9/6
-	- t_mpi will run the test_mpio_derived_dtype by default unless it is
-	  known not working (indicated by macro H5_MPI_COMPLEX_DERIVED_DATATYPE_WORKS
-	  not defined.)  -AKC- 2005/8/23.
-	- Test execution has changed in a number of ways:
-	  When make is invoked in parallel (using -j), sequential tests
-	  are now executed as parallel make targets.  This should make them
-	  finish more quickly on machines with multiple processors.
-	  Since test output is garbled when they are executed by parallel make,
-	  tests now dump their output to foo.log files and foo.logsh files
-	  (for test scripts).  These logs are printed to the screen only
-	  when a test fails or when all tests in the current directory have
-	  completed successfully.
-	  When tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe file.
-	  This prevents the test from executing again until the test or
-	  main library changes.
-	  All files generated by tests (*.chkexe, *.log, and any *.h5 files
-	  created) can be removed by invoking 'make check-clean'.
-	  Sequential and parallel library tests can now be invoked separately.
-	  'make check-s' will execute only sequential tests, and 'make check-p'
-	  will execute only parallel tests.  'make check' will still execute
-	  all tests.
-	    -JML 2005/08/03
+            checks if a conversion function is a compiler (hard) conversion.
+            SLU - 2005/9/6
+        - t_mpi will run the test_mpio_derived_dtype by default unless it is
+            known not working (indicated by macro H5_MPI_COMPLEX_DERIVED_DATATYPE_WORKS
+            not defined.)  -AKC- 2005/8/23.
+        - Test execution has changed in a number of ways:
+            When make is invoked in parallel (using -j), sequential tests
+            are now executed as parallel make targets.  This should make them
+            finish more quickly on machines with multiple processors.
+            Since test output is garbled when they are executed by parallel make,
+            tests now dump their output to foo.log files and foo.logsh files
+            (for test scripts).  These logs are printed to the screen only
+            when a test fails or when all tests in the current directory have
+            completed successfully.
+            When tests pass, they will create a foo.chkexe file.
+            This prevents the test from executing again until the test or
+            main library changes.
+            All files generated by tests (*.chkexe, *.log, and any *.h5 files
+            created) can be removed by invoking 'make check-clean'.
+            Sequential and parallel library tests can now be invoked separately.
+            'make check-s' will execute only sequential tests, and 'make check-p'
+            will execute only parallel tests.  'make check' will still execute
+            all tests.
+            JML - 2005/08/03
         - On windows, all.zip is deprecated. users should
              read INSTALL_Windows.txt to know the details.
              Reasons to deprecate all.zip:
-		1. Avoid confliction for windows programmers
+                1. Avoid confliction for windows programmers
                 2. Decrease size of CVS tree by adding all.zip
-	        3. Avoid using winzip as the intermediate step
+                3. Avoid using winzip as the intermediate step
              --KY 2005/04/22
-	- When HDF5 is created as a shared library, it now uses libtool's
-	  shared library versioning scheme. -JML 2005/04/18
-	- HDF5 now uses automake 1.9.5 to generate Makefiles.in.
-	  This has a number of effects on users:
-          The Fortran compiler should be set using the environment
-          variable $FC, not $F9X.  F9X still works, but is depreciated.
-	  The output of make may be different.  This should be only a
-          cosmetic effect.
-	  make depened (or make dep) is no longer recognized, since automake
-	  handles dependency tracking.
-	  Some new configure options exist.  --enable-dependency-tracking
-          and --disable-dependency-tracking are used to control automake's
-	  dependency tracking.  Dependencies are on by default *on most
-	  platforms and compilers*.  If --enable-dependency-tracking is
-	  used, they will be enabled on any platform.  However, this can
-	  slow down builds or even cause build errors in some cases.
-	  Likewise, --disable-dependency-tracking can speed up builds and
-	  avoid some build errors.
-	  Some make targets have alternate names.  make check-install and
-	  make installcheck do the same thing, for instance.
-	  pmake on IRIX can be invoked from the root directory, but the
-	  -V flag must be used to invoke it in any subdirectory or it
-	  will give an error about undefined variables.
-	  JML 2005/01 - 2005/03
-        - Hardware conversion between long double and integers is also added.
-          SLU 2005/02/10
-        - Started to support software conversion between long double and 
-          integers.  Hardware conversion will come very soon.  SLU - 2005/1/6
-	- Intel v8.0 compiler would infinite loop when compiling some test
-	  code with -O3 option.  Changed enable-production default compiler
-	  option to -O2. AKC - 2004/12/06
-	- Long double is assumed to be a supported C data type.  It is a
-	  stanadard C89 type. AKC - 2004/10/22
-	- The IA64 will use ecc as the C++ compiler by default.
+        - When HDF5 is created as a shared library, it now uses libtool's
+            shared library versioning scheme. -JML 2005/04/18
+        - HDF5 now uses automake 1.9.5 to generate Makefiles.in.
+            This has a number of effects on users:
+              The Fortran compiler should be set using the environment
+              variable $FC, not $F9X.  F9X still works, but is depreciated.
+            The output of make may be different.  This should be only a
+              cosmetic effect.
+            make depened (or make dep) is no longer recognized, since automake
+            handles dependency tracking.
+            Some new configure options exist.  --enable-dependency-tracking
+              and --disable-dependency-tracking are used to control automake's
+            dependency tracking.  Dependencies are on by default *on most
+            platforms and compilers*.  If --enable-dependency-tracking is
+            used, they will be enabled on any platform.  However, this can
+            slow down builds or even cause build errors in some cases.
+            Likewise, --disable-dependency-tracking can speed up builds and
+            avoid some build errors.
+            Some make targets have alternate names.  make check-install and
+            make installcheck do the same thing, for instance.
+            pmake on IRIX can be invoked from the root directory, but the
+            -V flag must be used to invoke it in any subdirectory or it
+            will give an error about undefined variables.
+            JML 2005/01 - 2005/03
+            - Hardware conversion between long double and integers is also added.
+              SLU 2005/02/10
+            - Started to support software conversion between long double and
+              integers.  Hardware conversion will come very soon.  SLU - 2005/1/6
+        - Intel v8.0 compiler would infinite loop when compiling some test
+            code with -O3 option.  Changed enable-production default compiler
+            option to -O2. AKC - 2004/12/06
+        - Long double is assumed to be a supported C data type.  It is a
+            stanadard C89 type. AKC - 2004/10/22
+        - The IA64 will use ecc as the C++ compiler by default.
         - Added some initial support for making valgrind/Purify (or similar
             memory checking products) happier by initializing buffers to zero
             and disabling the internal free list code.  To take advantage of
             this, use the "--enable-using-memchecker" configure option when
             building the library.  QAK - 2004/07/23
         - Fixed the long compile time of H5detect.c when v7.x Intel Compiler
-	    is used with optimization NOT off.  AKC - 2004/05/20
-	- Fixed configure setting of C++ for OSF1 platform. AKC - 2004/01/06
+            is used with optimization NOT off.  AKC - 2004/05/20
+        - Fixed configure setting of C++ for OSF1 platform. AKC - 2004/01/06
         - Prefix default is changed from /usr/local to `pwd`/hdf5.
             AKC - 2003/07/09
 
@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ New Features
             be used as the "location ID".  If a file ID is used, the attribute
             operation will occur on the root group of the file.
             - QAK - 2007/02/09
-       - Enabled the CORE driver to read an existing file depending on 
-            the setting of the backing_store for H5Pset_fapl_core and file 
+       - Enabled the CORE driver to read an existing file depending on
+            the setting of the backing_store for H5Pset_fapl_core and file
             open flags. - SLU - 2006/11/30
        - Added new H5Gget_info_by_idx() routine to query the information about
             a group according to the order within an index.
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ New Features
        - Added H5Fget_intent to get the "intent" of a file (whether it
             was opened with read-write access or read-only.
             -JML 2006/8/23
-       - Added Link Access Property Lists. They currently contain two
+        - Added Link Access Property Lists. They currently contain two
             properties, nlinks (H5Pget/set_nlinks) and elink_prefix
             (H5Pget/set_elink_prefix). nlinks controls how many soft and
             user-defined traversals are allowed before HDF5 assumes it has
@@ -281,47 +281,47 @@ New Features
             The elink_prefix is a filesystem path that is prefixed to the
             names of any external link files opened using this LAPL.
             -JML 2006/8/23
-       - Add H5L link APIs.  Old APIs (H5Glink, H5Gmove, etc.) are still
-         supported but deprecated.
-         New APIs are:
-            H5Llink - create a link to an object given its ID
-            H5Lmove - just like H5Gmove2
-            H5Lcopy - copy a link without copying the underlying object
-            H5Lcreate_hard - like H5Glink2 for hard links
-            H5Lcreate_soft - like H5Glink2 for soft links
-            H5Ldelete - just like H5Gunlink
-            H5Lget_val - just like H5Gget_linkval
-            H5Lget_info - gets link-specific info (like H5Gget_objinfo)
-
-         In addition, H5Gcreate_anon, H5Tcommit_anon, and H5Dcreate_anon
-         no longer create links to objects; objects must be manually linked
-         using H5Llink or they will be deleted when the ID is closed.
-
-         Link Creation Property Lists can be used to pass character
-         encoding (ASCII or UTF-8) for link names and to set the Intermediate
-         Group Creation Flag:
-            H5Pset_char_encoding, H5Pget_char_encoding
-            H5Pset_copy_object, H5Pget_copy_object
-         -JML 2006/7/5
-       - Added managements of collective IO supports for chunking storage
-         inside parallel HDF5
-         1) Implemented One IO with collective mode for all chunks in the
-            application by building one MPI derived datatype accross all
-            chunks.
-         2) Implemented the decision-making support to do collective IO inside
-            MPI-IO per chunk. 
-         3) Added the decision-making support to do one IO accross all chunks
-            or to do multiple IOs with each IO per chunk.
-         4) Added the support to handle the case some processes won't do any IOs in 
-            collectively.
-         5) Some MPI-IO package(mpich 1.2.6 or lower, e.g.) cannot handle
-            collective IO correctly for the case when some processes have no
-            contributions to IOs, a special macro is added to change
-            collective IO mode to independent IO mode inside HDF5 library.
-
-            Currently we find that MPICH at Linux and vender MPI-IO package at NCSA
-            Altix cannot handle this case. 
-            
+        - Add H5L link APIs.  Old APIs (H5Glink, H5Gmove, etc.) are still
+            supported but deprecated.
+            New APIs are:
+                H5Llink - create a link to an object given its ID
+                H5Lmove - just like H5Gmove2
+                H5Lcopy - copy a link without copying the underlying object
+                H5Lcreate_hard - like H5Glink2 for hard links
+                H5Lcreate_soft - like H5Glink2 for soft links
+                H5Ldelete - just like H5Gunlink
+                H5Lget_val - just like H5Gget_linkval
+                H5Lget_info - gets link-specific info (like H5Gget_objinfo)
+
+            In addition, H5Gcreate_anon, H5Tcommit_anon, and H5Dcreate_anon
+            no longer create links to objects; objects must be manually linked
+            using H5Llink or they will be deleted when the ID is closed.
+
+            Link Creation Property Lists can be used to pass character
+            encoding (ASCII or UTF-8) for link names and to set the Intermediate
+            Group Creation Flag:
+                H5Pset_char_encoding, H5Pget_char_encoding
+                H5Pset_copy_object, H5Pget_copy_object
+            -JML 2006/7/5
+        - Added managements of collective IO supports for chunking storage
+             inside parallel HDF5
+             1) Implemented One IO with collective mode for all chunks in the
+                application by building one MPI derived datatype accross all
+                chunks.
+             2) Implemented the decision-making support to do collective IO inside
+                MPI-IO per chunk.
+             3) Added the decision-making support to do one IO accross all chunks
+                or to do multiple IOs with each IO per chunk.
+             4) Added the support to handle the case some processes won't do any IOs in
+                collectively.
+             5) Some MPI-IO package(mpich 1.2.6 or lower, e.g.) cannot handle
+                collective IO correctly for the case when some processes have no
+                contributions to IOs, a special macro is added to change
+                collective IO mode to independent IO mode inside HDF5 library.
+
+                Currently we find that MPICH at Linux and vender MPI-IO package at NCSA
+                Altix cannot handle this case.
+
              "hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works=${hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works='no'}"
               has been added at the end of file <ia64-linux-gnui> and
                                                  <linux-gnulibc1>.
@@ -329,30 +329,30 @@ New Features
              If MPI-IO packages at your Linux and Altix support this case,
              please comment out the last line and report to us at
              help@hdfgroup.org. We can tune in our configuration to
-             support this.                                                     
- 
+             support this.
+
              KY - 2006/02/16
-       - Added character encoding to attribute creation property lists.
+        - Added character encoding to attribute creation property lists.
             JML - 2006/01/02
-       - Added H5Gcopy() routine to copy objects between while keeping
-         data in compressed form.  QAK - 2005/11/06
-       - Added H5Sextent_equal() routine.  QAK - 2005/11/06
-       - Added HSYS_ERROR which retrieves the system error message and pushes
-         it to the error stack.  This gives more information of the failed
-	 system call. AKC - 2005/08/04
-       - Added H5F_OBJ_LOCAL flag to H5Fget_obj_count() & H5Fget_obj_ids(), to
-         allow querying for objects in file that were opened with a particular
-         file ID, instead of all objects opened in file with any file ID.
-         QAK - 2005/06/01
-       - Added H5T_CSET_UTF8 character set to mark datatypes that use the
-         UTF-8 Unicode character encoding.  Added tests to ensure that
-         library handles UTF-8 object names, attributes, etc. -JL 2005/05/13
-       - HDF5 supports collective MPI-IO for irregular selection with HDF5
-         dataset. Irregular selection is when users use H5Sselect_hyperslab
-         more than once for the same dataset.
-         Currently, not all MPI-IO packages support complicated MPI derived
+        - Added H5Gcopy() routine to copy objects between while keeping
+            data in compressed form.  QAK - 2005/11/06
+        - Added H5Sextent_equal() routine.  QAK - 2005/11/06
+        - Added HSYS_ERROR which retrieves the system error message and pushes
+            it to the error stack.  This gives more information of the failed
+            system call. AKC - 2005/08/04
+        - Added H5F_OBJ_LOCAL flag to H5Fget_obj_count() & H5Fget_obj_ids(), to
+            allow querying for objects in file that were opened with a particular
+            file ID, instead of all objects opened in file with any file ID.
+            QAK - 2005/06/01
+        - Added H5T_CSET_UTF8 character set to mark datatypes that use the
+            UTF-8 Unicode character encoding.  Added tests to ensure that
+            library handles UTF-8 object names, attributes, etc. -JL 2005/05/13
+        - HDF5 supports collective MPI-IO for irregular selection with HDF5
+            dataset. Irregular selection is when users use H5Sselect_hyperslab
+            more than once for the same dataset.
+            Currently, not all MPI-IO packages support complicated MPI derived
                      datatype used in the implementation of irregular
-                     selection INSIDE HDF5. 
+                     selection INSIDE HDF5.
                      1) DEC 5.x is not supporting complicated derived datatype.
                      2) For AIX 5.1,
                      if your poe version number is 3.2.0.19 or lower,
@@ -362,57 +362,57 @@ New Features
                      and UNCOMMENT this line before the configure.
                      check poe version with the following command:
                      lpp -l all | grep ppe.poe
-                     3) For Linux cluster, 
+                     3) For Linux cluster,
                         if mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, collective irregular selection
                         IO is not supported, internally independent IO is used.
                      4) For IRIX 6.5,
                         if C compiler version is 7.3 or lower, collective irregular selection
                         IO is not supported, internally independent IO is used.
                      5) For platforms which internally used mpich, if the
-                        mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the 
+                        mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the
                         corresponding config file and add
                         hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' at the
                         end of the configuration file. For example, at NCSA
-                        SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So 
+                        SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So
                         hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' should be
                         added at the end of the config file ia64-linux-gnu.
                      KY - 2005/09/12
-        We also found not all MPI-IO packages support collective IO with one
+                    We also found not all MPI-IO packages support collective IO with one
                     or more processes to have no contributions to IO.
-                     For mpich version 1.2.6 or lower and all IRIX machine, 
+                     For mpich version 1.2.6 or lower and all IRIX machine,
                      if the library  checks that there are no IO contributions for some
                      processes, collective IO request is replaced with
                      independent inside HDF5.
                      KY - 2006/05/04
-                    
-        - HDF5 N-bit filter 
-          HDF5 support N-bit filter from this version,  
-          The N-Bit filter is used effectively for compressing data of N-Bit
-          datatype as well as compound and array datatype with N-Bit fields. 
-          KY - 2005/04/15
+
+        - HDF5 N-bit filter
+            HDF5 support N-bit filter from this version,
+            The N-Bit filter is used effectively for compressing data of N-Bit
+            datatype as well as compound and array datatype with N-Bit fields.
+            KY - 2005/04/15
         - HDF5 scaleoffset filter
-          HDF5 supports scaleoffset filter for users to do data
-          compression through HDF5 library. 
-          Scale-Offset compression performs a scale and/or offset operation
-          on each data value and truncates the resulting value to a minimum 
-          number of bits and then stores the data.
-          Scaleoffset filter supports floating-point and integer datatype.
-          Please check the HDF5 reference manual for this.
-          KY - 2005/06/06
+            HDF5 supports scaleoffset filter for users to do data
+            compression through HDF5 library.
+            Scale-Offset compression performs a scale and/or offset operation
+            on each data value and truncates the resulting value to a minimum
+            number of bits and then stores the data.
+            Scaleoffset filter supports floating-point and integer datatype.
+            Please check the HDF5 reference manual for this.
+            KY - 2005/06/06
         - Retired SRB vfd (--with-srb). Functions H5Pset_fapl_srb and
-          H5Pget_fapl_srb were removed.  EIP - 2005/04/07
-	- Retired GASS vfd (--with-gass).  Functions H5Pset_fapl_gass and
-	  H5Pget_fapl_gass are removed too.  AKC - 2005/3/3
+            H5Pget_fapl_srb were removed.  EIP - 2005/04/07
+        - Retired GASS vfd (--with-gass).  Functions H5Pset_fapl_gass and
+            H5Pget_fapl_gass are removed too.  AKC - 2005/3/3
         - Pablo was removed from the source code EIP - 2005/01/21
         - Modified registration of SZIP to dynamically detect the presence
             or absence of the encoder.  Changed configure and Makefiles,
             and tests to dynamically detect encoder. BEM - 2004/11/02
-	- Added function H5Pget_data_transform, together with the previously
-	    added H5Pset_data_transform, to support the data transform
-	    feature. AKC - 2004/10/26
-        - Compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size 
+        - Added function H5Pget_data_transform, together with the previously
+            added H5Pset_data_transform, to support the data transform
+            feature. AKC - 2004/10/26
+        - Compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size
             adjustment.  The size can be increased and decreased(without
-            cutting the last member) as long as it doesn't go down to zero.  
+            cutting the last member) as long as it doesn't go down to zero.
             No API change is involved.  SLU - 2004/10/1
         - Put back 6 old error API functions to be backward compatible with
             version 1.6.  They are H5Epush, H5Eprint, H5Ewalk, H5Eclear,
@@ -421,14 +421,14 @@ New Features
             H5Eclear_stack, H5Eset_auto_stack, H5Eget_auto_stack.  SLU -
             2004/9/2
         - 4 new API functions, H5Tencode, H5Tdecode, H5Sencode, H5Sdecode were
-            added to the library.  Given object ID, these functions encode and 
-            decode HDF5 objects(data type and space) information into and from 
+            added to the library.  Given object ID, these functions encode and
+            decode HDF5 objects(data type and space) information into and from
             binary buffer.        SLU - 2004/07/21
-        - Modified the way how HDF5 calculates 'pixels_per_scanline' parameter for 
+        - Modified the way how HDF5 calculates 'pixels_per_scanline' parameter for
             SZIP compression. Now there is no restriction on the size and shape of the
-            chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be 
-            bigger than 'pixels_per_block' parameter provided by the user.  
-                                                                     EIP - 2004/07/21  
+            chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be
+            bigger than 'pixels_per_block' parameter provided by the user.
+                                                                     EIP - 2004/07/21
         - Added support for SZIP without encoder.  Added H5Zget_filter_info
             and changed H5Pget_filter and H5Pget_filter_by_id to support this
             change.  JL/NF - 2004/06/30
@@ -442,20 +442,20 @@ New Features
         - Added support for user defined identifier types.  NF/JL - 2004/06/29
         - A new API function H5Fget_filesize was added.  It returns the
             actual file size of the opened file.  SLU - 2004/06/24
-	- New Feature of Data transformation is added.  AKC - 2004/05/03.
-        - New exception handler for datatype conversion is put in to 
+        - New Feature of Data transformation is added.  AKC - 2004/05/03.
+        - New exception handler for datatype conversion is put in to
             replace the old overflow callback function.  This exception
             handler is set through H5Pset_type_conv_cb function.
             SLU - 2004/4/27
         - Added option that if $HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK is set to 2,
-	    will suppress all library version mismatch warning messages.
-	    AKC - 2004/4/14
-	- A new type of dataspace, null dataspace(dataspace without any 
+            will suppress all library version mismatch warning messages.
+            AKC - 2004/4/14
+        - A new type of dataspace, null dataspace(dataspace without any
             element) was added.  SLU - 2004/3/24
         - Data type conversion(software) from integer to float was added.
-            SLU - 2004/3/13 
+            SLU - 2004/3/13
         - Data type conversion(software) from float to integer was added.
-            Conversion from integer to float will be added later.  
+            Conversion from integer to float will be added later.
             SLU -2004/2/4
         - Added new H5Premove_filter routine to remove I/O pipeline filters
             from dataset creation property lists.  PVN - 2004/01/26
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ New Features
             object's object header.  QAK 2003/10/06
         - Added new H5Fget_freespace() routine to query the free space in a
             given file.  QAK 2003/10/06
-        - Added backward compatability with v1.6 for new Error API. SLU - 
+        - Added backward compatability with v1.6 for new Error API. SLU -
             2003/09/24
         - Changed 'objno' field in H5G_stat_t structure from 'unsigned long[2]'
             to 'haddr_t'.  QAK - 2003/08/08
@@ -484,13 +484,13 @@ New Features
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
-	- Added mpich2 as a testing "platform" informally. AKC - 2005/9/28.
-	- A dataset created in serial mode with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_INCR allocation
-	  setting was not extendible, either explicitly by H5Dextend or
-	  implicitly by writing to unallocated chunks.	Library now allocates
-	  more space when needed or directed if the file is opened by parallel
-	  mode, independent of what the dataset allocation mode is.
-	  CC/AKC - 2005/08/29.
+        - Added mpich2 as a testing "platform" informally. AKC - 2005/9/28.
+        - A dataset created in serial mode with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_INCR allocation
+            setting was not extendible, either explicitly by H5Dextend or
+            implicitly by writing to unallocated chunks.    Library now allocates
+            more space when needed or directed if the file is opened by parallel
+            mode, independent of what the dataset allocation mode is.
+            CC/AKC - 2005/08/29.
         - Allow compressed, chunked datasets to be read in parallel.
             QAK - 2004/10/04
         - Add options of using atomicity and file-sync to test_mpio_1wMr.
@@ -503,20 +503,20 @@ New Features
     ----------------
          - added support for shared Fortran libraries.  -JML 2005/09/20
          - added missing h5tget_member_class_f function
-                                                 EIP 2005/04/06         
-         - added new functions h5fget_name_f and h5fget_filesize_f 
+                                                 EIP 2005/04/06
+         - added new functions h5fget_name_f and h5fget_filesize_f
                                                  EIP 2004/07/08
          - h5dwrite/read_f and h5awrite/read_f functions only accept dims parameter
-            of the type INTEGER(HSIZE_T).
+                of the type INTEGER(HSIZE_T).
          - added support for native integers of 8 bytes (i.e. when special
-           compiler flag is specified to set native fortran integers to 8 bytes,
-           for example, -i8 flag for PGI and Absoft Fortran compilers, 
-           -qintsize=8 flag for IBM xlf compiler).
+            compiler flag is specified to set native fortran integers to 8 bytes,
+            for example, -i8 flag for PGI and Absoft Fortran compilers,
+            -qintsize=8 flag for IBM xlf compiler).
                                                  EIP 2005/06/20
          - added support for "big" REAL and DOUBLE PRECISION types
-           (usually the size is specified by compilers flags like 
-            -r8, -r16, etc.)
-           Known problem: multi file test fails when REAL is 16 bytes.
+            (usually the size is specified by compilers flags like
+                -r8, -r16, etc.)
+            Known problem: multi file test fails when REAL is 16 bytes.
                                                 EIP 2005/09/8
 
     C++ Library:
@@ -539,41 +539,41 @@ New Features
     Tools:
     ------
         - h5repack and h5diff changed command line parameter syntax to be
-           similar to h5dump, adding also long switch names. PVN - 2008/1/16
-        - h5repack now supports adding multiple filters to all objects. 
-	     PVN - 2008/1/16
-        - h5dump lists groups and attributes in requested orders (by name and 
-           creation order, both ascending and descending). PVN - 2007/10/5
+            similar to h5dump, adding also long switch names. PVN - 2008/1/16
+        - h5repack now supports adding multiple filters to all objects.
+            PVN - 2008/1/16
+        - h5dump lists groups and attributes in requested orders (by name and
+            creation order, both ascending and descending). PVN - 2007/10/5
         - h5import imports string (text) data. PVN - 2007/10/5
         - h52gif and gif2h5: Both these tools were revised to include the High
-          Level Image API support, and tests were added to /hl/tools/gif2h5.
-           PVN - 2007/04/13
+            Level Image API support, and tests were added to /hl/tools/gif2h5.
+            PVN - 2007/04/13
         - h5dump: added support for double long type H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE. PVN
-           2007/03/13
+            2007/03/13
         - h5dump: added support for binary output, see usage. PVN 2007/03/13
         - h5repack: added support for the new nbit and scaleoffset filters.
-           PVN - 2007/05/07
+            PVN - 2007/05/07
         - h5repack: now uses the API function H5Ocopy (of the tool h5copy) to
-           recreate objects if there is not a user input for changes. PVN -
-           2007/05/07
+            recreate objects if there is not a user input for changes. PVN -
+            2007/05/07
         - h5repack: added support for reading and repacking  by hyperslabs for
-           large files. PVN - 2007/03/01
+            large files. PVN - 2007/03/01
         - h5repack: a new option allows the copy using the file type (default)
-           instead of the previous conversion to native type. PVN - 2007/03/01
+            instead of the previous conversion to native type. PVN - 2007/03/01
         - h5repack: output the percentage of compression used. PVN - 2007/03/01
         - h5diff: added support for -p option for unsigned long_long data. PVN
-          - 2007/02/26
+            2007/02/26
         - h5diff: added support for comparing dataset regions. PVN - 2007/02/20
         - h5diff: added support for reading and comparing by hyperslabs for large files.
-           PVN - 2007/02/20
+            PVN - 2007/02/20
         - h5diff: printing of dataset dimensions along with dataset name. PVN -2007/02/19
         - h5dump now uses the new API function H5Rget_name to display the name
-          of the dataset referenced instead of its ID. PVN - 2007/02/19
+            of the dataset referenced instead of its ID. PVN - 2007/02/19
         - Added new tool, h5mkgrp. QAK - 2007/02/14
         - Added new tool, h5copy. PVN - 2006/7/15
-	- Removed obsolete pdb2hdf5 tool from tools/misc  -JML 2005/10/24
-	- Added build_h5perf_alone.sh that builds h5perf by standalone mode.
-	  AKC - 2005/09/18.
+        - Removed obsolete pdb2hdf5 tool from tools/misc  -JML 2005/10/24
+        - Added build_h5perf_alone.sh that builds h5perf by standalone mode.
+            AKC - 2005/09/18.
         - Sped up h5dump on files with large numbers of objects.
             QAK - 2005/08/25
         - Added a standalone mode for building h5perf.  AKC - 2005/08/12
@@ -584,8 +584,8 @@ New Features
             available for h5dump and h5ls.  RPM & QAK - 2004/02/01
         - Added option --vfd= to h5ls to allow a VFL driver to be selected
             by a user.  RPM & QAK - 2004/02/01
-	- Added option -showconfig to compiler tools (h5cc,h5fc,h5c++).
-	    AKC - 2004/01/08
+        - Added option -showconfig to compiler tools (h5cc,h5fc,h5c++).
+            AKC - 2004/01/08
         - Install the "h5cc" and "h5fc" tools as "h5pcc" and "h5pfc"
             respectively if library is built in parallel mode.
             WCW - 2003/11/04
@@ -601,25 +601,25 @@ New Features
     ------
         - Fortran interfaces for the Image, Table and Lite APIs. PVN - 2007/5/1
         - New HDF5 Dimension Scale API (H5DS) allows dimension scales to be
-          created in an HDF5 file and associated with specific datasets. PVN - 2007/5/1
+            created in an HDF5 file and associated with specific datasets. PVN - 2007/5/1
         - There are two new functions in the Lite library, H5LTtext_to_dtype
             and H5LTdtype_to_text.  H5LTtext_to_dtype creates a HDF5 data type
             given a text description; H5LTdtype_to_text converts a data type
-            to text description.  Only DDL definition is supported as text 
+            to text description.  Only DDL definition is supported as text
             desciption now. SLU - 2006/05/17
         - Added Packet Table API for creating tables with less overhead than
             H5TB API.  Added C++ wrapper for Packet Tables.  See documentation.
             JML - 2004/03/28
-    
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
-        - The documentation for this release is largely complete, but 
-            trails the source code.  A few of the newer functions are 
+
+    Documentation
+    -------------
+        - The documentation for this release is largely complete, but
+            trails the source code.  A few of the newer functions are
             not yet documented.                       FMB - 2007/04/18
         - The user documents for this release can be accessed directly at
             this location:
                http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/
-            The most recent document versions (updated daily) in the 
+            The most recent document versions (updated daily) in the
             1.8 development branch can be accessed at this location:
                http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_dev_snapshot/H5_dev/
                                                       FMB - 2007/04/18
@@ -628,19 +628,19 @@ New Features
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
 =======================================
         - Added support for Free-BSD on amd64 with GNU C and Fortran compilers
-          4.2.1
+            4.2.1
                                                      EIP - 2007/06/25
         - Added support for sequential and parallel libraries for Intel 64 Linux
-          cluster (abe.ncsa.uiuc.edu).  Among three MPICH packages available on
-          this machine, only Open MPI works.  The VMI has seg fault in hyperslab.c
-          and bittests.c tests.  The MVAPICH2 complained about mpd not running 
-          the parallel test.  (see Known Problems section for more info)
+            cluster (abe.ncsa.uiuc.edu).  Among three MPICH packages available on
+            this machine, only Open MPI works.  The VMI has seg fault in hyperslab.c
+            and bittests.c tests.  The MVAPICH2 complained about mpd not running
+            the parallel test.  (see Known Problems section for more info)
                                                      EIP - 2007/06/25
         - Added support for HPUX11.23 for both 32 and 64-bit; HDF5 C++
         - Added support for 64-bit Windows with Visual Studio .NET and 2005.
             SJW - 2007/06/25
         - Added suport for HPUX11.23 for both 32 and 64-bit; HDF5 C++
-          shared library is not supported with +DD64 flag.
+            shared library is not supported with +DD64 flag.
                                                      EIP - 2006/06/22
         - Added support for VAX floating numbers for Alpha Open VMS 7.3.2
                                                      EIP - 2006/05/05
@@ -746,9 +746,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
         - Fixed bug where unmounted files could cause the library to go into
             an infinite loop when shutting down.  QAK - 2005/06/30
         - The library didn't save the information of family driver in file.
-          The original file member size was lost after file was closed (see
-          bug #213).  This has been fixed by saving driver name and member
-          file size in the superblock.  SLU - 2005/6/24
+            The original file member size was lost after file was closed (see
+            bug #213).  This has been fixed by saving driver name and member
+            file size in the superblock.  SLU - 2005/6/24
         - Fixed bug with hyperslab selections that use selection offsets and
             operate on chunked datasets going into infinite loop or dumping
             core.  QAK - 2005/06/17
@@ -762,22 +762,22 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
             particular file ID being closed, instead of operating on all open
             file IDs for a given file.  QAK - 2005/06/01
         - For family driver, the library didn't save member size in file.
-          When file is reopened, the size of 1st member file determine the 
-          member size.  Now member size is saved in file and is used to 
-          define member file size.  Wrong file access property of member size
-          will result in a failure.  Using any other driver except family 
-          will cause library to return error.  So is multi driver. SLU - 
-          2005/05/24  
+            When file is reopened, the size of 1st member file determine the
+            member size.  Now member size is saved in file and is used to
+            define member file size.  Wrong file access property of member size
+            will result in a failure.  Using any other driver except family
+            will cause library to return error.  So is multi driver. SLU -
+            2005/05/24
         - Fixed error in opening object in group that was opened in mounted
-          file which has been unmounted.  QAK - 2005/03/17
+            file which has been unmounted.  QAK - 2005/03/17
         - Fixed a racing condition in MPIPOSIX virtual file drive close
-	  function.  Now all processes must completed the close before any
-	  of them is returned.  This prevents some "faster" processes start
-	  accessing the file for another purpose (e.g., open with truncate)
-	  while other "slower" processes have not closed the same file with
-	  the previous purpose.  AKC - 2005/03/01
-        - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct 
-            value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first.  It's fixed.  SLU - 
+            function.  Now all processes must completed the close before any
+            of them is returned.  This prevents some "faster" processes start
+            accessing the file for another purpose (e.g., open with truncate)
+            while other "slower" processes have not closed the same file with
+            the previous purpose.  AKC - 2005/03/01
+        - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct
+            value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first.  It's fixed.  SLU -
             2005/02/08
         - For variable-length string, H5Tget_class returned H5T_STRING as its
             class.  But H5Tdetect_class and H5Tget_member_class considered it
@@ -785,24 +785,24 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
             as H5T_STRING.  SLU - 2005/02/08
         - The byte order of 1-byte integer types was fixed as little endian
             even on a big-endian machine.  This has been corrected.  SLU -
-            2005/02/07 
+            2005/02/07
         - Fix segmentation fault when calling H5Fflush with an attribute that
             hasn't had a value written to it open.  QAK - 2004/10/18
-        - Back up supporting bitfield and time types in H5Tget_native_type.  
-            Leave it to future support.  The function simply returns error 
-            message of "not support" for bitfield and time types.  
+        - Back up supporting bitfield and time types in H5Tget_native_type.
+            Leave it to future support.  The function simply returns error
+            message of "not support" for bitfield and time types.
             SLU - 2004/10/5
         - Fixed address check in Core VFL driver to avoid spurious address/size
             overflows for odd valued addresses and/or sizes.  QAK - 2004/09/27
-	- Fixed parallel bug in which some processes attempted collective
-	    I/O while others did independent I/O.  Bug appeared when some
-	    processes used point selections, and others didn't.  JRM - 2004/9/15
+        - Fixed parallel bug in which some processes attempted collective
+            I/O while others did independent I/O.  Bug appeared when some
+            processes used point selections, and others didn't.  JRM - 2004/9/15
         - Corrected error where dataset region references were written in an
             incorrect way on Cray machines.  PVN & QAK - 2004/09/13
-        - The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers 
-	    based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting 
-            an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with 
-	    32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07  
+        - The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers
+            based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting
+            an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with
+            32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07
         - Changed H5Dread() to not overwrite data in an application's buffer
             with garbage when accessing a chunked dataset with an undefined
             fill value and an unwritten chunk is uncountered.  QAK - 2004/08/25
@@ -844,18 +844,18 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
             variable-length string as field.  SLU - 2004/06/10
         - Fixed potential file corruption bug when a block of metadata could
             overlap the end of the internal metadata accumulator buffer and
-            the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly 
+            the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly
             change it's starting address.  QAK - 2004/06/09
         - Opaque datatype with no tag failed for some operations.  Fixed.
-            SLU - 2004/6/3 
+            SLU - 2004/6/3
         - Fixed potential file corruption bug where dimensions that were
             too large (a value greater than could be represented in 32-bits)
             could cause the incorrect amount of space to be allocated in a
             file for the raw data for the dataset.  QAK - 2004/06/01
-	- Fixed dtypes "sw long double -> double" failure in QSC class
+        - Fixed dtypes "sw long double -> double" failure in QSC class
             machines.  AKC - 2004/4/16
         - Fixed problem with fletcher32 filter when converting data of different
-	    endianess. PVN - 2004/03/10
+            endianess. PVN - 2004/03/10
         - Fixed problem with H5Tget_native_type() not handling opaque fields
             correctly.  QAK - 2004/01/31
         - Fixed several errors in B-tree deletion code which could cause a
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
             but were interspersed with dimensions that could not be flattened
             were not correctly handled, causing core dumps.  QAK - 2003/10/25
         - Fixed incorrect datatype of the third parameter to the Fortran90
-            h5pset(get)_cache_f subroutine (INTEGER to INTEGER(SIZE_T)) 
+            h5pset(get)_cache_f subroutine (INTEGER to INTEGER(SIZE_T))
             EIP - 2003/10/13
         - Fixed problems with accessing variable-length data datatypes on
             Crays.  QAK - 2003/10/10
@@ -970,8 +970,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-	- Configure can now use any tr command.  No more need for
-	  defining variable TR nor is it supported. -AKC 2006/05/19
+        - Configure can now use any tr command.  No more need for
+            defining variable TR nor is it supported. -AKC 2006/05/19
         - Parallel I/O with the MPI-I/O driver will no longer work if the
             filesystem is not POSIX compliant.  The "HDF5_MPI_1_METAWRITE"
             environment variable has been removed.  QAK - 2004/01/30
@@ -991,27 +991,27 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
     Tools
     -----
         - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of blocks in hyperslab
-           selections. PVN 2008/01/16
+            selections. PVN 2008/01/16
         - Fixed h5diff regarding the display of NaN (Not a Number)
-           values. PVN 2008/01/16
-	- Fixed h5dump regarding the parsing of binary output parameters. 
-           PVN 2008/01/16
-	- Fixed memory problems in h52gif and gif2h5. PVN 2008/01/16
-	- Fixed h5repack dealing with NULL references. PVN 2008/01/16 
+            values. PVN 2008/01/16
+        - Fixed h5dump regarding the parsing of binary output parameters.
+            PVN 2008/01/16
+        - Fixed memory problems in h52gif and gif2h5. PVN 2008/01/16
+        - Fixed h5repack dealing with NULL references. PVN 2008/01/16
         - Fixed h5dump & h5ls to display attributes in "name" order, rather
-           than the order they are encountered in the object header.
-           QAK - 2007/10/04
+            than the order they are encountered in the object header.
+            QAK - 2007/10/04
         - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of named datatypes
-           attributes. PVN 2007/03/13
+            attributes. PVN 2007/03/13
         - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of group comments. PVN
-           2007/03/13
-        - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing 
-           to the root group. PVN 2007/03/13
+            2007/03/13
+        - Fixed h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing
+            to the root group. PVN 2007/03/13
         - Fixed h5diff percentage option -p. PVN 2007/03/05
         - Fixed h5dump that caused array indices greater than 2 ^32-1
-           not to be printed correctly - PVN 2007/2/19
+            not to be printed correctly - PVN 2007/2/19
         - Fixed h5dump to print attributes data in ASCII if -r option is used.
-	    AKC - 2004/11/18
+            AKC - 2004/11/18
         - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error in formula
             used.  QAK - 2004/10/22
         - Fixed h5redeploy which sometimes complain too many argument for the
@@ -1023,14 +1023,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
             H5Tget_native_type() internally.  QAK - 2003/08/25
 
 
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
+    Documentation
+    -------------
 
 
     F90 APIs
     --------
         - h5pget_driver_f was returning information that could not be
-          interpreted by fortran application program; fixed. EIP - 2005/04/10 
+          interpreted by fortran application program; fixed. EIP - 2005/04/10
 
 
 Platforms Tested
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release
 
 *   AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit)           xlc 8.0.0.11
                                   xlC 8.0
-                                  xlf 10.01.0000.0 
+                                  xlf 10.01.0000.0
                                   mpcc_r 6.0.0.8
                                   mpxlf_r 8.1.1.7
 *    AIX 5.3 (32/64 bit)           xlc 7.0.0.8
@@ -1065,9 +1065,9 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release
                                   HP F90 v2.9.2
                                   HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.00
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
-                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m 
+                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
-				 
+
 *   Linux 2.6.9 (RHEL4)           Intel 10.0 compilers
     (abe.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
     Linux 2.4.21-47               gcc 3.2.3 20030502
@@ -1077,10 +1077,10 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release
                                   Intel 9.1 (icc, ifort, icpc)
     Linux 2.6.16.27 x86_64 AMD    gcc 4.1.0 (SuSE Linux), g++ 4.1.0, g95 (GCC 4.0.3)
     (smirom)                      PGI 6.2-5 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
-                         	  Intel 9.1 (icc, iort, icpc)
-    Linux 2.6.5-7.252.1-rtgfx #1 
+                                  Intel 9.1 (icc, iort, icpc)
+    Linux 2.6.5-7.252.1-rtgfx #1
           SMP ia64                Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
-    (cobalt)                      Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0 
+    (cobalt)                      Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0
                                   SGI MPI
     SunOS 5.8 32,46               Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2
@@ -1088,29 +1088,29 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-rc* release
 *   SunOS 5.10 i86pc              Sun C 5.7
                                   Sun Fortran 95 8.1
                                   Sun C++ 5.7
-    SunOS 5.10                    cc: Sun C 5.8 
-    (linew)                       f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 
-                                  CC: Sun C++ 5.8 
+    SunOS 5.10                    cc: Sun C 5.8
+    (linew)                       f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2
+                                  CC: Sun C++ 5.8
     Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
-    (tungsten)	                  gcc 3.2.2 20030222
+    (tungsten)                      gcc 3.2.2 20030222
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 9.0
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_292.til1 ia64
     (NCSA tg-login)               gcc 3.2.2
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1
-				  mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2
-    Windows XP                    
-				  Visual Studio .NET
+                                  mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2
+    Windows XP
+                                  Visual Studio .NET
                                   Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
                                   Cygwin(native gcc compiler and g95)
-				  MinGW(native gcc compiler and g95)
-    Windows XP x64                
-			          Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
-    Windows Vista			
-			          Visual Studio 2005
+                                  MinGW(native gcc compiler and g95)
+    Windows XP x64
+                                  Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
+    Windows Vista
+                                  Visual Studio 2005
 
-    MAC OS  10.4 (Intel)          gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 
+    MAC OS  10.4 (Intel)          gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
                                   G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006)
 *    Alpha Open VMS 7.3
 
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                 C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                          parallel        parallel
@@ -1149,57 +1149,57 @@ RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  n        y      n        y     y     n
 SuSe x86_64 gcc  (3,12)  y(1a)    y(11)  n        y     y     y
 SuSe x86_64 Int  (3,12)  n        y(13)  n        y     y     n
 SuSe x86_64 PGI  (3,12)  n        y(8)   n        y     y     y
-Linux 2.4 Xeon C 
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C
     Lustre Intel  (3,6)  n        y      n        y     y     n
-Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C 
+Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C
     Intel         (3,7)  y        y      y        y     y     n
-Linux 2.6 SGI Altix 
+Linux 2.6 SGI Altix
     ia64 Intel      (3)  y        y      y        y     y     y
 Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2      n        y      n        y     n     n
 
 
 
-Platform                 Shared  Shared    Shared    static-  Thread-  
-                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  exec     safe     
-Solaris2.8 64-bit        y       y         y         x        y        
-Solaris2.8 32-bit        y       y         y         x        y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit       y                           x        y        
-Solaris2.10 32-bit       y                           x        y        
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit        y       y         n         y        y        
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit        y       dna       y         y        y        
-HPUX11.00                y       n         y         x        n        
-HPUX11.23-32bit          y       n         n         y        n        
-HPUX11.23-64bit          y       dna       n         y        n        
-Cray XT3           (16)  n       n         n         n        n        
-AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32-bit     n       n         n         y        n        
-AIX-5.2 & 5.3 64-bit     n       n         n         y        n        
-Windows XP               y       y(15)     y         y        y        
-Windows XP x64           y       y(15)     y         y        y        
-Windows Vista            y       n         n         y        y        
-Mac OS X 10.3            y                           y        n        
+Platform                 Shared  Shared    Shared    static-  Thread-
+                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  exec     safe
+Solaris2.8 64-bit        y       y         y         x        y
+Solaris2.8 32-bit        y       y         y         x        y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit       y                           x        y
+Solaris2.10 32-bit       y                           x        y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit        y       y         n         y        y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit        y       dna       y         y        y
+HPUX11.00                y       n         y         x        n
+HPUX11.23-32bit          y       n         n         y        n
+HPUX11.23-64bit          y       dna       n         y        n
+Cray XT3           (16)  n       n         n         n        n
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32-bit     n       n         n         y        n
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 64-bit     n       n         n         y        n
+Windows XP               y       y(15)     y         y        y
+Windows XP x64           y       y(15)     y         y        y
+Windows Vista            y       n         n         y        y
+Mac OS X 10.3            y                           y        n
 Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC
-FreeBSD 4.11             y       n         y         y        y        
-RedHat EL3  W       (3)  y       y(10)     y         y        y        
-RedHat EL3  W Intel (3)  y       y         y         y        n        
-RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  y       y         y         y        n        
-SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y       y         y         y        y        
-SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y       y         y         y(14)    n        
-SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y       y         y         y(14)    n        
-Linux 2.4 Xeon C 
-    Lustre Intel    (6)  y       y         y         y        n        
-Linux 2.4 SuSE 
-    ia64 C Intel    (7)  y       y         y         y        n        
-Linux 2.4 SGI Altix 
-    ia64 Intel           y                           y        n        
-Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2      n       n         n         y        n        
+FreeBSD 4.11             y       n         y         y        y
+RedHat EL3  W       (3)  y       y(10)     y         y        y
+RedHat EL3  W Intel (3)  y       y         y         y        n
+RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  y       y         y         y        n
+SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y       y         y         y        y
+SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y       y         y         y(14)    n
+SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y       y         y         y(14)    n
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C
+    Lustre Intel    (6)  y       y         y         y        n
+Linux 2.4 SuSE
+    ia64 C Intel    (7)  y       y         y         y        n
+Linux 2.4 SGI Altix
+    ia64 Intel           y                           y        n
+Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2      n       n         n         y        n
 
     Notes: (1)  Using mpich 1.2.6.
            (1a) Using mpich2 1.0.6.
            (2)  Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6.
-           (3)  Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.  
+           (3)  Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.
                   W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
 
-           (6)  Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre 
+           (6)  Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre
                   and Intel compilers
            (7)  Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_292.till.  Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
            (8)  pgf90
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2      n       n         n         y        n
            (12) AMD Opteron x86_64
            (13) ifort
            (14) Yes with C and Fortran, but not with C++
-	   (15) Using Visual Studio 2005 or Cygwin
+    (15) Using Visual Studio 2005 or Cygwin
            (16) Not tested for this release.
     Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
     "Platforms Tested" table.
@@ -1218,14 +1218,14 @@ Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2      n       n         n         y        n
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
-* We discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 tests 
-  with chunking storage on  ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a linux 
+* We discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 tests
+  with chunking storage on  ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a linux
   cluster at NCSA.
-  Under some complex selection cases, 
+  Under some complex selection cases,
   1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value.
   2) MPI_Type_struct also generates wrong derived data type and corrupt data
      may be generated.
-  This only happens when turning on collective IO with chunking storage 
+  This only happens when turning on collective IO with chunking storage
   with some complex selections. We haven't found these problems on other
   MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use Independent IO
   instead.
@@ -1241,22 +1241,22 @@ Known Problems
 * For SNL, spirit/liberty/thunderbird: The serial tests pass but parallel
   tests failed with MPI-IO file locking message. AKC - 2007/6/25.
 * On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers use
-  -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. Higher level of optimization 
-  causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+  -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. Higher level of optimization
+  causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 * For HPUX 11.23 many tools tests failed for 64-bit version when linked to the
   shared libraries (tested for 1.8.0-beta2)
 * For SNL, Red Storm: only paralle HDF5 is supported.  The serial tests pass
   and the parallel tests also pass with lots of non-fatal error messages.
 * For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel pass.  Zeus: serial passes but
   parallel fails with a known proglem in MPI.  ubgl: serial passes but
-  parallel fails. 
-* on SUN 5.10 C++ test fails in the "Testing Shared Datatypes with Attributes" test 
+  parallel fails.
+* on SUN 5.10 C++ test fails in the "Testing Shared Datatypes with Attributes" test
 * configuring with --enable-debug=all produces compiler errors on most
   platforms.  Users who want to run HDF5 in debug mode should use
   --enable-debug rather than --enable-debug=all to enable debugging
   information on most modules.
 * On Mac OS 10.4, test/dt_arith.c has some errors in conversion from long
-  double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned)long long to long double. 
+  double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned)long long to long double.
 * On Altix SGI with Intel 9.0 testmeta.c would not compile with -O3
   optimization flag.
 * On VAX, Scaleoffset filter isn't supported. The filter cannot be applied to
@@ -1270,23 +1270,23 @@ Known Problems
   that when using 4 processors, a simple collective write will be hung
   sometimes. This can be verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 * On IRIX6.5, when C compiler version >7.4, the complicate MPI derived data type
-  code will work. However, the user should be aware to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX environment 
+  code will work. However, the user should be aware to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX environment
   variable to some certian value in order to use collective irregular selection code.
-  For example, the current parallel HDF5 test needs to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX to 
+  For example, the current parallel HDF5 test needs to enlarge MPI_TYPE_MAX to
   200,000 to make the test pass.
-* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't 
-  be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is 
-  enabled.  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 
-  checksum in the library before v1.6.3.  The checksum value wasn't consistent 
-  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in 
-  Release 1.6.3.  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no 
-  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  The library release 
+* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't
+  be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is
+  enabled.  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32
+  checksum in the library before v1.6.3.  The checksum value wasn't consistent
+  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in
+  Release 1.6.3.  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no
+  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  The library release
   after 1.6.4 can still read the dataset created or rewritten with the library
   of v1.6.2 or before.  SLU - 2005/6/30
 * For the version 6(6.02 and 6.04) of Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron
   processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2).  The library
-  failed in several tests but all related to multi driver.  The problem has 
-  been reported to the vendor.  
+  failed in several tests but all related to multi driver.  The problem has
+  been reported to the vendor.
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
   messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...".  This is from the command poe.
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
@@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ Known Problems
   to provide a mean to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The C++ library's tests fails when compiling with PGI C++ compiler.  The
-  workaround until the problem is correctly handled is to use the 
+  workaround until the problem is correctly handled is to use the
   flag "--instantiate=local" prior to the configure and build steps, as:
         setenv CXX "pgCC --instantiate=local"  for pgCC 5.02 and higher
 
@@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ Known Problems
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
   with this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -1327,7 +1327,7 @@ Known Problems
   able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning:
 
         warning: ANSI C does not support `long long'
-  
+
   This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored.
 
 
@@ -1347,7 +1347,7 @@ Known Problems
       the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to
       be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
 
-* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays 
+* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
   subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
   from this site:
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 * On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran library,
   compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90
-  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error)
 
 * On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as
@@ -1386,28 +1386,28 @@ Known Problems
   INSTALL file sections 5.7 and 5.8
 
 * On at least one system, (SDSC DataStar), the scheduler (in this case
-  LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run 
+  LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run
   any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers.
 
-  This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as 
+  This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as
   many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs,
-  and comparing it to an exemplar.  
+  and comparing it to an exemplar.
 
   The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer
   inserts the extra text.  However, this may not be practical.
 
-  In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to 
-  the configure and build.  This will cause "make check" to continue after 
+  In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to
+  the configure and build.  This will cause "make check" to continue after
   detecting errors in the tool tests.  However, in the case of SDSC DataStar,
   it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand.
 
   A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter
   out the text added by the scheduler.  A sample script used on SDSC
-  DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it 
-  for your installation.  
+  DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it
+  for your installation.
 
-  Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item 
-  on the command line which executes the the test.  The script then 
+  Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item
+  on the command line which executes the the test.  The script then
   executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing
   it on.
 
@@ -1420,20 +1420,20 @@ Known Problems
 
         ($* > $STDOUT_FILE) >& $STDERR_FILE
 
-	set RETURN_VALUE=$status
+    set RETURN_VALUE=$status
 
         cat $STDOUT_FILE
 
         tail +3 $STDERR_FILE
 
-	exit $RETURN_VALUE
+    exit $RETURN_VALUE
 
   You get the HDF make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
-  by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the 
-  script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to 
+  by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
+  script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to
   "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
 
-  Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can 
+  Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can
   can prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system.  On DataStar,
   no prefix is necessary.  However on an MPICH system, the prefix might
   have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to
@@ -1453,16 +1453,16 @@ HDF5 version 1.6.7 released on Thu Jan 31 21:09:10 CST 2008
 
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.6 and HDF5-1.6.7  
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.6 and HDF5-1.6.7
 It contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in
 HDF5-1.6.7. For more details, check the HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source.
 
 HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source code
-in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group) FTP server: 
+in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group) FTP server:
 
      ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/docs/
 
-Documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x series is 
+Documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x series is
 also on the HDF web site:
 
      http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/
@@ -1492,7 +1492,7 @@ New Features
 ============
     Configuration:
     -------------------------
-    '--enable-stream-vfd' and '--disable-stream-vfd' are no longer valid 
+    '--enable-stream-vfd' and '--disable-stream-vfd' are no longer valid
     configure options because the stream I/O driver has ben removed from
     the distribution.
 
@@ -1502,12 +1502,12 @@ New Features
     --------
     The stream I/O driver is not included with the HDF5 Library in this
     release.  The source code files hdf5/src/H5FDstream.c and
-    hdf5/src/H5FDstream.h and the driver ENUM value H5FD_STREAM have been 
+    hdf5/src/H5FDstream.h and the driver ENUM value H5FD_STREAM have been
     removed.
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
-    None      
+    None
 
     Tools:
     ------
@@ -1533,9 +1533,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release
 
     Library
     -------
-        - H5Iget_name could not be used with an object identifier returned  
-            by H5Rdereference; the function would not be able to determine 
-            a valid object name.  It has been fixed.  SLU - 2008/1/30 
+        - H5Iget_name could not be used with an object identifier returned
+            by H5Rdereference; the function would not be able to determine
+            a valid object name.  It has been fixed.  SLU - 2008/1/30
         - Changed library's behavior for reading files that might have
             corrupted object header information from a previous (buggy)
             version of the library.  By default, the library now rebuilds the
@@ -1557,15 +1557,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release
     Performance
     -------------
      None
-   
+
 
     Tools
     -----
      None
 
 
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
+    Documentation
+    -------------
      None
 
 
@@ -1573,7 +1573,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release
     -------
      None
 
-                                
+
     C++ API
     -------
      None
@@ -1581,13 +1581,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.6 Release
 
 Documentation
 =============
-    HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source 
-    code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the 
-    THG (The HDF Group) FTP server: 
+    HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source
+    code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the
+    THG (The HDF Group) FTP server:
 
          ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/docs/
 
-    Online documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x 
+    Online documentation for the current release in the HDF5 Release 1.6.x
     series can be found on the THG web site:
 
          http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/
@@ -1596,9 +1596,9 @@ Documentation
     in the document "HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release":
 
          http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/ADGuide/Changes.html
- 
-    Since the stream I/O driver is not included in this release, the 
-    functions H5Pset_fapl_stream and H5Pget_fapl_stream and the stream 
+
+    Since the stream I/O driver is not included in this release, the
+    functions H5Pset_fapl_stream and H5Pget_fapl_stream and the stream
     ENUM value H5FD_STREAM have been removed from the documentation.
 
 
@@ -1622,20 +1622,20 @@ Platforms Tested
 
     Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1  gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
          SMP i686 i386             G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) April 18 2007)
-    (kagiso)                      PGI C, Fortran, C++ 7.0-7 32-bit 
-                                  Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit 
-                                      applications, Version 9.1 
-                                  Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit 
+    (kagiso)                      PGI C, Fortran, C++ 7.0-7 32-bit
+                                  Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Version 9.1
+                                  Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Version 9.1
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
                                       applications, Version 9.1
-                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit 
-                                      applications, Version 9.1 
                                   Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.4
-                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.6p1 compiled with  
-                                  gcc 4.2.1 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) 
+                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.6p1 compiled with
+                                  gcc 4.2.1 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!)
 
     Linux 2.6.16.46-0.12-debug #1 Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.025
         SMP ia64 GNU/Linux        Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 10.0.025
-    (ucar hir1)                   
+    (ucar hir1)
 
     Linux 2.6.16.46-0.14-smp #1   Intel(R) C++ for Intel(R) EM64T Ver. 9.1.037
         SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux      Intel(R) Fortran Intel(R) EM64T Ver. 9.1.031
@@ -1654,7 +1654,7 @@ Platforms Tested
     SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit     Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.8
     (linew)                       Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 8.2
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8
-                                  Patch 121019-06 
+                                  Patch 121019-06
 
     Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
     (tungsten)                    Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
@@ -1724,34 +1724,34 @@ SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64              C    y        y    y        y    y     y
 SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64       n        y    n        y    y     y
 
 
-Platform                              Shared        static-  Thread-  
-                                      libraries(4)  exec     safe     
-Solaris2.8 32- and 64-bit             y             n        y        
-Solaris2.10 32- and 64-bit            y             n        y        
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                     y             n        y        
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                     y             n        y        
-WinXP Visual Studio 6.0               y             n        n        
-WinXP CYGWIN                          y             n        n        
-WinXP 2005                            y             n        n        
-WinXP .Net                            y             n        n        
-WinVista 2005                         y             n        n        
-Mac OS X 10.4.10                      y             n        n        
-AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32- and 64-bit          n             n        n        
-FreeBSD 6.2 32- and 64-bit            y             n        n        
-RedHat Linux 2.4.21              W    y             n        n        
-SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W    y             n        y        
-SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 Intel   W    y             n        n        
-SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 PGI     W    n             n        n        
-SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W    y             n        y        
-SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel   W    y             n        n        
-SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI     W    n             n        n        
-RHEL 4 Linux 2.6.9 Xeon Lustre   C    y             n        n        
-RedHat Linux 2.4 Xeon Lustre     C    y             n        n        
-SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64              C    y             n        n        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64       n             n        n        
-
-Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" 
-table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted, 
+Platform                              Shared        static-  Thread-
+                                      libraries(4)  exec     safe
+Solaris2.8 32- and 64-bit             y             n        y
+Solaris2.10 32- and 64-bit            y             n        y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                     y             n        y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                     y             n        y
+WinXP Visual Studio 6.0               y             n        n
+WinXP CYGWIN                          y             n        n
+WinXP 2005                            y             n        n
+WinXP .Net                            y             n        n
+WinVista 2005                         y             n        n
+Mac OS X 10.4.10                      y             n        n
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32- and 64-bit          n             n        n
+FreeBSD 6.2 32- and 64-bit            y             n        n
+RedHat Linux 2.4.21              W    y             n        n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1) W    y             n        y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 Intel   W    y             n        n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.9-42 i686 PGI     W    n             n        n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1) W    y             n        y
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel   W    y             n        n
+SuSE Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI     W    n             n        n
+RHEL 4 Linux 2.6.9 Xeon Lustre   C    y             n        n
+RedHat Linux 2.4 Xeon Lustre     C    y             n        n
+SuSE Linux 2.4 ia64              C    y             n        n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64       n             n        n
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested"
+table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted,
 compilers used are the system compilers.
 
 Footnotes:
@@ -1763,13 +1763,13 @@ Known Problems
 * We discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 tests
   with chunking storage with the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a Linux
   cluster at NCSA.
-  Under some complex selection cases, 
+  Under some complex selection cases,
   1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value.
-  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt 
+  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt
      data may be generated.
   This only happens when turning on collective IO with chunking storage
-  with some complex selections. We haven't found these problems on other 
-  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use Independent 
+  with some complex selections. We haven't found these problems on other
+  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use Independent
   IO instead.
 
   To avoid this problem, change the following line in your code:
@@ -1777,7 +1777,7 @@ Known Problems
 
   to
   H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_INDEPENDENT);
- 
+
   KY - 2007/08/24
 
 * QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) does not create h5pfc correctly. It
@@ -1790,7 +1790,7 @@ Known Problems
   "523648:lt-h5repacktst: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname
   'libh5test.so.1' under any of the filenames .......(bunch of directories)
   "
-  And the testing will fail. 
+  And the testing will fail.
 
   We believe this is a libtool problem. One way to get rid of this is to
   add the paths of libh5test.so.1 and libh5.so.1 to the shared library path.
@@ -1804,15 +1804,15 @@ Known Problems
   setenv LD_LIBRARY64_PATH ......(existing paths):[full path of HDF5
   directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs]
 
-  NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you 
-  build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link 
-  with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set 
+  NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you
+  build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link
+  with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set
   anyway.  KY - 2007/8/2
 
 * QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) failed the testpar/testphdf5 sub-test
-  "calloc".  All other tests passed.  This indicates that a dataset using 
-  chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel 
-  HDF5.  The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x 
+  "calloc".  All other tests passed.  This indicates that a dataset using
+  chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel
+  HDF5.  The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x
   calloc".  AKC - 2007/7/12.
 
 * The Intel C Compiler for the Linux x86_64 platform (EM64T-based, v8.1) has
@@ -1821,30 +1821,30 @@ Known Problems
   PROD_CFLAGS from -O3 to -O0.  Then run configure.  AKC - 2005/11/10.
 
 * When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 on IRIX
-  6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for 
-  example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside 
-  the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5 
+  6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for
+  example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside
+  the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5
   library. You can always set a bigger number on your system.  KY - 2005/10/6
 
-* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5 
-  might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library. 
-  Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the 
+* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5
+  might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library.
+  Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the
   dataset creation property list to avoid the problem.  EIP - 2005/09/09
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't 
-  be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is 
-  enabled.  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 
-  checksum in the library before v1.6.3.  The checksum value wasn't consistent 
-  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in 
-  Release 1.6.3.  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no 
-  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  HDF5 library releases 
-  after 1.6.4 can still read datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't
+  be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is
+  enabled.  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32
+  checksum in the library before v1.6.3.  The checksum value wasn't consistent
+  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in
+  Release 1.6.3.  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no
+  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  HDF5 library releases
+  after 1.6.4 can still read datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5
   library of v1.6.2 or before.  SLU - 2005/7/8
 
 * For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron
   processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2).  The library
-  failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver.  The problem has 
-  been reported to the vendor.  
+  failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver.  The problem has
+  been reported to the vendor.
 
 * test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another
   region."  The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when
@@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ Known Problems
   HDF5.  Since the error is triggered by a random situation, it will
   usually disappear if the test is re-run.
 
-* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but 
+* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but
   have a "guard" statement in stdint.h that will #error and skip the rest
   of the header file if the C99 option is not used explicitly.  Hardsetting
   $CC to c99 will resolve the problem. AKC - 2004/12/13
@@ -1863,11 +1863,11 @@ Known Problems
   and run the tests again.
 
   The tests may also fail with messages like "The socket name is already
-  in use".  HDF5 does not use sockets.  This is due to problems of the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  Check whether there are 
-  many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  These are sockets used by 
-  the poe command and left behind due to failed commands.  Ask your system 
-  administrator to clean them out.  Lastly, request IBM to provide a means 
+  in use".  HDF5 does not use sockets.  This is due to problems of the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  Check whether there are
+  many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  These are sockets used by
+  the poe command and left behind due to failed commands.  Ask your system
+  administrator to clean them out.  Lastly, request IBM to provide a means
   to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
@@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@ Known Problems
 
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on the HPUX 11.00.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -1899,9 +1899,9 @@ Known Problems
   long long (absolute values less than 1**-308) to double.  This triggers
   the test/dtypes to report failure in the following test:
       Testing random sw long double -> double conversions
-  If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to 
-  10**-308.  If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly 
-  0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308.  This has been reported to the 
+  If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to
+  10**-308.  If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly
+  0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308.  This has been reported to the
   system staff.
 
   All other tests have passed.
@@ -1975,8 +1975,8 @@ HDF5-1.6.6  It contains information on the platforms tested and
 known problems in HDF5-1.6.6. For more details, check the HISTORY.txt
 file in the HDF5 source.
 
-HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source 
-code in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group) 
+HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source
+code in the subdirectory doc/html/ or on the THG (The HDF Group)
 ftp server (ftp.hdfgroup.org) in the directory:
 
      /HDF5/docs/
@@ -2020,28 +2020,28 @@ New Features
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
         - None
-      
+
     Tools:
     ------
         - h52gif and gif2h5: Both these tools were revised to include High
             Level Image API support.  Tests were added to /hl/tools/gif2h5.
             PVN - 2007/04/13
-        - h5dump: Added support for double long type H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE. 
+        - h5dump: Added support for double long type H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE.
             PVN - 2007/03/13
         - h5dump: Added support for binary output; see usage. PVN 2007/03/13
         - h5repack: Added support for reading and writing by hyperslabs for
             large files. PVN - 2007/03/01
         - h5repack: A new option allows the copy to use the source file type
-            (default) instead of the previous conversion to native type. 
+            (default) instead of the previous conversion to native type.
             PVN - 2007/03/01
-        - h5repack: Added output of the percentage of compression achieved. 
+        - h5repack: Added output of the percentage of compression achieved.
             PVN - 2007/03/01
         - h5diff: Added support for comparing dataset regions. PVN -
           2007/02/20
-        - h5diff: Added support for reading and comparing by hyperslabs for 
+        - h5diff: Added support for reading and comparing by hyperslabs for
             large files.  PVN - 2007/02/20
         - h5diff: Added printing of dataset dimensions along with dataset
-          name. 
+          name.
             PVN - 2007/02/19
 
     F90 API:
@@ -2057,7 +2057,7 @@ Support for New Platforms, Languages and Compilers
 ==================================================
         - Added support for MAC Intel (Darwin 8.8.2)  (gcc 4.0.1 and g95 0.91)
                                 EIP - 2007/02/13
-        - Added support for GNU C compiler version 4.2.1 for FreeBSD 6.2 
+        - Added support for GNU C compiler version 4.2.1 for FreeBSD 6.2
           (32- and 64-bit)
 
 
@@ -2068,10 +2068,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.5 Release
     -------
         - Fixed several bugs with writing fill values for datasets that have
             a variable-length datatype or component datatype.  QAK -
-2007/06/19
+            2007/06/19
         - STDIO driver didn't support files bigger than 2GB because the OFFSET
-            parameter of fseek is of type LONG INT, not big enough for big 
-            files.  Use fseeko instead for big files if it's available on the 
+            parameter of fseek is of type LONG INT, not big enough for big
+            files.  Use fseeko instead for big files if it's available on the
             system.  SLU - 2007/4/5
         - Relaxed restrictions on attribute operations to allow a file ID to
             be used as the "location ID".  If a file ID is used, the attribute
@@ -2083,7 +2083,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.5 Release
         - Fixed potential file corruption bug which could overwrite a portion
             of an object's header when an attribute was renamed.  If the new
             name for the attribute was longer than the old name, it was
-possible
+            possible
             that the attribute would grow enough to overwrite another message
             in the object's header.  QAK - 2007/01/02
         - Fixed file corruption bug which could write an incorrect number of
@@ -2108,11 +2108,11 @@ possible
             resembles the following, the object has been affected by this bug:
 
               #007: ../../hdf5_v1.6/src/H5C.c line 3887 in H5C_load_entry():
-unable to load entry
+                unable to load entry
                 major(08): Meta data cache layer
                 minor(40): Unable to load metadata into cache
               #008: ../../hdf5_v1.6/src/H5Ocache.c line 332 in H5O_load():
-corrupt object header - too few messages
+                corrupt object header - too few messages
                 major(12): Object header layer
                 minor(40): Unable to load metadata into cache
 
@@ -2129,12 +2129,12 @@ corrupt object header - too few messages
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-        - Changed to default to --disable-shared if parallel is enabled. 
+        - Changed to default to --disable-shared if parallel is enabled.
             AKC - 2007/5/12
         - Corrected a coding error in configure when it tries to locate the
-          needed MPI and MPI-IO library for the fortran interface. 
+          needed MPI and MPI-IO library for the fortran interface.
             AKC - 007/5/9.
-        - Changed default fortran compiler to g95 when gcc is used. 
+        - Changed default fortran compiler to g95 when gcc is used.
             AKC - 007/2/17.
         - Configure can now use any tr command.  No more need for
             defining the variable TR, nor is it supported.  AKC - 2006/05/20
@@ -2142,28 +2142,28 @@ corrupt object header - too few messages
     Performance
     -------------
         - None
-   
+
     Tools
     -----
         - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of named datatypes
             attributes. PVN - 2007/03/13
-        - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of group comments. 
+        - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of group comments.
             PVN - 2007/03/13
-        - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing 
+        - Fixed a bug in h5dump regarding the display of hardlinks pointing
             to the root group.  PVN - 2007/03/13
         - Fixed a bug in the h5diff percentage option -p.  PVN - 2007/03/05
         - Fixed a bug in h5dump that caused array indices greater than 2^32-1
             not to be printed correctly.  PVN - 2007/2/19
 
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
-        - Corrected errors and extended the descriptions in Reference Manual 
-            entries for several functions.  
+    Documentation
+    -------------
+        - Corrected errors and extended the descriptions in Reference Manual
+            entries for several functions.
 
     F90 API
     -------
         - None
-                                
+
     C++ API
     -------
           - Changed
@@ -2175,8 +2175,7 @@ corrupt object header - too few messages
           - Wrappers of H5Rcreate had incorrect prototypes.  Added these
             overloaded functions:
                   IdComponent::reference(void* ref, const char* name,
-DataSpace&
-                          dataspace, H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_DATASET_REGION)
+                  DataSpace& dataspace, H5R_type_t ref_type = H5R_DATASET_REGION)
                   IdComponent::void reference(void* ref, const char* name)
                   IdComponent::reference(void* ref, const H5std_string& name)
             and will remove these incorrect member functions:
@@ -2193,13 +2192,13 @@ DataSpace&
 Documentation
 =============
 
-    HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source 
-    code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the 
+    HDF5 documentation can be found in the distributed release source
+    code in the subdirectory doc/html/ (start with index.html) or on the
     THG (The HDF Group) ftp server (ftp.hdfgroup.org) in the directory:
 
          /HDF5/docs/
 
-    Online documentation for the current release can be found on the THG 
+    Online documentation for the current release can be found on the THG
     web site:
 
          http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
@@ -2235,17 +2234,17 @@ Platforms Tested
 
     Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1  gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
         SMP i686 i386             G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006)
-    (kagiso)                      PGI C, Fortran, C++ 6.2-5 32-bit 
-                                  icc (ICC) 9.1 
-                                  Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit 
+    (kagiso)                      PGI C, Fortran, C++ 6.2-5 32-bit
+                                  icc (ICC) 9.1
+                                  Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Version 9.1
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
                                       applications, Version 9.1
-                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit 
-                                      applications, Version 9.1 
                                   Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.4
-                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.4p1 compiled with  
-                                  gcc 3.4.6 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) 
+                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.4p1 compiled with
+                                  gcc 3.4.6 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!)
 
-    Linux 2.6.16.46-0.12-debug #1 
+    Linux 2.6.16.46-0.12-debug #1
         SMP ia64 GNU/Linux        Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.025
     (ucar hir1)                   Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 10.0.025
 
@@ -2255,14 +2254,14 @@ Platforms Tested
                                          for 64-bit target on x86-64
                                   tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
 
-    Linux 2.6.5-7.283-rtgfx Altix 
+    Linux 2.6.5-7.283-rtgfx Altix
         SMP ia64                  Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
     (cobalt)                      Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0
                                   SGI MPI
 
-    OSF1 V5.1 (QSC)               Compaq C V6.5-011 
+    OSF1 V5.1 (QSC)               Compaq C V6.5-011
     (See "Known Problems.")       HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
-                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-036  
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-036
                                   MPIX200_64_r13.4
 
     SunOS 5.8 32- and 64-bit      Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
@@ -2272,7 +2271,7 @@ Platforms Tested
     SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit     Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.8
     (linew)                       Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 8.2
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8
-                                  Patch 121019-06 
+                                  Patch 121019-06
 
     Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
     (tungsten)                    Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
@@ -2371,13 +2370,13 @@ SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64      n             n        n        y
 SuSe Linux 2.6.5 SGI Altix ia64       n             n        n        y
 OSF1 v5.1                             n             n        n        y
 
-Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" 
-table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted, 
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested"
+table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted,
 compilers used are the system compilers.
 
 Footnotes:
 (1) Fortran compiled with g95.
-(2) In most cases, shared libraries are provided only for the C library, 
+(2) In most cases, shared libraries are provided only for the C library,
     except on Windows where they are provided for C, C++, and Fortran.
 (3) C++ works only with static libraries.
 
@@ -2394,7 +2393,7 @@ Known Problems
   "523648:lt-h5repacktst: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname
   'libh5test.so.1' under any of the filenames .......(bunch of directories)
   "
-  And the testing will fail. 
+  And the testing will fail.
   We believe this is a libtool problem. One way to get rid of this is to
   add the paths of libh5test.so.1 and libh5.so.1 to the shared library path.
 
@@ -2407,15 +2406,15 @@ Known Problems
   setenv LD_LIBRARY64_PATH ......(existing pathes):[full path of HDF5
   directory/test/.libs]:[full path of HDF5 directory/src/.libs]
 
-  NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you 
-  build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link 
-  with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set 
+  NOTE: This problem ONLY affects the testing of the HDF5 library when you
+  build from source. It won't affect any applications that would like to link
+  with the HDF5 shared library since the shared library path needs to be set
   anyway.  KY - 2007/8/2
 
 * QSC (an HP alpha-based OSF1 cluster) failed the testpar/testphdf5 sub-test
-  "calloc".  All other tests passed.  This indicates that a dataset using 
-  chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel 
-  HDF5.  The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x 
+  "calloc".  All other tests passed.  This indicates that a dataset using
+  chunked storage created by serial HDF5 may not work properly with parallel
+  HDF5.  The calloc test can be skipped by running "prun ... testphdf5 -x
   calloc".  AKC - 2007/7/12.
 
 * The Intel C Compiler for the Linux x86_64 platform (EM64T-based, v8.1) has
@@ -2424,30 +2423,30 @@ Known Problems
   PROD_CFLAGS from -O3 to -O0.  Then run configure.  AKC - 2005/11/10.
 
 * When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 on IRIX
-  6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for 
-  example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside 
-  the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5 
+  6.5, set the environment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for
+  example 120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside
+  the parallel HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside the parallel HDF5
   library. You can always set a bigger number on your system.  KY - 2005/10/6
 
-* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5 
-  might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library. 
-  Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the 
+* A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version of HDF5
+  might not be able to be modified with a parallel version of the library.
+  Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the
   dataset creation property list to avoid the problem.  EIP - 2005/09/09
 
-* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't 
-  be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is 
-  enabled.  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 
-  checksum in the library before v1.6.3.  The checksum value wasn't consistent 
-  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in 
-  Release 1.6.3.  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no 
-  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  The library release 
+* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't
+  be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC (a filter) is
+  enabled.  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32
+  checksum in the library before v1.6.3.  The checksum value wasn't consistent
+  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in
+  Release 1.6.3.  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no
+  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  The library release
   after 1.6.4 can still read the dataset created or rewritten with the library
   of v1.6.2 or before.  SLU - 2005/7/8
 
 * For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron
   processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2).  The library
-  failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver.  The problem has 
-  been reported to the vendor.  
+  failed in several tests, all related to the multi driver.  The problem has
+  been reported to the vendor.
 
 * test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another
   region."  The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when
@@ -2455,7 +2454,7 @@ Known Problems
   HDF5.  Since the error is triggered by a random situation, it will
   usually disappear if the test is re-run.
 
-* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but 
+* Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but
   have a "guard" statement in stdint.h that will #error and skip the rest
   of the header file if the C99 option is not used explicitly.  Hardsetting
   $CC to c99 will resolve the problem. AKC - 2004/12/13
@@ -2468,7 +2467,7 @@ Known Problems
   The tests may also fail with messages like "The socket name is already
   in use".  HDF5 does not use sockets (except for stream-VFD).  This is
   due to problems of the poe command trying to set up the debug socket.
-  Check whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  These 
+  Check whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  These
   are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed commands.
   Ask your system administrator to clean them out.  Lastly, request IBM
   to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
@@ -2494,7 +2493,7 @@ Known Problems
 
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on the HPUX 11.00.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -2510,9 +2509,9 @@ Known Problems
   long long (absolute values less than 1**-308) to double.  This triggers
   the test/dtypes to report failure in the following test:
       Testing random sw long double -> double conversions
-  If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to 
-  10**-308.  If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly 
-  0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308.  This has been reported to the 
+  If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to
+  10**-308.  If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly
+  0.0, but occasionally appear as 10**-308.  This has been reported to the
   system staff.
 
   All other tests have passed.
@@ -2621,62 +2620,62 @@ New Features
 ============
     Configuration:
     -------------------------
-	- Added yodconfigure, a configure tool, that patches up the configure
-	  file to allow configure to launch executable via the proper
-	  launching command like "yod -sz 1".  AKC - 2005/11/10
-	- Configure now recognizes the TR variable as the location of the
-          tr utility.  JML 2005/10/20
+        - Added yodconfigure, a configure tool, that patches up the configure
+            file to allow configure to launch executable via the proper
+            launching command like "yod -sz 1".  AKC - 2005/11/10
+        - Configure now recognizes the TR variable as the location of the
+            tr utility.  JML 2005/10/20
 
     Source code distribution:
     -------------------------
-	- Added g95 as a testing "platform" informally. AKC - 2005/10/04.
+        - Added g95 as a testing "platform" informally. AKC - 2005/10/04.
         - Added MD5 checksumming to snapshot releases.  Releases will now
-          produce an .md5 file as well as a .tar archive.  md5sum can be
-          used to verify the arvhice with the .md5 checksum.  -JL 2005/09/06
+            produce an .md5 file as well as a .tar archive.  md5sum can be
+            used to verify the arvhice with the .md5 checksum.  -JL 2005/09/06
 
     Library:
     --------
         - Added HSYS_ERROR which retrieves the system error message and pushes
-          it to the error stack.  This provides more information regarding the 
-	  failed system call. AKC - 2005/08/04
+            it to the error stack.  This provides more information regarding the
+            failed system call. AKC - 2005/08/04
         - Added H5F_OBJ_LOCAL flag to H5Fget_obj_count() & H5Fget_obj_ids(), to
-          allow querying for objects in a file that was opened with a particular
-          file ID, instead of all objects opened in the file with any file ID.
-          QAK - 2005/06/01
+            allow querying for objects in a file that was opened with a particular
+            file ID, instead of all objects opened in the file with any file ID.
+            QAK - 2005/06/01
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
-	- Added mpich2 as a testing "platform" informally. AKC - 2005/10/04.
-	- HDF5 supports collective MPI-IO for irregular selection with HDF5
-	  dataset. Irregular selection is when users use API H5Sselect_hyperslab
-	  more than once for the same dataset.
-	  Currently, not all MPI-IO packages support the complicated 
-	  MPI derived datatypes used in the implementation of irregular 
-	  selections INSIDE HDF5. 
-	  1) DEC 5.x wdoes not support complicated derived datatypes.
-	  2) For AIX 5.1:
-	     If your poe version number is 3.2.0.20 or lower,
-	     please edit powerpc-ibm-aix5.x in the directory hdf5/config/.
-	     Find the line with
-	          << hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works >>
-	     and UNCOMMENT this line before the configure.
-	     check poe version with the following command:
-	     lpp -l all | grep ppe.poe
-	  3) For Linux cluster,:
-	     If mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, collective irregular selection
-	     IO is not supported; internally independent IO is used.
-	  4) For IRIX 6.5:
-	     if C compiler version is 7.3 or lower, collective irregular 
-	     selection IO is not supported; internally independent IO is used.
-	  5) For platforms which internally used mpich: 
-	     If the mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the 
-	     corresponding config (in hdf5/config) file and add
-	         hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' 
-	     at the end of the configuration file. For example, on the 
-	     NCSA SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So 
-	         hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no' 
-	     should be added at the end of the config file ia64-linux-gnu.
-	     KY - 2005/09/12
+        - Added mpich2 as a testing "platform" informally. AKC - 2005/10/04.
+        - HDF5 supports collective MPI-IO for irregular selection with HDF5
+            dataset. Irregular selection is when users use API H5Sselect_hyperslab
+            more than once for the same dataset.
+            Currently, not all MPI-IO packages support the complicated
+            MPI derived datatypes used in the implementation of irregular
+            selections INSIDE HDF5.
+            1) DEC 5.x wdoes not support complicated derived datatypes.
+            2) For AIX 5.1:
+                If your poe version number is 3.2.0.20 or lower,
+                please edit powerpc-ibm-aix5.x in the directory hdf5/config/.
+                Find the line with
+                    << hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works >>
+                and UNCOMMENT this line before the configure.
+                check poe version with the following command:
+                lpp -l all | grep ppe.poe
+            3) For Linux cluster,:
+                If mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, collective irregular selection
+                IO is not supported; internally independent IO is used.
+            4) For IRIX 6.5:
+                if C compiler version is 7.3 or lower, collective irregular
+                selection IO is not supported; internally independent IO is used.
+            5) For platforms which internally used mpich:
+                If the mpich version is 1.2.5 or lower, please find the
+                corresponding config (in hdf5/config) file and add
+                    hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no'
+                at the end of the configuration file. For example, on the
+                NCSA SGI Altix, the internal mpich library is 1.2.5. So
+                    hdf5_mpi_complex_derived_datatype_works='no'
+                should be added at the end of the config file ia64-linux-gnu.
+                KY - 2005/09/12
 
     Tools:
     ------
@@ -2691,26 +2690,26 @@ New Features
     C++ API:
     --------
         - Added missing member functions:
-		H5::CompType::getMemberArrayType
-		H5::CompType::getMemberVarLenType
-		H5::AbstractDs::getArrayType
-		H5::AbstractDs::getVarLenType
-		H5::CommonFG::openArrayType
-		H5::CommonFG::openVarLenType
-		H5::PropList::copyProp -- this will replace the current
-			H5::PropList::copyProp in later releases due
-			to incorrect prototype.
-		BMR - 2005/07/27
+            H5::CompType::getMemberArrayType
+            H5::CompType::getMemberVarLenType
+            H5::AbstractDs::getArrayType
+            H5::AbstractDs::getVarLenType
+            H5::CommonFG::openArrayType
+            H5::CommonFG::openVarLenType
+            H5::PropList::copyProp -- this will replace the current
+            H5::PropList::copyProp in later releases due
+            to incorrect prototype.
+            BMR - 2005/07/27
 
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages and Compilers
 ==================================================
-    - Added support for RedStorm platform (serial only.)  AKC 2005/11/10
-    - Added support for BG/L platform (serial only.)  LA 2005/11/10
-    - Added support for HPUX 11.23 (IA64); only C and C++ are supported
-      with the +DD64 flag 
+        - Added support for RedStorm platform (serial only.)  AKC 2005/11/10
+        - Added support for BG/L platform (serial only.)  LA 2005/11/10
+        - Added support for HPUX 11.23 (IA64); only C and C++ are supported
+              with the +DD64 flag
                                              EIP 2005/10/05
- 
+
 
     Configuration
     -------------
@@ -2722,8 +2721,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.4 Release
 
     Library
     -------
-        - Fixed collective IO in chunking-storage.  HDF5 may have called the 
-            wrong routine when the shape of the dataspace in the file and in 
+        - Fixed collective IO in chunking-storage.  HDF5 may have called the
+            wrong routine when the shape of the dataspace in the file and in
             the bufferred chunk were different. This bug was fixed to make sure
             the correct routine is called. KY - 2005/10/19
         - Fixed core dump when closing root groups opened through two different
@@ -2769,57 +2768,57 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.4 Release
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-	- Configure can recognize -lmpich as a form of MPI library. -AKC-
-	  2005/9/28.
-	- Changed default C++ compiler for the IA64 platform from icc to
-	    icpc which is the preferred compiler for Intel Compiler version
-	    8. AKC - 2005/09/02
+        - Configure can recognize -lmpich as a form of MPI library. -AKC-
+            2005/9/28.
+        - Changed default C++ compiler for the IA64 platform from icc to
+            icpc which is the preferred compiler for Intel Compiler version
+            8. AKC - 2005/09/02
 
     Performance
     -------------
-        - Optimized I/O for enumerated datatypes that are a superset of a 
+        - Optimized I/O for enumerated datatypes that are a superset of a
             source enumerated datatype.  QAK - 2005/03/19
-   
+
     Tools
     -----
 
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
+    Documentation
+    -------------
 
     F90 API
     -------
        - h5pget_driver_f was returning information that could not be
          interpreted by a Fortran application program; fixed. EIP - 2005/04/10
-                                
+
     C++ API
     -------
-	- Several member functions' prototype changed due to the 
-	  "int -> unsigned" change in the main library.  They are:
-		H5::CompType::getMemberDataType(unsigned member_num)
-		H5::CompType::getMemberCompType(unsigned member_num)
-		H5::CompType::getMemberEnumType(unsigned member_num)
-		H5::CompType::getMemberIntType(unsigned member_num)
-		H5::CompType::getMemberFloatType(unsigned member_num)
-		H5::CompType::getMemberStrType(unsigned member_num)
-		BMR - 2005/07/27
+    - Several member functions' prototype changed due to the
+    "int -> unsigned" change in the main library.  They are:
+        H5::CompType::getMemberDataType(unsigned member_num)
+        H5::CompType::getMemberCompType(unsigned member_num)
+        H5::CompType::getMemberEnumType(unsigned member_num)
+        H5::CompType::getMemberIntType(unsigned member_num)
+        H5::CompType::getMemberFloatType(unsigned member_num)
+        H5::CompType::getMemberStrType(unsigned member_num)
+        BMR - 2005/07/27
+
 
 
 
-   
 
 Platforms Tested
 ================
 
     AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      xlc 6.0.0.6
                                   xlf 8.1.1.3
-    				  xlC 6.0.0.6
-				  mpcc_r 6.0.0.6
+                                  xlC 6.0.0.6
+                                  mpcc_r 6.0.0.6
                                   mpxlf_r 8.1.1.3
-				  xlc 5.0.2.5
-				  xlf 7.1.1.2
-				  xlC 5.0.2.5
-				  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
-				  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlc 5.0.2.5
+                                  xlf 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
     AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit)           xlc 6.0.0.8
                                   xlC 6.0.0.9
                                   xlf 8.1.1.7
@@ -2839,7 +2838,7 @@ Platforms Tested
     FreeBSD 4.11                  gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.4
                                   gcc 3.2.3, 3.3.6, 3.4.4, 4.0.0
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13
     HP-UX B.11.23                 HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.00
@@ -2851,30 +2850,30 @@ Platforms Tested
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
                                   F90 MIPSpro 7.3.1.3m (64 only)
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
-				  mpt 1.6
+                                  mpt 1.6
     Linux 2.4.20-28.7             gcc 2.96
     (eirene, verbena)             gcc 3.3.2
-                                  PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) 
+                                  PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
                                   version 5.2-1
                                   Absoft Fortran compiler v9.0
-                         	  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
-    				  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
+                                  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
                                   MPIch 1.2.6
     Linux 2.4.21-268-smp x86_64   gcc 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux, AMD)
-    (mir)                         PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32) 
-                         	  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
-    				  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
-    Linux 2.4.21-sgi306rp21 Altix 
+    (mir)                         PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32)
+                                  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
+    Linux 2.4.21-sgi306rp21 Altix
           SMP ia64                Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1
     (cobalt)                      Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.1
                                   SGI MPI
-    OSF1 V5.1 (QSC)               Compaq C V6.5-011 
+    OSF1 V5.1 (QSC)               Compaq C V6.5-011
                                   HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-036  
-				  MPIX200_64_r13.4
-    OSF1 V5.1 (PSC)               Compaq C V6.5-303 
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-036
+                                  MPIX200_64_r13.4
+    OSF1 V5.1 (PSC)               Compaq C V6.5-303
                                   HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-040  
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-040
     SunOS 5.8 32,46               Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
@@ -2884,21 +2883,21 @@ Platforms Tested
     SunOS 5.10                    Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
-                                  Patch 111685-13 
+                                  Patch 111685-13
     Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
-    (tungsten)	                  Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
+    (tungsten)                    Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 9.0
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_292.til1 ia64
     (NCSA tg-login)               Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0
-				  mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2
+                                  mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2
     Windows XP                    MSVC++.NET
                                   MSVC++ 6.0
                                   Intel 8.1 C++
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 7.5
-                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
+                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC
                                   version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2
-                                  IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 
+                                  IBM XL Fortran version 8.1
                                   Absoft Fortran compiler v8.2
 
 
@@ -2912,8 +2911,8 @@ Key:   y   = tested and supported
        ( ) = footnote appears below second table
 
 Platform                             C        F90    F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
-                                     parallel        parallel      
-IBM BG/L (16)			     n        n      n        n    y     y
+                                     parallel        parallel
+IBM BG/L (16)                 n        n      n        n    y     y
 Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y        y      y(1)     y    y     y
 Solaris2.8 32-bit                    y        y      y(1)     y    y     y
 Solaris2.9 64-bit                    y(1)     y      y(1)     y    y     y
@@ -2936,7 +2935,7 @@ FreeBSD 4.11                         n        n      n        y    y     y
 RedHat 7.3  W (3)                    y(1)     y(11)  n        y    y     y
 RedHat 7.3  W Intel (3)              n        y      n        y    y     y
 RedHat 7.3  W PGI (3)                n        y      n        y    y     y
-RedStorm (16)			     n        y      n        y    y     n
+RedStorm (16)                 n        y      n        y    y     n
 SuSe x86_64 gcc (3,13)               n        y(12)  n        y    y     y
 SuSe x86_64 icc (3,13)               n        y(14)  n        y    y     y
 Linux 2.4 Xeon C Lustre Intel (3,6)  n        y      n        y    y     y
@@ -2944,9 +2943,9 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7)    y        y      y        y    y     y
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3)   y        y      y        y    y     y
 
 
-Platform                             Shared        static-  Thread-  STREAM- 
-                                     libraries(4)  exec     safe     VFD    
-IBM BG/L 			     n              y       n        n
+Platform                             Shared        static-  Thread-  STREAM-
+                                     libraries(4)  exec     safe     VFD
+IBM BG/L                  n              y       n        n
 Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y              x       y        y
 Solaris2.8 32-bit                    y              x       y        y
 Solaris2.9 64-bit                    y              x       y        y
@@ -2968,7 +2967,7 @@ FreeBSD 4.11                         y              y       y        y
 RedHat 7.3   W (3)                   y              y       y        y
 RedHat 7.3  W  Intel (3)             n              y       n        y
 RedHat 7.3  W  PGI (3)               n              y       n        y
-RedStorm 			     n              y       n        y
+RedStorm                  n              y       n        y
 SuSe x86_64 gcc (3,13)               n              y       n        y
 SuSe x86_64 icc (3,13)               y              y(15)   n        y
 Linux 2.4 Xeon C Lustre Intel (3,6)  y              y       n        y
@@ -2976,28 +2975,28 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7)    y              y       n        n
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel  (3)  y              y       n        y
 
 
-Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" 
-table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted, 
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested"
+table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted,
 compilers used are the system compilers.
 
 Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich 1.2.6
             (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6.
-            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.  
+            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.
                   W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
-            (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, 
+            (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library,
                 except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++.
             (5) Using mpt.
-            (6) Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp-perfctr-lustre 
+            (6) Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
                 and Intel compilers
             (7) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_292.til1.  Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
             (8) Intel 8.1
             (9) One test of this release failed with Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6c.
                 No binary fortran release will be provided. Users should build
-                the library by themselves and use it at their own risk. 
-                We recommend that users use HDF5 1.7 instead 
+                the library by themselves and use it at their own risk.
+                We recommend that users use HDF5 1.7 instead
                 or use Compaq Visual Fortran 6.0.
            (10) IBM XLF and Absoft
-           (11) PGI, Absoft.  No shared libraries with Absoft; 
+           (11) PGI, Absoft.  No shared libraries with Absoft;
                 use '--disable-shared'.
            (12) PGI and Intel compilers for both C and Fortran
            (13) AMD Opteron x86_64
@@ -3014,43 +3013,43 @@ Known Problems
   configure, edit the file config/intel-flags by changing the setting of
   PROD_CFLAGS from -O3 to -O0, then run configure.  AKC - 2005/11/10.
 
-* Fortran testing and compiling failures on windows XP 
+* Fortran testing and compiling failures on windows XP
   1. Compaq visual fortran 6.6c with VS 6.0
      The Fortran tests failed for both release, release dll, debug and debug
      dll. The failure is a random one. We won't provide fortran libraries. The
-     same test passed with the 1.7.51 snapshot. You may find the 1.7.51 
+     same test passed with the 1.7.51 snapshot. You may find the 1.7.51
      snapshot under ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots/.
   2. Intel fortran 8.1 under .Net environment
      The fortran library cannot even be compiled. Some users have pointed this
      to intel forum.
 
 * When testing parallel HDF5 with the C compiler version MIPSpro 7.4.3 at IRIX
-  6.5, set enviroment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for example 
-  120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside parallel 
-  HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside parallel HDF5 library. You can 
+  6.5, set enviroment variable MPI_TYPE_MAX to be a bigger number, for example
+  120000, in order to pass the complicated collective IO tests inside parallel
+  HDF5 library. This is not a problem inside parallel HDF5 library. You can
   always set a bigger number in your system.
                                   KY - 2005/10/6
 
 * A contiguous or chunked dataset created by a sequential version may
-  not be modified with a parallel version of the library. 
-  Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the 
+  not be modified with a parallel version of the library.
+  Use the H5Pset_alloc_time function with H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY to set up the
   dataset creation property list to avoid the problem.
                                     EIP - 2005/09/09
 
-* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't 
-  be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is 
-  enabled.  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 
-  checksum in the library before v1.6.3.  The checksum value wasn't consistent 
-  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in 
-  Release 1.6.3.  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no 
-  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  The library release 
+* The dataset created or rewritten with the v1.6.3 library or after can't
+  be read with the v1.6.2 library or before when Fletcher32 EDC(filter) is
+  enabled.  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32
+  checksum in the library before v1.6.3.  The checksum value wasn't consistent
+  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in
+  Release 1.6.3.  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value is no
+  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  The library release
   after 1.6.4 can still read the dataset created or rewritten with the library
   of v1.6.2 or before.  SLU - 2005/7/8
 
 * For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on AMD Opteron
   processor, there's a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2).  The library
-  failed in several tests but all related to multi driver.  The problem has 
-  been reported to the vendor.  
+  failed in several tests but all related to multi driver.  The problem has
+  been reported to the vendor.
 
 * test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another
   region."  The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when
@@ -3075,9 +3074,9 @@ Known Problems
   Ask your system administrator to clean them out.  Lastly, request IBM
   to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
 
-* Two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5) 
-  failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and 
-  Release dll work fine. 
+* Two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5)
+  failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and
+  Release dll work fine.
 
 * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
   (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to
@@ -3100,14 +3099,14 @@ Known Problems
 
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on the HPUX 11.00.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
 * The Stream VFD was not tested yet under Windows.
 
 
-* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays 
+* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
   subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
   from the site:
@@ -3129,10 +3128,10 @@ Known Problems
   All other tests have passed.
 
 * Fortran release DLL randomly failed with Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6c on
-  Windows. 
+  Windows.
 
 * Fortran DLL built with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment crushed the compiler,
-  Building Fortran static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment 
+  Building Fortran static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment
   requires manually setting the project file.
   Please contact to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu if you need to build
   Fortran static library with Intel 8.1 with .NET environment.
@@ -3213,7 +3212,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -3241,19 +3240,19 @@ New Features
     For HL documentation, see
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/hdf5_hl/doc/RM_hdf5hl.html.
 
-    The HL library, libhdf5_hl.a(so), is built and installed by default. 
+    The HL library, libhdf5_hl.a(so), is built and installed by default.
     Use --disable-hl configure flag to disable the HL library.
 
     Library:
     --------
-        - We recommend you to use SZIP v2.0 with this release. 
+        - We recommend you to use SZIP v2.0 with this release.
           For more information see
-          http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/ 
-        - The compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size 
+          http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/
+        - The compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size
             adjustment.  The size can be increased and decreased (without
-            cutting the last member).  No API change is involved.  SLU - 
+            cutting the last member).  No API change is involved.  SLU -
             2004/10/1
-        - Removed PABLO support.  2005/01/20 EIP 
+        - Removed PABLO support.  2005/01/20 EIP
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
@@ -3262,7 +3261,7 @@ New Features
 
     Tools:
     ------
-	- New tool, h5jam.  See HDF5 Reference Manual.  2004/10/08	      
+        - New tool, h5jam.  See HDF5 Reference Manual.  2004/10/08
 
     F90 API:
     --------
@@ -3270,9 +3269,9 @@ New Features
 
     C++ API:
     --------
-	- Started using C library's reference counting in place of the class
-	  RefCounter, which existed before the C mechanism was available.  
-	  As a result, RefCounter has been removed.  2005/03/12 BMR
+        - Started using C library's reference counting in place of the class
+            RefCounter, which existed before the C mechanism was available.
+            As a result, RefCounter has been removed.  2005/03/12 BMR
 
 
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
@@ -3280,7 +3279,7 @@ Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-	- Upgraded from GNU autoconf 2.53 to autoconf 2.59.  JML - 2005/01/31
+        - Upgraded from GNU autoconf 2.53 to autoconf 2.59.  JML - 2005/01/31
 
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.3 release
@@ -3289,57 +3288,57 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.3 release
     Library
     -------
         - Fixed a racing condition in MPIPOSIX virtual file drive close
-	  function.  Now all processes must completed the close before any
-	  of them is returned.  This prevents some "faster" processes start
-	  accessing the file for another purpose (e.g., open with truncate)
-	  while other "slower" processes have not closed the same file with
-	  the previous purpose.  AKC - 2005/03/01
-	- H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct 
-          value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first.  It's fixed.  SLU - 
-          2005/02/08
+              function.  Now all processes must completed the close before any
+              of them is returned.  This prevents some "faster" processes start
+              accessing the file for another purpose (e.g., open with truncate)
+              while other "slower" processes have not closed the same file with
+              the previous purpose.  AKC - 2005/03/01
+        - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct
+              value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first.  It's fixed.  SLU -
+              2005/02/08
         - For variable-length string, H5Tget_class returned H5T_STRING as its
-          class.  But H5Tdetect_class and H5Tget_member_class considered it
-          as H5T_VLEN.  This is fixed to let all these 3 functions treat it
-          as H5T_STRING.  SLU - 2005/02/08
+              class.  But H5Tdetect_class and H5Tget_member_class considered it
+              as H5T_VLEN.  This is fixed to let all these 3 functions treat it
+              as H5T_STRING.  SLU - 2005/02/08
         - The byte order of all 1-byte integer types was fixed as
-          little-endian even on a big-endian machine.  It's corrected.
-          SLU - 2005/02/07
+              little-endian even on a big-endian machine.  It's corrected.
+              SLU - 2005/02/07
         - Fixed segmentation fault when calling H5Fflush with an attribute that
-          hasn't had a value written to it open.  QAK - 2004/10/18
+              hasn't had a value written to it open.  QAK - 2004/10/18
         - Backed out support for bitfield and time types in H5Tget_native_type.
-          Leave it to future support.  The function simply returns error 
-          message of "not support" for bitfield and time types. SLU - 2004/10/5
+              Leave it to future support.  The function simply returns error
+              message of "not support" for bitfield and time types. SLU - 2004/10/5
         - Fixed address check in Core VFL driver to avoid spurious address/size
-          overflows for odd valued addresses and/or sizes.  QAK - 2004/09/27
+              overflows for odd valued addresses and/or sizes.  QAK - 2004/09/27
         - Fixed problem where chunked datasets were not able to be deleted
-          from a file under certain circumstances.  QAK - 2004/09/27/
+              from a file under certain circumstances.  QAK - 2004/09/27/
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-	- IRIX64 MIPSpro compiler of 7.4.x supports C99 features.  Default
-	  to use the 'c99' compiler if available. AKC - 2004/12/13
-	- Intel v8.0 compiler would infinite loop when compiling some test
-	  code with -O3 option.  Changed enable-production default compiler
-	  option to -O2. AKC - 2004/12/06
-	- Long double is assumed to be a supported C data type.  It is a
-	  standard C89 type. AKC - 2004/10/22
+        - IRIX64 MIPSpro compiler of 7.4.x supports C99 features.  Default
+            to use the 'c99' compiler if available. AKC - 2004/12/13
+        - Intel v8.0 compiler would infinite loop when compiling some test
+            code with -O3 option.  Changed enable-production default compiler
+            option to -O2. AKC - 2004/12/06
+        - Long double is assumed to be a supported C data type.  It is a
+            standard C89 type. AKC - 2004/10/22
 
     Performance
     -------------
-    Many changes were made to the library to improve performance,
-    especially for the variable-length datatypes and metadata cache.
-   
+        Many changes were made to the library to improve performance,
+        especially for the variable-length datatypes and metadata cache.
+
     Tools
     -----
         - h5fc and h5c++ work correctly when -c compiler flag
-          is used.  EIP - 2005/03/14        
-	- Fixed h5dump to print attributes data in ASCII if -r option is used.
-	  AKC - 2004/11/18
-        - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error 
-          in formula used.  QAK - 2004/10/22
+            is used.  EIP - 2005/03/14
+        - Fixed h5dump to print attributes data in ASCII if -r option is used.
+            AKC - 2004/11/18
+        - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error
+            in formula used.  QAK - 2004/10/22
 
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
+    Documentation
+    -------------
 
     F90 API
     -------
@@ -3356,7 +3355,7 @@ Documentation
 
     HDF5 Library documentation
     --------------------------
-    No substantive changes to the structure or types of content in the 
+    No substantive changes to the structure or types of content in the
     HDF5 Library documentation.
 
     Windows installation documentation
@@ -3365,24 +3364,24 @@ Documentation
        either http://www.zlib.net/zlib122-dll.zip or
               ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/lib-external/zlib/bin/windows
 
-    2. Only DLLs of external libraries (zlib and szip) are linked with the 
-       HDF5 Library. We will no longer provide binary to link static library 
+    2. Only DLLs of external libraries (zlib and szip) are linked with the
+       HDF5 Library. We will no longer provide binary to link static library
        with HDF5. For details, please check INSTALL_Windows in this directory.
-        
+
 
 Platforms Tested
 ================
 
     AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      xlc 6.0.0.6
                                   xlf 8.1.1.3
-    				  xlC 6.0.0.6
-				  mpcc_r 6.0.0.6
+                                  xlC 6.0.0.6
+                                  mpcc_r 6.0.0.6
                                   mpxlf_r 8.1.1.3
-				  xlc 5.0.2.5
-				  xlf 7.1.1.2
-				  xlC 5.0.2.5
-				  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
-				  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlc 5.0.2.5
+                                  xlf 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
     AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit)           xlc 6.0.0.8
                                   xlC 6.0.0.9
                                   xlf 8.1.1.7
@@ -3400,7 +3399,7 @@ Platforms Tested
     FreeBSD 4.9                   gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.4
                                   gcc 3.2.3, 3.3.6, 3.4.4, 4.0.0
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13
                                   MPIch 1.2.4
@@ -3410,32 +3409,32 @@ Platforms Tested
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
                                   F90 MIPSpro 7.3.1.3m (64 only)
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
-				  mpt 1.6
+                                  mpt 1.6
     Linux 2.4.20-28.7             gcc 2.96
     (eirene, verbena)             gcc 3.3.2
-                                  PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) 
+                                  PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
                                   version 5.2-1
                                   Absoft Fortran compiler v9.0
-                         	  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
-    				  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
+                                  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
                                   MPIch 1.2.6
     Linux 2.4.21-268-smp x86_64   gcc 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux, AMD)
-    (mir)                         PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32) 
-                         	  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
-    				  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
-    Linux 2.4.21-sgi303r2 Altix 
+    (mir)                         PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32)
+                                  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
+    Linux 2.4.21-sgi303r2 Altix
           SMP ia64                Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1
     (cobalt)                      Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.1
                                   SGI MPI
-    OSF1 V5.1 (QSC)               Compaq C V6.5-011 
+    OSF1 V5.1 (QSC)               Compaq C V6.5-011
                                   HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-036  
-				  MPIX200_64_r13.4
-    OSF1 V5.1 (PSC)               Compaq C V6.5-303 
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-036
+                                  MPIX200_64_r13.4
+    OSF1 V5.1 (PSC)               Compaq C V6.5-303
                                   HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-040  
-				  MPIX200_64_r13.4
-                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-040
+                                  MPIX200_64_r13.4
+                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8 32,46               Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
@@ -3445,20 +3444,20 @@ Platforms Tested
     TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.5.2 i386     pgcc Rel 3.1-4i with mpich-1.2.4 with
                                           local modifications
     Xeon Linux 2.4.20-31.9smp_perfctr_lustre
-    (tungsten)	                  Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
+    (tungsten)                      Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_128.bef1 ia64
     (NCSA tg-login)               Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0
-				  mpich-gm-1.2.5..intel
+                                  mpich-gm-1.2.5..intel
     Windows XP                    MSVC++.NET
                                   MSVC++ 6.0
                                   Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6C
                                   Intel 8.1 C++
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 7.5
-                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
+                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC
                                   version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2
-                                  IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 
+                                  IBM XL Fortran version 8.1
                                   Absoft Fortran compiler v8.2
 
 
@@ -3472,7 +3471,7 @@ Key:   y   = tested and supported
        ( ) = footnote appears below second table
 
 Platform                             C        F90    F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
-                                     parallel        parallel      
+                                     parallel        parallel
 Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y        y      y(1)     y    y     y
 Solaris2.8 32-bit                    y        y      y(1)     y    y     y
 Solaris2.9 64-bit                    y(1)     y      y(1)     y    y     y
@@ -3500,8 +3499,8 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7)    y        y      y        y    y     y
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3)   y        y      y        y    y     y
 
 
-Platform                             Shared        static-  Thread-  STREAM- 
-                                     libraries(4)  exec     safe     VFD    
+Platform                             Shared        static-  Thread-  STREAM-
+                                     libraries(4)  exec     safe     VFD
 Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y              x       y        y
 Solaris2.8 32-bit                    y              x       y        y
 Solaris2.9 64-bit                    y              x       y        y
@@ -3529,24 +3528,24 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7)    y              y       n        n
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel  (3)  y              y       n        y
 
 
-Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" 
-table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted, 
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested"
+table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted,
 compilers used are the system compilers.
 
 Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich 1.2.6
             (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6.
-            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.  
+            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.
                   W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
-            (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, 
+            (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library,
                 except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++.
             (5) Using mpt.
-            (6) Linux 2.4.20-31.9.  Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre 
+            (6) Linux 2.4.20-31.9.  Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre
                 and Intel compilers
             (7) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_128.befl.  Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
             (8) Intel 8.1
             (9) Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6C
            (10) IBM XLF and Absoft
-           (11) PGI, Absoft.  No shared libraries with Absoft; 
+           (11) PGI, Absoft.  No shared libraries with Absoft;
                 use '--disable-shared'.
            (12) PGI and Intel compilers for both C and Fortran
            (13) AMD Opteron x86_64
@@ -3583,12 +3582,12 @@ Known Problems
   Ask your system administrator to clean them out.  Lastly, request IBM
   to provide a mean to run poe without the debug socket.
 
-* Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver 
+* Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver
   information.
 
-* There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and 
-  h5dump --xml tmany.h5) failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and 
-  debug dll. Release and Release dll work fine. 
+* There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and
+  h5dump --xml tmany.h5) failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and
+  debug dll. Release and Release dll work fine.
 
 * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
   (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to
@@ -3608,7 +3607,7 @@ Known Problems
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
   with this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -3627,15 +3626,15 @@ Known Problems
       the different precision in the values displayed.
       h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
 
-* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays 
+* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
   subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
   from the site:
   ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/patches/
 
-* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran 
-  library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and 
-  fflush2.f90 complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran
+  library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and
+  fflush2.f90 complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error)
 
 * Use --disable-shared configure flag if building with Absoft Fortran
@@ -3660,10 +3659,10 @@ Known Problems
         setenv CXX "pgCC -tlocal" for others
 
 * Fortran release DLL randomly failed with compaq visual fortran 6.6c on
-  windows. 
+  windows.
 
 * Fortran DLL built with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment crushed the compiler,
-  To build Fortran Static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment 
+  To build Fortran Static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment
   needs manually setting the project file,
   please contact to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu if you need to build
   fortran static library with Intel 8.1 with .NET environment.
@@ -3745,7 +3744,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -3776,74 +3775,74 @@ New Features
 
         - WINDOWS building,testing and installing improvements
 
-          - On Windows, FORTRAN,C++ and C projects are merged into one zip file, 
-            users can choose an option to build either FORTRAN or C++ or both 
+          - On Windows, FORTRAN,C++ and C projects are merged into one zip file,
+            users can choose an option to build either FORTRAN or C++ or both
             with basic C library.For detailed information,
             please read INSTALL_Windows.txt.
 
           - On Windows, szip compression library with or without encoder can be easily
             turned off or on when building HDF5.  For detailed information,
-            please read INSTALL_Windows.txt, especially section V. 
-  
+            please read INSTALL_Windows.txt, especially section V.
+
           - On Windows, an optional procedure for building,testing and installing
             HDF5 from command line is provided. This procedure is supposed to be
-            convenient for experienced users, please read 
+            convenient for experienced users, please read
             INSTALL_windows_From_Command_Line.txt for details.
 
           - On Windows, an alternative short instruction document for building,
             testing and installing HDF5 is provided. This instruction is supposed to
-            be convenient for general users, please read 
+            be convenient for general users, please read
             INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt for details.
 
           - On Windows, h5repack,h5diff,h5ls and h5import tool tests have been added.
-          KY - 2004/9/16
-  
+            KY - 2004/9/16
+
 
     Library:
     --------
         - Modified the way how HDF5 calculates 'pixels_per_scanline' parameter for
-          SZIP compression. Now there is no restriction on the size and shape of the 
-          chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be 
-          bigger than 'pixels_per_block' parameter provided by the user.
-                                                                    EIP - 2004/07/21 
+            SZIP compression. Now there is no restriction on the size and shape of the
+            chunk except that the total number of elements in the chunk cannot be
+            bigger than 'pixels_per_block' parameter provided by the user.
+                                                                    EIP - 2004/07/21
         - HDF5 can now link to SZIP with or without szip's encoder.
-          The new API function H5Zget_filter_info can be used to check
-          szip's status.  Attempting to assign szip to a dataset property
-          list or attempting to write with szip will generate an error if
-          szip's encoder is disabled.  JL/NF - 2004/6/30
+            The new API function H5Zget_filter_info can be used to check
+            szip's status.  Attempting to assign szip to a dataset property
+            list or attempting to write with szip will generate an error if
+            szip's encoder is disabled.  JL/NF - 2004/6/30
         - SZIP always uses K13 compression.  This flag no longer needs to
-          be set when calling H5Pset_szip.  If the flag for CHIP
-          compression is set, it will be ignored (since the two are mutually
-          exclusive).  JL/NF - 2004/6/30
+            be set when calling H5Pset_szip.  If the flag for CHIP
+            compression is set, it will be ignored (since the two are mutually
+            exclusive).  JL/NF - 2004/6/30
         - A new API function H5Fget_name was added.  It returns the name
-          of the file by object(file, group, data set, named data type,
-          attribute) ID.  SLU - 2004/06/29
+            of the file by object(file, group, data set, named data type,
+            attribute) ID.  SLU - 2004/06/29
         - A new API function H5Fget_filesize was added.  It returns the
-          actual file size of the opened file.  SLU - 2004/06/24
-	- Added option that if $HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK is set to 2,
-	  will suppress all library version mismatch warning messages.
-	  AKC - 2004/4/14
+            actual file size of the opened file.  SLU - 2004/06/24
+        - Added option that if $HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK is set to 2,
+            will suppress all library version mismatch warning messages.
+            AKC - 2004/4/14
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
 
     Tools:
     ------
-        - h5repack was added to the tools suite. h5repack regenerates an HDF5 file 
-	  from another HDF5 file, optionally applying HDF5 filters (compression) 
-	  and/or chunking to the copied file. The filters options are read from 
-	  the command line. See /doc/html/Tools.html for more details.
-	  PVN - 2004/9/13
+        - h5repack was added to the tools suite. h5repack regenerates an HDF5 file
+            from another HDF5 file, optionally applying HDF5 filters (compression)
+            and/or chunking to the copied file. The filters options are read from
+            the command line. See /doc/html/Tools.html for more details.
+            PVN - 2004/9/13
 
         - h5dump includes new features:
-           1) Printing of dataset filters, storage layout and fill value information.
-           2) Print a list of the file contents.
-	   3) Escape non printing characters.
-	   4) Print the content of the boot block.
-	   5) Print array indices with the data (the default).
-	  These options are all switch controlled. See /doc/html/Tools.html for more details.
-	  PVN - 2004/9/13
-	      
+            1) Printing of dataset filters, storage layout and fill value information.
+            2) Print a list of the file contents.
+            3) Escape non printing characters.
+            4) Print the content of the boot block.
+            5) Print array indices with the data (the default).
+            These options are all switch controlled. See /doc/html/Tools.html for more details.
+            PVN - 2004/9/13
+
 
     F90 API:
     --------
@@ -3853,18 +3852,18 @@ New Features
                 h5premove_filter_f
                 h5zget_filter_info_f
                                          EIP 2004/9/21
- 
+
         - added new h5fget_name_f and h5fget_filesize_f subroutines
                                          EIP 2004/07/08
 
     C++ API:
     --------
-	- Added wrappers for array and variable length datatypes APIs
-	- Added wrappers for newly added APIs from H5T, H5F, and H5I
-	- Added many wrappers that were missing from the H5P API
-	- Added the ability to reference HDF5 objects to these classes:
-	  DataSet, DataType, Group, and H5File (wrappers for H5R APIs)
-	BMR 2004/08/04
+        - Added wrappers for array and variable length datatypes APIs
+        - Added wrappers for newly added APIs from H5T, H5F, and H5I
+        - Added many wrappers that were missing from the H5P API
+        - Added the ability to reference HDF5 objects to these classes:
+            DataSet, DataType, Group, and H5File (wrappers for H5R APIs)
+            BMR 2004/08/04
 
 
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
@@ -3872,14 +3871,14 @@ Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
         - Added PGI Fortran support for Linux64 (x86_64) systems
                             EIP - 2004/08/19
         - Absoft compiler f95 v9.0 is supported on Linux 2.4 32bit
-                            EIP - 2004/07/29 
+                            EIP - 2004/07/29
         - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on Mac OSX with IBM XL Fortran
-          compiler version 8.1. This is a default compiler.
+            compiler version 8.1. This is a default compiler.
         - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with Absoft F95 compiler
-          version 8.2; set F9X environment variable to f95, for example
-          setenv F9X f95
-          Use --disable-shared --enable-static configure flags when Absoft
-          compiler is used.
+            version 8.2; set F9X environment variable to f95, for example
+            setenv F9X f95
+            Use --disable-shared --enable-static configure flags when Absoft
+            compiler is used.
                              EIP - 2004/07/27
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release
@@ -3887,72 +3886,72 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release
 
     Library
     -------
-	- Fixed parallel bug in which some processes attempted collective
-	  I/O while others did independent I/O.  Bug appeared when some
-	  processes used point selections, and others didn't.  JRM - 2004/9/15
+        - Fixed parallel bug in which some processes attempted collective
+            I/O while others did independent I/O.  Bug appeared when some
+            processes used point selections, and others didn't.  JRM - 2004/9/15
         - Corrected error where dataset region references were written in an
-          incorrect way on Cray machines.  PVN & QAK - 2004/09/13
+            incorrect way on Cray machines.  PVN & QAK - 2004/09/13
         - The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers
-          based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting        
-          an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with
-	  32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07 
+            based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting
+            an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with
+            32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07
         - Changed H5Dread() to not overwrite data in an application's buffer
-          with garbage when accessing a chunked dataset with an undefined fill
-          value and an unwritten chunk is uncountered.  QAK - 2004/08/25
+            with garbage when accessing a chunked dataset with an undefined fill
+            value and an unwritten chunk is uncountered.  QAK - 2004/08/25
         - Fixed error which could cause a core dump when a type conversion
-          routine was registered after a compound datatype had been
-          converted and then an equivalent compound datatype was converted
-          again.  QAK - 2004/08/07
+            routine was registered after a compound datatype had been
+            converted and then an equivalent compound datatype was converted
+            again.  QAK - 2004/08/07
         - Fixed memory overwrite when encoding "multi" file driver information
-          for file's superblock.  QAK - 2004/08/05
+            for file's superblock.  QAK - 2004/08/05
         - Fixed obscure bug where a filter which failed during chunk allocation
-          could allow library to write uncompressed data to disk but think
-          the data was compressed.  QAK - 2004/07/29
+            could allow library to write uncompressed data to disk but think
+            the data was compressed.  QAK - 2004/07/29
         - Fixed bug where I/O to an extendible chunked dataset with zero-sized
-          dimensions would cause library to fail an assertion.
-          QAK - 2004/07/27
+            dimensions would cause library to fail an assertion.
+            QAK - 2004/07/27
         - Fixed bug where chunked datasets which have filters defined,
-          allocation time set to "late" and whose chunks don't align with
-          the dataspace bounds could have incorrect data stored when
-          overwriting the entire dataset on the first write.  QAK - 2004/07/27
+            allocation time set to "late" and whose chunks don't align with
+            the dataspace bounds could have incorrect data stored when
+            overwriting the entire dataset on the first write.  QAK - 2004/07/27
         - Added check to ensure that dataspaces have extents set. JML-2004/07/26
         - Fixed bug on some Solaris systems where HDF5 would try to use
-          gettimeofday() when that function didn't work properly.
-          JML - 2004/07/23
+            gettimeofday() when that function didn't work properly.
+            JML - 2004/07/23
         - Fixed bug in H5Sset_extent_simple where setting maximum size to
-          non-zero, then to zero would cause an error.  JML - 2004/07/20
+            non-zero, then to zero would cause an error.  JML - 2004/07/20
         - Allow NULL pointer for buffer parameter to H5Dread & H5Dwrite
-          when not writing data ("none" selection or hyperslab or point
-          selection with no elements defined).  QAK - 2004/07/20
+            when not writing data ("none" selection or hyperslab or point
+            selection with no elements defined).  QAK - 2004/07/20
         - Calling H5Gcreate() on "/" or "." throws an error instead of
-          failing quietly. JML - 2004/07/19
+            failing quietly. JML - 2004/07/19
         - Fixed bug where setting file address size to be very small could
-          trigger an assert if the file grew to more than 64 KB.  Now throws
-          an error and data can be recovered. JL/NF - 2004/07/14
+            trigger an assert if the file grew to more than 64 KB.  Now throws
+            an error and data can be recovered. JL/NF - 2004/07/14
         - Fixed bug where "resurrecting" a dataset was failing.
-          QAK - 2004/07/14
+            QAK - 2004/07/14
         - Fixed bug where incorrect data could be read from a chunked dataset
-          after it was extended.  QAK - 2004/07/12
+            after it was extended.  QAK - 2004/07/12
         - After compound datatype with variable-length string in the fields
-          is committed to file, the size is messed up when it's read back.
-          Fixed.  SLU - 2004/06/11
+            is committed to file, the size is messed up when it's read back.
+            Fixed.  SLU - 2004/06/11
         - Fixed potential file corruption bug when a block of metadata could
-          overlap the end of the internal metadata accumulator buffer and
-          the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly 
-          change it's starting address.  QAK - 2004/06/09
+            overlap the end of the internal metadata accumulator buffer and
+            the buffer would be extended correctly, but would incorrectly
+            change it's starting address.  QAK - 2004/06/09
         - Opaque datatype with no tag failed for some operations.  Fixed.
-          SLU - 2004/6/3
+            SLU - 2004/6/3
         - Fixed potential file corruption bug where dimensions that were
-          too large (a value greater than could be represented in 32-bits)
-          could cause the incorrect amount of space to be allocated in a
-          file for the raw data for the dataset.  QAK - 2004/06/01
-	- Fixed dtypes "sw long double -> double" failure in QSC class
-	  machines.  AKC - 2004/4/16
+            too large (a value greater than could be represented in 32-bits)
+            could cause the incorrect amount of space to be allocated in a
+            file for the raw data for the dataset.  QAK - 2004/06/01
+        - Fixed dtypes "sw long double -> double" failure in QSC class
+            machines.  AKC - 2004/4/16
 
     Configuration
     -------------
         - Fixed the long compile time of H5detect.c when v7.x Intel Compiler
-	  is used with optimization NOT off.  AKC - 2004/05/20
+            is used with optimization NOT off.  AKC - 2004/05/20
 
     Performance
     -------------
@@ -3960,83 +3959,82 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release
     Tools
     -----
         - On SGI h5dump displayed only part of the data due to the bug
-          in the system printf; fixed.
-                                             EIP - 2004/09/21 
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
-        - Several descriptive errors have been fixed throughout the 
-          documentation, particularly in the reference manual (RM).
-          A selection particularly worthy of note would be these: 
+            in the system printf; fixed.
+                                             EIP - 2004/09/21
+    Documentation
+    -------------
+        - Several descriptive errors have been fixed throughout the
+            documentation, particularly in the reference manual (RM).
+            A selection particularly worthy of note would be these:
         - The H5Pset_szip description in the RM has been expanded and
-          corrected to facilitate use of SZIP compression.
+            corrected to facilitate use of SZIP compression.
         - A note has been added to the H5Dcreate description that an
-          unexplained failure is likely to be due to a property list error 
-          that is detected only at the time of dataset creation.
-        -
-        FMB - 2004/09/21
+            unexplained failure is likely to be due to a property list error
+            that is detected only at the time of dataset creation.
+            FMB - 2004/09/21
 
     F90 API
     -------
-    
-    Fortran functions h5dwrite/read_f and h5awrite/read_f do not
-    accept dims parameter of INTEGER type anymore. Code was removed.
+        - Fortran functions h5dwrite/read_f and h5awrite/read_f do not
+            accept dims parameter of INTEGER type anymore. Code was removed.
                                                     2004/04/15
+
     C++ API
     -------
-	- H5::Exception's and its subclasses' constructors that were 
-	  overloaded to take char pointers are removed and constructors
-	  that passed in reference of 'string' are changed to pass 
-	  by value.  In addition, the default value of the data member
-	  H5::Exception::detailMessage is changed from 0/NULL to 
-	  DEFAULT_MSG ("No detailed information provided".)
-	- Prototype for DSetCreatPropList::setLayout is changed: 1st parameter
-          is removed because it was there only by mistake.
-	BMR 2004/08/04
+        - H5::Exception's and its subclasses' constructors that were
+            overloaded to take char pointers are removed and constructors
+            that passed in reference of 'string' are changed to pass
+            by value.  In addition, the default value of the data member
+            H5::Exception::detailMessage is changed from 0/NULL to
+            DEFAULT_MSG ("No detailed information provided".)
+        - Prototype for DSetCreatPropList::setLayout is changed: 1st parameter
+            is removed because it was there only by mistake.
+            BMR 2004/08/04
 
 Documentation
 =============
     HDF5 Library documentation
     --------------------------
         - HDF5 C++ API Reference Manual
-          This document has been added to the HDF5 document set.  
-          The predecessor document, "HDF5 C++ Interfaces," has been removed.
+            This document has been added to the HDF5 document set.
+            The predecessor document, "HDF5 C++ Interfaces," has been removed.
         - HDF5 C++ API Design Specification
-          A first draft of this document has been added to the HDF5 document 
-          set.  The draft has been posted on the HDF5 website and a link 
-          has been added to the HDF5 documents index (index.html at the top 
-          level of the document set).
+            A first draft of this document has been added to the HDF5 document
+            set.  The draft has been posted on the HDF5 website and a link
+            has been added to the HDF5 documents index (index.html at the top
+            level of the document set).
         - Parallel HDF5
-          In prior releases, the HDF5 document set included two parallel
-          HDF5 documents.  Those documents have been deleted and the 
-          HDF5 documents index (index.html) now links to a "Parallel HDF5" 
-          page on the HDF5 website (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/PHDF5/).
+            In prior releases, the HDF5 document set included two parallel
+            HDF5 documents.  Those documents have been deleted and the
+            HDF5 documents index (index.html) now links to a "Parallel HDF5"
+            page on the HDF5 website (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/PHDF5/).
         - HDF5 High Level APIs
-          Links to the HDF5 High Level APIs and to the HDF5 High Level 
-          Reference Manual have been added to the HDF5 documents index
-          (index.html).
+            Links to the HDF5 High Level APIs and to the HDF5 High Level
+            Reference Manual have been added to the HDF5 documents index
+            (index.html).
         - HDF5 Reference Manual
-          Tools: h5repack -- A description of the new h5repack tool has been 
+            Tools: h5repack -- A description of the new h5repack tool has been
               added to the Tools page.
-          Tools: h5dump -- Several new options have been added to h5dump.
-          New functions -- All new functions have been added to the RM.
-          API changes -- Relevant function descriptions have been updated in
-              instances where programming interfaces have changed. 
-        FMB - 2004/09/21
+            Tools: h5dump -- Several new options have been added to h5dump.
+            New functions -- All new functions have been added to the RM.
+            API changes -- Relevant function descriptions have been updated in
+              instances where programming interfaces have changed.
+              FMB - 2004/09/21
 
     Windows installation documentation
     ----------------------------------
-        -  INSTALL_Windows.txt has been enhanced to include instructions building 
-           HDF5 with FORTRAN and C++. 
+        -  INSTALL_Windows.txt has been enhanced to include instructions building
+            HDF5 with FORTRAN and C++.
         -  Two optional installation documents have been added. They are
-           INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt and INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt.
-           INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt is supposed to help general users who
-           only want to build,test and install HDF5 in a quick way.
-           INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt is supposed to help users who
-           would like to compile,test and install HDF5 in command line environment.
+            INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt and INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt.
+            INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt is supposed to help general users who
+            only want to build,test and install HDF5 in a quick way.
+            INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt is supposed to help users who
+            would like to compile,test and install HDF5 in command line environment.
         -  INSTALL_Windows_withcpp.txt and INSTALL_Windows_withF90.txt became
-           obsolete. Files are deleted from the release_docs directory.
-        KY 2004/09/16, EIP 2004/9/21
-        
+            obsolete. Files are deleted from the release_docs directory.
+            KY 2004/09/16, EIP 2004/9/21
+
 
 
 Platforms Tested
@@ -4044,14 +4042,14 @@ Platforms Tested
 
     AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      xlc 6.0.0.6
                                   xlf 8.1.1.3
-    				  xlC 6.0.0.6
-				  mpcc_r 6.0.0.6
+                                  xlC 6.0.0.6
+                                  mpcc_r 6.0.0.6
                                   mpxlf_r 8.1.1.3
-				  xlc 5.0.2.5
-				  xlf 7.1.1.2
-				  xlC 5.0.2.5
-				  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
-				  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlc 5.0.2.5
+                                  xlf 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
     AIX 5.2                       xlc 6.0.0.8
                                   xlC 6.0.0.8
                                   xlf 8.1.1.6
@@ -4065,14 +4063,14 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.3.1
     FreeBSD 4.9                   gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.4
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13
                                   MPIch 1.2.4
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
                                   F90 MIPSpro 7.3.1.3m (64 only)
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
-				  mpt 1.6
+                                  mpt 1.6
     Linux 2.4.18                  gcc 2.96, 3.3.2
                                   g++ 3.3.2
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1
@@ -4085,27 +4083,27 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   MPIch 1.2.4
     Linux 2.4.21-2.9.5ws #3       gcc 3.2.3 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-16)
           SMP x86_64              g++ 3.2.3
-    Linux 2.4.21-4.ELsmp	  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.0
-    				  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.0
-				  gcc 3.4.0
-				  MPICH 1..5.2 Inmel 8.0
+    Linux 2.4.21-4.ELsmp          Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.0
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.0
+                                  gcc 3.4.0
+                                  MPICH 1..5.2 Inmel 8.0
     Linux 2.4.19-SMP  x86_64      gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (SuSE Linux)
                                   g++ 3.2.2
     Linux 2.6.4-52smp x86_64      gcc 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux 9.1 AMD64))
-                                  PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 
+                                  PGI 5.2-1 C and F90
 
-    Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix 
+    Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix
           SMP ia64                Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.0
                                   SGI MPI
-    OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.5-303 
+    OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.5-303
                                   HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-040  
-				  MPI_64bit_R13
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-040
+                                  MPI_64bit_R13
     SunOS 5.7(32 and 64 bit)      WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
-                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 
-                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
+                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25
+                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8(32 and 64 bit)      Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
@@ -4116,9 +4114,9 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
 
     Xeon Linux 2.4.20-31.9smp_perfctr_lustre
-	                          Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
+                                  Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0
-                                  
+
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64       gcc version 3.0.4
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.1
@@ -4126,23 +4124,23 @@ Platforms Tested
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_128.bef1 ia64
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0
-				  mpich-gm-1.2.5..intel
+                                  mpich-gm-1.2.5..intel
 
     Windows 2000 (NT5.0)          MSVC++ 6.0
                                   MSVC++ .NET
                                   DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
                                   Intel C and F90 compilers version 7.1
-				  Code Warrior 8.0
+                                  Code Warrior 8.0
     Windows XP                    MSVC++.NET
                                   MSVC++ 6.0
                                   DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
 
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 7.5
-                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
+                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC
                                   version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2
-                                  IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 
+                                  IBM XL Fortran version 8.1
                                   Absoft Fortran compiler v8.2
-                                  
+
 
 
 Supported Configuration Features Summary
@@ -4155,7 +4153,7 @@ Key:   y = tested and supported
        ( ) = footnote appears below second table
 
 Platform                             C        F90    F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
-                                     parallel        parallel      
+                                     parallel        parallel
 Solaris2.7 64-bit                    y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y     y
 Solaris2.7 32-bit                    y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y     y
 Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y     y
@@ -4187,8 +4185,8 @@ Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C   Intel (3,8)  y        y      y        y    y     y
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3)   y        y      y        y    y     y
 
 
-Platform                             Shared         static-  Thread-  STREAM- 
-                                     libraries (4)  exec     safe     VFD    
+Platform                             Shared         static-  Thread-  STREAM-
+                                     libraries (4)  exec     safe     VFD
 Solaris2.7 64-bit                    y              x        y        y
 Solaris2.7 32-bit                    y              x        y        y
 Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y              x        y        y
@@ -4221,19 +4219,19 @@ Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3)   y              y        n        y
 
 
 
-Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" 
-table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted, 
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested"
+table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted,
 compilers used are the system compilers.
 
 Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich 1.2.4
             (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4
-            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated  
+            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated
                 W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively
-            (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, 
+            (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library,
                 except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++
             (5) Using mpt
             (6) Intel 7.1 compilers in Visual Studio 6.0 environment
-            (7) Linux 2.4.20-31.9.  Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre 
+            (7) Linux 2.4.20-31.9.  Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre
                 and Intel compilers
             (8) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_128.befl.  Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
             (9) DEC Visual Fortran 6.0 and Intel 7.1
@@ -4249,14 +4247,14 @@ Known Problems
 ==============
 * h5fc and h5c++ compilation scripts have a bug: object files (*.o) cannot be
   created when source code is compiled using h5fc or h5c++. We will provide
-  a fix. Please check ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/patches/ 
+  a fix. Please check ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/patches/
   for the patches.
 
 * Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver information.
 
 * There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5)
   failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and Release
-  dll work fine. 
+  dll work fine.
 
 * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
   (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to
@@ -4276,7 +4274,7 @@ Known Problems
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
   with this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -4295,7 +4293,7 @@ Known Problems
       the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to
       be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
 
-* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays 
+* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
   subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
   from the site:
@@ -4303,7 +4301,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 * On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran library,
   compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90
-  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error)
 
 * On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as
@@ -4411,7 +4409,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -4435,31 +4433,31 @@ New Features
     Configuration:
     --------------
         - Default of $prefix is changed to $PWD/hdf5 so that multiple
-	  builds using --srcdir is possible in the same machine.
-	  AKC - 2003/12/1
+            builds using --srcdir is possible in the same machine.
+            AKC - 2003/12/1
 
     Library:
     --------
         - Added H5Iget_ref, H5Iinc_ref and H5Idec_ref routines to the C
-          library and the FORTRAN wrapper.  See the reference manual for a
-          full description of these new routines.  QAK - 2003/12/11
+            library and the FORTRAN wrapper.  See the reference manual for a
+            full description of these new routines.  QAK - 2003/12/11
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
-	- The parallel tests in testpar/ now provides different levels of
-	  verbosity via the '-v' option.  The default is less verbose
-	  than before.  AKC - 2004/01/23
+    - The parallel tests in testpar/ now provides different levels of
+            verbosity via the '-v' option.  The default is less verbose
+            than before.  AKC - 2004/01/23
         - Added parallel test, test_mpio_1wMr, which tests if the
-          underlaying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX
-          write/read requirement. This version includes options of using
-          atomicity and file-sync.  AKC - 2003/11/27
+            underlaying parallel I/O system is conforming to the POSIX
+            write/read requirement. This version includes options of using
+            atomicity and file-sync.  AKC - 2003/11/27
 
     Tools:
     ------
         - Added option -showconfig to compiler tools (h5cc,h5fc,h5c++).
-	  AKC - 2004/01/08
-	- Install the "h5cc" and "h5fc" tools as "h5pcc" and "h5pfc"
-	  respectively if library is built in parallel mode.  AKC - 2004/01/07
+            AKC - 2004/01/08
+        - Install the "h5cc" and "h5fc" tools as "h5pcc" and "h5pfc"
+            respectively if library is built in parallel mode.  AKC - 2004/01/07
         - Added metadata benchmark (perform/perf_meta).  SLU - 2003/10/03
 
     C++ API:
@@ -4469,8 +4467,8 @@ New Features
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
 =======================================
         - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with IBM XL Fortran compiler
-          version 8.1 Beta  
-          Use --disbale-shared --enable-static flags with configure when 
+          version 8.1 Beta
+          Use --disbale-shared --enable-static flags with configure when
           building HDF5 Fortran Library on MAC OSX.
         - C and C++ Libraries are available for Linux64 RH8
         - C, C++ and Fortran sequential Libraries, and C and Fortran parallel
@@ -4547,12 +4545,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.1 release
 
     Tools
     -----
-	- Fixed h5redeploy which sometimes complain too many argument for the
-	  test command. (The complain did not hinder the h5redploy to proceed
-	  correctly.) AKC - 2003/11/03
+        - Fixed h5redeploy which sometimes complain too many argument for the
+            test command. (The complain did not hinder the h5redploy to proceed
+            correctly.) AKC - 2003/11/03
 
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
+    Documentation
+    -------------
 
 
 Documentation
@@ -4565,12 +4563,12 @@ Platforms Tested
 
     AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      xlc 6.0.0.2
                                   xlf 8.1.0.3
-    				  xlC 6.0.0.4
-				  xlc 5.0.2.5
-				  xlf 7.1.1.2
-				  xlC 5.0.2.5
-				  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
-				  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 6.0.0.4
+                                  xlc 5.0.2.5
+                                  xlf 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
                                   poe 3.2.0.10
     Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.2
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.2
@@ -4580,7 +4578,7 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.4.0.0
     FreeBSD 4.9                   gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.4
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13
                                   MPIch 1.2.4
@@ -4601,20 +4599,20 @@ Platforms Tested
     Linux 2.4.19-SMP  x86_64      gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (SuSE Linux)
                                   g++ 3.2.2
 
-    Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix 
+    Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix
           SMP ia64                Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 7.1
                                   SGI MPI
     OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.4-014
-				  Compaq Fortran V5.5-2602
-				  Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-033
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-030
-				  MPI_64bit_R13
+                                  Compaq Fortran V5.5-2602
+                                  Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-033
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-030
+                                  MPI_64bit_R13
     SunOS 5.7(32 and 64 bit)      WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
-                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 
-                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
+                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25
+                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8(32 and 64 bit)      Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
@@ -4623,7 +4621,7 @@ Platforms Tested
     IA-32 Linux 2.4.18            gcc 2.96
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
-                                  
+
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64       gcc version 3.0.4
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.1
@@ -4631,18 +4629,18 @@ Platforms Tested
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_128.bef1 ia64
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.1
-				  mpich-gm-1.2.5..intel
+                                  mpich-gm-1.2.5..intel
 
     Windows 2000 (NT5.0)          MSVC++ 6.0
                                   DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
                                   Intel C and F90 compilers version 7.1
-				  Code Warrior 8.0
+                                  Code Warrior 8.0
     Windows XP                    MSVC++.NET
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 7.2
-                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
+                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC
                                   version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2
                                   IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 Beta
-                                  
+
 
 
 Supported Configuration Features Summary
@@ -4686,10 +4684,10 @@ RedHat 7.1 ia64 C Intel (3) y   n        y      n        y    n             y
 RedHat 8 & SuSe x86_64      y   n        n      n        y    n             y
     gcc (3)
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64    y   n        y      n        y    y             y
-    Intel (3) 
+    Intel (3)
 
 
-Platform                    static-  Thread-  SZIP  GASS  STREAM-  High-  H4/H5 
+Platform                    static-  Thread-  SZIP  GASS  STREAM-  High-  H4/H5
                             exec     safe                 VFD      level  tools
                                                                    APIs   (6)
 Solaris2.7 64-bit           x        y        y     n     y        y      n
@@ -4722,21 +4720,21 @@ RedHat 7.1 ia64 C Intel (3) y        n        y     n     y        y      y
 RedHat 8 & SuSe x86_64      y        n        y     n     y        y      y
     gcc (3)
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64    y        n        y     n     y        y      y
-    Intel (3) 
+    Intel (3)
 
 
-Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" 
-table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted, 
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested"
+table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted,
 compilers used are the system compilers.
 
 Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich 1.2.4.
             (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4.
-            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.  
+            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.
                 W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
-            (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, 
+            (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library,
                 except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++.
             (5) Using mpt.
-            (6) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 
+            (6) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4
                 utilities.
 
 
@@ -4746,7 +4744,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 * There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5)
   failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and Release
-  dll work fine. 
+  dll work fine.
 
 * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
   (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to
@@ -4766,7 +4764,7 @@ Known Problems
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
   with this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -4786,7 +4784,7 @@ Known Problems
       the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to
       be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
 
-* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays 
+* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
   subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
   from the site:
@@ -4794,7 +4792,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 * On some platforms that use Intel compilers to build HDF5 fortran library,
   compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90
-  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error)
 
 * On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as
@@ -4848,7 +4846,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -4921,7 +4919,7 @@ New Features
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
 =======================================
          - gcc 3.3.1 is supported on Linux.
-  
+
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
 ==================================
@@ -5003,25 +5001,25 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
 
     Tools
     -----
-	- Fixed a segmentation fault of h5diff when percentage option is used.
+        - Fixed a segmentation fault of h5diff when percentage option is used.
             AKC - 2003/08/27
         - Switched away from tools using internal "fixtype" function(s) to use
             H5Tget_native_type() internally.  QAK - 2003/08/25
 
-    Documentation 
-    ------------- 
-        - Added two missing Fortran APIs (h5pget_fapl_mpiposix_f and 
+    Documentation
+    -------------
+        - Added two missing Fortran APIs (h5pget_fapl_mpiposix_f and
             h5pset_fapl_mpiposix_f) to the reference manual.
             FMB - 2003/10/15
-        - Corrected the reference manual descriptions of H5open/h5open_f and 
-            H5close/h5close_f to indicate that these calls are required in 
+        - Corrected the reference manual descriptions of H5open/h5open_f and
+            H5close/h5close_f to indicate that these calls are required in
             Fortran90 applications.   FMB - 2003/10/15
 
 
 Documentation
 =============
 
-    Fortran90 APIs are being integrated into the main body of the 
+    Fortran90 APIs are being integrated into the main body of the
     HDF5 Reference Manual (RM).  This process is complete in all RM sections
     except H5P.
 
@@ -5035,12 +5033,12 @@ Platforms Tested
 
     AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      xlc 6.0.0.2
                                   xlf 8.1.0.3
-    				  xlC 6.0.0.4
-				  xlc 5.0.2.5
-				  xlf 7.1.1.2
-				  xlC 5.0.2.5
-				  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
-				  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 6.0.0.4
+                                  xlc 5.0.2.5
+                                  xlf 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
                                   poe 3.2.0.10
     Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.2
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.2
@@ -5050,7 +5048,7 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.4.0.3
     FreeBSD 4.9                   gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.4
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13
                                   HP MPI 01.07.00.00
@@ -5067,14 +5065,14 @@ Platforms Tested
     Linux 2.4.20-8                gcc 3.2.2
     OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.4-014
                                   Compaq C V6.3-027
-				  Compaq Fortran V5.5-2602
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-030
-				  MPI_64bit_R5
+                                  Compaq Fortran V5.5-2602
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-030
+                                  MPI_64bit_R5
                                   g++ version 3.0 for C++
     SunOS 5.7(32 and 64 bit)      WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
-                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 
-                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
+                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25
+                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8(32 and 64 bit)      Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
@@ -5083,19 +5081,19 @@ Platforms Tested
     IA-32 Linux 2.4.9             gcc 2.96
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
-                                  
+
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64       gcc version 2.96 20000731
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
     Windows 2000 (NT5.0)          MSVC++ 6.0
                                   DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
                                   Intel C and F90 compilers version 7.1
-				  Code Warrior 8.0
+                                  Code Warrior 8.0
     Windows XP                    MSVC++.NET
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 6.8
-                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
+                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC
                                   version 1175, based on gcc version 3.1
-                                  
+
 
 
 Supported Configuration Features Summary
@@ -5114,7 +5112,7 @@ Solaris2.7 64-bit     y   y (1)     y        y (1)     y    y             y
 Solaris2.7 32-bit     y   y (1)     y        y (1)     y    y             y
 Solaris2.8 64-bit     y   y (1)     y        y (1)     y    y             y
 Solaris2.8 32-bit     y   y         y        y (1)     y    y             y
-IRIX6.5               y   y (1)     n        n         n    y             y 
+IRIX6.5               y   y (1)     n        n         n    y             y
 IRIX64_6.5 64-bit     y   y (2)     y        y         y    y             y
 IRIX64_6.5 32-bit     y   y (2)     n        n         n    y             y
 HPUX11.00             y   y (1)     y        y         y    y             y
@@ -5141,7 +5139,7 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel  y   n         y        n         y    n             y
 
 ASCII Table 2 -- for RELEASE.txt
 
-Platform              static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM-  High-level  H4/H5 
+Platform              static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM-  High-level  H4/H5
                       exec    safe              VFD      APIs        tools (7)
 Solaris2.7 64-bit     x       y       y    n    y        y           n
 Solaris2.7 32-bit     x       y       y    n    y        y           y
@@ -5174,12 +5172,12 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel  y       n       y    n    y        y           y
     Notes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.4.
            (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4.
            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, respectively.
-           (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except 
+           (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except
                on Windows where they are provided for C and C++.
            (5) Using mpt.
-           (6) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being 
+           (6) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being
                released at this time.
-           (7) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 
+           (7) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4
                utilities.
     Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
     "Platforms Tested" table.
@@ -5189,10 +5187,10 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel  y       n       y    n    y        y           y
 Known Problems
 ==============
 * Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver information.
-  The fix willl be available in the 1.6.2 release. 
+  The fix willl be available in the 1.6.2 release.
 * There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5)
   failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and Release
-  dll work fine. 
+  dll work fine.
 
 * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
   (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to
@@ -5212,7 +5210,7 @@ Known Problems
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
   with this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -5221,7 +5219,7 @@ Known Problems
   able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning:
 
         warning: ANSI C does not support `long long'
-  
+
   This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored.
 
 
@@ -5241,14 +5239,14 @@ Known Problems
       the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to
       be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
 
-* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays 
+* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
   subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
   from the site:
 
 * On some platforms that use Intel compilers to build HDF5 fortran library,
   compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90
-  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error)
 
   ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.6.0/F90_source_for_Crays
@@ -5272,6 +5270,8 @@ Known Problems
 
 * Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
   INSTALL file sections 5.7 and 5.8
+
+
 %%%%1.6.0%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.6.0 (03/July/03)
 
 14.  Release information for HDF5 version 1.6.0
@@ -5291,7 +5291,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -5336,8 +5336,8 @@ Library:
     For more information see
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_resource/SZIP/index.html
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ADGuide.html
-    http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html 
-    
+    http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
     Complete list of changes:
 
     * Changed dataset modification time to _not_ be updated when raw data is
@@ -5365,16 +5365,16 @@ Library:
       I/O filters: H5Pmodify_filter, H5Pget_filter_by_id and
       H5Pall_filters_avail.  Also changed H5Zregister to use new method
       of registering filters with library.  QAK - 2003/04/08
-    * The first version of szip compression support were implemented. 
+    * The first version of szip compression support were implemented.
       User should have static szlib library installed. Using function
       H5Pset_szip to pass the szip parameters to the HDF5 library.
       More detailed decription of the process will be followed.
       KY-2003/04/01
-    * Added Fletcher32 checksum as a filter in pipeline.  It only works in 
+    * Added Fletcher32 checksum as a filter in pipeline.  It only works in
       chunked dataset.  SLU - 2003/2/11
     * MPICH/MPE instrumentation feature added.  Use --with-mpe[=DIR] to configure
       it.  AKC - 2003/1/3
-    * New functions H5Gget_num_objs, H5Gget_objname_by_idx and H5Gget_objtype_by_idx 
+    * New functions H5Gget_num_objs, H5Gget_objname_by_idx and H5Gget_objtype_by_idx
       are added to the library.  SLU - 2002/11/25
     * H5Dget_offset is added to return the offset of a dataset's data relative
       to the beginning of the file.  SLU - 2002/11/7
@@ -5399,7 +5399,7 @@ Library:
       H5D_SPACE_ALLOC_LATE for H5Dset_space_time().  This allows chunked
       datasets to be incrementally allocated as in the 1.4.x branch.
       QAK - 2002/08/27
-    * Compact dataset is added to the library.  The data will be stored in 
+    * Compact dataset is added to the library.  The data will be stored in
       the header message of dataset layout.  Space allocation time has to be
       EARLY.  No hyperslab is supported for parallel collective write.  There
       is no API changes except activating H5Pset_layout and H5Pget_layout for
@@ -5413,9 +5413,9 @@ Library:
       This can improve parallel I/O performance for chunked
       datasets.  QAK - 2002/05/17
     * New functions H5Glink2 and H5Gmove2 were added to allow link and move to
-      be in different locations in the same file.  The old functions H5Glink 
-      and H5Gmove remain valid.  SLU - 2002/04/26 
-    * Fill-value's behaviors for contiguous dataset have been redefined.  
+      be in different locations in the same file.  The old functions H5Glink
+      and H5Gmove remain valid.  SLU - 2002/04/26
+    * Fill-value's behaviors for contiguous dataset have been redefined.
       Basicly, dataset won't allocate space until it's necessary.  Full details
       are available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/RFC/Fill_Value, at this moment.
       SLU - 2002/04/11
@@ -5436,14 +5436,14 @@ Library:
       in order to correctly handle dataset region references.  Moved
       H5Rget_object_type() to be only compiled into the library when v1.4
       compatibility is enabled.
-    * Added a new file access property, file close degree, to control file 
+    * Added a new file access property, file close degree, to control file
       close behavior.  It has four values, H5F_CLOSE_WEAK, H5F_CLOSE_SEMI,
-      H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT.  Two correspont functions 
-      H5Pset_fclose_degree and H5Pget_fclose_degree are also provided.  Two 
+      H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT.  Two correspont functions
+      H5Pset_fclose_degree and H5Pget_fclose_degree are also provided.  Two
       new functions H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids are offerted to assist
-      this new feature.  For full details, please refer to the reference 
-      manual under the description of H5Fcreate, H5Fopen, H5Fclose and the 
-      functions mentioned above. 
+      this new feature.  For full details, please refer to the reference
+      manual under the description of H5Fcreate, H5Fopen, H5Fclose and the
+      functions mentioned above.
     * Removed H5P(get|set)_hyper_cache API function, since the property is no
       longer used.
     * Improved performance of non-contiguous hyperslabs (built up with
@@ -5481,19 +5481,19 @@ Tools:
         QAK - 2003/06/06
     * h5diff to compare two HDF5 files was added
     * h5import to import ascii and binary data to an HDF5 file was added.
-      Old h5import tool in the tools/misc directory was renamed to 
-      h5createU8 to reflect its purpose. h5createU8 will be deleted in 
-      1.6.1 release. 
+      Old h5import tool in the tools/misc directory was renamed to
+      h5createU8 to reflect its purpose. h5createU8 will be deleted in
+      1.6.1 release.
     * Two new scripts h5fc and h5c++ were added to compile F90 and C++
       HDF5 applications.
 
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
 =======================================
     * Added C++ API support on HPUX11.00.  BMR - 2003/03/19
-    * Absoft compiler is supported for Fortran HDF5 Library. 
+    * Absoft compiler is supported for Fortran HDF5 Library.
       When building with Absoft compiler, add -DH5_ABSOFT to
       C compilation flags to get correct names of C functions
-      called by Fortran APIs. 
+      called by Fortran APIs.
 
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0 release
@@ -5527,7 +5527,7 @@ Library
       for floating point data). This adds a new API function: H5Pset_shuffle.
       KY - 2002/11/13
     * Allow scalar dataspaces to be used for parallel I/O.  QAK - 2002/11/05
-    * New functions H5Gget_comment(modification), H5Aget_storage_size, 
+    * New functions H5Gget_comment(modification), H5Aget_storage_size,
       H5Arename.  SLU - 2002/10/29
     * Fixed an assertion of H5S_select_iterate that did not account for scalar
       type that has no dimension sizes.   AKC - 2002/10/15
@@ -5536,10 +5536,10 @@ Library
     * Fixed data corruption problem which could occur when fill values were
       written to a contiguously stored dataset in parallel.  QAK - 2002/08/27
     * Fixed VL memory leak when data is overwritten.  The heap objects holding
-      old data are freed.  If the fill value writting time is set to 
+      old data are freed.  If the fill value writting time is set to
       H5D_FILL_TIME_NEVER, the library prohibits user to create VL type dataset.
-      The library free all the heap objects storing VL type if there is nested 
-      VL type(a VL type contains another VL type).  SLU - 2002/07/10 
+      The library free all the heap objects storing VL type if there is nested
+      VL type(a VL type contains another VL type).  SLU - 2002/07/10
     * Tweaked a few API functions to use 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned' or
       'hsize_t', which may cause errors in some cases.
 
@@ -5563,17 +5563,17 @@ Performance
 Tools
 -----
 
-    * Added a -force option to h5redeploy.  AKC - 2003/03/04 
+    * Added a -force option to h5redeploy.  AKC - 2003/03/04
     * The VL string bug(data and datatype cannot be shown) in h5dump is fixed.
       -SLU - 2002/11/18
-    * Fixed segfault if h5dump was invoked with some options but no file 
+    * Fixed segfault if h5dump was invoked with some options but no file
       (e.g., h5dump -H). -AKC, 2002/10/15
     * Fixed so that the "-i" flag works correctly with the h5dumper.
     * Fixed segfault when "-v" flag was used with the h5dumper.
 
 
-Documentation 
-------------- 
+Documentation
+-------------
 
 
 
@@ -5585,12 +5585,12 @@ Platforms Tested
 
     AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      xlc 6.0.0.2
                                   xlf 8.1.0.3
-    				  xlC 6.0.0.4
-				  xlc 5.0.2.5
-				  xlf 7.1.1.2
-				  xlC 5.0.2.5
-				  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
-				  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 6.0.0.4
+                                  xlc 5.0.2.5
+                                  xlf 7.1.1.2
+                                  xlC 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
+                                  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
                                   poe 3.2.0.10
     Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.2
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.0.2
@@ -5603,7 +5603,7 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   mpt 2.1.0.0
     FreeBSD 4.7                   gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.5
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13
                                   MPIch 1.2.4
@@ -5619,14 +5619,14 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   MPIch 1.2.4
     OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.4-014
                                   Compaq C V6.3-027
-				  Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-014
-				  MPI_64bit_R5
+                                  Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877
+                                  Compaq C++ V6.5-014
+                                  MPI_64bit_R5
                                   g++ version 3.0 for C++
     SunOS 5.7                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
-                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 
-                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
+                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25
+                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8/32                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
@@ -5638,19 +5638,19 @@ Platforms Tested
     IA-32 Linux 2.4.9             gcc 2.96
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
-                                  
+
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64       gcc version 2.96 20000731
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
     Windows 2000 (NT5.0)          MSVC++ 6.0
                                   DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
                                   Intel C and F90 compilers version 7.1
-				  Code Warrior 8.0
+                                  Code Warrior 8.0
     Windows XP                    MSVC++.NET
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 6.5
-                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
+                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC
                                   version 1161, based on gcc version 3.1
-                                  
+
 
 
 Supported Configuration Features Summary
@@ -5669,7 +5669,7 @@ Solaris2.7 64-bit     y   y (1)     y        y (1)     y    y             y
 Solaris2.7 32-bit     y   y (1)     y        y (1)     y    y             y
 Solaris2.8 64-bit     y   y (1)     y        y (1)     y    y             y
 Solaris2.8 32-bit     y   y         y        y (1)     y    y             y
-IRIX6.5               y   y (1)     n        n         n    y             y 
+IRIX6.5               y   y (1)     n        n         n    y             y
 IRIX64_6.5 64-bit     y   y (2)     y        y         y    y             y
 IRIX64_6.5 32-bit     y   y (2)     n        n         n    y             y
 HPUX11.00             y   y (1)     y        y         y    y             y
@@ -5696,7 +5696,7 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel  y   n         y        n         y    n             y
 
 ASCII Table 2 -- for RELEASE.txt
 
-Platform              static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM-  High-level  H4/H5 
+Platform              static- Thread- SZIP GASS STREAM-  High-level  H4/H5
                       exec    safe              VFD      APIs        tools (7)
 Solaris2.7 64-bit     x       y       y    n    y        y           n
 Solaris2.7 32-bit     x       y       y    n    y        y           y
@@ -5729,12 +5729,12 @@ Linux 2.4 IA64 Intel  y       n       y    n    y        y           y
     Notes: (1) Using mpich 1.2.4.
            (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4.
            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, respectively.
-           (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except 
+           (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, except
                on Windows where they are provided for C and C++.
            (5) Using mpt.
-           (6) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being 
+           (6) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being
                released at this time.
-           (7) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 
+           (7) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4
                utilities.
     Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
     "Platforms Tested" table.
@@ -5766,7 +5766,7 @@ Known Problems
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
   on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine
   with this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -5775,7 +5775,7 @@ Known Problems
   able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning:
 
         warning: ANSI C does not support `long long'
-  
+
   This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored.
 
 
@@ -5795,14 +5795,14 @@ Known Problems
       the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to
       be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
 
-* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays 
+* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
   subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
   from the site:
 
 * On some platforms that use Intel compilers to build HDF5 fortran library,
   compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90
-  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error)
 
   ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.6.0/F90_source_for_Crays
@@ -5838,7 +5838,7 @@ INTRODUCTION
 
 This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.4.4 and
 HDF5-1.4.5, and contains information on the platforms tested and
-known problems in HDF5-1.4.5. For additional information check the 
+known problems in HDF5-1.4.5. For additional information check the
 HISTORY.txt file in the HDF5 source.
 
 The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
@@ -5847,7 +5847,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
     /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information, see the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -5880,7 +5880,7 @@ New Features
   o Library
   =========
     o General
-    --------- 
+    ---------
       * Allow scalar dataspaces to be used for parallel I/O.  QAK - 2002/11/05
       * Added environment variable "HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK", which disables
         the version checking between the header files and the library linked
@@ -5893,8 +5893,8 @@ New Features
         output format; function call and return event times can be logged;
         total time spent in each function can be logged.  The following
         HDF5_DEBUG environment variable words affect tracing:
-	    trace   -- turn on/off basic tracing
-	    ttimes  -- turn on tracing and report event times and
+        trace   -- turn on/off basic tracing
+        ttimes  -- turn on tracing and report event times and
                        time spent in each API function.
         ttop    -- turn on tracing but display only top-level
                        API calls.
@@ -5903,7 +5903,7 @@ New Features
     ------
       * Several missing fortran APIs have been added to the library:
 
-        h5get_libversion_f        h5tget_member_index_f  h5dget_storage_size_f 
+        h5get_libversion_f        h5tget_member_index_f  h5dget_storage_size_f
         h5check_version_f         h5tvlen_create_f       h5dvlen_get_max_len_f
         h5garbage_collect_f                              h5dwrite_vl_f
         h5dont_atexit_f                                  h5dread_vl_f
@@ -5937,11 +5937,11 @@ New Features
   =========================================
     * C++ API now works on the Origin2000 (IRIX6.5.14.)  BMR - 2002/11/14
 
-  
+
   o Misc.
   =========================================
-    HDF5 1.4.5 works with Portland Group Compilers (pgcc, pgf90 and pgCC 
-    version 4.0-2) on Linux 2.4 
+    HDF5 1.4.5 works with Portland Group Compilers (pgcc, pgf90 and pgCC
+    version 4.0-2) on Linux 2.4
 
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.4 Release
@@ -5955,8 +5955,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.4 Release
         QAK - 2003/01/21
     * Added improved error assertion for nil VL strings.  It return error
         stack instead of a simple assertion.  SLU - 2002/12/16
-    * Fixed h5dump bug(cannot dump data and datatype) for VL string. 
-        SLU - 2002/11/18 
+    * Fixed h5dump bug(cannot dump data and datatype) for VL string.
+        SLU - 2002/11/18
     * Fixed error condition where "none" selections were not being handled
         correctly in serial & parallel.  QAK - 2002/10/29
     * Fixed problem where optimized hyperslab routines were incorrectly
@@ -5980,15 +5980,15 @@ Platforms Tested
     AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      C for AIX Compiler, Version 6
                                   xlf 8.1.0.2
                                   poe 3.2.0.11
-    Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.1.3 
-                                  Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.0.12 
+    Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.1.3
+                                  Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.0.12
     Cray SV1 10.0.1. 0            Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.1.3
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.0.12
     Cray T90IEEE 10.0.1.01u       Cray Standard C Version 6.4.0.2.3
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.4.0.3
     FreeBSD 4.7                   gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.5
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
     IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
@@ -6003,16 +6003,16 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   Compaq Fortran X5.4A-1684
                                   gcc version 3.0 for C++
     SunOS 5.7                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
-                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 
-                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
+                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25
+                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8/32                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11
-     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 
+     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1
                                           Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch
                                         109508-04 2001/07/11
     SunOS 5.8/64                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11
-     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 
+     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1
                                           Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch
                                         109508-04 2001/07/11
@@ -6021,7 +6021,7 @@ Platforms Tested
     IA-32 Linux 2.4.9             gcc 2.96
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
-                                  
+
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64       gcc version 2.96 20000731
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
@@ -6030,9 +6030,9 @@ Platforms Tested
     Windows XP                    .NET
     Windows NT4.0                 Code Warrior 6.0
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 6.2
-                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
+                                  gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC
                                   version 1161, based on gcc version 3.1
-                                  
+
 
 
 Supported Configuration Features Summary
@@ -6053,7 +6053,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
     Solaris2.7 32-bit    y   y (1)     y    y (1)     y    y              y
     Solaris2.8 64-bit    y   n         y    y (1)     y    y              y
     Solaris2.8 32-bit    y   n         y    y (1)     y    y              y
-    IRIX6.5              y   y (1)     n    n         n    y              y 
+    IRIX6.5              y   y (1)     n    n         n    y              y
     IRIX64_6.5 64-bit    y   y (2)     y    y         y    y              y
     IRIX64_6.5 32-bit    y   y (2)     n    n         n    y              y
     HPUX11.00            y   y (1)     y    n         n    y              y
@@ -6075,7 +6075,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
     Linux 2.4 PGI   (3)  y   n         y    n         y    n              y
     Linux 2.4 IA32       y   n         y    n         n    n              y
     Linux 2.4 IA64       y   n         y    n         n    n              y
-    
+
 
     Platform             static-  Thread-  SRB  GASS  STREAM-
                          exec     safe                VFD
@@ -6111,23 +6111,23 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
            (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4.
            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers.
            (4) No HDF4-related tools.
-           (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, 
+           (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library,
                except on Windows where they are provided for all languages.
            (6) Debug mode only.
-           (7) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being 
+           (7) Binaries only; source code for this platform is not being
                released at this time.
 
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
 
-    * On Linux 2.4 IA64, Fortran test fails for h5dwrite_vl_f 
+    * On Linux 2.4 IA64, Fortran test fails for h5dwrite_vl_f
       for integer and real base datatypes.
 
     * When fortran library is built with Intel compilers, compilation
-      for fflush1.f90, fflush2.f90 and fortanlib_test.f90 will fail 
+      for fflush1.f90, fflush2.f90 and fortanlib_test.f90 will fail
       complaining about EXEC function. Comment the call to EXEC subroutine
-      in each program, or get a patch for the HDF5 Fortran source code. 
+      in each program, or get a patch for the HDF5 Fortran source code.
 
     * Fortran external dataset test fails on Linux 2.4 with pgf90 compiler.
 
@@ -6137,11 +6137,11 @@ Known Problems
     * Datasets or attributes which have a variable-length string datatype are
       not printing correctly with h5dump and h5ls.
 
-    * When a dataset with the variable-length datatype is overwritten, 
-      the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become 
+    * When a dataset with the variable-length datatype is overwritten,
+      the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become
       unnecessarily large.  This is planned to be fixed in the next release.
 
-    * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the 
+    * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the
       SV1 printf precision and the printf precision on other platforms.
 
     * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some
@@ -6152,17 +6152,17 @@ Known Problems
     * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX
       11.00 platforms.
 
-    * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and 
+    * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and
       IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec.
 
     * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec.
 
     * The executables are always dynamic on Solaris 2.7 ans 2.8(64 and n32)
       even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec.
-    
+
     * The HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES optimization code in the parallel HDF5 will cause
       a hang in some cases when chunked storage is used.  This is now set to
-      be off by default.  One may turn it on by setting the environment 
+      be off by default.  One may turn it on by setting the environment
       variable HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES to a non-zero value such as 1.
 
     * On OSF1 v5.1 and IA32 h5dumpgentst program that generates test files
@@ -6173,10 +6173,10 @@ Known Problems
 
     * On Cray T3E (sn6606 2.0.6.08 unicosmk CRAY T3E) with Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.1.3
       compiler optimization causes errors in many HDF5 Library tests. Use -g -h zero flags
-      to build HDF5 Library. 
+      to build HDF5 Library.
 
     * On Cray SV1 10.0.1. 0 datatype convertion test fails. Please check HDF FTP site
-      if patch is available. We will try to provide one in the nearest future. 
+      if patch is available. We will try to provide one in the nearest future.
 
     * For configuration, building and testing with Intel and PGI compilers see
       corresponding section in INSTALL file.
@@ -6200,7 +6200,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
     /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information, see the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -6223,32 +6223,32 @@ New Features
 ============
   o Configuration
   ================
-    * The H4 to H5 tools have been removed from the main source and placed 
+    * The H4 to H5 tools have been removed from the main source and placed
       in a separate package. You can get these tools from the HDF ftp site
-      (ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/). The "--with-hdf4" command-line option 
+      (ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/). The "--with-hdf4" command-line option
       during configure is no longer valid.  BW - 2002/06/25
 
   o Library
   =========
     o General
-    --------- 
+    ---------
       * Fill-value forward-compatibility with release 1.5 was added.  SLU -
         2002/04/11
       * A new query function H5Tget_member_index has been added for compound
-        and enumeration data types.  This function retrieves a member's index 
+        and enumeration data types.  This function retrieves a member's index
         by name.  SLU - 2002/04/05
       * Added serial multi-gigabyte file size test.  "test/big -h" shows
         the help page.  AKC - 2002/03/29
- 
+
     o APIs
     ------
-      * The F90 subroutines h5dwrite_f, h5dread_f, h5awrite_f, and h5aread_f 
-        were overloaded with a "dims" argument of type INTEGER(HSIZE_T) to 
-        specify the size of the array.  We recommend using these subroutines 
+      * The F90 subroutines h5dwrite_f, h5dread_f, h5awrite_f, and h5aread_f
+        were overloaded with a "dims" argument of type INTEGER(HSIZE_T) to
+        specify the size of the array.  We recommend using these subroutines
         with the new type; module subroutines that accept "dims" as an i
-        INTEGER array of size 7 will be deprecated in release 1.6.  
+        INTEGER array of size 7 will be deprecated in release 1.6.
         EIP - 2002/05/06
- 
+
     o Performance
     -------------
       * Added internal "small data" aggregation, which can reduce the number of
@@ -6305,15 +6305,15 @@ New Features
     * Intel C++ and F90 compilers Version 6.0 are supported on Linux 2.4.
     * Intel C++ compilers Version 6.0 are supported on Windows 2000.
 
-  
+
   o Misc.
   =========================================
    * zlib has been moved out of the Windows source release. Users should go to
-     the ZLIB homepage(http://www.zlib.org) to download the corresponding 
+     the ZLIB homepage(http://www.zlib.org) to download the corresponding
      zlib library.
-   * The Windows binary release is built with the old version of the zlib 
-     library.  We expect users to use zlib 1.1.4 to build with the source 
-     release.  
+   * The Windows binary release is built with the old version of the zlib
+     library.  We expect users to use zlib 1.1.4 to build with the source
+     release.
    * In the Windows-specific install document, we specify how to test backward
      compatibility. However, in this release, we are not testing the backward
      compatibility of HDF5.
@@ -6337,7 +6337,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.3 Release
         library to go into infinite loop.  QAK - 2002/06/10
     * Fixed bug (#699, fix provided by a user) where a scalar dataspace was
         written to the file and then subsequently queried with the
-        H5Sget_simple_extent_type function; type was reported as H5S_SIMPLE 
+        H5Sget_simple_extent_type function; type was reported as H5S_SIMPLE
         instead of H5S_SCALAR. EIP - 2002/06/04
     * Clear symbol table node "dirty" flag when flushing symbol tables to
         disk, to reduce I/O calls made & improve performance.  QAK - 2002/06/03
@@ -6369,32 +6369,32 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.3 Release
 Performance Improvements
 ========================
     This release of the HDF5 library has been extensively tuned to improve
-performance, especially to improve parallel I/O performance.
+        performance, especially to improve parallel I/O performance.
     Most of the specific information for particular performance improvements
-is mentioned in the "New Features" and "Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.3" sections
-of this document, but in general, the library should make fewer and larger
-I/O requests when accessing a file.  Additionally, improvements to the parallel
-I/O portions of the library should have reduced the communications and barriers
-used in various internal algorithms, improving the performance of the library.
+        is mentioned in the "New Features" and "Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.3" sections
+        of this document, but in general, the library should make fewer and larger
+        I/O requests when accessing a file.  Additionally, improvements to the parallel
+        I/O portions of the library should have reduced the communications and barriers
+        used in various internal algorithms, improving the performance of the library.
     However, with the extensive changes to some portions of the library that
-were required for these improvements, some errors or unanticipated results may
-have been introduced also.  Please report any problems encountered to our
-support team at hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
+        were required for these improvements, some errors or unanticipated results may
+        have been introduced also.  Please report any problems encountered to our
+        support team at hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
     Hopefully these improvements will benefit all HDF5 applications, but if
-there are particular I/O patterns that appear to be slower than necessary,
-please send e-mail to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu with a sample program showing the
-problem behavior; we will look into the issue to see if it is possible to
-address it.
+        there are particular I/O patterns that appear to be slower than necessary,
+        please send e-mail to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu with a sample program showing the
+        problem behavior; we will look into the issue to see if it is possible to
+        address it.
 
 
 Documentation
 =============
     * Documentation was updated for the hdf5-1.4.4 release.
-    * A new "HDF5 User's Guide" is under development.  See 
+    * A new "HDF5 User's Guide" is under development.  See
       http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_dev_snapshot/H5_NewUG/current/.
-    * A "Parallel HDF5 Tutorial" is available at 
+    * A "Parallel HDF5 Tutorial" is available at
       http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/Tutor/.
-    * The "HDF5 Tutorial" is not distributed with this release.  It is 
+    * The "HDF5 Tutorial" is not distributed with this release.  It is
       available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/Tutor/.
 
 
@@ -6408,20 +6408,20 @@ Platforms Tested
     AIX 4.3 (IBM SP RS6000)       C for AIX Compiler, Version 5.0.2.0
                                   xlf 7.1.0.2
                                   poe 3.1.0.12 (includes mpi)
-    AIX 5.1                       xlc 5.0.2.0 
+    AIX 5.1                       xlc 5.0.2.0
                                   xlf 07.01.0000.0002
                                   mpcc_r 5.0.2.0; mpxlf_r 07.01.0000.0002
     Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.57      Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.4
-    Cray SV1 10.0.1.1             Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3 
+    Cray SV1 10.0.1.1             Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.4
     FreeBSD 4.6                   gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.4
     HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32.30
                                   HP F90 v2.3
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
-    HP-UX B.11.00 SysV            HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00 SysV            HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP MPI [not a product] (03/24/2000) B6060BA
     IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
@@ -6440,16 +6440,16 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877-48BBF
                                   gcc version 3.0 for C++
     SunOS 5.7                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
-                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 
-                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
+                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25
+                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8/32                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11
-     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 
+     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1
                                           Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch
                                         109508-04 2001/07/11
     SunOS 5.8/64                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11
-     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 
+     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1
                                           Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch
                                         109508-04 2001/07/11
@@ -6459,7 +6459,7 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   gcc 2.96
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 6.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 6.0
-                                  
+
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64       gcc version 2.96 20000731
                                   Intel(R) C++ Version 6.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 6.0
@@ -6540,10 +6540,10 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
 
     Footnotes: (1) Using mpich.
                (2) Using mpt and mpich.
-               (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail in 
+               (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail in
                    serial mode.
                (4) No HDF4-related tools.
-               (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, 
+               (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library,
                    except on Windows where they are provided for all languages.
                (6) Linux 2.4 with Intel compilers.
 
@@ -6554,11 +6554,11 @@ Known Problems
     * Datasets or attributes which have a variable-length string datatype are
       not printing correctly with h5dump and h5ls.
 
-    * When a dataset with the variable-length datatype is overwritten, 
-      the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become 
+    * When a dataset with the variable-length datatype is overwritten,
+      the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become
       unnecessarily large.  This is planned to be fixed in the next release.
 
-    * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the 
+    * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the
       SV1 printf precision and the printf precision on other platforms.
 
     * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some
@@ -6569,14 +6569,14 @@ Known Problems
     * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX
       11.00 platforms.
 
-    * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and 
+    * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and
       IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec.
 
     * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec.
-    
+
     * The HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES optimization code in the parallel HDF5 will cause
       a hang in some cases when chunked storage is used.  This is now set to
-      be off by default.  One may turn it on by setting the environment 
+      be off by default.  One may turn it on by setting the environment
       variable HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES to a non-zero value such as 1.
 
     * On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as
@@ -6592,7 +6592,7 @@ Known Problems
           # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler.
           wl="-Wl,"
 
-    * To build the Fortran library using Intel compilers, one has to 
+    * To build the Fortran library using Intel compilers, one has to
           x modify the source code in the fortran/src directory to remove the
             !DEC and !MS compiler directives.
           x The build will fail in the fortran/test directory and then in the
@@ -6600,7 +6600,7 @@ Known Problems
             those directories to contain two lines
 
                     work.pc
-                    ../src/work.pc 
+                    ../src/work.pc
 
     * To build the Fortran library on IA64 use
                    setenv CC "ecc -DIA64"
@@ -6627,7 +6627,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -6655,7 +6655,7 @@ New Features
   o Library
   =========
    o General
-   --------- 
+   ---------
     * Added a new test to verify the information provided by the configure
       command.
     * Changed internal error handling macros to reduce code size of library by
@@ -6756,7 +6756,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.2 Release
 Documentation
 =============
     * Documentation was updated for the hdf5-1.4.3 release.
-    * A new "HDF5 User's Guide" is under development.  See 
+    * A new "HDF5 User's Guide" is under development.  See
       http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_dev_snapshot/H5_NewUG/current/.
     * Parallel Tutorial is available at http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/Tutor/
 
@@ -6773,15 +6773,15 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   poe 3.1.0.12 (includes mpi)
     Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.57      Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.4
-    Cray SV1 10.0.0.8             Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3 
+    Cray SV1 10.0.0.8             Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.3
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.4
     FreeBSD 4.5                   gcc 2.95.3
                                   g++ 2.95.3
     HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32.30
                                   HP F90 v2.3
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
-    HP-UX B.11.00 SysV            HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00 SysV            HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP MPI [not a product] (03/24/2000) B6060BA
     IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
@@ -6792,19 +6792,19 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   gcc 2.95.2 with mpich 1.2.1
                                   g++ 2.95.2
                                   pgf90 3.2-4
-    OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.3-028         
+    OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.3-028
                                   Compaq Fortran V5.4-1283
     SunOS 5.7                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
-                                  Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 
-                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+     (Solaris 2.7)                Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
+                                  Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25
+                                  FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8/32                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11
-     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 
+     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1
                                           Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch
                                         109508-04 2001/07/11
     SunOS 5.8/64                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11
-     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 
+     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1
                                           Patch 109503-07 2001/08/11
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 Patch
                                         109508-04 2001/07/11
@@ -6813,9 +6813,9 @@ Platforms Tested
     IA-32 Linux 2.2.10smpx        cc Intel 5.0.1
                                   egcs-2.91.66
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64       gcc version 2.96 20000731
-                                  Intel(R) C++ Itanium(TM) Compiler 
+                                  Intel(R) C++ Itanium(TM) Compiler
                                   for the Itanium(TM)-based applications,
-                                  Version 6.0 Beta, Build 20010905       
+                                  Version 6.0 Beta, Build 20010905
     Windows 2000 (NT5.0)          MSVC++ 6.0
                                   DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
     Windows NT4.0                 MSVC++ 6.0
@@ -6841,7 +6841,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
     Solaris2.7     y  y (1)     y    n         y     y          y     y
     Solaris2.8 64  y  n         y    n         y     y          y     y
     Solaris2.8 32  y  n         y    n         y     y          y     y
-    IA-64          y  n         n    n         n     n          y     y 
+    IA-64          y  n         n    n         n     n          y     y
     IRIX6.5        y  y (1)     n    n         n     y          y     y
     IRIX64_6.5 64  y  y (2)     y    y         n     y          y     y
     IRIX64_6.5 32  y  y (2)     n    n         n     y          y     y
@@ -6863,12 +6863,12 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
     Linux 2.4      y  y (1)     n    n         y     y          y     y
 
 
-    Platform       1.2            static-   Thread-  SRB  GASS	STREAM-
+    Platform       1.2            static-   Thread-  SRB  GASS    STREAM-
                    compatibility  exec      safe                VFD
     Solaris2.7     n              x         y        n    n     y
     Solaris2.8 64  n              y         n        n    n     y
     Solaris2.8 32  n              x         n        n    n     y
-    IA-64          n              n         n        n    n     y   
+    IA-64          n              n         n        n    n     y
     IRIX6.5        n              x         y        n    n     y
     IRIX64_6.5 64  n              x         y        n    y     y
     IRIX64_6.5 32  n              x         y        n    y     y
@@ -6892,11 +6892,11 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
 
     Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich.
                 (2) Using mpt and mpich.
-                (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail 
+                (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail
                     in serial mode.
                 (4) No HDF4-related tools.
                 (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library.
-		(6) Exception of (5): DLL is available for C++ API on Windows
+        (6) Exception of (5): DLL is available for C++ API on Windows
 
 
 Known Problems
@@ -6905,11 +6905,11 @@ Known Problems
     * Datasets or attributes which have a variable-length string datatype are
       not printing correctly with h5dump and h5ls.
 
-    * When a dataset with the variable-legth datatype is overwritten, 
-      the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become 
+    * When a dataset with the variable-legth datatype is overwritten,
+      the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become
       unnecessarily large.  This is planned to be fixed in the next release.
 
-    * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the 
+    * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the
       SV1 printf precision and the printf precision on other platforms.
 
 
@@ -6921,11 +6921,11 @@ Known Problems
     * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX
       11.00 platforms.
 
-    * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and 
+    * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and
       IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec.
 
     * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec.
-    
+
     * The HDF5_MPI_OPT_TYPES optimization code in the parallel HDF5 will cause
       a hang in some cases when chunked storage is used.  This is now set to
       be off by default.  One may turn it on by setting environment variable
@@ -6933,12 +6933,12 @@ Known Problems
 
     * On IA64 systems one has to use -DIA64 compilation flag to compile
       h4toh5 and h5toh4 utilites. After configuration step manually modify
-      Makefile in the tools/h4toh4 and tools/h5toh4 directories to add 
+      Makefile in the tools/h4toh4 and tools/h5toh4 directories to add
       -DIA64 to the compilation flags.
 
-    * On IA32 ansd IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC 
+    * On IA32 ansd IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC
       (such as Intel's ecc compiler), you will need to modify the generated
-      "libtool" program after configuration is finished. On or around line 102 
+      "libtool" program after configuration is finished. On or around line 102
       of the libtool file, there are lines which look like:
 
           # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler.
@@ -6952,7 +6952,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 %%%%1.4.2%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.4.2 (31/July/01)
 
-10.   Release Information for hdf5-1.4.2 
+10.   Release Information for hdf5-1.4.2
 =================================================================
 
 
@@ -6968,7 +6968,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -6999,33 +6999,33 @@ New Features
     * Parallel HDF5 now runs on the HP V2500 and HP N4000 machines.
     * F90 API:
         - Added aditional parameter "dims" to the h5dread_f/h5dwrite_f and
-          h5aread_f/h5awrite_f subroutines.  This parameter is a 1-D array 
-          of size 7 and contains the sizes of the data buffer dimensions. 
+          h5aread_f/h5awrite_f subroutines.  This parameter is a 1-D array
+          of size 7 and contains the sizes of the data buffer dimensions.
           This change enables portability between Windows and UNIX platforms.
-          In previous versions of the F90 APIs, the data buffer parameters of 
-          the above functions were declared as assumed-shape arrays, which 
-          were passed to the C functions by a descriptor.  There is no 
-          portable means, however, of passing descriptors from F90 to C, 
+          In previous versions of the F90 APIs, the data buffer parameters of
+          the above functions were declared as assumed-shape arrays, which
+          were passed to the C functions by a descriptor.  There is no
+          portable means, however, of passing descriptors from F90 to C,
           causing portability problems between Windows and UNIX and among
           UNIX platforms.  With this change, the data buffers are assumed-
           size arrays, which can be portably passed to the C functions.
-    * F90 static library is available on Windows platforms. 
+    * F90 static library is available on Windows platforms.
       See INSTALL_Windows_withF90.txt for details.
     * F90 APIs are available on HPUX 11.00 and 10.20 and IBM SP platforms.
-    * H5 <-> GIF convertor has been added. This is available under 
+    * H5 <-> GIF convertor has been added. This is available under
       tools/gifconv. The convertor supports the ability to create animated
       gifs as well.
     * Verified correct operation of library on Solaris 2.8 in both 64-bit and
       32-bit compilation modes.  See INSTALL document for instructions on
       compiling the distribution with 64-bit support.
-    * Added support for the Metrowerks Code Warrior compiler for Windows.  
+    * Added support for the Metrowerks Code Warrior compiler for Windows.
     * For H4->H5 converter utility, added a new option to choose not to convert
       HDF4 specified attributes(reference number, class) into HDF5 attributes.
-    * Added support chunking and compression in SDS and image in H4->H5 converter. 
-      Currently HDF5 only supports gzip compression, so by default an HDF4 file 
-      with any other compression method will be converted into an HDF5 file in 
-      gzip compression. 
-    * correct the order or reading HDF4 image array in H4->H5 conversion.  
+    * Added support chunking and compression in SDS and image in H4->H5 converter.
+      Currently HDF5 only supports gzip compression, so by default an HDF4 file
+      with any other compression method will be converted into an HDF5 file in
+      gzip compression.
+    * correct the order or reading HDF4 image array in H4->H5 conversion.
     * Added new parallel hdf5 tests in t_mpi.  The new test checks if the
       filesystem or the MPI-IO can really handle greater than 2GB files.
       If it fails, it prints information message only without failing the
@@ -7040,8 +7040,8 @@ New Features
     * Added new checking in H5check_version() to verify the five HDF5 version
       information macros (H5_VERS_MAJOR, H5_VERS_MINOR, H5_VERS_RELEASE,
       H5_VERS_SUBRELEASE and H5_VERS_INFO) are consistent.
-      
-         
+
+
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.1 Release
 ==================================
 
@@ -7050,21 +7050,21 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.1 Release
     * Fixed problems with Pablo build and linking with non-standard MPI I/O.
     * Fixed build on Linux systems with --enable-static-exec flag. It now
       works correctly.
-    * IMPORTANT: Fixed file metadata corruption bug which could cause 
+    * IMPORTANT: Fixed file metadata corruption bug which could cause
       metadata data loss in certain situations.
     * The allocation by alignment (H5Pset_alignment) feature code somehow
       got dropped in some 1.3.x version. Re-implemented it with "new and
       improved" algorithm.  It keeps track of "wasted" file-fragment in
       the free-list too.
     * Removed limitation that the data transfer buffer size needed to be
-      set for datasets whose dimensions were too large for the 'all' 
-      selection code to handle.  Any size dimensioned datasets should be 
+      set for datasets whose dimensions were too large for the 'all'
+      selection code to handle.  Any size dimensioned datasets should be
       handled correctly now.
     * Changed behavior of H5Tget_member_type to correctly emulate HDF5 v1.2.x
       when --enable-hdf5v1_2 configure flag is enabled.
-    * Added --enable-linux-lfs flag to allow more control over whether to 
+    * Added --enable-linux-lfs flag to allow more control over whether to
       enable or disable large file support on Linux.
-    * Fixed various bugs releated to SDS dimensional scale conversions in H4->H5 
+    * Fixed various bugs releated to SDS dimensional scale conversions in H4->H5
       converter.
     * Fixed a bug to correctly convert HDF4 objects with fill value into HDF5.
     * Fixed a bug of H5pubconf.h causing repeated definitions if it is included
@@ -7082,18 +7082,18 @@ Documentation
 =============
 
     * The H5T_conv_t and H5T_cdata_t structures are now properly defined
-      in the H5Tregister entry in the "H5T" section of the "HDF5 Reference 
-      Manual" and described in detail in section 12, "Data Conversions," in 
+      in the H5Tregister entry in the "H5T" section of the "HDF5 Reference
+      Manual" and described in detail in section 12, "Data Conversions," in
       the "Datatypes" chapter of the "HDF5 User's Guide."
     * The new tools h52gif and gif2h5 have been added to the "Tools" section
       of the Reference Manual.
-    * A "Freespace Management" section has been added to the "Performance" 
+    * A "Freespace Management" section has been added to the "Performance"
       chapter of the User's Guide.
     * Several user-reported bugs have been fixed since Release 1.4.1.
     * The "HDF5 Image and Palette Specification" (in the "HDF5 Application
-      Developer's Guide") has been heavily revised.  Based on extensive user 
-      feedback and input from visualization software developers, Version 1.2 
-      of the image specification is substantially different from prior 
+      Developer's Guide") has been heavily revised.  Based on extensive user
+      feedback and input from visualization software developers, Version 1.2
+      of the image specification is substantially different from prior
       versions.
 
 
@@ -7108,15 +7108,15 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   xlf 7.1.0.2
                                   poe 2.4.0.14 (includes mpi)
     Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.49a     Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.1
-    Cray SV1 10.0.0.2             Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.1  
+    Cray SV1 10.0.0.2             Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.1
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.5.0.1
     FreeBSD 4.3                   gcc 2.95.3
                                   g++ 2.95.3
     HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32.30
                                   HP F90 v2.3
-    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
-    HP-UX B.11.00 SysV            HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
+    HP-UX B.11.00 SysV            HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
                                   HP F90 v2.4
     IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.2m
@@ -7128,19 +7128,19 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   pgf90 3.2-4
     OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev 564)
                                   Digital Fortran 90 V4.1-270
-    SunOS 5.6                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 
-     (Solaris 2.6)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 FORTRAN 90 
+    SunOS 5.6                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
+     (Solaris 2.6)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 FORTRAN 90
                                           2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.7                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
+     (Solaris 2.7)                Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
                                   Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 FORTRAN 90
-                                          2.0 Patch 107356-04 
+                                          2.0 Patch 107356-04
     SunOS 5.8/32                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11
-     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 
+     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1
                                           2000/09/11
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 2000/09/11
     SunOS 5.8/64                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C 5.2 2000/09/11
-     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1 
+     (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 Fortran 95 6.1
                                           2000/09/11
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 2000/09/11
     TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.0.7 i386     pgcc Rel 3.1-4i with mpich-1.2.1 with
@@ -7191,7 +7191,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
     Linux 2.4      y  y (1)     n    n         y    y          y     y
 
 
-    Platform       1.2            static-   Thread-  SRB  GASS	STREAM-
+    Platform       1.2            static-   Thread-  SRB  GASS    STREAM-
                    compatibility  exec      safe                VFD
     Solaris2.6     y              x         n        n    n     y
     Solaris2.7     y              x         y        n    n     y
@@ -7220,7 +7220,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
 
     Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich.
                 (2) Using mpt and mpich.
-                (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail 
+                (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail
                     in serial mode.
                 (4) No HDF4-related tools.
                 (5) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library.
@@ -7229,11 +7229,11 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
 Known Problems
 ==============
 
-    * When a dataset with the variable-legth datatype is overwritten, 
-      the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become 
+    * When a dataset with the variable-legth datatype is overwritten,
+      the library can develop memory leaks that cause the file to become
       unnecessarily large.  This is planned to be fixed in the next release.
 
-    * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the 
+    * On the SV1, the h5ls test fails due to a difference between the
       SV1 printf precision and the printf precision on other platforms.
 
     * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output in some
@@ -7244,13 +7244,13 @@ Known Problems
     * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX
       11.00 platforms.
 
-    * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and 
+    * The executables are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and
       IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec.
 
     * IRIX 6.5 fails to compile if configured with --enable-static-exec.
-    
+
     * For 24-bit image conversion from H4->H5, the current conversion is
-      not consistent with HDF5 image specification. 
+      not consistent with HDF5 image specification.
 
     * In some cases, and SDS with an UNLIMITED dimension that has not
       been written (current size = 0) is not converted correctly.
@@ -7269,7 +7269,7 @@ Known Problems
 =====================================================================
 
 
- 
+
                        HDF5 Release 1.4.1
 
 
@@ -7285,7 +7285,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -7307,10 +7307,10 @@ New Features
 ============
 
    * XML output option for h5dump utility.
-  
+
      A new option --xml to output data in XML format has been added. The
      XML output contains a complete description of the file, marked up in
-     XML. 
+     XML.
 
      The XML conforms to the HDF5 Document Type Definition (DTD), which
      is available at:
@@ -7353,25 +7353,25 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0 Release
 Documentation
 =============
 
-    PDF and Postscript versions of the following documents are available 
+    PDF and Postscript versions of the following documents are available
     for this release:
         Document                                 Filename
         --------                                 --------
         Introduction to HDF5                     H5-R141-Introduction.pdf
-        HDF5 Reference Manual                    H5-R141-RefManual.pdf 
+        HDF5 Reference Manual                    H5-R141-RefManual.pdf
         C++ APIs to HDF5 documents               H5-R141-Cplusplus.pdf
         Fortran90 APIs to HDF5 documents         H5-R141-Fortran90.pdf
 
         PDF and Postscript files containing      H5-R141-DocSet.pdf
             all of the above                     H5-R141-DocSet.ps
 
-    These files are not included in this distribution, but are available 
+    These files are not included in this distribution, but are available
     via the Web or FTP at the following locations:
         http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/PSandPDF/
         ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
-    While these documents are labeled Release 1.4.1, they describe 
-    Release 1.4.0 as well.  
+    While these documents are labeled Release 1.4.1, they describe
+    Release 1.4.0 as well.
 
 
 Platforms Tested
@@ -7392,8 +7392,8 @@ Due to the nature of this release only C, C++ libraries and tools were tested.
                                   g++ 2.95.2
     OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
                                   Digital Fortran 90 V4.1-270
-    SunOS 5.6                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 
-     (Solaris 2.6)                
+    SunOS 5.6                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
+     (Solaris 2.6)
 
     SunOS 5.7                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
      (Solaris 2.7)                Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
@@ -7419,11 +7419,11 @@ Known Problems
     * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for HP-UX
       11.00 platforms.
 
-    * The executable are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and 
+    * The executable are always dynamic on IRIX64 6.5(64 and n32) and
       IRIX 6.5 even if they are configured with --enable-static-exec.
 
     * The shared library failed compilation on IRIX 6.5.
-    
+
     * After "make install" or "make install-doc" one may need to reload the source
       from the tar file before doing another build.
 
@@ -7434,7 +7434,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 8.  Release Information for hdf5-1.4.0
 ===================================================================
- 
+
                        HDF5 Release 1.4.0
 
 
@@ -7451,7 +7451,7 @@ The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -7462,11 +7462,11 @@ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
 CONTENTS
 
 - New Features
-- h4toh5 Utility 
+- h4toh5 Utility
 - F90 Support
 - C++ Support
-- Pablo Support 
-- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.0 
+- Pablo Support
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.0
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0
 - Documentation
@@ -7495,15 +7495,15 @@ New Features
    * Added new Virtual File Driver, Stream VFD, to send/receive entire
      HDF5 files via socket connections.
    * As parts of VFL, HDF-GASS and HDF-SRB are also added to this
-     release. To find out details, please read INSTALL_VFL file. 
+     release. To find out details, please read INSTALL_VFL file.
    * Increased maximum number of dimensions for a dataset (H5S_MAX_RANK)
      from 31 to 32 to align with HDF4 & netCDF.
    * Added 'query' function to VFL drivers.  Also added 'type' parameter to
      VFL 'read' & 'write' calls, so they are aware of the type of data
      being accessed in the file.  Updated the VFL document also.
    * A new h4toh5 utility, to convert HDF4 files to analogous HDF5 files.
-   * Added a new array datatype to the datatypes which can be created.  
-     Removed "array fields" from compound datatypes (use an array datatype 
+   * Added a new array datatype to the datatypes which can be created.
+     Removed "array fields" from compound datatypes (use an array datatype
      instead).
    * Parallel HDF5 works correctly with mpich-1.2.1 on Solaris, SGI, Linux.
    * You can now install the HDF5 documentation using the
@@ -7514,26 +7514,26 @@ New Features
      Check doc/html/TechNotes/openmp-hdf5.html for details.
 
 
-h4toh5 Utility 
+h4toh5 Utility
 ==============
-    The h4toh5 utility is a new utility that converts an HDF4 file to an 
-    HDF5 file.  For details, see the document, "Mapping HDF4 Objects to 
+    The h4toh5 utility is a new utility that converts an HDF4 file to an
+    HDF5 file.  For details, see the document, "Mapping HDF4 Objects to
     HDF5 Objects":
        http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/papers/H4-H5MappingGuidelines.pdf
 
     Known Bugs:
 
       The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform
-      to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. 
+      to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification.
 
         http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
 
-      Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace 
-      is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is 
+      Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace
+      is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is
       incorrectly described.)  For more information, please see:
 
         http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.html
- 
+
       This bug has been fixed for the snapshot of hdf5 1.4 release. March 12th,2001
 
     Known Limitations of the h4toh5 release
@@ -7555,7 +7555,7 @@ h4toh5 Utility
          be an H5T_INTEGER type.
        * For attributes of any HDF4 object, data of type 'DFNT_CHAR8'
          will be converted to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type.
-       * For an HDF4 Vdata, it is difficult to determine whether data 
+       * For an HDF4 Vdata, it is difficult to determine whether data
          of type 'DFNT_CHAR8' is intended to be bytes or characters. The
          h4toh5 utility will consider them to be C characters, and will
          convert them to an HDF5 'H5T_STRING' type.
@@ -7569,10 +7569,10 @@ h4toh5 Utility
     with analogous chunked storage.
 
     An HDF4 object that uses compression will be converted to an
-    uncompressed HDF5 object.  
+    uncompressed HDF5 object.
 
     An HDF4 object that uses external storage will be converted to an
-    HDF5 object without external storage.  
+    HDF5 object without external storage.
 
     4. Memory Use
 
@@ -7589,29 +7589,29 @@ h4toh5 Utility
 
     The h4toh5 utility requires HDF5-1.4.0 and HDF4r1.4
 
-    h4toh5 utility has been tested on all platforms listed below (see 
+    h4toh5 utility has been tested on all platforms listed below (see
     section "Platforms Tested") except TFLOPS.
 
- 
+
 F90 Support
 ===========
-    This is the first release of the HDF5 Library with fully integrated 
-    F90 API support.  The Fortran Library is created when the 
+    This is the first release of the HDF5 Library with fully integrated
+    F90 API support.  The Fortran Library is created when the
     --enable-fortran flag is specified during configuration.
 
-    Not all F90 subroutines are implemented. Please refer to the HDF5 
+    Not all F90 subroutines are implemented. Please refer to the HDF5
     Reference Manual for more details.
-   
-    F90 APIs are available for the Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, DEC UNIX, 
-    T3E, SV1 and O2K (64 bit option only) platforms. The Parallel version of 
+
+    F90 APIs are available for the Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, DEC UNIX,
+    T3E, SV1 and O2K (64 bit option only) platforms. The Parallel version of
     the HDF5 F90 Library is supported on the O2K and T3E platforms.
 
     Changes since the last prototype release (July 2000)
     ----------------------------------------------------
-       * h5open_f and h5close_f must be called instead of h5init_types and 
+       * h5open_f and h5close_f must be called instead of h5init_types and
          h5close_types.
 
-       * The following subroutines are no longer available: 
+       * The following subroutines are no longer available:
 
              h5pset_xfer_f
              h5pget_xfer_f
@@ -7625,45 +7625,45 @@ F90 Support
              h5pget_core_f
              h5pset_family_f
              h5pget_family_f
-             
+
        * The following functions have been added:
 
              h5pset_fapl_mpio_f
              h5pget_fapl_mpio_f
              h5pset_dxpl_mpio_f
              h5pget_dxpl_mpio_f
-        
-       * In the previous HDF5 F90 releases, the implementation of object 
-         references and dataset region references was not portable. This 
-         release introduces a portable implementation, but it also introduces 
-         changes to the read/write APIs that handle references.  If object or 
-         dataset region references are written or read to/from an HDF5 file, 
-         h5dwrite_f and h5dread_f must use the extra parameter, n, for the 
+
+       * In the previous HDF5 F90 releases, the implementation of object
+         references and dataset region references was not portable. This
+         release introduces a portable implementation, but it also introduces
+         changes to the read/write APIs that handle references.  If object or
+         dataset region references are written or read to/from an HDF5 file,
+         h5dwrite_f and h5dread_f must use the extra parameter, n, for the
          buffer size:
 
             h5dwrite(read)_f(dset_id, mem_type_id, buf, n, hdferr, &
-                                                       ^^^ 
+                                                       ^^^
                              mem_space_id, file_space_id, xfer_prp)
 
-         For other datatypes the APIs were not changed. 
-              
-             
+         For other datatypes the APIs were not changed.
+
+
 C++ Support
 ===========
-    This is the first release of the HDF5 Library with fully integrated 
+    This is the first release of the HDF5 Library with fully integrated
     C++ API support. The HDF5 C++ library is built when the --enable-cxx
     flag is specified during configuration.
 
     Check the HDF5 Reference Manual for available C++ documentation.
 
-    C++ APIs are available for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, and FreeBSD. 
+    C++ APIs are available for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, Linux, and FreeBSD.
 
 
 Pablo Support
 =============
     This version does not allow proper building of the Pablo-instrumented
     version of the library.  A version supporting the pablo build is
-    available on the Pablo Website at 
+    available on the Pablo Website at
     www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Pablo.Release.5/HDFLibrary/hdf5_v1.4.tar.gz
 
 
@@ -7724,7 +7724,7 @@ Library
 Configuration
 -------------
    * The hdf5.h include file was fixed to allow the HDF5 Library to be
-     compiled with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf. 
+     compiled with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf.
    * Configuration for parallel HDF5 was improved. Configure now attempts
      to link with libmpi.a and/or libmpio.a as the MPI libraries by
      default. It also uses "mpirun" to launch MPI tests by default. It
@@ -7774,14 +7774,14 @@ Tools
    * h5dump correctly displays the committed copy of predefined types
      correctly.
    * Added an option, -V, to show the version information of h5dump.
-   * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like 
+   * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like
      TFLOPS.
    * The test script for h5toh4 used to not able to detect the hdp
      dumper command was not valid.  It now detects and reports the
      failure of hdp execution.
    * Merged the tools with the 1.2.2 branch. Required adding new
      macros, VERSION12 and VERSION13, used in conditional compilation.
-     Updated the Windows project files for the tools.            
+     Updated the Windows project files for the tools.
    * h5dump displays opaque and bitfield data correctly.
    * h5dump and h5ls can browse files created with the Stream VFD
      (eg. "h5ls <hostname>:<port>").
@@ -7794,10 +7794,10 @@ Tools
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2
 ================================
-   * Fixed a bug in the conversion from a little endian double to a big 
+   * Fixed a bug in the conversion from a little endian double to a big
      endian float in some special cases.
-   * Corrected configuration error which was not including compression 
-     support correctly. 
+   * Corrected configuration error which was not including compression
+     support correctly.
    * Cleaned up lots of warnings.
    * Changed a few h5dump command line switches and added long versions of
      the switches.
@@ -7806,7 +7806,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0-beta2
    * Fixed fairly obscure bug in hyperslab I/O which could (in rare cases)
      not copy all the data during a transfer.
    * Removed ragged array code from library.
-   * F90 library and module files are installed properly now on all supported 
+   * F90 library and module files are installed properly now on all supported
      platforms.
 
 
@@ -7822,26 +7822,26 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0 Release
 
 Documentation
 =============
-   * A new document summarizing the changes in the library leading up to 
-     the current release has been added: 
+   * A new document summarizing the changes in the library leading up to
+     the current release has been added:
            HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release
-     This document is in the Application Developer's Guide and is of 
-     particular interest to developers who must keep an application 
+     This document is in the Application Developer's Guide and is of
+     particular interest to developers who must keep an application
      synchronized with the library.
    * The documentation for the Fortran90 and C++ APIs is linked to the
-     opening page of the Reference Manual.  Fortran90 functions are 
+     opening page of the Reference Manual.  Fortran90 functions are
      individually referenced from the corresponding C functions through-
      out the Reference Manual.
-   * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated to reflect changed 
-     function syntax and to fix reported bugs. 
-   * Functions that are new at this release were added to the Reference 
-     Manual.  
-   * Functions that have been removed from the library were removed from 
+   * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated to reflect changed
+     function syntax and to fix reported bugs.
+   * Functions that are new at this release were added to the Reference
+     Manual.
+   * Functions that have been removed from the library were removed from
      the User's Guide and the Reference Manual.
-   * PostScript and PDF versions of the Release 1.4 document set are 
+   * PostScript and PDF versions of the Release 1.4 document set are
      not available at the time of Release 1.4.0.
 
-   
+
 Platforms Tested
 ================
     AIX 4.3.3.0 (IBM SP powerpc)  xlc 3.6.6
@@ -7865,7 +7865,7 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   mpich-1.2.1
     OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
                                   Digital Fortran 90 V4.1-270
-    SunOS 5.6                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0 
+    SunOS 5.6                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
     (Solaris 2.6)                 WorkShop Compilers 5.0 99/10/25 Fortran 90
                                          2.0 Patch 107356-04
                                   Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
@@ -7874,7 +7874,7 @@ Platforms Tested
                                          2.0 Patch 107356-04
                                   Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
                                   mpich-1.2.1
-    SunOS 5.5.1                   gcc-2.7.2 
+    SunOS 5.5.1                   gcc-2.7.2
      (Solaris 2.5.1 (x86))
     TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.0            mpich-1.2.1 with local changes
     Windows NT4.0, 2000 (NT5.0)   MSVC++ 6.0
@@ -7931,17 +7931,17 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
 
     Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich.
                 (2) Using mpt and mpich.
-                (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail 
+                (3) When configured with static-exec enabled, tests fail
                     in serial mode.
                 (4) No HDF4-related tools.
 
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
-   * The stream-vfd test uses ip port 10007 for testing.  If another 
-     application is already using that port address, the test will hang 
-     indefinitely and has to be terminated by the kill command.  To try the 
-     test again, change the port address in test/stream_test.c to one not 
+   * The stream-vfd test uses ip port 10007 for testing.  If another
+     application is already using that port address, the test will hang
+     indefinitely and has to be terminated by the kill command.  To try the
+     test again, change the port address in test/stream_test.c to one not
      being used in the host.
 
    * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
@@ -7950,7 +7950,7 @@ Known Problems
 
      The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
      on Linux platforms using the gcc-2.95.2 compiler.
-   
+
      The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
      on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode.  The parallel mode works fine
      with this option.
@@ -7959,7 +7959,7 @@ Known Problems
 
      The executable files in hdf5/bin are dynamic-linked for IRIX64 6.5(64 and
      n32 modes) and IRIX 6.5, even though they are compiled with static library.
-  
+
      It is suggested that you don't use this option on these platforms
      during configuration.
 
@@ -7971,10 +7971,10 @@ Known Problems
      able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning:
 
            warning: ANSI C does not support `long long'
-  
+
      This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored.
 
-   * SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  Hyperslab selections will 
+   * SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  Hyperslab selections will
      fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level.
 
    * When building hdf5 tools and applications on windows platform, a linking
@@ -7982,8 +7982,8 @@ Known Problems
      on debug version when running VC++6.0. This warning doesn't affect building
      and testing hdf5 applications. We will continue investigating this.
 
-   * h5toh4 converter fails two cases(tstr.h5 and tmany.h5) for release dll 
-     version on windows 2000 and NT.  The reason is possibly due to Windows NT 
+   * h5toh4 converter fails two cases(tstr.h5 and tmany.h5) for release dll
+     version on windows 2000 and NT.  The reason is possibly due to Windows NT
      DLL convention on freeing memory. It seems that memory cannot be freed
      across library or DLL. It is still under investigation.
 
@@ -7991,7 +7991,7 @@ Known Problems
      the configured with --with-gass.
 
    * HDF-SRB testing got segmentation error on Solaris 2.7.
-    
+
    * The Stream VFD was not tested yet under Windows.
      It is not supported in the TFLOPS machine.
 
@@ -8006,7 +8006,7 @@ Known Problems
 
    * Certain platforms give false negatives when testing h5ls:
        - Solaris x86 2.5.1, Cray T3E and Cray J90 give errors during testing
-         when displaying object references in certain files.  These are benign 
+         when displaying object references in certain files.  These are benign
          differences due to the difference in sizes of the objects created on
          those platforms.  h5ls appears to be dumping object references
          correctly.
@@ -8015,18 +8015,18 @@ Known Problems
          different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to be
          dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
 
-   * Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays (T3E and SV1) 
-     replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src 
-     subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from 
+   * Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays (T3E and SV1)
+     replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
+     subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files from
      the ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/hdf5-1.4.0/src/crayf90/  directory.
 
    * The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform
-     to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification. 
+     to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification.
 
          http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
 
-     Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace 
-     is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is 
+     Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace
+     is reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is
      incorrectly described.)  For more information, please see:
 
          http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.htm
@@ -8037,17 +8037,17 @@ Known Problems
 =================================================================
 INTRODUCTION
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.1 and 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.2.1 and
 HDF5-1.2.2, and contains information on the platforms where HDF5-1.2.2
-was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2. 
+was tested and known problems in HDF5-1.2.2.
 
-The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server 
+The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
 (ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) in the directory:
 
      /HDF/HDF5/docs/
 
 For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
-   
+
     http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
@@ -8057,7 +8057,7 @@ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
 
 CONTENTS
 
-- Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1 
+- Features Added since HDF5-1.2.1
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
 - Known Problems
 - Platforms Tested
@@ -8108,10 +8108,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.2.1
 Known Problems
 ==============
 
-o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  hyperslab selections will 
+o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  hyperslab selections will
   fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level.
 o TFLOPS: dsets test fails if compiled with optimization turned on.
-o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with a compound datatype. 
+o J90: tools fail to dispay data for the datasets with a compound datatype.
 
 Platforms Tested
 ================
@@ -8125,13 +8125,13 @@ Platforms Tested
                                 mpt.1.3
   FreeBSD 4.0                   gcc 2.95.2
   HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32
-  HP-UX B.11.00                 HP92453-01 A.11.00.13 HP C Compiler 
-                                (static library only, h5toh4 tool is not available) 
+  HP-UX B.11.00                 HP92453-01 A.11.00.13 HP C Compiler
+                                (static library only, h5toh4 tool is not available)
   IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
   IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1m
                                 mpt.1.4
 
-  Linux 2.2.10 SMP              gcc 2.95.1 
+  Linux 2.2.10 SMP              gcc 2.95.1
                                 mpicc(gcc-2.95.1)
                                 gcc (egcs-2.91.66)
                                 mpicc (egcs-2.91.66)
@@ -8162,7 +8162,7 @@ Configuration
 -------------
 
    * The hdf5.h include file was fixed to allow the HDF5 Library to be compiled
-     with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf. 
+     with other libraries/applications that use GNU autoconf.
    * Configuration for parallel HDF5 was improved. Configure now attempts to
      link with libmpi.a and/or libmpio.a as the MPI libraries by default.
      It also uses "mpirun" to launch MPI tests by default.  It tests to
@@ -8195,7 +8195,7 @@ Tools
 ------
 
    * Added an option, -V, to show the version information of h5dump.
-   * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like 
+   * Fixed a core dumping bug of h5toh4 when executed on platforms like
      TFLOPS.
    * The test script for h5toh4 used to not able to detect the hdp
      dumper command was not valid.  It now detects and reports the
@@ -8204,10 +8204,10 @@ Tools
 Documentation
 -------------
 
-   * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated. 
-     See doc/html/PSandPDF/index.html for more details. 
+   * User's Guide and Reference Manual were updated.
+     See doc/html/PSandPDF/index.html for more details.
+
 
-   
 Platforms Tested:
 ================
 Note: Due to the nature of bug fixes, only static versions of the library and tools were tested.
@@ -8224,7 +8224,7 @@ Note: Due to the nature of bug fixes, only static versions of the library and to
 
   Linux 2.2.10 SuSE             egcs-2.91.66               configured with
   (i686-pc-linux-gnu)                                      --disable-hsizet
-                                mpich-1.2.0 egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux 
+                                mpich-1.2.0 egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
 
   OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
   SunOS 5.6                     cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2  no optimization
@@ -8236,13 +8236,13 @@ Note: Due to the nature of bug fixes, only static versions of the library and to
 Known Problems:
 ==============
 
-o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  Hyperslab selections will 
+o SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2:  Hyperslab selections will
   fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level.
 
 
 
 %%%%1.2.0%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.2.0
-         
+
 5. Release Information for hdf5-1.2.0
 ===================================================================
 
@@ -8254,13 +8254,13 @@ applicable, are systems that HDF5 1.2.0 was tested on.
 
                            Compiler & libraries
   Platform                      Information              Comment
-  --------                      ----------               -------- 
-                                
+  --------                      ----------               --------
+
   AIX 4.3.2 (IBM SP)            3.6.6
 
   Cray J90 10.0.0.6             cc 6.3.0.0
 
-  Cray T3E 2.0.4.61             cc 6.2.1.0 
+  Cray T3E 2.0.4.61             cc 6.2.1.0
                                 mpt.1.3
 
   FreeBSD 3.2                   gcc 2.95.1
@@ -8268,30 +8268,30 @@ applicable, are systems that HDF5 1.2.0 was tested on.
   HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32
                                 gcc 2.8.1
 
-  IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30 
+  IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
 
   IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1m
-  			        mpt.1.3 (SGI MPI 3.2.0.0)
+                    mpt.1.3 (SGI MPI 3.2.0.0)
 
   Linux 2.2.10                  egcs-2.91.66               configured with
-  						         --disable-hsizet
+                                --disable-hsizet
                                                            lbraries: glibc2
 
   OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
 
-  SunOS 5.6                     cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2   
+  SunOS 5.6                     cc WorkShop Compilers 4.2
                                                            no optimization
-  			        gcc 2.8.1
+                    gcc 2.8.1
 
   SunOS 5.7                     cc WorkShop Compilers 5.0
                                 gcc 2.8.1
- 
+
   TFLOPS 2.7.1                  cicc (pgcc Rel 3.0-4i)
-  			        mpich-1.1.2 with local changes
+                    mpich-1.1.2 with local changes
 
   Windows NT4.0 intel           MSVC++ 5.0 and 6.0
 
-  Windows NT alpha 4.0          MSVC++ 5.0 
+  Windows NT alpha 4.0          MSVC++ 5.0
 
   Windows 98                    MSVC++ 5.0
 
@@ -8306,7 +8306,7 @@ B. Known Problems
   Hyperslab selections will fail if library is compiled using optimization
   of any level.
 
- 
+
 C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
    ---------------------------
 
@@ -8320,7 +8320,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 * Self-contained documentation for installations isolated from the
   Internet.
 
-* HDF5 Tutorial was added to the documentation  
+* HDF5 Tutorial was added to the documentation
 
 2. Configuration
    -------------
@@ -8352,7 +8352,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 
 * Optimizations to compound datatype conversions and I/O operations.
 
-* Added nearly 100 optimized conversion functions for native datatypes 
+* Added nearly 100 optimized conversion functions for native datatypes
   including support for non-aligned data.
 
 * Added support for bitfield, opaque, and enumeration types.
@@ -8404,23 +8404,23 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 * Improved the algorithm that translates an HDF5 hyperslab selection
   into an MPI type for better collective I/O performance.
 
-8. New API functions 
+8. New API functions
    -----------------
 
   a. Property List Interface:
      ------------------------
 
-  H5Pset_xfer		- set data transfer properties
-  H5Pset_preserve      - set dataset transfer property list status 
+  H5Pset_xfer        - set data transfer properties
+  H5Pset_preserve      - set dataset transfer property list status
   H5Pget_preserve      - get dataset transfer property list status
   H5Pset_hyper_cache   - indicates whether to cache hyperslab blocks during I/O
-  H5Pget_hyper_cache   - returns information regarding the caching of 
+  H5Pget_hyper_cache   - returns information regarding the caching of
                          hyperslab blocks during I/O
-  H5Pget_btree_ratios  - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset 
+  H5Pget_btree_ratios  - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset
                          transfer property list
   H5Pset_btree_ratios  - gets B-tree split ratios for a dataset
                          transfer property list
-  H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length 
+  H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length
                             datatype allocation
   H5Pget_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length
                             datatype allocation
@@ -8435,26 +8435,26 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
   c. Dataspace Interface:
      --------------------
   H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks   - get number of hyperslab blocks
-  H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks 
+  H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks
                                   currently selected
-  H5Sget_select_elem_npoints    - get the number of element points 
+  H5Sget_select_elem_npoints    - get the number of element points
                                   in the current selection
-  H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist  - get the list of element points 
+  H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist  - get the list of element points
                                   currently selected
-  H5Sget_select_bounds          - gets the bounding box containing 
+  H5Sget_select_bounds          - gets the bounding box containing
                                   the current selection
 
   d. Datatype Interface:
      -------------------
-  H5Tget_super         - return the base datatype from which a 
+  H5Tget_super         - return the base datatype from which a
                          datatype is derived
   H5Tvlen_create       - creates a new variable-length dataype
   H5Tenum_create       - creates a new enumeration datatype
   H5Tenum_insert       - inserts a new enumeration datatype member
-  H5Tenum_nameof       - returns the symbol name corresponding to a 
+  H5Tenum_nameof       - returns the symbol name corresponding to a
+                         specified member of an enumeration datatype
+  H5Tvalueof           - return the value corresponding to a
                          specified member of an enumeration datatype
-  H5Tvalueof           - return the value corresponding to a 
-                         specified member of an enumeration datatype 
   H5Tget_member_value  - return the value of an enumeration datatype member
   H5Tset_tag           - tags an opaque datatype
   H5Tget_tag           - gets the tag associated with an opaque datatype
@@ -8468,16 +8468,16 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
   H5Rcreate            - creates a reference
   H5Rdereference       - open the HDF5 object referenced
   H5Rget_region        - retrieve a dataspace with the specified region selected
-  H5Rget_object_type   - retrieve the type of object that an 
+  H5Rget_object_type   - retrieve the type of object that an
                          object reference points to
 
   g. Ragged Arrays (alpha) (names of those API functions were changed):
      ------------------------------------------------------------------
-   H5RAcreate		- create a new ragged array (old name was H5Rcreate)
-   H5RAopen		- open an existing array    (old name was H5Ropen)
-   H5RAclose		- close a ragged array      (old name was H5Rclose)
-   H5RAwrite		- write to an array         (old name was H5Rwrite)
-   H5RAread		- read from an array        (old name was H5Rread)
+   H5RAcreate        - create a new ragged array (old name was H5Rcreate)
+   H5RAopen        - open an existing array    (old name was H5Ropen)
+   H5RAclose        - close a ragged array      (old name was H5Rclose)
+   H5RAwrite        - write to an array         (old name was H5Rwrite)
+   H5RAread        - read from an array        (old name was H5Rread)
 
 
 9. Tools
@@ -8486,7 +8486,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 * Enhancements to the h5ls tool including the ability to list objects
   from more than one file, to display raw hexadecimal data, to
   show file addresses for raw data, to format output more reasonably,
-  to show object attributes, and to perform a recursive listing, 
+  to show object attributes, and to perform a recursive listing,
 
 * Enhancements to h5dump: support new data types added since previous
   versions.
@@ -8496,7 +8496,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 
 
 %%%%1.0.1%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.0.1
-         
+
 4.  Changes from Release 1.0.0 to Release 1.0.1
 =====================================================================
 
@@ -8506,7 +8506,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 * [Bug-Fix]: Configure failed for all IRIX versions other than 6.3.
   It now configures correctly for all IRIX 6.x version.
 
-* Released Parallel HDF5 
+* Released Parallel HDF5
 
      Supported Features:
      ------------------
@@ -8526,7 +8526,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
      IBM SP2
      SGI Origin 2000
 
-     Changes In This Release: 
+     Changes In This Release:
      -----------------------
 
    o Support of Access to Extendable Dimension Datasets.
@@ -8570,7 +8570,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 ====================================================================
 
 * Added fill values for datasets.  For contiguous datasets fill value
-  performance may be quite poor since the fill value is written to the 
+  performance may be quite poor since the fill value is written to the
   entire dataset when the dataset is created.  This will be remedied
   in a future version.  Chunked datasets using fill values do not
   incur any additional overhead. See H5Pset_fill_value().
@@ -8621,17 +8621,17 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 
 %%%%1.0.0 Alpha 2%%%%   Release Information for hdf5-1.0.0 Alpha 2
 
-1.  Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to 
+1.  Changes from the First Alpha 1.0.0 Release to
      the Second Alpha 1.0.0 Release
 =====================================================================
 
 * Two of the packages have been renamed.  The data space API has been
-  renamed from `H5P' to `H5S' and the property list (template) API has 
+  renamed from `H5P' to `H5S' and the property list (template) API has
   been renamed from `H5C' to `H5P'.
 
-* The new attribute API `H5A' has been added.  An attribute is a small 
+* The new attribute API `H5A' has been added.  An attribute is a small
   dataset which can be attached to some other object (for instance, a
-  4x4 transformation matrix attached to a 3-dimensional dataset, or an 
+  4x4 transformation matrix attached to a 3-dimensional dataset, or an
   English abstract attached to a group).
 
 * The error handling API `H5E' has been completed.  By default, when an
@@ -8643,7 +8643,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 * Support for large files and datasets (>2GB) has been added.  There
   is an html document that describes how it works.  Some of the types
   for function arguments have changed to support this: all arguments
-  pertaining to sizes of memory objects are `size_t' and all arguments 
+  pertaining to sizes of memory objects are `size_t' and all arguments
   pertaining to file sizes are `hsize_t'.
 
 * More data type conversions have been added although none of them are
@@ -8669,7 +8669,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
 * Data types can be stored in the file as independent objects and
   multiple datasets can share a data type.
 
-* The raw data I/O stream has been implemented and the application can 
+* The raw data I/O stream has been implemented and the application can
   control meta and raw data caches, so I/O performance should be
   improved from the first alpha release.
 
@@ -8681,14 +8681,14 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
   applications or I/O libraries and described and accessed through
   HDF5.
 
-* Hard and soft (symbolic) links are implemented which allow groups to 
+* Hard and soft (symbolic) links are implemented which allow groups to
   share objects. Dangling and recursive symbolic links are supported.
 
 * User-defined data compression is implemented although we may
   generalize the interface to allow arbitrary user-defined filters
   which can be used for compression, checksums, encryption,
   performance monitoring, etc.  The publicly-available `deflate'
-  method is predefined if the GNU libz.a can be found at configuration 
+  method is predefined if the GNU libz.a can be found at configuration
   time.
 
 * The configuration scripts have been modified to make it easier to
@@ -8698,7 +8698,7 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
   with the correct version of header files.
 
 
-		    Parallel HDF5 Changes
+            Parallel HDF5 Changes
 
 * Parallel support for fixed dimension datasets with contiguous or
   chunked storages.  Also, support unlimited dimension datasets which
@@ -8724,245 +8724,245 @@ C. Changes Since Version 1.0.1
   sizes.
 
 
-			LIST OF API FUNCTIONS
+            LIST OF API FUNCTIONS
 
 The following functions are implemented. Errors are returned if an
 attempt is made to use some feature which is not implemented and
 printing the error stack will show `not implemented yet'.
 
 Library
-   H5check		- check that lib version matches header version
-   H5open		- initialize library (happens automatically)
-   H5close		- shut down the library (happens automatically)
-   H5dont_atexit	- don't call H5close on exit
-   H5get_libversion	- retrieve library version info
-   H5check_version	- check for specific library version
+   H5check        - check that lib version matches header version
+   H5open        - initialize library (happens automatically)
+   H5close        - shut down the library (happens automatically)
+   H5dont_atexit    - don't call H5close on exit
+   H5get_libversion    - retrieve library version info
+   H5check_version    - check for specific library version
 
 Property Lists
-   H5Pclose		- release template resources
-   H5Pcopy		- copy a template
-   H5Pcreate		- create a new template
-   H5Pget_chunk		- get chunked storage properties
-   H5Pset_chunk		- set chunked storage properties
-   H5Pget_class		- get template class
-   H5Pget_istore_k	- get chunked storage properties
-   H5Pset_istore_k	- set chunked storage properties
-   H5Pget_layout	- get raw data layout class
-   H5Pset_layout	- set raw data layout class
-   H5Pget_sizes		- get address and size sizes
-   H5Pset_sizes		- set address and size sizes
-   H5Pget_sym_k		- get symbol table storage properties
-   H5Pset_sym_k		- set symbol table storage properties
-   H5Pget_userblock	- get user-block size
-   H5Pset_userblock	- set user-block size
-   H5Pget_version	- get file version numbers
-   H5Pget_alignment	- get data alignment properties
-   H5Pset_alignment	- set data alignment properties
+   H5Pclose        - release template resources
+   H5Pcopy        - copy a template
+   H5Pcreate        - create a new template
+   H5Pget_chunk        - get chunked storage properties
+   H5Pset_chunk        - set chunked storage properties
+   H5Pget_class        - get template class
+   H5Pget_istore_k    - get chunked storage properties
+   H5Pset_istore_k    - set chunked storage properties
+   H5Pget_layout    - get raw data layout class
+   H5Pset_layout    - set raw data layout class
+   H5Pget_sizes        - get address and size sizes
+   H5Pset_sizes        - set address and size sizes
+   H5Pget_sym_k        - get symbol table storage properties
+   H5Pset_sym_k        - set symbol table storage properties
+   H5Pget_userblock    - get user-block size
+   H5Pset_userblock    - set user-block size
+   H5Pget_version    - get file version numbers
+   H5Pget_alignment    - get data alignment properties
+   H5Pset_alignment    - set data alignment properties
    H5Pget_external_count- get count of external data files
-   H5Pget_external	- get information about an external data file
-   H5Pset_external	- add a new external data file to the list
-   H5Pget_driver	- get low-level file driver class
-   H5Pget_stdio		- get properties for stdio low-level driver
-   H5Pset_stdio		- set properties for stdio low-level driver
-   H5Pget_sec2		- get properties for sec2 low-level driver
-   H5Pset_sec2		- set properties for sec2 low-level driver
-   H5Pget_core		- get properties for core low-level driver
-   H5Pset_core		- set properties for core low-level driver
-   H5Pget_split		- get properties for split low-level driver
-   H5Pset_split		- set properties for split low-level driver
-   H5P_get_family	- get properties for family low-level driver
-   H5P_set_family	- set properties for family low-level driver
-   H5Pget_cache		- get meta- and raw-data caching properties
-   H5Pset_cache		- set meta- and raw-data caching properties
-   H5Pget_buffer	- get raw-data I/O pipe buffer properties
-   H5Pset_buffer	- set raw-data I/O pipe buffer properties
-   H5Pget_preserve	- get type conversion preservation properties
-   H5Pset_preserve	- set type conversion preservation properties
-   H5Pget_nfilters	- get number of raw data filters
-   H5Pget_filter	- get raw data filter properties
-   H5Pset_filter	- set raw data filter properties
-   H5Pset_deflate	- set deflate compression filter properties
-   H5Pget_mpi		- get MPI-IO properties
-   H5Pset_mpi		- set MPI-IO properties
-   H5Pget_xfer		- get data transfer properties
- + H5Pset_xfer		- set data transfer properties
- + H5Pset_preserve      - set dataset transfer property list status 
+   H5Pget_external    - get information about an external data file
+   H5Pset_external    - add a new external data file to the list
+   H5Pget_driver    - get low-level file driver class
+   H5Pget_stdio        - get properties for stdio low-level driver
+   H5Pset_stdio        - set properties for stdio low-level driver
+   H5Pget_sec2        - get properties for sec2 low-level driver
+   H5Pset_sec2        - set properties for sec2 low-level driver
+   H5Pget_core        - get properties for core low-level driver
+   H5Pset_core        - set properties for core low-level driver
+   H5Pget_split        - get properties for split low-level driver
+   H5Pset_split        - set properties for split low-level driver
+   H5P_get_family    - get properties for family low-level driver
+   H5P_set_family    - set properties for family low-level driver
+   H5Pget_cache        - get meta- and raw-data caching properties
+   H5Pset_cache        - set meta- and raw-data caching properties
+   H5Pget_buffer    - get raw-data I/O pipe buffer properties
+   H5Pset_buffer    - set raw-data I/O pipe buffer properties
+   H5Pget_preserve    - get type conversion preservation properties
+   H5Pset_preserve    - set type conversion preservation properties
+   H5Pget_nfilters    - get number of raw data filters
+   H5Pget_filter    - get raw data filter properties
+   H5Pset_filter    - set raw data filter properties
+   H5Pset_deflate    - set deflate compression filter properties
+   H5Pget_mpi        - get MPI-IO properties
+   H5Pset_mpi        - set MPI-IO properties
+   H5Pget_xfer        - get data transfer properties
+ + H5Pset_xfer        - set data transfer properties
+ + H5Pset_preserve      - set dataset transfer property list status
  + H5Pget_preserve      - get dataset transfer property list status
  + H5Pset_hyper_cache   - indicates whether to cache hyperslab blocks during I/O
- + H5Pget_hyper_cache   - returns information regarding the caching of 
+ + H5Pget_hyper_cache   - returns information regarding the caching of
                           hyperslab blocks during I/O
- + H5Pget_btree_ratios  - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset 
+ + H5Pget_btree_ratios  - sets B-tree split ratios for a dataset
                           transfer property list
  + H5Pset_btree_ratios  - gets B-tree split ratios for a dataset
                           transfer property list
- + H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length 
+ + H5Pset_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length
                              datatype allocation
  + H5Pget_vlen_mem_manager - sets the memory manager for variable-length
                              datatype allocation
 
 Datasets
-   H5Dclose		- release dataset resources
-   H5Dcreate		- create a new dataset
-   H5Dget_space		- get data space
-   H5Dget_type		- get data type
-   H5Dget_create_plist	- get dataset creation properties
-   H5Dopen		- open an existing dataset
-   H5Dread		- read raw data
-   H5Dwrite		- write raw data
-   H5Dextend		- extend a dataset
+   H5Dclose        - release dataset resources
+   H5Dcreate        - create a new dataset
+   H5Dget_space        - get data space
+   H5Dget_type        - get data type
+   H5Dget_create_plist    - get dataset creation properties
+   H5Dopen        - open an existing dataset
+   H5Dread        - read raw data
+   H5Dwrite        - write raw data
+   H5Dextend        - extend a dataset
  + H5Diterate           - iterate over all selected elements in a dataspace
  + H5Dget_storage_size  - return the amount of storage required for a dataset
  + H5Dvlen_reclaim      - reclaim VL datatype memory buffers
 
 Attributes
-   H5Acreate		- create a new attribute
-   H5Aopen_name		- open an attribute by name
-   H5Aopen_idx		- open an attribute by number
-   H5Awrite		- write values into an attribute
-   H5Aread		- read values from an attribute
-   H5Aget_space		- get attribute data space
-   H5Aget_type		- get attribute data type
-   H5Aget_name		- get attribute name
-   H5Anum_attrs		- return the number of attributes for an object
-   H5Aiterate		- iterate over an object's attributes
-   H5Adelete		- delete an attribute
-   H5Aclose		- close an attribute
+   H5Acreate        - create a new attribute
+   H5Aopen_name        - open an attribute by name
+   H5Aopen_idx        - open an attribute by number
+   H5Awrite        - write values into an attribute
+   H5Aread        - read values from an attribute
+   H5Aget_space        - get attribute data space
+   H5Aget_type        - get attribute data type
+   H5Aget_name        - get attribute name
+   H5Anum_attrs        - return the number of attributes for an object
+   H5Aiterate        - iterate over an object's attributes
+   H5Adelete        - delete an attribute
+   H5Aclose        - close an attribute
 
 Errors
-   H5Eclear		- clear the error stack
-   H5Eprint		- print an error stack
-   H5Eget_auto		- get automatic error reporting settings
-   H5Eset_auto		- set automatic error reporting
-   H5Ewalk		- iterate over the error stack
-   H5Ewalk_cb		- the default error stack iterator function
-   H5Eget_major		- get the message for the major error number
-   H5Eget_minor		- get the message for the minor error number
+   H5Eclear        - clear the error stack
+   H5Eprint        - print an error stack
+   H5Eget_auto        - get automatic error reporting settings
+   H5Eset_auto        - set automatic error reporting
+   H5Ewalk        - iterate over the error stack
+   H5Ewalk_cb        - the default error stack iterator function
+   H5Eget_major        - get the message for the major error number
+   H5Eget_minor        - get the message for the minor error number
 
 Files
-   H5Fclose		- close a file and release resources
-   H5Fcreate		- create a new file
-   H5Fget_create_plist	- get file creation property list
-   H5Fget_access_plist	- get file access property list
-   H5Fis_hdf5		- determine if a file is an hdf5 file
-   H5Fopen		- open an existing file
+   H5Fclose        - close a file and release resources
+   H5Fcreate        - create a new file
+   H5Fget_create_plist    - get file creation property list
+   H5Fget_access_plist    - get file access property list
+   H5Fis_hdf5        - determine if a file is an hdf5 file
+   H5Fopen        - open an existing file
    H5Freopen            - reopen an HDF5 file
    H5Fmount             - mount a file
    H5Funmount           - unmount a file
    H5Fflush             - flush all buffers associated with a file to disk
 
 Groups
-   H5Gclose		- close a group and release resources
-   H5Gcreate    	- create a new group
-   H5Gopen		- open an existing group
-   H5Giterate   	- iterate over the contents of a group
-   H5Gmove		- change the name of some object
-   H5Glink		- create a hard or soft link to an object
-   H5Gunlink    	- break the link between a name and an object
-   H5Gget_objinfo	- get information about a group entry
-   H5Gget_linkval	- get the value of a soft link
-   H5Gget_comment	- get the comment string for an object
-   H5Gset_comment	- set the comment string for an object
+   H5Gclose        - close a group and release resources
+   H5Gcreate        - create a new group
+   H5Gopen        - open an existing group
+   H5Giterate       - iterate over the contents of a group
+   H5Gmove        - change the name of some object
+   H5Glink        - create a hard or soft link to an object
+   H5Gunlink        - break the link between a name and an object
+   H5Gget_objinfo    - get information about a group entry
+   H5Gget_linkval    - get the value of a soft link
+   H5Gget_comment    - get the comment string for an object
+   H5Gset_comment    - set the comment string for an object
 
 Dataspaces
-   H5Screate	        - create a new data space
-   H5Scopy		- copy a data space
-   H5Sclose		- release data space
-   H5Screate_simple	- create a new simple data space
-   H5Sset_space		- set simple data space extents
-   H5Sis_simple		- determine if data space is simple
-   H5Sset_extent_simple	- set simple data space dimensionality and size
-   H5Sget_simple_extent_npoints	- get number of points in simple extent
+   H5Screate            - create a new data space
+   H5Scopy        - copy a data space
+   H5Sclose        - release data space
+   H5Screate_simple    - create a new simple data space
+   H5Sset_space        - set simple data space extents
+   H5Sis_simple        - determine if data space is simple
+   H5Sset_extent_simple    - set simple data space dimensionality and size
+   H5Sget_simple_extent_npoints    - get number of points in simple extent
    H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims - get simple data space dimensionality
    H5Sget_simple_extent_dims - get simple data space size
    H5Sget_simple_extent_type - get type of simple extent
-   H5Sset_extent_none	- reset extent to be empty
-   H5Sextent_copy	- copy the extent from one data space to another
+   H5Sset_extent_none    - reset extent to be empty
+   H5Sextent_copy    - copy the extent from one data space to another
    H5Sget_select_npoints - get number of points selected for I/O
-   H5Sselect_hyperslab	- set hyperslab dataspace selection
+   H5Sselect_hyperslab    - set hyperslab dataspace selection
    H5Sselect_elements   - set element sequence dataspace selection
-   H5Sselect_all	- select entire extent for I/O
-   H5Sselect_none	- deselect all elements of extent
-   H5Soffset_simple	- set selection offset
-   H5Sselect_valid	- determine if selection is valid for extent
+   H5Sselect_all    - select entire extent for I/O
+   H5Sselect_none    - deselect all elements of extent
+   H5Soffset_simple    - set selection offset
+   H5Sselect_valid    - determine if selection is valid for extent
  + H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks   - get number of hyperslab blocks
- + H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks 
+ + H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist - get the list of hyperslab blocks
                                    currently selected
- + H5Sget_select_elem_npoints    - get the number of element points 
+ + H5Sget_select_elem_npoints    - get the number of element points
                                    in the current selection
- + H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist  - get the list of element points 
+ + H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist  - get the list of element points
                                    currently selected
- + H5Sget_select_bounds          - gets the bounding box containing 
+ + H5Sget_select_bounds          - gets the bounding box containing
                                    the current selection
 
 Datatypes
-   H5Tclose		- release data type resources
-   H5Topen		- open a named data type
-   H5Tcommit		- name a data type
-   H5Tcommitted		- determine if a type is named
-   H5Tcopy		- copy a data type
-   H5Tcreate		- create a new data type
-   H5Tequal		- compare two data types
-   H5Tlock		- lock type to prevent changes
-   H5Tfind		- find a data type conversion function
-   H5Tconvert		- convert data from one type to another
-   H5Tregister    	- register a conversion function
-   H5Tunregister	- remove a conversion function
-   H5Tget_overflow	- get function that handles overflow conv. cases
-   H5Tset_overflow	- set function to handle overflow conversion cases
-   H5Tget_class		- get data type class
-   H5Tget_cset		- get character set
-   H5Tget_ebias		- get exponent bias
-   H5Tget_fields	- get floating point fields
-   H5Tget_inpad		- get inter-field padding
-   H5Tget_member_dims	- get struct member dimensions
-   H5Tget_member_name	- get struct member name
-   H5Tget_member_offset	- get struct member byte offset
-   H5Tget_member_type	- get struct member type
-   H5Tget_nmembers	- get number of struct members
-   H5Tget_norm		- get floating point normalization
-   H5Tget_offset	- get bit offset within type
-   H5Tget_order		- get byte order
-   H5Tget_pad		- get padding type
-   H5Tget_precision	- get precision in bits
-   H5Tget_sign		- get integer sign type
-   H5Tget_size		- get size in bytes
-   H5Tget_strpad	- get string padding
-   H5Tinsert		- insert scalar struct member
-   H5Tinsert_array	- insert array struct member
-   H5Tpack		- pack struct members
-   H5Tset_cset		- set character set
-   H5Tset_ebias		- set exponent bias
-   H5Tset_fields	- set floating point fields
-   H5Tset_inpad		- set inter-field padding
-   H5Tset_norm		- set floating point normalization
-   H5Tset_offset	- set bit offset within type
-   H5Tset_order		- set byte order
-   H5Tset_pad		- set padding type
-   H5Tset_precision	- set precision in bits
-   H5Tset_sign		- set integer sign type
-   H5Tset_size		- set size in bytes
-   H5Tset_strpad	- set string padding
- + H5Tget_super         - return the base datatype from which a 
+   H5Tclose        - release data type resources
+   H5Topen        - open a named data type
+   H5Tcommit        - name a data type
+   H5Tcommitted        - determine if a type is named
+   H5Tcopy        - copy a data type
+   H5Tcreate        - create a new data type
+   H5Tequal        - compare two data types
+   H5Tlock        - lock type to prevent changes
+   H5Tfind        - find a data type conversion function
+   H5Tconvert        - convert data from one type to another
+   H5Tregister        - register a conversion function
+   H5Tunregister    - remove a conversion function
+   H5Tget_overflow    - get function that handles overflow conv. cases
+   H5Tset_overflow    - set function to handle overflow conversion cases
+   H5Tget_class        - get data type class
+   H5Tget_cset        - get character set
+   H5Tget_ebias        - get exponent bias
+   H5Tget_fields    - get floating point fields
+   H5Tget_inpad        - get inter-field padding
+   H5Tget_member_dims    - get struct member dimensions
+   H5Tget_member_name    - get struct member name
+   H5Tget_member_offset    - get struct member byte offset
+   H5Tget_member_type    - get struct member type
+   H5Tget_nmembers    - get number of struct members
+   H5Tget_norm        - get floating point normalization
+   H5Tget_offset    - get bit offset within type
+   H5Tget_order        - get byte order
+   H5Tget_pad        - get padding type
+   H5Tget_precision    - get precision in bits
+   H5Tget_sign        - get integer sign type
+   H5Tget_size        - get size in bytes
+   H5Tget_strpad    - get string padding
+   H5Tinsert        - insert scalar struct member
+   H5Tinsert_array    - insert array struct member
+   H5Tpack        - pack struct members
+   H5Tset_cset        - set character set
+   H5Tset_ebias        - set exponent bias
+   H5Tset_fields    - set floating point fields
+   H5Tset_inpad        - set inter-field padding
+   H5Tset_norm        - set floating point normalization
+   H5Tset_offset    - set bit offset within type
+   H5Tset_order        - set byte order
+   H5Tset_pad        - set padding type
+   H5Tset_precision    - set precision in bits
+   H5Tset_sign        - set integer sign type
+   H5Tset_size        - set size in bytes
+   H5Tset_strpad    - set string padding
+ + H5Tget_super         - return the base datatype from which a
                           datatype is derived
  + H5Tvlen_create       - creates a new variable-length dataype
  + H5Tenum_create       - creates a new enumeration datatype
  + H5Tenum_insert       - inserts a new enumeration datatype member
- + H5Tenum_nameof       - returns the symbol name corresponding to a 
+ + H5Tenum_nameof       - returns the symbol name corresponding to a
+                          specified member of an enumeration datatype
+ + H5Tvalueof           - return the value corresponding to a
                           specified member of an enumeration datatype
- + H5Tvalueof           - return the value corresponding to a 
-                          specified member of an enumeration datatype 
  + H5Tget_member_value  - return the value of an enumeration datatype member
  + H5Tset_tag           - tags an opaque datatype
  + H5Tget_tag           - gets the tag associated with an opaque datatype
 
- - H5Tregister_hard	- register specific type conversion function
- - H5Tregister_soft	- register general type conversion function
+ - H5Tregister_hard    - register specific type conversion function
+ - H5Tregister_soft    - register general type conversion function
 
 Filters
-   H5Tregister		- register a conversion function 
+   H5Tregister        - register a conversion function
 
 Compression
-   H5Zregister		- register new compression and uncompression 
+   H5Zregister        - register new compression and uncompression
                           functions for a method specified by a method number
 
 Identifiers
@@ -8972,14 +8972,14 @@ References
  + H5Rcreate            - creates a reference
  + H5Rdereference       - open the HDF5 object referenced
  + H5Rget_region        - retrieve a dataspace with the specified region selected
- + H5Rget_object_type   - retrieve the type of object that an 
+ + H5Rget_object_type   - retrieve the type of object that an
                           object reference points to
 
 Ragged Arrays (alpha)
-   H5RAcreate		- create a new ragged array
-   H5RAopen		- open an existing array
-   H5RAclose		- close a ragged array
-   H5RAwrite		- write to an array
-   H5RAread		- read from an array
+   H5RAcreate        - create a new ragged array
+   H5RAopen        - open an existing array
+   H5RAclose        - close a ragged array
+   H5RAwrite        - write to an array
+   H5RAread        - read from an array
 
 
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt
index ad8beb2..127b821 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt
@@ -3,15 +3,2184 @@ HDF5 History
 
 This file contains development history of the HDF5 1.10 branch
 
+09.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.7
+08.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.6
+07.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.5
 06.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.4
 05.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.3
 04.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.2
 03.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.1
-02.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.0-patch1 
+02.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.0-patch1
 01.      Release Information for hdf5-1.10.0
 
 [Search on the string '%%%%' for section breaks of each release.]
 
+%%%%1.10.7%%%%
+
+HDF5 version 1.10.7 released on 2020-09-11
+================================================================================
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+This document describes the differences between this release and the previous
+HDF5 release. It contains information on the platforms tested and known
+problems in this release. For more details check the HISTORY*.txt files in the
+HDF5 source.
+
+Note that documentation in the links below will be updated at the time of each
+final release.
+
+Links to HDF5 documentation can be found on The HDF5 web page:
+
+     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5
+
+The official HDF5 releases can be obtained from:
+
+     https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/
+
+     HDF5 binaries provided are fully tested with ZLIB and the free
+     Open Source SZIP successor Libaec (with BSD license).
+     The official ZLIB and SZIP/Libaec pages are at:
+
+        ZLIB: http://www.zlib.net/
+            http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html
+        SZIP/Libaec: https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/libaec
+            https://gitlab.dkrz.de/k202009/libaec/-/blob/master/Copyright.txt
+
+Changes from Release to Release and New Features in the HDF5-1.10.x release series
+can be found at:
+
+     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5+Application+Developer%27s+Guide
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+- New Features
+- Support for new platforms and languages
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.6
+- Supported Platforms
+- Tested Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+- CMake vs. Autotools installations
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration:
+    -------------
+    - Disable memory sanity checks in the Autotools in release branches
+
+      The library can be configured to use internal memory sanity checking,
+      which replaces C API calls like malloc(3) and free(3) with our own calls
+      which add things like heap canaries. These canaries can cause problems
+      when external filter plugins reallocate canary-marked buffers.
+
+      For this reason, the default will be to not use the memory allocation
+      sanity check feature in release branches (e.g., hdf5_1_10_7).
+      Debug builds in development branches (e.g., develop, hdf5_1_10) will
+      still use them by default.
+
+      This change only affects Autotools debug builds. Non-debug autotools
+      builds and all CMake builds do not enable this feature by default.
+
+      (DER - 2020/08/19)
+
+    - Add file locking configure and CMake options
+
+      HDF5 1.10.0 introduced a file locking scheme, primarily to help
+      enforce SWMR setup. Formerly, the only user-level control of the scheme
+      was via the HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING environment variable.
+
+      This change introduces configure-time options that control whether
+      or not file locking will be used and whether or not the library
+      ignores errors when locking has been disabled on the file system
+      (useful on some HPC Lustre installations).
+
+      In both the Autotools and CMake, the settings have the effect of changing
+      the default property list settings (see the H5Pset/get_file_locking()
+      entry, below).
+
+      The yes/no/best-effort file locking configure setting has also been
+      added to the libhdf5.settings file.
+
+      Autotools:
+
+        An --enable-file-locking=(yes|no|best-effort) option has been added.
+
+        yes:          Use file locking.
+        no:           Do not use file locking.
+        best-effort:  Use file locking and ignore "disabled" errors.
+
+      CMake:
+
+        Two self-explanatory options have been added:
+
+        HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING
+        HDF5_IGNORE_DISABLED_FILE_LOCKS
+
+        Setting both of these to ON is the equivalent to the Autotools'
+        best-effort setting.
+
+      NOTE:
+      The precedence order of the various file locking control mechanisms is:
+
+        1) HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING environment variable (highest)
+
+        2) H5Pset_file_locking()
+
+        3) configure/CMake options (which set the property list defaults)
+
+        4) library defaults (currently best-effort)
+
+      (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092)
+
+    - CMake option to link the generated Fortran MOD files into the include
+      directory.
+
+      The Fortran generation of MOD files by a Fortran compile can produce
+      different binary files between SHARED and STATIC compiles with different
+      compilers and/or different platforms. Note that it has been found that
+      different versions of Fortran compilers will produce incompatible MOD
+      files. Currently, CMake will locate these MOD files in subfolders of
+      the include directory and add that path to the Fortran library target
+      in the CMake config file, which can be used by the CMake find library
+      process. For other build systems using the binary from a CMake install,
+      a new CMake configuration can be used to copy the pre-chosen version
+      of the Fortran MOD files into the install include directory.
+
+      The default will depend on the configuration of
+      BUILD_STATIC_LIBS and BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:
+            YES                   YES         Default to SHARED
+            YES                   NO          Default to STATIC
+            NO                    YES         Default to SHARED
+            NO                    NO          Default to SHARED
+      The defaults can be overriden by setting the config option
+         HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN to one of NO, SHARED, or STATIC
+
+      (ADB - 2020/07/09, HDFFV-11116)
+
+    - CMake option to use AEC (open source SZip) library instead of SZip
+
+      The open source AEC library is a replacement library for SZip. In
+      order to use it for hdf5, the libaec CMake source was changed to add
+      "-fPIC" and exclude test files. A new option USE_LIBAEC is required
+      to compensate for the different files produced by AEC build.
+
+      Autotools does not build the compression libraries within hdf5 builds,
+      but will use an installed libaec when configured as before with the
+      option --with-libsz=<path to libaec directory>.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/04/22, OESS-65)
+
+    - CMake ConfigureChecks.cmake file now uses CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER
+
+      Some handcrafted tests in HDFTests.c have been removed and the CMake
+      CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER module has been used.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/03/24, TRILAB-24)
+
+    - Both build systems use same set of warnings flags
+
+      GNU C, C++ and gfortran warnings flags were moved to files in a config
+      sub-folder named gnu-warnings. Flags that only are available for a specific
+      version of the compiler are in files named with that version.
+      Clang C warnings flags were moved to files in a config sub-folder
+      named clang-warnings.
+      Intel C, Fortran warnings flags were moved to files in a config sub-folder
+      named intel-warnings.
+
+      There are flags in named "error-xxx" files with warnings that may
+      be promoted to errors. Some source files may still need fixes.
+
+      There are also pairs of files named "developer-xxx" and "no-developer-xxx"
+      that are chosen by the CMake option:HDF5_ENABLE_DEV_WARNINGS or the
+      configure option:--enable-developer-warnings.
+
+      In addition, CMake no longer applies these warnings for examples.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/03/24, TRILAB-192)
+
+    - Update CMake minimum version to 3.12
+
+      Updated CMake minimum version to 3.12 and added version checks
+      for Windows features.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/02/05, TRILABS-142)
+
+    - Fixed CMake include properties for Fortran libraries
+
+      Corrected the library properties for Fortran to use the
+      correct path for the Fortran module files.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/02/04, HDFFV-11012)
+
+    - Added common warnings files for gnu and intel
+
+      Added warnings files to use one common set of flags
+      during configure for both autotools and CMake build
+      systems. The initial implementation only affects a
+      general set of flags for gnu and intel compilers.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/01/17)
+
+    - Added new options to CMake for control of testing
+
+      Added CMake options (default ON);
+          HDF5_TEST_SERIAL AND/OR HDF5_TEST_PARALLEL
+          combined with:
+            HDF5_TEST_TOOLS
+            HDF5_TEST_EXAMPLES
+            HDF5_TEST_SWMR
+            HDF5_TEST_FORTRAN
+            HDF5_TEST_CPP
+            HDF5_TEST_JAVA
+
+      (ADB - 2020/01/15, HDFFV-11001)
+
+    - Added Clang sanitizers to CMake for analyzer support if compiler is clang.
+
+      Added CMake code and files to execute the Clang sanitizers if
+      HDF5_ENABLE_SANITIZERS is enabled and the USE_SANITIZER option
+      is set to one of the following:
+          Address
+          Memory
+          MemoryWithOrigins
+          Undefined
+          Thread
+          Leak
+          'Address;Undefined'
+
+      (ADB - 2019/12/12, TRILAB-135)
+
+
+    Library:
+    --------
+    - Add metadata cache optimization to reduce skip list usage
+
+      On file flush or close, the metadata cache attempts to write out
+      all dirty entries in increasing address order.  To do this, it needs
+      an address sorted list of metadata entries.  Further, since flushing
+      one metadata cache entry can dirty another, this list must support
+      efficient insertion and deletion.
+
+      The metadata cache uses a skip list of all dirty entries for this
+      purpose.  Before this release, this skip list was maintained at all
+      times.  However, since profiling indicates that this imposes a
+      significant cost, we now construct and maintain the skip list only
+      when needed.  Specifically, we enable the skip list and load it with
+      a list of all dirty entries in the metadata cache just before a flush,
+      and disable it after the flush.
+
+      (JRM - 2020/08/17, HDFFV-11034)
+
+    - Add BEST_EFFORT value to HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING environment variable
+
+      This change adds a BEST_EFFORT to the TRUE/FALSE, 1/0 settings that
+      were previously accepted. This option turns on file locking but
+      ignores locking errors when the library detects that file locking
+      has been disabled on a file system (useful on some HPC Lustre
+      installations).
+
+      The capitalization of BEST_EFFORT is mandatory.
+
+      See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more
+      information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled.
+
+      (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092)
+
+
+    - Add H5Pset/get_file_locking() API calls
+
+      This change adds new API calls which can be used to set or get the
+      file locking parameters. The single API call sets both the "use file
+      locking" flag and the "ignore disabled file locking" flag.
+
+      When opening a file multiple times without closing, the file MUST be
+      opened with the same file locking settings. Opening a file with different
+      file locking settings will fail (this is similar to the behavior of
+      H5Pset_fclose_degree()).
+
+      See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more
+      information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled.
+
+      (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092)
+
+    - Add Mirror VFD
+
+      Use TCP/IP sockets to perform write-only (W/O) file I/O on a remote
+      machine. Must be used in conjunction with the Splitter VFD.
+
+      (JOS - 2020/03/13, TBD)
+
+    - Add Splitter VFD
+
+      Maintain separate R/W and W/O channels for "concurrent" file writes
+      to two files using a single HDF5 file handle.
+
+      (JOS - 2020/03/13, TBD)
+
+    - Fixed an assertion failure in the parallel library when collectively
+      filling chunks. As it is required that chunks be written in
+      monotonically non-decreasing order of offset in the file, this assertion
+      was being triggered when the list of chunk file space allocations being
+      passed to the collective chunk filling routine was not sorted according
+      to this particular requirement.
+
+      The addition of a sort of the out of order chunks trades a bit of
+      performance for the elimination of this assertion and of any complaints
+      from MPI implementations about the file offsets used being out of order.
+
+      (JTH - 2019/10/07)
+
+    Fortran Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Add wrappers for H5Pset/get_file_locking() API calls
+
+      h5pget_file_locking_f()
+      h5pset_file_locking_f()
+
+      See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more
+      information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled.
+
+      (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092)
+
+    - Added new Fortran parameters:
+
+        H5F_LIBVER_ERROR_F
+        H5F_LIBVER_NBOUNDS_F
+        H5F_LIBVER_V18_F
+        H5F_LIBVER_V110_F
+
+    - Added new Fortran API: h5pget_libver_bounds_f
+
+      (MSB - 2020/02/11, HDFFV-11018)
+
+    C++ Library:
+    ------------
+    - Add wrappers for H5Pset/get_file_locking() API calls
+
+      FileAccPropList::setFileLocking()
+      FileAccPropList::getFileLocking()
+
+      See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more
+      information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled.
+
+      (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092)
+
+    Java Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Add wrappers for H5Pset/get_file_locking() API calls
+
+      H5Pset_file_locking()
+      H5Pget_use_file_locking()
+      H5Pget_ignore_disabled_file_locking()
+
+      Unlike the C++ and Fortran wrappers, there are separate getters for the
+      two file locking settings, each of which returns a boolean value.
+
+      See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more
+      information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled.
+
+      (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092)
+
+    Tools:
+    ------
+    - h5repack added options to control how external links are handled.
+
+      Currently h5repack preserves external links and cannot copy and merge
+      data from the external files. Two options, merge and prune, were added to
+      control how to merge data from an external link into the resulting file.
+       --merge             Follow external soft link recursively and merge data.
+       --prune             Do not follow external soft links and remove link.
+       --merge --prune     Follow external link, merge data and remove dangling link.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/08/05, HDFFV-9984)
+
+    High-Level APIs:
+    ---------------
+    - None
+
+    C Packet Table API
+    ------------------
+    - None
+
+    Internal header file
+    --------------------
+    - None
+
+    Documentation
+    -------------
+    - None
+
+
+Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
+=======================================
+    - None
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.6 release
+==================================
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Fix bug and simplify collective metadata write operation when some ranks
+        have no entries to contribute.  This fixes parallel regression test
+        failures with IBM SpectrumScale MPI on the Summit system at ORNL.
+
+      (QAK - 2020/09/02)
+
+    - Avoid setting up complex MPI types with 0-length vectors, which some
+        MPI implementations don't handle well.  (In particular, IBM
+        SpectrumScale MPI on the Summit system at ORNL)
+
+      (QAK - 2020/08/21)
+
+    - Fixed use-of-uninitialized-value error
+
+      Appropriate initialization of local structs was added to remove the
+      use-of-uninitialized-value errors reported by MemorySanitizer.
+
+      (BMR - 2020/8/13, HDFFV-11101)
+
+    - Creation of dataset with optional filter
+
+      When the combination of type, space, etc doesn't work for filter
+      and the filter is optional, it was supposed to be skipped but it was
+      not skipped and the creation failed.
+
+      A fix is applied to allow the creation of a dataset in such
+      situation, as specified in the user documentation.
+
+      (BMR - 2020/8/13, HDFFV-10933)
+
+    - Explicitly declared dlopen to use RTLD_LOCAL
+
+      dlopen documentation states that if neither RTLD_GLOBAL nor
+      RTLD_LOCAL are specified, then the default behavior is unspecified.
+      The default on linux is usually RTLD_LOCAL while macos will default
+      to RTLD_GLOBAL.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/08/12, HDFFV-11127)
+
+    - Fixed issues CVE-2018-13870 and CVE-2018-13869
+
+      When a buffer overflow occurred because a name length was corrupted
+      and became very large, h5dump crashed on memory access violation.
+
+      A check for reading past the end of the buffer was added to multiple
+      locations to prevent the crashes and h5dump now simply fails with an
+      error message when this error condition occurs.
+
+      (BMR - 2020/7/31, HDFFV-11120 and HDFFV-11121)
+
+    - H5Sset_extent_none() sets the dataspace class to H5S_NO_CLASS which
+      causes asserts/errors when passed to other dataspace API calls.
+
+      H5S_NO_CLASS is an internal class value that should not have been
+      exposed via a public API call.
+
+      In debug builds of the library, this can cause asserts to trip. In
+      non-debug builds, it will produce normal library errors.
+
+      The new library behavior is for H5Sset_extent_none() to convert
+      the dataspace into one of type H5S_NULL, which is better handled
+      by the library and easier for developers to reason about.
+
+      (DER - 2020/07/27, HDFFV-11027)
+
+    - Fixed the segmentation fault when reading attributes with multiple threads
+
+      It was reported that the reading of attributes with variable length string
+      datatype will crash with segmentation fault particularly when the number
+      of threads is high (>16 threads).  The problem was due to the file pointer
+      that was set in the variable length string datatype for the attribute.
+      That file pointer was already closed when the attribute was accessed.
+
+      The problem was fixed by setting the file pointer to the current opened
+      file pointer when the attribute was accessed.  Similar patch up was done
+      before when reading dataset with variable length string datatype.
+
+      (VC - 2020/07/13, HDFFV-11080)
+
+    -  Fixed issue CVE-2018-17438
+
+      A division by zero was discovered in H5D__select_io() of H5Dselect.c.
+        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17438
+
+      A check was added to protect against division by zero.  When such
+      situation occurs again, the normal HDF5 error handling will be invoked,
+      instead of segmentation fault.
+
+      (BMR, DER - 2020/07/09, HDFFV-10587)
+
+    - Fixed CVE-2018-17435
+
+      The tool h52gif produced a segfault when the size of an attribute message
+      was corrupted and caused a buffer overflow.
+
+      The problem was fixed by verifying the attribute message's size against the
+      buffer size before accessing the buffer.  h52gif was also fixed to display
+      the failure instead of silently exiting after the segfault was eliminated.
+
+      (BMR - 2020/6/19, HDFFV-10591)
+
+    - Don't allocate an empty (0-dimensioned) chunked dataset's chunk
+      index, until the dataset's dimensions are increased.
+
+      (QAK - 2020/05/07)
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Stopped addition of szip header and include directory path for
+      incompatible libsz
+
+      szlib.h is the same for both 32-bit and 64-bit szip, and the header file
+      and its path were added to the HDF5 binary even though the configure
+      check of a function in libsz later failed and szip compression was not
+      enabled.  The header file and include path are now added only when the
+      libsz function passes the configure check.
+
+      (LRK - 2020/08/17, HDFFV-10830)
+
+    - Added -fsanitize=address autotools configure option for Clang compiler
+
+      Clang sanitizer options were also added for Clang compilers with CMake.
+
+      (LRK, 2020/08/05, HDFFV-10836)
+
+    - Updated testh5cc.sh.in for functions versioned in HDF5 1.10.
+
+      testh5cc.sh previously tested that the correct version of a function
+      versioned in HDF5 1.6 or 1.8 was compiled when one of
+      H5_NO_DEPRECATED_SYMBOLS or H5_USE_16_API_DEFAULT were defined.  This
+      test was extended for additional testing with H5_USE_18_API_DEFAULT.
+
+      (LRK, 2020/06/22, HDFFV-11000)
+
+    - Fixed CMake include properties for Fortran libraries
+
+      Corrected the library properties for Fortran to use the
+      correct path for the Fortran module files.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/02/04, HDFFV-11012)
+
+    Performance
+    -------------
+    - None
+
+    Java Library:
+    ----------------
+    - None
+
+    Fortran
+    --------
+    - Corrected INTERFACE INTENT(IN) to INTENT(OUT) for buf_size in h5fget_file_image_f.
+
+      (MSB - 2020/2/18, HDFFV-11029)
+
+    - Fixed configure issue when building HDF5 with NAG Fortran 7.0.
+
+      HDF5 now accounts for the addition of half-precision floating-point
+      in NAG 7.0 with a KIND=16.
+
+      (MSB - 2020/02/28, HDFFV-11033)
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - The tools library was updated by standardizing the error stack process.
+
+      General sequence is:
+          h5tools_setprogname(PROGRAMNAME);
+          h5tools_setstatus(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+          h5tools_init();
+          ... process the command-line (check for error-stack enable) ...
+          h5tools_error_report();
+          ... (do work) ...
+          h5diff_exit(ret);
+
+      (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-11066)
+
+    - h5diff fixed a command line parsing error.
+
+      h5diff would ignore the argument to -d (delta) if it is smaller than DBL_EPSILON.
+      The macro H5_DBL_ABS_EQUAL was removed and a direct value comparision was used.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-10897)
+
+    - h5diff added a command line option to ignore attributes.
+
+      h5diff would ignore all objects with a supplied path if the exclude-path argument is used.
+      Adding the exclude-attribute argument will only eclude attributes, with the supplied path,
+      from comparision.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-5935)
+
+    - h5diff added another level to the verbose argument to print filenames.
+
+      Added verbose level 3 that is level 2 plus the filenames. The levels are:
+          0 : Identical to '-v' or '--verbose'
+          1 : All level 0 information plus one-line attribute status summary
+          2 : All level 1 information plus extended attribute status report
+          3 : All level 2 information plus file names
+
+      (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-10005)
+
+    - h5repack was fixed to repack the reference attributes properly.
+      The code line that checks if the update of reference inside a compound
+      datatype is misplaced outside the code block loop that carries out the
+      check. In consequence, the next attribute that is not the reference
+      type was repacked again as the reference type and caused the failure of
+      repacking. The fix is to move the corresponding code line to the correct
+      code block.
+
+      (KY -2020/02/10, HDFFV-11014)
+
+    High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - The H5DSis_scale function was updated to return "not a dimension scale" (0)
+      instead of failing (-1), when CLASS or DIMENSION_SCALE attributes are
+      not written according to Dimension Scales Specification.
+
+     (EIP - 2020/08/12, HDFFV-10436)
+
+    Fortran High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - None
+
+    Documentation
+    -------------
+    - None
+
+    F90 APIs
+    --------
+    - None
+
+    C++ APIs
+    --------
+    - None
+
+    Testing
+    -------
+    - Stopped java/test/junit.sh.in installing libs for testing under ${prefix}
+
+      Lib files needed are now copied to a subdirectory in the java/test
+      directory, and on Macs the loader path for libhdf5.xxxs.so is changed
+      in the temporary copy of libhdf5_java.dylib.
+
+      (LRK, 2020/7/2, HDFFV-11063)
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7    gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)
+    (echidna)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-754.31.1.el6     IBM XL C/C++ V13.1
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        IBM XL Fortran V15.1
+    (ostrich)
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (jelly/kituo/moohan)          Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                    Version 4.9.3, Version 5.3.0, Version 6.3.0,
+                                    Version 7.2.0, Version 8.3.0, Version 9.1.0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  MPICH 3.3 compiled with GCC 7.2.0
+                                  OpenMPI 4.0.0 compiled with GCC 7.2.0
+
+    SunOS 5.11 11.4.5.12.5.0      Sun C 5.15 SunOS_sparc 2017/05/30
+    32- and 64-bit                Studio 12.6 Fortran 95 8.8 SunOS_sparc 2017/05/30
+    (hedgehog)                    Sun C++ 5.15 SunOS_sparc 2017/05/30
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2018 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2017 w/ Intel Fortran 19 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2019 w/ Intel Fortran 19 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2019 w/ MSMPI 10.1 (cmake)
+
+    macOS Mojave 10.14.6          Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.3.0
+    (swallow)                     Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 19.0.4.233 20190416
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                      n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+Windows 10                              y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10 x64                          y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 64-bit             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 64-bit             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-754.31.1.el6.ppc64 XL      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
+Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
+MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-754.31.1.el6.ppc64 XL         y       y         y         n
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6    GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (platypus)                       Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Version 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
+                                  x86-64;
+                                     Version 19.10-0
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-754.31.1.el6     gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7     GNU C (gcc) and C++ (g++) compilers
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+    (jelly)                       with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai)
+                                  GCC Version 7.1.0
+                                  OpenMPI 2.1.6-GCC-7.2.0-2.29,
+                                     3.1.3-GCC-7.2.0-2.29
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc) and C++ (icpc) compilers
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai)
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7     MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+    (moohan)
+
+    Linux-3.10.0-1127.0.0.1chaos  openmpi-4.0.0
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           clang/3.9.0, 8.0.1
+    (quartz)                          gcc/7.3.0, 8.1.0
+                                      intel/16.0.4
+
+    Linux-4.14.0-115.10.1.1       spectrum-mpi/rolling-release
+    #1 SMP ppc64le GNU/Linux          clang/coral-2018.08.08
+    (lassen)                          gcc/7.3.1
+                                      xl/2019.02.07
+
+    Linux-4.12.14-150.52-default  cray-mpich/7.7.10
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           gcc/7.3.0, 8.2.0
+    (cori)                            intel/19.0.3
+
+    Linux-4.4.180-94.107-default  cray-mpich/7.7.6
+    # 1SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           gcc/7.2.0, 8.2.0
+    (mutrino)                         intel/17.0.4, 18.0.2, 19.0.4
+
+    Fedora 32 5.7.15-200.fc32.x86_64  Clang version 10.0.0 (Fedora 10.0.0-2.fc32)
+    #1 SMP x86_64  GNU/Linux      GNU gcc (GCC) 10.2.1 20200723 (Red Hat 10.2.1-1)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 10.2.1 20200723 (Red Hat 10.2.1)
+                                     (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6   Apple clang version 7.3.0 from Xcode 7.3
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
+    (osx1011test)                 Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
+
+    macOS Sierra 10.12.6          Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang-900.39.2)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 7.4.0
+    (kite)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 17.0.2
+
+    macOS High Sierra 10.13.6     Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.3.0
+    (bear)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 19.0.4.233 20190416
+
+    SunOS 5.11 11.3               Sun C 5.15 SunOS_sparc
+    32- and 64-bit                Sun Fortran 95 8.8 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun C++ 5.15 SunOS_sparc
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+    CMake files do not behave correctly with paths containing spaces.
+    Do not use spaces in paths because the required escaping for handling spaces
+    results in very complex and fragile build files.
+    ADB - 2019/05/07
+
+    At present, metadata cache images may not be generated by parallel
+    applications.  Parallel applications can read files with metadata cache
+    images, but since this is a collective operation, a deadlock is possible
+    if one or more processes do not participate.
+
+    Two tests fail attempting collective writes with OpenMPI 3.0.0/GCC-7.2.0-2.29:
+        testphdf5 (ecdsetw, selnone, cchunk1, cchunk3, cchunk4, and actualio)
+        t_shapesame (sscontig2)
+
+    CPP ptable test fails on both VS2017 and VS2019 with Intel compiler, JIRA
+    issue: HDFFV-10628.  This test will pass with VS2015 with Intel compiler.
+
+    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.
+
+
+CMake vs. Autotools installations
+=================================
+While both build systems produce similar results, there are differences.
+Each system produces the same set of folders on linux (only CMake works
+on standard Windows); bin, include, lib and share. Autotools places the
+COPYING and RELEASE.txt file in the root folder, CMake places them in
+the share folder.
+
+The bin folder contains the tools and the build scripts. Additionally, CMake
+creates dynamic versions of the tools with the suffix "-shared". Autotools
+installs one set of tools depending on the "--enable-shared" configuration
+option.
+  build scripts
+  -------------
+  Autotools: h5c++, h5cc, h5fc
+  CMake: h5c++, h5cc, h5hlc++, h5hlcc
+
+The include folder holds the header files and the fortran mod files. CMake
+the share folder.
+
+The bin folder contains the tools and the build scripts. Additionally, CMake
+places the fortran mod files into separate shared and static subfolders,
+while Autotools places one set of mod files into the include folder. Because
+CMake produces a tools library, the header files for tools will appear in
+the include folder.
+
+The lib folder contains the library files, and CMake adds the pkgconfig
+subfolder with the hdf5*.pc files used by the bin/build scripts created by
+the CMake build. CMake separates the C interface code from the fortran code by
+creating C-stub libraries for each Fortran library. In addition, only CMake
+installs the tools library. The names of the szip libraries are different
+between the build systems.
+
+The share folder will have the most differences because CMake builds include
+a number of CMake specific files for support of CMake's find_package and support
+for the HDF5 Examples CMake project.
+
+
+
+%%%%1.10.6%%%%
+
+HDF5 version 1.10.6 released on 2019-12-23
+================================================================================
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+This document describes the differences between this release and the previous
+HDF5 release. It contains information on the platforms tested and known
+problems in this release. For more details check the HISTORY*.txt files in the
+HDF5 source.
+
+Note that documentation in the links below will be updated at the time of each
+final release.
+
+Links to HDF5 documentation can be found on The HDF5 web page:
+
+     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5
+
+The official HDF5 releases can be obtained from:
+
+     https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/
+
+Changes from Release to Release and New Features in the HDF5-1.10.x release series
+can be found at:
+
+     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5+Application+Developer%27s+Guide
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+- New Features
+- Support for new platforms and languages
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.5
+- Supported Platforms
+- Tested Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+- CMake vs. Autotools installations
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration:
+    -------------
+    - Update CMake for VS2019 support
+
+      CMake added support for VS2019 in version 3.15. Changes to the CMake
+      generator setting required changes to scripts. Also updated version
+      references in CMake files as necessary.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/11/18, HDFFV-10962)
+
+    - Update CMake options to match new autotools options
+
+      Add configure options (autotools - CMake):
+            enable-asserts       HDF5_ENABLE_ASSERTS
+            enable-symbols       HDF5_ENABLE_SYMBOLS
+            enable-profiling     HDF5_ENABLE_PROFILING
+            enable-optimization  HDF5_ENABLE_OPTIMIZATION
+      In addition NDEBUG is no longer forced defined and relies on the CMake
+      process.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/10/07, HDFFV-100901, HDFFV-10637, TRILAB-97)
+
+    - Update CMake tests to use FIXTURES
+
+      CMake test fixtures allow setup/cleanup tests and other dependency
+      requirements as properties for tests. This is more flexible for
+      modern CMake code.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/07/23, HDFFV-10529)
+
+    - Windows PDB files are always installed
+
+      There are build configuration or flag settings for Windows that may not
+      generate PDB files. If those files are not generated then the install
+      utility will fail because those PDB files are not found. An optional
+      variable, DISABLE_PDB_FILES, was added to not install PDB files.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/07/17, HDFFV-10424)
+
+    - Add mingw CMake support with a toolchain file
+
+      There have been a number of mingw issues that have been linked under
+      HDFFV-10845. It has been decided to implement the CMake cross-compiling
+      technique of toolchain files. We will use a linux platform with the mingw
+      compiler stack for testing. Only the C language is fully supported, and
+      the error tests are skipped. The C++ language works for static but shared
+      builds have a shared library issue with the mingw Standard Exception Handling
+      library, which is not available on Windows. Fortran has a common cross-compile
+      problem with the fortran configure tests.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/07/12, HDFFV-10845, HDFFV-10595)
+
+    - Windows PDB files are installed incorrectly
+
+      For static builds, the PDB files for windows should be installed next
+      to the static libraries in the lib folder. Also the debug versions of
+      libraries and PDB files are now correctly built using the default
+      CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX setting.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/07/09, HDFFV-10581)
+
+    - Add option to build only shared libs
+
+      A request was made to prevent building static libraries and only build
+      shared.  A new option was added to CMake, ONLY_SHARED_LIBS, which will
+      skip building static libraries. Certain utility functions will build with
+      static libs but are not published. Tests are adjusted to use the correct
+      libraries depending on SHARED/STATIC settings.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/06/12, HDFFV-10805)
+
+    - Add options to enable or disable building tools and tests
+
+      Configure options --enable-tests and --enable-tools were added for
+      autotools configure.  These options are enabled by default, and can be
+      disabled with either --disable-tests (or tools) or --enable-tests=no
+      (or --enable-tools=no).  Build time is reduced ~20% when tools are
+      disabled, 35% when tests are disabled, 45% when both are disabled.
+      Re-enabling them after the initial build requires running configure
+      again with the option(s) enabled.
+
+      (LRK - 2019/06/12, HDFFV-9976)
+
+    - Change tools tests to search the error stack
+
+      There are some use cases which can cause the error stack of tools to be
+      different then the expected output. These tests now use grepTest.cmake;
+      this was changed to allow the error file to be searched for an expected string.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/04/15, HDFFV-10741)
+
+
+    Library:
+    --------
+    - Added S3 and HDFS Virtual File Drivers (VFDs) to HDF5
+
+      These new VFDs have been introduced in HDF5-1.10.6.  Instructions to
+      enable them when configuring HDF5 on Linux and Mac may be found at
+      https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/Virtual+File+Drivers+-+S3+and+HDFS.
+
+      Installing on Windows requires CMake 3.13 and the following additional setup.
+            Install openssl library (with dev files);
+            from "Shining Light Productions". msi package preferred.
+
+            PATH should have been updated with the installation dir.
+            set ENV variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR to the installation dir.
+            set ENV variable OPENSSL_CONF to the cfg file, likely %OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR%\bin\openssl.cfg
+            Install libcurl library (with dev files);
+            download the latest released version using git: https://github.com/curl/curl.git
+
+            Open a Visual Studio Command prompt
+            change to the libcurl root folder
+            run the "buildconf.bat" batch file
+            change to the winbuild directory
+            nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=dll MACHINE=x64
+            copy libcurl-vc-x64-release-dll-ipv6-sspi-winssl dir to C:\curl (installation dir)
+            set ENV variable CURL_ROOT to C:\curl (installation dir)
+            update PATH ENV variable to %CURL_ROOT%\bin (installation bin dir).
+            the aws credentials file should be in %USERPROFILE%\.aws folder
+            set the ENV variable "HDF5_ROS3_TEST_BUCKET_URL=https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/hdf5ros3"
+
+      (ADB - 2019/09/12, HDFFV-10854)
+
+    C++ Library:
+    ------------
+    - Added new wrappers for H5Pset/get_create_intermediate_group()
+        LinkCreatPropList::setCreateIntermediateGroup()
+        LinkCreatPropList::getCreateIntermediateGroup()
+
+      (BMR - 2019/04/22, HDFFV-10622)
+
+
+    Java Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Fixed a failure in JUnit-TestH5P on 32-bit architectures
+
+      (JTH - 2019/04/30)
+
+
+Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
+=======================================
+    - CMake added support for VS2019 in version 3.15. Updated scripts.
+
+    - macOS 10.13.6 Darwin 17.7.0 with Apple clang LLVM version 10.0.0
+
+    - macOS 10.14.6 Darwin 18.7.0 with Apple clang LLVM version 10.0.1
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.5 release
+==================================
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Improved performance when creating a large number of small datasets by
+      retrieving default property values from the API context instead of doing
+      skip list searches. More work is required to achieve parity with HDF5 1.8.
+
+      (CJH - 2019/12/10, HDFFV-10658)
+
+    - Fixed user-created data access properties not existing in the property list
+      returned by H5Dget_access_plist. Thanks to Steven Varga for submitting a
+      reproducer and a patch.
+
+      (CJH - 2019/12/9, HDFFV-10934)
+
+    - Inappropriate linking with deprecated MPI C++ libraries
+
+      HDF5 does not define *_SKIP_MPICXX in the public headers, so applications
+      can inadvertently wind up linking to the deprecated MPI C++ wrappers.
+
+      MPICH_SKIP_MPICXX and OMPI_SKIP_MPICXX have both been defined in H5public.h
+      so this should no longer be an issue. HDF5 makes no use of the deprecated
+      MPI C++ wrappers.
+
+      (DER - 2019/09/17, HDFFV-10893)
+
+    - fcntl(2)-based file locking incorrectly passed the lock argument struct
+      instead of a pointer to the struct, causing errors on systems where
+      flock(2) is not available.
+
+      File locking is used when files are opened to enforce SWMR semantics. A
+      lock operation takes place on all file opens unless the
+      HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING environment variable is set to the string "FALSE".
+      flock(2) is preferentially used, with fcntl(2) locks as a backup if
+      flock(2) is unavailable on a system (if neither is available, the lock
+      operation fails). On these systems, the file lock will often fail, which
+      causes HDF5 to not open the file and report an error.
+
+      This bug only affects POSIX systems. Win32 builds on Windows use a no-op
+      locking call which always succeeds. Systems which exhibit this bug will
+      have H5_HAVE_FCNTL defined but not H5_HAVE_FLOCK in the configure output.
+
+      This bug affects HDF5 1.10.0 through 1.10.5.
+
+      fcntl(2)-based file locking now correctly passes the struct pointer.
+
+      (DER - 2019/08/27, HDFFV-10892)
+
+    - Fixed a bug caused by a bad tag value when condensing object header
+      messages
+
+      There was an assertion failure when moving messages from running a
+      user test program with library release HDF5 1.10.4. It was because
+      the tag value (object header's address) was not set up when entering
+      the library routine H5O__chunk_update_idx(), which eventually
+      verifies the metadata tag value when protecting the object header.
+
+      The problem was fixed by replacing FUNC_ENTER_PACKAGE in H5O__chunk_update_idx()
+      with FUNC_ENTER_PACKAGE_TAG(oh->cache_info.addr) to set up the metadata tag.
+
+      (VC - 2019/08/23, HDFFV-10873)
+
+    - Fixed the test failure from test_metadata_read_retry_info() in
+      test/swmr.c
+
+      The test failure is due to an incorrect number of bins returned for
+      retry info (info.nbins).  The # of bins expected for 101 read attempts
+      is 3 instead of 2.  The routine H5F_set_retries() in src/H5Fint.c
+      calculates the # of bins by first obtaining the log10 value for
+      (read attempts - 1).  For PGI/19, the log10 value for 100 read attempts
+      is 1.9999999999999998 instead of 2.00000.  When casting the log10 value
+      to unsigned later on, the decimal part is chopped off causing the test
+      failure.
+
+      This was fixed by obtaining the rounded integer value (HDceil) for the
+      log10 value of read attempts first before casting the result to unsigned.
+
+      (VC - 2019/8/14, HDFFV-10813)
+
+    - Fixed an issue when creating a file with non-default file space info
+      together with library high bound setting to H5F_LIBVER_V18.
+
+      When setting non-default file space info in fcpl via
+      H5Pset_file_space_strategy() and then creating a file with both high and
+      low library bounds set to H5F_LIBVER_V18 in fapl, the library succeeds in
+      creating the file.  File creation should fail because the feature of
+      setting non-default file space info does not exist in library release 1.8
+      or earlier.
+
+      This was fixed by setting and checking the proper version in the file
+      space info message based on the library low and high bounds when creating
+      and opening the HDF5 file.
+
+      (VC - 2019/6/25, HDFFV-10808)
+
+    - Fixed an issue where copying a version 1.8 dataset between files using
+      H5Ocopy fails due to an incompatible fill version
+
+      When using the HDF5 1.10.x H5Ocopy() API call to copy a version 1.8
+      dataset to a file created with both high and low library bounds set to
+      H5F_LIBVER_V18, the H5Ocopy() call will fail with the error stack indicating
+      that the fill value version is out of bounds.
+
+      This was fixed by changing the fill value message version to H5O_FILL_VERSION_3
+      (from H5O_FILL_VERSION_2) for H5F_LIBVER_V18.
+
+      (VC - 2019/6/14, HDFFV-10800)
+
+    - Fixed a bug that would cause an error or cause fill values to be
+      incorrectly read from a chunked dataset using the "single chunk" index if
+      the data was held in cache and there was no data on disk.
+
+      (NAF - 2019/03/06)
+
+    - Fixed a bug that could cause an error or cause fill values to be
+      incorrectly read from a dataset that was written to using H5Dwrite_chunk
+      if the dataset was not closed after writing.
+
+      (NAF - 2019/03/06, HDFFV-10716)
+
+    - Fixed memory leak in scale offset filter
+
+      In a special case where the MinBits is the same as the number of bits in
+      the datatype's precision, the filter's data buffer was not freed, causing
+      the memory usage to grow. In general the buffer was freed correctly.  The
+      Minbits are the minimal number of bits to store the data values.  Please
+      see the reference manual for H5Pset_scaleoffset for the details.
+
+      (RL - 2019/3/4, HDFFV-10705)
+
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Correct option for default API version
+
+      CMake options for default API version are not mutually exclusive.
+      Change the multiple BOOL options to a single STRING option with the
+      strings; v16, v18, v110.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/08/12, HDFFV-10879)
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - h5repack was fixed to repack datasets with external storage
+      to other types of storage.
+
+      New test added to repack files and verify the correct data using h5diff.
+
+      (JS - 2019/09/25, HDFFV-10408)
+      (ADB - 2019/10/02, HDFFV-10918)
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-696.20.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23)
+                                  IBM XL C/C++ V13.1
+                                  IBM XL Fortran V15.1
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7   GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (jelly/kituo/moohan)          Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                    Version 4.9.3, Version 5.2.0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+
+    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2018 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ MSMPI 8 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10                    Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2017 w/ Intel Fortran 19 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2019 w/ Intel Fortran 19 (cmake)
+
+    macOS 10.13.6, Darwin,        Apple clang LLVM version 10.0.0
+    17.7.0, x86_64                gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.3.0
+    (bear)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 19.0.4
+
+    macOS 10.14.6, Darwin         Apple clang LLVM version 10.0.1
+    18.7.0, x86_64                gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.3.0
+    (bobcat)                      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 19.0.4
+
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                      n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                    n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10                              y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10 x64                          y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64         n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                       n       n         n         y
+Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
+Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit           y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit         y       y         y         y
+MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 64-bit           y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following configurations are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-754.11.1.el6     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (mayll/platypus)                 Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Version 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
+                                  x86-64;
+                                     Version 17.10-0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20170411
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7     GNU C (gcc) and C++ (g++) compilers
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+    (jelly)                       with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.2(Chiyoda)
+                                  GCC Version 7.1.0
+                                  MPICH 3.2-GCC-4.9.3
+                                  MPICH 3.2.1-GCC-7.2.0-2.29
+                                  OpenMPI 2.1.5-GCC-7.2.0-2.29
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc) and C++ (icpc) compilers
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.2(Chiyoda)
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7     MPICH 3.2 compiled with GCC 5.3.0
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+    (moohan)
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64  MPICH mpich 3.1.4 compiled with
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux           IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V13.1
+    (ostrich)                        and IBM XL Fortran for Linux, V15.1
+
+    Fedora30 5.3.11-200.fc30.x86_64
+    #1 SMP x86_64  GNU/Linux      GNU gcc (GCC) 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1 20190827)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1 20190827)
+                                     (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Mac OS X 10.11.6, Darwin,     Apple clang version 7.3.0 from Xcode 7.3
+    15.6.0, x86-64                gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
+    (osx1011test)                 Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
+
+    macOS 10.12.6, Darwin,        Apple clang LLVM version 8.1.0 from Xcode 8.3
+    16.6.0, x86_64                gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 7.1.0
+    (kite)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 17.0.2
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2008
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+    CMake files do not behave correctly with paths containing spaces.
+    Do not use spaces in paths because the required escaping for handling spaces
+    results in very complex and fragile build files.
+    ADB - 2019/05/07
+
+    At present, metadata cache images may not be generated by parallel
+    applications.  Parallel applications can read files with metadata cache
+    images, but since this is a collective operation, a deadlock is possible
+    if one or more processes do not participate.
+
+    Three tests fail with OpenMPI 3.0.0/GCC-7.2.0-2.29:
+        testphdf5 (ecdsetw, selnone, cchunk1, cchunk3, cchunk4, and actualio)
+        t_shapesame (sscontig2)
+        t_pflush1/fails on exit
+    The first two tests fail attempting collective writes.
+
+    Parallel builds using OpenMPI 3.03 or later and romio fail several tests
+    with collective writes or compression that will not fail when ompio is used
+    instead of romio.  This can be done by adding "--mca io ompio" to the mpirun
+    command.  For example, in autotools builds RUNPARALLEL can be set to
+    "mpirun --mca io ompio -n 6" provided ompio is installed.
+
+    CPP ptable test fails on VS2017 with Intel compiler, JIRA issue: HDFFV-10628.
+    This test will pass with VS2015 with Intel compiler.
+
+    Older MPI libraries such as OpenMPI 2.0.1 and MPICH 2.1.5 were tested
+    while attempting to resolve the Jira issue: HDFFV-10540.
+    The known problems of reading or writing > 2GBs when using MPI-2 was
+    partially resolved with the MPICH library. The proposed support recognizes
+    IO operations > 2GB and if the datatype is not a derived type, the library
+    breaks the IO into chunks which can be input or output with the existing
+    MPI 2 limitations, i.e. size reporting and function API size/count
+    arguments are restricted to be 32 bit integers.  For derived types larger
+    than 2GB, MPICH 2.1.5 fails while attempting to read or write data.
+    OpenMPI in contrast, implements MPI-3 APIs even in the older releases
+    and thus does not suffer from the 32 bit size limitation described here.
+    OpenMPI releases prior to v3.1.3 appear to have other datatype issues however,
+    e.g. within a single parallel test (testphdf5) the subtests (cdsetr, eidsetr)
+    report data verfication errors before eventually aborting.
+    The most recent versions of OpenMPI (v3.1.3 or newer) have evidently
+    resolved these isses and parallel HDF5 testing does not currently report
+    errors though occasional hangs have been observed.
+
+    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.
+
+
+CMake vs. Autotools installations
+=================================
+While both build systems produce similar results, there are differences.
+Each system produces the same set of folders on linux (only CMake works
+on standard Windows); bin, include, lib and share. Autotools places the
+COPYING and RELEASE.txt file in the root folder, CMake places them in
+the share folder.
+
+The bin folder contains the tools and the build scripts. Additionally, CMake
+creates dynamic versions of the tools with the suffix "-shared". Autotools
+installs one set of tools depending on the "--enable-shared" configuration
+option.
+  build scripts
+  -------------
+  Autotools: h5c++, h5cc, h5fc
+  CMake: h5c++, h5cc, h5hlc++, h5hlcc
+
+The include folder holds the header files and the fortran mod files. CMake
+places the fortran mod files into separate shared and static subfolders,
+while Autotools places one set of mod files into the include folder. Because
+CMake produces a tools library, the header files for tools will appear in
+the include folder.
+
+The lib folder contains the library files, and CMake adds the pkgconfig
+subfolder with the hdf5*.pc files used by the bin/build scripts created by
+the CMake build. CMake separates the C interface code from the fortran code by
+creating C-stub libraries for each Fortran library. In addition, only CMake
+installs the tools library. The names of the szip libraries are different
+between the build systems.
+
+The share folder will have the most differences because CMake builds include
+a number of CMake specific files for support of CMake's find_package and support
+for the HDF5 Examples CMake project.
+
+%%%%1.10.5%%%%
+
+HDF5 version 1.10.5 released on 2019-02-25
+================================================================================
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+This document describes the differences between this release and the previous
+HDF5 release. It contains information on the platforms tested and known
+problems in this release. For more details check the HISTORY*.txt files in the
+HDF5 source.
+
+Note that documentation in the links below will be updated at the time of each
+final release.
+
+Links to HDF5 documentation can be found on The HDF5 web page:
+
+     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5
+
+The official HDF5 releases can be obtained from:
+
+     https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/
+
+Changes from Release to Release and New Features in the HDF5-1.10.x release series
+can be found at:
+
+     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5+Application+Developer%27s+Guide
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+- New Features
+- Support for new platforms and languages
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.4
+- Supported Platforms
+- Tested Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+- CMake vs. Autotools installations
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration:
+    -------------
+    - Cross compile on mutrino and other Cray XC40 systems.
+
+      Added support for CMake options to use CrayLinuxEnvironment, craype-mic-knl
+      module for building with craype-haswell module for configuration, and
+      batch scripts in bin/batch for use with sbatch or bsub to run tests in
+      batch jobs on compute nodes.  An instruction file README_HPC describing
+      the use of these options was added in release_docs.
+
+      (LRK - 2019/02/18, TRILABS-34)
+
+    - Rework CMake command files to fix MPI testing.
+
+      Added setup fixture to remove any test generated files and added DEPENDS
+      to test properties to execute tests in order expected.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/02/14, TRILABS-111)
+
+    - Disable SZIP or ZLIB options if TGZ files are not available.
+
+      Changed the TGZ option for SZip and ZLib to disable the options
+      if the source tar.gz files are not found.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/02/05, HDFFV-10697)
+
+    - Added a new option to enable/disable using pread/pwrite instead of
+      read/write in the sec2, log, and core VFDs.
+
+      This option is enabled by default when pread/pwrite are detected.
+
+      Autotools:    --enable-preadwrite
+      CMake:        HDF5_ENABLE_PREADWRITE
+
+      (DER - 2019/02/03, HDFFV-10696)
+
+    - Rework CMake versioning for OSX platforms.
+
+      Changed the current_version and compatibility_version flags from optional
+      with HDF5_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_NAME to always setting the flags for OSX.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/01/22, HDFFV-10685)
+
+    - Rework CMake command files to eliminate developer CMP005 warning
+
+      Use variables without quotes in if () statements.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/01/18, TILABS-105)
+
+    - Rework CMake configure files to eliminate developer CMP0075 warning
+
+      Renamed varname to HDF5_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES as the contents were not
+      required for configuration. Also moved check includes calls to top of
+      files.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/01/03, HDFFV-10546)
+
+    - Keep stderr and stdout separate in tests
+
+      Changed test handling of output capture. Tests now keep the stderr
+      output separate from the stdout output. It is up to the test to decide
+      which output to check against a reference. Also added the option
+      to grep for a string in either output.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/12/12, HDFFV-10632)
+
+    - Incorrectly installed private header files were removed from
+      CMake installs.
+
+      The CMake build files incorrectly flagged the following header files
+      as public and installed them. They are private and will no longer be
+      installed.
+
+        HDF5 library private package files (H5Xpkg.h)
+        H5Edefin.h
+        H5Einit.h
+        H5Eterm.h
+        H5LTparse.h
+        h5diff.h
+        h5tools_dump.h
+        h5tools.h
+        h5tools_ref.h
+        h5tools_str.h
+        h5tools_utils.h
+        h5trav.h
+
+      (DER - 2018/10/26, HDFFV-10614, 10609)
+
+    - Autotools installs now install H5FDwindows.h
+
+      This is simply to align the installed header files between the
+      autotools and CMake. H5FDwindows.h has no functionality on
+      non-Windows systems.
+
+      (DER - 2018/10/26, HDFFV-10614)
+
+
+    Library:
+    --------
+    - The sec2, log, and core VFDs can now use pread/pwrite instead of
+      read/write.
+
+      pread and pwrite do not change the file offset, a feature that was
+      requested by a user working with a multi-threaded application.
+
+      The option to configure this feature is described above.
+
+      (DER - 2019/02/03, HDFFV-10696)
+
+    - Add ability to minimze dataset object headers.
+
+      Creation of many, very small datasets resulted in extensive file bloat
+      due to extra space in the dataset object headers -- this space is
+      allocated by default to allow for the insertion of a small number of
+      attributes within the object header and not require a continuation
+      block, an unnecessary provision in the target use case.
+
+      Inform the library to expect no attributes on created datasets, and to
+      allocate the least space possible for the object headers.
+      NOTE: A continuation block is created if attributes are added to a
+      'minimized' dataset, which can reduce performance.
+      NOTE: Some extra space is allocated for attributes essential to the
+      correct behavior of the object header (store creation times, e.g.). This
+      does not violate the design principle, as the space is calculated and
+      allocated as needed at the time of dataset object header creation --
+      unused space is not generated.
+      New API calls:
+      H5Fget_dset_no_attrs_hint
+      H5Fset_dset_no_attrs_hint
+      H5Pget_dset_no_attrs_hint
+      H5Pset_dset_no_attrs_hint
+
+      (JOS - 2019/01/04, TRILAB-45)
+
+    - Added new chunk query functions
+
+      The following public functions were added to discover information about
+      the chunks in an HDF5 file.
+        herr_t H5Dget_num_chunks(dset_id, fspace_id, *nchunks)
+        herr_t H5Dget_chunk_info_by_coord(dset_id, *coord, *filter_mask, *addr, *size)
+        herr_t H5Dget_chunk_info(dset_id, fspace_id, index, *coord, *filter_mask, *addr, *size)
+
+      (BMR - 2018/11/07, HDFFV-10615)
+
+    - Several empty public header files where removed from the distribution
+
+      The following files were empty placeholders. They are for internal
+      packages that are unlikely to ever have public functionality and have
+      thus been removed.
+
+        H5Bpublic.h
+        H5B2public.h
+        H5FSpublic.h
+        H5HFpublic.h
+        H5HGpublic.h
+        H5HLpublic.h
+
+      They were only installed in CMake builds.
+
+      (DER - 2018/10/26, HDFFV-10614)
+
+
+     Parallel Library:
+    -----------------
+    - Changed the default behavior in parallel when reading the same dataset in its entirety
+      (i.e. H5S_ALL dataset selection) which is being read by all the processes collectively.
+      The dataset must be contiguous, less than 2GB, and of an atomic datatype.
+      The new behavior is the HDF5 library will use an MPI_Bcast to pass the data read from
+      the disk by the root process to the remain processes in the MPI communicator associated
+      with the HDF5 file.
+
+      (MSB - 2019/01/02, HDFFV-10652)
+
+    - All MPI-1 API calls have been replaced with MPI-2 equivalents.
+
+      This was done to better support OpenMPI, as default builds no longer
+      include MPI-1 support (as of OpenMPI 4.0).
+
+      (DER - 2018/12/30, HDFFV-10566)
+
+    Fortran Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Added wrappers for dataset object header minimization calls.
+      (see the note for TRILAB-45, above)
+
+      New API calls:
+
+      h5fget_dset_no_attrs_hint_f
+      h5fset_dset_no_attrs_hint_f
+      h5pget_dset_no_attrs_hint_f
+      h5pset_dset_no_attrs_hint_f
+
+      (DER - 2019/01/09, TRILAB-45)
+
+    - Added new Fortran derived type, c_h5o_info_t, which is interoperable with
+      C's h5o_info_t. This is needed for callback functions which
+      pass C's h5o_info_t data type definition.
+
+      (MSB, 2019/01/08, HDFFV-10443)
+
+    - Added new Fortran API, H5gmtime, which converts (C) 'time_t' structure
+      to Fortran DATE AND TIME storage format.
+
+      (MSB, 2019/01/08, HDFFV-10443)
+
+    - Added new Fortran 'fields' optional parameter to: h5ovisit_f, h5oget_info_by_name_f,
+      h5oget_info, h5oget_info_by_idx and h5ovisit_by_name_f.
+
+      (MSB, 2019/01/08, HDFFV-10443)
+
+    C++ Library:
+    ------------
+    - Added new function to the C++ interface
+
+      Added wrapper for H5Ovisit2:
+          H5Object::visit()
+
+      (BMR - 2019/02/14, HDFFV-10532)
+
+
+    Java Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Rewrote the JNI error handling to be much cleaner
+
+      (JTH - 2019/02/12)
+
+    - Add new functions to java interface
+
+      Added wrappers for:
+      H5Fset_libver_bounds
+      H5Fget_dset_no_attrs_hint/H5Fset_dset_no_attrs_hint
+      H5Pget_dset_no_attrs_hint/H5Pset_dset_no_attrs_hint
+
+      (ADB - 2019/01/07, HDFFV-10664)
+
+    - Fix java unit tests when Time is a natural number
+
+      Time substitution in java/test/junit.sh.in doesn't
+      handle the case when Time is a natural number. Fixed
+      the regular expression.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/01/07, HDFFV-10674)
+
+    - Duplicate the data read/write functions of Datasets for Attributes.
+
+      Region references could not be displayed for attributes as they could
+      for datasets. Datasets had overloaded read and write functions for different
+      datatypes that were not available for attributes. After adding similar
+      functions, attribute region references work normally.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/12/12, HDFVIEW-4)
+
+
+    Tools:
+    ------
+    - The h5repart -family-to-sec2 argument was changed to -family-to-single
+
+      In order to better support other single-file VFDs which could work with
+      h5repart, the -family-to-sec2 argument was renamed to -family-to-single.
+      This is just a name change and the functionality of the argument has not
+      changed.
+
+      The -family-to-sec2 argument has been kept for backwards-compatibility.
+      This argument should be considered deprecated.
+
+      (DER - 2018/11/14, HDFFV-10633)
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.4 release
+==================================
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Fix hangs with collective metadata reads during chunked dataset I/O
+
+      In the parallel library, it was discovered that when a particular
+      sequence of operations following a pattern of:
+
+      "write to chunked dataset" -> "flush file" -> "read from dataset"
+
+      occurred with collective metadata reads enabled, hangs could be
+      observed due to certain MPI ranks not participating in the collective
+      metadata reads.
+
+      To fix the issue, collective metadata reads are now disabled during
+      chunked dataset raw data I/O.
+
+      (JTH - 2019/02/11, HDFFV-10563, HDFFV-10688)
+
+    - Performance issue when closing an object
+
+      The slow down is due to the search of the "tag_list" to find
+      out the "corked" status of an object and "uncork" it if so.
+
+      Improve performance by skipping the search of the "tag_list"
+      if there are no "corked" objects when closing an object.
+
+      (VC - 2019/02/06)
+
+    - Uninitialized bytes from a type conversion buffer could be written
+      to disk in H5Dwrite calls where type conversion takes place
+      and the type conversion buffer was created by the HDF5 library.
+
+      When H5Dwrite is called and datatype conversion must be performed,
+      the library will create a temporary buffer for type conversion if
+      one is not provided by the user via H5Pset_buffer. This internal
+      buffer is allocated via malloc and contains uninitialized data. In
+      some datatype conversions (float to long double, possibly others),
+      some of this uninitialized data could be written to disk.
+
+      This was flagged by valgrind in the dtransform test and does not
+      appear to be a common occurrence (it is flagged in one test out
+      of the entire HDF5 test suite).
+
+      Switching to calloc fixed the problem.
+
+      (DER - 2019/02/03, HDFFV-10694)
+
+    - There was missing protection against division by zero reported to
+      The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2018-17434.
+
+      Protection against division by zero was added to address the issue
+      #CVE-2018-17434.
+
+      (BMR - 2019/01/29, HDFFV-10586)
+
+    - The issue CVE-2018-17437 was reported to The HDF Group
+
+      Although CVE-2018-17437 reported a memory leak, the actual issue
+      was invalid read. It was found that the attribute name length
+      in an attribute message was corrupted, which caused the buffer
+      pointer to be advanced too far and later caused an invalid read.
+
+      A check was added to detect when the attribute name or its length
+      was corrupted and report the potential of data corruption.
+
+      (BMR - 2019/01/29, HDFFV-10588)
+
+    - H5Ewalk did not stop when it was supposed to
+
+      H5Ewalk was supposed to stop when the callback function stopped
+      even though the errors in the stack were not all visited, but it
+      did not.  This problem is now fixed.
+
+      (BMR - 2019/01/29, HDFFV-10684)
+
+    - Revert H5Oget_info* and H5Ovisit* functions
+
+      In 1.10.3 new H5Oget_info*2 and H5Ovisit*2 functions were
+      added for performance. Inadvertently, the original functions;
+          H5Oget_info,
+          H5Oget_info_by_name,
+          H5Oget_info_by_idx,
+          H5Ovisit,
+          H5Ovisit_by_name
+      were versioned to H5Oget_info*1 and H5Ovisit*1. This
+      broke the API compatibility for a maintenance release. The
+      original functions have been restored.
+
+      (ADB - 2019/01/24, HDFFV-10686)
+
+    - Fixed a potential invalid memory access and failure that could occur when
+      decoding an unknown object header message (from a future version of the
+      library).
+
+      (NAF - 2019/01/07)
+
+    - Deleting attributes in dense storage
+
+      The library aborts with "infinite loop closing library" after
+      attributes in dense storage are created and then deleted.
+
+      When deleting the attribute nodes from the name index v2 B-tree,
+      if an attribute is found in the intermediate B-tree nodes,
+      which may be merged/redistributed in the process, we need to
+      free the dynamically allocated spaces for the intermediate
+      decoded attribute.
+
+      (VC - 2018/12/26, HDFFV-10659)
+
+    - There was missing protection against division by zero reported to
+      The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2018-17233.
+
+      Protection against division by zero was added to address the issue
+      #CVE-2018-17233.  In addition, several similar occurrences in the same
+      file were fixed as well.
+
+      (BMR - 2018/12/23, HDFFV-10577)
+
+    - Fixed an issue where the parallel filters tests would fail
+      if zlib was not available on the system. Until support can
+      be added in the tests for filters beyond gzip/zlib, the tests
+      will be skipped if zlib is not available.
+
+      (JTH - 2018/12/05)
+
+    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library where an application
+      would eventually consume all of the available MPI communicators
+      when continually writing to a compressed dataset in parallel. This
+      was due to internal copies of an HDF5 File Access Property List,
+      which each contained a copy of the MPI communicator, not being
+      closed at the end of each write operation. This problem was
+      exacerbated by larger numbers of processors.
+
+      (JTH - 2018/12/05, HDFFV-10629)
+
+
+    Fortran
+    --------
+    - Fixed issue with Fortran not returning h5o_info_t field values
+      meta_size%attr%index_size and  meta_size%attr%heap_size.
+
+      (MSB, 2019/01/08, HDFFV-10443)
+
+    - Added symbolic links libhdf5_hl_fortran.so to libhdf5hl_fortran.so and
+      libhdf5_hl_fortran.a to libhdf5hl_fortran.a in hdf5/lib directory for
+      autotools installs.  These were added to match the name of the files
+      installed by cmake and the general pattern of hl lib files.  We will
+      change the names of the installed lib files to the matching name in
+      the next major release.
+
+      (LRK - 2019/01/04, HDFFV-10596)
+
+    - Made Fortran specific subroutines PRIVATE in generic procedures.
+
+      Affected generic procedures were functions in H5A, H5D, H5P, H5R and H5T.
+
+      (MSB, 2018/12/04, HDFFV-10511)
+
+
+    Testing
+    -------
+    - Fixed a test failure in testpar/t_dset.c caused by
+      the test trying to use the parallel filters feature
+      on MPI-2 implementations.
+
+      (JTH, 2019/2/7)
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-696.16.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+                                  IBM XL C/C++ V13.1
+                                  IBM XL Fortran V15.1
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7   GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (kituo/moohan)                Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                    Version 4.9.3, Version 5.2.0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+
+    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2013
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2018 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ MSMPI 8 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10                    Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2017 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+
+    Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5     Apple clang/clang++ version 6.1 from Xcode 7.0
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (osx1010dev/osx1010test)      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6   Apple clang/clang++ version 7.3.0 from Xcode 7.3
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
+    (osx1011dev/osx1011test)      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
+
+    MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6     Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang/clang++-1000.10.44.4)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 8.3.0
+
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                      n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                    n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10                              y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10 x64                          y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64         n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                       n       n         n         y
+Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
+Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit           y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit         y       y         y         y
+MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 64-bit           y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following configurations are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6    GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (mayll/platypus)                 Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Version 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
+                                  x86-64;
+                                     Version 17.10-0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20170411
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7     GNU C (gcc) and C++ (g++) compilers
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+    (jelly)                       with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai)
+                                  GCC Version 7.1.0
+                                  MPICH 3.2-GCC-4.9.3
+                                  MPICH 3.2.1-GCC-7.2.0-2.29
+                                  OpenMPI 2.1.5-GCC-7.2.0-2.29
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc) and C++ (icpc) compilers
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai)
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7     MPICH 3.2 compiled with GCC 5.3.0
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+    (moohan)
+
+    Fedora 29  4.20.10-200.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc, g++ (GCC) 8.2.1 20181215
+                                      (Red Hat 8.2.1-6)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 8.2.1 20181215
+                                      (Red Hat 8.2.1-6)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2008
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+
+    At present, metadata cache images may not be generated by parallel
+    applications.  Parallel applications can read files with metadata cache
+    images, but since this is a collective operation, a deadlock is possible
+    if one or more processes do not participate.
+
+    Three tests fail with OpenMPI 3.0.0/GCC-7.2.0-2.29:
+        testphdf5 (ecdsetw, selnone, cchunk1, cchunk3, cchunk4, and actualio)
+        t_shapesame (sscontig2)
+        t_pflush1/fails on exit
+    The first two tests fail attempting collective writes.
+
+    CPP ptable test fails on VS2017 with Intel compiler, JIRA issue: HDFFV-10628.
+    This test will pass with VS2015 with Intel compiler.
+
+    Older MPI libraries such as OpenMPI 2.0.1 and MPICH 2.1.5 were tested
+    while attempting to resolve the Jira issue: HDFFV-10540.
+    The known problems of reading or writing > 2GBs when using MPI-2 was
+    partially resolved with the MPICH library. The proposed support recognizes
+    IO operations > 2GB and if the datatype is not a derived type, the library
+    breaks the IO into chunks which can be input or output with the existing
+    MPI 2 limitations, i.e. size reporting and function API size/count
+    arguments are restricted to be 32 bit integers.  For derived types larger
+    than 2GB, MPICH 2.1.5 fails while attempting to read or write data.
+    OpenMPI in contrast, implements MPI-3 APIs even in the older releases
+    and thus does not suffer from the 32 bit size limitation described here.
+    OpenMPI releases prior to v3.1.3 appear to have other datatype issues however,
+    e.g. within a single parallel test (testphdf5) the subtests (cdsetr, eidsetr)
+    report data verfication errors before eventually aborting.
+    The most recent versions of OpenMPI (v3.1.3 or newer) have evidently
+    resolved these isses and parallel HDF5 testing does not currently report
+    errors though occasional hangs have been observed.
+
+    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.
+
+
+CMake vs. Autotools installations
+=================================
+While both build systems produce similar results, there are differences.
+Each system produces the same set of folders on linux (only CMake works
+on standard Windows); bin, include, lib and share. Autotools places the
+COPYING and RELEASE.txt file in the root folder, CMake places them in
+the share folder.
+
+The bin folder contains the tools and the build scripts. Additionally, CMake
+creates dynamic versions of the tools with the suffix "-shared". Autotools
+installs one set of tools depending on the "--enable-shared" configuration
+option.
+  build scripts
+  -------------
+  Autotools: h5c++, h5cc, h5fc
+  CMake: h5c++, h5cc, h5hlc++, h5hlcc
+
+The include folder holds the header files and the fortran mod files. CMake
+places the fortran mod files into separate shared and static subfolders,
+while Autotools places one set of mod files into the include folder. Because
+CMake produces a tools library, the header files for tools will appear in
+the include folder.
+
+The lib folder contains the library files, and CMake adds the pkgconfig
+subfolder with the hdf5*.pc files used by the bin/build scripts created by
+the CMake build. CMake separates the C interface code from the fortran code by
+creating C-stub libraries for each Fortran library. In addition, only CMake
+installs the tools library. The names of the szip libraries are different
+between the build systems.
+
+The share folder will have the most differences because CMake builds include
+a number of CMake specific files for support of CMake's find_package and support
+for the HDF5 Examples CMake project.
+
 %%%%1.10.4%%%%
 
 HDF5 version 1.10.4 released on 2018-10-05
@@ -134,7 +2303,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release
     Java Library:
     ----------------
     - JNI native library dependencies
-    
+
       The build for the hdf5_java native library used the wrong
       hdf5 target library for CMake builds. Correcting the hdf5_java
       library to build with the shared hdf5 library required testing
@@ -291,7 +2460,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
     (jelly)                       with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai)
                                   GCC Version 7.1.0
-                                  OpenMPI 3.0.0-GCC-7.2.0-2.29, 
+                                  OpenMPI 3.0.0-GCC-7.2.0-2.29,
                                      3.1.0-GCC-7.2.0-2.29
                                   Intel(R) C (icc) and C++ (icpc) compilers
                                      Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
@@ -3204,7 +5373,7 @@ This release supports the following features:
 
     - Version 3 Metadata Cache
 
-      The version 3 metadata cache moves management of metadata I/O from 
+      The version 3 metadata cache moves management of metadata I/O from
       the clients to the metadata cache proper.  This change is essential for
       SWMR and other features that have yet to be released.
 
@@ -3265,7 +5434,7 @@ This release supports the following features:
     - New Public Functions: H5PTget_dataset and H5PTget_type
 
       Two accessor functions have been added. H5PTget_dataset returns
-      the identifier of the dataset associated with the packet table, 
+      the identifier of the dataset associated with the packet table,
       and H5PTget_type returns the identifier of the datatype used by
       the packet table.
 
@@ -3391,28 +5560,28 @@ Issues Addressed in this Release Since 1.10.0
 
      - Configure fails to detect valid real KINDs on FreeBSD 9.3 (i386) with Fortran enabled.
 
-       Fixed. Added the exponential option to SELECTED_REAL_KIND to distinguish 
+       Fixed. Added the exponential option to SELECTED_REAL_KIND to distinguish
        KINDs of same precision
        (MSB - 2016/05/14,HDFFV-9912)
 
 
      - Corrected the f90 H5AWRITE_F integer interface's buf to be INTENT(IN).
-       (MSB - 2016/05/14) 
+       (MSB - 2016/05/14)
 
      - Configure fails in sed command on FreeBSD 9.3 (i386) with Fortran enabled.
-  
+
        Fixed.
        (MSB - 2016/05/14,HDFFV-9912)
 
      - Compile time error in H5f90global.F90 with IBM XL Fortran 14.1.0.13 on BG/Q with Fortran
        enabled.
-    
+
        Fixed.
        (MSB - 2016/05/16,HDFFV-9917)
 
      - A cmake build with Fortran enabled does not install module h5fortkit
 
-       Fixed. 
+       Fixed.
        (MSB - 2016/05/23,HDFFV-9923)
 
 
@@ -3916,7 +6085,7 @@ This release supports the following features:
 
     - Version 3 Metadata Cache
 
-      The version 3 metadata cache moves management of metadata I/O from 
+      The version 3 metadata cache moves management of metadata I/O from
       the clients to the metadata cache proper.  This change is essential for
       SWMR and other features that have yet to be released.
 
@@ -3977,7 +6146,7 @@ This release supports the following features:
     - New Public Functions: H5PTget_dataset and H5PTget_type
 
       Two accessor functions have been added. H5PTget_dataset returns
-      the identifier of the dataset associated with the packet table, 
+      the identifier of the dataset associated with the packet table,
       and H5PTget_type returns the identifier of the datatype used by
       the packet table.
 
@@ -4378,16 +6547,16 @@ known issues if it is a new issue.
  - When building HDF5 with Java using CMake and specifying Debug for CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE,
    there is a missing command argument for the tests of the examples.
 
-   This error can be avoided by not building Java with Debug, HDF5_BUILD_JAVA:BOOL=OFF, 
+   This error can be avoided by not building Java with Debug, HDF5_BUILD_JAVA:BOOL=OFF,
    or not building Examples, HDF5_BUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=OFF.
-   (LRK - 2016/03/30, HDFFV-9743) 
+   (LRK - 2016/03/30, HDFFV-9743)
 
- - The H5Lexists API changed behavior in HDF5-1.10 when used with a file handle 
+ - The H5Lexists API changed behavior in HDF5-1.10 when used with a file handle
    and root group name ("/"):
 
    H5Lexists(fileid, "/")
 
-   In HDF5-1.8 it returns false (0) and in HDF5-1.10 it returns true (1). 
+   In HDF5-1.8 it returns false (0) and in HDF5-1.10 it returns true (1).
    The documentation will be updated with information regarding this change.
    (LRK - 2016/03/30, HDFFV-8746)
 
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10_0-1_12_0.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10_0-1_12_0.txt
index 621a840..60516fc 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10_0-1_12_0.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10_0-1_12_0.txt
@@ -1,33 +1,24 @@
-HDF5 version 1.11.6 currently under development
-================================================================================
+HDF5  HISTORY
+=============
 
 
 INTRODUCTION
 
-This document describes the differences between this release and the previous
-HDF5 release. It contains information on the platforms tested and known
-problems in this release. For more details check the HISTORY*.txt files in the
+This document describes the differences between the HDF5-1.10.0 and
+HDF5 1.12.0 releases. For more details check the HISTORY*.txt files in the
 HDF5 source.
 
-Note that documentation in the links below will be updated at the time of each
-final release.
+Information about supported and tested platforms is provided for historical
+reasons only and may not be accurate.
 
-Links to HDF5 documentation can be found on The HDF5 web page:
 
-     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5
+For more information, see the HDF5 home page:
 
-The official HDF5 releases can be obtained from:
-
-     https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/
-
-Changes from Release to Release and New Features in the HDF5-1.10.x release series
-can be found at:
-
-     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5+Application+Developer%27s+Guide
+    http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
 
 If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
 
-     help@hdfgroup.org
+    help@hdfgroup.org
 
 
 CONTENTS
@@ -200,7 +191,7 @@ New Features
       files.
 
       (JS - 2019/10/08)
-    
+
     - Add S3 and HDFS VFDs to HDF5 maintenance
 
       Fix windows requirements and java tests. Windows requires CMake 3.13.
@@ -380,7 +371,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release
 
     Library
     -------
-    - Improved peformance when creating a large number of small datasets by
+    - Improved performance when creating a large number of small datasets by
       retrieving default property values from the API context instead of doing
       skip list searches.
 
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_12.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_12.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d0c1e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_12.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,628 @@
+HDF5 History
+============
+
+This file contains development history of the HDF5 1.12 branch
+
+01.      Release Information for hdf5-1.12.0
+
+[Search on the string '%%%%' for section breaks of each release.]
+
+%%%%1.12.0%%%%
+
+HDF5 version 1.12.0 released on 2020-02-28
+================================================================================
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+This document describes the new features introduced in the HDF5 1.12.0 release.
+It contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in this
+release. For more details check the HISTORY*.txt files in the HDF5 source.
+
+Note that documentation in the links below will be updated at the time of the
+release.
+
+Links to HDF5 documentation can be found on The HDF5 web page:
+
+     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5
+
+The official HDF5 releases can be obtained from:
+
+     https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/
+
+More information about the new features can be found at:
+
+     https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/New+Features+in+HDF5+Release+1.12
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+- New Features
+- Support for new platforms and languages
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0-alpha1
+- Major Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.0
+- Supported Platforms
+- Tested Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+- CMake vs. Autotools installations
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration:
+    -------------
+    - Added test script for file size compare
+
+        If CMake minimum version is at least 3.14, the fileCompareTest.cmake
+        script will compare file sizes.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/02/24, HDFFV-11036)
+
+    - Update CMake minimum version to 3.12
+
+        Updated CMake minimum version to 3.12 and added version checks
+        for Windows features.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/02/05, TRILABS-142)
+
+    - Fixed CMake include properties for Fortran libraries
+
+        Corrected the library properties for Fortran to use the
+        correct path for the Fortran module files.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/02/04, HDFFV-11012)
+
+    - Added common warnings files for gnu and intel
+
+        Added warnings files to use one common set of flags
+        during configure for both autotools and CMake build
+        systems. The initial implementation only affects a
+        general set of flags for gnu and intel compilers.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/01/17)
+
+    - Added new options to CMake for control of testing
+
+        Added CMake options (default ON);
+          HDF5_TEST_SERIAL AND/OR HDF5_TEST_PARALLEL
+          combined with:
+            HDF5_TEST_TOOLS
+            HDF5_TEST_EXAMPLES
+            HDF5_TEST_SWMR
+            HDF5_TEST_FORTRAN
+            HDF5_TEST_CPP
+            HDF5_TEST_JAVA
+
+        (ADB - 2020/01/15, HDFFV-11001)
+
+    - Added Clang sanitizers to CMake for analyzer support if compiler is clang.
+
+        Added CMake code and files to execute the Clang sanitizers if
+        HDF5_ENABLE_SANITIZERS is enabled and the USE_SANITIZER option
+        is set to one of the following:
+          Address
+          Memory
+          MemoryWithOrigins
+          Undefined
+          Thread
+          Leak
+          'Address;Undefined'
+
+        (ADB - 2019/12/12, TRILAB-135)
+
+    - Update CMake for VS2019 support
+
+        CMake added support for VS2019 in version 3.15. Changes to the CMake
+        generator setting required changes to scripts. Also updated version
+        references in CMake files as necessary.
+
+        (ADB - 2019/11/18, HDFFV-10962)
+
+
+    Library:
+    --------
+    - Refactored public exposure of haddr_t type in favor of "object tokens"
+
+        To better accommodate HDF5 VOL connectors where "object addresses in a file"
+        may not make much sense, the following changes were made to the library:
+
+        * Introduced new H5O_token_t "object token" type, which represents a
+            unique and permanent identifier for referencing an HDF5 object within
+            a container; these "object tokens" are meant to replace object addresses.
+            Along with the new type, a new H5Oopen_by_token API call was introduced
+            to open an object by a token, similar to how object addresses were
+            previously used with H5Oopen_by_addr.
+
+        * Introduced new H5Lget_info2, H5Lget_info_by_idx2, H5Literate2, H5Literate_by_name2,
+            H5Lvisit2 and H5Lvisit_by_name2 API calls, along with their associated H5L_info2_t
+            struct and H5L_iterate2_t callback function, which work with the newly-introduced
+            object tokens, instead of object addresses. The original functions have been
+            renamed to version 1 functions and are deprecated in favor of the new version 2
+            functions. The H5L_info_t and H5L_iterate_t types have been renamed to version 1
+            types and are now deprecated in favor of their version 2 counterparts. For each of
+            the functions and types, compatibility macros take place of the original symbols.
+
+        * Introduced new H5Oget_info3, H5Oget_info_by_name3, H5Oget_info_by_idx3,
+            H5Ovisit3 and H5Ovisit_by_name3 API calls, along with their associated H5O_info2_t
+            struct and H5O_iterate2_t callback function, which work with the newly-introduced
+            object tokens, instead of object addresses. The version 2 functions are now
+            deprecated in favor of the version 3 functions. The H5O_info_t and H5O_iterate_t
+            types have been renamed to version 1 types and are now deprecated in favor of their
+            version 2 counterparts. For each, compatibility macros take place of the original
+            symbols.
+
+        * Introduced new H5Oget_native_info, H5Oget_native_info_by_name and
+            H5Oget_native_info_by_idx API calls, along with their associated H5O_native_info_t
+            struct, which are used to retrieve the native HDF5 file format-specific information
+            about an object. This information (such as object header info and B-tree/heap info)
+            has been removed from the new H5O_info2_t struct so that the more generic
+            H5Oget_info(_by_name/_by_idx)3 routines will not try to retrieve it for non-native
+            VOL connectors.
+
+        * Added new H5Otoken_cmp, H5Otoken_to_str and H5Otoken_from_str routines to compare
+            two object tokens, convert an object token into a nicely-readable string format and
+            to convert an object token string back into a real object token, respectively.
+
+        (DER, QAK, JTH - 2020/01/16)
+
+    - Virtual Object Layer (VOL)
+
+        In this major HDF5 release we introduce HDF5 Virtual Object Layer (VOL).
+        VOL is an abstraction layer within the HDF5 library that enables different
+        methods for accessing data and objects that conform to the HDF5 data model.
+        The VOL layer intercepts all HDF5 API calls that potentially modify data
+        on disk and forwards those calls to a plugin "object driver". The data on
+        disk can be a different format than the HDF5 format. For more information
+        about VOL we refer the reader to the following documents (under review):
+
+          VOL HDF5 APIs
+          https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/Virtual+Object++Layer
+
+          VOL Documentation
+          https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDFFV/repos/hdf5doc/browse/RFCs/HDF5/VOL
+
+          Repository with VOL plugins
+          https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/projects/HDF5VOL
+
+    - Enhancements to HDF5 References
+
+        HDF5 references were extended to support attributes, and object and dataset
+        selections that reside in another HDF5 file. For more information including
+        a list of new APIs, see
+
+          https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/Update+to+References
+
+    - Add new public function H5Sselect_adjust.
+
+        This function shifts a dataspace selection by a specified logical offset
+        within the dataspace extent.  This can be useful for VOL developers to
+        implement chunked datasets.
+
+        (NAF - 2019/11/18)
+
+    - Add new public function H5Sselect_project_intersection.
+
+        This function computes the intersection between two dataspace selections
+        and projects that intersection into a third selection.  This can be useful
+        for VOL developers to implement chunked or virtual datasets.
+
+        (NAF - 2019/11/13, ID-148)
+
+    - Add new public function H5VLget_file_type.
+
+        This function returns a datatype equivalent to the supplied datatype but
+        with the location set to be in the file.  This datatype can then be used
+        with H5Tconvert to convert data between file and in-memory representation.
+        This funcition is intended for use only by VOL connector developers.
+
+        (NAF - 2019/11/08, ID-127)
+
+    - New S3 and HDFS Virtual File Drivers (VFDs)
+
+        This release has two new VFDs. The S3 VFD allows accessing HDF5 files on
+        AWS S3 buckets. HDFS VFD allows accessing HDF5 files stored on Apache HDFS.
+        See https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/Virtual+File+Drivers+-+S3+and+HDFS
+        for information on enabling those drivers and using those APIs.
+
+        Below are specific instructions for enabling S3 VFD on Windows:
+
+        Fix windows requirements and java tests. Windows requires CMake 3.13.
+          - Install openssl library (with dev files);
+                from "Shining Light Productions". msi package preferred.
+          - PATH should have been updated with the installation dir.
+          - set ENV variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR to the installation dir.
+          - set ENV variable OPENSSL_CONF to the cfg file, likely %OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR%\bin\openssl.cfg
+          - Install libcurl library (with dev files);
+          - download the latest released version using git: https://github.com/curl/curl.git
+          - Open a Visual Studio Command prompt
+          - change to the libcurl root folder
+          - run the "buildconf.bat" batch file
+          - change to the winbuild directory
+          - nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=dll MACHINE=x64
+          - copy libcurl-vc-x64-release-dll-ipv6-sspi-winssl dir to C:\curl (installation dir)
+          - set ENV variable CURL_ROOT to C:\curl (installation dir)
+          - update PATH ENV variable to %CURL_ROOT%\bin (installation bin dir).
+          - the aws credentials file should be in %USERPROFILE%\.aws folder
+          - set the ENV variable HDF5_ROS3_TEST_BUCKET_URL to the s3 url for the
+                s3 bucket containing the HDF5 files to be accessed.
+
+    FORTRAN Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Added new Fortran parameters:
+
+        H5F_LIBVER_ERROR_F
+        H5F_LIBVER_NBOUNDS_F
+        H5F_LIBVER_V18_F
+        H5F_LIBVER_V110_F
+        H5F_LIBVER_V112_F
+
+    - Added new Fortran API: h5pget_libver_bounds_f
+
+        (MSB - 2020/02/11, HDFFV-11018)
+
+    Java Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Added ability to test java library with VOLs.
+
+        Created new CMake script that combines the java and vol test scripts.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/02/03, HDFFV-10996)
+
+    - Tests fail for non-English locale.
+
+        In the JUnit tests with a non-English locale, only the part before
+        the decimal comma is replaced by XXXX and this leads to a comparison
+        error. Changed the regex for the Time substitution.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/01/09, HDFFV-10995)
+
+
+    Tools:
+    ------
+    - h5diff was updated to use the new reference APIs.
+
+        h5diff uses the new reference APIs to compare references.
+        Attribute references can also be compared.
+
+        (ADB - 2019/12/19, HDFFV-10980)
+
+    - h5dump and h5ls were updated to use the new reference APIs.
+
+        The tools library now use the new reference APIs to inspect a
+        file. Also the DDL spec was updated to reflect the format
+        changes produced with the new APIs. The export API and support
+        functions in the JNI were updated to match.
+
+
+    Other improvements and changes:
+
+    - Hyperslab selection code was reworked to improve performance, getting more
+      than 10x speedup in some cases.
+
+    - The HDF5 Library was enhanced to open files with Unicode names on Windows.
+
+    - Deprecated H5Dvlen_reclaim() and replaced it with H5Treclaim().
+        This routine is meant to be used when resources are internally allocated
+        when reading data, i.e. when using either vlen or new reference types.
+        This is applicable to both attribute and dataset reads.
+
+    - h5repack was fixed to repack datasets with external storage
+      to other types of storage.
+
+
+Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
+=======================================
+    - Added spectrum-mpi with clang, gcc and xl compilers on Linux 3.10.0
+    - Added OpenMPI 3.1 and 4.0 with clang, gcc and Intel compilers on Linux 3.10.0
+    - Added cray-mpich/PrgEnv with gcc and Intel compilers on Linux 4.14.180
+    - Added spectrum mpi with clang, gcc and xl compilers on Linux 4.14.0
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0-alpha1 release
+==========================================
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Improved performance when creating a large number of small datasets by
+        retrieving default property values from the API context instead of doing
+        skip list searches.
+
+        (CJH - 2019/12/10, HDFFV-10658)
+
+    - Fixed user-created data access properties not existing in the property list
+        returned by H5Dget_access_plist. Thanks to Steven Varga for submitting a
+        reproducer and a patch.
+
+        (CJH - 2019/12/09, HDFFV-10934)
+
+    - Fixed an assertion failure in the parallel library when collectively
+        filling chunks. As it is required that chunks be written in
+        monotonically non-decreasing order of offset in the file, this assertion
+        was being triggered when the list of chunk file space allocations being
+        passed to the collective chunk filling routine was not sorted according
+        to this particular requirement.
+
+        The addition of a sort of the out of order chunks trades a bit of
+        performance for the elimination of this assertion and of any complaints
+        from MPI implementations about the file offsets used being out of order.
+
+        (JTH - 2019/10/07, HDFFV-10792)
+
+    FORTRAN library:
+    ----------------
+
+    - Corrected INTERFACE INTENT(IN) to INTENT(OUT) for buf_size in h5fget_file_image_f.
+
+        (MSB - 2020/2/18, HDFFV-11029)
+
+    Java Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Added ability to test java library with VOLs.
+
+        Created new CMake script that combines the java and vol test scripts.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/02/03, HDFFV-10996)
+
+    - Tests fail for non-English locale.
+
+        In the JUnit tests with a non-English locale, only the part before
+        the decimal comma is replaced by XXXX and this leads to a comparison
+        error. Changed the regex for the Time substitution.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/01/09, HDFFV-10995)
+
+    Tools:
+    ------
+    - h5repack was fixed to repack the reference attributes properly.
+        The code line that checks if the update of reference inside a compound
+        datatype is misplaced outside the code block loop that carries out the
+        check. In consequence, the next attribute that is not the reference
+        type was repacked again as the reference type and caused the failure of
+        repacking. The fix is to move the corresponding code line to the correct
+        code block.
+
+        (KY -2020/02/10, HDFFV-11014)
+
+    - h5diff was updated to use the new reference APIs.
+
+        h5diff uses the new reference APIs to compare references.
+        Attribute references can also be compared.
+
+        (ADB - 2019/12/19, HDFFV-10980)
+
+    - h5dump and h5ls were updated to use the new reference APIs.
+
+        The tools library now use the new reference APIs to inspect a
+        file. Also the DDL spec was updated to reflect the format
+        changes produced with the new APIs. The export API and support
+        functions in the JNI were updated to match.
+
+        (ADB - 2019/12/06, HDFFV-10876 and HDFFV-10877)
+
+
+Major Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.0 release
+=========================================
+
+    - For major bug fixes please see HISTORY-1_10_0-1_12_0.txt file
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-696.16.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)
+                                  IBM XL C/C++ V13.1
+                                  IBM XL Fortran V15.1
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7   GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (kituo/moohan)                Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                    Version 4.9.3, 5.2.0, 7.1.0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4
+
+    Linux-3.10.0-                 spectrum-mpi/rolling-release with cmake>3.10 and
+    862.14.4.1chaos.ch6.ppc64le   clang/3.9,8.0
+    #1 SMP ppc64le GNU/Linux      gcc/7.3
+    (ray)                         xl/2016,2019
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-                 openmpi/3.1,4.0 with cmake>3.10 and
+    957.12.2.1chaos.ch6.x86_64    clang 5.0
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       gcc/7.3,8.2
+    (serrano)                     intel/17.0,18.0/19.0
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-                 openmpi/3.1/4.0 with cmake>3.10 and
+    1062.1.1.1chaos.ch6.x86_64    clang/3.9,5.0,8.0
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       gcc/7.3,8.1,8.2
+    (chama,quartz)                intel/16.0,18.0,19.0
+
+    Linux 4.4.180-94.100-default  cray-mpich/7.7.6 with PrgEnv-*/6.0.5, cmake>3.10 and
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       gcc/7.2.0,8.2.0
+    (mutrino)                     intel/17.0,18.0
+
+    Linux 4.14.0-                 spectrum-mpi/rolling-release with cmake>3.10 and
+    49.18.1.bl6.ppc64le           clang/6.0,8.0
+    #1 SMP ppc64le GNU/Linux      gcc/7.3
+    (lassen)                      xl/2019
+
+    SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2018 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ MSMPI 10 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2017 w/ Intel Fortran 19 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2019 w/ Intel Fortran 19 (cmake)
+
+    macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra     Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang/clang++-1000.10.44.4)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.3.0
+    (bear)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 19.0.4
+
+    macOS 10.14.6 Mohave          Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang/clang++-1001.0.46.4)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.3.0
+    (bobcat)                      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 19.0.4
+
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                       n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                    n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10                              y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10 x64                          y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+macOS 10.13.6 64-bit                    n        y/y    n        y    y     ?
+macOS 10.14.6 64-bit                    n        y/y    n        y    y     ?
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                          y       y         y         y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                          y       y         y         y
+Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                       n       n         n         y
+Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
+Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
+macOS 10.13.6 64-bit                       y       n         y         y
+macOS 10.14.6 64-bit                       y       n         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         n
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6    GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (mayll/platypus)                 Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Version 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
+                                  x86-64;
+                                      Version 17.10-0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20170411
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7     GNU C (gcc) and C++ (g++) compilers
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+    (jelly)                       with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai)
+                                  GCC Version 7.1.0
+                                  OpenMPI 3.0.0-GCC-7.2.0-2.29
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc) and C++ (icpc) compilers
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  with NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai)
+                                  PGI C (pgcc), C++ (pgc++), Fortran (pgf90)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 18.4, 19.4
+                                  MPICH 3.3
+                                  OpenMPI 2.1.5, 3.1.3, 4.0.0
+
+   Fedora30 5.3.11-200.fc30.x86_64
+   #1 SMP x86_64  GNU/Linux       GNU gcc (GCC) 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1 20190827)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1 20190827)
+                                     (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6   Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang/clang++-703.0.29)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
+    (osx1011dev/osx1011test)      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
+
+    macOS 10.12.6 Sierra          Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang/clang++-900.0.39.2)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 7.4.0
+    (kite)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 17.0.8
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+    CMake files do not behave correctly with paths containing spaces.
+    Do not use spaces in paths because the required escaping for handling spaces
+    results in very complex and fragile build files.
+    ADB - 2019/05/07
+
+    At present, metadata cache images may not be generated by parallel
+    applications.  Parallel applications can read files with metadata cache
+    images, but since this is a collective operation, a deadlock is possible
+    if one or more processes do not participate.
+
+    Known problems in previous releases can be found in the HISTORY*.txt files
+    in the HDF5 source, and in the HDF5 Jira database, available at
+    https://jira.hdfgroup.org/.  Please register at https://www.hdfgroup.org to
+    create a free account for accessing the Jira database.  Please report any
+    new problems found to help@hdfgroup.org.
+
+
+CMake vs. Autotools installations
+=================================
+While both build systems produce similar results, there are differences.
+Each system produces the same set of folders on linux (only CMake works
+on standard Windows); bin, include, lib and share. Autotools places the
+COPYING and RELEASE.txt file in the root folder, CMake places them in
+the share folder.
+
+The bin folder contains the tools and the build scripts. Additionally, CMake
+creates dynamic versions of the tools with the suffix "-shared". Autotools
+installs one set of tools depending on the "--enable-shared" configuration
+option.
+  build scripts
+  -------------
+  Autotools: h5c++, h5cc, h5fc
+  CMake: h5c++, h5cc, h5hlc++, h5hlcc
+
+The include folder holds the header files and the fortran mod files. CMake
+places the fortran mod files into separate shared and static subfolders,
+while Autotools places one set of mod files into the include folder. Because
+CMake produces a tools library, the header files for tools will appear in
+the include folder.
+
+The lib folder contains the library files, and CMake adds the pkgconfig
+subfolder with the hdf5*.pc files used by the bin/build scripts created by
+the CMake build. CMake separates the C interface code from the fortran code by
+creating C-stub libraries for each Fortran library. In addition, only CMake
+installs the tools library. The names of the szip libraries are different
+between the build systems.
+
+The share folder will have the most differences because CMake builds include
+a number of CMake specific files for support of CMake's find_package and support
+for the HDF5 Examples CMake project.
+
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt
index 4465d06..da3d849 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ HDF5 History
 
 This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch
 
+23.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.21
+22.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.20
+21.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.19
+20.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.18
 19.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.17
 18.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.16
 17.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.15
@@ -25,6 +29,2097 @@ This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch
 
 [Search on the string '%%%%' for section breaks of each release.]
 
+%%%%1.8.21%%%%
+
+
+HDF5 version 1.8.21 released on 2018-06-04
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.20 and
+HDF5-1.8.21, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.21.
+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 1.8.21 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
+
+The HDF5 1.8.21 release can be obtained from:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html
+
+User documentation for 1.8.21 can be accessed directly at this location:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/
+
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
+in 1.8.0?" document:
+
+     https://support.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 1.8.21 (current
+release) versus Release 1.8.20
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+
+- New Features
+- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.20
+- Supported Platforms
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - CMake
+
+      Change minimum version to 3.10.
+
+      This change removes the need to support a copy of the FindMPI.cmake module,
+      which has been removed, along with its subfolder in the config/cmake_ext_mod
+      location.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/03/09)
+
+    - CMake
+
+      Add pkg-config file generation
+
+      Added pkg-config file generation for the C, C++, HL, and HL C++ libraries.
+      In addition, builds on linux will create h5cXXX scripts that use the pkg-config
+      files. This is a limited implementation of a script like autotools h5cc.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/03/08, HDFFV-4359)
+
+    - CMake
+
+      Refactor use of CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE for new variable, which understands
+      the type of generator in use.
+
+      Added new configuration macros to use new HDF_BUILD_TYPE variable. This
+      variable is set correctly for the type of generator being used for the build.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/08, HDFFV-10385, HDFFV-10296)
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - The following C++ API wrappers have been added to class H5Location
+      + H5Lcreate_soft:
+        // Creates a soft link from link_name to target_name.
+        void link(const char *target_name, const char *link_name,...)
+        void link(const H5std_string& target_name,...)
+
+      + H5Lcreate_hard:
+        // Creates a hard link from new_name to curr_name.
+        void link(const char *curr_name, const Group& new_loc,...)
+        void link(const H5std_string& curr_name, const Group& new_loc,...)
+
+        // Creates a hard link from new_name to curr_name in the same location.
+        void link(const char *curr_name, const hid_t same_loc,...)
+        void link(const H5std_string& curr_name, const hid_t same_loc,...)
+
+        Note: previous version CommonFG::link will be deprecated.
+
+      + H5Lcopy:
+        // Copy an object from a group of file to another.
+        void copyLink(const char *src_name, const Group& dst,...)
+        void copyLink(const H5std_string& src_name, const Group& dst,...)
+
+        // Copy an object from a group of file to the same location.
+        void copyLink(const char *src_name, const char *dst_name,...)
+        void copyLink(const H5std_string& src_name,...)
+
+      + H5Lmove:
+        // Rename an object in a group or file to a new location.
+        void moveLink(const char* src_name, const Group& dst,...)
+        void moveLink(const H5std_string& src_name, const Group& dst,...)
+
+        // Rename an object in a group or file to the same location.
+        void moveLink(const char* src_name, const char* dst_name,...)
+        void moveLink(const H5std_string& src_name,...)
+
+        Note: previous version CommonFG::move will be deprecated.
+
+      + H5Ldelete:
+        // Removes the specified link from this location.
+        void unlink(const char *link_name,
+            const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT)
+        void unlink(const H5std_string& link_name,
+            const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT)
+
+        Note: An additional parameter is added to CommonFG::unlink and it
+              is moved to H5Location.
+
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11 - HDFFV-10445)
+
+    - New property list subclasses
+
+      Property list subclasses StrCreatPropList, LinkCreatPropList, and
+      AttrCreatPropList are added for the C property list classes
+      H5P_STRING_CREATE, H5P_LINK_CREATE, and H5P_ATTRIBUTE_CREATE.
+
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11 - HDFFV-10445)
+
+    - Another argument, LinkCreatPropList& lcpl, is added to the following
+      functions for the use of link creation property list.
+        Group createGroup(const char* name, size_t size_hint = 0,
+                    const LinkCreatPropList& lcpl = LinkCreatPropList::DEFAULT)
+        Group createGroup(const H5std_string& name, size_t size_hint = 0,
+                    const LinkCreatPropList& lcpl = LinkCreatPropList::DEFAULT)
+
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11 - HDFFV-10445)
+
+
+
+Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+===================================================
+
+    - Added support for Visual Studio 2017 w/ Intel Fortran 18 on Windows 10 x64.
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.20
+===========================
+
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a filter pipeline message with a 'number of
+      filters' field that exceeds the maximum number of allowed filters,
+      the error handling code will attempt to dereference a NULL pointer.
+
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17505.
+
+      NOTE: The HDF5 C library cannot produce such a file. This condition
+            should only occur in a corrupt (or deliberately altered) file
+            or a file created by third-party software.
+
+      This problem arose because the error handling code assumed that
+      the 'number of filters' field implied that a dynamic array of that
+      size had already been created and that the cleanup code should
+      iterate over that array and clean up each element's resources. If
+      an error occurred before the array has been allocated, this will
+      not be true.
+
+      This has been changed so that the number of filters is set to
+      zero on errors. Additionally, the filter array traversal in the
+      error handling code now requires that the filter array not be NULL.
+
+      (DER - 2018/02/06, HDFFV-10354)
+
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a filter pipeline message which contains
+      a 'number of filters' field that exceeds the actual number of
+      filters in the message, the HDF5 C library will read off the end of
+      the read buffer.
+
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17506.
+
+      NOTE: The HDF5 C library cannot produce such a file. This condition
+            should only occur in a corrupt (or deliberately altered) file
+            or a file created by third-party software.
+
+      The problem was fixed by passing the buffer size with the buffer
+      and ensuring that the pointer cannot be incremented off the end
+      of the buffer. A mismatch between the number of filters declared
+      and the actual number of filters will now invoke normal HDF5
+      error handling.
+
+      (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10355)
+
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed compound datatype with a
+      suitably large offset, the type conversion code can run off
+      the end of the type conversion buffer, causing a segmentation
+      fault.
+
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17507.
+
+      NOTE: The HDF5 C library cannot produce such a file. This condition
+            should only occur in a corrupt (or deliberately altered) file
+            or a file created by third-party software.
+
+      THE HDF GROUP WILL NOT FIX THIS BUG AT THIS TIME
+
+      Fixing this problem would involve updating the publicly visible
+      H5T_conv_t function pointer typedef and versioning the API calls
+      which use it. We normally only modify the public API during
+      major releases, so this bug will not be fixed at this time.
+
+      (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10356)
+
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed compound type which contains
+      a member of size zero, a division by zero error will occur while
+      processing the type.
+
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17508.
+
+      NOTE: The HDF5 C library cannot produce such a file. This condition
+            should only occur in a corrupt (or deliberately altered) file
+            or a file created by third-party software.
+
+      Checking for zero before dividing fixes the problem. Instead of the
+      division by zero, the normal HDF5 error handling is invoked.
+
+      (DER - 2018/02/26, HDFFV-10357)
+
+    - If an HDF5 file contains a malformed symbol table node that declares
+      it contains more symbols than it actually contains, the library
+      can run off the end of the metadata cache buffer while processing
+      the symbol table node.
+
+      This issue was reported to The HDF Group as issue #CVE-2017-17509.
+
+      NOTE: The HDF5 C library cannot produce such a file. This condition
+            should only occur in a corrupt (or deliberately altered) file
+            or a file created by third-party software.
+
+      Performing bounds checks on the buffer while processing fixes the
+      problem. Instead of the segmentation fault, the normal HDF5 error
+      handling is invoked.
+
+      (DER - 2018/03/12, HDFFV-10358)
+
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Library
+
+      Moved the location of gcc attribute.
+
+      The gcc attribute(no_sanitize), named as the macro HDF_NO_UBSAN,
+      was located after the function name. Builds with GCC 7 did not
+      indicate any problem, but GCC 8 issued errors. Moved the
+      attribute before the function name, as required.
+
+      (ADB 2018/05/22, HDFFV-10473)
+
+    - CMake
+
+      Update CMake commands configuration.
+
+      A number of improvements were made to the CMake commands. Most
+      changes simplify usage or eliminate unused constructs. Also,
+      some changes support better cross-platform support.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/02/01, HDFFV-10398)
+
+    - CMake
+
+      Correct usage of CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable.
+
+      The use of the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is incorrect for multi-config
+      generators (Visual Studio and XCode) and is optional for single
+      config generators. Created a new macro to check
+        GLOBAL PROPERTY -> GENERATOR_IS_MULTI_CONFIG
+      Created two new HDF variable, HDF_BUILD_TYPE and HDF_CFG_BUILD_TYPE.
+      Defaults for these variables is "Release".
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/10, HDFFV-10385)
+
+    - CMake
+
+      Add replacement of fortran flags if using static CRT.
+
+      Added TARGET_STATIC_CRT_FLAGS call to HDFUseFortran.cmake file in
+      config/cmake_ext_mod folder.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/08, HDFFV-10334)
+
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Utility function can not handle lowercase Windows drive letters
+
+      Added call to toupper function for drive letter.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/12/18, HDFFV-10307)
+
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - h5repack
+
+      h5repack changes the chunk parameters when a change of layout is not
+      specified and a filter is applied.
+
+      HDFFV-10297, HDFFV-10319 reworked code for h5repack and h5diff code
+      in the tools library. The check for an existing layout was incorrectly
+      placed into an if block and not executed. The check was moved into
+      the normal path of the function.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/02/21, HDFFV-10412)
+
+    - h5dump
+
+      the tools library will hide the error stack during file open.
+
+      While this is preferable almost always, there are reasons to enable
+      display of the error stack when a tool will not open a file. Adding an
+      optional argument to the --enable-error-stack will provide this use case.
+      As an optional argument it will not affect the operation of the
+      --enable-error-stack. h5dump is the only tool to implement this change.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/02/15, HDFFV-10384)
+
+    - h5dump
+
+      h5dump would output an indented blank line in the filters section.
+
+      h5dump overused the h5tools_simple_prefix function, which is a
+      function intended to account for the data index (x,y,z) option.
+      Removed the function call for header information.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/25, HDFFV-10396)
+
+    - h5repack
+
+      h5repack incorrectly searched internal object table for name.
+
+      h5repack would search the table of objects for a name, if the
+      name did not match it tried to determine if the name without a
+      leading slash would match. The logic was flawed! The table
+      stored names(paths) without a leading slash and did a strstr
+      of the table path to the name.
+      The assumption was that if there was a difference of one then
+      it was a match, however "pressure" would match "/pressure" as
+      well as "/pressure1", "/pressure2", etc. Changed logic to remove
+      any leading slash and then do a full compare of the name.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/18, HDFFV-10393)
+
+    - h5repack
+
+      h5repack failed to handle command line parameters for customer filters.
+
+      User defined filter parameter conversions would fail when integers
+      were represented on the command line with character strings
+      larger than 9 characters. Increased local variable array for storing
+      the current command line parameter to prevent buffer overflows.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/17, HDFFV-10392)
+
+    - h5diff
+
+      h5diff seg faulted if comparing VL strings against fixed strings.
+
+      Reworked solution for HDFFV-8625 and HDFFV-8639. Implemented the check
+      for string objects of same type in the diff_can_type function by
+      adding an if(tclass1 == H5T_STRING) block. This "if block" moves the
+      same check that was added for attributes to this function, which is
+      used by all object types. This function handles complex type structures.
+      Also added a new test file in h5diffgentest for testing this issue
+      and removed the temporary files used in the test scripts.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/01/04, HDFFV-8745)
+
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - Removal of memory leaks
+
+      A private function was inadvertently called, causing memory leaks.  This
+      is now fixed.
+
+      (BMR - 2018/04/12 - User reported in email)
+
+    - Changes in exception classes
+
+      Some exception classes are reorganized to reflect the HDF5 object
+      hierarchy and allow customization.
+        DataSetIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+        DataTypeIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+        GroupIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+        AttributeIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+        FileIException -> GroupIException -> LocationException -> Exception
+      Member functions in H5Location and H5Object now throw specific exceptions
+      associated with the invoking objects.
+
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11)
+
+    - H5Location::closeObjId is made static
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11)
+
+    - H5A wrappers in H5Location are removed as they have been in H5Object.
+      (BMR - 2018/05/11)
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+The following platforms are supported and have been tested for this release.
+They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (platypus/mayll)              Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Versions 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
+                                  x86-64;
+                                      Version 17.10-0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20160721
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+                                  OpenMPI 2.0.1 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6     gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+                                  IBM XL C/C++ V13.1
+                                  IBM XL Fortran V15.1
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (kituo/moohan/jelly           Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                     Versions 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20170411
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+                                  NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai) Build 6116
+
+    SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+
+    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2017 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ MSMPI 8 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10                    Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2017 w/ Intel Fortran 18 (cmake)
+
+    Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5     Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (wren/quail)                  Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5     Apple LLVM version 6.1 (clang-602.0.53)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (osx1010dev/osx1010test)      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6   Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
+    (VM osx1011dev/osx1011test)   Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
+
+    Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6         Apple LLVM version 8.1 (clang-802.0.42)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 7.1.0
+    (kite)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 17.0.2
+
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                    n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10                              y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10 x64                          y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 64-bit            n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                  n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                          y       y         y         y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                          y       y         y         y
+Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                       n       n         n         y
+Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
+Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit         y       n         y         y
+Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 64-bit               y       n         y         y
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
+Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         y
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6     g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+    (mayll)
+
+    Debian8.4.0 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  GNU Fortran (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Fedora24 4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    CentOS 7.2 3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Ubuntu 16.04 4.4.0-38-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0
+                                  GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+
+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.
+
+    Mac OS X 10.13 added additional subdirectory structure in .libs for shared
+    libraries.  Consequently "make check" will fail testing java and dynamically
+    loaded plugin test libraries attempting to copy files from the previous
+    locations in .libs directories.  This will be addressed in the next release
+    when support for the Mac OS X 10.13 platform is added.
+
+    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.
+
+
+%%%%1.8.20%%%%
+
+
+HDF5 version 1.8.20 released on 2017-11-28
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.19 and
+HDF5-1.8.20, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.20.
+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 1.8.20 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
+
+The HDF5 1.8.20 release can be obtained from:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html
+
+User documentation for 1.8.20 can be accessed directly at this location:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/
+
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
+in 1.8.0?" document:
+
+     https://support.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 1.8.20 (current
+release) versus Release 1.8.19
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+
+- New Features
+- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.20
+- Supported Platforms
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - h5diff
+
+      h5diff has new option enable-error-stack.
+
+      Updated h5diff with the --enable-error-stack argument, which
+      enables the display of the hdf5 error stack. This completes the
+      improvement to the main tools; h5copy, h5diff, h5dump, h5ls and
+      h5repack.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/08/30, HDFFV-9774)
+
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - The following C++ API wrappers have been added to the C++ Library:
+
+        // Creates a binary object description of this datatype.
+        void DataType::encode() - C API H5Tencode()
+
+        // Returns the decoded type from the binary object description.
+        DataType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        ArrayType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        CompType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        DataType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        EnumType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        FloatType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        IntType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        StrType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+        VarLenType::decode() - C API H5Tdecode()
+
+        // Three overloaded functions to retrieve information about an object
+        H5Location::getObjectInfo() - H5Oget_info()/H5Oget_info_by_name()
+
+      (BMR - 2017/10/17, HDFFV-10175)
+
+    - New constructors to open existing datatypes added in ArrayType,
+      CompType, DataType, EnumType, FloatType, IntType, StrType, and
+      VarLenType.
+
+      (BMR - 2017/10/17, HDFFV-10175)
+
+    - A document is added to the HDF5 C++ API Reference Manual to show the
+      mapping from a C API to C++ wrappers.  It can be found from the main
+      page of the C++ API Reference Manual.
+
+      (BMR - 2017/10/17, HDFFV-10151)
+
+
+    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
+===================================================
+
+    - Added NAG compiler
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.19
+===========================
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - cmake
+
+      The hdf5 library used shared szip and zlib, which needlessly required
+      applications to link with the same szip and zlib libraries.
+
+      Changed the target_link_libraries commands to use the static libs.
+      Removed improper link duplication of szip and zlib.
+      Adjusted the link dependencies and the link interface values of
+      the target_link_libraries commands.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/11/14, HDFFV-10329)
+
+    - cmake MPI
+
+      CMake implementation for MPI was problematic and would create incorrect
+      MPI library references in the hdf5 libraries.
+
+      Reworked the CMake MPI code to properly create CMake targets.Also merged
+      the latest CMake FindMPI.cmake changes to the local copy. This is necessary
+      until HDF changes the CMake minimum to 3.9 or greater.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/11/02, HDFFV-10321)
+
+
+    - Fixed Fortran linker flags when using the NAG Fortran compiler (autotools).
+
+      (HDFFV-10037, MSB, 2017/10/21)
+
+    - cmake
+
+      Too many commands for POST_BUILD step caused command line to be
+      too big on windows.
+
+      Changed foreach of copy command to use a custom command with the
+      use of the HDFTEST_COPY_FILE macro.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/07/12, HDFFV-10254)
+
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - filter plugin handling in H5PL.c and H5Z.c
+
+      It was discovered that the dynamic loading process used by
+      filter plugins had issues with library dependencies.
+
+      CMake build process changed to use LINK INTERFACE keywords, which
+      allowed HDF5 C library to make dependent libraries private. The
+      filter plugin libraries no longer require dependent libraries
+      (such as szip or zlib) to be available.
+             (ADB - 2017/11/16, HDFFV-10328)
+
+    - Fix rare object header corruption bug
+
+      In certain cases, such as when converting large attributes to dense
+      storage, an error could occur which would either fail an assertion or
+      cause file corruption. Fixed and added test.
+
+      (NAF - 2017/11/14, HDFFV-10274)
+
+    - H5Zfilter_avail in H5Z.c
+
+      The public function checked for plugins, while the private
+      function did not.
+
+      Modified H5Zfilter_avail and private function, H5Z_filter_avail.
+      Moved check for plugin from public to private function. Updated
+      H5P__set_filter due to change in H5Z_filter_avail. Updated tests.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/10/10, HDFFV-10297, HDFFV-10319)
+
+    - Fix H5Sencode bug when num points selected is >2^32
+
+      Modified to fail if the 32 bit limit is exceeded when encoding either
+      offsets or counts in the selection.
+
+      (HDFFV-10323, VC, 2017/09/07)
+
+    - Fix H5HL_offset_into()
+
+      (1) Fix H5HL_offset_into() to return error when offset exceeds heap data
+          block size.
+      (2) Fix other places in the library that call this routine to detect
+          error routine.
+
+      (HDFFV-10216, VC, 2017/09/05)
+
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - h5repack
+
+      h5repack failed to copy a dataset with existing filter.
+
+      Reworked code for h5repack and h5diff code in tools library. Added
+      improved error handling, cleanup of resources and checks of calls.
+      Modified H5Zfilter_avail and private function, H5Z_filter_avail.
+      Moved check for plugin from public to private function. Updated
+      H5P__set_filter due to change in H5Z_filter_avail. Updated tests.
+      Note, h5repack output display has changed to clarify the individual
+      steps of the repack process. The output indicates if an operation
+      applies to all objects. Lines with notation and no information
+      have been removed.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/10/10, HDFFV-10297, HDFFV-10319)
+
+    - h5repack
+
+      h5repack always set the User Defined filter flag to H5Z_FLAG_MANDATORY.
+
+      Added another parameter to the 'UD=' option to set the flag by default
+      to '0' or H5Z_FLAG_MANDATORY, the other choice is '1' or H5Z_FLAG_OPTIONAL.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/08/31, HDFFV-10269)
+
+    - h5ls
+
+      h5ls generated error on stack when it encountered a H5S_NULL
+      dataspace.
+
+      Adding checks for H5S_NULL before calling H5Sis_simple (located
+      in the h5tools_dump_mem function) fixed the issue.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/08/17, HDFFV-10188)
+
+    - h5dump
+
+      h5dump segfaulted on output of XML file.
+
+      Function that escape'd strings used the full buffer length
+      instead of just the length of the replacement string in a
+      strncpy call. Using the correct length fixed the issue.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/08/01, HDFFV-10256)
+
+    - h5diff
+
+      h5diff segfaulted on compare of a  NULL variable length string.
+
+      Improved h5diff compare of strings by adding a check for
+      NULL strings and setting the lengths to zero.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/07/25, HDFFV-10246)
+
+    - h5import
+
+      h5import crashed trying to import data from a subset of a dataset.
+
+      Improved h5import by adding the SUBSET keyword. h5import understands
+      to use the Count times the Block as the size of the dimensions.
+      Added INPUT_B_ORDER keyword to old-style configuration files.
+      The import from h5dump function expects the binary files to use native
+      types (FILE '-b' option) in the binary file.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/06/15, HDFFV-10219)
+
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - Marked the following functions deprecated because they were moved to
+      class H5Object:
+        H5Location::createAttribute()
+        H5Location::openAttribute()
+        H5Location::attrExists()
+        H5Location::removeAttr()
+        H5Location::renameAttr()
+        H5Location::getNumAttrs()
+
+      (BMR - 2017/10/17)
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+The following platforms are supported and have been tested for this release.
+They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (platypus/mayll)              Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Versions 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
+                                  x86-64;
+                                      Version 16.10-0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.0.196 Build 20160721
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+                                  OpenMPI 2.0.1 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6     gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+                                  IBM XL C/C++ V13.1
+                                  IBM XL Fortran V15.1
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (kituo/moohan/jelly           Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                     Versions 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20170411
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+                                  NAG Fortran Compiler Release 6.1(Tozai) Build 6116
+
+    SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+
+    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2017 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ MSMPI 8 (cmake)
+                                  Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.0(0.309/5/3)
+                                      gcc and gfortran compilers (GCC 5.4.0)
+                                      (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Windows 10                    Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+                                  Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.0(0.309/5/3)
+                                      gcc and gfortran compilers (GCC 5.4.0)
+                                      (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5     Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (wren/quail)                  Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5     Apple LLVM version 6.1 (clang-602.0.53)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (osx1010dev/osx1010test)      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6   Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
+    (VM osx1011dev/osx1011test)   Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
+
+    Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6         Apple LLVM version 8.1 (clang-802.0.42)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 7.1.0
+    (kite)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 17.0.2
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                    n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10                              y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10 x64                          y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 64-bit            n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                  n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                          y       y         y         y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                          y       y         y         y
+Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                       n       n         n         y
+Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
+Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 64-bit         y       n         y         y
+Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 64-bit               y       n         y         y
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         y
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6     g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+    (mayll)
+
+    Debian8.4.0 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  GNU Fortran (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Fedora24 4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    CentOS 7.2 3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Ubuntu 16.04 4.4.0-38-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0
+                                  GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+
+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.
+
+    Mac OS X 10.13 added additional subdirectory structure in .libs for shared
+    libraries.  Consequently "make check" will fail testing java and dynamically
+    loaded plugin test libraries attempting to copy files from the previous
+    locations in .libs directories.  This will be addressed in the next release
+    when support for the Mac OS X 10.13 platform is added.
+
+    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.
+
+
+%%%%1.8.19%%%%
+
+
+HDF5 version 1.8.19 released on 2017-06-15
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.18 and
+HDF5-1.8.19, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.19.
+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 1.8.19 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
+
+The HDF5 1.8.19 release can be obtained from:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html
+
+User documentation for 1.8.19 can be accessed directly at this location:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/
+
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
+in 1.8.0?" document:
+
+     https://support.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 1.8.19 (current
+release) versus Release 1.8.18
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+
+- New Features
+- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.19
+- Supported Platforms
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration
+    --------------
+    - CMake in the Tools
+
+      User-defined filters on Windows require that tools be built
+      with shared libraries.
+
+      CMake command code added to build tools with
+      shared libraries as well as with static libraries.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/02/07, HDFFV-10123)
+
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - H5PL package
+
+      Users would like to be able to set the plugin path programmatically
+      instead of through the environment variable.
+
+      H5PL package obtained new APIs for manipulating the entries of
+      the plugin path table. The new APIs are;
+        H5PLappend  - Insert a plugin path at the end of the list.
+        H5PLprepend - Insert a plugin path at the beginning of the list.
+        H5PLreplace - Replace the path at the specified index.
+        H5PLinsert  - Insert a plugin path at the specified index, moving
+                      other paths after the index.
+        H5PLremove  - Remove the plugin path at the specifed index and
+                      compacting the list.
+        H5PLget     - Query the plugin path at the specified index.
+        H5PLsize    - Query the size of the current list of plugin paths.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/04/04, HDFFV-10143)
+
+    - H5Dget_chunk_storage_size
+
+      The storage size of a chunk in the file is needed to determine the size
+      of the buffer to be allocated for reading a chunk directly from a file.
+
+      New API function gets the size in bytes currently allocated within a
+      file for a raw data chunk in a dataset.  This function was added to get
+      the chunk size in support of the implementation of H5DOread_chunks, but
+      may also be useful for other purposes.
+
+      (VC - 2017/05/02, HDFFV-9934)
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - The following C++ API wrappers have been added to the C++ Library:
+        // Determines if a name exists.
+        H5Location::nameExists() - C API H5Lexists()
+
+        // Checks if an ID is valid.
+        IdComponent::isValid() - C API H5Iis_valid()
+
+        // Sets the number of soft or user-defined links that can be
+        // traversed before a failure occurs.
+        LinkAccPropList::setNumLinks() - C API H5Pset_nlinks()
+
+        // Gets the number of soft or user-defined link traversals allowed
+        LinkAccPropList::getNumLinks() - C API H5Pget_nlinks()
+
+        // Returns a copy of the creation property list of a datatype.
+        DataType::getCreatePlist() - C API H5Tget_create_plist()
+
+        // Opens an object within a location, regarless its type.
+        H5Location::openObjId() - C API H5Oopen()
+        H5Location::openObjId() - C API H5Oopen()
+
+        // Closes an object opened by openObjId().
+        H5Location::closeObjId() - C API H5Oclose()
+
+        // Gets general information about a file.
+        H5File::getFileInfo() - C API H5Fget_info()
+
+        // Returns the header version of an HDF5 object.
+        H5Object::objVersion() - C API H5Oget_info()
+
+      (BMR, 2017/05/13, HDFFV-10004, HDFFV-10156)
+
+    - New class LinkAccPropList is added for link access proprety list
+
+      (BMR, 2017/05/13, HDFFV-10156)
+
+    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
+===================================================
+
+    - Added OpenMPI 2.0.1 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.18
+===========================
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Support for Fortran shared libraries on OS X with autotools now
+      works. Cmake builds still disables Fortran shared libraries on OS X.
+      (MSB - 2017/04/30, HDFFV-2772)
+
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - bitfield datatypes
+
+      bitfield datatypes did not fully support endianness of the data.
+
+      Improved the endianness of bitfield datatypes by adding missing functional
+      code. This code used integer types as a template.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/05/12, HDFFV-10186)
+
+    - Newly created datasets with H5D_COMPACT layout failed to open after
+      several H5Dopen/H5Dclose cycles.
+
+      The layout "dirty" flag for a compact dataset is now properly reset
+      before flushing the message.
+
+      (VC - 2017/05/11, HDFFV-10051)
+    - Missing #ifdef __cplusplus macros were added to the generated H5Epubgen.h file.
+
+      (DER - 2017/04/25, HDFFV-9638)
+
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - h5repack
+
+      h5repack did not maintain the creation order flag of the root
+      group.
+
+      Improved h5repack by reading the creation order and applying the
+      flag to the new root group. Also added arguments to set the
+      order and index direction, which applies to the traversing of the
+      original file, on the command line.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/05/26, HDFFV-8611)
+
+    - h5diff
+
+      h5diff failed to account for strpad type and null terminators
+      of char strings. Also, h5diff failed to account for string length
+      differences and would give a different result depending on file
+      order in the command line.
+
+      Improved h5diff compare of strings and arrays by adding a check for
+      string lengths and if the strpad was null filled.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/05/18, HDFFV-9055, HDFFV-10128)
+
+    - h5diff
+
+      h5diff help text about epsilon comparison was confusing.
+
+      Changed h5diff help text to indicate that the 'a' refers to the
+      datapoint in file1 and 'b' refers to the datapoint value in file2.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/05/16, HDFFV-9995)
+
+    - h5diff
+
+      h5diff did not report user-defined filter data differences correctly.
+
+      Improved h5diff compare of user-defined filter data by reporting an
+      error if the user-defined filter plugin cannot be found.
+
+      (ADB - 2017/01/18, HDFFV-9994)
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - The class hierarchy is revised to better reflect the HDF5 model.
+      Class H5File is now derived from class Group instead of H5Location.
+      Class Attribute is now derived from H5Location instead of IdComponent.
+      Wrappers of H5A APIs in H5Location are now duplicated in H5Object,
+      the original wrappers in H5Location will be deprecated in future
+      releases.
+
+      (BMR - 2017/05/15, HDFFV-10156)
+
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+The following platforms are supported and have been tested for this release.
+They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (platypus/mayll)              Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Versions 4.9.3, 5.2.0, 6.2.0
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
+                                  x86-64;
+                                      Version 16.10-0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+                                  OpenMPI 2.0.1 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6     gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+                                  IBM XL C/C++ V13.1
+                                  IBM XL Fortran V15.1
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (kituo/moohan)                  Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                    Versions 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20170411
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2017 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ MSMPI 8 (cmake)
+                                  Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.0(0.309/5/3)
+                                      gcc and gfortran compilers (GCC 5.4.0)
+                                      (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Windows 10                    Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+                                  Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.0(0.309/5/3)
+                                      gcc and gfortran compilers (GCC 5.4.0)
+                                      (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Mac OS X Mt. Lion 10.8.5      Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    (swallow/kite)                Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5     Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (wren/quail)                  Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5     Apple LLVM version 6.1 (clang-602.0.53)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (osx1010dev/osx1010test)      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.4   Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
+    (VM osx1011dev/osx1011test)   Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
+
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                    n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10                              y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10 x64                          y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                  n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                          y       y         y         y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                          y       y         y         y
+Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
+Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                       n       n         n         y
+Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
+Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit       y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         y
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6     g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+    (mayll)
+
+    Debian8.4.0 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  GNU Fortran (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Fedora24 4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    CentOS 7.2 3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Ubuntu 16.04 4.4.0-38-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0
+                                  GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+
+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.
+
+
+%%%%1.8.18%%%%
+
+
+HDF5 version 1.8.18 released on 2016-11-14
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.17 and
+HDF5-1.8.18, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.18.
+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 1.8.18 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
+
+The HDF5 1.8.18 release can be obtained from:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html
+
+User documentation for 1.8.18 can be accessed directly at this location:
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/
+
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
+in 1.8.0?" document:
+
+     https://support.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 1.8.18 (current
+release) versus Release 1.8.17
+
+     https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+
+- New Features
+- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
+- Supported Platforms
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+
+    - CMake: Added NAMESPACE hdf5:: to package configuration files to allow
+      projects using installed HDF5 binaries built with CMake to link with
+      them without specifying the HDF5 library location via IMPORTED_LOCATION.
+
+      (ADB, 2016/10/17, HDFFV-10003)
+
+
+    - CMake: Changed the CTEST_BUILD_CONFIGURATION option to
+      CTEST_CONFIGURATION_TYPE as recommended by the CMake documentation.
+
+      (ADB, 2016/10/17, HDFFV-9971)
+
+    - CMake: Added support for GIT
+
+      (ADB, 2016/07/12)
+
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - None
+
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - None
+
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - None
+
+
+    High-Level APIs
+    ---------------
+    - None
+
+
+    Fortran API
+    -----------
+    - None
+
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - None
+
+
+Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+===================================================
+
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.17
+===========================
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+
+    - Fixed a problem preventing HDF5 to be built on 32-bit CYGWIN by
+      condensing cygwin configuration files into a single file and
+      removing outdated compiler settings.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/07/12, HDFFV-9946)
+
+
+    - CMake: Fixed a command length overflow error by converting custom
+      commands inside CMakeTest.cmake files into regular dependencies and
+      targets.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/07/12, HDFFV-9939)
+
+
+    - CMake: Fixed a timeout error that would occasionally occur when running
+      the virtual file driver tests simultaneously due to test directory and file
+      name collisions.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/09/19, HDFFV-9431)
+
+
+    Library
+    -------
+
+    - Fixed a memory leak that would occur when the library allocated memory
+      for an external file prefix (H5Pset_efile_prefix) and failed to free it.
+
+      (DER, 2016/04/29)
+
+
+    - Fixed an error that would occur when calling H5Adelete on an attribute
+      which is attached to an externally linked object in the target file and
+      whose datatype is a committed datatype in the main file.
+
+      (VC, 2016-07-04, HDFFV-9940)
+
+
+    - Fixed a problem where a plugin compiled into a DLL in the default plugin
+      directory could not be found by the HDF5 library at runtime on Windows
+      when the HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable was not set.
+
+      (ABD, 2016/08/01, HDFFV-9706)
+
+
+    - Fixed an issue where H5Pset_alignment could result in misaligned blocks
+      with some input combinations, causing an assertion failure in debug mode.
+
+      (NAF, 2016/08/11, HDFFV-9948)
+
+
+    - A number of issues were fixed when reading/writing from/to corrupted
+      files to ensure that the library fails gracefully in these cases:
+
+      * Writing to a corrupted file that has an object message which is
+        incorrectly marked as sharable on disk results in a buffer overflow /
+        invalid write instead of a clean error message.
+
+      * Decoding data from a corrupted file with a dataset encoded with the
+        H5Z_NBIT decoding can result in a code execution vulnerability under
+        the context of the application using the HDF5 library.
+
+      * When decoding an array datatype from a corrupted file, the HDF5 library
+        fails to return an error in production if the number of dimensions
+        decoded is greater than the maximum rank.
+
+      * When decoding an "old style" array datatype from a corrupted file, the
+        HDF5 library fails to return an error in production if the number of
+        dimensions decoded is greater than the maximum rank.
+
+      (NAF, 2016/10/06, HDFFV-9950, HDFFV-9951, HDFFV-9992, HDFFV-9993)
+
+
+    - Fixed an error that would occur when copying an object with an attribute
+      which is a compound datatype consisting of a variable length string.
+
+      (VC, 2016-10-17, HDFFV-7991)
+
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+
+    - Fixed a bug that could occur when allocating a chunked dataset in parallel
+      with an alignment set and an alignment threshold greater than the chunk
+      size but less than or equal to the raw data aggregator size.
+
+      (NAF, 2016/08/11, HDFFV-9969)
+
+
+    Performance
+    -------------
+    - None
+
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+
+    - Fixed an error in the compiler wrapper scripts (h5cc, h5fc, et al.)
+      in which they would erroneously drop the file argument specified via
+      the -o flag when the -o flag was specified before the -c flag on the
+      command line, resulting in a failure to compile.
+
+      (LRK, 2016/06/08, HDFFV-9938, HDFFV-9530)
+
+
+    - h5repack User Defined (UD) filter parameters were not parsed correctly.
+
+      The UD filter parameters were not being parsed correctly. Reworked coding
+      section to parse the correct values and verify number of parameters.
+
+      (ADB, 2016/10/19, HDFFV-9996, HDFFV-9974, HDFFV-9515, HDFFV-9039)
+
+
+    Fortran API
+    -----------
+
+    - Fortran library fails to compile and fails tests with NAG compiler.
+
+      * Removed the non-standard assumption that KIND=SIZEOF, in the HDF5
+        configure programs.
+      * Removed Fortran 66 character/integer conversions from tests.
+      * Removed the use of C_SIZEOF in the test programs
+      * Changed to using STORAGE_SIZE in the test programs if available. Otherwise,
+        uses C_SIZEOF or SIZEOF.
+
+      (MSB, 2016/9/22, HDFFV-9973)
+
+
+    - Fortran segfaults for F03 tests with NAG compiler
+
+      * Removed INTENT(OUT) from 'fillvalue' in F2003 interface
+        for H5Pget_fill_value_f.
+
+      (MSB, 2016/9/22, HDFFV-9980)
+
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+
+    - The macro H5_NO_NAMESPACE is deprecated from the HDF5 C++ API library.
+      In future releases, the macros H5_NO_STD and OLD_HEADER_FILENAME may
+      also be removed.
+
+      (BMR, 2016/10/27, HDFFV-9532)
+
+
+    High-Level APIs:
+    ---------------
+
+    - The high-level API Packet Table (PT) did not write data correctly when
+      the datatype is a compound type that has string type as one of the
+      members.  This problem started in 1.8.15, after the fix of HDFFV-9042
+      was applied, which caused the Packet Table to use native type to access
+      the data.  It should be up to the application to specify whether the
+      buffer to be read into memory in the machine’s native architecture.
+      Thus, the PT is fixed to not use native type but to make a copy of the
+      user's provided datatype during creation or the packet table's datatype
+      during opening.  If an application wishes to use native type to read the
+      data, then the application will request that.  However, the Packet Table
+      doesn't provide a way to specify memory datatype in this release.  This
+      feature will be available in future releases, HDFFV-10023.
+
+      (BMR, 2016/10/27, HDFFV-9758)
+
+
+    Fortran High-Level APIs:
+    ------------------------
+    - None
+
+
+    Testing
+    -------
+    - None
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+===================
+The following platforms are supported and have been tested for this release.
+They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (platypus/mayll)              Version 4.4.7 20120313
+                                     Versions 4.8.4, 4.9.3, 5.2.0
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
+                                  x86-64;
+                                      Version 15.7-0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 15.0.3.187 Build 20150407
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6     gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+    (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
+                                  IBM XL C/C++ V13.1
+                                  IBM XL Fortran V15.1
+
+    Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
+    (kituo/moohan)                  Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                    Versions 4.9.3, 5.2.0
+                                  Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
+                                  compilers:
+                                     Version 15.0.3.187 Build 20150407
+                                  MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3
+
+    SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+    (emu)                         Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc
+
+    Windows 7                     Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16  (cmake)
+                                  Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.2.1(0.289/5/3) gcc(4.9.3) compiler and gfortran)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
+                                  Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16  (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10                    Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Windows 10 x64                Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake)
+
+    Mac OS X Mt. Lion 10.8.5      Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    (swallow/kite)                Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5     Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (wren/quail)                  Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5     Apple LLVM version 6.1 (clang-602.0.53)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    (osx1010dev/osx1010test)      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3
+
+    Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.4   Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
+    (VM osx1011dev/osx1011test)   Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
+
+
+Tested Configuration Features Summary
+=====================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested
+          n   = not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
+
+Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
+                                      parallel  F2003  parallel
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/y    n        y    y     n
+Windows 10                              n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Windows 10 x64                          n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit        n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                  n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
+
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                          y       y         y         y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                          y       y         y         y
+Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
+Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
+Windows 10                                 y       y         y         y
+Windows 10 x64                             y       y         y         y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit       y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         y
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         y
+
+Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+"Supported Platforms" table.
+
+
+More Tested Platforms
+=====================
+The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
+
+    Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6     g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
+    #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+    (platypus)
+
+    Debian8.4.0 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  GNU Fortran (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Fedora24 4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    CentOS 7.2 3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Ubuntu 16.04 4.4.0-38-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0
+                                  GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+* On windows platforms in debug configurations, the VFD flush1 tests will fail
+  with the split and multi VFD drivers. These tests will display a modal debug
+  dialog which must be answered or wait for the test timeout to expire.
+  (ADB - 2014/06/23 - HDFFV-8851)
+
+* CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv
+  catches some undefined behavior in the alignment algorithm of the macro DETECT_I
+  in H5detect.c (Issue 8147).  Since the algorithm is trying to detect the alignment
+  of integers, ideally the flag -fcatch-undefined-behavior shouldn't to be used for
+  H5detect.c. In the future, we can separate flags for H5detect.c from the rest of
+  the library. (SLU - 2013/10/16)
+
+* Make provided by Solaris fails in "make check". Solaris users should use
+  gmake to build and install the HDF5 software. (AKC - 2013/10/08 - HDFFV-8534)
+
+* The C++ and FORTRAN bindings are not currently working on FreeBSD with the
+  native release 8.2 compilers (4.2.1), but are working with gcc 4.6 from the
+  ports (and probably gcc releases after that).
+  (QAK - 2012/10/19)
+
+* The following h5dump test case fails in BG/P machines (and potentially other
+  machines that use a command script to launch executables):
+
+   h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
+     tno-subset.h5
+
+  This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
+  by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
+  arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
+  not via the test script.
+  (AKC - 2012/05/03)
+
+* The STDIO VFD does not work on some architectures, possibly due to 32/64
+  bit or large file issues.  The basic STDIO VFD test is known to fail on
+  64-bit SunOS 5.10 on SPARC when built with -m64 and 32-bit OS X/Darwin
+  10.7.0.  The STDIO VFD test has been disabled while we investigate and
+  a fix should appear in a future release.
+  (DER - 2011/10/14 - HDFFV-8235)
+
+* h5diff can report inconsistent results when comparing datasets of enum type
+  that contain invalid values.  This is due to how enum types are handled in
+  the library and will be addressed in a future release.
+  (DER - 2011/10/14 - HDFFV-7527)
+
+* The links test can fail under the stdio VFD due to some issues with external
+  links.  This will be investigated and fixed in a future release.
+  (DER - 2011/10/14 - HDFFV-7768)
+
+* After the shared library support was fixed for some bugs, it was discovered
+  that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
+  still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
+  install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
+  time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
+  (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
+
+* The parallel test, t_shapesame, in testpar/, may run for a long time and may
+  be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
+  alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
+  environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
+  it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
+  to a larger value.
+  (AKC - 2011/05/07)
+
+* Shared Fortran libraries are not quite working on AIX. While they are
+  generated when --enable-shared is specified, the fortran and hl/fortran
+  tests fail. the issue. HL and C++ shared libraries should now be
+  working as intended, however.
+  (MAM - 2011/04/20)
+
+* While working on the 1.8.6 release of HDF5, a bug was discovered that can
+  occur when reading from a dataset in parallel shortly after it has been
+  written to collectively. The issue was exposed by a new test in the parallel
+  HDF5 test suite, but had existed before that. We believe the problem lies with
+  certain MPI implementations and/or file systems.
+
+  We have provided a pure MPI test program, as well as a standalone HDF5
+  program, that can be used to determine if this is an issue on your system.
+  They should be run across multiple nodes with a varying number of processes.
+  These programs can be found at:
+  http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/known_problems/
+  (NAF - 2011/01/19)
+
+* All the VFL drivers aren't backward compatible.  In H5FDpublic.h, the
+  structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8.  There is new parameter added to
+  get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
+  get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
+  out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
+  it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
+  (SLU - 2010/02/02)
+
+* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
+  if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
+  of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
+  executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
+  (MAM - 2009/11/04)
+
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
+  with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
+  library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
+  (SLU - 2005/06/30)
+
+
 %%%%1.8.17%%%%
 
 
@@ -90,17 +2185,17 @@ New Features
     Configuration
     -------------
     - Cmakehdf5: Added Ability to Run Multiple Make Commands
-    
+
       Added option --njobs to specify up to how many jobs to launch during
       build (cmake) and testing (ctest).
-      
+
       (AKC - 2015/12/13, HDFFV-9612)
 
     - Cmakehdf5: Added Szip Support and Verbose Option
-      
-      Added --with-szlib to support the Szip library; and 
+
+      Added --with-szlib to support the Szip library; and
       --enable/disable-verbose to display all CMake process output.
-      
+
       (AKC - 2015/11/16, HDFFV-8932 and DAILYTEST-195)
 
     - CMake minimum is now 3.1.0. (ADB - 2015/11/14)
@@ -122,13 +2217,13 @@ New Features
     Library
     -------
     - New API Calls for Searching for External Dataset Storage
-      
+
       API calls that determine the search path for dataset external
-      storage were added. H5Pset/get_efile_prefix() API calls were added 
-      to the library. These functions give control over the search path 
-      for dataset external storage that has been configured with 
+      storage were added. H5Pset/get_efile_prefix() API calls were added
+      to the library. These functions give control over the search path
+      for dataset external storage that has been configured with
       H5Pset_external().
-      
+
       Additionally, the HDF5_EXTFILE_PREFIX environment variable can be
       used to control the search path.
 
@@ -160,7 +2255,7 @@ New Features
       H5PTcreate has been added to replace H5PTcreate_fl. H5PTcreate
       takes a property list identifier to provide flexibility on
       creation properties.  This also removes the following warning:
-      "deprecated conversion from string constant to "char*" 
+      "deprecated conversion from string constant to "char*"
       [-Wwrite-strings]".
 
       (BMR - 2016/04/25, HDFFV-9708, HDFFV-8615)
@@ -201,7 +2296,7 @@ New Features
       Two accessor wrappers were added to class PacketTable.
 
       PacketTable::GetDataset() returns the identifier of the dataset
-      associated with the packet table, and PacketTable::GetDatatype() 
+      associated with the packet table, and PacketTable::GetDatatype()
       returns the identifier of the datatype that the packet table uses.
 
       (BMR - 2016/04/25, HDFFV-8623 patch 4)
@@ -211,7 +2306,7 @@ New Features
       Overloaded functions were added to provide the "const char*"
       argument; the existing version will be deprecated in future
       releases. This also removes the following warning:
-      "deprecated conversion from string constant to "char*" 
+      "deprecated conversion from string constant to "char*"
       [-Wwrite-strings]".
 
       (BMR - 2016/04/25, HDFFV-8623 patch 1, HDFFV-8615)
@@ -247,9 +2342,9 @@ New Features
       The two following functions were added:
         ArrayType::getArrayNDims() const
         ArrayType::getArrayDims() const
-      to provide const version, and the non-const version was marked 
-      deprecated. In-memory array information, ArrayType::rank and 
-      ArrayType::dimensions, were removed. This is an implementation 
+      to provide const version, and the non-const version was marked
+      deprecated. In-memory array information, ArrayType::rank and
+      ArrayType::dimensions, were removed. This is an implementation
       detail and should not affect applications.
 
       (BMR, 2016/04/25, HDFFV-9725)
@@ -264,8 +2359,8 @@ New Features
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
-    - Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 with compilers Apple clang/clang++ 
-      version 7.3.0 from Xcode 7.3, gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0 
+    - Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 with compilers Apple clang/clang++
+      version 7.3.0 from Xcode 7.3, gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0
       and Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2
 
 
@@ -293,7 +2388,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.16
 
       (DER - 2015/12/08, HDFFV-9627)
 
-    - The --enable-clear-file-buffers configure Option was Non-functional 
+    - The --enable-clear-file-buffers configure Option was Non-functional
       so the Feature was Always Enabled (its default value).
 
       Regardless of the configure flag, the setting was always enabled when
@@ -311,7 +2406,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.16
 
       (DER - 2016/02/03, HDFFV-9676)
 
-    - Added a patch to remove '"'s from arguments for MPI compilers that 
+    - Added a patch to remove '"'s from arguments for MPI compilers that
       were causing errors compiling H5lib_settings.c with SGI MPT.
 
       (LRK - 2016/04/20, HDFFV-9439)
@@ -354,19 +2449,19 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.16
     -----
     - h5dump: Sub-setting Fixed for Dimensions Greater than Two
 
-      When a dataset has more than two dimensions, sub-setting would 
-      incorrectly calculate the data that needed to be displayed. 
-      Added in block and stride calculations that account for dimensions 
-      greater than two. NOTE: lines that have line breaks inserted 
-      because of display length calculations may have index info that 
+      When a dataset has more than two dimensions, sub-setting would
+      incorrectly calculate the data that needed to be displayed.
+      Added in block and stride calculations that account for dimensions
+      greater than two. NOTE: lines that have line breaks inserted
+      because of display length calculations may have index info that
       is incorrect until the next dimension break.
 
       (ADB - 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9698)
 
     - h5dump: Issue with Argument Segmentation Fault
 
-      When an argument with an optional value was at the end of the command 
-      line with a value, h5dump would crash. Reworked check for remaining 
+      When an argument with an optional value was at the end of the command
+      line with a value, h5dump would crash. Reworked check for remaining
       arguments.
 
       (ADB - 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9570, HDFFV-9684)
@@ -378,7 +2473,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.16
       (ADB -, 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9241)
 
     - h5dump: Clarified Help
-      
+
       Clarified usage of -O F option in h5dump utility help.
 
       (ADB - 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9066)
@@ -391,7 +2486,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.16
 
     - VS2015 Release Changed how Timezone was Handled
 
-      Created a function, HDget_timezone, in H5system.c. Replaced 
+      Created a function, HDget_timezone, in H5system.c. Replaced
       timezone variable usage with function call.
 
       (ADB - 2015/11/02, HDFFV-9550)
@@ -408,7 +2503,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.16
     -------
     - Removal of Obsolete Methods
 
-      The overloaded methods which had parameters that should be const 
+      The overloaded methods which had parameters that should be const
       but were not have been removed.
 
       (BMR - 2016/01/13, HDFFV-9789)
@@ -419,7 +2514,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.16
     ---------------
     - Fixed Memory Leak in Packet Table API
 
-      Applied user's patch to fix memory leak in the creation of a 
+      Applied user's patch to fix memory leak in the creation of a
       packet table.
 
       (BMR - 2016/04/25, HDFFV-9700)
@@ -1421,7 +3516,7 @@ Known Problems
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.15%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.15%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.15 released on 2015-05-04
@@ -1430,9 +3525,9 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.15 released on 2015-05-04
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.14 and 
-HDF5-1.8.15, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.15. 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.14 and
+HDF5-1.8.15, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.15.
 
 Links to the HDF5 source code, documentation, and additional materials
 can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
@@ -1443,11 +3538,11 @@ The HDF5 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for HDF5 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for HDF5 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
 from Release to Release" document at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -1475,18 +3570,18 @@ New Features
     Configuration
     -------------
     - CMake
-    
+
       Improvements made to the CMake build system.
-        
+
       The default options were changed to align with the Autotools configure
       defaults. CMake configure files now support components when packaged
       with CPack. Windows CPack supports WiX packaging, and will look for
-      WiX and NSIS in the standard locations. 
-      
+      WiX and NSIS in the standard locations.
+
       The CMake minimum has been changed to 3.1.
-      
+
       (ADB - 2015/04/01 HDFFV-8074, 8968, 9006)
-      
+
     - cmakehdf5 for Cmake building.
       Added configure options to support the building of Fortran or CXX API,
       to enable/disable testings. Use "cmakehdf5 --help" for details.
@@ -1516,10 +3611,10 @@ New Features
       (MSC - 2015/02/19 HDFFV-9068)
 
     - Large File Support Configuration Option
-      
+
       Removed the option to enable or disable large file support. It will
       always be enabled.
-      
+
       (MSC - 2015/02/19 HDFFV-9097)
 
     - Removed Configuration Feature
@@ -1576,11 +3671,11 @@ New Features
 
       (DER - 2015-02-26, HDFFV-9057, 7567, 9088, 7566)
 
-    - _POSIX_C_SOURCE, _GNU_SOURCE, and _BSD_SOURCE No Longer Exported 
+    - _POSIX_C_SOURCE, _GNU_SOURCE, and _BSD_SOURCE No Longer Exported
       to h5cc and Other Compiler Wrappers
 
-      The _POSIX_C_SOURCE, _GNU_SOURCE, and _BSD_SOURCE definitions are 
-      not required for using API functions and may conflict with user 
+      The _POSIX_C_SOURCE, _GNU_SOURCE, and _BSD_SOURCE definitions are
+      not required for using API functions and may conflict with user
       code requirements.
 
       (DER - 2015-03-08, HDFFV-9152)
@@ -1664,33 +3759,33 @@ New Features
       separately from the library.
 
       (DER - 2015-04-01, HDFFV-9100)
- 
+
     - H5Pset_istore_k and H5Pset_sym_k
 
-      These two functions didn't check the value of the input parameter "ik". 
-      When 2*ik exceeded 2 bytes of storage, data was lost in the file; 
-      for example, some chunks would be overwritten.  
+      These two functions didn't check the value of the input parameter "ik".
+      When 2*ik exceeded 2 bytes of storage, data was lost in the file;
+      for example, some chunks would be overwritten.
 
       Added validation of "ik" to not exceed the max v1 btree entries (2 bytes)
       to these two routines.
 
       (VC - 2015-03-24, HDFFV-9173)
 
-    - Added Functions to Control the Value of H5PL_no_plugin_g without 
+    - Added Functions to Control the Value of H5PL_no_plugin_g without
       Using an Environment Variable
-      
-      Sometimes it is necessary for an application to disable the use of 
-      dynamically loaded plugin libraries without requiring the library to 
-      be built with plugin support disabled or to set an environment 
+
+      Sometimes it is necessary for an application to disable the use of
+      dynamically loaded plugin libraries without requiring the library to
+      be built with plugin support disabled or to set an environment
       variable to disable plugin support globally.
-      
+
       Two new functions (H5PLset_loading_state() and H5PLget_loading_state())
-      were added to the HDF5 C Library. These functions require a parameter 
-      that indicates which type of dynamically loaded plugin is enabled or 
+      were added to the HDF5 C Library. These functions require a parameter
+      that indicates which type of dynamically loaded plugin is enabled or
       disabled.
-      
+
       (ADB - 2015-03-17, HDFFV-8520)
-      
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - MPI_Finalize and HDF5 Library Shutdown
@@ -1701,12 +3796,12 @@ New Features
 
       Attached an attribute destroy callback to MPI_COMM_SELF that
       shuts down the HDF5 library when MPI_COMM_SELF is destroyed,
-      in other words, on MPI_Finalize. This should fix several issues 
-      that users see when they forget to close HDF5 objects before 
-      calling MPI_Finalize().  
+      in other words, on MPI_Finalize. This should fix several issues
+      that users see when they forget to close HDF5 objects before
+      calling MPI_Finalize().
 
       (MSC - 2015/02/25, HDFFV-883)
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - None
@@ -1717,19 +3812,19 @@ New Features
 
     Fortran API
     -----------
-    - Added Global Variables 
-    
-      These new global variables are equivalent to the C definitions 
+    - Added Global Variables
+
+      These new global variables are equivalent to the C definitions
       without the '_F':
-      
-      H5G_UDLINK_F  
+
+      H5G_UDLINK_F
       H5G_SAME_LOC_F
       H5O_TYPE_UNKNOWN_F
       H5O_TYPE_GROUP_F
       H5O_TYPE_DATASET_F
       H5O_NAMED_DATATYPE_F
       H5O_TYPE_NTYPES_F
-      
+
       (MSB - 2015/02/03, HDFFV-9040)
 
 
@@ -1737,7 +3832,7 @@ New Features
     -------
     - New Wrappers for C Functions H5P[s/g]et_libver_bounds
 
-      Wrappers were added to class H5::FileAccPropList for the 
+      Wrappers were added to class H5::FileAccPropList for the
       C Functions H5Pget_libver_bounds and H5Pset_libver_bounds.
 
       (BMR, 2015/04/06, Part of HDFFV-9167)
@@ -1747,7 +3842,7 @@ New Features
       The following wrappers are added to class H5::CommonFG
       Returns the object header version of an object in a file or group,
       given the object's name.
-      
+
       unsigned childObjVersion(const char* objname) const;
       unsigned childObjVersion(const H5std_string& objname) const;
 
@@ -1756,7 +3851,7 @@ New Features
     - New DataType Constructor
 
       Added a DataType constructor that takes a PredType object, and this
-      constructor will invoke H5Tcopy to generate another datatype id 
+      constructor will invoke H5Tcopy to generate another datatype id
       from a predefined datatype.
 
       (BMR, 2015/04/06)
@@ -1764,7 +3859,7 @@ New Features
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
-    - Support for Linux 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 added (LK - 2015/04/01) 
+    - Support for Linux 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7 added (LK - 2015/04/01)
     - Support for Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 added (AKC - 2015/03/04, HDFFV-9007)
     - Support for AIX 6.1 added and AIX 5.3 is retired. (AKC - 2015/01/09)
 
@@ -1778,19 +3873,19 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
 
       Fixed by assign it with the proper value.
 
-      (AKC - 2015/04/29, HDFFV-9298) 
+      (AKC - 2015/04/29, HDFFV-9298)
 
     - Windows Installer Incorrect Display of PATH Environment Variable
-    
+
       In the Windows installer, the dialog box where the user can elect to
       add the product's bin path to the %PATH% environment variable displayed
       an incorrect path. This path was missing the C:\Program Files part
       and used the POSIX file separator '/' before the bin (<path>/bin,
       instead of <path>\bin).
-      
+
       The dialog box text was changed to simply say that the product's bin
       path would be added instead of explicitly displaying the path.
-      This is in line with most installers. The reason for not fixing the 
+      This is in line with most installers. The reason for not fixing the
       displayed path instead is that it is difficult to pass the correct
       path from CPack to the NSIS installer for display.
 
@@ -1803,34 +3898,34 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
     Library
     -------
     - Incorrect Usage of List in CMake COMPILE_DEFINITIONS set_property
-    
+
       The CMake command set_property with COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property
       needs a quoted semi-colon separated list of values. CMake will
       transform the list to a series of -D{value} for the compile.
-      
+
       (ADB - 2014/12/09, HDFV-9041)
-      
+
     - Fixed Compile Errors on Windows w/ Visual Studio and CMake When
       UNICODE is Defined
-    
+
       The HDF5 Library could not be built on Windows with Visual Studio when
-      UNICODE was defined. This was due to the incorrect use of the TEXT() 
+      UNICODE was defined. This was due to the incorrect use of the TEXT()
       macro and some Win32 API functions that take TCHAR parameters. The faulty
       code was a part of the filter plugin functionality. This was a
       compile-time error that only affected users who build HDF5 from source
       and define UNICODE, usually when HDF5 is being built as a part of a
       larger product. There were no run-time effects.
-      
+
       These errors caused no problems when UNICODE was not defined. HDF5 is
       normally not built with UNICODE defined and the binaries were
       unaffected.
-      
+
       The fix was to remove the TEXT() macro and explicitly use the
       'A' form of the Win32 API calls, which expect char strings instead of
       wchar_t strings.
-      
+
       Note that HDF5 currently does not support Unicode file paths on Windows.
-      
+
       (DER - 2015/02/22, HDFFV-8927)
 
     - Addition of Error Tracing Functionality to Several C API Calls
@@ -1846,11 +3941,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
 
     - H5Rdereference Now Checks for HADDR_UNDEF or Uninitialized References
 
-      When passed HADDR_UNDEF or uninitialized references, the previous 
-      behavior of H5Rdereference was to continue to process the reference 
-      as a valid address. 
-      
-      H5Rdereference was changed to return immediately (with an error 
+      When passed HADDR_UNDEF or uninitialized references, the previous
+      behavior of H5Rdereference was to continue to process the reference
+      as a valid address.
+
+      H5Rdereference was changed to return immediately (with an error
       message) if the references are HADDR_UNDEF or uninitialized.
 
       (MSB - 2015/3/10, HDFFV-7959)
@@ -1868,19 +3963,19 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - Fixed a Potential Memory Error
-      
-      Fixed a potential memory error when performing parallel I/O on a 
-      dataset with a single chunk, and at least one process has nothing 
+
+      Fixed a potential memory error when performing parallel I/O on a
+      dataset with a single chunk, and at least one process has nothing
       to do.
-      
+
       (NAF - 2015/02/16)
 
     - Parallel Test Problem Fixed
-      
+
       Fixed problem with parallel tests where they failed beyond a
       certain number of ranks. All tests should work for any arbitrary
-      number of ranks. 
-      
+      number of ranks.
+
       (MSC - 2014/11/06, HDFFV-1027,8962,8963)
 
     - MPE Support
@@ -1889,7 +3984,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
       dropped at some point in time.
 
       Fixed problem with enabling MPE. Users should use the community
-      maintained MPE on github (http://git.mpich.org/mpe.git/). 
+      maintained MPE on github (http://git.mpich.org/mpe.git/).
 
       (MSC - 2015/02/20, HDFFV-9135)
 
@@ -1925,28 +4020,28 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
     - Source perform/ directory moved to tools/perform.
       The perform directory is moved to tools/perform for easier maintenance.
       (AKC - 2014/12/17, HDFFV-9046)
-      
+
     Fortran API
     ------------
     - Fortran Fails with --enable-fortran2003 and Intel 15.x Compilers
-      
-      Added BIND(C) to the offending APIs. 
 
-      The Fortran Library (--enable-fortran2003) now works using Intel 15.x 
-      without the need for any additional compilers flags. 
-      
+      Added BIND(C) to the offending APIs.
+
+      The Fortran Library (--enable-fortran2003) now works using Intel 15.x
+      without the need for any additional compilers flags.
+
       (MSB - 2015/1/26, HDFFV-9049)
 
-    - h5tenum_insert_f Does Not Work with Default 8 Byte Integers 
+    - h5tenum_insert_f Does Not Work with Default 8 Byte Integers
       (xlf compiler)
-      
-      In the Fortran 90 API, 'value' is no longer cast into the C int type. 
-      Therefore, if h5tenum_insert_f is passed an 8 byte integer (via -i8) 
-      then 'value' is written as the same type as the default Fortran 
+
+      In the Fortran 90 API, 'value' is no longer cast into the C int type.
+      Therefore, if h5tenum_insert_f is passed an 8 byte integer (via -i8)
+      then 'value' is written as the same type as the default Fortran
       integer type (which can be 8 bytes).
-      
-      A new Fortran 2003 API was added which is more in line with the C 
-      API and users are strongly encouraged to use the Fortran 2003 API 
+
+      A new Fortran 2003 API was added which is more in line with the C
+      API and users are strongly encouraged to use the Fortran 2003 API
       instead of the Fortran 90 API.
 
       SUBROUTINE h5tenum_insert_f(type_id, name, value, hdferr)
@@ -1958,29 +4053,29 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
       (MSB - 2015/2/19, HDFFV-8908)
 
     - Some Fortran APIs Never Returned the Error State
-      
-      Some Fortran APIs never returned the error state: they 
-      would always return a positive number. The APIs include 
+
+      Some Fortran APIs never returned the error state: they
+      would always return a positive number. The APIs include
       the following:
-      
+
       h5fget_file_image_f
       h5lget_name_by_idx_f
       h5oget_comment_by_name_f
 
-      They were corrected to return a negative number as described in 
-      the Reference Manual if an error occurred. 
+      They were corrected to return a negative number as described in
+      the Reference Manual if an error occurred.
 
       (MSB - 2015/3/19, HDF5-239)
 
-    - Fixed h5pget_class_f 
+    - Fixed h5pget_class_f
 
-      h5pget_class_f never correlated the class identifier to the property 
-      list class name as indicated in the HDF5 Reference Manual; it instead 
-      returned a property list class identifier as an INTEGER. The INTEGER 
+      h5pget_class_f never correlated the class identifier to the property
+      list class name as indicated in the HDF5 Reference Manual; it instead
+      returned a property list class identifier as an INTEGER. The INTEGER
       needed to be of type INTEGER(HID_T) to be correct.
 
-      The h5pget_class_f API was changed to return an INTEGER(HID_T) 
-      property list class identifier instead of an INTEGER. This mimics the 
+      The h5pget_class_f API was changed to return an INTEGER(HID_T)
+      property list class identifier instead of an INTEGER. This mimics the
       intended behavior of the C API.
 
       (MSB - 2015/3/16, HDFFV5-9162)
@@ -1990,12 +4085,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
     - Combined Two H5File::getObjCount Overloaded Methods
 
       The following two methods
-      
+
       ssize_t getObjCount(unsigned types) const;
       ssize_t getObjCount() const;
-      
+
       were combined into one:
-      
+
       ssize_t getObjCount(unsigned types = H5F_OBJ_ALL) const;
 
       (BMR - 2015/04/06)
@@ -2003,7 +4098,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
     - Many Warnings Were Removed
 
       Many warnings such as conversion, unused variables, missing base
-      class initialization, and initializing base classes in wrong order 
+      class initialization, and initializing base classes in wrong order
       were removed.
 
       (BMR, 2015/04/06)
@@ -2014,10 +4109,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
       H5Location, and H5Object are no longer appropriate after the data member
       "id" had been moved from IdComponent to the sub-classes in previous
       releases.
-      
+
       <Classname>(const hid_t h5_id);
       <Classname>(const <Classname>& original);
-      
+
       The copy constructors were no-op and removed in 1.8.15.  The other
       constructors will be removed from 1.10 release, and then from 1.8.17
       if their removal does not cause any problems.
@@ -2041,39 +4136,39 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.14
 
       (MSB - 2015/2/14, HDFFV-8685)
 
-   
+
     - H5PTcreate_fl Does Not Convert to Memory Datatype
 
-      H5PTcreate_fl now converts to the table's native memory datatype 
+      H5PTcreate_fl now converts to the table's native memory datatype
       to fix the problem of handling BE and LE packet tables.
 
       (MSB - 2015/2/26 - HDFFV-9042)
 
     - Fix for H5LT Attribute Functions
-      
-      H5LT attribute functions fail to create attributes whose name 
+
+      H5LT attribute functions fail to create attributes whose name
       is a substring of an existing attribute.
 
-      H5LT attribute functions can now create attributes whose name 
+      H5LT attribute functions can now create attributes whose name
       is a substring of an existing attribute.
 
       (MSB - 2015/2/24, HDFFV-9132)
-    
+
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
     ------------------------
 
     - Internal Library Fix for Missing Argument Declaration
-    
-      In Interface block for h5tbmake_table_c, "max_char_size_field_names" 
-      is listed as an input, but in the argument definitions it is 
-      "INTEGER :: max_char_size". This caused no known problems with the 
+
+      In Interface block for h5tbmake_table_c, "max_char_size_field_names"
+      is listed as an input, but in the argument definitions it is
+      "INTEGER :: max_char_size". This caused no known problems with the
       Fortran HL API.
 
       Fixed missing argument definition.
-       
+
       (MSB - 2015/2/18, HDFFV-8559)
-      
+
 
     Testing
     -------
@@ -2104,17 +4199,17 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 64-bit applications;
     (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-55)
                                       Version 4.8.4, 4.9.2
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64;
                                       Version 15.0.1.133 Build 20141023
 
     Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6     GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
     (platypus)                       Version 4.4.7 20120313
                                      Version 4.8.2, Version 4.9.2
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 14.10-0 
+                                      Version 14.10-0
                                   Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
                                   compilers:
                                      Version 15.0.1.133 Build 20141023
@@ -2123,7 +4218,7 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
     (moohan)                         Version 4.8.2 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-16)
                                   Intel(R) C Intel(R) 64 Compiler XE for
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64,
                                      Version 15.0.1.133 Build 20141023
 
     Linux 2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)
@@ -2147,7 +4242,7 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
                                   Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
-                                  
+
     Windows 8.1                   Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
 
@@ -2155,15 +4250,15 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
                                   Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake)
 
     Mac OS X Mt. Lion 10.8.5      Apple clang/clang++ version 5.1 from Xcode 5.1
-    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    64-bit                  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
     (swallow/kite)                Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 14.0.2
 
     Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5     Apple clang/clang++ version 6.0 from Xcode 6.1.1
-    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    64-bit                  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
     (wren/quail)                  Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 14.0.2
 
     Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.2     Apple clang/clang++ version 6.0 from Xcode 6.1.1
-    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
+    64-bit                  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2
     (osx1010dev/osx1010test)      Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.1
 
 
@@ -2171,14 +4266,14 @@ Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
                                       parallel  F2003  parallel
@@ -2186,7 +4281,7 @@ SunOS 5.11 32-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 SunOS 5.11 64-bit                       n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    n        y    y     y
-Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/y    n        y    y     n 
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/y    n        y    y     n
 Windows 8.1                             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Windows 8.1 x64                         n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
@@ -2205,30 +4300,30 @@ CentOS 7.0 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU      y        y/y    y        y    y     y
 CentOS 7.0 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-SunOS 5.11 32-bit                          y       y         y         y        
-SunOS 5.11 64-bit                          y       y         y         y        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+SunOS 5.11 32-bit                          y       y         y         y
+SunOS 5.11 64-bit                          y       y         y         y
 Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
 Windows 8.1                                y       y         y         y
 Windows 8.1 x64                            y       y         y         y
-Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit       y       n         y         y        
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit       y       n         y         y
 Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
 Mac OS X Yosemeti 10.10.2 64-bit           y       n         y         y
-AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n        
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
-CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n     
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 7.0 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 7.0 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
-Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n 
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
 "Supported Platforms" table.
@@ -2244,7 +4339,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.18-431.11.2.el6     MPICH mpich 3.1.3 compiled with
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           gcc 4.9.2 and gfortran 4.9.2
-    (platypus)                    g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)   
+    (platypus)                    g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
 
     FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386       gcc 4.5.4 [FreeBSD] 20110526
     (loyalty)                     gcc 4.6.1 20110527
@@ -2275,7 +4370,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-0ubuntu1) 4.9.1
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-0ubuntu1) 4.9.1
                                   (cmake and autotools)
-    
+
     hopper.nersc.gov              PrgEnv-gnu/5.2.40
                                   gcc (GCC) 4.9.2 20141030 (Cray Inc.)
                                   GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2 20141030 (Cray Inc.)
@@ -2285,7 +4380,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 Known Problems
 ==============
 * On Windows platforms in debug configurations, the VFD flush1 tests will fail
-  with the split and multi VFD drivers. These tests will display a modal debug 
+  with the split and multi VFD drivers. These tests will display a modal debug
   dialog which must be answered or wait for the test timeout to expire.
   (ADB - 2014/06/23 - HDFFV-8851)
 
@@ -2309,7 +4404,7 @@ Known Problems
 
    h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
      tno-subset.h5
-  
+
   This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
   by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
   arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
@@ -2336,7 +4431,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -2344,15 +4439,15 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value.
   (AKC - 2011/05/07)
 
 * Shared Fortran libraries are not quite working on AIX. While they are
   generated when --enable-shared is specified, the fortran and hl/fortran
-  tests fail. the issue. HL and C++ shared libraries should now be 
+  tests fail. the issue. HL and C++ shared libraries should now be
   working as intended, however.
   (MAM - 2011/04/20)
 
@@ -2374,32 +4469,32 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.14%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.14%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.14 released on 2014-11-12
@@ -2408,11 +4503,11 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.14 released on 2014-11-12
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.13 and 
-HDF5-1.8.14, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.14. 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.13 and
+HDF5-1.8.14, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.14.
 
-All new and modified APIs are listed in the "HDF5 Software Changes 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in the "HDF5 Software Changes
 from Release to Release" document along with details about previous
 releases at:
 
@@ -2427,7 +4522,7 @@ The HDF5 1.8.14 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.14 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.14 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
@@ -2456,7 +4551,7 @@ New Features
     - bin/cmakehdf5 configures, builds and installs C, C++, Fortran and High
       level API's. (It used to build the C API only).
       (AKC 2014/10/17 HDFFV-8932).
-    
+
     Library
     -------
     - None
@@ -2464,17 +4559,17 @@ New Features
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
      - Chunk Fill Writes Changed to Collective
-    
-      Slow performance in chunk fill writes. Chunk fills 
-      in the past were written independently by rank 0 one block 
-      at a time. 
-      
-      Optimized the chunk fill write algorithm so that all 
-      chunk fill values will be written collectively in a single MPI-IO 
-      call. This should show a great performance improvement when 
-      creating chunked datasets in parallel when the chunk dimensions 
+
+      Slow performance in chunk fill writes. Chunk fills
+      in the past were written independently by rank 0 one block
+      at a time.
+
+      Optimized the chunk fill write algorithm so that all
+      chunk fill values will be written collectively in a single MPI-IO
+      call. This should show a great performance improvement when
+      creating chunked datasets in parallel when the chunk dimensions
       are fairly small.
-      
+
       (MSC - 2014/08/22, HDFFV-8878)
 
     Tools
@@ -2496,7 +4591,7 @@ New Features
       The data member "id" in classes that represent HDF5 objects were
       initialized to 0, which caused problem for some users.
 
-      Replaced 0 with H5I_INVALID_HID to initialize these "id"s.  For the 
+      Replaced 0 with H5I_INVALID_HID to initialize these "id"s.  For the
       PropList class, H5P_DEFAULT is used instead of H5I_INVALID_HID.
 
       (BMR - 2014/09/30, HDFFV-4259)
@@ -2505,7 +4600,7 @@ New Features
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
-    - None                                  
+    - None
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
 ===========================
@@ -2513,26 +4608,26 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
     Configuration
     -------------
     - CMake and SVN URLs
-    
+
       The SVN URLs will be different when the HDF Group domain name changes.
-    
+
       Removed the SVN URL references in the cacheinit.cmake and release_docs files.
-      
+
       (ADB - 2014/10/27, HDFFV-8953)
 
     - CMake Packaging
-    
+
       A Fortran module was not generated if the compiler was not F2003
       compliant.
-    
+
       Removed the module name from the package list of Fortran modules because
       that module was never generated. This was only an issue for Fortran
       compliers that are not F2003 compatible.
-      
+
       (ADB - 2014/10/16, HDFFV-8932)
 
     - Shared Library Interface Version Number (soname)
-      
+
       In order to increase the maintainability of HDF5, an architectural
       change was made which required the renaming of several public symbols in
       H5Ppublic.h.
@@ -2543,71 +4638,71 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
       the 'HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release' document:
 
           http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
-      
+
       (AKC - 2014/10/03, HDFFV-8937)
 
-    - Configure Settings for Mac OSX Need Defaults for PROD_XXX, DEBUG_XXX, 
+    - Configure Settings for Mac OSX Need Defaults for PROD_XXX, DEBUG_XXX,
       and PROFILE_XXX
-      
-      The configure setting files for Mac OSX (config/apple) did not 
-      have the default settings of PROD_XXX, DEBUG_XXX, PROFILE_XXX. 
-      
-      Added the default settings. Mac platforms now builds library with 
-      "-O3" optimization when the default clang compiler is used. 
-      
+
+      The configure setting files for Mac OSX (config/apple) did not
+      have the default settings of PROD_XXX, DEBUG_XXX, PROFILE_XXX.
+
+      Added the default settings. Mac platforms now builds library with
+      "-O3" optimization when the default clang compiler is used.
+
       (AKC - 2014/10/01, HDFFV-8933)
 
     - CMake ConfigureChecks
-    
+
       Two include files were missing from two C tests.
-    
+
       Propagated the configure test changes to H5_LDOUBLE_TO_INTEGER_WORKS_TEST
       and H5_ULLONG_TO_LDOUBLE_PRECISION_TEST to ConfigureChecks.cmake (added
       stdlib.h and string.h in the HDFTests.c file).
-      
+
       (ADB - 2014/09/02 HDFFV-8845)
-      
+
     - CMake Parallel Test Missing
-    
-      The source file was removed in the previous release but the parallel 
+
+      The source file was removed in the previous release but the parallel
       test t_posix_compliant was not.
-    
-      Removed the t_posix_compliant parallel test from the library. 
-      
+
+      Removed the t_posix_compliant parallel test from the library.
+
       (ADB - 2014/8/14 HDFFV-8880)
 
     - Autotools Reconfigure. Bison. Flex.
-    
-      The Bison and Flex files were out of date. 
-    
-      Bison was upgraded to 2.7, and Flex was upgraded to 2.5.37. The 
-      bin/reconfigure script now will execute Bison and Flex and update 
-      the hl/src files. 
-      
+
+      The Bison and Flex files were out of date.
+
+      Bison was upgraded to 2.7, and Flex was upgraded to 2.5.37. The
+      bin/reconfigure script now will execute Bison and Flex and update
+      the hl/src files.
+
       (ADB - 2014/06/16 HDFFV-8709)
 
     - Autotools Reconfigure. m4.
 
       The m4 macro processor was out of date.
-      
-      Reconfigured Autotools with m4 upgraded to 1.4.17. 
-    
+
+      Reconfigured Autotools with m4 upgraded to 1.4.17.
+
       (ADB - 2014/06/12 HDFFV-8743)
-    
-    - Autotools: Modified configure to add an entry at the beginning of AM_LDFLAGS 
-      for the hdf5 install directory.  Without this entry the relink commands 
-      invoked by "make install" to create libraries dependent on libhdf5.so added 
-      a dependency on the first libhdf5.so found in any directory in AM_LDFLAGS 
+
+    - Autotools: Modified configure to add an entry at the beginning of AM_LDFLAGS
+      for the hdf5 install directory.  Without this entry the relink commands
+      invoked by "make install" to create libraries dependent on libhdf5.so added
+      a dependency on the first libhdf5.so found in any directory in AM_LDFLAGS
       regardless of its version.  (LRK - 2014/10/17 HDFFV-8944)
 
     - Changed Autotools Build Behavior. Fortran High-level Library.
 
-      The Fortran high-level (HL) library did not compile if the default 
-      size of a REAL is DOUBLE PRECISION; the build would fail during 
+      The Fortran high-level (HL) library did not compile if the default
+      size of a REAL is DOUBLE PRECISION; the build would fail during
       compilation.
 
-      Configure now checks to see if REAL is DOUBLE PRECISION, Fortran is 
-      enabled, and HL library is enabled. If this is true, then configure 
+      Configure now checks to see if REAL is DOUBLE PRECISION, Fortran is
+      enabled, and HL library is enabled. If this is true, then configure
       will stop with an error message.
 
       (MSB - 2014/8/11, HDFFV-8883/HDFFV-889)
@@ -2617,36 +4712,36 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
     Library
     -------
     - Fixed Identifier Management Code
-      
-      Opening an object returns an identifier; closing the object should 
-      free up the identifier. A problem was found where the identifiers 
+
+      Opening an object returns an identifier; closing the object should
+      free up the identifier. A problem was found where the identifiers
       were not being freed up correctly.
-      
-      Fixed the problem so that identifiers that have been used can be 
+
+      Fixed the problem so that identifiers that have been used can be
       used again after their object has been closed.
-      
+
       (QAK - 2014/10/16, HDFFV-8930)
 
-    - Removal of DllMain() from Static Windows Builds 
+    - Removal of DllMain() from Static Windows Builds
 
-      A DllMain() function was added in HDF5 1.8.13 in order to handle 
-      win32 thread cleanup. The preprocessor #ifdefs around the DllMain 
-      function allowed it to be compiled when the static library is built, 
-      which is incorrect behavior that can cause linkage problems in 
+      A DllMain() function was added in HDF5 1.8.13 in order to handle
+      win32 thread cleanup. The preprocessor #ifdefs around the DllMain
+      function allowed it to be compiled when the static library is built,
+      which is incorrect behavior that can cause linkage problems in
       clients.
 
-      The fix was to change the preprocessor #ifdefs to exclude compiling 
-      DllMain() in static builds. Our DllMain function is now only 
+      The fix was to change the preprocessor #ifdefs to exclude compiling
+      DllMain() in static builds. Our DllMain function is now only
       compiled when the shared, thread-safe library is built on Windows.
 
       (DER - 2014/06/13, HDFFV-8837)
 
     - Enforce Constraint on page_size Parameter in H5Pset_core_write_tracking()
 
-      The reference manual states that the page_size parameter cannot be 
+      The reference manual states that the page_size parameter cannot be
       zero.
 
-      This change checks the page_size parameter to see it is zero and 
+      This change checks the page_size parameter to see it is zero and
       returns an error code if it is.
 
       (DER - 2014/08/11, HDFFV-8891)
@@ -2655,31 +4750,31 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
       (MSC - 2014/07/31, HDFFV-8888)
 
     - H5Ldelete_by_idx() Seg Fault on Non-existent Group Name
-      
-      If a non-existent group name was used by H5Ldelete_by_idx(), a 
-      segmentation fault would result. 
-      
+
+      If a non-existent group name was used by H5Ldelete_by_idx(), a
+      segmentation fault would result.
+
       Bug was fixed.
-      
+
       (MSC - 2014/07/31, HDFFV-8888)
 
     - Bug in Test When Building Parallel HDF5 on PVFS2
-      
+
       There was a bug in a test when building Parallel HDF5 on PVFS2.
-      
+
       The build now uses MPI_File_get_size() instead of stat().
-      
+
       (MSC - 2014/07/14, HDFFV-8856)
 
     - MPI-IO Driver Tried to Allocate Space for Zero-length Dataset
-      
+
       MPI-IO driver tried to allocate space for zero-length dataset
-      and asserts. 
-      
+      and asserts.
+
       Fixed driver and added a regression test.
-      
+
       (MSC - 2014/07/03, HDFFV-8761)
-      
+
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
@@ -2695,48 +4790,48 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
 
     Fortran API
     -------
-    - SIZEOF Replaced by C_SIZEOF and STORAGE_SIZE. 
-  
-      The intrinsic function SIZEOF is non-standard and should be replaced with a 
+    - SIZEOF Replaced by C_SIZEOF and STORAGE_SIZE.
+
+      The intrinsic function SIZEOF is non-standard and should be replaced with a
       standard intrinsic function.
 
-      If the F2008 intrinsic C_SIZEOF and STORAGE_SIZE are available, then they will 
-      be used instead of the non-standard SIZEOF intrinsic, even when the SIZEOF 
+      If the F2008 intrinsic C_SIZEOF and STORAGE_SIZE are available, then they will
+      be used instead of the non-standard SIZEOF intrinsic, even when the SIZEOF
       function is available.
 
       (MSB - 2014/6/16, HDFFV-8653)
 
     - Non-functional API: h5pget_fill_value_f
- 
+
       The Fortran wrapper h5pget_fill_value_f was calling the wrong C API.
 
-      The correct C API, H5Pget_fill_value, is now called by the Fortran 
+      The correct C API, H5Pget_fill_value, is now called by the Fortran
       wrapper.
 
       (MSB - 2014/9/25, HDFFV-8879)
 
     - Interoperability with C HDF5: H5Literate and h5literate_f
 
-      h5literate_f assumes the return value for the callback function to 
-      be of type int (or int_f in C). However, in the C wrapper the return 
-      value of H5Literate is type herr_t, and this could cause 
+      h5literate_f assumes the return value for the callback function to
+      be of type int (or int_f in C). However, in the C wrapper the return
+      value of H5Literate is type herr_t, and this could cause
       interoperability issues.
 
-      The callback function should be declared INTEGER(C_INT) for 
+      The callback function should be declared INTEGER(C_INT) for
       portability. The tests were updated accordingly.
 
       (MSB - 2014/9/26, HDFFV-8909)
 
-    - Interoperability with C HDF5: Constant INTEGER Parameters with the 
+    - Interoperability with C HDF5: Constant INTEGER Parameters with the
       H5FD Interface
 
       Wrong type cast of constant Fortran INTEGER parameters was used.
 
-      The following parameter constant types were changed from INTEGER to 
-      INTEGER(HID_T) to match the C types: H5FD_CORE, H5FD_FAMILY, H5FD_LOG, 
+      The following parameter constant types were changed from INTEGER to
+      INTEGER(HID_T) to match the C types: H5FD_CORE, H5FD_FAMILY, H5FD_LOG,
       H5FD_MPIO, H5FD_MULTI, H5FD_SEC2, and H5FD_STDIO.
 
-      Other internal 'int' types where changed to 'hid_t'; these are 
+      Other internal 'int' types where changed to 'hid_t'; these are
       transparent to the user.
 
       (MSB - 2014/7/18, HDFFV-8748)
@@ -2753,7 +4848,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
       (BMR - 2014/09/30, HDFFV-8928)
 
     - Disallow H5F_ACC_CREAT
-      
+
       H5F_ACC_CREAT was included in the C++ API but the C library does not
       allow it at this time.
 
@@ -2763,10 +4858,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
 
     - Missing Flags in Documentation: H5F_ACC_RDONLY and H5F_ACC_RDWR
 
-      The H5F_ACC_RDONLY and H5F_ACC_RDWR flags were missing from the 
+      The H5F_ACC_RDONLY and H5F_ACC_RDWR flags were missing from the
       documentation of the H5File constructors.
 
-      These two flags are now included in the documentation for opening 
+      These two flags are now included in the documentation for opening
       files.
 
       (BMR - 2014/09/29, HDFFV-8852)
@@ -2775,12 +4870,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
     ------
     - Seg Faults in H5TBread_field_name and H5TBread_field_name_f
 
-      When H5TBread_field_name or H5TBread_field_name_f were used to read a 
-      field and if the name of the field was wrong, a segmentation fault 
+      When H5TBread_field_name or H5TBread_field_name_f were used to read a
+      field and if the name of the field was wrong, a segmentation fault
       would result.
 
-      Both C and Fortran APIs were fixed so they no longer seg fault if 
-      the name of the field is wrong, and both APIs return a negative 
+      Both C and Fortran APIs were fixed so they no longer seg fault if
+      the name of the field is wrong, and both APIs return a negative
       value if the name of the field is wrong.
 
       (MSB - 2014/09/29, HDFFV-8912)
@@ -2788,25 +4883,25 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
     - Possible Buffer Overflow in High-level (HL) APIs
 
       Multiple HL APIs (H5DSis_scale is one example) had issues:
-        (1) The datatype from the file was re-used as the memory datatype, 
+        (1) The datatype from the file was re-used as the memory datatype,
             and
-        (2) No effort was made to ensure that strings were actually 
+        (2) No effort was made to ensure that strings were actually
             null-terminated.
-     
-      All of the HL routines now check for NULL pointers, for null-terminated 
-      strings, and to see if string buffers are short enough not to overflow 
-      the buffer. The minimum length of the buffers is now used in strncmp 
+
+      All of the HL routines now check for NULL pointers, for null-terminated
+      strings, and to see if string buffers are short enough not to overflow
+      the buffer. The minimum length of the buffers is now used in strncmp
       to avoid overflow.
 
       (MSB - 2014/9/29, HDFFV-8670)
 
     - Behavior Change of H5LTdtype_to_text
 
-      If a user buffer was passed in to H5LTdtype_to_text along with the 
-      length, then the function would not truncate at the end of the 
+      If a user buffer was passed in to H5LTdtype_to_text along with the
+      length, then the function would not truncate at the end of the
       buffer, but would exceed the end of the user buffer.
 
-      H5LTdtype_to_text was changed to truncate the string if the user 
+      H5LTdtype_to_text was changed to truncate the string if the user
       buffer is too small.
 
       (MSB - 2014/9/29, HDFFV-8855)
@@ -2826,7 +4921,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.13
       used by several test programs. (AKC - 2014/07/22 HDFFV-8881)
 
     - Fixed Incorrect Exit Code Values in Testframe
-      The testframe which is commonly used by several test programs 
+      The testframe which is commonly used by several test programs
       had some incorrect exit code values.  Fixed the incorrect exit code
       values.  (AKC - 2014/07/22, HDFFV-8881)
 
@@ -2854,17 +4949,17 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 64-bit applications;
     (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)
                                       Version 4.8.2
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64;
                                       Version 14.0.2 (Build 20140120)
 
     Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6    GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
     (platypus)                       Version 4.4.7 20120313
                                      Version 4.8.2
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 13.7-0 
+                                      Version 13.7-0
                                   Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
                                   compilers:
                                      Version 14.0.2 (Build 20140120)
@@ -2890,7 +4985,7 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
                                   Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
-                                  
+
     Windows 8.1                   Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
 
@@ -2902,11 +4997,11 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     (duck)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 13.0.3
 
     Mac OS X Mt. Lion 10.8.5      Apple clang/clang++ version 5.1 from Xcode 5.1
-    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    64-bit                  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
     (swallow/kite)                Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 14.0.2
 
     Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5     Apple clang/clang++ version 6.0 from Xcode 6.0.1
-    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    64-bit                  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
     (wren)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 14.0.2
 
 
@@ -2914,14 +5009,14 @@ Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
                                       parallel  F2003  parallel
@@ -2929,7 +5024,7 @@ Solaris2.11 32-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Solaris2.11 64-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7                               y        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7 x64                           y        y/y    n        y    y     y
-Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/y    n        y    y     n 
+Windows 7 Cygwin                        n        y/y    n        y    y     n
 Windows 8.1                             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Windows 8.1 x64                         n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 64-bit             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
@@ -2946,28 +5041,28 @@ CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
 Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
 Windows 8.1                                y       y         y         y
 Windows 8.1 x64                            y       y         y         y
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 64-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit       y       n         y         y        
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit       y       n         y         y
 Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit           y       n         y         y
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n        
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
-CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n     
-Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n 
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
 "Supported Platforms" table.
@@ -2983,7 +5078,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.18-431.11.2.el6     MPICH mpich 3.1.2 compiled with
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           gcc 4.9.1 and gfortran 4.9.1
-    (platypus)                    g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)   
+    (platypus)                    g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
 
     FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386       gcc 4.5.4 [FreeBSD] 20110526
     (loyalty)                     gcc 4.6.1 20110527
@@ -3014,7 +5109,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-0ubuntu1) 4.9.1
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.9.1-0ubuntu1) 4.9.1
                                   (cmake and autotools)
-    
+
     Cray Linux Environment (CLE)  PrgEnv-pgi/4.2.34
     hopper.nersc.gov              pgcc 13.6-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp istanbul
                                   pgf90 13.6-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp istanbul
@@ -3029,7 +5124,7 @@ Known Problems
   (ADB - 2014/11/04 - HDFFV-8736)
 
 * On windows platforms in debug configurations, the VFD flush1 tests will fail
-  with the split and multi VFD drivers. These tests will display a modal debug 
+  with the split and multi VFD drivers. These tests will display a modal debug
   dialog which must be answered or wait for the test timeout to expire.
   The flush1 and flush2 tests will be skipped under debug for this release.
   (ADB - 2014/06/23 - HDFFV-8851)
@@ -3077,7 +5172,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -3085,8 +5180,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value.
   (AKC - 2011/05/07)
@@ -3118,38 +5213,38 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO.
   (CMC - 2009/04/28)
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.13%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.13%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.13 released on 2014-05-05
@@ -3158,10 +5253,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.13 released on 2014-05-05
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.12 and 
-HDF5-1.8.13, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.13. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.12 and
+HDF5-1.8.13, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.13.
+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 1.8.13 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -3173,18 +5268,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.13 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.13 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.13 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.13 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.13 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.12":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -3215,37 +5310,37 @@ New Features
 
     - CMake: Moved minimum CMake version to 2.8.11 which enables better library
       include processing. (ADB - 2014/03/26)
-    
-    - When configuring a thread-safe HDF5 Library it is no longer necessary 
-      to specify --enable-threadsafe with --with-pthreads if the Pthreads 
+
+    - When configuring a thread-safe HDF5 Library it is no longer necessary
+      to specify --enable-threadsafe with --with-pthreads if the Pthreads
       library is in a standard location.  (DER - 2014/04/11 HDFFV-8693)
 
     Library
     -------
-    - Added an H5free_memory API call. This should be used to free memory 
-      that has been allocated by HDF5 API calls. H5Tget_member_name and 
-      H5Pget_class_name are two examples. The main motivation for this call 
-      is Windows, where it is common for application code and the HDF5 Library 
-      to be using different C run-time libraries (CRT). Using the new call 
-      ensures that the same CRT handles both the allocation and free. This 
-      new function can also be useful in any case where the library uses a 
-      different memory manager than the application, such as when a debug 
-      memory manager is in use or when the HDF5 Library is wrapped for use 
-      in a managed language like Python or Java. Fixes HDFFV-7710, 8519, 
+    - Added an H5free_memory API call. This should be used to free memory
+      that has been allocated by HDF5 API calls. H5Tget_member_name and
+      H5Pget_class_name are two examples. The main motivation for this call
+      is Windows, where it is common for application code and the HDF5 Library
+      to be using different C run-time libraries (CRT). Using the new call
+      ensures that the same CRT handles both the allocation and free. This
+      new function can also be useful in any case where the library uses a
+      different memory manager than the application, such as when a debug
+      memory manager is in use or when the HDF5 Library is wrapped for use
+      in a managed language like Python or Java. Fixes HDFFV-7710, 8519,
       and 8851. (DER - 2014/04/11)
 
-    - The Core VFD (aka Memory VFD) can now be configured to track dirty 
-      regions in the file and only write out the changed regions on 
-      flush/close. Additionally, a "page aggregation" size can be set that 
-      will aggregate small writes into larger writes. For example, setting 
-      a 1 MiB page aggregation size will logically partition the the 
-      in-memory file into 1 MiB pages that will be written out in their 
-      entirety if even a single byte is dirtied. The feature is controlled 
-      via the new H5Pset/get_core_write_tracking() API call. A new 
-      "core_paged" target has been added to the check-vfd target in 
+    - The Core VFD (aka Memory VFD) can now be configured to track dirty
+      regions in the file and only write out the changed regions on
+      flush/close. Additionally, a "page aggregation" size can be set that
+      will aggregate small writes into larger writes. For example, setting
+      a 1 MiB page aggregation size will logically partition the the
+      in-memory file into 1 MiB pages that will be written out in their
+      entirety if even a single byte is dirtied. The feature is controlled
+      via the new H5Pset/get_core_write_tracking() API call. A new
+      "core_paged" target has been added to the check-vfd target in
       test/Makefile.am that exercises the feature over all HDF5 VFD-aware
       tests. (DER - 2014/04/12)
- 
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - Removed MPI-POSIX VFD, as it wasn't helping anyone and was just
@@ -3255,7 +5350,7 @@ New Features
 
     - Improved parallel I/O support to allow collective I/O on point
       selections. (QAK - 2014/03/15)
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - None
@@ -3266,7 +5361,7 @@ New Features
 
     Fortran API
     -----------
-    - Wrappers h5pset_file_image_f and h5pget_file_image_f were added to the 
+    - Wrappers h5pset_file_image_f and h5pget_file_image_f were added to the
       library. (MSB - 2014/1/2014)
 
     C++ API
@@ -3283,7 +5378,7 @@ New Features
             H5O_type_t childObjType(hsize_t index,
                 H5_index_t index_type=H5_INDEX_NAME,
                 H5_iter_order_t order=H5_ITER_INC, const char* objname=".")
-      + Wrappers to class DSetMemXferPropList for setting/getting a transform 
+      + Wrappers to class DSetMemXferPropList for setting/getting a transform
         property list (HDFFV-7907).
             DSetMemXferPropList(const char* expression);
             void setDataTransform(const char* expression)
@@ -3292,7 +5387,7 @@ New Features
             H5std_string getDataTransform()
       + Wrapper to CompType for setting size to compound datatype (HDFFV-8642).
             void setSize(size_t size)
-      + Overloaded functions to provide prototypes that declare constant 
+      + Overloaded functions to provide prototypes that declare constant
         arguments const (HDFFV-3384).  These include:
             DataSet::fillMemBuf
             DataSet::getVlenBufSize
@@ -3307,11 +5402,11 @@ New Features
             ssize_t getName(char* attr_name, size_t buf_size=0)
             ssize_t getName(H5std_string& attr_name, size_t buf_size=0)
             (BMR, 2014/04/15)
-      + A static wrapper to Exception for printing the error stack without an 
-	instance of Exception
-	    static void printErrorStack(FILE* stream = stderr,
-						hid_t err_stack = H5E_DEFAULT);
-	    (BMR, 2014/04/25)
+      + A static wrapper to Exception for printing the error stack without an
+    instance of Exception
+        static void printErrorStack(FILE* stream = stderr,
+                        hid_t err_stack = H5E_DEFAULT);
+        (BMR, 2014/04/25)
 
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
@@ -3321,7 +5416,7 @@ Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
     supported platforms. (AKC - 2014/03/14 HDFFV-8704)
 
     Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks is supported. (AKC - 2014/03/04 HDFFV-8694)
-                                  
+
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
 ===========================
@@ -3331,42 +5426,42 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
     - CMake: When CMake commands are executed individually on the command line
       and the external filters are being built, the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE define
       must be set to the same value as the configuration
-      (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release if using -C Release). This is needed 
+      (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release if using -C Release). This is needed
       by the the szip and zlib filter build commands. (ADB - HDFFV-8695)
 
-    - CMake: Removed use of the XLATE_UTILITY program. 
+    - CMake: Removed use of the XLATE_UTILITY program.
       (ADB - 2014/03/28 HDFFV-8640)
 
     - CMake: Added missing quotes in setting the CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS for the
       MPI option. (ADB - 2014/02/27 HDFFV-8674)
 
-    - CMake: Configuration of the HDF5 C++ or Fortran libraries with the 
+    - CMake: Configuration of the HDF5 C++ or Fortran libraries with the
       thread-safety feature.
 
       C++ and/or Fortran + thread-safe is enforced as a non-supported
       configuration. This matches the autotools. (DER - 2014/04/11)
 
     - CMake: Configuration of static HDF5 C library with the thread-safety
-      feature. 
+      feature.
 
       Static + thread-safe + Win32 threads is not a supported configuration
-      due to the inability to automatically clean up thread-local storage. 
-      This is expected to be fixed in a future release. In the meantime, a 
-      work-around that uses internal functionality may allow the combination 
-      to be used without resource leaks. Contact the help desk for more 
+      due to the inability to automatically clean up thread-local storage.
+      This is expected to be fixed in a future release. In the meantime, a
+      work-around that uses internal functionality may allow the combination
+      to be used without resource leaks. Contact the help desk for more
       information. (DER - 2014/04/11)
 
-    - Autotools: Several changes were done to configure and installcheck. 
+    - Autotools: Several changes were done to configure and installcheck.
 
       An export of LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<szip library location> was
       removed from configure; make installcheck was revised to run
-      scripts installed in share/hdf5_examples to use the installed h5cc, etc. 
-      to compile and run example source files also installed there. 
+      scripts installed in share/hdf5_examples to use the installed h5cc, etc.
+      to compile and run example source files also installed there.
 
-      Make installcheck will now fail when a shared szip or other external lib 
-      file cannot be found in the same manner that executables compiled and 
-      linked with h5cc will fail to run when those lib files cannot be found 
-      after install. Make installcheck should pass after setting 
+      Make installcheck will now fail when a shared szip or other external lib
+      file cannot be found in the same manner that executables compiled and
+      linked with h5cc will fail to run when those lib files cannot be found
+      after install. Make installcheck should pass after setting
       LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the szip location. (LRK - 2014/04/16)
 
     Library
@@ -3378,50 +5473,50 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
       either do not use parallel make or install Gnu Make to build the library.
       (AKC 2014/04/08 HDFFV-8738)
 
-    - H5R.c: H5Rget_name gave an assertion failure if the "name" parameter 
+    - H5R.c: H5Rget_name gave an assertion failure if the "name" parameter
       was NULL.
 
       Fixed H5Rget_name to return the size of the buffer needed to read a
-      name of the referenced object in this case. The size doesn't include 
-      the NULL terminator. H5Rget_name returns negative on failure. 
+      name of the referenced object in this case. The size doesn't include
+      the NULL terminator. H5Rget_name returns negative on failure.
       (MSB - 2014/01/22 HDFFV-8620)
 
     - H5Z.c: H5Zfilter_avail didn't check if a filter was available as a
       dynamically loaded filter. The error manifested itself in the h5repack
       tool when removing user-defined dynamically loaded filter.
 
-      Added a code to find the filter among the dynamically loaded filters 
-      after the function fails to find it among the registered filters. 
+      Added a code to find the filter among the dynamically loaded filters
+      after the function fails to find it among the registered filters.
       (ADB - 2014/03/03 HDFFV-8629)
 
-    - Memory leak: a memory leak was observed in conjunction to the 
-      H5TS_errstk_key_g thread-local variable allocated in the H5E_get_stack 
-      function in H5E.c. 
+    - Memory leak: a memory leak was observed in conjunction to the
+      H5TS_errstk_key_g thread-local variable allocated in the H5E_get_stack
+      function in H5E.c.
 
-      The shared HDF5 thread-safe library now no longer leaks thread-local 
-      storage resources on Windows with Win32 threads. Currently, there is 
-      no solution for this problem when HDF5 is statically built. We 
-      disabled the build of the static HDF5 thread-safe library with 
+      The shared HDF5 thread-safe library now no longer leaks thread-local
+      storage resources on Windows with Win32 threads. Currently, there is
+      no solution for this problem when HDF5 is statically built. We
+      disabled the build of the static HDF5 thread-safe library with
       Win32 threads. (DER - 2014/04/11 HDFFV-8518)
 
-    - H5Dio.c: Improved handling of NULL pointers to H5Dread/H5Dwrite 
+    - H5Dio.c: Improved handling of NULL pointers to H5Dread/H5Dwrite
       calls. Credit to Jason Newton (nevion@gmail.com) for the original patch.
 
-      H5Dwrite/read failed when a NULL pointer was passed for a data buffer 
+      H5Dwrite/read failed when a NULL pointer was passed for a data buffer
       and 0 elements were selected. Fixed. (QAK - 2014/04/16 HDFFV-8705)
 
     - Deprecated API (1_6 API): Improved handling of closing the library and
       re-accessing it with a deprecated routine.
 
-      When a program used a deprecated API (for example, H5Gcreate1), 
-      closed the library, and reopened it again to access a group, dataset, 
-      datatype, dataspace, attribute, or property list, HDF5 failed to 
+      When a program used a deprecated API (for example, H5Gcreate1),
+      closed the library, and reopened it again to access a group, dataset,
+      datatype, dataspace, attribute, or property list, HDF5 failed to
       provide an identifier for the object. Fixed.
       (NAF, QAK - 2014/04/16 HDFFV-8232)
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
-    - Fixed a missing H5F_Provisional module in HDF5mpio.f90 
+    - Fixed a missing H5F_Provisional module in HDF5mpio.f90
       (MSB - 2014/2/7 HDFFV-8651)
 
     Performance
@@ -3437,11 +5532,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
 
     - The h5dump and h5diff utilities occasionally produced different output
       between Linux and Windows systems. This has been fixed.
- 
-      This happened to datasets that used chunked storage, with default fill 
-      values, and some of the chunks had not been written. 
-      When the dataset was read, the library failed to write the default fill 
-      values to parts of the use buffer that were associated with the unwritten 
+
+      This happened to datasets that used chunked storage, with default fill
+      values, and some of the chunks had not been written.
+      When the dataset was read, the library failed to write the default fill
+      values to parts of the use buffer that were associated with the unwritten
       chunks.  (JP - 2014/05/01 HDFFV-8247)
 
     - The compress option is retired from bin/release.
@@ -3450,8 +5545,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
     - bin/release has a new option "zip" that produces a release zip file for
       the Windows platform. (AKC - 2014/04/24 HDFFV-8433)
 
-    - h5diff: Several failures relating to handling of strings attributes 
-      are fixed. 
+    - h5diff: Several failures relating to handling of strings attributes
+      are fixed.
 
       The tool crashed or gave an error message when one of the strings had
       fixed size type and another variable-length size type. h5diff now flags such
@@ -3460,13 +5555,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
       (AKC - 2014/04/18 HDFFV-8625, 8639, 8745)
 
     - h5repack: h5repack would not remove user-defined filters.
-      Fixed by modifying h5repack to check if the filter is registered or 
+      Fixed by modifying h5repack to check if the filter is registered or
       can be dynamically loaded. (ADB - 2014/03/03 HDFFV-8629)
 
     F90 API
     -------
-    - H5D_CHUNK_CACHE_NSLOTS_DFLT_F and H5D_CHUNK_CACHE_NBYTES_DFLT_F were 
-      changed from the default KIND for INTEGER to INTEGER of KIND size_t. 
+    - H5D_CHUNK_CACHE_NSLOTS_DFLT_F and H5D_CHUNK_CACHE_NBYTES_DFLT_F were
+      changed from the default KIND for INTEGER to INTEGER of KIND size_t.
       (MSB - 2014/3/31 HDFFV-8689)
 
     C++ API
@@ -3487,14 +5582,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.12
 
     Testing
     -------
-    - testhdf5 now exits with EXIT_SUCCESS(0) if no errors, else 
+    - testhdf5 now exits with EXIT_SUCCESS(0) if no errors, else
       EXIT_FAILURE(1). (AKC - 2014/01/27 HDFFV-8572)
 
     - The big test now pays attention to the HDF5_DRIVER environment variable.
       Previously, it would run all tests with the family, stdio, and sec2
-      virtual file drivers (VFDs) for each VFD in the check-vfd make target, 
-      regardless of the variable setting. It now checks the variable and 
-      either runs the appropriate VFD-specific tests or skips as needed. 
+      virtual file drivers (VFDs) for each VFD in the check-vfd make target,
+      regardless of the variable setting. It now checks the variable and
+      either runs the appropriate VFD-specific tests or skips as needed.
       This saves much testing time. Fixes HDFFV-8554. (DER - 2014/04/11)
 
 Supported Platforms
@@ -3505,7 +5600,7 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     AIX 5.3                       xlc 10.1.0.5
     (NASA G-ADA)                  xlC 10.1.0.5
                                   xlf90 12.1.0.6
-				  gmake v3.82
+                gmake v3.82
 
     Linux 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5PAE  GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
     #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         compilers for 32-bit applications;
@@ -3522,20 +5617,20 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 64-bit applications;
     (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)
                                       Version 4.8.2
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 13.7-0 
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                      Version 13.7-0
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64;
                                       Version 14.0.2 (Build 20140120)
 
     Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6    GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
     (platypus)                       Version 4.4.7 20120313
                                      Version 4.8.2
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 13.7-0 
+                                      Version 13.7-0
                                   Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
                                   compilers:
                                      Version 14.0.2 (Build 20140120)
@@ -3559,7 +5654,7 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
                                   Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
-                                  
+
     Windows 8.1                   Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
 
     Windows 8.1 x64               Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 14 (cmake)
@@ -3569,11 +5664,11 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     (duck)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 13.0.3
 
     Mac OS X Mt. Lion 10.8.5      Apple clang/clang++ version 5.0 from Xcode 5.0.2
-    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    64-bit                  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
     (swallow/kite)                Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 14.0.2
 
     Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.2     Apple clang/clang++ version 5.1 from Xcode 5.1
-    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
+    64-bit                  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2
     (wren/quail)                  Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 14.0.2
 
 
@@ -3581,14 +5676,14 @@ Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
                                       parallel  F2003  parallel
@@ -3614,28 +5709,28 @@ CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64         n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 OpenVMS IA64 V8.4                       n        y/n    n        y    y     n
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
 Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
 Windows 8.1                                y       y         y         y
 Windows 8.1 x64                            y       y         y         y
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y        
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y
 Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 64-bit           y       n         y         y
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n        
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
-CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n     
-Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n 
+CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64            y       y         y         n
 OpenVMS IA64 V8.4                          n       n         n         n
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
@@ -3652,7 +5747,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.18-431.11.2.el6     MPICH mpich 3.1 compiled with
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           gcc 4.8.2 and gfortran 4.8.2
-    (platypus)                    g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)   
+    (platypus)                    g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
 
     FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386       gcc 4.5.4 [FreeBSD] 20110526
     (loyalty)                     gcc 4.6.1 20110527
@@ -3683,7 +5778,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) 4.8.1
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) 4.8.1
                                   (cmake and autotools)
-    
+
     Cray Linux Environment (CLE)  PrgEnv-pgi/4.0.46
     hopper.nersc.gov              pgcc 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
                                   pgf90 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
@@ -3704,20 +5799,20 @@ Known Problems
   (AKC 2014/05/02 HDFFV-8479)
 
 * Due to an Intel compiler bug introduced in version 14.0.1, the HDF5 FORTRAN
-  wrappers do not work with configure option --enable-fortran2003. 
-  However, the option --enable-fortran works with Intel 14.0.1. The compiler 
-  bug was fixed in Intel version 14.0.2 and resolved the issue. 
+  wrappers do not work with configure option --enable-fortran2003.
+  However, the option --enable-fortran works with Intel 14.0.1. The compiler
+  bug was fixed in Intel version 14.0.2 and resolved the issue.
   (MSB - 2014/4/15)
 
-* Due to a PGI compiler bug introduced in versions before 13.3 and versions 
-  after 14.2, the FORTRAN test 'Testing get file image' will fail. 
+* Due to a PGI compiler bug introduced in versions before 13.3 and versions
+  after 14.2, the FORTRAN test 'Testing get file image' will fail.
   (MSB - 2014/4/15)
 
-* On CYGWIN, when building the library dynamically, testing will fail on 
-  dynamically loaded filters. The test process will build dynamic filter 
-  libraries with the *.dll.a extension, and the HDF5 Library will be looking 
+* On CYGWIN, when building the library dynamically, testing will fail on
+  dynamically loaded filters. The test process will build dynamic filter
+  libraries with the *.dll.a extension, and the HDF5 Library will be looking
   for *.so libraries. Entered as issue HDFFV-8736. (ADB - 2014/04/14)
-  
+
 * A Gnu Make directive (.NOTPARALLEL) is added to fortran/test/Makefile.
   AIX native make does not support this directive and would fail if
   parallel make (e.g. make -j4) is used to build the library. AIX users
@@ -3742,7 +5837,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 * On OpenVMS, ZLIB 1.2.8 library doesn't work properly.  ZLIB 1.2.5 works
   fine.  So please use ZLIB 1.2.5 to build HDF5 library. (Issue VMS-5;
-  SLU 2013/09/19)  
+  SLU 2013/09/19)
 
 * When building using the Cray compilers on Cray machines, HDF5
   configure mistakenly thinks the compiler is an intel compiler and
@@ -3751,15 +5846,15 @@ Known Problems
   INSTALL_parallel for building on Hopper.
   (MSC - 2013/04/26 - HDFFV-8429)
 
-* The 5.9 C++ compiler on Sun failed to compile a C++ test ttypes.cpp.  It 
+* The 5.9 C++ compiler on Sun failed to compile a C++ test ttypes.cpp.  It
   complains with this message:
       "/home/hdf5/src/H5Vprivate.h", line 130: Error: __func__ is not defined.
-  
+
   The reason is that __func__ is a predefined identifier in C99 standard.  The
-  HDF5 C library uses it in H5private.h.  The test ttypes.cpp includes 
+  HDF5 C library uses it in H5private.h.  The test ttypes.cpp includes
   H5private.h (H5Tpkg.h<-H5Fprivate.h<-H5Vprivate.h<-H5private.h).  Sun's 5.9
   C++ compiler doesn't support __func__, thus fails to compile the C++ test.
-  But Sun's 5.11 C++ compiler does.  To check whether your Sun C++ compiler 
+  But Sun's 5.11 C++ compiler does.  To check whether your Sun C++ compiler
   knows this identifier, try to compile the following simple C++ program:
       #include<stdio.h>
 
@@ -3780,7 +5875,7 @@ Known Problems
 
    h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
      tno-subset.h5
-  
+
   This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
   by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
   arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
@@ -3791,21 +5886,21 @@ Known Problems
   to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated
   properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because
   configure was able to automatically detect that it's a Cray system
-  and used the proper launch commands when necessary. 
+  and used the proper launch commands when necessary.
   (MSC - 2012/04/18)
 
 * The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer
   conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernel) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
   is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
-  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the 
-  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of 
+  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the
+  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of
   "configure" like:
 
       CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure
 
   This will overwrite the library's default optimization level.
   (SLU - 2012/02/07 - HDFFV-7829)
-  This issue is no longer present on Ubuntu 12.10 (3.5.0 kernel) with 
+  This issue is no longer present on Ubuntu 12.10 (3.5.0 kernel) with
   gcc 4.7.2.
 
 * The STDIO VFD does not work on some architectures, possibly due to 32/64
@@ -3828,7 +5923,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -3836,8 +5931,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value.
   (AKC - 2011/05/07)
@@ -3872,42 +5967,42 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO.
   (CMC - 2009/04/28)
 
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.12%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.12%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.12 released on 2013-11-04
@@ -3916,10 +6011,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.12 released on 2013-11-04
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.11 and 
-HDF5-1.8.12, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.12. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.11 and
+HDF5-1.8.12, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.12.
+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 1.8.12 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -3931,18 +6026,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.12 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.12 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.12 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.12 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.12 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.11":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -3974,25 +6069,25 @@ New Features
       The cmake option is -DH5_DEFAULT_PLUGINDIR:PATH=location.
       HDFFV-8513.  (ADB 2013/09/04)
     - Renamed FFLAGS to FCFLAGS in configure. (ADB 2013/08/13)
-    - CMake can now package a compressed examples file, the default for 
+    - CMake can now package a compressed examples file, the default for
       Windows binaries from HDF Group.  (ADB  - 2013/07/22)
-    
+
     Library
     -------
     - None
- 
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - None
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
-    - h5repack: Added the ability to use plugin filters to read and write 
-              files. The option uses the filter number. HDFFV-8345 
+    - h5repack: Added the ability to use plugin filters to read and write
+              files. The option uses the filter number. HDFFV-8345
               (ADB - 2013/09/04).
-    - h5dump: Added the option -N --any_path, which searches the file for 
+    - h5dump: Added the option -N --any_path, which searches the file for
               paths that match the search path. HDFFV-7989 (ADB - 2013/08/12).
-    - h5dump: Added the optional arg 0 to -A, which excludes attributes 
+    - h5dump: Added the optional arg 0 to -A, which excludes attributes
               from display. HDFFV-8134 (ADB - 2013/08/01).
 
     High-Level APIs
@@ -4015,11 +6110,11 @@ New Features
       an attribute. (BMR - 2013/09/27)
     - Added wrappers for H5Rget_obj_type2 to retrieve the type of the object
       that an object reference points to. (BMR - 2013/09/27)
-	H5O_type_t H5Location::getRefObjType(void *ref, H5R_type_t ref_type)
+    H5O_type_t H5Location::getRefObjType(void *ref, H5R_type_t ref_type)
     - Added wrappers for H5Aexist to check whether an attribute exists given
       a name. (BMR - 2013/09/27)
-	bool H5::H5Location::attrExists(const char* name)
-	bool H5::H5Location::attrExists(const H5std_string& name)
+    bool H5::H5Location::attrExists(const char* name)
+    bool H5::H5Location::attrExists(const H5std_string& name)
     - Added a number of overloaded functions for convenience. (BMR - 2013/09/27)
 
 
@@ -4033,7 +6128,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.11
     Configuration
     -------------
     - Modified H5detect.c to scan floating point types for padding bits before
-      analyzing the type further.  This should fix problems with gcc 4.8. 
+      analyzing the type further.  This should fix problems with gcc 4.8.
       (NAF - 2013/09/19 - HDFFV-8523/HDFFV-8500)
     - HDF5 rpaths are no longer encoded in the library files when configured
       with --disable-sharedlib-rpath. (LRK-2013-09-23 - HDFFV-8276)
@@ -4043,7 +6138,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.11
     - Added const qualifier to source buffer parameters in H5Dgather and
       H5D_scatter_func_t (H5Dscatter callback).  (NAF - 2013/7/09)
 
-    - CMake now creates *.so.{lt_version} files with the same version as 
+    - CMake now creates *.so.{lt_version} files with the same version as
       configure.  (ADB  - 2013/06/05 HDFFV-8437)
 
     Parallel Library
@@ -4056,14 +6151,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.11
 
     Tools
     -----
-    - h5dump: Added the option -N --any_path, which searches the file for 
+    - h5dump: Added the option -N --any_path, which searches the file for
               paths that match the search path. HDFFV-7989 (ADB - 2013/08/12).
-    - h5dump: Added the optional arg 0 to -A, which excludes attributes 
+    - h5dump: Added the optional arg 0 to -A, which excludes attributes
               from display. HDFFV-8134 (ADB - 2013/08/01).
     - h5dump correctly exports subsetted data to a file, using the --output
       option.  (ADB  - 2013/06/07 HDFFV-8447)
     - h5cc and other compile scripts now default to linking shared libraries
-      when HDF5 is configured with the --disable-static option.  
+      when HDF5 is configured with the --disable-static option.
       (LRK - 2013-09-23 - HDFFV-8141)
 
     F90 API
@@ -4114,20 +6209,20 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 64-bit applications;
     (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)
                                       Version 4.8.1
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 13.7-0 
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                      Version 13.7-0
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64;
                                       Version 13.1.3 (Build 20130607)
 
     Linux 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6      GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++)
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers:
     (platypus)                       Version 4.4.7 20120313
                                      Version 4.8.1
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 13.7-0 
+                                      Version 13.7-0
                                   Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc)
                                   compilers:
                                      Version 13.1.3 (Build 20130607)
@@ -4170,22 +6265,22 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2
     (wren)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 13.0.3
 
-    OpenVMS  IA64 V8.4            HP C V7.3-018         
+    OpenVMS  IA64 V8.4            HP C V7.3-018
                                   HP Fortran V8.2-104939-50H96
-                                  HP C++ V7.4-004 
+                                  HP C++ V7.4-004
 
 Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
                                       parallel  F2003  parallel
@@ -4211,28 +6306,28 @@ CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Linux 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.ppc64          n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 OpenVMS IA64 V8.4                       n        y/n    n        y    y     n
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
 Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
 Windows 8.1                                y       y         y         y
 Windows 8.1 x64                            y       y         y         y
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n        
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n     
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
-Linux 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n 
+Linux 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n
 OpenVMS IA64 V8.4                          n       n         n         n
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
@@ -4250,7 +6345,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
     Linux 2.6.18-308.16.1.el5     MPICH mpich2-1.4.1p1 compiled with
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2
     (koala)                       g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
-                                  
+
     FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386       gcc 4.5.4 [FreeBSD] 20110526
     (loyalty)                     gcc 4.6.1 20110527
                                   g++ 4.6.1 20110527
@@ -4273,14 +6368,14 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 
     SUSE 12.3 3.7.10-1.16-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.7.2
-                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.7.2 
+                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.7.2
                                   (cmake and autotools)
 
     Ubuntu 13.04 3.8.0-30-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1) 4.7.3
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1) 4.7.3
                                   (cmake and autotools)
-    
+
     Cray Linux Environment (CLE)  PrgEnv-pgi/4.0.46
     hopper.nersc.gov              pgcc 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
                                   pgf90 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
@@ -4294,22 +6389,22 @@ Known Problems
   is built in place. The issue will be addressed in the 1.8.13 release. We
   recommend to use build directory to compile and test HDF5 as described
   in the INSTALL file, section 4.2.
- 
+
 * Source directory names with spaces in them will cause failures in configure
-  or make on Mac (HDFFV-8152), Linux, and probably all other platforms.  If a 
-  configure command with a space is run from a build directory, it will exit 
-  with an error message:  "checking whether build environment is sane... 
-  configure: error: unsafe srcdir value: '/scr/lrknox/hdf5 v1.8.12'".  If 
-  configure is run inside or below the directory with the space in the name, 
-  libtool will get the directory path from the system, put the part of the 
-  path before the space in the libdir variable in .../src/libhdf5.la, and 
-  then fail to find the nonexistent directory.  This is a known libtool issue 
-  and the suggested workaround is to rename the directory without spaces. 
+  or make on Mac (HDFFV-8152), Linux, and probably all other platforms.  If a
+  configure command with a space is run from a build directory, it will exit
+  with an error message:  "checking whether build environment is sane...
+  configure: error: unsafe srcdir value: '/scr/lrknox/hdf5 v1.8.12'".  If
+  configure is run inside or below the directory with the space in the name,
+  libtool will get the directory path from the system, put the part of the
+  path before the space in the libdir variable in .../src/libhdf5.la, and
+  then fail to find the nonexistent directory.  This is a known libtool issue
+  and the suggested workaround is to rename the directory without spaces.
   (LRK - 2013/10/22)
 
 * CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv
-  catches some undefined behavior in the alignment algorithm of the macro 
-  DETECT_I in H5detect.c (HDFFV-8147). This issue will be addressed in the 
+  catches some undefined behavior in the alignment algorithm of the macro
+  DETECT_I in H5detect.c (HDFFV-8147). This issue will be addressed in the
   next release.  (SLU - 2013/10/16)
 
 * Running make check for the tools can fail in the tools tests if make was not
@@ -4327,7 +6422,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 * On OpenVMS, ZLIB 1.2.8 library doesn't work properly.  ZLIB 1.2.5 works
   fine.  So please use ZLIB 1.2.5 to build HDF5 library. (Issue VMS-5;
-  SLU 2013/09/19)  
+  SLU 2013/09/19)
 
 * When building using the Cray compilers on Cray machines, HDF5
   configure mistakenly thinks the compiler is an intel compiler and
@@ -4344,15 +6439,15 @@ Known Problems
   spurious data values has only been encountered on Windows 32-bit systems.
   (Issue HDFFV-8247; JP - 2013/03/27)
 
-* The 5.9 C++ compiler on Sun failed to compile a C++ test ttypes.cpp.  It 
+* The 5.9 C++ compiler on Sun failed to compile a C++ test ttypes.cpp.  It
   complains with this message:
       "/home/hdf5/src/H5Vprivate.h", line 130: Error: __func__ is not defined.
-  
+
   The reason is that __func__ is a predefined identifier in C99 standard.  The
-  HDF5 C library uses it in H5private.h.  The test ttypes.cpp includes 
+  HDF5 C library uses it in H5private.h.  The test ttypes.cpp includes
   H5private.h (H5Tpkg.h<-H5Fprivate.h<-H5Vprivate.h<-H5private.h).  Sun's 5.9
   C++ compiler doesn't support __func__, thus fails to compile the C++ test.
-  But Sun's 5.11 C++ compiler does.  To check whether your Sun C++ compiler 
+  But Sun's 5.11 C++ compiler does.  To check whether your Sun C++ compiler
   knows this identifier, try to compile the following simple C++ program:
       #include<stdio.h>
 
@@ -4373,7 +6468,7 @@ Known Problems
 
    h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
      tno-subset.h5
-  
+
   This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
   by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
   arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
@@ -4384,21 +6479,21 @@ Known Problems
   to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated
   properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because
   configure was able to automatically detect that it is a Cray system
-  and used the proper launch commands when necessary. 
+  and used the proper launch commands when necessary.
   (MSC - 2012/04/18)
 
 * The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer
   conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernel) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
   is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernel
-  (3.2.2 on Fedora) do not have the problem.  Users should lower the 
-  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of 
+  (3.2.2 on Fedora) do not have the problem.  Users should lower the
+  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of
   "configure" like:
 
       CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure
 
   This will overwrite the library's default optimization level.
   (SLU - 2012/02/07 - HDFFV-7829)
-  This issue is no longer present on Ubuntu 12.10 (3.5.0 kernel) with 
+  This issue is no longer present on Ubuntu 12.10 (3.5.0 kernel) with
   gcc 4.7.2.
 
 * The STDIO VFD does not work on some architectures, possibly due to 32/64
@@ -4421,7 +6516,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -4429,8 +6524,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value.
   (AKC - 2011/05/07)
@@ -4465,42 +6560,42 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO.
   (CMC - 2009/04/28)
 
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.11%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.11%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.11 released on 2013-05-08
@@ -4509,10 +6604,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.11 released on 2013-05-08
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.10 and 
-HDF5-1.8.11-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.11-*. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.10 and
+HDF5-1.8.11-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.11-*.
+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 1.8.11 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -4524,18 +6619,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.11 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.11 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.11 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.11 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.11 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.10":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -4570,11 +6665,11 @@ New Features
     - A new tool, cmakehdf5, which is a build command script similar to
       buildhdf5 is added and is available in the bin directory.
       (AKC - 2013/01/16 HDFFV-8336)
-    
+
     Library
     -------
     - The library can load filter libraries dynamically during runtime.  Users
-      can set the search path through environment variable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH 
+      can set the search path through environment variable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
       and call H5Pset_filter to enable a dynamic filter. (SLU - 2013/04/08)
     - Added new API functions H5Dscatter and H5Dgather to scatter data to and
       and gather data from a selection within a memory buffer.
@@ -4582,11 +6677,11 @@ New Features
     - The library now supports the data conversion from enumeration to numeric
       (integer and floating-point number) datatypes. See Issue HDFFV-8221.
       (SLU - 2012/10/23)
- 
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - None
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - h5dump: added new option -O or -ddl to output the ddl text to a file. This
@@ -4595,8 +6690,8 @@ New Features
 
     High-Level APIs
     ---------------
-    - A new API function, H5DOwrite_chunk.  This function writes a data chunk 
-      directly into a file, bypassing hyperslab selection, data conversion, 
+    - A new API function, H5DOwrite_chunk.  This function writes a data chunk
+      directly into a file, bypassing hyperslab selection, data conversion,
       and the filter pipeline.  The user must be careful with the function and
       clearly understand the I/O process of the library. (SLU - 2013/2/11)
 
@@ -4605,11 +6700,11 @@ New Features
     - New API functions added (MSB - 2013/3/23):
 
       h5odecr_refcount_f, h5oexists_by_name_f, h5oget_comment_f,
-      h5oget_comment_by_name_f, h5oincr_refcount_f, h5oopen_by_idx_f, 
+      h5oget_comment_by_name_f, h5oincr_refcount_f, h5oopen_by_idx_f,
       h5oset_comment_f, h5oset_comment_by_name_f, h5oset_comment_by_name_f
 
       F2003: h5oget_info_f, h5oget_info_by_idx_f, h5ovisit_by_name_f
-    
+
 
     C++ API
     -------
@@ -4631,24 +6726,24 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
     - Fixed Thread-safe configure failure for the AIX platform.
       (AKC - 2013/04/19 HDFFV-8390)
     - Configure will check the result of header searches before searching for
-      the library. 
+      the library.
       Fixes HDFFV-8257 (ADB 2013/03/04)
-    - HDF does not support building SHARED Fortran libraries on OSX. Added 
-      CMake code to check for this condition. 
+    - HDF does not support building SHARED Fortran libraries on OSX. Added
+      CMake code to check for this condition.
       Fixes HDFFV-8227 (ADB 2013/03/04)
-    - CMake builds on Windows will no longer use legacy naming for libraries. 
+    - CMake builds on Windows will no longer use legacy naming for libraries.
       The "dll" tag will no longer be added to the name of *.lib and *.dll.
       The option HDF_LEGACY_NAMING is now OFF by default.
       Fixes HDFFV-8292 (ADB 2013/01/30)
 
     Library
     -------
-    - The library now behaves correctly when performing large I/O operations 
-      on Mac OS-X.  Previously, single I/O operations > 2 GB would fail 
-      since the Darwin read/write calls cannot handle the number of bytes 
+    - The library now behaves correctly when performing large I/O operations
+      on Mac OS-X.  Previously, single I/O operations > 2 GB would fail
+      since the Darwin read/write calls cannot handle the number of bytes
       that their parameter types imply.
       Fixes HDFFV-7975 and HDFFV-8240 (DER 2013/01/07)
-    - Fixed a bug in the core VFD that causes failures when opening files 
+    - Fixed a bug in the core VFD that causes failures when opening files
       > 2 GB.
       Fixes HDFFV-8124 and HDFFV-8158 (DER 2013/01/07)
     - Fixed a bug where unintialized memory was read during variable-length
@@ -4656,9 +6751,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
       (DER 2013/03/30)
     - Removed the H5Pset/get_dxpl_multi functions from the library.  The
       intended functionality for them was never fully implemented, and they
-      have always been fundamentally broken.  NOTE: This does not affect 
-      setting the multi VFD or any expected VFD functionality.  Multi VFD 
-      usage remains unchanged.  
+      have always been fundamentally broken.  NOTE: This does not affect
+      setting the multi VFD or any expected VFD functionality.  Multi VFD
+      usage remains unchanged.
       Fixes HDFFV-8296.  (DER 2013/03/30)
 
     Parallel Library
@@ -4672,22 +6767,22 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
     Tools
     -----
     - h5redeploy is changed to do this by default:
-	Installation directories:
-	prefix       architecture-independent files.
-	exec_prefix  architecture-dependent files, default is <prefix>.
-	libdir       libraries, default is <exec_prefix>/lib.
-	includedir   header files, default is <prefix/include>.
+        Installation directories:
+        prefix       architecture-independent files.
+        exec_prefix  architecture-dependent files, default is <prefix>.
+        libdir       libraries, default is <exec_prefix>/lib.
+        includedir   header files, default is <prefix/include>.
       This allows users to just change the first line of prefix=<...> and the
       effect will change libdir and includedir too.  (AKC 2013/04/05 HDFFV-8358)
-    - h5repack: Fixed failure to convert the layout of a small chunked 
+    - h5repack: Fixed failure to convert the layout of a small chunked
       dataset (size < 1K) to contiguous layout.  HDFFV-8214 (JKM 2013/03/26)
-    - h5dump: Fixed displaying compression ratio for unknown or user-defined 
+    - h5dump: Fixed displaying compression ratio for unknown or user-defined
       filters. HDFFV-8344 (XCAO 2013/03/19)
-    - h5dump: Changed UNKNOWN_FILTER to USER_DEFINED_FILTER for user defined 
+    - h5dump: Changed UNKNOWN_FILTER to USER_DEFINED_FILTER for user defined
       filter. HDFFV-8346 (XCAO 2013/03/19)
-    - h5diff: Fixed to return the correct exit code 1 when the program 
-      detects a unique extra attribute. Prior to this fix, h5diff returned 
-      exit code 0 indicating the two files are identical.   
+    - h5diff: Fixed to return the correct exit code 1 when the program
+      detects a unique extra attribute. Prior to this fix, h5diff returned
+      exit code 0 indicating the two files are identical.
       HDFFV-7643 (JKM 2013/02/15)
     - h5dump: Fixed writing nulls to a binary file when exporting a dataset
       with compound string datatype. HDFFV-8169 (ADB 2013/1/31)
@@ -4695,10 +6790,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
       other machines that display extra output if an MPI task returns with a
       non-zero code.)
         Testing h5stat notexist.h5
-      The test script was fixed to ignore the extra output.  HDFFV-8233 
+      The test script was fixed to ignore the extra output.  HDFFV-8233
       (AKC - 2012/11/30)
     - h5diff: Improved speed when comparing HDF5 files with lots of
-      attributes. Much slower performance was identified with release versions 
+      attributes. Much slower performance was identified with release versions
       from 1.8.7 to 1.8.10 compared to 1.8.6. (JKM 2012/10/19)
 
     F90 API
@@ -4706,28 +6801,28 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
     - The integer type of the 'offset' argument in h5pset_external_f and
       h5pget_external_f was changed to INTEGER(KIND=OFF_T) to support 8-byte
       integers, matching the C type definition of off_t. (MSB - 2013/3/23)
-    - h5fc updated to recognize .f95, .f03 and .f08 file extensions. 
+    - h5fc updated to recognize .f95, .f03 and .f08 file extensions.
 
     C++ API
     ------
-    - The C++ wrappers DSetMemXferPropList::setMulti/getMulti were removed 
-      because the C functions H5Pset/get_dxpl_multi functions are removed 
+    - The C++ wrappers DSetMemXferPropList::setMulti/getMulti were removed
+      because the C functions H5Pset/get_dxpl_multi functions are removed
       from the library. Fixes HDFFV-8296 by DER.  (BMR 2013/03/30)
     - An exception thrown by an internal function was not propagating to the
       test program during stack unwinding, so it couldn't be caught by the
-      test, and the program terminated "without an active exception."  It 
-      seemed that the problem happened when c_str() was used to generate 
-      an equivalent const char* from a std::string and the resulting string 
-      was passed to the internal function.  As a work-around, we added a 
-      try/catch around the the call to the internal function and when the 
-      exception is caught there, it is re-thrown.  Fixes HDFFV-8067.  
+      test, and the program terminated "without an active exception."  It
+      seemed that the problem happened when c_str() was used to generate
+      an equivalent const char* from a std::string and the resulting string
+      was passed to the internal function.  As a work-around, we added a
+      try/catch around the the call to the internal function and when the
+      exception is caught there, it is re-thrown.  Fixes HDFFV-8067.
       (BMR 2013/03/30)
 
     High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - Fixed a problem with H5DSget_scale_name including the NULL terminator 
-      in the size calculation returned by the function. The API was changed 
-      to NOT include the NULL terminator in the size of name returned 
+    - Fixed a problem with H5DSget_scale_name including the NULL terminator
+      in the size calculation returned by the function. The API was changed
+      to NOT include the NULL terminator in the size of name returned
       (MSB- 2013/2/10)
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
@@ -4773,12 +6868,12 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 64-bit applications;
     (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)
                                       Version 4.6.3
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 11.9-0 
+                                      Version 11.9-0
                                       Version 12.5-0
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64;
                                       Version 12.1 (Build 20110811)
                                       Version 12.1 (Build 20120212)
 
@@ -4822,7 +6917,7 @@ They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise.
     (duck)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 13.0
 
     Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 Apple clang/clang++ version 4.2 from Xcode 4.6.1
-    64-bit    			  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2
+    64-bit                  gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2
     (wren)                        Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 13.0.1.119
 
 
@@ -4830,14 +6925,14 @@ Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
                                       parallel  F2003  parallel
@@ -4862,27 +6957,27 @@ CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel    n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Linux 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.ppc64          n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.11 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.11 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
 Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 Cygwin                           n       n         n         y
 Windows 7 x64 Cygwin                       n       n         n         y
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n        
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n     
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     y       n         n         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.9 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         n
 CentOS 6.4 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
-Linux 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n 
+Linux 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
 "Supported Platforms" table.
@@ -4899,7 +6994,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
     Linux 2.6.18-308.16.1.el5     MPICH mpich2-1.4.1p1 compiled with
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux           gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2
     (koala)                       g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!)
-                                  
+
     FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386       gcc 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719
     (loyalty)                     gcc 4.6.1 20110422
                                   g++ 4.6.1 20110422
@@ -4922,14 +7017,14 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 
     SUSE 12.3 3.7.10-1.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.7.2
-                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.7.2 
+                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.7.2
                                   (cmake and autotools)
 
     Ubuntu 12.10 3.5.0-25-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) 4.7.2
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1) 4.7.2
                                   (cmake and autotools)
-    
+
     Cray Linux Environment (CLE)  PrgEnv-pgi/4.0.46
     hopper.nersc.gov              pgcc 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
                                   pgf90 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
@@ -4954,15 +7049,15 @@ Known Problems
   spurious data values has only been encountered on Windows 32-bit systems.
   (Issue HDFFV-8247; JP - 2013/03/27)
 
-* The 5.9 C++ compiler on Sun failed to compile a C++ test ttypes.cpp.  It 
+* The 5.9 C++ compiler on Sun failed to compile a C++ test ttypes.cpp.  It
   complains with this message:
       "/home/hdf5/src/H5Vprivate.h", line 130: Error: __func__ is not defined.
-  
+
   The reason is that __func__ is a predefined identifier in C99 standard.  The
-  HDF5 C library uses it in H5private.h.  The test ttypes.cpp includes 
+  HDF5 C library uses it in H5private.h.  The test ttypes.cpp includes
   H5private.h (H5Tpkg.h<-H5Fprivate.h<-H5Vprivate.h<-H5private.h).  Sun's 5.9
   C++ compiler doesn't support __func__, thus fails to compile the C++ test.
-  But Sun's 5.11 C++ compiler does.  To check whether your Sun C++ compiler 
+  But Sun's 5.11 C++ compiler does.  To check whether your Sun C++ compiler
   knows this identifier, try to compile the following simple C++ program:
       #include<stdio.h>
 
@@ -4983,7 +7078,7 @@ Known Problems
 
    h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
      tno-subset.h5
-  
+
   This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
   by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
   arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
@@ -4994,21 +7089,21 @@ Known Problems
   to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated
   properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because
   configure was able to automatically detect that it's a Cray system
-  and used the proper launch commands when necessary. 
+  and used the proper launch commands when necessary.
   (MSC - 2012/04/18)
 
 * The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer
   conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernel) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
   is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
-  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the 
-  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of 
+  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the
+  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of
   "configure" like:
 
       CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure
 
   This will overwrite the library's default optimization level.
   (SLU - 2012/02/07 - HDFFV-7829)
-  This issue is no longer present on Ubuntu 12.10 (3.5.0 kernel) with 
+  This issue is no longer present on Ubuntu 12.10 (3.5.0 kernel) with
   gcc 4.7.2.
 
 * The STDIO VFD does not work on some architectures, possibly due to 32/64
@@ -5031,7 +7126,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -5039,8 +7134,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value.
   (AKC - 2011/05/07)
@@ -5071,7 +7166,7 @@ Known Problems
   (NAF - 2011/01/19)
 
 * The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on
-  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The 
+  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The
   library's own conversion works fine.  We defined a macro for Cygwin to
   skip this test until we can solve the problem.
   (SLU - 2010/05/05 - HDFFV-1264)
@@ -5081,42 +7176,42 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO.
   (CMC - 2009/04/28)
 
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.10-patch1%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.10-patch1%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.10-patch1 released on 2013-01-22
@@ -5125,10 +7220,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.10-patch1 released on 2013-01-22
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.9 and 
-HDF5 1.8.10, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.10. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.9 and
+HDF5 1.8.10, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.10.
+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 1.8.10 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -5140,18 +7235,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.10 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.10 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.10 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.10 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.10 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.9":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -5194,25 +7289,25 @@ New Features
       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 - 2012/4/11)
- 
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
-    - Added the H5Pget_mpio_no_collective_cause() function that retrieves 
-      reasons why the collective I/O was broken during read/write IO access. 
+    - Added the H5Pget_mpio_no_collective_cause() function that retrieves
+      reasons why the collective I/O was broken during read/write IO access.
       (JKM - 2012/08/30 HDFFV-8143)
 
     - Added H5Pget_mpio_actual_io_mode_f (MSB - 2012/09/27)
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
-    - h5import: Changed to allow the use of h5dump output as input files to 
-      h5import. h5dump must include the "-p" option to print the properties; 
-      configuration file is captured output of h5dump. The restrictions are 
-      that only one dataset with a simple datatype (integer, floating-point, 
-      or string) can be processed. Integers and floating-point imports from 
-      h5dump must use the "binary" option for the data file. The string version 
-      uses the h5dump "-y --width=1" options to disable the indexing printouts, 
-      print single columns, and obviously NOT use the "binary" option. 
+    - h5import: Changed to allow the use of h5dump output as input files to
+      h5import. h5dump must include the "-p" option to print the properties;
+      configuration file is captured output of h5dump. The restrictions are
+      that only one dataset with a simple datatype (integer, floating-point,
+      or string) can be processed. Integers and floating-point imports from
+      h5dump must use the "binary" option for the data file. The string version
+      uses the h5dump "-y --width=1" options to disable the indexing printouts,
+      print single columns, and obviously NOT use the "binary" option.
       (ADB - 2012/07/19 HDFFV-721)
 
     High-Level APIs
@@ -5221,7 +7316,7 @@ New Features
 
     Fortran API
     -----------
-    - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function (was 1 
+    - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function (was 1
       instead of 0 on success); fixed the return value to make it consistent
       with other Fortran functions; cleaned debug statements from the code.
       (EIP - 2012/06/23)
@@ -5255,9 +7350,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
         Testing h5stat notexist.h5
       The test script was fixed to ignore the extra output.
       HDFFV-8233 (AKC - 2012/12/17)
-    - h5diff: Fixed slowness when comparing HDF5 files with many attributes. 
-      Much slower performance was identified with later release version 
-      (from 1.8.7 to 1.8.10) compared to 1.8.6. The issue was introduced 
+    - h5diff: Fixed slowness when comparing HDF5 files with many attributes.
+      Much slower performance was identified with later release version
+      (from 1.8.7 to 1.8.10) compared to 1.8.6. The issue was introduced
       from fixing an attribute related bug for 1.8.7 release in the past.
       HDFFV-8145 (JKM 2012/12/13)
 
@@ -5276,7 +7371,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
       the hard conversion code in test/dt_arith.c to fail. HDFFV-8017.
       (AKC - 2012/10/10)
     - Fixed AIX Fortran compiler flags to use appropriate settings for
-      debugging, profiling, and optimization situations. HDFFV-8069. 
+      debugging, profiling, and optimization situations. HDFFV-8069.
       (AKC 2012/09/27)
 
     Library
@@ -5287,7 +7382,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
       the core VFD" sub-test if the source directory is read-only as the test
       fails to create its test files in the build directory. This has been
       fixed. HDFFV-8009 (AKC - 2012/07/06)
-  
+
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
@@ -5306,27 +7401,27 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
     Tools
     -----
     - h5repack: "h5repack -f NONE file1.h5 out.h5" command failed if
-      source file contains chunked dataset and a chunk dim is bigger than 
+      source file contains chunked dataset and a chunk dim is bigger than
       the dataset dim. Another issue is that the command changed max dims
-      if chunk dim is smaller than the dataset dim. These issue occurred 
+      if chunk dim is smaller than the dataset dim. These issue occurred
       when dataset size is smaller than 64k (compact size limit)  Fixed both.
       HDFFV-8012 (JKM 2012/09/24)
-    - h5diff: Fixed the counter in verbose mode (-v, -r) so that it will no 
-      longer add together the differences between datasets and the differences 
-      between attributes of those datasets. This change makes the output of 
-      verbose mode consistent for datasets, groups, and committed datatypes. 
+    - h5diff: Fixed the counter in verbose mode (-v, -r) so that it will no
+      longer add together the differences between datasets and the differences
+      between attributes of those datasets. This change makes the output of
+      verbose mode consistent for datasets, groups, and committed datatypes.
       HDFFV-5919 (JKM 2012/09/10)
-    - h5diff: Fixed the incorrect result when comparing attribute data 
+    - h5diff: Fixed the incorrect result when comparing attribute data
       values and the data type has the same class but different sizes.
       HDFFV-7942  (JKM 2012/08/15)
     - h5dump: Replaced single element fwrite with block writes.
       HDFFV-1208 (ADB 2012/08/13)
-    - h5diff: Fixed test failure for "make check" due to failure of 
+    - h5diff: Fixed test failure for "make check" due to failure of
       copying test files when performed in HDF5 source tree. Also applied
       to other tools.  HDFFV-8107 (JKM 2012/08/01)
-    - ph5diff: Fixed intermittent hang issue on a certain operation in 
-      parallel mode. It was detected by daily test for comparing 
-      non-comparable objects, but it could have occurred in other 
+    - ph5diff: Fixed intermittent hang issue on a certain operation in
+      parallel mode. It was detected by daily test for comparing
+      non-comparable objects, but it could have occurred in other
       operations depending on machine condition.  HDFFV-8003 (JKM 2012/08/01)
     - h5diff: Fixed the function COPY_TESTFILES_TO_TESTDIR() of testh5diff.sh
       to better report when there is an error in the file copying.
@@ -5334,22 +7429,22 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
     - h5dump: Fixed the sort by name display to maintain correct parent/child
       relationships between ascending/descending order.
       HDFFV-8095 (ADB 2012/07/12)
-    - h5dump: Fixed the display by creation order when using option -n 
+    - h5dump: Fixed the display by creation order when using option -n
       (print contents).
       HDFFV-5942 (ADB 2012/07/09)
-    - h5dump: Changed to allow H5T_CSET_UTF8 to be displayed in h5dump output. 
-      Used technique similar to what was done in h5ls (matches library 
+    - h5dump: Changed to allow H5T_CSET_UTF8 to be displayed in h5dump output.
+      Used technique similar to what was done in h5ls (matches library
       options).
       HDFFV-7999 (ADB 2012/05/23)
-    - h5diff: Fixed the tool so that it will not check and display the status 
-      of dangling links without setting the --follow-symlinks option. This 
-      also improved performance when comparing lots of external links without 
-      the --follow-symlinks option.  
+    - h5diff: Fixed the tool so that it will not check and display the status
+      of dangling links without setting the --follow-symlinks option. This
+      also improved performance when comparing lots of external links without
+      the --follow-symlinks option.
       HDFFV-7998 (JKM 2012/04/26)
 
     F90 API
     -------
-    
+
     - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function (was 1
       instead of 0 on success); fixed the return value to make it consistent
       with other Fortran functions; cleaned debug statements from the code.
@@ -5372,15 +7467,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
     High-Level APIs:
     ------
 
-    - Fixed problem with H5TBdelete_record destroying all data following the 
+    - Fixed problem with H5TBdelete_record destroying all data following the
       deletion of a row. (MSB- 2012/7/26)
 
-    - Fixed H5LTget_attribute_string not closing an object identifier when an 
+    - Fixed H5LTget_attribute_string not closing an object identifier when an
       error occurs. (MSB- 2012/7/21)
 
-    - Corrected the return type of H5TBAget_fill from herr_t to htri_t to 
-      reflect that a return value of 1 indicates that a fill value is 
-      present, 0 indicates a fill value is not present, and <0 indicates an 
+    - Corrected the return type of H5TBAget_fill from herr_t to htri_t to
+      reflect that a return value of 1 indicates that a fill value is
+      present, 0 indicates a fill value is not present, and <0 indicates an
       error.
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
@@ -5410,19 +7505,19 @@ Supported Platforms
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 32-bit applications;
     (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)
                                       Version 4.6.3
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 11.9-0 
+                                      Version 11.9-0
                                       Version 12.5-0
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64;
                                       Version 12.1 (Build 20110811)
                                       Version 12.1 (Build 20120212)
                                   MPICH mpich2-1.4.1p1 compiled with
                                       gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2
 
-    Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) 
-    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 
+    Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731
     (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
 
     Linux 2.6.32-220.23.1.1chaos  Intel C, C++, Fortran Compilers
@@ -5472,23 +7567,23 @@ Supported Platforms
 
     Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 cc Apple clang version 4.0 from Xcode 4.5.1
     (owl)                         c++ Apple clang version 4.0 from Xcode 4.5.1
-				  gcc i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 from Xcode 4.5.1
-				  g++ i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 from Xcode 4.5.1
-    			          gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2
+                gcc i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 from Xcode 4.5.1
+                g++ i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 from Xcode 4.5.1
+                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2
 
 
 Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
                                       parallel  F2003  parallel
@@ -5496,7 +7591,7 @@ Solaris2.10 32-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Solaris2.10 64-bit                      n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7                               y        y/n    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7     x64                       y        y/n    n        y    y     y
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit     n        y/y    n        y    y     n 
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit     n        y/y    n        y    y     n
 Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit     n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit             n        y/y    n        y    y     n
 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
@@ -5511,25 +7606,25 @@ CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64          n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                         n       n         n         n        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                         n       n         n         n
 Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit        y       n         y         n        
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n        
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n        
-Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n 
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit        y       n         y         n
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
 "Supported Platforms" table.
@@ -5576,7 +7671,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 
     SUSE 12.2 3.4.6-2.10-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.7.1
-                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.7.1 
+                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.7.1
                                   (cmake and autotools)
 
     Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux
@@ -5589,12 +7684,12 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
                                   (cmake and autotools)
                                   (Use optimization level -O1)
-    
+
     Cray Linux Environment (CLE)  PrgEnv-pgi/4.0.46
     hopper.nersc.gov              pgcc 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
                                   pgf90 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
                                   pgCC 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
-    
+
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
@@ -5608,7 +7703,7 @@ Known Problems
 
    h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
      tno-subset.h5
-  
+
   This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
   by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
   arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
@@ -5619,14 +7714,14 @@ Known Problems
   to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated
   properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because
   configure was able to automatically detect that it's a Cray system
-  and used the proper launch commands when necessary. 
+  and used the proper launch commands when necessary.
   (MSC - 2012/04/18)
 
 * The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer
   conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
   is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
-  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the 
-  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of 
+  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the
+  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of
   "configure" like:
 
       CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure
@@ -5654,7 +7749,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -5662,8 +7757,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value.
   (AKC - 2011/05/07)
@@ -5694,7 +7789,7 @@ Known Problems
   (NAF - 2011/01/19)
 
 * The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on
-  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The 
+  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The
   library's own conversion works fine.  We defined a macro for Cygwin to
   skip this test until we can solve the problem.
   (SLU - 2010/05/05 - HDFFV-1264)
@@ -5704,42 +7799,42 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO.
   (CMC - 2009/04/28)
 
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.10%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.10%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.10 released on 2012-10-26
@@ -5748,10 +7843,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.10 released on 2012-10-26
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.9 and 
-HDF5 1.8.10, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.10. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.9 and
+HDF5 1.8.10, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.10.
+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 1.8.10 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -5763,18 +7858,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.10 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.10 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.10 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.10 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.10 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.9":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -5802,7 +7897,7 @@ New Features
     Configuration
     -------------
     - None
-    
+
     Library
     -------
     - Updated to latest autotools and changed all hard *.sh scripts to
@@ -5814,25 +7909,25 @@ New Features
       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 - 2012/4/11)
- 
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
-    - Added the H5Pget_mpio_no_collective_cause() function that retrieves 
-      reasons why the collective I/O was broken during read/write IO access. 
+    - Added the H5Pget_mpio_no_collective_cause() function that retrieves
+      reasons why the collective I/O was broken during read/write IO access.
       (JKM - 2012/08/30 HDFFV-8143)
 
     - Added H5Pget_mpio_actual_io_mode_f (MSB - 2012/09/27)
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
-    - h5import: Changed to allow the use of h5dump output as input files to 
-      h5import. h5dump must include the "-p" option to print the properties; 
-      configuration file is captured output of h5dump. The restrictions are 
-      that only one dataset with a simple datatype (integer, floating-point, 
-      or string) can be processed. Integers and floating-point imports from 
-      h5dump must use the "binary" option for the data file. The string version 
-      uses the h5dump "-y --width=1" options to disable the indexing printouts, 
-      print single columns, and obviously NOT use the "binary" option. 
+    - h5import: Changed to allow the use of h5dump output as input files to
+      h5import. h5dump must include the "-p" option to print the properties;
+      configuration file is captured output of h5dump. The restrictions are
+      that only one dataset with a simple datatype (integer, floating-point,
+      or string) can be processed. Integers and floating-point imports from
+      h5dump must use the "binary" option for the data file. The string version
+      uses the h5dump "-y --width=1" options to disable the indexing printouts,
+      print single columns, and obviously NOT use the "binary" option.
       (ADB - 2012/07/19 HDFFV-721)
 
     High-Level APIs
@@ -5841,7 +7936,7 @@ New Features
 
     Fortran API
     -----------
-    - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function (was 1 
+    - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function (was 1
       instead of 0 on success); fixed the return value to make it consistent
       with other Fortran functions; cleaned debug statements from the code.
       (EIP - 2012/06/23)
@@ -5866,7 +7961,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
       the hard conversion code in test/dt_arith.c to fail. HDFFV-8017.
       (AKC - 2012/10/10)
     - Fixed AIX Fortran compiler flags to use appropriate settings for
-      debugging, profiling, and optimization situations. HDFFV-8069. 
+      debugging, profiling, and optimization situations. HDFFV-8069.
       (AKC 2012/09/27)
 
     Library
@@ -5877,7 +7972,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
       the core VFD" sub-test if the source directory is read-only as the test
       fails to create its test files in the build directory. This has been
       fixed. HDFFV-8009 (AKC - 2012/07/06)
-  
+
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
@@ -5896,27 +7991,27 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
     Tools
     -----
     - h5repack: "h5repack -f NONE file1.h5 out.h5" command failed if
-      source file contains chunked dataset and a chunk dim is bigger than 
+      source file contains chunked dataset and a chunk dim is bigger than
       the dataset dim. Another issue is that the command changed max dims
-      if chunk dim is smaller than the dataset dim. These issue occurred 
+      if chunk dim is smaller than the dataset dim. These issue occurred
       when dataset size is smaller than 64k (compact size limit)  Fixed both.
       HDFFV-8012 (JKM 2012/09/24)
-    - h5diff: Fixed the counter in verbose mode (-v, -r) so that it will no 
-      longer add together the differences between datasets and the differences 
-      between attributes of those datasets. This change makes the output of 
-      verbose mode consistent for datasets, groups, and committed datatypes. 
+    - h5diff: Fixed the counter in verbose mode (-v, -r) so that it will no
+      longer add together the differences between datasets and the differences
+      between attributes of those datasets. This change makes the output of
+      verbose mode consistent for datasets, groups, and committed datatypes.
       HDFFV-5919 (JKM 2012/09/10)
-    - h5diff: Fixed the incorrect result when comparing attribute data 
+    - h5diff: Fixed the incorrect result when comparing attribute data
       values and the data type has the same class but different sizes.
       HDFFV-7942  (JKM 2012/08/15)
     - h5dump: Replaced single element fwrite with block writes.
       HDFFV-1208 (ADB 2012/08/13)
-    - h5diff: Fixed test failure for "make check" due to failure of 
+    - h5diff: Fixed test failure for "make check" due to failure of
       copying test files when performed in HDF5 source tree. Also applied
       to other tools.  HDFFV-8107 (JKM 2012/08/01)
-    - ph5diff: Fixed intermittent hang issue on a certain operation in 
-      parallel mode. It was detected by daily test for comparing 
-      non-comparable objects, but it could have occurred in other 
+    - ph5diff: Fixed intermittent hang issue on a certain operation in
+      parallel mode. It was detected by daily test for comparing
+      non-comparable objects, but it could have occurred in other
       operations depending on machine condition.  HDFFV-8003 (JKM 2012/08/01)
     - h5diff: Fixed the function COPY_TESTFILES_TO_TESTDIR() of testh5diff.sh
       to better report when there is an error in the file copying.
@@ -5924,22 +8019,22 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
     - h5dump: Fixed the sort by name display to maintain correct parent/child
       relationships between ascending/descending order.
       HDFFV-8095 (ADB 2012/07/12)
-    - h5dump: Fixed the display by creation order when using option -n 
+    - h5dump: Fixed the display by creation order when using option -n
       (print contents).
       HDFFV-5942 (ADB 2012/07/09)
-    - h5dump: Changed to allow H5T_CSET_UTF8 to be displayed in h5dump output. 
-      Used technique similar to what was done in h5ls (matches library 
+    - h5dump: Changed to allow H5T_CSET_UTF8 to be displayed in h5dump output.
+      Used technique similar to what was done in h5ls (matches library
       options).
       HDFFV-7999 (ADB 2012/05/23)
-    - h5diff: Fixed the tool so that it will not check and display the status 
-      of dangling links without setting the --follow-symlinks option. This 
-      also improved performance when comparing lots of external links without 
-      the --follow-symlinks option.  
+    - h5diff: Fixed the tool so that it will not check and display the status
+      of dangling links without setting the --follow-symlinks option. This
+      also improved performance when comparing lots of external links without
+      the --follow-symlinks option.
       HDFFV-7998 (JKM 2012/04/26)
 
     F90 API
     -------
-    
+
     - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function (was 1
       instead of 0 on success); fixed the return value to make it consistent
       with other Fortran functions; cleaned debug statements from the code.
@@ -5962,15 +8057,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.9
     High-Level APIs:
     ------
 
-    - Fixed problem with H5TBdelete_record destroying all data following the 
+    - Fixed problem with H5TBdelete_record destroying all data following the
       deletion of a row. (MSB- 2012/7/26)
 
-    - Fixed H5LTget_attribute_string not closing an object identifier when an 
+    - Fixed H5LTget_attribute_string not closing an object identifier when an
       error occurs. (MSB- 2012/7/21)
 
-    - Corrected the return type of H5TBAget_fill from herr_t to htri_t to 
-      reflect that a return value of 1 indicates that a fill value is 
-      present, 0 indicates a fill value is not present, and <0 indicates an 
+    - Corrected the return type of H5TBAget_fill from herr_t to htri_t to
+      reflect that a return value of 1 indicates that a fill value is
+      present, 0 indicates a fill value is not present, and <0 indicates an
       error.
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
@@ -6000,19 +8095,19 @@ Supported Platforms
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 32-bit applications;
     (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)
                                       Version 4.6.3
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
-                                      Version 11.9-0 
+                                      Version 11.9-0
                                       Version 12.5-0
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64;
                                       Version 12.1 (Build 20110811)
                                       Version 12.1 (Build 20120212)
                                   MPICH mpich2-1.4.1p1 compiled with
                                       gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2
 
-    Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) 
-    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 
+    Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731
     (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
 
     Linux 2.6.32-220.23.1.1chaos  Intel C, C++, Fortran Compilers
@@ -6062,23 +8157,23 @@ Supported Platforms
 
     Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 cc Apple clang version 4.0 from Xcode 4.5.1
     (owl)                         c++ Apple clang version 4.0 from Xcode 4.5.1
-				  gcc i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 from Xcode 4.5.1
-				  g++ i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 from Xcode 4.5.1
-    			          gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2
+                gcc i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 from Xcode 4.5.1
+                g++ i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 from Xcode 4.5.1
+                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2
 
 
 Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                              C         F90/   F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
                                       parallel  F2003  parallel
@@ -6086,7 +8181,7 @@ Solaris2.10 32-bit                      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Solaris2.10 64-bit                      n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7                               y        y/n    n        y    y     y
 Windows 7     x64                       y        y/n    n        y    y     y
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit     n        y/y    n        y    y     n 
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit     n        y/y    n        y    y     n
 Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit     n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit             n        y/y    n        y    y     n
 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit             n        y/y    n        y    y     y
@@ -6101,25 +8196,25 @@ CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI      n        y/y    n        y    y     y
 Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64          n        y/n    n        y    y     y
 
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                         n       n         n         n        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                         n       n         n         n
 Windows 7                                  y       y         y         y
 Windows 7 x64                              y       y         y         y
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit        y       n         y         n        
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n        
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n        
-Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n 
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit        y       n         y         n
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 64-bit       y       n         y         y
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 GNU       y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 Intel     y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-308 i686 PGI       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel       y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
 "Supported Platforms" table.
@@ -6166,7 +8261,7 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 
     SUSE 12.2 3.4.6-2.10-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.7.1
-                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.7.1 
+                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.7.1
                                   (cmake and autotools)
 
     Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux
@@ -6179,12 +8274,12 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
                                   (cmake and autotools)
                                   (Use optimization level -O1)
-    
+
     Cray Linux Environment (CLE)  PrgEnv-pgi/4.0.46
     hopper.nersc.gov              pgcc 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
                                   pgf90 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
                                   pgCC 12.5-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp shanghai
-    
+
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
@@ -6192,7 +8287,7 @@ Known Problems
   machines that display extra output if an MPI task returns with a non-zero
   code.)
     Testing h5stat notexist.h5
-  
+
   The test actually runs and passes as expected. It is the extra output from
   the MPI process that causes the test script to fail. This will be fixed
   in the next release.  (AKC - 2012/10/25 - HDFFV-8233)
@@ -6207,7 +8302,7 @@ Known Problems
 
    h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
      tno-subset.h5
-  
+
   This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
   by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
   arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
@@ -6218,14 +8313,14 @@ Known Problems
   to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated
   properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because
   configure was able to automatically detect that it's a Cray system
-  and used the proper launch commands when necessary. 
+  and used the proper launch commands when necessary.
   (MSC - 2012/04/18)
 
 * The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer
   conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
   is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
-  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the 
-  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of 
+  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the
+  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of
   "configure" like:
 
       CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure
@@ -6253,7 +8348,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -6261,8 +8356,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value.
   (AKC - 2011/05/07)
@@ -6293,7 +8388,7 @@ Known Problems
   (NAF - 2011/01/19)
 
 * The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on
-  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The 
+  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The
   library's own conversion works fine.  We defined a macro for Cygwin to
   skip this test until we can solve the problem.
   (SLU - 2010/05/05 - HDFFV-1264)
@@ -6303,42 +8398,42 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO.
   (CMC - 2009/04/28)
 
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.9%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.9%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.9 released on 2012-05-09
@@ -6347,11 +8442,11 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.9 released on 2012-05-09
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.8 and 
-HDF5 1.8.9. It also contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.9. 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.8 and
+HDF5 1.8.9. It also contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.9.
 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+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 1.8.9 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -6363,18 +8458,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.9 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.9 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.9 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.9 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.9 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.8":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -6401,7 +8496,7 @@ New Features
     Configuration
     -------------
     - None
-    
+
     Library
     -------
     - Added new feature to merge committed datatypes when copying objects,
@@ -6409,12 +8504,12 @@ New Features
       routines: H5Padd_merge_committed_dtype_path(),
       H5Pfree_merge_committed_dtype_paths(), H5Pset_mcdt_search_cb() and
       H5Pget_mcdt_search_cb().  (QAK - 2012/03/30)
-    - Added new feature which allows working with files in memory in the 
-      same ways files are worked with on disk. New API routines include 
-      H5Pset_file_image, H5Pget_file_image, H5Pset_file_image_callbacks, 
-      H5Pget_file_image_callbacks, H5Fget_file_image, and 
+    - Added new feature which allows working with files in memory in the
+      same ways files are worked with on disk. New API routines include
+      H5Pset_file_image, H5Pget_file_image, H5Pset_file_image_callbacks,
+      H5Pget_file_image_callbacks, H5Fget_file_image, and
       H5LTopen_file_image. (QAK - 2012/04/17)
- 
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - Corrected memory allocation error in MPI datatype construction code.
@@ -6423,7 +8518,7 @@ New Features
       MPI library to perform atomic operations. Some file systems (for
       example PVFS2) do not support atomic updates, so those routines
       would not be supported. (MSC - 2012/03/27 - HDFFV-7961)
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - h5repack: Added ability to set the metadata block size of the output
@@ -6431,29 +8526,29 @@ New Features
       (QAK - 2012/03/30)
     - h5stat: Added ability to display a summary of the file space usage for a
       file, with the '-S'/'--summary' command line parameter.  (QAK - 2012/03/28)
-    - h5dump: Added capability for "-a" option to show attributes containing "/" 
-      by using an escape character. For example, for a dataset "/dset" 
-      containing attribute "speed(m/h)", use "h5dump -a "/dset/speed(\/h)" 
+    - h5dump: Added capability for "-a" option to show attributes containing "/"
+      by using an escape character. For example, for a dataset "/dset"
+      containing attribute "speed(m/h)", use "h5dump -a "/dset/speed(\/h)"
       to show the content of the attribute. (PC - 2012/03/12 - HDFFV-7523)
     - h5dump: Added ability to apply command options across multiple files using a
       wildcard in the filename. Unix example; "h5dump -H -d Dataset1 tarr*.h5".
       Cross platform example; "h5dump -H -d Dataset1 tarray1.h5 tarray2.h5 tarray3.h5".
       (ADB - 2012/03/12 - HDFFV-7876).
     - h5dump: Added new option --no-compact-subset. This option will not
-      interpret the '[' character as starting the compact form of 
-      subsetting. This is useful when the "h5dump error: unable to 
+      interpret the '[' character as starting the compact form of
+      subsetting. This is useful when the "h5dump error: unable to
       open dataset "datset_name"" message is output because a dataset
       name contains a '[' character. (ADB - 2012/03/05 - HDFFV-7689).
     - h5repack: Improved performance for big chunked datasets (size > 128MB)
-      when used with the layout (-l) or compression (-f) options. 
-      Before this change, repacking datasets with chunks with a large first 
-      dimension would take extremely long. For example, repacking a dataset 
-      with chunk dimensions of 1024x5x1 might take many hours to process 
-      while changing a dataset with chunk dimensions set to 1x5x1024 
-      might take under an hour. After this change, processing the dataset 
-      with chunk dimensions of 1024x5x1 takes about 15 minutes, and processing 
+      when used with the layout (-l) or compression (-f) options.
+      Before this change, repacking datasets with chunks with a large first
+      dimension would take extremely long. For example, repacking a dataset
+      with chunk dimensions of 1024x5x1 might take many hours to process
+      while changing a dataset with chunk dimensions set to 1x5x1024
+      might take under an hour. After this change, processing the dataset
+      with chunk dimensions of 1024x5x1 takes about 15 minutes, and processing
       a dataset with chunk dimensions of 1x5x1024 takes about 14 minutes.
-      (JKM - 2012/03/01 - HDFFV-7862) 
+      (JKM - 2012/03/01 - HDFFV-7862)
 
     High-Level APIs
     ---------------
@@ -6483,7 +8578,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.8
     -------------
     - 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) 
+      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)
@@ -6514,30 +8609,30 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.8
       runs out of memory, the library had a segmentation fault.  The fix is to
       return the error stack with proper information.
       (SLU - 2012/03/23 - HDFFV-7785)
-    - H5Pset_data_transform had a segmentation fault in some cases like x*-100.  
+    - H5Pset_data_transform had a segmentation fault in some cases like x*-100.
       It works correctly now and handles other cases like 100-x or 2/x.
       (SLU - 2012/03/15 - HDFFV-7922)
     - Fixed rare corruption bugs that could occur when using the new object
       header format. (NAF - 2012/03/15 - HDFFV-7879)
-    - Fixed an error that occurred when creating a contiguous dataset with a 
-      zero-sized dataspace and space allocation time set to 'early'. 
+    - Fixed an error that occurred when creating a contiguous dataset with a
+      zero-sized dataspace and space allocation time set to 'early'.
       (QAK - 2012/03/12)
     - Changed Windows thread creation to use _beginthread() instead of
       CreateThread().  Threads created by the latter can be killed in
       low-memory situations. (DER - 2012/02/10 - HDFFV-7780)
-    - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused a segmentation fault when 
-      the file is closed.  It's fixed. The attempt to create a dataset will 
+    - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused a segmentation fault when
+      the file is closed.  It's fixed. The attempt to create a dataset will
       fail with an error indicating the file is read-only.
-      (SLU - 2012/01/25 - HDFFV-7756) 
-    - Fixed a segmentation fault that could occur when shrinking a dataset 
+      (SLU - 2012/01/25 - HDFFV-7756)
+    - Fixed a segmentation 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 H5Oget_info to return the wrong address
       after copying a committed (named) datatype. (NAF - 2011/11/14)
     - The library allowed the conversion of strings between ASCII and UTF8
       We have corrected it to report an error under this situation.
       (SLU - 2011/11/8 - HDFFV-7582)
-    - Fixed a segmentation fault when the library tried to shrink the size 
-      of a compound datatype through H5Tset_size immediately after the 
+    - Fixed a segmentation fault when the library tried to shrink the size
+      of a compound datatype through H5Tset_size immediately after the
       datatype was created. (SLU - 2011/11/4 - HDFFV-7618)
 
     Parallel Library
@@ -6546,43 +8641,43 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.8
 
     Tools
     -----
-    - h5unjam: Fixed a segmentation fault that occurred when h5unjam was used 
+    - h5unjam: Fixed a segmentation fault that occurred when h5unjam was used
       with the -V (show version) option. (JKM - 2012/04/19 - HDFFV-8001)
-    - h5repack: Fixed a failure that occurred when repacking the chunk size 
-      of a specified chunked dataset with unlimited max dims. 
-      (JKM - 2012/04/11 - HDFFV-7993) 
-    - h5diff: Fixed a failure when comparing groups. Before the fix, if an 
-      object in a group was compared with an object in another group where 
+    - h5repack: Fixed a failure that occurred when repacking the chunk size
+      of a specified chunked dataset with unlimited max dims.
+      (JKM - 2012/04/11 - HDFFV-7993)
+    - h5diff: Fixed a failure when comparing groups. Before the fix, if an
+      object in a group was compared with an object in another group where
       both had the same name but the object type was different, then h5diff
       would fail. After the fix, h5diff detects such cases as non-comparable
-      and displays appropriate error messages. 
+      and displays appropriate error messages.
       (JKM - 2012/03/28 - HDFFV-7644)
-    - h5diff: If unique objects exist only in one file and if h5diff is set to 
-      exclude the unique objects with the --exclude-path option, then h5diff 
-      might miss excluding some objects. This was fixed to correctly exclude 
+    - h5diff: If unique objects exist only in one file and if h5diff is set to
+      exclude the unique objects with the --exclude-path option, then h5diff
+      might miss excluding some objects. This was fixed to correctly exclude
       objects. (JKM - 2012/03/20 - HDFFV-7837)
-    - h5diff: When two symbolic dangling links are compared with the 
-      --follow-symlinks option, the result should be the same. This worked when 
+    - h5diff: When two symbolic dangling links are compared with the
+      --follow-symlinks option, the result should be the same. This worked when
       comparing two files, but didn't work when comparing two objects.
       h5diff now works when comparing two objects.
       (JKM - 2012/03/09 - HDFFV-7835)
     - h5dump: Added the tools library error stack to properly catch error
       information generated within the library. (ADB - 2012/03/12 - HDFFV-7958)
-    - h5dump: Changed the process where an open link used to fail. Now dangling 
+    - h5dump: Changed the process where an open link used to fail. Now dangling
       links no longer throw error messages. (ADB - 2012/03/12 - HDFFV-7839)
-    - h5dump: Refactored code to remove duplicated functions. Split XML 
+    - h5dump: Refactored code to remove duplicated functions. Split XML
       functions from DDL functions. Corrected indentation and formatting
       errors. Also fixed subsetting counting overflow (HDFFV-5874). Verified
       all tools call tools_init() in main. The USER_BLOCK data now correctly
       displays within the SUPER_BLOCK info. NOTE: WHITESPACE IN THE OUTPUT
       HAS CHANGED. (ADB - 2012/02/17 - HDFFV-7560)
-    - h5diff: Fixed to prevent from displaying error stack message when 
+    - h5diff: Fixed to prevent from displaying error stack message when
       comparing two dangling symbolic links with the follow-symlinks option.
       (JKM - 2012/01/13 - HDFFV-7836)
-    - h5repack: Fixed a memory leak that occurred with the handling of 
+    - h5repack: Fixed a memory leak that occurred with the handling of
       variable length strings in attributes.
       (JKM - 2012/01/10 - HDFFV-7840)
-    - h5ls: Fixed a segmentation fault that occurred when accessing region 
+    - h5ls: Fixed a segmentation fault that occurred when accessing region
       reference data in an attribute. (JKM - 2012/01/06 - HDFFV-7838)
 
     F90 API
@@ -6599,9 +8694,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.8
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - h5ltget_attribute_string_f: The h5ltget_attribute_string_f used to return 
-      the C NULL character in the returned character buffer. The returned 
-      charactor buffer now does not return the C NULL character; the buffer 
+    - h5ltget_attribute_string_f: The h5ltget_attribute_string_f used to return
+      the C NULL character in the returned character buffer. The returned
+      charactor buffer now does not return the C NULL character; the buffer
       is blank-padded if needed. (MSB - 2012/03/23)
 
 
@@ -6644,19 +8739,19 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       compilers for 32-bit applications;
     (koala)                           Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)
                                       Version 4.5.2
-                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on 
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on
                                   x86-64;
                                       Version 11.9-0 (64-bit)
                                       Version 11.8-0 (32-bit)
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64; 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64;
                                       Version 12.0
                                       Version 12.1
                                   MPICH mpich2-1.3.1 compiled with
                                       gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2
 
-    Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) 
-    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 
+    Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
+    #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux        g++ (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731
     (ostrich)                     GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
 
     Linux 2.6.18-108chaos         Intel C, C++, Fortran Compilers Version 11.1
@@ -6677,7 +8772,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     SGI Altix UV                  Intel(R) C, Fortran Compilers
     SGI ProPack 7 Linux               Version 11.1 20100806
     2.6.32.24-0.2.1.2230.2.PTF-   SGI MPT 2.02
-    default #1 SMP                
+    default #1 SMP
     (NCSA ember)
 
     Dell NVIDIA Cluster           Intel(R) C, Fortran Compilers
@@ -6741,7 +8836,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     SUSE 12.1 3.1.9-1.4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2
-                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2 
+                                  GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2
 
     Ubuntu 11.10 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1
@@ -6755,20 +8850,20 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     hopper.nersc.gov              pgcc 11.9-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp k8e
                                   pgf90 11.9-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp k8e
                                   pgCC 11.9-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp k8e
-    
+
 
 Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                                 C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                                          parallel        parallel
@@ -6778,7 +8873,7 @@ Windows XP                                 n        y(4)   n        y     y
 Windows XP x64                             n        y(4)   n        y     y     y
 Windows Vista                              n        y(4)   n        y     y     y
 Windows Vista x64                          n        y(4)   n        y     y     y
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit        n        y      n        y     y     n 
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit        n        y      n        y     y     n
 Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        n        y      n        y     y     y
 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit                n        y      n        y     y     n
 Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                n        y      n        y     y     y
@@ -6796,28 +8891,28 @@ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6                 y        y      y        y     y
 CLE hopper.nersc.gov                       y        y(3)   y        y     y     n
 
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                         n       n         n         n        
-Windows XP                                 y       y(4)      y         n        
-Windows XP x64                             y       y(4)      y         n        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                         n       n         n         n
+Windows XP                                 y       y(4)      y         n
+Windows XP x64                             y       y(4)      y         n
 Windows Vista                              y       y(4)      y         y
 Windows Vista x64                          y       y(4)      y         y
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit        y       n         y         n        
-Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n        
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit                y       n         y         y        
-Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y        
-FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE 32&64 bit               y       x         x         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n        
-Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n 
-SGI ProPack 7 Linux 2.6.32.24              y       y         y         n 
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit        y       n         y         n
+Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit        y       n         y         n
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit                y       n         y         y
+Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit                y       n         y         y
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y
+FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE 32&64 bit               y       x         x         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64             y       y         y         n
+SGI ProPack 7 Linux 2.6.32.24              y       y         y         n
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6                 y       y         y         n
 CLE hopper.nersc.gov                       n       n         n         n
 
@@ -6850,7 +8945,7 @@ Known Problems
   fails to create its test files in the build directory. This will be
   resolved in a future release.
   (AKC - 2012/05/05 - HDFFV-8009)
-  
+
 * The dt_arith test reports several errors involving "long double" on
   Mac OS X 10.7 Lion when any level of optimization is enabled. The test does
   not fail in debug mode. This will be addressed in a future release.
@@ -6861,7 +8956,7 @@ Known Problems
 
    h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0"
      tno-subset.h5
-  
+
   This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted
   by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three
   arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just
@@ -6877,14 +8972,14 @@ Known Problems
   to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated
   properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because
   configure was able to automatically detect that it's a Cray system
-  and used the proper launch commands when necessary. 
+  and used the proper launch commands when necessary.
   (MSC - 2012/04/18)
 
 * The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer
   conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library
   is built with optimization -O3 or -O2.  The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal
-  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the 
-  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of 
+  (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem.  Users should lower the
+  optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of
   "configure" like:
 
       CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure
@@ -6912,7 +9007,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -6920,8 +9015,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value.
   (AKC - 2011/05/07)
@@ -6952,7 +9047,7 @@ Known Problems
   (NAF - 2011/01/19)
 
 * The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on
-  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The 
+  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The
   library's own conversion works fine.  We defined a macro for Cygwin to
   skip this test until we can solve the problem.
   (SLU - 2010/05/05 - HDFFV-1264)
@@ -6962,8 +9057,8 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
@@ -6975,18 +9070,18 @@ Known Problems
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
+
 * The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would
   cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file does not
   exist. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the mode has
   the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set.
   (AKC - 2009/08/11 - HDFFV-988)
- 
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
@@ -7022,30 +9117,30 @@ Known Problems
   echo SKIP H5LSTEST $FILEOUT
   ==================================================
   (AKC - 2008/11/10)
-  
+
 * For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the
   message,  "yod allocation delayed for node recovery".  This interferes with
   test suites that do not expect to see this message.  See the section of "Red
   Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
   (AKC - 2008/05/28)
 
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
@@ -7053,17 +9148,17 @@ Known Problems
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
   (AKC - 2004/12/08)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.8%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.8%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.8 released on 2011-11-15
@@ -7072,10 +9167,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.8 released on 2011-11-15
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.7 and 
-HDF5 1.8.8, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.8. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.7 and
+HDF5 1.8.8, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.8.
+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 1.8.8 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -7087,18 +9182,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.8 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.8 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.8 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.8 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.8 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.7":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -7124,15 +9219,15 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-    - Added the --enable-fortran2003 flag to enable Fortran2003 support 
+    - Added the --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 the Fortran compiler 
+      --enable-fortran flag and takes affect only when the Fortran compiler
       is Fortran2003 compliant. (EIP - 2011/11/14)
     - Added checks for clock_gettime and mach/mach_time.h to both configure and
       CMake.  This will support the move from gettimeofday to clock_gettime's
       monotonic timer in the profiling code in a future release.
       (DER - 2011/10/12)
-    
+
     Library
     -------
     - The Windows VFD code has been removed with the exception of the functions
@@ -7144,13 +9239,13 @@ New Features
       (DER - 2011/10/12 - HDFFV-7740, HDFFV-7744)
     - H5Tcreate now supports the string type (fixed-length and variable-
       length). (SLU - 2011/05/20)
- 
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - Added new H5Pget_mpio_actual_chunk_opt_mode and
       H5Pget_mpio_actual_io_mode API routines for querying whether/how
       a collective I/O operation completed.  (QAK - 2011/10/12)
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - None
@@ -7187,8 +9282,8 @@ New Features
           h5rderefrence_f
           h5rget_name_f
           h5rget_obj_type_f
-      - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type 
-        and simplified signatures: 
+      - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type
+        and simplified signatures:
           h5aread_f
           h5awrite_f
           h5dread_f
@@ -7228,7 +9323,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7
       trace statement fixup. (DER - 2011/08/25)
     - The --enable-h5dump-packed-bits configure option has been removed.
       The h5dump code that this option conditionally enabled is now always
-      compiled into h5dump. Please refer to the h5dump reference manual for 
+      compiled into h5dump. Please refer to the h5dump reference manual for
       usage of the packed bits feature. (MAM - 2011/06/23 - HDFFV-7592)
     - Configure now uses the same flags and symbols in its tests that are
       used to build the library. (DER - 2011/05/24)
@@ -7250,14 +9345,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7
       I/O sizes (and remove compiler warnings) between Windows and true POSIX
       systems.  (DER - 2011/10/12)
     - Corrected some Windows behavior in the SEC2 and log VFDs.  This mainly
-      involved datatype correctness fixes, Windows API call error checks, 
+      involved datatype correctness fixes, Windows API call error checks,
       and adding the volume serial number to the VFD cmp functions.
       (DER - 2011/10/12)
-    - Converted post-checks for the appropriate POSIX I/O sizes to pre-checks 
-      in order to avoid platform-specific or undefined behavior.  
+    - Converted post-checks for the appropriate POSIX I/O sizes to pre-checks
+      in order to avoid platform-specific or undefined behavior.
       (DER - 2011/10/12)
-    - #ifdef _WIN32 instances have been changed to #ifdef H5_HAVE_WIN32_API. 
-      H5_HAVE_VISUAL_STUDIO checks have been added where necessary. This is in 
+    - #ifdef _WIN32 instances have been changed to #ifdef H5_HAVE_WIN32_API.
+      H5_HAVE_VISUAL_STUDIO checks have been added where necessary. This is in
       CMake only as configure never sets _WIN32. (ADB - 2011/09/12)
     - CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv
       discovered 3 problems in tests and tools' library:
@@ -7265,7 +9360,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7
            caused undefined behavior.
         2. In dt_arith.c, the INIT_INTEGER macro definition has an overflow
            when the value is a negative minimal and is being subtracted from one.
-        3. In tools/lib/h5tools_str.c, right shifting an int value for 32 bits 
+        3. In tools/lib/h5tools_str.c, right shifting an int value for 32 bits
            or more caused undefined behavior.
       All the problems have been corrected. (SLU - 2011/09/02 - HDFFV-7674)
     - H5Epush2() now has the correct trace functionality (this is related to the
@@ -7273,17 +9368,17 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7
       (DER - 2011/08/25)
     - Corrected mismatched function name typo of h5pget_dxpl_mpio_c and
       h5pfill_value_defined_c. (AKC - 2011/08/22 - HDFFV-7641)
-    - Corrected an internal error in the library where objects that use committed 
+    - Corrected an internal error in the library where objects that use committed
       (named) datatypes and were accessed from two different file IDs could confuse
       the two and cause erroneous failures. (QAK - 2011/07/18 - HDFFV-7638)
-    - In v1.6 of the library, there was an EOA for the whole MULTI file saved in the 
-      super block.  We took it out in v1.8 of the library because it's meaningless 
-      for the MULTI file. v1.8 of the library saves the EOA for the metadata file 
+    - In v1.6 of the library, there was an EOA for the whole MULTI file saved in the
+      super block.  We took it out in v1.8 of the library because it's meaningless
+      for the MULTI file. v1.8 of the library saves the EOA for the metadata file
       instead, but this caused a backward compatibility problem.
       A v1.8 library couldn't open the file created with the v1.6 library. We
       fixed the problem by checking the EOA value to detect the file
-      created with v1.6 library. (SLU - 2011/06/22) 
-    - When a dataset had filters and reading data failed, the error message 
+      created with v1.6 library. (SLU - 2011/06/22)
+    - When a dataset had filters and reading data failed, the error message
       didn't say which filter wasn't registered. It's fixed now. (SLU - 2011/06/03)
 
     Parallel Library
@@ -7298,71 +9393,71 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7
 
     Tools
     -----
-    - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different 
+    - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different
       dimention or rank, along with '-c' option to display details.
       (JKM - 2011/10/24 - HDFFV-7770)
-    - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable objects and attributes 
+    - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable objects and attributes
       regardless of detecting non-comparables. (JKM - 2011/09/16 - HDFFV-7693)
-    - Fixed h5repack to update the values of references(object and region) of 
-      attributes in h5repack for 1) references, 2) arrays of references, 
-      3) variable-length references, and 4) compound references. 
+    - Fixed h5repack to update the values of references(object and region) of
+      attributes in h5repack for 1) references, 2) arrays of references,
+      3) variable-length references, and 4) compound references.
       (PC - 2011/09/14 - HDFFV-5932)
-    - h5diff: fixed a segfault over a dataset with container types 
-      array and variable-length (vlen) along with multiple nested compound types. 
+    - h5diff: fixed a segfault over a dataset with container types
+      array and variable-length (vlen) along with multiple nested compound types.
       Example: compound->array->compound, compound->vlen->compound.
       (JKM - 2011/09/01 - HDFFV-7712)
     - h5repack: added macro to handle a failure in H5Dread/write when memory
       allocation failed inside the library. (PC - 2011/08/19)
-    - Fixed h5jam to not to allow the specifying of an HDF5 formatted file as 
-      an input file for the -u (user block file) option. The original HDF5 file 
-      would not be accessible if this behavior was allowed. 
+    - Fixed h5jam to not to allow the specifying of an HDF5 formatted file as
+      an input file for the -u (user block file) option. The original HDF5 file
+      would not be accessible if this behavior was allowed.
       (JKM - 2011/08/19 - HDFFV-5941)
     - Revised the command help pages of h5jam and h5unjam. The descriptions
-      were not up to date and some were missing. 
+      were not up to date and some were missing.
       (JKM - 2011/08/15 - HDFFV-7515)
-    - Fixed h5dump to correct the schema location: 
-      <hdf5:HDF5-File 
-      xmlns:hdf5="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File" 
-      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
-      xsi:schemaLocation="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File 
+    - Fixed h5dump to correct the schema location:
+      <hdf5:HDF5-File
+      xmlns:hdf5="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File"
+      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+      xsi:schemaLocation="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File
       http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File.xsd">
       (ADB - 2011/08/10)
-    - h5repack: h5repack failed to copy a dataset if the layout is changed 
+    - h5repack: h5repack failed to copy a dataset if the layout is changed
       from chunked with unlimited dimensions to contiguous.
       (PC - 2011/07/15 - HDFFV-7649)
-    - Fixed h5diff: the "--delta" option considers two NaN of the same type 
-      are different. This is wrong based on the h5diff description in the 
+    - Fixed h5diff: the "--delta" option considers two NaN of the same type
+      are different. This is wrong based on the h5diff description in the
       Reference Manual. (PC - 2011/07/15 - HDFFV-7656)
     - Fixed h5diff to display an instructive error message and exit with
-      an instructive error message when mutually exclusive options 
-      (-d, -p and --use-system-epsilon) are used together. 
+      an instructive error message when mutually exclusive options
+      (-d, -p and --use-system-epsilon) are used together.
       (JKM - 2011/07/07 - HDFFV-7600)
     - Fixed h5dump so that it displays the first line of each element in correct
-      position for multiple dimention array types. Before this fix, 
+      position for multiple dimention array types. Before this fix,
       the first line of each element in an array was
       displayed after the last line of previous element without
       moving to the next line (+indentation).
       (JKM - 2011/06/15 - HDFFV-5878)
-    - Fixed h5dump so that it will display the correct value for 
-      H5T_STD_I8LE datasets on the Blue-gene system (ppc64, linux, Big-Endian, 
+    - Fixed h5dump so that it will display the correct value for
+      H5T_STD_I8LE datasets on the Blue-gene system (ppc64, linux, Big-Endian,
       clustering). (AKC & JKM - 2011/05/12 - HDFFV-7594)
     - Fixed h5diff to compare a file to itself correctly. Previously h5diff
-      reported either the files were different or not compatible in certain 
-      cases even when comparing a file to itself. This fix also improves 
-      performance when comparing the same target objects through verifying 
-      the object and file addresses before comparing the details 
-      in the objects. Examples of details are datasets and attributes. 
+      reported either the files were different or not compatible in certain
+      cases even when comparing a file to itself. This fix also improves
+      performance when comparing the same target objects through verifying
+      the object and file addresses before comparing the details
+      in the objects. Examples of details are datasets and attributes.
       (XCAO & JKM - 2011/05/06 - HDFFV-5928)
 
     F90 API
     -------
-    - Modified the h5open_f and h5close_f subroutines to not to call H5open 
-      and H5close correspondingly. While the H5open call just adds overhead, 
-      the H5close call called by a Fortran application shuts down the HDF5 
-      library. This makes the library inaccessible to the application. 
+    - Modified the h5open_f and h5close_f subroutines to not to call H5open
+      and H5close correspondingly. While the H5open call just adds overhead,
+      the H5close call called by a Fortran application shuts down the HDF5
+      library. This makes the library inaccessible to the application.
       (EIP & SB - 2011/10/13 - HDFFV-915)
-    - Fixed h5tget_tag_f where the length of the C string was used to 
-      repack the C string into the Fortran string. This lead to memory 
+    - Fixed h5tget_tag_f where the length of the C string was used to
+      repack the C string into the Fortran string. This lead to memory
       corruption in the calling program. (SB - 2011/07/26)
     - Added defined constants:
         H5T_ORDER_MIXED_F (HDFFV-2767)
@@ -7382,13 +9477,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7
 
     High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - Fixed the H5LTdtype_to_text function.  It had some memory problems when 
+    - Fixed the H5LTdtype_to_text function.  It had some memory problems when
       dealing with some complicated data types. (SLU - 2011/10/19 - HDFFV-7701)
-    - Fixed H5DSset_label seg faulting when retrieving the length of a 
+    - Fixed H5DSset_label seg faulting when retrieving the length of a
       dimension label that was not set. (SB - 2011/08/07 - HDFFV-7673)
-    - Fixed a dimension scale bug where if you create a dimscale, attach two 
-      datasets to it, and then unattach them, you get an error if they are 
-      unattached in order, but no error if you unattach them in reverse order. 
+    - Fixed a dimension scale bug where if you create a dimscale, attach two
+      datasets to it, and then unattach them, you get an error if they are
+      unattached in order, but no error if you unattach them in reverse order.
       (SB - 2011/06/07 - HDFFV-7605)
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
@@ -7422,7 +9517,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-smp    Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers
     x86_64                            Version 11.1 20090630
-    (INL Icestorm)                   
+    (INL Icestorm)
 
     Linux 2.6.18-194.el5 x86_64   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers
     (INL Fission)                     Version 12.0.2 20110112
@@ -7432,11 +9527,11 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE   gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 and 4.4.2
     #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
-    (jam)                             (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) and 4.4.2 
+    (jam)                             (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) and 4.4.2
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.4-0 32-bit
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.6-0 32-bit
                                   Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit
-                                      applications, Version 11.1 
+                                      applications, Version 11.1
                                   Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
                                       applications, Version 11.1
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
@@ -7448,8 +9543,8 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux       GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
     (koala)                           (Red Hat 4.1.2-46) and 4.4.2
                                       tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                      applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                      applications running on Intel(R) 64,
                                       Version 11.1.
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 9.0-4
                                       for 64-bit target on x86-64
@@ -7459,7 +9554,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     SGI Altix UV                  Intel(R) C, Fortran Compilers
     SGI ProPack 7 Linux               Version 11.1 20100806
     2.6.32.24-0.2.1.2230.2.PTF-   SGI MPT 2.02
-    default #1 SMP                
+    default #1 SMP
     (NCSA ember)
 
     Dell NVIDIA Cluster           Intel(R) C, Fortran Compilers
@@ -7532,7 +9627,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     Ubuntu 11.10 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1
-    
+
     OpenVMS Alpha 8.3             HP C V7.3-009
                                   HP Fortran V8.2-104679-48H9K
                                   HP C++ V7.3-009
@@ -7546,14 +9641,14 @@ Tested Configuration Features Summary
 =====================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                                 C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                                          parallel        parallel
@@ -7577,31 +9672,31 @@ CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  n        y      n        y     y    y
 Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   n        y      n        y     y    y
 SGI ProPack 7 Linux 2.6.32.24              y        y      y        y     y    y
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6                 y        y      y        y     y    y
-CLE hopper.nersc.gov                       y        y(3)   y        y     y    n  
-CLE franklin.nersc.gov                     y        y(3)   y        y     y    n  
+CLE hopper.nersc.gov                       y        y(3)   y        y     y    n
+CLE franklin.nersc.gov                     y        y(3)   y        y     y    n
 
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Windows XP                                 y       y(4)      y         n        
-Windows XP x64                             y       y(4)      y         n        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Windows XP                                 y       y(4)      y         n
+Windows XP x64                             y       y(4)      y         n
 Windows Vista                              y       y(4)      y         y
 Windows Vista x64                          y       y(4)      y         y
 OpenVMS Alpha                              n       n         n         n
-Mac OS X 10.8 Intel 32-bit                 y(5)    n         y         n        
-Mac OS X 10.8 Intel 64-bit                 y(5)    n         y         n        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y        
-FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE 32&64 bit               y       x         x         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n        
-Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   y       y         y         y 
-SGI ProPack 7 Linux 2.6.32.24              y       y         y         n 
+Mac OS X 10.8 Intel 32-bit                 y(5)    n         y         n
+Mac OS X 10.8 Intel 64-bit                 y(5)    n         y         n
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y
+FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE 32&64 bit               y       x         x         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n
+Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   y       y         y         y
+SGI ProPack 7 Linux 2.6.32.24              y       y         y         n
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6                 y       y         y         n
 CLE hopper.nersc.gov                       n       n         n         n
 CLE franklin.nersc.gov                     n       n         n         n
@@ -7638,7 +9733,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -7646,8 +9741,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value. (AKC - 2011/05/07)
 
@@ -7675,7 +9770,7 @@ Known Problems
   (NAF - 2011/01/19)
 
 * The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on
-  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The 
+  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The
   library's own conversion works fine.  We defined a macro for Cygwin to
   skip this test until we can solve the problem.
   (SLU - 2010/05/05 - HDFFV-1264)
@@ -7685,8 +9780,8 @@ Known Problems
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   (SLU - 2010/02/02)
 
@@ -7697,17 +9792,17 @@ Known Problems
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
   (MAM - 2009/11/04)
-  
+
 * The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would
   cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file does not
   exist. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the mode has
   the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (AKC - 2009/08/11 - HDFFV-988)
- 
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
@@ -7742,30 +9837,30 @@ Known Problems
   echo SKIP H5LSTEST $FILEOUT
   ==================================================
   (AKC - 2008/11/10)
-  
+
 * For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the
   message,  "yod allocation delayed for node recovery".  This interferes with
   test suites that do not expect to see this message.  See the section of "Red
   Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
   (AKC - 2008/05/28)
 
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   (SLU - 2005/06/30)
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
@@ -7773,17 +9868,17 @@ Known Problems
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
   (AKC - 2004/12/08)
 
 
-%%%%1.8.7%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.7%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.7 released on Tue May 10 09:24:44 CDT 2011
@@ -7792,10 +9887,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.7 released on Tue May 10 09:24:44 CDT 2011
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.6 and 
-HDF5 1.8.7, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.7. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.6 and
+HDF5 1.8.7, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.7.
+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 1.8.7 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -7807,18 +9902,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.7 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.7 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.7 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.7 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.7 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.6":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -7856,50 +9951,50 @@ New Features
     - Added a new configure option, "--enable-unsupported", which can
       be used to stop configure from preventing the use of unsupported
       configure option combinations, such as c++ in parallel or Fortran
-      with threadsafe. Use at your own risk, as it may result in a 
+      with threadsafe. Use at your own risk, as it may result in a
       library that won't compile or run as expected!
       (MAM - 2010/11/17 - Bug 2061)
 
     Library
     -------
-    - The library allows the dimension size of a dataspace to be zero.  In 
-      the past, the library would allow this only if the maximal dimension 
-      size was unlimited. Now there is no such restriction, but no data 
+    - The library allows the dimension size of a dataspace to be zero.  In
+      the past, the library would allow this only if the maximal dimension
+      size was unlimited. Now there is no such restriction, but no data
       can be written to this kind of dataset. (SLU - 2011/4/20)
     - We added two new macros, H5_VERSION_GE and H5_VERSION_LE, to let users
       compare certain version numbers with the library being used. (SLU -
-      2011/4/20) 
+      2011/4/20)
     - Added ability to cache files opened through external links.  Added new
       public functions H5Pset_elink_file_cache_size(),
       H5Pget_elink_file_cache_size(), and H5Fclear_elink_file_cache().
       (NAF - 2011/02/17)
     - Finished implementing all options for 'log' VFD.  (QAK - 2011/1/25)
     - Removed all old code for Metrowerks compilers, bracketed by
-      __MWERKS__). Metrowerks compiler is long gone. (AKC - 2010/11/17) 
+      __MWERKS__). Metrowerks compiler is long gone. (AKC - 2010/11/17)
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - None
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
      - h5diff: Added new "verbose with levels" option, '-vN, --verbose=N'.
        The old '-v, --verbose' option is deprecated but remains available;
        it is exactly equivalent to '-v0, --verbose=0'.
-       The new levels 1 ('-v1' or '--verbose=1') and 2 ('-v2' or 
-       '--verbose=2') can be specified to view more information regarding 
+       The new levels 1 ('-v1' or '--verbose=1') and 2 ('-v2' or
+       '--verbose=2') can be specified to view more information regarding
        attributes differences.  Bug #2121 (JKM 2011/3/23)
-     - h5dump: Added new option --enable-error-stack. This option will 
-       display error stack information in the output stream. This is 
+     - h5dump: Added new option --enable-error-stack. This option will
+       display error stack information in the output stream. This is
        useful when the "h5dump: Unable to print data" message is output.
        (ADB - 2011/03/03)
 
     High-Level APIs
     ---------------
-    - Fortran LT make datasets routines (H5LTmake_dataset_f, 
-      h5ltmake_dataset_int_f, h5ltmake_dataset_float_f, h5ltmake_dataset_double_f) 
+    - Fortran LT make datasets routines (H5LTmake_dataset_f,
+      h5ltmake_dataset_int_f, h5ltmake_dataset_float_f, h5ltmake_dataset_double_f)
       and LT read datasets routines (h5ltread_dataset_f,h5ltread_dataset_int_f,
-      h5ltread_dataset_float_f, 5ltread_dataset_double_f) can now handle 
+      h5ltread_dataset_float_f, 5ltread_dataset_double_f) can now handle
       4-dimensional to 7-dimensional rank datasets. HDFFV-1217 (MSB-2011/4/24/2011)
 
     F90 API
@@ -7914,7 +10009,7 @@ New Features
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
     - Intel V11.1 uses now -O3 optimization in production mode (EIP - 2010/10/08)
-             
+
 
 
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6
@@ -7923,7 +10018,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6
     Configuration
     -------------
     - Shared C++ and HL libraries on AIX should now be working correctly.
-      Note that Fortran shared libraries are still not working on AIX. 
+      Note that Fortran shared libraries are still not working on AIX.
       (See the Known Problems section, below). (MAM - 2011/4/20)
     - Removed config/ibm-aix6.x. All IBM-AIX settings are in one file,
       ibm-aix. (AKC - 2011/4/14)
@@ -7931,7 +10026,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6
       is enabled. Shared Fortran libraries are still not supported on Mac,
       so configure will disable them by default, but this is overrideable
       with the new --enable-unsupported configure option. The configure
-      summary has been updated to reflect the fact that the shared-ness of 
+      summary has been updated to reflect the fact that the shared-ness of
       the C++/Fortran wrapper libraries may not align with the C library.
       (MAM - 2011/04/11 - HDFFV-4353).
 
@@ -7940,12 +10035,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6
     - Changed assertion failure when decoding a compound datatype with no
       fields into a normal error failure.  Also prohibit using this sort
       of datatype for creating an attribute (as is already the case for
-      datasets and committed (named) datatypes).  (QAK - 2011/04/15, Jira 
+      datasets and committed (named) datatypes).  (QAK - 2011/04/15, Jira
       issue #HDFFV-2766)
     - Tell the VFL flush call that the file will be closing, allowing
       the VFDs to avoid sync'ing the file (particularly valuable in parallel).
       (QAK - 2011/03/09)
-    - The datatype handler created with H5Tencode/decode used to have the 
+    - The datatype handler created with H5Tencode/decode used to have the
       reference count 0 (zero); it now has the reference count 1 (one).
       (SLU - 2011/2/18)
     - Fixed the definition of H5_HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY on Windows so that
@@ -7960,20 +10055,20 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6
 
     Tools
     -----
-    - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure when 
+    - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure when
       source directory is read-only. Bug #HDFFV-4342 (JKM 2011/4/12)
     - Fixed h5dump displaying incorrect values for H5T_STD_I8BE type data in
       attribute on Big-Endian machine. H5T_STD_I8BE is unsigned 8bit type,
       so h5dump is supposed to display -2 instead of 254. It worked correctly
       on Little-Endian system , but not on Big-Endian system.  Bug #HDFFV-4358
       (JKM 04/08/2011)
-    - Updated some HDF5 tools to standardize the option name as 
-      '--enable-error-stack' for printing HDF5 error stack messages. h5ls and 
-      h5dump have been updated. For h5ls, this replaces "-e/--errors" option, 
-      which is deprecated. For h5dump, this is a new option. Bug #2182 
+    - Updated some HDF5 tools to standardize the option name as
+      '--enable-error-stack' for printing HDF5 error stack messages. h5ls and
+      h5dump have been updated. For h5ls, this replaces "-e/--errors" option,
+      which is deprecated. For h5dump, this is a new option. Bug #2182
       (JKM 2011/3/30)
-    - Fixed the h5diff --use-system-epsilon option. The formula used in the 
-      calculation was changed from ( |a - b| / b ) to ( |a - b| ). 
+    - Fixed the h5diff --use-system-epsilon option. The formula used in the
+      calculation was changed from ( |a - b| / b ) to ( |a - b| ).
       This was done to improve performance. Bug #2184 (JKM 2011/3/24)
     - Fixed output for H5T_REFERENCE in h5dump. According to the BNF document
       the output of a H5T_REFERENCE should be followed by the type;
@@ -7981,41 +10076,41 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6
       <ref_type> ::= H5T_STD_REF_OBJECT | H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG
       Previously this was only displayed if the -R option was used.
       Bug #1725 (ADB 2011/3/28)
-    - Fixed two h5diff issues. 1) h5diff compared attributes correctly only 
-      when two objects had the same number of attributes and the attribute 
-      names were identical. 2) h5diff did not display useful information about 
+    - Fixed two h5diff issues. 1) h5diff compared attributes correctly only
+      when two objects had the same number of attributes and the attribute
+      names were identical. 2) h5diff did not display useful information about
       attribute differences. Bug #2121 (JKM 2011/3/17)
-    - Fixed a memory leak in h5diff that occurred when accessing symbolic links 
+    - Fixed a memory leak in h5diff that occurred when accessing symbolic links
       with the --follow-symlink option. Bug #2214  (JKM 2011/3/18)
-    - Fixed a memory leak in h5diff that occurred when accessing variable length 
+    - Fixed a memory leak in h5diff that occurred when accessing variable length
       string data. Bug #2216 (JKM 2011/3/18)
-    - Fixed and improved the help page for h5ls -a, --address option. 
+    - Fixed and improved the help page for h5ls -a, --address option.
       Bug #1904 (JKM 2011/3/11)
     - Fixed h5copy to enable copying an object into the same HDF5 file.
-      Previously h5copy displayed an error message when the target file 
+      Previously h5copy displayed an error message when the target file
       was the same as the source file. (XCAO 2011/3/8)
-    - Fixed an h5dump problem that caused the tool to skip some data elements 
-      in large datasets with a large array datatype on Windows. This issue 
-      arose only on Windows due to the different return behavior of the 
+    - Fixed an h5dump problem that caused the tool to skip some data elements
+      in large datasets with a large array datatype on Windows. This issue
+      arose only on Windows due to the different return behavior of the
       _vsnprintf() function.  Bug #2161 (JKM 2011/3/3)
-    - Fixed h5dump which was skipping some array indices in large datasets 
+    - Fixed h5dump which was skipping some array indices in large datasets
       with a relatively large array datatype. The interval of skipped indices
       varied according to the size of the array. Bug #2092 (JKM 2011/2/15)
     - Fixed h5diff which was segfaulting when comparing compound datasets
       with a combination of fixed-length string datatypes and variable-length
       string datatypes in certain orders. Bug #2089 (JKM 2010/12/28)
-    - Improved h5diff performance. 1) Now use HDmemcmp() before comparing two 
+    - Improved h5diff performance. 1) Now use HDmemcmp() before comparing two
       elements. 2) Replace expensive H5Tequals() calls. 3) Retrieve datatype
-      information at dataset level, not at each element level for compound 
-      datasets. HDFFV-7516 (JKM 2011/4/18) 
-    - Fixed h5ls to display nested compound types with curly brackets 
-      when -S (--simple) option is used with -l (--label), so it shows  
-      which members (in curly brackets) belong to which nested compound type, 
+      information at dataset level, not at each element level for compound
+      datasets. HDFFV-7516 (JKM 2011/4/18)
+    - Fixed h5ls to display nested compound types with curly brackets
+      when -S (--simple) option is used with -l (--label), so it shows
+      which members (in curly brackets) belong to which nested compound type,
       making the output clearer.  Bug #1979 (JKM 2010/11/09)
-    - Fixed h5diff to handle variable-length strings in a compound dataset 
+    - Fixed h5diff to handle variable-length strings in a compound dataset
       and variable-length string arrays in a compound dataset correctly.
-      Garbage values were previously displayed when h5diff compared multiple 
-      variable-length strings in a compound type dataset. 
+      Garbage values were previously displayed when h5diff compared multiple
+      variable-length strings in a compound type dataset.
       Bug #1989 (JKM 2010/10/28)
     - Fixed h5copy to fail gracefully when copying an object to a non-
       existing group without the -p option. Bug #2040 (JKM 2010/10/18)
@@ -8034,10 +10129,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    -  h5tbmake_table_f: Fixed error in passing an array of characters with different 
+    -  h5tbmake_table_f: Fixed error in passing an array of characters with different
        length field names.
-    -  h5tget_field_info_f: Fixed error with packing the C strings into a Fortran 
-       array of strings. Added optional argument called 'maxlen_out' which returns 
+    -  h5tget_field_info_f: Fixed error with packing the C strings into a Fortran
+       array of strings. Added optional argument called 'maxlen_out' which returns
        the maximum string character length in a field name element.
        Bug HDFFV-1255 (MSB- 4/17/2011)
 
@@ -8068,12 +10163,12 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE   gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 and 4.4.2
     #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.93!) Apr 21 2010)
-    (jam)                         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 
+    (jam)                         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
                                       (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) and 4.4.2
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.4-0 32-bit
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.6-0 32-bit
                                   Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit
-                                      applications, Version 11.1 
+                                      applications, Version 11.1
                                   Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
                                       applications, Version 11.1
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
@@ -8087,8 +10182,8 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     (amani)                           tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
                                   GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
                                       (Red Hat 4.1.2-46) and 4.4.2
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                      applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                      applications running on Intel(R) 64,
                                       Version 11.1.
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 9.0-4
                                       for 64-bit target on x86-64
@@ -8137,8 +10232,8 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers 12.0.1.122 20101110
 
     Mac OS X 10.7.0 (Intel 32-bit) i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
-    Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0  GNU Fortran (GCC) version 4.4.0 20090123 (experimental) 
-							[trunk revision 143587]
+    Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0  GNU Fortran (GCC) version 4.4.0 20090123 (experimental)
+                            [trunk revision 143587]
 
     Fedora 12 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64 #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (GCC) 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10)
@@ -8175,7 +10270,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     Ubuntu 10.10 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5
-    
+
     OpenVMS Alpha 8.3             HP C V7.3-009
                                   HP Fortran V8.2-104679-48H9K
                                   HP C++ V7.3-009
@@ -8184,14 +10279,14 @@ Tested Configuration Features Summary
 ========================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                                 C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                                          parallel        parallel
@@ -8217,28 +10312,28 @@ Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   n        y      n        y     y
 SGI Linux 2.6.32.19                        y        y      y        y     y     y
 
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Windows XP                                 y       y(4)      y         n        
-Windows XP x64                             y       y(4)      y         n        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Windows XP                                 y       y(4)      y         n
+Windows XP x64                             y       y(4)      y         n
 Windows Vista                              y       y(4)      y         y
 Windows Vista x64                          y       y(4)      y         y
 OpenVMS Alpha                              n       n         n         n
-Mac OS X 10.7 Intel 32-bit                 y(5)    n         y         n        
-Mac OS X 10.7 Intel 64-bit                 y(5)    n         y         n        
-AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y        
-FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE 32&64 bit               y       x         x         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n        
+Mac OS X 10.7 Intel 32-bit                 y(5)    n         y         n
+Mac OS X 10.7 Intel 64-bit                 y(5)    n         y         n
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y
+FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE 32&64 bit               y       x         x         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n
 RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre           C  y       y         y         n
-Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   y       y         y         y 
-SGI Linux 2.6.32.19                        y       y         y         y 
+Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   y       y         y         y
+SGI Linux 2.6.32.19                        y       y         y         y
 
            (1) Fortran compiled with gfortran.
            (2) With PGI and Absoft compilers.
@@ -8255,7 +10350,7 @@ Known Problems
   that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It
   still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to
   install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5,
-  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure 
+  you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure
   time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ...
   (AKC - 2011/05/07 HDFFV-7583)
 
@@ -8263,8 +10358,8 @@ Known Problems
   be terminated by the alarm signal.  If that happens, one can increase the
   alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the
   environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600
-  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems 
-  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If 
+  (60 minutes).  Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems
+  (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below).  If
   it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set
   to a larger value. (AKC - 2011/05/07)
 
@@ -8297,30 +10392,30 @@ Known Problems
   http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/known_problems/
 
 * The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on
-  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The 
+  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The
   library's own conversion works fine.  We defined a macro for Cygwin to
   skip this test until we can solve the problem.  Please see bug #1813.
-  SLU - 2010/5/5 
+  SLU - 2010/5/5
 
 * All the VFL drivers aren't backward compatible.  In H5FDpublic.h, the
   structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8.  There is new parameter added to
   get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
   get_type_map was added in.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
   out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
-  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user 
-  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as 
+  for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library.  Because there's only one user
+  complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as
   it is (see bug report #1279).  Quincey will make a plan for 1.10.
   SLU - 2010/2/2
 
 * MinGW has a missing libstdc++.dll.a library file and will not successfully link
   C++ applications/tests. Do not use the enable-cxx configure option. Read all of
   the INSTALL_MINGW.txt file for all restrictions. ADB - 2009/11/11
-  
+
 * The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would
   cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file does not
   exist. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the mode has
   the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (See bug 1468 for details.) AKC - 2009/8/11
- 
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
@@ -8362,23 +10457,23 @@ Known Problems
   Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
   AKC - 2008/05/28
 
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   SLU - 2005/6/30
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
@@ -8386,23 +10481,23 @@ Known Problems
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
 
-* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports
   when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
 
 * On cobalt, an SGI Altix SMP ia64 system, Intel compiler version 10.1 (which
@@ -8418,7 +10513,7 @@ Known Problems
   and it will be fixed in 1.8.8. DER - 2011/04/27
 
 
-%%%%1.8.6%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.6%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.6 released on Mon Feb 14 10:26:30 CST 2011
@@ -8427,10 +10522,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.6 released on Mon Feb 14 10:26:30 CST 2011
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.5 and 
-HDF5 1.8.6, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.6. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.5 and
+HDF5 1.8.6, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.6.
+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 1.8.6 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -8442,18 +10537,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.6 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.6 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.6 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.6 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.6 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.5":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -8481,43 +10576,43 @@ New Features
     -------------
     - CMake: Improved CPack packaging, added parallel commands, improved
       configuration options (better similarity to configure), added more
-      tests, better support for use in external cmake projects. 
+      tests, better support for use in external cmake projects.
       (ADB - 2010/10/07)
-    - The default configuration setting for official releases is 
-      --enable-production. For unofficial releases, the default configuration 
+    - The default configuration setting for official releases is
+      --enable-production. For unofficial releases, the default configuration
       setting has been --disable-production. (AKC  - 2010/05/28)
     Library
     -------
-    - Added support for thread safety on Windows using the Windows threads 
-      library. Use the HDF5_ENABLE_THREADSAFE option in CMake on a Windows 
-      platform to enable this functionality. This is supported on Windows 
+    - Added support for thread safety on Windows using the Windows threads
+      library. Use the HDF5_ENABLE_THREADSAFE option in CMake on a Windows
+      platform to enable this functionality. This is supported on Windows
       Vista and newer Windows operating systems. (MAM - 2010/09/10)
-    - H5Tset_order and H5Tget_order now support all datatypes.  A new byte 
-      order, H5T_ORDER_MIXED, has been added specifically for a compound 
-      datatype and its derived type.  (SLU - 2010/8/23) 
-    - Improved performance of metadata I/O by changing the default algorithm 
-      to perform I/O from all processes (instead of just process 0) when using 
+    - H5Tset_order and H5Tget_order now support all datatypes.  A new byte
+      order, H5T_ORDER_MIXED, has been added specifically for a compound
+      datatype and its derived type.  (SLU - 2010/8/23)
+    - Improved performance of metadata I/O by changing the default algorithm
+      to perform I/O from all processes (instead of just process 0) when using
       parallel I/O drivers. (QAK - 2010/07/19)
-    - Improved performance of I/O on datasets with the same shape, but 
+    - Improved performance of I/O on datasets with the same shape, but
       different rank. (QAK - 2010/07/19)
-    - Improved performance of the chunk cache by avoiding unnecessary b-tree 
-      lookups of chunks already in cache. (NAF - 2010/06/15) 
-      
+    - Improved performance of the chunk cache by avoiding unnecessary b-tree
+      lookups of chunks already in cache. (NAF - 2010/06/15)
+
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - None
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
-    - h5diff: Added a new flag: --exclude-path.  The specified path to an 
-      object will be excluded when comparing two files or two groups. If a 
-      group is specified to be excluded, all member objects of that group 
+    - h5diff: Added a new flag: --exclude-path.  The specified path to an
+      object will be excluded when comparing two files or two groups. If a
+      group is specified to be excluded, all member objects of that group
       will be excluded.  (JKM - 2010/09/16).
-    - h5ls: Added a new flag: --no-dangling-links.  See --help output for 
+    - h5ls: Added a new flag: --no-dangling-links.  See --help output for
       details. (JKM - 2010/06/15)
-    - h5ls: Added a new flag --follow-symlinks.  See --help output for 
+    - h5ls: Added a new flag --follow-symlinks.  See --help output for
       details. (JKM - 2010/05/25)
-      
+
     High-Level APIs
     ---------------
     - None
@@ -8542,9 +10637,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-    - The default number of MPI processes for testing purposes has been 
+    - The default number of MPI processes for testing purposes has been
       changed from 3 to 6.  (AKC - 2010/11/11)
-    - Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is 
+    - Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is
       used. The error is caused by not requesting enough memory in default.
       Added "env LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA" into the $RUNSERIAL and
       $RUNPARALLE in the AIX config file so that executables are tested with
@@ -8552,10 +10647,10 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
     - Removed recognition of the parallel compilers of LAM(hcc) and
       ChMPIon(cmpicc) since we have no access to these two MPI implementations
       and cannot verify their correctness. (AKC - 2010/07/14 - Bug 1921)
-    - PHDF5 was changed to use "mpiexec" instead of mpirun as the default 
-      MPI applications startup command as defined in the MPI-2 definition, 
+    - PHDF5 was changed to use "mpiexec" instead of mpirun as the default
+      MPI applications startup command as defined in the MPI-2 definition,
       section 4.1. (AKC - 2010/06/11 - Bug 1921)
-      
+
     Library
     -------
     - Fixed a bug that caused big endian machines to generate corrupt files
@@ -8563,15 +10658,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
       values.  Note that such datasets will no longer be readable by any
       by any machine after this patch.  (NAF - 2010/02/02 - Bug 2131)
     - Retrieving a link's name by index in the case where the link is external
-      and the file that the link refers to doesn't exist will now fail 
+      and the file that the link refers to doesn't exist will now fail
       gracefully rather than cause a segmentation fault. (MAM - 2010/11/17)
-    - Modified metadata accumulator to better track accumulated dirty metadata 
-      in an effort to reduce unnecessary I/O in certain situations and to 
+    - Modified metadata accumulator to better track accumulated dirty metadata
+      in an effort to reduce unnecessary I/O in certain situations and to
       fix some other corner cases which were prone to error. (MAM - 2010/10/15)
-    - Added a new set of unit tests that are run during 'make check' to verify 
+    - Added a new set of unit tests that are run during 'make check' to verify
       the behavior of the metadata accumulator. (MAM - 2010/10/15)
     - Modified library to always cache symbol table information.  Libraries
-      from version 1.6.3 and earler have a bug which causes them to require 
+      from version 1.6.3 and earler have a bug which causes them to require
       this information for some operations. (NAF - 2010/09/21 - Bug 1864)
     - Fixed a bug where the library could generate an assertion/core dump when
       a file that had been created with H5Pset_libver_bounds(fapl,
@@ -8585,9 +10680,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
       CMake to build the library. (ADB - 2010/09/13 - Bug 1938)
     - When a mandatory filter failed to write data chunks, the dataset
       couldn't close (bug 1260).  The fix releases all resources and closes
-      the dataset but returns a failure. (SLU - 2010/09/08) 
-    - H5Eset_current_stack now also closes the error stack set as the 
-      default. This is to avoid a potential problem. 
+      the dataset but returns a failure. (SLU - 2010/09/08)
+    - H5Eset_current_stack now also closes the error stack set as the
+      default. This is to avoid a potential problem.
       (SLU - 2010/09/07 - Bug 1799)
     - Corrected situation where 1-D chunked dataset could get created by an
       application without calling H5Pset_chunk().  H5Pset_chunk is now
@@ -8595,12 +10690,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
     - Fixed many memory issues that valgrind exposed.  (QAK - 2010/08/24)
     - Fixed the bug in the filter's public CAN_APPLY function.  The return
       value should be htri_t not herr_t. (SLU - 2010/08/05 - Bug 1239)
-    - Fixed the STDIO VFD to use fseeko64 instead of fseek64 for 64-bit I/O 
+    - Fixed the STDIO VFD to use fseeko64 instead of fseek64 for 64-bit I/O
       support. (AKC - 2010/7/30)
     - Fixed a bug in the direct I/O driver that could render files with certain
       kinds of unaligned data unreadable or corrupt them. (NAF - 2010/07/28)
-    - valgrind reported an error of copying data to itself when a new attribute 
-      is written.  Fixed by taking out the memcpy step in the attribute code. 
+    - valgrind reported an error of copying data to itself when a new attribute
+      is written.  Fixed by taking out the memcpy step in the attribute code.
       (SLU - 2010/07/28 - Bug 1956)
     - Corrected various issues in the MPI datatype creation code which could
       cause resource leaks or incorrect behavior (and may improve the
@@ -8616,23 +10711,23 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.5
 
     Tools
     -----
-    - Fixed h5diff to compare member objects and groups recursively when 
+    - Fixed h5diff to compare member objects and groups recursively when
       two files or groups are compared. (JKM - 2010/9/16 - Bug 1975)
     - Fixed h5repack to be able to convert a dataset to COMPACT layout.
       (JKM - 2010/09/15 - Bug 1896)
     - Changed h5ls to not interpret special characters in object or attribute
       names for output. (JKM - 2010/06/28 - Bug 1784)
-    - Revised the order of arguments for h5cc, h5fc, h5c++, h5pcc and h5pfc. 
-      CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and LIBS have been duplicated with an H5BLD_ 
-      prefix to put the flags and paths from the hdf5 build in the correct 
-      places and allow the script user to add entries in CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, 
-      LDFLAGS, and LIBS that will take precedence over those from the hdf5 
-      build. The user can make these entries persistent by editing 
-      CFLAGSBASE, CPPFLAGSBASE, LDFLAGSBASE, and LIBSBASE near the top of 
-      the script or temporary by setting HDF5_CFLAGS, HDF5_CPPFLAGS, 
-      HDF5_LDFLAGS, or HDF5_LIBS in the environment. The new order of 
-      arguments in these scripts is $CLINKER $H5BLD_CPPFLAGS $CPPFLAGS 
-      $H5BLD_CFLAGS $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS $clibpath $link_objs $LIBS $link_args 
+    - Revised the order of arguments for h5cc, h5fc, h5c++, h5pcc and h5pfc.
+      CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and LIBS have been duplicated with an H5BLD_
+      prefix to put the flags and paths from the hdf5 build in the correct
+      places and allow the script user to add entries in CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS,
+      LDFLAGS, and LIBS that will take precedence over those from the hdf5
+      build. The user can make these entries persistent by editing
+      CFLAGSBASE, CPPFLAGSBASE, LDFLAGSBASE, and LIBSBASE near the top of
+      the script or temporary by setting HDF5_CFLAGS, HDF5_CPPFLAGS,
+      HDF5_LDFLAGS, or HDF5_LIBS in the environment. The new order of
+      arguments in these scripts is $CLINKER $H5BLD_CPPFLAGS $CPPFLAGS
+      $H5BLD_CFLAGS $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS $clibpath $link_objs $LIBS $link_args
       $shared_link. (LRK - 2010/10/25 - Bug 1973)
 
     F90 API
@@ -8676,12 +10771,12 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE   gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 and 4.4.2
     #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.93!) Apr 21 2010)
-    (jam)                         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 
+    (jam)                         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
                                       (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) and 4.4.2
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.4-0 32-bit
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.6-0 32-bit
                                   Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit
-                                      applications, Version 11.1 
+                                      applications, Version 11.1
                                   Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
                                       applications, Version 11.1
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
@@ -8695,8 +10790,8 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     (amani)                           tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
                                   GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
                                       (Red Hat 4.1.2-46) and 4.4.2
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                      applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                      applications running on Intel(R) 64,
                                       Version 11.1.
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 9.0-4
                                       for 64-bit target on x86-64
@@ -8743,7 +10838,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     Windows 7 x64                 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 (cmake)
 
     Mac OS X 10.6.3 (Intel 64-bit) i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1
-    Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.1  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20090910  
+    Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.1  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20090910
                                   Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers 11.1 20100806
 
     Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Intel 32-bit) i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1
@@ -8751,7 +10846,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers 12.0.0 20101110
 
     Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Intel 64-bit) i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5659)
-    Darwin Kernel Version 10.6.0   GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20090910 
+    Darwin Kernel Version 10.6.0   GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20090910
                                    Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers 11.1 20100806
 
     Fedora 12 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64 #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux
@@ -8789,7 +10884,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     Ubuntu 10.10 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
                                   gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5
                                   GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5
-    
+
     OpenVMS Alpha 8.3             HP C V7.3-009
                                   HP Fortran V8.2-104679-48H9K
                                   HP C++ V7.3-009
@@ -8798,14 +10893,14 @@ Tested Configuration Features Summary
 ========================================
 
     In the tables below
-          y   = tested 
+          y   = tested
           n   = not tested in this release
           C   = Cluster
           W   = Workstation
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                                 C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                                          parallel        parallel
@@ -8830,27 +10925,27 @@ Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   n        y      n        y     y
 SGI Linux 2.6.32.19                        y        y      y        y     y     y
 
 
-Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                         y       y         y         y        
-Windows XP                                 y       y(4)      y         n        
-Windows XP x64                             y       y(4)      y         n        
+Platform                                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                         y       y         y         y
+Windows XP                                 y       y(4)      y         n
+Windows XP x64                             y       y(4)      y         n
 Windows Vista                              y       y(4)      y         y
 Windows Vista x64                          y       y(4)      y         y
 OpenVMS Alpha                              n       n         n         n
-Mac OS X 10.6                              y(5)    n         y         n        
-AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y        
-FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit               y       n         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n        
-CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n        
+Mac OS X 10.6                              y(5)    n         y         n
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit                     n       n         n         y
+FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit               y       n         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n
+CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n
 RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre           C  y       y         y         n
-Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   y       y         y         y 
-SGI Linux 2.6.32.19                        y       y         y         y 
+Fedora 12 Linux 2.6.32.16-150.fc12.ppc64   y       y         y         y
+SGI Linux 2.6.32.19                        y       y         y         y
 
            (1) Fortran compiled with gfortran.
            (2) With PGI and Absoft compilers.
@@ -8876,7 +10971,7 @@ Known Problems
   library.  We have fixed these failures.  But it's too late to put the fixes
   into this release.  If you install the 1.8.6 library, it should still work
   despite of these test failures.  If you want the working copy without any
-  test failure, you can request it from us.  SLU - 2011/01/26 
+  test failure, you can request it from us.  SLU - 2011/01/26
 
 * If parallel gmake (e.g., gmake -j 4) is used, the "gmake clean" command
   sometimes fails in the perform directory due to the attempt to remove the
@@ -8896,41 +10991,41 @@ Known Problems
   These programs can be found at:
   http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/known_problems/
 
-* The h5diff tool can display garbage values when variable-length strings in 
-  a compound type dataset are compared. This also occurs with variable-length 
-  string arrays in a compound type dataset. See bug #1989. This will be fixed 
+* The h5diff tool can display garbage values when variable-length strings in
+  a compound type dataset are compared. This also occurs with variable-length
+  string arrays in a compound type dataset. See bug #1989. This will be fixed
   in the next release. JKM - 2010/11/05
 
-* The AIX --enable-shared setting does not quite work. It can produce a shared 
-  library, but there cannot be more than one shared library that is 
-  interlinked. This means that the high level APIs will not work which is not 
-  very useful. We hope to have a solution in the next release. 
+* The AIX --enable-shared setting does not quite work. It can produce a shared
+  library, but there cannot be more than one shared library that is
+  interlinked. This means that the high level APIs will not work which is not
+  very useful. We hope to have a solution in the next release.
   (AKC - 2010/10/15)
-  
+
 * H5Eset_auto can cause a seg fault for a library API call if the application
-  compiles with -DH5_USE_16_API (see bug 1707).  It will be fixed in the 
+  compiles with -DH5_USE_16_API (see bug 1707).  It will be fixed in the
   next release. SLU - 2010/10/5
-  
-* The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on 
-  Cygwin when converting an unsigned long long to a long double.  The 
-  library's own conversion works fine.  We defined a macro for Cygwin to 
-  skip this test until we can solve the problem.  Please see bug #1813. 
+
+* The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on
+  Cygwin when converting an unsigned long long to a long double.  The
+  library's own conversion works fine.  We defined a macro for Cygwin to
+  skip this test until we can solve the problem.  Please see bug #1813.
   SLU - 2010/5/5
-  
-* All the VFL drivers aren't backwardly compatible.  In H5FDpublic.h, the 
-  structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8.  A new parameter was added to the 
-  get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions, and a new callback function 
-  get_type_map was added. The public function H5FDrealloc was taken out in 
-  1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver for 1.6 
+
+* All the VFL drivers aren't backwardly compatible.  In H5FDpublic.h, the
+  structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8.  A new parameter was added to the
+  get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions, and a new callback function
+  get_type_map was added. The public function H5FDrealloc was taken out in
+  1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver for 1.6
   and try to plug in a 1.8 library. This will be fixed in 1.10. SLU - 2010/2/2
 
 * MinGW has a missing libstdc++.dll.a library file and will not successfully link
   C++ applications/tests. Do not use the enable-cxx configure option. Read all of
   the INSTALL_MINGW.txt file for all restrictions. ADB - 2009/11/11
-  
-* The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would 
-  cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file does not 
-  exist. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has 
+
+* The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would
+  cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file does not
+  exist. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has
   the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (See bug 1468 for details.) AKC - 2009/8/11
 
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
@@ -8938,15 +11033,15 @@ Known Problems
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO. CMC - 2009/04/28
 
-* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh and 
-  tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh will fail some of their sub-tests. These 
-  sub-tests are expected to fail and should exit with a non-zero code but 
-  the yod command does not propagate the exit code of the executables. Yod 
-  always returns 0 if it can launch the executable.  The test suite shell 
-  expects a non-zero for this particular test. Therefore, it concludes the 
-  test has failed when it receives 0 from yod.  To skip all the "failing" 
+* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh and
+  tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh will fail some of their sub-tests. These
+  sub-tests are expected to fail and should exit with a non-zero code but
+  the yod command does not propagate the exit code of the executables. Yod
+  always returns 0 if it can launch the executable.  The test suite shell
+  expects a non-zero for this particular test. Therefore, it concludes the
+  test has failed when it receives 0 from yod.  To skip all the "failing"
   tests for now, change them as shown below.
-  
+
   ======== Original tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh =========
   TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5
   ======== Change to ===============================
@@ -8968,71 +11063,71 @@ Known Problems
   ==================================================
   AKC - 2008/11/10
 
-* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the 
-  message  "yod allocation delayed for node recovery."  This interferes 
-  with test suites that do not expect to see this message.  See the "Red Storm" 
-  section in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem. 
+* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the
+  message  "yod allocation delayed for node recovery."  This interferes
+  with test suites that do not expect to see this message.  See the "Red Storm"
+  section in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
   AKC - 2008/05/28
-  
-* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use the -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level 
+
+* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use the -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level
   of optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
-  
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6 on a system using four processors, if more than 
-  two processes contribute no I/O and the application asks to do collective 
-  I/O, we have found that a simple collective write will sometimes hang. This 
+
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6 on a system using four processors, if more than
+  two processes contribute no I/O and the application asks to do collective
+  I/O, we have found that a simple collective write will sometimes hang. This
   can be verified with the t_mpi test under testpar.
-  
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 or later library cannot be 
-  read with the v1.6.2 or earlier library when the Fletcher32 EDC filter 
-  is enabled. There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum 
-  in the library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent 
-  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in 
-  Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no 
-  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 
-  1.6.4 can still read datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of 
+
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 or later library cannot be
+  read with the v1.6.2 or earlier library when the Fletcher32 EDC filter
+  is enabled. There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum
+  in the library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent
+  between big-endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in
+  Release 1.6.3. However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no
+  longer the same as before on little-endian system.  Library releases after
+  1.6.4 can still read datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of
   v1.6.2 or earlier. SLU - 2005/6/30
-  
-* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error 
-  messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...".  This is from the command `poe'. To 
-  work around this, set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to 
-  minimize the messages and run the tests again. The tests may fail with 
-  messages like "The socket name is already in use", but HDF5 does not use 
-  sockets. This failure is due to problems with the poe command trying to 
-  set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, check to see whether 
-  there are any old /tmp/s.pedb.* files around. These are sockets used by 
-  the poe command and left behind if the command failed at some point. To 
-  resolve this, ask your system administrator to remove the 
-  old/tmp/s.pedb.* files, and then ask IBM to provide a means to run poe 
+
+* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
+  messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...".  This is from the command `poe'. To
+  work around this, set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to
+  minimize the messages and run the tests again. The tests may fail with
+  messages like "The socket name is already in use", but HDF5 does not use
+  sockets. This failure is due to problems with the poe command trying to
+  set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, check to see whether
+  there are any old /tmp/s.pedb.* files around. These are sockets used by
+  the poe command and left behind if the command failed at some point. To
+  resolve this, ask your system administrator to remove the
+  old/tmp/s.pedb.* files, and then ask IBM to provide a means to run poe
   without the debug socket.
 
-* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link 
-  libraries if the static version of that library is present. If only the 
-  shared version of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on 
-  Solaris, AIX, and Mac, for example, only have shared versions), the flag 
-  should still result in a successful compilation, but note that the 
-  installed executables will not be fully static. Thus, the only guarantee 
-  on these systems is that the executable is statically linked with just 
+* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link
+  libraries if the static version of that library is present. If only the
+  shared version of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on
+  Solaris, AIX, and Mac, for example, only have shared versions), the flag
+  should still result in a successful compilation, but note that the
+  installed executables will not be fully static. Thus, the only guarantee
+  on these systems is that the executable is statically linked with just
   the HDF5 library.
-  
-* On an SGI Altix SMP ia64 system, the Intel compiler version 10.1 (which 
-  is the default on that system) does not work properly and results in 
-  failures during the make check (in a static build) and the make 
-  installcheck (in a shared build). This appears to be a compiler 
-  optimization problem. Reducing the optimization by setting CFLAGS to 
-  -O1 or below resolves the issue. Using a newer version of the compiler 
+
+* On an SGI Altix SMP ia64 system, the Intel compiler version 10.1 (which
+  is the default on that system) does not work properly and results in
+  failures during the make check (in a static build) and the make
+  installcheck (in a shared build). This appears to be a compiler
+  optimization problem. Reducing the optimization by setting CFLAGS to
+  -O1 or below resolves the issue. Using a newer version of the compiler
   (11.0) avoids the issue. MAM - 2010/06/01
-  
+
 * On solaris systems, when running the examples with the scripts installed in
-  .../share/hdf5_examples, two of the c tests, h5_extlink and h5_elink_unix2win 
-  may fail or generate HDF5 errors because the script commands in c/run-c-ex.sh 
-  fail to create test directories red, blue, and u2w.  Moving the '!' in lines 
-  67, 70, 73 of run-c-ex.sh will fix the problem.  For example the script command 
-  "if ! test -d red; then" will work on solaris if changed to 
+  .../share/hdf5_examples, two of the c tests, h5_extlink and h5_elink_unix2win
+  may fail or generate HDF5 errors because the script commands in c/run-c-ex.sh
+  fail to create test directories red, blue, and u2w.  Moving the '!' in lines
+  67, 70, 73 of run-c-ex.sh will fix the problem.  For example the script command
+  "if ! test -d red; then" will work on solaris if changed to
   "if test ! -d red; then".
 
 
-%%%%1.8.5%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.5%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.5 released on Fri Jun  4 13:27:31 CDT 2010
@@ -9042,8 +11137,8 @@ INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
 This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.4 and HDF5 1.8.5, and
-contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.5. 
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt and HISTORY-1_8.txt 
+contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.5.
+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 1.8.5 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -9055,18 +11150,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.5 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.5 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.5 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.5 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.5 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.4":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -9098,11 +11193,11 @@ New Features
       2.8.1 of CMake is required.
     - Configure now adds appropriate defines for supporting large (64-bit)
       files on all systems, where supported, by default, instead of only Linux.
-      This large file support is controllable with the --enable-largefile 
-      configure option. The Linux-specific --enable-linux-lfs option has been 
+      This large file support is controllable with the --enable-largefile
+      configure option. The Linux-specific --enable-linux-lfs option has been
       deprecated in favor of this new option. Please note that specifying
       --disable-large does NOT attempt to "turn off" largefile support if it
-      is natively supported by the compiler, but rather just disables 
+      is natively supported by the compiler, but rather just disables
       configure from actively trying to add any additional compiler flags.
       (MAM - 2010/05/05 - Bug # 1772/1434)
     - Fixed an signal handling mask error in H5detect that might result in
@@ -9112,7 +11207,7 @@ New Features
       of compiler optimization (in particular, allowing '-O3' to work
       with recent versions of GCC).  (QAK - 2010/04/26)
     - Upgraded versions of autotools used to generate configuration suite.
-      We now use Automake 1.11.1, Autoconf 2.65, and Libtool 2.2.6b. 
+      We now use Automake 1.11.1, Autoconf 2.65, and Libtool 2.2.6b.
       (MAM - 2010/04/15)
     - Added the xlc-* and mpcc_r-* BASENAME patterns to be recognized as IBM
       compilers so that the IBM compiler options can be added properly.  This
@@ -9121,7 +11216,7 @@ New Features
 
     Library
     -------
-    - Performance is substantially improved when extending a dataset with early 
+    - Performance is substantially improved when extending a dataset with early
       allocation. (NAF - 2010/03/24 - Bug # 1637)
     - Added support for filtering densely stored groups.  Many of the API
       functions related to filters have been extended to support dense groups
@@ -9131,18 +11226,18 @@ New Features
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - None
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - h5dump: Added the new packed bits feature which prints packed bits stored
-      in an integer dataset. (AKC/ADB - 2010/5/7) 
-    - h5diff: Fixed incorrect behavior (hang) in parallel mode when specifying 
+      in an integer dataset. (AKC/ADB - 2010/5/7)
+    - h5diff: Fixed incorrect behavior (hang) in parallel mode when specifying
       invalid options (ex: -v and -q). (JKM - 2010/02/17)
     - h5diff: Added new flag --no-dangling-links (see --help for details).
-      (JKM - 2010/02/10) 
+      (JKM - 2010/02/10)
     - h5diff: Added new flag --follow-symlinks (see --help for details).
       (JKM - 2010/01/25)
-    - h5diff: Added a fix to correct the display of garbage values when 
+    - h5diff: Added a fix to correct the display of garbage values when
       displaying big-endian data on a little-endian machine. (JKM - 2009/11/20)
 
     High-Level APIs
@@ -9183,12 +11278,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.4
       dataset. (NAF - 2010/05/20)
     - Fixed some memory leaks in VL datatype conversion when strings are
       used as fill values. (MAM - 2010/05/12 - Bug # 1826)
-    - Fixed an H5Rcreate failure when passing in a -1 for the dataspace 
+    - Fixed an H5Rcreate failure when passing in a -1 for the dataspace
       identifier. (ADB - 2010/4/28)
     - Fixed a bug when copying objects with NULL references with the
       H5O_COPY_EXPAND_REFERENCE_FLAG flag set. (NAF - 2010/04/08 - Bug # 1815)
-    - Added a mechanism to the H5I interface to save returned object identifier 
-      structures for immediate re-use if needed. This addresses a potential 
+    - Added a mechanism to the H5I interface to save returned object identifier
+      structures for immediate re-use if needed. This addresses a potential
       performance issue by delaying the case when the next identifier to be
       registered has grown so large that it wraps around and needs to be
       checked to see whether it is available for distribution.
@@ -9200,18 +11295,18 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.4
       (NAF - 2010/03/05 - Bug # 1733)
     - Fixed a bug where the library, when traversing an external link, would
       reopen the source file if nothing else worked. (NAF - 2010/03/05)
-    - Fixed a bug where fractal heap identifiers for attributes and shared 
-      object header messages could be incorrectly encoded in the file for 
-      files created on big-endian platforms.  
-      Please see http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/known_problems if you 
-      suspect you have a file with this problem.  
+    - Fixed a bug where fractal heap identifiers for attributes and shared
+      object header messages could be incorrectly encoded in the file for
+      files created on big-endian platforms.
+      Please see http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/known_problems if you
+      suspect you have a file with this problem.
       (QAK - 2010/02/23 - Bug # 1755)
     - Fixed an intermittent bug in the b-tree code which could be triggered
       by expanding and shrinking chunked datasets in certain ways.
       (NAF - 2010/02/16)
     - H5Tdetect_class said a VL string is a string type.  But when it's in
-      a compound type, it said it's a VL type.  THis has been fixed to be 
-      consistent; it now always returns a string type. 
+      a compound type, it said it's a VL type.  THis has been fixed to be
+      consistent; it now always returns a string type.
       (SLU - 2009/12/10 - Bug # 1584)
     - Allow "child" files from external links to be correctly located when
       relative to a "parent" file that is opened through a symbolic link.
@@ -9227,23 +11322,23 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.4
     -----
     - Fixed h5ls to return exit code 1 (error) when a non-existent file is
       specified. (JKM - 2010/04/27 - Bug # 1793)
-    - Fixed h5copy failure when copying a dangling link that is specified 
+    - Fixed h5copy failure when copying a dangling link that is specified
       directly. (JKM - 2010/04/22 - Bug # 1817)
-    - Fixed an h5repack failure that lost attributes from a dataset of 
+    - Fixed an h5repack failure that lost attributes from a dataset of
       reference type. (JKM - 2010/3/25 - Bug # 1726)
     - Fixed h5repack error that set NULL for object reference values for
       datasets, groups, or named datatypes. (JKM - 2010/03/19 - Bug # 1814)
 
     F90 API
     ------
-    - None 
+    - None
 
     C++ API
     ------
     - The constructor PropList::PropList(id) was fixed to act properly
-      according to the nature of 'id'.  When 'id' is a property class 
-      identifier, a new property list will be created.  When 'id' is a 
-      property list identifier, a copy of the property list will be made. 
+      according to the nature of 'id'.  When 'id' is a property class
+      identifier, a new property list will be created.  When 'id' is a
+      property list identifier, a copy of the property list will be made.
       (BMR - 2010/5/9)
     - The parameters 'size' and 'bufsize' in CommonFG::getLinkval and
       CommonFG::getComment, respectively, now have default values for the
@@ -9257,17 +11352,17 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.4
     - Fixed a bug in H5DSattach_scale, H5DSis_attached, and H5DSdetach_scale
       caused by using the H5Tget_native_type function to determine the native
       type for reading the REFERENCE_LIST attribute. This bug was exposed
-      on Mac PPC.  (EIP - 2010/05/22 - Bug # 1851) 
-    - Fixed a bug in the H5DSdetach_scale function when 0 bytes were   
-      allocated after the last reference to a dimension scale was removed         
-      from the list of references in a VL element of the DIMENSION_LIST 
-      attribute.  Modified the function to comply with the specification: 
-      the DIMENSION_LIST attribute is now deleted when no dimension scales 
+      on Mac PPC.  (EIP - 2010/05/22 - Bug # 1851)
+    - Fixed a bug in the H5DSdetach_scale function when 0 bytes were
+      allocated after the last reference to a dimension scale was removed
+      from the list of references in a VL element of the DIMENSION_LIST
+      attribute.  Modified the function to comply with the specification:
+      the DIMENSION_LIST attribute is now deleted when no dimension scales
       are left attached.  (EIP - 2010/05/14 - Bug # 1822)
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - None 
+    - None
 
 
 Platforms Tested
@@ -9311,12 +11406,12 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
                                      gcc 4.1.2 and GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2
 
-    Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP   gcc 4.1.2 20080704 and gcc 4.4.2 
+    Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP   gcc 4.1.2 20080704 and gcc 4.4.2
     x86_64 GNU/Linux              GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
-    (amani)                       g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2 
+    (amani)                       g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
                                   G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.93!) Apr 21 2010)
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                     applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                     applications running on Intel(R) 64,
                                      Version 11.1 Build 20090827.
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 10.4-0
                                          for 32 & 64-bit target on x86-64
@@ -9328,22 +11423,22 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     (cobalt)                      SGI MPI 1.38
 
     SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-14
-    (linew)                       Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc 
-                                     Patch 127000-13 
+    (linew)                       Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc
+                                     Patch 127000-13
                                   Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124863-23
-                                  
+
     Intel Xeon Linux 2.6.18-      Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.026
     92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp-  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0.026
     perfctr #7 SMP                Open MPI 1.2.2
     (abe)                         MVAPICH2-0.9.8p28p2patched-intel-ofed-1.2
                                   compiled with icc v10.0.026 and ifort 10.0.026
-                                  
-    Linux 2.6.18-76chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-76chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64,
     (SNL Glory)                   Versions 11.1.
-    
+
     Windows XP                    Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
-                                  Cygwin(1.7.5 native gcc(4.3.4) compiler and 
+                                  Cygwin(1.7.5 native gcc(4.3.4) compiler and
                                   gfortran)
 
     Windows XP x64                Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
@@ -9352,11 +11447,11 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Windows Vista x64             Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
 
-    MAC OS  10.6.3 (Intel)        i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 
+    MAC OS  10.6.3 (Intel)        i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1
     (pahra)                       GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20090910
-                                  i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 
+                                  i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1
                                   Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers 11.1
-    
+
     MAC OS  10.5.8 (Intel)        i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
     (tejeda)
 
@@ -9365,7 +11460,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     OpenVMS Alpha V8.3            HP C V7.3-009
                                   HP C++ V7.3-009
-                                  HP Fortran V8.0-1-104669-48GBT      
+                                  HP Fortran V8.0-1-104669-48GBT
 
 Supported Configuration Features Summary
 ========================================
@@ -9378,7 +11473,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                           C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                                    parallel        parallel
@@ -9388,7 +11483,7 @@ Windows XP                           n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
 Windows XP x64                       n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
 Windows Vista                        n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
 Windows Vista x64                    n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
-Mac OS X 10.5 PPC                    n        n      n        n     y     n 
+Mac OS X 10.5 PPC                    n        n      n        n     y     n
 Mac OS X 10.5 Intel                  n        y      n        y     y     y
 Mac OS X 10.6 Intel                  n        y      n        y     y     y
 AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n        y      n        y     y     n
@@ -9406,28 +11501,28 @@ RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre     C  y        y      y        y     y     n
 Cray XT3 2.1.56                      y        y      y        y     y     n
 OpenVMS Alpha V8.3                   n        y      n        y     y     n
 
-Platform                           Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                   C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                   y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                   y       y         y         y        
-Windows XP                           y       y(4)      y         n        
-Windows XP x64                       y       y(4)      y         n        
-Windows Vista                        y       y(4)      y         n        
-Windows Vista x64                    y       y(4)      y         n        
-Mac OS X 10.5 PPC                    y       n         n         n        
-Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel)                y(5)    n         y         n        
-Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel)                y(5)    n         y         n        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n        
-AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n        
-FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit         y       n         y         y        
-RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
-RedHat EL5  2.6.18-128 i686 Intel W  y       y         y         n        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y                           n 
+Platform                           Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                   C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                   y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                   y       y         y         y
+Windows XP                           y       y(4)      y         n
+Windows XP x64                       y       y(4)      y         n
+Windows Vista                        y       y(4)      y         n
+Windows Vista x64                    y       y(4)      y         n
+Mac OS X 10.5 PPC                    y       n         n         n
+Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel)                y(5)    n         y         n
+Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel)                y(5)    n         y         n
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n
+FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit         y       n         y         y
+RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y
+RedHat EL5  2.6.18-128 i686 Intel W  y       y         y         n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y                           n
 RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre     C  y       y         y         n
 Cray XT3 2.1.56                      n       n         n         n
 OpenVMS Alpha V8.3                   n       n         n         n
@@ -9435,7 +11530,7 @@ OpenVMS Alpha V8.3                   n       n         n         n
            (1) Fortran compiled with g95.
            (2) With PGI and Absoft compilers.
            (3) With PGI compiler for Fortran.
-           (4) Using Visual Studio 2008. (Cygwin shared libraries are not 
+           (4) Using Visual Studio 2008. (Cygwin shared libraries are not
                supported.)
            (5) Shared C and C++ are disabled when Fortran is configured in.
     Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
@@ -9445,10 +11540,10 @@ OpenVMS Alpha V8.3                   n       n         n         n
 Known Problems
 ==============
 * The library's test dt_arith.c exposed a compiler's rounding problem on
-  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The 
-  library's own conversion works correctly.  A macro is defined for Cygwin 
+  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The
+  library's own conversion works correctly.  A macro is defined for Cygwin
   to skip this test until we can solve the problem.  (Please see bug #1813.)
-  SLU - 2010/5/5 
+  SLU - 2010/5/5
 
 * All the VFL drivers aren't backward compatible.  In H5FDpublic.h, the
   structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8.  There is a new parameter added to
@@ -9458,11 +11553,11 @@ Known Problems
   for 1.6 and try to plug it into a 1.8 library.  This affects a very small
   number of users.  (See bug report #1279.)  SLU - 2010/2/2
 
-* MinGW has a missing libstdc++.dll.a library file and will not successfully 
-  link C++ applications/tests. Do not use the enable-cxx configure option. 
-  Read all of the INSTALL_MINGW.txt file for all restrictions. 
+* MinGW has a missing libstdc++.dll.a library file and will not successfully
+  link C++ applications/tests. Do not use the enable-cxx configure option.
+  Read all of the INSTALL_MINGW.txt file for all restrictions.
   ADB - 2009/11/11
-  
+
 * Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is used.
   The error is due to insufficient memory requested. Request a large amount
   of runtime memory by setting the following environment variable for more
@@ -9474,7 +11569,7 @@ Known Problems
   cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file is not
   existing. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has
   the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (See bug 1468 for details.) AKC - 2009/8/11
- 
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
@@ -9523,23 +11618,23 @@ Known Problems
   Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
   AKC - 2008/05/28
 
-* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   SLU - 2005/6/30
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
@@ -9547,23 +11642,23 @@ Known Problems
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use,"  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use,"
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
   of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
 
-* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports
   when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
 
 * On FREE-BSD systems when shared libraries are disabled, make install fails
@@ -9582,7 +11677,7 @@ Known Problems
   intended. MAM - 2010/06/01
 
 
-%%%%1.8.4%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.4%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.4 released on Tue Nov 10 15:33:14 CST 2009
@@ -9591,10 +11686,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.4 released on Tue Nov 10 15:33:14 CST 2009
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.3 and 
-HDF5 1.8.4, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.3 and
+HDF5 1.8.4, and contains information on the platforms tested and
 known problems in HDF5-1.8.4
-For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+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 1.8.4 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -9606,18 +11701,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.4 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.4 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.4 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.4 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.4 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.3":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -9646,7 +11741,7 @@ New Features
     - Configuration suite now uses Automake 1.11 and Autoconf 2.64.
       MAM 2009/08/31.
     - Changed default Gnu fortran compiler from g95 to gfortran since
-      gfortran is more likely installed with gcc now. -AKC 2009/07/19- 
+      gfortran is more likely installed with gcc now. -AKC 2009/07/19-
 
     Library
     -------
@@ -9662,14 +11757,14 @@ New Features
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
     - None
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - h5diff: h5diff treats two INFINITY values different. Fixed by checking
-      (value==expect) before call ABS(...) at h5diff_array.c. This will make 
-      that (INF==INF) is true (INF is treated as an number instead of NaN) 
+      (value==expect) before call ABS(...) at h5diff_array.c. This will make
+      that (INF==INF) is true (INF is treated as an number instead of NaN)
       (PC -- 2009/07/28)
-    - h5diff: add option "--use-system-epsilon" to print difference if 
+    - h5diff: add option "--use-system-epsilon" to print difference if
       (|a-b| > EPSILON).
       Change default to use strict equality (PC -- 2009/09/12)
 
@@ -9698,27 +11793,27 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3
     Configuration
     -------------
     - Removed the following config files, as we no longer support them:
-        config/dec-osf*, config/hpux11.00, config/irix5.x, 
+        config/dec-osf*, config/hpux11.00, config/irix5.x,
         config/powerpc-ibm-aix4.x config/rs6000-ibm-aix5.x config/unicos*
       MAM - 2009/10/08
     - Modified configure and make process to properly preserve user's CFLAGS
       (and company) environment variables. Build will now properly use
       automake's AM_CFLAGS for any compiler flags set by the configure
-      process. Configure will no longer modify CFLAGS directly, nor will 
+      process. Configure will no longer modify CFLAGS directly, nor will
       setting CFLAGS during make completely replace what configure has set up.
       MAM - 2009/10/08
     - Support for TFLOPS, config/intel-osf1, is removed since the TFLOPS
       machine has long retired. AKC - 2009/10/06.
     - Added $(EXEEXT) extension to H5detect when it's executed in the
-      src/Makefile to generate H5Tinit.c so it works correctly on platforms 
+      src/Makefile to generate H5Tinit.c so it works correctly on platforms
       that require the full extension when running executables.
       MAM - 2009/10/01 - BZ #1613
     - Configure will now set FC and CXX to "no" when fortran and c++
       are not being compiled, respectively, so configure will not run
-      some of the compiler tests for these languages when they are not 
+      some of the compiler tests for these languages when they are not
       being used. MAM - 2009/10/01
     - The --enable-static-exec flag will now properly place the -static flag
-      on the link line of all installed executables. This will force the 
+      on the link line of all installed executables. This will force the
       executable to link with static libraries over shared libraries, provided
       the static libraries are available. MAM - 2009/08/31 - BZ #1583
     - The PathScale compiler (v3.2) was mistaken as gcc v4.2.0 but it fails to
@@ -9756,13 +11851,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3
     -----
     - h5dump/h5ls display buffer resize fixed in tools library.
       ADB - 2009/7/21 - 1520
-    - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file. 
+    - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file.
       ADB - 2009/06/11 -1504
 
 
     F90 API
     ------
-    - Fixed bug in h5lget_info_by_idx_f by adding missing arguments, 
+    - Fixed bug in h5lget_info_by_idx_f by adding missing arguments,
       consequently changing the API. New API is:
 
       SUBROUTINE h5lget_info_by_idx_f(loc_id, group_name, index_field, order, n, &
@@ -9770,7 +11865,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3
 
         MSB - 2009/9/17 - 1652
 
-    - Corrected the values for the H5L_flags FORTRAN constants: 
+    - Corrected the values for the H5L_flags FORTRAN constants:
         H5L_LINK_ERROR_F, H5L_LINK_HARD_F, H5L_LINK_SOFT_F, H5L_LINK_EXTERNAL_F
         MSB - 2009-09-17 - 1653
 
@@ -9790,7 +11885,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - Lite: the h5ltread_dataset_string_f and h5ltget_attribute_string_f functions 
+    - Lite: the h5ltread_dataset_string_f and h5ltget_attribute_string_f functions
            had memory problems with the g95 fortran compiler. (PVN � 5/13/2009) 1522
 
 
@@ -9823,7 +11918,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.18-164.el5          gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
     #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Jun 24 2009)
-    (jam)                         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 
+    (jam)                         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
                                   (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ 8.0-5 32-bit
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ 8.0-1 32-bit
@@ -9835,14 +11930,14 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                       applications, Version 11.0, 11.1
                                   Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.7
                                   MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
-                                  gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 and G95 
+                                  gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 and G95
                                   (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!)
 
     Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP   gcc 4.1.2 20080704
     x86_64 GNU/Linux              G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Jun 24 2009)
     (amani)                       tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
-                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64,
                                   Versions 11.1.
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 9.0-4
                                          for 64-bit target on x86-64
@@ -9858,10 +11953,10 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     (cobalt)                      SGI MPI 1.38
 
     SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-11 2009/04/30
-    (linew)                       Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc 
+    (linew)                       Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc
                                   Patch 127000-11 2009/10/06
-                                  Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc 
-                                  Patch 124863-16 2009/09/15 
+                                  Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc
+                                  Patch 124863-16 2009/09/15
 
     Intel Xeon Linux 2.6.18-      Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.026
     92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp-  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0.026
@@ -9874,15 +11969,15 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     (NCSA tg-login)               Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1.033
                                   mpich-gm-1.2.7p1..16-intel-8.1.037-r1
 
-    Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-    .1.4.11.1smp #1 SMP           applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+    Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+    .1.4.11.1smp #1 SMP           applications running on Intel(R) 64,
     SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Versions 10.1.
-    (SNL Thunderbird)             
-                                  
-    Linux 2.6.18-76chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+    (SNL Thunderbird)
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-76chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64,
     (SNL Glory)                   Versions 10.1.
-    
+
     Windows XP                    Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
                                   Cygwin(native gcc compiler and g95)
 
@@ -9909,7 +12004,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                           C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                                    parallel        parallel
@@ -9933,25 +12028,25 @@ SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel      C  y        y      y        y     y     n
 Cray XT3 2.0.62                      y        y      y        y     y     n
 
 
-Platform                           Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                   C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                   y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                   y       y         y         y        
-Windows XP                           y       y(4)      y         y        
-Windows XP x64                       y       y(4)      y         y        
-Windows Vista                        y       n         n         y        
-Mac OS X 10.5                        y       n         y         n        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n        
-FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit         y       y         y         y        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 GNU(1)W y       y         y         y        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 IntelW  y       y         y         n        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 PGI  W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y                           n        
+Platform                           Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                   C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                   y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                   y       y         y         y
+Windows XP                           y       y(4)      y         y
+Windows XP x64                       y       y(4)      y         y
+Windows Vista                        y       n         n         y
+Mac OS X 10.5                        y       n         y         n
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n
+FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit         y       y         y         y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 GNU(1)W y       y         y         y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 IntelW  y       y         y         n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 PGI  W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y                           n
 RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre     C  y       y         y         n
-SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel      C  y       y         y         n        
+SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel      C  y       y         y         n
 Cray XT3 2.0.62                      n       n         n         n
 
            (1) Fortran compiled with g95.
@@ -9979,15 +12074,15 @@ Known Problems
   cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file is not
   existing. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has
   the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (See bug 1468 for details.) AKC - 2009/8/11
- 
+
 * Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
   / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO. CMC - 2009/04/28
 
-* There is a known issue in which HDF5 will change the timestamp on a file 
+* There is a known issue in which HDF5 will change the timestamp on a file
   simply by opening it with read/write permissions, even if the file is not
-  modified in any way. This is due to the way in which HDF5 manages the file 
+  modified in any way. This is due to the way in which HDF5 manages the file
   superblock. A fix is currently underway and should be included in the 1.8.4
   release of HDF5. MAM - 2009/04/28
 
@@ -10034,23 +12129,23 @@ Known Problems
   Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
   AKC - 2008/05/28
 
-* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   SLU - 2005/6/30
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
@@ -10058,26 +12153,26 @@ Known Problems
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
   if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
-  of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac, 
-  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
-  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
-  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the
   executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
 
-* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports
   when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
 
-%%%%1.8.3%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.3%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.3 released on Mon May  4 09:21:00 CDT 2009
@@ -10086,10 +12181,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.3 released on Mon May  4 09:21:00 CDT 2009
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.2 and 
-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 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.2 and
+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 1.8.3 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -10101,18 +12196,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.3 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.3 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/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.3 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.3 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.2":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -10138,7 +12233,7 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-    - Added libtool version numbers to generated c++, fortran, and 
+    - 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
@@ -10178,7 +12273,7 @@ New Features
       (chunk allocation), and t_posix_compliant (posix compliance). The rest of
       the parallel tests already use in the code the number of processes
       available in the communicator. (CMC - 2009/04/28)
- 
+
     Tools
     -----
     - h5diff new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable.
@@ -10186,16 +12281,16 @@ 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 
+    - 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 
+    - 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
@@ -10221,12 +12316,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-    - The --includedir=DIR configuration option now works as intended, and 
+    - The --includedir=DIR configuration option now works as intended, and
       can be used to specify the location to install C header files. The
       default location remains unchanged, residing at ${prefix}/include.
       MAM - 2009/03/10 - BZ #1381
     - Configure no longer removes the '-g' flag from CFLAGS when in production
-      mode if it has been explicitly set in the CFLAGS environment variable 
+      mode if it has been explicitly set in the CFLAGS environment variable
       prior to configuration. MAM - 2009/03/09 - BZ #1401
 
     Library
@@ -10235,7 +12330,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
       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 
+    - 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
@@ -10253,8 +12348,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
     - Modified library to be able to open files with corrupt root group symbol
       table messages, and correct these errors if they are found.  Such files
       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 
+    - 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
     - Fixed various bugs that could prevent the fill value from being written
       in certain rare cases. NAF - 2009/02/26 - 1469
@@ -10274,12 +12369,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
     - Fixed a bug where H5Tpack wouldn't remove trailing space from an otherwise
       packed compound type. NAF - 2009/01/14
     - Fixed up some old v2 btree assertions that get run in debug mode that
-      were previously failing on compilation, and removed some of the 
+      were previously failing on compilation, and removed some of the
       more heavily outdated and non-rewritable ones. MAM - 2008/12/15
     - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when "automatically" unmounting
       multiple files. NAF - 2008/11/17
-    - H5Dset_extent: when shrinking dimensions, some chunks were not deleted.  
-      PVN - 2009/01/8 
+    - H5Dset_extent: when shrinking dimensions, some chunks were not deleted.
+      PVN - 2009/01/8
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
@@ -10289,11 +12384,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
     -----
     - 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 
+    - 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. 
+      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 
+    - 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
@@ -10308,13 +12403,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
 
     High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - Dimension scales: The scale index return value in H5DSiterate_scales 
+    - 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 
+    - Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about
+      a dataset) was not correctly returning the dimension array
                                    PVN - 2009/3/23
 
 
@@ -10345,7 +12440,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   gfortran 4.4.1 20090421
 
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
-                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m 
+                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
 
     Linux 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen   gcc (GCC) 4.1.2
@@ -10369,8 +12464,8 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Linux 2.6.16.60-0.37-smp #1   gcc 4.1.2
     SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Feb 4 2009)
-    (smirom)                      Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+    (smirom)                      Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64,
                                   Versions 10.1, 11.0.
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 7.2-1, 8.0-1
                                          for 64-bit target on x86-64
@@ -10384,9 +12479,9 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     (cobalt)                      SGI MPI 1.38
 
     SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit     Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.9 Patch 124867-09
-    (linew)                       Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 8.3 
+    (linew)                       Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 8.3
                                   Patch 127000-07
-                                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8 
+                                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8
                                   Patch 124863-11
 
     Intel Xeon Linux 2.6.18-      gcc 3.4.6 20060404
@@ -10401,24 +12496,24 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     (NCSA tg-login)               Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1.033
                                   mpich-gm-1.2.7p1..16-intel-8.1.037-r1
 
-    Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-    .1.4.11.1smp #1 SMP           applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+    Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+    .1.4.11.1smp #1 SMP           applications running on Intel(R) 64,
     SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Versions 9.1.
-    (SNL Spirit)             
-                                  
-    Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-    .1.4.11.1smp #1 SMP           applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+    (SNL Spirit)
+
+    Linux 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+    .1.4.11.1smp #1 SMP           applications running on Intel(R) 64,
     SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Versions 10.1.
-    (SNL Thunderbird)             
-                                  
-    Linux 2.6.18-63chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+    (SNL Thunderbird)
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-63chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64,
     (SNL Glory)                   Versions 10.1.
-    
-    Linux 2.6.18-63chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
-    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-63chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for
+    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64,
     (LLNL Zeus)                   Versions 9.1.
-				  gcc/gfortran/g++ (GCC) 4.1.2.
+                gcc/gfortran/g++ (GCC) 4.1.2.
 
     Windows XP                    Visual Studio .NET
                                   Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
@@ -10445,7 +12540,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                           C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                                    parallel        parallel
@@ -10472,28 +12567,28 @@ SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel      C  y        y      y        y     y     n
 Cray XT3 2.0.41                      y        y      y        y     y     n
 
 
-Platform                           Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                                   C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit                   y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit                   y       y         y         y        
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                    y       dna       y         y        
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                    y       y         n         y        
-Windows XP                           y       y(4)      y         y        
-Windows XP x64                       y       y(4)      y         y        
-Windows Vista                        y       n         n         y        
-Mac OS X 10.5                        y       n         y         n        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n        
-FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit         y       n         y         y        
-RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
-RedHat EL5  2.6.18-128 i686 Intel W  y       y         y         n        
-RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y                           n        
+Platform                           Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                                   C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                   y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                   y       y         y         y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                    y       dna       y         y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                    y       y         n         y
+Windows XP                           y       y(4)      y         y
+Windows XP x64                       y       y(4)      y         y
+Windows Vista                        y       n         n         y
+Mac OS X 10.5                        y       n         y         n
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n
+FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit         y       n         y         y
+RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y
+RedHat EL5  2.6.18-128 i686 Intel W  y       y         y         n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y                           n
 RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre     C  y       y         y         n
-SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel      C  y       y         y         n        
+SuSe Linux 2.4.21 ia64 Intel      C  y       y         y         n
 Cray XT3 2.0.41                      n       n         n         n
 
            (1) Fortran compiled with g95.
@@ -10511,9 +12606,9 @@ Known Problems
   collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
   with MPI IO. CMC - 2009/04/28
 
-* There is a known issue in which HDF5 will change the timestamp on a file 
+* There is a known issue in which HDF5 will change the timestamp on a file
   simply by opening it with read/write permissions, even if the file is not
-  modified in any way. This is due to the way in which HDF5 manages the file 
+  modified in any way. This is due to the way in which HDF5 manages the file
   superblock. A fix is currently underway and should be included in the 1.8.4
   release of HDF5. MAM - 2009/04/28
 
@@ -10560,17 +12655,17 @@ Known Problems
   Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
   AKC - 2008/05/28
 
-* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 
-  tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a 
+* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5
+  tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a
   Linux cluster at NCSA.
 
-  Under some complex selection cases: 
+  Under some complex selection cases:
   1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value.
-  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt 
+  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt
      data may be generated.
-  These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage 
-  with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other 
-  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent 
+  These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage
+  with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other
+  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent
   IO instead.
 
   To avoid this behavior, change the following line in your code
@@ -10579,33 +12674,33 @@ Known Problems
       H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_INDEPENDENT);
   KY - 2007/08/24
 
-* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel tests pass.  
+* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel tests pass.
   Zeus: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail with a known problem in MPI.
-  ubgl: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail. 
+  ubgl: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
 * On IRIX6.5, when the C compiler version is greater than 7.4, complicated
   MPI derived datatype code will work. However, the user should increase
-  the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value 
-  to use collective irregular selection code.  For example, the current 
-  parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test. 
+  the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value
+  to use collective irregular selection code.  For example, the current
+  parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   SLU - 2005/6/30
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
@@ -10613,34 +12708,34 @@ Known Problems
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
-  platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on 
+  platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on
   Solaris are available in a static format.
 
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
-  on IBM SP2 platforms for serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with 
+  on IBM SP2 platforms for serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with
   this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you do not use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
-* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports
   when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
 
 * Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
   the INSTALL file sections 4.7 and 4.8.
 
 
-%%%%1.8.2%%%%   
- 
+%%%%1.8.2%%%%
+
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.2 released on Mon Nov 10 15:43:09 CST 2008
 ================================================================================
@@ -10648,9 +12743,9 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.2 released on Mon Nov 10 15:43:09 CST 2008
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.1 and HDF5 1.8.2, 
-and contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in 
-HDF5-1.8.2. For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.1 and HDF5 1.8.2,
+and contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in
+HDF5-1.8.2. 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
@@ -10662,18 +12757,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.2 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 1.8.2 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 
+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":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -10703,8 +12798,8 @@ New Features
 
         Library
         -------
-	- Added two new public routines: H5Pget_elink_fapl() and
-      	  H5Pset_elink_fapl(). (see bug #1247) (VC - 2008/10/13)
+        - Added two new public routines: H5Pget_elink_fapl() and
+            H5Pset_elink_fapl(). (see bug #1247) (VC - 2008/10/13)
         - Improved free space tracking in file to be faster. (QAK - 2008/10/06)
         - Added 'mounted' field to H5G_info_t struct. (QAK - 2008/07/15)
 
@@ -10714,41 +12809,41 @@ New Features
 
         Tools
         -----
-        - h5repack: added new options -u and -b to add a userblock to an HDF5 
+        - h5repack: added new options -u and -b to add a userblock to an HDF5
           file during the repack.  (PVN - 2008/08/26)
-        - h5repack: added options -t and -a to call H5Pset_alignment while 
+        - h5repack: added options -t and -a to call H5Pset_alignment while
           creating a repacked file. (PVN - 2008/08/29)
         - h5ls: added capability to traverse through external links when the -r
           (recursive) flag is given. (NAF - 2008/09/16)
-        - h5ls: added -E option to enable traversal of external links.  
+        - h5ls: added -E option to enable traversal of external links.
           h5ls will not traverse external links without this flag being set.
             (NAF - 2008/10/06)
-        - h5dump: when -b flag is used without a keyword after it, binary 
-          output defaults to NATIVE. MEMORY keyword was deprecated 
+        - h5dump: when -b flag is used without a keyword after it, binary
+          output defaults to NATIVE. MEMORY keyword was deprecated
           and replaced by NATIVE keyword. (PVN - 2008/10/30)
-        - h5diff: returns 1 when file graphs differ by any object.  
+        - h5diff: returns 1 when file graphs differ by any object.
           Error return code was changed to 2 from -1.  (PVN - 2008/10/30)
-        - h5import: TEXTFPE (scientific format) was deprecated. Use TEXTFP 
+        - h5import: TEXTFPE (scientific format) was deprecated. Use TEXTFP
           instead (PVN - 2008/10/30)
 
 
 
         F90 API
         ------
-         - Added optional parameter 'mounted' to H5Gget_info_f, 
-           H5Gget_info_by_idx_f, H5Gget_info_by_name_f (MSB - 2008/09/24)
-	 - Added H5Tget_native_type_f (MSB - 2008/09/30)
-	 
-	 
+        - Added optional parameter 'mounted' to H5Gget_info_f,
+          H5Gget_info_by_idx_f, H5Gget_info_by_name_f (MSB - 2008/09/24)
+        - Added H5Tget_native_type_f (MSB - 2008/09/30)
+
+
         C++ API
         ------
         - These member functions were added as wrapper for H5Rdereference to
           replace the incorrect IdComponent::dereference().
-             void H5Object::dereference(H5Object& obj, void* ref, 
+             void H5Object::dereference(H5Object& obj, void* ref,
                                         H5R_type_t ref_type=H5R_OBJECT)
-             void H5Object::dereference(H5File& h5file, void* ref, 
+             void H5Object::dereference(H5File& h5file, void* ref,
                                         H5R_type_t ref_type=H5R_OBJECT)
-             void H5Object::dereference(Attribute& obj, void* ref, 
+             void H5Object::dereference(Attribute& obj, void* ref,
                                         H5R_type_t ref_type=H5R_OBJECT)
 
           In addition, these constructors were added to create the associated
@@ -10773,13 +12868,13 @@ Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
           disables the build of shared libraries (i.e., only
           static C and C++ HDF5 libraries will be built
           along with the static HDF5 Fortran library).
-          Intel 10.1 C and C++ compilers require 
+          Intel 10.1 C and C++ compilers require
           "-no-multibyte-chars" compilation flag due to the known
           bug in the compilers.
             (EIP - 2008/10/30)
 
 
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.1 
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.1
 ==========================
 
         Configuration
@@ -10789,8 +12884,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.1
         - When using shared szip, it is no longer necessary to specify
           the path to the shared szip libraries in LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
            (MAM - 2008/10/15).
-	- The file libhdf5_fortran.settings is not installed since its content
-	  is included in libhdf5.settings now. (AKC - 2008/10/21)
+        - The file libhdf5_fortran.settings is not installed since its content
+          is included in libhdf5.settings now. (AKC - 2008/10/21)
         - "make DESTDIR=xxx install" failed to install some tools and files
           (e.g., h5cc and fortran modules). Fixed. (AKC - 2008/10/8).
 
@@ -10810,9 +12905,9 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.1
             (NAF - 2008/10/06)
         - Fixed potential memory leak during compound conversion.
             (NAF - 2008/10/06)
-        - Changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_count from INT to SSIZE_T. 
-            Also changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_ids from HERR_T to 
-            SSIZE_T and the type of the parameter MAX_OBJS from INT to SIZE_T. 
+        - Changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_count from INT to SSIZE_T.
+            Also changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_ids from HERR_T to
+            SSIZE_T and the type of the parameter MAX_OBJS from INT to SIZE_T.
             (SLU - 2008/09/26)
         - Fixed an issue that could cause data to be improperly overwritten
             during compound type conversion.  (NAF - 2008/09/19)
@@ -10827,23 +12922,23 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.1
             (NAF - 2008/08/08)
         - Fixed an issue where mount point traversal would fail when using
             multiple handles for the child.  (NAF - 2008/08/07)
-        - Fixed an issue where mount points were inaccessible when using 
-            multiple file handles for the parent. The mount table is now in 
-            the shared file structure (the parent pointer is still in the 
+        - Fixed an issue where mount points were inaccessible when using
+            multiple file handles for the parent. The mount table is now in
+            the shared file structure (the parent pointer is still in the
             top structure).  (NAF - 2008/08/07)
         - Fixed assertion failure caused by incorrect array datatype version.
             (NAF - 2008/08/04)
         - Fixed issue where a group could have a file mounted on it twice.
             (QAK - 2008/07/15)
-        - When an attribute was opened twice and data was written with 
-            one of the handles, the file didn't have the data. It happened 
-            because each handle had its own object structure, and the empty 
-            one overwrote the data with fill value.  This is fixed by making 
-            some attribute information like the data be shared in the 
+        - When an attribute was opened twice and data was written with
+            one of the handles, the file didn't have the data. It happened
+            because each handle had its own object structure, and the empty
+            one overwrote the data with fill value.  This is fixed by making
+            some attribute information like the data be shared in the
             attribute structure.  (SLU - 2008/07/07)
-        - Fixed a Windows-specific issue in the ohdr test which was causing 
-            users in some timezones to get false errors. This a deficiency in 
-            the Windows mktime() function, and has been handled properly.  
+        - Fixed a Windows-specific issue in the ohdr test which was causing
+            users in some timezones to get false errors. This a deficiency in
+            the Windows mktime() function, and has been handled properly.
             (SJW  - 2008/06/19)
 
         Parallel Library
@@ -10856,51 +12951,51 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.1
             (NAF - 2008/10/15)
         - Fixed unnecessary indentation of committed datatypes in h5dump.
             (NAF - 2008/10/15)
-	- Fixed bugs in h5stat: segmemtation fault when printing groups and
-          print warning message when traversal of objects is unsuccessful.
-          (see bug #1253) (VC- 2008/10/13)
+        - Fixed bugs in h5stat: segmemtation fault when printing groups and
+            print warning message when traversal of objects is unsuccessful.
+            (see bug #1253) (VC- 2008/10/13)
         - Fixed bug in h5ls that prevented relative group listings (like
             "h5ls foo.h5/bar") from working correctly (QAK - 2008/06/03)
-        - h5dump: when doing binary output (-b), the stdout printing of 
-             attributes was done incorrectly. Removed printing of attributes 
+        - h5dump: when doing binary output (-b), the stdout printing of
+             attributes was done incorrectly. Removed printing of attributes
              when doing binary output. (PVN - 2008/06/05)
 
 
         F90 API
         ------
-        - h5sselect_elements_f: Added additional operators H5S_SELECT_APPEND 
+        - h5sselect_elements_f: Added additional operators H5S_SELECT_APPEND
             and H5S_SELECT_PREPEND (MSB - 2008/09/30)
-	- h5sget_select_elem_pointlist: Fixed list of returned points by 
-            rearranging the point list correctly by accounting for C 
+        - h5sget_select_elem_pointlist: Fixed list of returned points by
+            rearranging the point list correctly by accounting for C
             conventions. (MSB - 2008/09/30)
-        - h5sget_select_hyper_blocklist_f: Fixed error in transposed dimension 
+        - h5sget_select_hyper_blocklist_f: Fixed error in transposed dimension
             of arrays.(MSB - 2008/9/30)
-        - h5sget_select_bounds_f: Swapped array bounds to account for C and 
+        - h5sget_select_bounds_f: Swapped array bounds to account for C and
             Fortran reversed array notation (MSB - 2008/9/30)
-	- Changed to initializing string to a blank character instead of a 
-            null type in tH5P.f90 to fix compiling error using AIX 5.3.0 
+        - Changed to initializing string to a blank character instead of a
+            null type in tH5P.f90 to fix compiling error using AIX 5.3.0
             (MSB - 2008/7/29)
-        - Fixed missing commas in H5test_kind.f90 detected by NAG compiler 
+        - Fixed missing commas in H5test_kind.f90 detected by NAG compiler
             (MSB - 2008/7/29)
-        - Fixed passing and array to a scalar in tH5A_1_8.f90 detected by 
+        - Fixed passing and array to a scalar in tH5A_1_8.f90 detected by
             NAG compiler (MSB - 2008/7/29)
-	- Added the ability of the test programs to use the status of 
-            HDF5_NOCLEANUP to determine if the *.h5 files should be removed 
+        - Added the ability of the test programs to use the status of
+            HDF5_NOCLEANUP to determine if the *.h5 files should be removed
             or not after the tests are completed (MSB - 2008/10/1)
-	- In nh5tget_offset_c: (MSB 9/12/2008)
-           If offset was equal to 0 it returned the error code of -1, 
-           this was changed to return an error code of -1 when the offset 
+        - In nh5tget_offset_c: (MSB 9/12/2008)
+           If offset was equal to 0 it returned the error code of -1,
+           this was changed to return an error code of -1 when the offset
            value is < 0.
-        - Uses intrinsic Fortran function SIZEOF if available when detecting 
+        - Uses intrinsic Fortran function SIZEOF if available when detecting
            type of INTEGERs and REALs in H5test_kind.f90 (MSB - 2008/9/3)
-        - Put the DOUBLE PRECISION interfaces in a separate module and 
-           added a USE statement for the module. The interfaces are 
+        - Put the DOUBLE PRECISION interfaces in a separate module and
+           added a USE statement for the module. The interfaces are
            included/excluded depending on the state of FORTRAN_DEFAULT_REAL
            is DBLE_F which detects if the default REAL is DOUBLE PRECISION.
-           This allows the library to be compiled with -r8 Fortran flag 
-           without the user needing to edit the source code. 
+           This allows the library to be compiled with -r8 Fortran flag
+           without the user needing to edit the source code.
            (MSB - 200/8/27)
-        - Enable building shared library for fortran by adding the flag -fPIC 
+        - Enable building shared library for fortran by adding the flag -fPIC
           to the compile flags for versions of Intel Fortran compiler >=9
            (MSB  - 2008/8/26)
 
@@ -10923,15 +13018,15 @@ Platforms Tested
 ================
 The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
-    AIX 5.3			  xlc 7.0.0.8
-				  xlf 09.01.0000.0008
-				  xlC 7.0.0.8
-				  mpcc_r 7.0.0.8
-				  mpxlf_r 09.01.0000.0008
+    AIX 5.3              xlc 7.0.0.8
+                xlf 09.01.0000.0008
+                xlC 7.0.0.8
+                mpcc_r 7.0.0.8
+                mpxlf_r 09.01.0000.0008
 
     Cray XT3 (2.0.41)             cc (pgcc) 7.1-4
     (red storm)                   ftn (pgf90) 7.1-4
-				  CC (pgCC) 7.1-4
+                CC (pgCC) 7.1-4
 
     FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386       gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
     (duty)                        g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
@@ -10946,7 +13041,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   gfortran 4.2.5 20080702
 
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
-                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m 
+                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
 
     Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1  gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
@@ -10964,9 +13059,9 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   MPICH mpich2-1.0.6p1 compiled with
                                   gcc 3.4.6 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!)
 
-    Linux 2.6.16.46-0.14-smp #1   Intel(R) C++ for Intel(R) EM64T 
+    Linux 2.6.16.46-0.14-smp #1   Intel(R) C++ for Intel(R) EM64T
     SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          Ver.  10.1.013
-    (smirom)                      Intel(R) Fortran Intel(R) EM64T 
+    (smirom)                      Intel(R) Fortran Intel(R) EM64T
                                   Ver.  10.1.013
                                   PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 7.2-1
                                          for 64-bit target on x86-64
@@ -10990,7 +13085,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0.026
                                   Open MPI 1.2.2
                                   MVAPICH2-0.9.8p28p2patched-intel-ofed-1.2
-                                  compiled with icc v10.0.026 and 
+                                  compiled with icc v10.0.026 and
                                   ifort 10.0.026
 
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.21-309.tg1 #1 SMP
@@ -11017,7 +13112,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   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
-                                  
+
 
 Supported Configuration Features Summary
 ========================================
@@ -11028,7 +13123,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                 C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                          parallel        parallel
@@ -11041,7 +13136,7 @@ Windows XP x64           n        y(15)  n(15)    y     y     y
 Windows Vista            n        n      n        y     y     y
 Mac OS X 10.5 Intel      n        y      n        y     y     y
 AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit   n        y      n        y     y     n
-FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 
+FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE
 32&64 bit                n        y      n        y     y     y
 RedHat EL4       (3)  W  y(1)     y(10)  y(1)     y     y     y
 RedHat EL4 Intel (3)  W  n        y      n        y     y     n
@@ -11049,49 +13144,49 @@ RedHat EL4 PGI   (3)  W  n        y      n        y     y     n
 SuSe x86_64 gcc(3,12) W  y(2)     y(11)  y(2)     y     y     y
 SuSe x86_64 Int(3,12) W  n        y(13)  n        y     y     n
 SuSe x86_64 PGI(3,12) W  n        y(8)   n        y     y     y
-Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64   C 
+Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64   C
     Intel       (3,7)    y        y      y        y     y     n
-Linux 2.6 SGI Altix 
+Linux 2.6 SGI Altix
     ia64 Intel    (3)    y        y      y        y     y     y
 Linux 2.6 RHEL        C
     Lustre Intel  (5)    y(4)     y      y(4)     y     y     n
 Cray XT3 2.0.41          y        y      y        y     y     n
 
 
-Platform                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 32-bit       y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit       y       y         y         y        
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit        y       dna       y         y        
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit        y       y         n         y        
-Windows XP               y       y(15)     y         y        
-Windows XP x64           y       y(15)     y         y        
-Windows Vista            y       n         n         y        
-Mac OS X 10.5            y       n         y         n        
-AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit   n       n         n         n        
-FreeBSD 6.2 32&64 bit    y       n         y         y        
-RedHat EL4       (3)  W  y       y(10)     y         y        
-RedHat EL4 Intel (3)  W  y       y         y         n        
-RedHat EL4 PGI   (3)  W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe x86_64 GNU(3,12) W  y       y         y         y        
-SuSe x86_64 Int(3,12) W  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe x86_64 PGI(3,12) W  y       y         y         n        
+Platform                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 32-bit       y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit       y       y         y         y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit        y       dna       y         y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit        y       y         n         y
+Windows XP               y       y(15)     y         y
+Windows XP x64           y       y(15)     y         y
+Windows Vista            y       n         n         y
+Mac OS X 10.5            y       n         y         n
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit   n       n         n         n
+FreeBSD 6.2 32&64 bit    y       n         y         y
+RedHat EL4       (3)  W  y       y(10)     y         y
+RedHat EL4 Intel (3)  W  y       y         y         n
+RedHat EL4 PGI   (3)  W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe x86_64 GNU(3,12) W  y       y         y         y
+SuSe x86_64 Int(3,12) W  y       y         y         n
+SuSe x86_64 PGI(3,12) W  y       y         y         n
 Linux 2.4 SuSE        C
-    ia64 C Intel (7)     y       y         y         n        
+    ia64 C Intel (7)     y       y         y         n
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix   C
-    ia64 Intel           y                           n        
+    ia64 Intel           y                           n
 Linux 2.6 RHEL        C
     Lustre Intel (5)     y       y         y         n
 Cray XT3 2.0.41          n       n         n         n
 
     Notes: (1)  Using mpich2 1.0.6.
            (2)  Using mpich2 1.0.7.
-           (3)  Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.  
+           (3)  Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.
                   W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
            (4)  Using mvapich2 0.9.8.
-           (5)  Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre 
+           (5)  Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre
                   and Intel compilers
-           (6)  Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre 
+           (6)  Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre
                   and Intel compilers
            (7)  Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_292.till.  Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
            (8)  pgf90
@@ -11145,17 +13240,17 @@ Known Problems
   Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
   AKC - 2008/05/28
 
-* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 
-  tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a 
+* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5
+  tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a
   Linux cluster at NCSA.
 
-  Under some complex selection cases: 
+  Under some complex selection cases:
   1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value.
-  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt 
+  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt
      data may be generated.
-  These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage 
-  with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other 
-  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent 
+  These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage
+  with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other
+  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent
   IO instead.
 
   To avoid this behavior, change the following line in your code
@@ -11165,33 +13260,33 @@ Known Problems
 
   KY - 2007/08/24
 
-* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel tests pass.  
+* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel tests pass.
   Zeus: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail with a known problem in MPI.
-  ubgl: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail. 
+  ubgl: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
 * On IRIX6.5, when the C compiler version is greater than 7.4, complicated
   MPI derived datatype code will work. However, the user should increase
-  the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value 
-  to use collective irregular selection code.  For example, the current 
-  parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test. 
+  the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value
+  to use collective irregular selection code.  For example, the current
+  parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   SLU - 2005/6/30
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
@@ -11199,26 +13294,26 @@ Known Problems
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
-  platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on 
+  platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on
   Solaris are available in a static format.
 
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
-  on IBM SP2 platforms for serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with 
+  on IBM SP2 platforms for serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with
   this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you do not use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
-* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports
   when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
 
 * Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
@@ -11227,7 +13322,7 @@ Known Problems
 
 
 
-%%%%1.8.1%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.1%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.1 released on Thu May 29 15:28:55 CDT 2008
@@ -11236,10 +13331,10 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.1 released on Thu May 29 15:28:55 CDT 2008
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This document describes the differences between the HDF5-1.8.1 release 
-and HDF5 1.8.0, and contains information on the platforms tested and known 
+This document describes the differences between the HDF5-1.8.1 release
+and HDF5 1.8.0, and contains information on the platforms tested and known
 problems in HDF5-1.8.1.  For more details, see the files
-HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt and HISTORY-1_8.txt in the release_docs/ directory 
+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 1.8.1 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -11251,18 +13346,18 @@ The HDF5 1.8.1 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.1 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.1 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
-descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New
 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 1.8.1 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.1 (current
 release) versus Release 1.8.0":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -11291,12 +13386,12 @@ New Features
         - The lib/libhdf5.settings file contains much more configure
           information. (AKC - 2008/05/18)
 
-        - The new configure option "--disable-sharedlib-rpath" disables 
-          embedding the '-Wl,-rpath' information into executables when 
-          shared libraries are produced, and instead solely relies on the 
+        - The new configure option "--disable-sharedlib-rpath" disables
+          embedding the '-Wl,-rpath' information into executables when
+          shared libraries are produced, and instead solely relies on the
           information in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (MAM - 2008/05/15)
 
-        - Configuration suite now uses Autoconf 2.61, Automake 1.10.1, and 
+        - Configuration suite now uses Autoconf 2.61, Automake 1.10.1, and
           Libtool 2.2.2 (MAM - 2008/05/01)
 
         Source code distribution
@@ -11312,25 +13407,25 @@ New Features
 
         Tools
         -----
-        - h5repack: Reinstated the -i and -o command line flags to specify 
+        - h5repack: Reinstated the -i and -o command line flags to specify
           input and output files.  h5repack now understands both the old
           syntax (with -i and -o) and the new syntax introduced in Release
           1.8.0.  (PVN - 2008/05/23)
-        - h5dump: Added support for external links, displaying the object that 
+        - h5dump: Added support for external links, displaying the object that
           an external link points to. (PVN - 2008/05/12)
-        - h5dump: Added an option, -m, to allow user-defined formatting in the 
+        - h5dump: Added an option, -m, to allow user-defined formatting in the
           output of floating point numbers. (PVN - 2008/05/06)
-        - h5dump, in output of the -p option: Added effective data compression 
-          ratio to the dataset storage layout output when a compression filter 
+        - h5dump, in output of the -p option: Added effective data compression
+          ratio to the dataset storage layout output when a compression filter
           has been applied to a dataset.  (PVN - 2008/05/01)
 
         F90 API
         ------
-        New H5A, H5G, H5L, H5O, and H5P APIs to enable 1.8 features were
-        added. See "Release 1.8.1 (current release) versus Release 1.8.0" in 
-        the document "HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release"
-        (http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html) for the 
-        complete list of the new APIs.
+        - New H5A, H5G, H5L, H5O, and H5P APIs to enable 1.8 features were
+          added. See "Release 1.8.1 (current release) versus Release 1.8.0" in
+          the document "HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release"
+          (http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html) for the
+          complete list of the new APIs.
 
         C++ API
         ------
@@ -11339,15 +13434,15 @@ New Features
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
-        - Both serial and parallel HDF5 are supported for the Red Storm machine 
+        - Both serial and parallel HDF5 are supported for the Red Storm machine
           which is a Cray XT3 system.
 
-        - The Fortran library will work correctly if compiled with the -i8 
-          flag.  This has been tested with the g95, PGI and Intel Fortran 
+        - The Fortran library will work correctly if compiled with the -i8
+          flag.  This has been tested with the g95, PGI and Intel Fortran
           compilers.
 
 
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0
 ==========================
 
         Configuration
@@ -11359,12 +13454,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0
 
         Library
         -------
-        - Chunking:  Chunks greater than 4GB are disallowed. 
+        - Chunking:  Chunks greater than 4GB are disallowed.
           (QAK - 2008/05/16)
-        - Fixed the problem with searching for a target file when following 
-          an external link.  The search pattern will depend on whether the 
-          target file's pathname is an absolute or a relative path. 
-          Please see the H5Lcreate_external description in the "HDF5 
+        - Fixed the problem with searching for a target file when following
+          an external link.  The search pattern will depend on whether the
+          target file's pathname is an absolute or a relative path.
+          Please see the H5Lcreate_external description in the "HDF5
           Reference Manual" (http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/RM_H5L.html).
           (VC - 2008/04/08)
         - Fixed possible file corruption bug when encoding datatype
@@ -11372,7 +13467,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0
           256 and 511 bytes and the file was opened with the "use the
           latest format" property enabled (with H5Pset_libver_bounds).
           (QAK - 2008/03/13)
-        - Fixed bug in H5Aget_num_attrs() routine to correctly handle an 
+        - Fixed bug in H5Aget_num_attrs() routine to correctly handle an
           invalid location identifier.  (QAK - 2008/03/11)
 
         Parallel Library
@@ -11384,13 +13479,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0
         - Fixed bug in h5diff that prevented datasets and attributes with
           variable-length string elements from comparing correctly.
           (QAK - 2008/02/28)
-        - Fixed bug in h5dump that caused binary output to be made only for 
+        - Fixed bug in h5dump that caused binary output to be made only for
           the first dataset, when several datasets were requested.
           (PVN - 2008/04/07)
 
         F90 API
         ------
-        - The h5tset(get)_fields subroutines were missing the parameter to 
+        - The h5tset(get)_fields subroutines were missing the parameter to
           specify a sign position; fixed.  (EIP - 2008/05/23)
         - Many APIs were fixed to work with the 8-byte integers in Fortran vs.
           4-byte integers in C. This change is trasparent to user applications.
@@ -11405,12 +13500,12 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0
           In addition, data member IdComponent::id was moved into subclasses:
           Attribute, DataSet, DataSpace, DataType, H5File, Group, and PropList.
           (BMR - 2008/05/20)
-	- IdComponent::dereference was incorrect; it was changed from:
-		void IdComponent::dereference(IdComponent& obj, void* ref)
-	  to:
-		void H5Object::dereference(H5File& h5file, void* ref)
-		void H5Object::dereference(H5Object& obj, void* ref)
-	  (BMR - 2008/05/20)
+        - IdComponent::dereference was incorrect; it was changed from:
+          void IdComponent::dereference(IdComponent& obj, void* ref)
+          to:
+            void H5Object::dereference(H5File& h5file, void* ref)
+            void H5Object::dereference(H5Object& obj, void* ref)
+          (BMR - 2008/05/20)
         - Revised Attribute::write and Attribute::read wrappers to handle
           memory allocation/deallocation properly. (bugzilla 1045)
           (BMR - 2008/05/20)
@@ -11422,7 +13517,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
 
     Cray XT3 (2.0.41)             cc (pgcc) 7.1-4
     (red storm)                   ftn (pgf90) 7.1-4
-				  CC (pgCC) 7.1-4
+                CC (pgCC) 7.1-4
                                   mpicc 1.0.2
                                   mpif90 1.0.2
 
@@ -11439,7 +13534,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
                                   gfortran 4.2.1 20080123
 
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
-                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m 
+                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
 
     Linux 2.6.9 (RHEL4)           Intel 10.0 compilers
@@ -11448,26 +13543,26 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
     Linux 2.4.21-47               gcc 3.2.3 20030502
     (osage)
 
-    Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10           gcc,g++ 3.4.6 20060404, G95 (GCC 4.0.3) 
+    Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10           gcc,g++ 3.4.6 20060404, G95 (GCC 4.0.3)
     (kagiso)                      PGI 7.1-6 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
                                   Intel 9.1 (icc, ifort, icpc)
 
-    Linux 2.6.16.27 x86_64 AMD    gcc 4.1.0 (SuSE Linux), g++ 4.1.0, 
+    Linux 2.6.16.27 x86_64 AMD    gcc 4.1.0 (SuSE Linux), g++ 4.1.0,
     (smirom)                          g95 (GCC 4.0.3)
                                   PGI 7.1-6 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
                                   Intel 9.1 (icc, ifort, icpc)
 
     Linux 2.6.5-7.252.1-rtgfx #1  Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
-          SMP ia64                Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0 
+          SMP ia64                Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0
     (cobalt)                      SGI MPI
 
     SunOS 5.8 32,46               Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
 
-    SunOS 5.10                    cc: Sun C 5.8 
-    (linew)                       f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 
-                                  CC: Sun C++ 5.8 
+    SunOS 5.10                    cc: Sun C 5.8
+    (linew)                       f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2
+                                  CC: Sun C++ 5.8
 
     Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
     (tungsten)                    gcc 3.2.2 20030222
@@ -11509,7 +13604,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                 C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                          parallel        parallel
@@ -11528,52 +13623,52 @@ RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  n        y      n        y     y     n
 SuSe x86_64 gcc  (3,12)  y(2)     y(11)  y(2)     y     y     y
 SuSe x86_64 Int  (3,12)  n        y(13)  n        y     y     n
 SuSe x86_64 PGI  (3,12)  n        y(8)   n        y     y     y
-Linux 2.4 Xeon C 
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C
     Lustre Intel  (3,6)  n        y      n        y     y     n
-Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C 
+Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C
     Intel         (3,7)  y        y      y        y     y     n
-Linux 2.6 SGI Altix 
+Linux 2.6 SGI Altix
     ia64 Intel      (3)  y        y      y        y     y     y
 Linux 2.6 RHEL C
     Lustre Intel    (5)  y(4)     y      y(4)     y     y     n
 Cray XT3 2.0.41          y        y      y        y     y     n
 
 
-Platform                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
-                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
-Solaris2.10 64-bit       y       y         y         y        
-Solaris2.10 32-bit       y       y         y         y        
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit        y       y         n         y        
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit        y       dna       y         y        
-Windows XP               y       y(15)     y         y        
-Windows XP x64           y       y(15)     y         y        
-Windows Vista            y       n         n         y        
-Mac OS X 10.3            y                           n        
-FreeBSD 4.11             y       n         y         y        
-RedHat EL3  W       (3)  y       y(10)     y         y        
-RedHat EL3  W Intel (3)  y       y         y         n        
-RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  y       y         y         n        
-SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y       y         y         y        
-SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y       y         y         n        
-SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y       y         y         n        
-Linux 2.4 Xeon C 
-    Lustre Intel    (6)  y       y         y         n        
-Linux 2.4 SuSE 
-    ia64 C Intel    (7)  y       y         y         n        
-Linux 2.4 SGI Altix 
-    ia64 Intel           y                           n        
+Platform                 Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-
+                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe
+Solaris2.10 64-bit       y       y         y         y
+Solaris2.10 32-bit       y       y         y         y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit        y       y         n         y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit        y       dna       y         y
+Windows XP               y       y(15)     y         y
+Windows XP x64           y       y(15)     y         y
+Windows Vista            y       n         n         y
+Mac OS X 10.3            y                           n
+FreeBSD 4.11             y       n         y         y
+RedHat EL3  W       (3)  y       y(10)     y         y
+RedHat EL3  W Intel (3)  y       y         y         n
+RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  y       y         y         n
+SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y       y         y         y
+SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y       y         y         n
+SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C
+    Lustre Intel    (6)  y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.4 SuSE
+    ia64 C Intel    (7)  y       y         y         n
+Linux 2.4 SGI Altix
+    ia64 Intel           y                           n
 Linux 2.6 RHEL C
     Lustre Intel    (5)  y        y        y         n
 Cray XT3 2.0.41          n       n         n         n        n
 
     Notes: (1)  Using mpich2 1.0.6.
            (2)  Using mpich2 1.0.7.
-           (3)  Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.  
+           (3)  Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.
                   W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
            (4)  Using mvapich2 0.9.8.
-           (5)  Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre 
+           (5)  Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre
                   and Intel compilers
-           (6)  Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre 
+           (6)  Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre
                   and Intel compilers
            (7)  Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_292.till.  Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
            (8)  pgf90
@@ -11614,17 +13709,17 @@ Known Problems
   ======== end of bypass ========
   AKC - 2008/05/28
 
-* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 
-  tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a 
+* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5
+  tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a
   Linux cluster at NCSA.
 
-  Under some complex selection cases: 
+  Under some complex selection cases:
   1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value.
-  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt 
+  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt
      data may be generated.
-  These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage 
-  with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other 
-  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent 
+  These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage
+  with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other
+  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent
   IO instead.
 
   To avoid this behavior, change the following line in your code
@@ -11637,13 +13732,13 @@ Known Problems
 * For SNL, spirit/liberty/thunderbird: The serial tests pass but parallel
   tests failed with MPI-IO file locking message. AKC - 2007/6/25
 
-* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
-* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel tests pass.  
+* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel tests pass.
   Zeus: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail with a known problem in MPI.
-  ubgl: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail. 
+  ubgl: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail.
 
 * Configuring with --enable-debug=all produces compiler errors on most
   platforms:  Users who want to run HDF5 in debug mode should use
@@ -11651,66 +13746,66 @@ Known Problems
   information on most modules.
 
 * On Mac OS 10.4, test/dt_arith.c has some errors in conversion from long
-  double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned) long long to long double. 
+  double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned) long long to long double.
 
 * On Altix SGI with Intel 9.0, testmeta.c would not compile with -O3
   optimization flag.
 
-* On VAX, the Scaleoffset filter is not supported.  The Scaleoffset filter 
-  supports only the IEEE standard for floating-point data; it cannot be applied 
-  to HDF5 data generated on VAX. 
+* On VAX, the Scaleoffset filter is not supported.  The Scaleoffset filter
+  supports only the IEEE standard for floating-point data; it cannot be applied
+  to HDF5 data generated on VAX.
 
 * On Cray X1, a lone colon on the command line of h5dump --xml (as in
   the testh5dumpxml.sh script) is misinterpereted by the operating system
   and causes an error.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
 * On IRIX6.5, when the C compiler version is greater than 7.4, complicated
   MPI derived datatype code will work. However, the user should increase
-  the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value 
-  to use collective irregular selection code.  For example, the current 
-  parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test. 
+  the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value
+  to use collective irregular selection code.  For example, the current
+  parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   SLU - 2005/6/30
 
-* For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on the AMD 
-  Opteron processor, there is a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2).  
-  The library failed in several tests, all related to the MULTI driver.  
-  The problem has been reported to the vendor.  
+* For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on the AMD
+  Opteron processor, there is a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2).
+  The library failed in several tests, all related to the MULTI driver.
+  The problem has been reported to the vendor.
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
   messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...".  This is from the command `poe'.
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
-  platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on 
+  platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on
   Solaris are available in a static format.
 
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
-  on IBM SP2 platforms for serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with 
+  on IBM SP2 platforms for serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with
   this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you do not use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -11719,7 +13814,7 @@ Known Problems
   able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning:
 
         warning: ANSI C does not support `long long'
-  
+
   This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored.
 
 * The ./dsets tests fail on the TFLOPS machine if the test program,
@@ -11731,42 +13826,42 @@ Known Problems
 * Not all platforms behave correctly with Szip's shared libraries. Szip is
   disabled in these cases, and a message is relayed at configure time. Static
   libraries should be working on all systems that support Szip and should be
-  used when shared libraries are unavailable. 
+  used when shared libraries are unavailable.
 
-  There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+  There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports
   when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
 
-* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build the HDF5 
-  Fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 
-  and fflush2.f90 complaining about the exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build the HDF5
+  Fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90
+  and fflush2.f90 complaining about the exit subroutine. Comment out the line
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error).
 
 * Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
   the INSTALL file sections 4.7 and 4.8.
 
 * On at least one system, SDSC DataStar, the scheduler (in this case
-  LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run 
+  LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run
   any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers.
 
-  This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as 
+  This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as
   many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs,
-  and comparing it to an exemplar.  
+  and comparing it to an exemplar.
 
   The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer
   inserts the extra text.  However, this may not be practical.
 
-  In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to 
-  the configure and build.  This will cause "make check" to continue after 
+  In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to
+  the configure and build.  This will cause "make check" to continue after
   detecting errors in the tool tests.  However, in the case of SDSC DataStar,
   it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand.
 
   A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter
   out the text added by the scheduler.  A sample script used on SDSC
-  DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it 
-  for your installation.  
+  DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it
+  for your installation.
 
-  Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item 
-  on the command line which executes the the test.  The script then 
+  Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item
+  on the command line which executes the the test.  The script then
   executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing
   it on.
 
@@ -11788,11 +13883,11 @@ Known Problems
         exit $RETURN_VALUE
 
   You get the HDF5 make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
-  by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the 
-  script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to 
+  by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
+  script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to
   "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
 
-  Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can 
+  Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can
   prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system.  On DataStar,
   no prefix is necessary.  However on an MPICH system, the prefix might
   have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to
@@ -11811,7 +13906,7 @@ Known Problems
   available.
 
 
-%%%%1.8.0%%%%   
+%%%%1.8.0%%%%
 
 
 HDF5 version 1.8.0 released on Tue Feb 12 20:41:19 CST 2008
@@ -11821,9 +13916,9 @@ INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
 This document describes the differences between the HDF5-1.6.x release series
-and HDF5 1.8.0, and contains information on the platforms tested and known 
+and HDF5 1.8.0, and contains information on the platforms tested and known
 problems in HDF5-1.8.0.  For more details, see the HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt
-file in the 
+file in the
 release_docs/ directory of the HDF5 source.
 
 Links to the HDF5 1.8.0 source code, documentation, and additional materials
@@ -11835,17 +13930,17 @@ The HDF5 1.8.0 release can be obtained from:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
 
-User documentation for 1.8.0 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+User documentation for 1.8.0 can be accessed directly at this location:
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
 
-New features in 1.8.0, including brief general descriptions of some new 
+New features in 1.8.0, including brief general descriptions of some new
 and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 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 1.8.0 (current 
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.0 (current
 release) versus Release 1.6.x":
 
      http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -11872,7 +13967,7 @@ New Features
 
    HDF5 Release 1.8.0 is a major release with many changes and new features.
 
-   New format and interface features discussed in the "What's New in 
+   New format and interface features discussed in the "What's New in
    HDF5 1.8.0" document include the following:
 
        Enhanced group object management
@@ -11884,7 +13979,7 @@ New Features
        New I/O filters: n-bit and scale+offset compression
        New link (H5L) and object (H5O) interfaces and features
        External and user-defined links
-       New high-level APIs: 
+       New high-level APIs:
            HDF5 Packet Table (H5PT) and HDF5 Dimension Scale (H5DS)
        C++ and Fortran interfaces for older high-level APIs:
            H5Lite (H5LT), H5Image (H5IM), and H5Table (H5TB)
@@ -11894,33 +13989,33 @@ New Features
        http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/WhatsNew180.html
 
 
-    New APIs associated with these features, other interface changes 
+    New APIs associated with these features, other interface changes
     (e.g., ENUM and struct definitions), and new library configuration flags
-    are listed in the "Release 1.8.0 (current release) versus Release 1.6.x" 
+    are listed in the "Release 1.8.0 (current release) versus Release 1.6.x"
     section of "HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release."
 
         http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
 
 Compatibility
 -------------
-    Many HDF5 users and user communities have existing applications that 
-    they may wish to port to Release 1.8.0.  Alternatively, some users may 
+    Many HDF5 users and user communities have existing applications that
+    they may wish to port to Release 1.8.0.  Alternatively, some users may
     wish to take advantage of Release 1.8.0's improved performance without
     having to port such applications.  To facilitate managing application
-    compatibility and porting applications from release to release, the HDF 
+    compatibility and porting applications from release to release, the HDF
     Team has implemented the following features:
-        Individually-configurable macros that selectively map common 
+        Individually-configurable macros that selectively map common
             interface names to the old and new interfaces
         Library configuration options to configure the macro mappings
 
     Two related documents accompany this release:
-        "API Compatibility Macros in HDF5" discusses the specifics of the 
-        new individually-configurable macros and library configuration 
+        "API Compatibility Macros in HDF5" discusses the specifics of the
+        new individually-configurable macros and library configuration
         options.
         http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/RM/APICompatMacros.html
- 
+
         "New Features in HDF5 Release 1.8.0 and Backward/Forward Format
-        Compatibility Issues" discusses each new feature with regard to 
+        Compatibility Issues" discusses each new feature with regard to
         its impact on format compatibility.
         http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/CompatFormat180.html
 
@@ -11943,13 +14038,13 @@ Referenced documents
 
 Removed Feature
 ===============
-The stream virtual file driver (H5FD_STREAM) have been removed in this 
-release. This affects the functions H5Pset_fapl_stream and H5Pget_fapl_stream 
+The stream virtual file driver (H5FD_STREAM) have been removed in this
+release. This affects the functions H5Pset_fapl_stream and H5Pget_fapl_stream
 and the constant H5FD_STREAM.
 
-This virtual file driver will be available at 
-http://hdf5-addons.origo.ethz.ch/. Note that at the time of this release, 
-the transition is still in progress; the necessary integration tools may 
+This virtual file driver will be available at
+http://hdf5-addons.origo.ethz.ch/. Note that at the time of this release,
+the transition is still in progress; the necessary integration tools may
 not be available when HDF5 Release 1.8.0 first comes out.
 
 
@@ -11958,9 +14053,9 @@ Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
     - Support for Open VMS 7.3 was added.
 
 
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0
 ==========================
-    This release contains numerous bug fixes. For details, see the 
+    This release contains numerous bug fixes. For details, see the
     "Changes from 1.6.0 to 1.8.0-rc3" section of the HISTORY.txt file for
     this release.
 
@@ -11971,7 +14066,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for for this release.
 
     AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit)           xlc 8.0.0.11
                                   xlC 8.0
-                                  xlf 10.01.0000.0 
+                                  xlf 10.01.0000.0
                                   mpcc_r 6.0.0.8
                                   mpxlf_r 8.1.1.7
 
@@ -11988,7 +14083,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for for this release.
                                   gfortran 4.2.1 20080123
 
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
-                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m 
+                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.4m
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.4m
 
     Linux 2.6.9 (RHEL4)           Intel 10.0 compilers
@@ -12001,22 +14096,22 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for for this release.
     (kagiso)                      PGI 7.0-7 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
                                   Intel 9.1 (icc, ifort, icpc)
 
-    Linux 2.6.16.27 x86_64 AMD    gcc 4.1.0 (SuSE Linux), g++ 4.1.0, 
+    Linux 2.6.16.27 x86_64 AMD    gcc 4.1.0 (SuSE Linux), g++ 4.1.0,
     (smirom)                          g95 (GCC 4.0.3)
                                   PGI 6.2-5 (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC)
                                   Intel 9.1 (icc, iort, icpc)
 
     Linux 2.6.5-7.252.1-rtgfx #1  Intel(R) C++ Version 9.0
-          SMP ia64                Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0 
+          SMP ia64                Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 9.0
     (cobalt)                      SGI MPI
 
     SunOS 5.8 32,46               Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 95 6.2
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
 
-    SunOS 5.10                    cc: Sun C 5.8 
-    (linew)                       f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 
-                                  CC: Sun C++ 5.8 
+    SunOS 5.10                    cc: Sun C 5.8
+    (linew)                       f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2
+                                  CC: Sun C++ 5.8
 
     Xeon Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp-perfctr-lustre
     (tungsten)                    gcc 3.2.2 20030222
@@ -12038,7 +14133,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for for this release.
 
     Windows Vista                 Visual Studio 2005
 
-    MAC OS  10.4 (Intel)          gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 
+    MAC OS  10.4 (Intel)          gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
                                   G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006)
 
     Alpha Open VMS 7.3            Compaq C V6.5-001-48BCD
@@ -12055,7 +14150,7 @@ Supported Configuration Features Summary
           x   = not working in this release
           dna = does not apply
           ( ) = footnote appears below second table
-          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform
 
 Platform                 C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
                          parallel        parallel
@@ -12079,52 +14174,52 @@ RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  n        y      n        y     y     n
 SuSe x86_64 gcc  (3,12)  y(1a)    y(11)  n        y     y     y
 SuSe x86_64 Int  (3,12)  n        y(13)  n        y     y     n
 SuSe x86_64 PGI  (3,12)  n        y(8)   n        y     y     y
-Linux 2.4 Xeon C 
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C
     Lustre Intel  (3,6)  n        y      n        y     y     n
-Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C 
+Linux 2.6 SuSE ia64 C
     Intel         (3,7)  y        y      y        y     y     n
-Linux 2.6 SGI Altix 
+Linux 2.6 SGI Altix
     ia64 Intel      (3)  y        y      y        y     y     y
 Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2      n        y      n        y     n     n
 
 
 
-Platform                 Shared  Shared    Shared    static-  Thread-  
-                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  exec     safe     
-Solaris2.8 64-bit        y       y         y         x        y        
-Solaris2.8 32-bit        y       y         y         x        y        
-Solaris2.10 64-bit       y                           x        y        
-Solaris2.10 32-bit       y                           x        y        
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit        y       y         n         y        y        
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit        y       dna       y         y        y        
-AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32-bit     n       n         n         y        n        
-AIX-5.2 & 5.3 64-bit     n       n         n         y        n        
-Windows XP               y       y(15)     y         y        y        
-Windows XP x64           y       y(15)     y         y        y        
-Windows Vista            y       n         n         y        y        
-Mac OS X 10.3            y                           y        n        
-FreeBSD 4.11             y       n         y         y        y        
-RedHat EL3  W       (3)  y       y(10)     y         y        y        
-RedHat EL3  W Intel (3)  y       y         y         y        n        
-RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  y       y         y         y        n        
-SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y       y         y         y        y        
-SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y       y         y         y(14)    n        
-SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y       y         y         y(14)    n        
-Linux 2.4 Xeon C 
-    Lustre Intel    (6)  y       y         y         y        n        
-Linux 2.4 SuSE 
-    ia64 C Intel    (7)  y       y         y         y        n        
-Linux 2.4 SGI Altix 
-    ia64 Intel           y                           y        n        
-Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2      n       n         n         y        n        
+Platform                 Shared  Shared    Shared    static-  Thread-
+                         C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  exec     safe
+Solaris2.8 64-bit        y       y         y         x        y
+Solaris2.8 32-bit        y       y         y         x        y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit       y                           x        y
+Solaris2.10 32-bit       y                           x        y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit        y       y         n         y        y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit        y       dna       y         y        y
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 32-bit     n       n         n         y        n
+AIX-5.2 & 5.3 64-bit     n       n         n         y        n
+Windows XP               y       y(15)     y         y        y
+Windows XP x64           y       y(15)     y         y        y
+Windows Vista            y       n         n         y        y
+Mac OS X 10.3            y                           y        n
+FreeBSD 4.11             y       n         y         y        y
+RedHat EL3  W       (3)  y       y(10)     y         y        y
+RedHat EL3  W Intel (3)  y       y         y         y        n
+RedHat EL3  W PGI   (3)  y       y         y         y        n
+SuSe x86_64 W GNU (3,12) y       y         y         y        y
+SuSe x86_64 W Int (3,12) y       y         y         y(14)    n
+SuSe x86_64 W PGI (3,12) y       y         y         y(14)    n
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C
+    Lustre Intel    (6)  y       y         y         y        n
+Linux 2.4 SuSE
+    ia64 C Intel    (7)  y       y         y         y        n
+Linux 2.4 SGI Altix
+    ia64 Intel           y                           y        n
+Alpha OpenVMS 7.3.2      n       n         n         y        n
 
     Notes: (1)  Using mpich 1.2.6.
            (1a) Using mpich2 1.0.6.
            (2)  Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6.
-           (3)  Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.  
+           (3)  Linux 2.6 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.
                   W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
 
-           (6)  Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre 
+           (6)  Linux 2.4.21-32.0.1.  Xeon cluster with ELsmp_perfctr_lustre
                   and Intel compilers
            (7)  Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_292.till.  Ia64 cluster with Intel
 compilers
@@ -12135,7 +14230,7 @@ compilers
            (12) AMD Opteron x86_64
            (13) ifort
            (14) Yes with C and Fortran, but not with C++
-	   (15) Using Visual Studio 2005 or Cygwin
+    (15) Using Visual Studio 2005 or Cygwin
            (16) Not tested for this release.
     Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
     "Platforms Tested" table.
@@ -12143,17 +14238,17 @@ compilers
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
-* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5 
-  tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a 
+* We have discovered two problems when running collective IO parallel HDF5
+  tests with chunking storage on the ChaMPIon MPI compiler on tungsten, a
   Linux cluster at NCSA.
 
-  Under some complex selection cases: 
+  Under some complex selection cases:
   1) MPI_Get_element returns the wrong value.
-  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt 
+  2) MPI_Type_struct also generates the wrong derived datatype and corrupt
      data may be generated.
-  These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage 
-  with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other 
-  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent 
+  These issues arise only when turning on collective IO with chunking storage
+  with some complex selections. We have not found these problems on other
+  MPI-IO compilers. If you encounter these problems, you may use independent
   IO instead.
 
   To avoid this behavior, change the following line in your code
@@ -12167,20 +14262,20 @@ Known Problems
 * For SNL, spirit/liberty/thunderbird: The serial tests pass but parallel
   tests failed with MPI-IO file locking message. AKC - 2007/6/25
 
-* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
-  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
-  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers,
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests.
 
 * For SNL, Red Storm: Only parallel HDF5 is supported.  The serial tests pass
   when run against the parallel library; the parallel tests also pass, but
   with lots of non-fatal error messages.
 
-* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel tests pass.  
+* For LLNL, uP: both serial and parallel tests pass.
   Zeus: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail with a known problem in MPI.
-  ubgl: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail. 
+  ubgl: Serial tests pass but parallel tests fail.
 
-* On SUN 5.10 C++, testing fails in the "Testing Shared Datatypes with 
-  Attributes" test. 
+* On SUN 5.10 C++, testing fails in the "Testing Shared Datatypes with
+  Attributes" test.
 
 * Configuring with --enable-debug=all produces compiler errors on most
   platforms:  Users who want to run HDF5 in debug mode should use
@@ -12188,66 +14283,66 @@ Known Problems
   information on most modules.
 
 * On Mac OS 10.4, test/dt_arith.c has some errors in conversion from long
-  double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned) long long to long double. 
+  double to (unsigned) long long and from (unsigned) long long to long double.
 
 * On Altix SGI with Intel 9.0, testmeta.c would not compile with -O3
   optimization flag.
 
-* On VAX, the Scaleoffset filter is not supported. The filter cannot be 
-  applied to HDF5 data generated on VAX. The Scaleoffset filter only supports 
+* On VAX, the Scaleoffset filter is not supported. The filter cannot be
+  applied to HDF5 data generated on VAX. The Scaleoffset filter only supports
   the IEEE standard for floating-point data.
 
 * On Cray X1, a lone colon on the command line of h5dump --xml (as in
   the testh5dumpxml.sh script) is misinterpereted by the operating system
   and causes an error.
 
-* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
-  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
-  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be
   verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
 
 * On IRIX6.5, when the C compiler version is greater than 7.4, complicated
   MPI derived datatype code will work. However, the user should increase
-  the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value 
-  to use collective irregular selection code.  For example, the current 
-  parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test. 
+  the value of the MPI_TYPE_MAX environment variable to some appropriate value
+  to use collective irregular selection code.  For example, the current
+  parallel HDF5 test needs to raise MPI_TYPE_MAX to 200,000 to pass the test.
 
-* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read
   with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
-  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  There was a bug in the calculating code of the Fletcher32 checksum in the
   library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
-  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
-  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
-  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
-  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.
   SLU - 2005/6/30
 
-* For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on the AMD 
-  Opteron processor, there is a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2).  
-  The library failed in several tests, all related to the MULTI driver.  
-  The problem has been reported to the vendor.  
+* For version 6 (6.02 and 6.04) of the Portland Group compiler on the AMD
+  Opteron processor, there is a bug in the compiler for optimization(-O2).
+  The library failed in several tests, all related to the MULTI driver.
+  The problem has been reported to the vendor.
 
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
   messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...".  This is from the command `poe'.
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
   and run the tests again.
 
-  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",  
-  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
-  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
-  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
-  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
-  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use",
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem,
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.
   Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
 
 * The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris
-  platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on 
+  platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on
   Solaris are available in a static format.
 
   The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile
-  on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with 
+  on IBM SP2 platform for the serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with
   this option.
-  
+
   It is suggested that you do not use this option on these platforms
   during configuration.
 
@@ -12256,7 +14351,7 @@ Known Problems
   able to handle the `long long' datatype with the warning:
 
         warning: ANSI C does not support `long long'
-  
+
   This warning is innocuous and can be safely ignored.
 
 * The ./dsets tests fail on the TFLOPS machine if the test program,
@@ -12268,42 +14363,42 @@ Known Problems
 * Not all platforms behave correctly with Szip's shared libraries. Szip is
   disabled in these cases, and a message is relayed at configure time. Static
   libraries should be working on all systems that support Szip and should be
-  used when shared libraries are unavailable. 
+  used when shared libraries are unavailable.
 
-  There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+  There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports
   when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
 
-* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build the HDF5 
-  Fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 
-  and fflush2.f90 complaining about the exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build the HDF5
+  Fortran library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90
+  and fflush2.f90 complaining about the exit subroutine. Comment out the line
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error).
 
 * Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
   the INSTALL file sections 4.7 and 4.8.
 
 * On at least one system, SDSC DataStar, the scheduler (in this case
-  LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run 
+  LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run
   any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers.
 
-  This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as 
+  This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as
   many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs,
-  and comparing it to an exemplar.  
+  and comparing it to an exemplar.
 
   The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer
   inserts the extra text.  However, this may not be practical.
 
-  In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to 
-  the configure and build.  This will cause "make check" to continue after 
+  In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to
+  the configure and build.  This will cause "make check" to continue after
   detecting errors in the tool tests.  However, in the case of SDSC DataStar,
   it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand.
 
   A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter
   out the text added by the scheduler.  A sample script used on SDSC
-  DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it 
-  for your installation.  
+  DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it
+  for your installation.
 
-  Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item 
-  on the command line which executes the the test.  The script then 
+  Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item
+  on the command line which executes the the test.  The script then
   executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing
   it on.
 
@@ -12325,11 +14420,11 @@ Known Problems
         exit $RETURN_VALUE
 
   You get the HDF5 make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
-  by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the 
-  script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to 
+  by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
+  script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to
   "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
 
-  Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can 
+  Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can
   can prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system.  On DataStar,
   no prefix is necessary.  However on an MPICH system, the prefix might
   have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to
diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt
index a364274..616aa24 100644
--- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt
+++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ HDF5  HISTORY
 INTRODUCTION
 
 This document describes the development history between the HDF5-1.8.0 and
-HDF5 1.10.0 releases. For more iformation see the SVN log.
+HDF5 1.10.0 releases. For more information see the SVN log.
 
 Information about supported and tested platforms is provided for historical
 reasons only and may not be accurate.
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ New Features
     using --enable-fortran --enable-fortran2003 configure flags AND
     if fortran compiler is Fortran2003 compliant:
 
-     - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type:
+    - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type:
          h5pget_f
          h5pget_fill_value_f
          h5pinsert_f
@@ -251,53 +251,52 @@ New Features
          h5rderefrence_f
          h5rget_name_f
          h5rget_obj_type_f
-     - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type
-       and simplified signatures:
+    - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type and simplified signatures:
          h5aread_f
          h5awrite_f
          h5dread_f
          h5dwrite_f
-     - New subroutines
+    - New subroutines
          h5dvlen_reclaim_f
          h5literate_by_name_f
          h5literate_f
          h5ovisit_f
          h5tconvert_f
 
-     - Subroutines with additional optional parameters:
+    - Subroutines with additional optional parameters:
          h5pcreate_class_f
                                                (EIP - 2011/10/14)
 
-        - 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)
+    - 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:
     ------------
-     - New member function added
+    - New member function added
 
-       The assignment operator ArrayType::operator= is added because ArrayType
-       has pointer data members.
+      The assignment operator ArrayType::operator= is added because ArrayType
+      has pointer data members.
 
-       (BMR, 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9562)
+      (BMR, 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9562)
 
-  - New member functions
-    + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx to take char* for name
-    + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjTypeByIdx to return type name as a char*.
-            (BMR - 2010/05/02)
-    + DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify getting the dataset's
-            data size in memory.  (BMR - 2009/07/26)
-        - These member functions were added as wrapper for H5Rdereference to
-          replace the incorrect IdComponent::dereference().
+    - New member functions
+      + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx to take char* for name
+      + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjTypeByIdx to return type name as a char*.
+                (BMR - 2010/05/02)
+      + DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify getting the dataset's
+           data size in memory.  (BMR - 2009/07/26)
+    - These member functions were added as wrapper for H5Rdereference to
+        replace the incorrect IdComponent::dereference().
                 void H5Object::dereference(H5File& h5file, void* ref)
                 void H5Object::dereference(H5Object& obj, void* ref)
-          In addition, these constructors were added to create the associated
-          objects by way of dereference:
+        In addition, these constructors were added to create the associated
+        objects by way of dereference:
                 Attribute(H5Object& obj, void* ref);
                 Attribute(H5File& file, void* ref);
                 DataSet(H5Object& obj, void* ref);
@@ -306,140 +305,140 @@ New Features
                 DataType(H5File& file, void* ref);
                 Group(H5Object& obj, void* ref);
                 Group(H5File& obj, void* ref);
-          (BMR - 2008/08/10)
+        (BMR - 2008/08/10)
 
 
 
     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
+    - 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.
+    - h5dump: Added optional arg 0 to -A, which excludes attributes from display.
                HDFFV-8134 (ADB - 2013/08/01).
-     - h5dump: Fixed displaying compression ratio for unknown or user-defined
+    - h5dump: Fixed displaying compression ratio for unknown or user-defined
                filters. HDFFV-8344 (XCAO 2013/03/19)
-     - h5dump: Changed UNKNOWN_FILTER to USER_DEFINED_FILTER for user defined filter.
+    - h5dump: Changed UNKNOWN_FILTER to USER_DEFINED_FILTER for user defined filter.
                HDFFV-8346 (XCAO 2013/03/19)
-     - h5dump: Added capability for "-a" option to show attributes containing "/"
+    - h5dump: Added capability for "-a" option to show attributes containing "/"
                by using an escape character. For example, for a dataset "/dset"
                containing attribute "speed(m/h)", use "h5dump -a "/dset/speed(\/h)"
                to show the content of the attribute. See details at HDFFV-7523
                (PC -- 2012/03/12)
-     - h5dump: Added ability to apply command options across multiple files using a
+    - h5dump: Added ability to apply command options across multiple files using a
                wildcard in the filename. Example; "h5dump -H -d Dataset1 tarr*.h5".
                HDFFV-7876 (ADB - 2012/03/12).
-     - h5repack: Improved performance for big chunked datasets (size > 128MB)
+    - h5repack: Improved performance for big chunked datasets (size > 128MB)
                when used with layout (-l) or compression (-f) option.
                It would perform much better prior to the improvement,
                especially for cases that chunk dimentions looks like
                "1024x5x1" (compare to "1x5x1024"). When bigger numbers
                are toward front and smaller number is toward back in chunk
                dimentions.  HDFFV-7862 (JKM - 2012/03/01)
-     - h5dump: Added new option --no-compact-subset. This option will not
+    - h5dump: Added new option --no-compact-subset. This option will not
                interpret the '[' character as starting the compact form of
                subsetting. This is useful when the "h5dump error: unable to
                open dataset "datset_name"" message is output because a dataset
                name contains a '[' character.  HDFFV-7689 (ADB - 2012/01/31)
-     - h5dump: Corrected schema location:
+    - h5dump: Corrected schema location:
                <hdf5:HDF5-File
                xmlns:hdf5="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File"
                xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                xsi:schemaLocation="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File
                http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File.xsd">
                (ADB - 2011/08/10)
-     - h5diff: Added new level for -v (verbose) option. The new levels are
+    - h5diff: Added new level for -v (verbose) option. The new levels are
                1 and 2.  So -v1 and -v2 can be specified to view more
                information about attributes differences.
                Bug#2121 (JKM 2011/3/23)
-     - h5dump: Added new option --enable-error-stack. This option will display
+    - h5dump: Added new option --enable-error-stack. This option will display
                error stack information in the output stream. This is useful
                when the "h5dump: Unable to print data" message is output.
                (ADB - 2011/02/24)
-     - h5diff: Add a new flag --exclude-path. Specified path to an object will
+    - h5diff: Add a new flag --exclude-path. Specified path to an object will
                be excluded from comparing the two files or two groups. If group
                is specified all the member objects will be excluded.
                (JKM - 2010/09/16).
-     - h5ls: Add new flag --no-dangling-links. (refer to --help for details)
+    - h5ls: Add new flag --no-dangling-links. (refer to --help for details)
                (JKM - 2010/06/15)
-     - h5ls: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details)
+    - h5ls: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details)
                (JKM - 2010/05/25)
-     - h5diff: Add new flag --no-dangling-links. (refer to --help for details)
+    - h5diff: Add new flag --no-dangling-links. (refer to --help for details)
                (JKM - 2010/02/10)
-     - h5diff: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details)
+    - h5diff: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details)
                (JKM - 2010/01/25)
-     - h5diff: fix for displaying garbage value on LE machine for BE data.
+    - h5diff: fix for displaying garbage value on LE machine for BE data.
              (JKM - 2009/11/20)
-     - h5dump: subsetting now allows default for count. Also trailing ; in short form
+    - h5dump: subsetting now allows default for count. Also trailing ; in short form
                can be omitted after last specified value.
                (ADB - 2009/09/04)
-     - h5dump/h5ls: now can display data in region references
+    - h5dump/h5ls: now can display data in region references
                using new -R, --region flag.
                (ADB - 2009/09/04)
-     - h5diff: new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable.
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - h5dump: added an option to allow a user defined formatting string for printf
          regarding floating point numbers. (PVN - 2008/05/06)
-     - h5dump: support for external links, display the object that the external link
+    - h5dump: support for external links, display the object that the external link
          points to. (PVN - 2008/05/12)
-     - h5repack: add a userblock to an HDF5 file during the repack. (PVN - 2008/08/26)
-     - h5repack: add 2 options that call H5Pset_alignment in the repacked file. (PVN - 2008/08/29)
-     - h5ls: added capability to traverse through external links when the -r
+    - h5repack: add a userblock to an HDF5 file during the repack. (PVN - 2008/08/26)
+    - h5repack: add 2 options that call H5Pset_alignment in the repacked file. (PVN - 2008/08/29)
+    - h5ls: added capability to traverse through external links when the -r
          (recursive) flag is given. (NAF - 2008/09/16)
-     - h5ls: added -E option to enable traversal of external links.  h5ls will
+    - h5ls: added -E option to enable traversal of external links.  h5ls will
          not traverse external links without this flag being set.
          (NAF - 2008/10/06)
-     - h5diff: added support for long double (PVN - 2008/10/28)
-     - h5dump: binary output defaults to NATIVE with -b optionally accepting
+    - h5diff: added support for long double (PVN - 2008/10/28)
+    - h5dump: binary output defaults to NATIVE with -b optionally accepting
             the form of binary output (NATIVE, FILE, BE, LE). (PVN - 2008/10/30)
-     - h5diff: return 1 for file differences when both file graphs differ by any object.
+    - h5diff: return 1 for file differences when both file graphs differ by any object.
             Error return code was changed to 2 from -1. (PVN - 2008/10/30)
-     - h5import: TEXTFPE (scientific format) was deprecated. Use TEXTFP
+    - h5import: TEXTFPE (scientific format) was deprecated. Use TEXTFP
             instead (PVN - 2008/10/30)
-     - h5repack: When user doesn't specify a chunk size, h5repack now defines a default
+    - 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)
-     - h5diff: h5diff treats two INFINITY values different. Fixed by checking  (value==expect)
+    - h5diff: h5diff treats two INFINITY values different. Fixed by checking  (value==expect)
             before call ABS(...) at h5diff_array.c This will make that (INF==INF) is true
             (INF is treated as an number instead of NaN) (PC -- 2009/07/28)
-     - h5diff: add option "--use-system-epsilon" to print difference if (|a-b| > EPSILON)
+    - h5diff: add option "--use-system-epsilon" to print difference if (|a-b| > EPSILON)
             Change default to use strict equality (PC -- 2009/09/12)
 
 
     High-Level APIs:
     ---------------
 
-     C Packet Table API
-     ------------------ 
-     - Replacement of a public function
+    C Packet Table API
+    ------------------
+    - Replacement of a public function
 
       The existing function H5PTcreate_fl limits applications to deflate
       compression only.  The public function H5PTcreate is added to replace
       H5PTcreate_fl.  H5PTcreate takes a property list ID to provide
       flexibility on creation properties.
 
-	hid_t H5PTcreate(hid_t loc_id, const char *dset_name,
+      hid_t H5PTcreate(hid_t loc_id, const char *dset_name,
                          hid_t dtype_id, hsize_t chunk_size, hid_t plist_id);
                                                (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623)
 
-     - New public functions
+    - New public functions
 
       Two accessor functions were added per HDFFV-8623/patch 003.
-	/* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table  */
-	   hid_t H5PTget_dataset(hid_t table_id);
+      /* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table  */
+      hid_t H5PTget_dataset(hid_t table_id);
 
-	/* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */
-	   hid_t H5PTget_type(hid_t table_id);
+      /* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */
+      hid_t H5PTget_type(hid_t table_id);
                                                (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623)
 
-     - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED
+    - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED
 
       The #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED blocks are removed from the PT library source
       except the following cases:
@@ -447,54 +446,54 @@ New Features
       + H5PTfree_vlen_readbuff() now became H5PTfree_vlen_buff()
                                                (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-442)
 
-     C++ Packet Table API
-     -------------------- 
-     - New constructor
+    C++ Packet Table API
+    --------------------
+    - New constructor
 
       An overloaded constructor is added to FL_PacketTable and takes a property
       list ID to provide flexibility on creation properties.
 
-	FL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, hid_t plist_id, const char* name, hid_t dtypeID, hsize_t chunkSize);
+      FL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, hid_t plist_id, const char* name, hid_t dtypeID, hsize_t chunkSize);
                                                (BMR, 2016/03/08, HDFFV-8623)
 
-     - New public functions
+    - New public functions
 
       Two accessor wrappers to class PacketTable, per HDFFV-8623/patch 004.
-	/* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table  */
-	   hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset()
+      /* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table  */
+      hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset()
 
-	/* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */
-	   hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset()
+      /* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */
+      hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset()
                                                (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623)
 
-     - Member functions having "char*" as an argument
+    - Member functions having "char*" as an argument
 
       Overloaded functions were added to provide "const char*" argument, the
       existing version will be deprecated.
                                                (BMR, 2016/03/04)
 
-     - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED
+    - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED
 
       The #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED blocks are removed from the PT library source
       except the following cases:
-	+ VL_PacketTable::IsVariableLength() is moved to PacketTable
-	+ VL_PacketTable::FreeReadBuff() now became PacketTable::FreeBuff()
+      + VL_PacketTable::IsVariableLength() is moved to PacketTable
+      + VL_PacketTable::FreeReadBuff() now became PacketTable::FreeBuff()
 
                                                (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-442)
 
 
-     Internal header file
-     -------------------- 
-     - A new API function H5DOwrite_chunk.  It writes a data chunk directly
+    Internal header file
+     --------------------
+    - A new API function H5DOwrite_chunk.  It writes a data chunk directly
             into a file bypassing hyperslab selection, data conversion, and
             filter pipeline.  The user must be careful with the function and
             clearly understand the I/O process of the library.
             (SLU - 2013/2/11)
-     - New API: h5ltpath_valid (Fortran: h5ltpath_valid_f) which checks
+    - 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 checks that the link does not dangle. (MSB- 2012/3/15)
 
-     - Added Fortran wrappers for Dimension Scale APIs. HDFFV-3797
+    - Added Fortran wrappers for Dimension Scale APIs. HDFFV-3797
           h5dsset_scale_f
           h5dsattach_scale_f
           h5dsdetach_scale_f
@@ -506,7 +505,7 @@ New Features
           h5dsget_num_scales_f
                   (EIP for SB - 2011/10/13)
 
-     - Table: In version 3.0 of Table, "NROWS" (used to store number of records) was
+    - Table: In version 3.0 of Table, "NROWS" (used to store number of records) was
             deprecated (PVN - 2008/11/24)
 
     Documentation
@@ -525,68 +524,68 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
 
     Library
     -------
-      - Incorrect usage of list in CMake COMPILE_DEFINITIONS set_property
+    - Incorrect usage of list in CMake COMPILE_DEFINITIONS set_property
 
-        The CMake command, set_property with COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property
-        needs a quoted semi-colon separated list of values. CMake will
-        transform the list to a series of -D{value} for the compile.
+          The CMake command, set_property with COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property
+          needs a quoted semi-colon separated list of values. CMake will
+          transform the list to a series of -D{value} for the compile.
 
-        (ADB - 2014/12/09, HDFV-9041)
+          (ADB - 2014/12/09, HDFV-9041)
 
-      - H5Z.c: H5Zfilter_avail(H5Z_filter_t id)
+    - H5Z.c: H5Zfilter_avail(H5Z_filter_t id)
            Added else block if the call to the internal H5Z_filter_avail(id) does not
            fail and returns FALSE. This block calls the H5PL_load(H5PL_TYPE_FILTER, (int)id)
            function to attempt to dynamically load the filter plugin.
            (ADB - 2014/03/03 HDFFV-8629)
-      - Added const qualifier to source buffer parameters in H5Dgather and
+    - Added const qualifier to source buffer parameters in H5Dgather and
             H5D_scatter_func_t (H5Dscatter callback).  (NAF - 2013/7/02)
-      - Fixed an error involving failure to write fill values to the user's
+    - Fixed an error involving failure to write fill values to the user's
             buffer when reading unallocated chunks from datasets that have a
             fill value set to H5D_FILL_VALUE_DEFAULT. A consequence of this
             was the reporting of spurious data values in h5dump and h5diff
             output.
             (HDFFV-8247; JP - 2013/05/03)
-      - Fixed an error that could occur when calling H5Ocopy within an
+    - Fixed an error that could occur when calling H5Ocopy within an
             H5Literate callback (and possibly other situations).
             (NAF - 2012/7/25 - HDFFV-5853)
-      - Fixed an error that would occur when copying an object with attribute
+    - 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
+    - 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
+            (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
+    - 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)
-      - Fixed rare corruption bugs that could occur when using the new object
+    - Fixed rare corruption bugs that could occur when using the new object
             header format. (NAF - 2012/3/15 - HDFFV-7879)
-      - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused seg fault when the file
+    - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused seg fault when the file
             is closed.  It's fixed.  The attemp to create a dataset will fail
             with the error stack indicating the file is read-only. (SLU -
             2012/1/25. Issue 7756)
-      - Fixed a seg fault that could occur when shrinking a dataset with chunks
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - 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)
-      - The library had seg fault when it tried to shrink the size of compound type
+    - The library had seg fault when it tried to shrink the size of compound type
             through H5Tset_size immediately after the type was created (Issue
             7618). It's fixed now. (SLU - 2011/10/26)
-      - Fixed a bug that occurred when using H5Ocopy on a committed datatype
+    - Fixed a bug that occurred when using H5Ocopy on a committed datatype
             containing an attribute using that committed datatype.
             (NAF - 2011/10/13 - Issue 5854)
-      - #ifdef _WIN32 instances changed to #ifdef H5_HAVE_WIN32_API and added
+    - #ifdef _WIN32 instances changed to #ifdef H5_HAVE_WIN32_API and added
             H5_HAVE_VISUAL_STUDIO checks where necessary. CMake only as configure
             never set _WIN32.
-      - CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv
+    - CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv
             discovered 3 problems in tests and tools' library (Issue 7674):
               1. In dsets.c, left shifting an unsigned int for 32 bits or more
                  caused undefined behavior.
@@ -595,193 +594,193 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
               3. In tools/lib/h5tools_str.c, right shifting an int value for 32 bits
                  or more caused undefined behavior.
             All the problems have been corrected. (SLU - 2011/9/2)
-      - In v1.6 library, there was EOA for the whole MULTI file saved in the
+    - In v1.6 library, there was EOA for the whole MULTI file saved in the
             super block.  We took it out in v1.8 library because it's meaningless
             for the MULTI file.  v1.8 library saves the EOA for the metadata file,
             instead. But this caused some backward compatibility problem.
             v1.8 library couldn't open the file created with v1.6 library.  We
             fixed the problem by checking the EOA value to detect the file
             created with v1.6 library. (SLU - 2011/6/22)
-      - When a dataset had filters and reading data failed, the error message
+    - When a dataset had filters and reading data failed, the error message
             didn't say which filter isn't registered. It's fixed now.
             (SLU - 2011/6/3)
-      - The datatype handler created with H5Tencode/decode used to have the
+    - The datatype handler created with H5Tencode/decode used to have the
             reference count 0 (zero).  I have fixed it.  It is 1 (one) now.
             (SLU - 2011/2/18)
-      - Fixed a bug that caused big endian machines to generate corrupt files
+    - Fixed a bug that caused big endian machines to generate corrupt files
             when using the scale-offset filter with floating point data or
             fill values.  Note that such datasets will no longer be readable
             by any machine after this patch.  (NAF - 2010/02/02 - Bug 2131)
-      - Retrieving a link's name by index in the case where the link is
+    - Retrieving a link's name by index in the case where the link is
             external and the file that the link refers to doesn't exist will
             now fail gracefully rather than cause a segmentation fault.
             (MAM - 2010/11/17)
-      - Modified library to always cache symbol table information.  Libraries
+    - Modified library to always cache symbol table information.  Libraries
             version 1.6.3 have a bug which causes them to require this
             information for some operations. (NAF - 2010/09/21 - 1864)
-      - Fixed a bug that could occur when getting information for a new-style
+    - Fixed a bug that could occur when getting information for a new-style
             group that was previously opened through a file handle that was
             later closed. (NAF - 2010/09/15)
-      - Added define check in H5public.h if stdint.h is supported by the C++
+    - Added define check in H5public.h if stdint.h is supported by the C++
             compiler. This define is only available on Windows with VS2010 and
             using CMake to build the library. (ADB - 2010/09/13 - Bug 1938)
-      - H5Eset_current_stack now also closes the error stack to be set as the
+    - H5Eset_current_stack now also closes the error stack to be set as the
             default.  This is to avoid a potential problem (Bug 1799).
             (SLU - 2010/9/7)
-      - Fixed the bug in the filter's public CAN_APPLY function.  The return
+    - Fixed the bug in the filter's public CAN_APPLY function.  The return
             value should be htri_t not herr_t (Bug #1239). (SLU - 2010/8/5)
-      - Fixed a bug in the direct I/O driver that could render files with
+    - Fixed a bug in the direct I/O driver that could render files with
             certain kinds of unaligned data unreadable or corrupt them.
             (NAF - 2010/07/28)
-      - valgrind reported an error of copying data to itself when a new attribute
+    - valgrind reported an error of copying data to itself when a new attribute
             is written (Bug #1956).  I fixed it by taking out the memcpy step in
             the attribute code. (SLU - 2010/07/28)
-      - Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption when using non-default
+    - Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption when using non-default
             sizes of addresses and/or lengths.  This bug could also cause
             uncorrupted files with this property to be unreadable.  This bug
             was introduced in 1.8.5. (NAF - 2010/07/16 - 1951)
-      - Fixed a file corruption bug that could happen when shrinking a
+    - Fixed a file corruption bug that could happen when shrinking a
             compressed dataset. (NAF - 2010/05/20)
-      - Fixed some memory leaks in VL datatype conversion when strings are
+    - Fixed some memory leaks in VL datatype conversion when strings are
             used as fill values. (MAM - 2010/05/12 - BZ# 1826)
-      - Fixed a bug when copying objects with NULL references with the
+    - Fixed a bug when copying objects with NULL references with the
             H5O_COPY_EXPAND_REFERENCE_FLAG flag set. (NAF - 2010/04/08 - 1815)
-      - Files can now be concurrently opened more than once using the core file
+    - Files can now be concurrently opened more than once using the core file
             driver, as long as the backing store is used. (NAF - 2010/03/09)
-      - Added support for H5O_COPY_EXPAND_EXT_LINK_FLAG to H5Ocopy.  External
+    - Added support for H5O_COPY_EXPAND_EXT_LINK_FLAG to H5Ocopy.  External
             links will now be expanded if this flag is set.
             (NAF - 2010/03/05 - 1733)
-      - Fixed a bug where the library, when traversing an external link, would
+    - Fixed a bug where the library, when traversing an external link, would
             reopen the source file if nothing else worked. (NAF - 2010/03/05)
-      - Fixed an intermittent bug in the b-tree code which could be triggered
+    - Fixed an intermittent bug in the b-tree code which could be triggered
             by expanding and shrinking chunked datasets in certain ways.
             (NAF - 2010/02/16)
-      - H5Tdetect_class said a VL string is a string type.  But when it's
+    - H5Tdetect_class said a VL string is a string type.  But when it's
             in a compound type, it said it's a VL type (Bug #1584).  I fixed it
             to be consistent.  It always return string type. (SLU - 2009/12/10)
-      - Fixed a bug where writing and deleting many global heap objects (i.e.
+    - Fixed a bug where writing and deleting many global heap objects (i.e.
             variable length data) would render the file unreadable.  Previously
             created files exhibiting this problem should now be readable.
             (NAF - 2009/10/27 - 1483)
-      - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_preserve. (AKC - 2009/10/08 - 1628)
-      - Fixed an assertion failure that occurred when H5Ocopy was called on a
+    - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_preserve. (AKC - 2009/10/08 - 1628)
+    - Fixed an assertion failure that occurred when H5Ocopy was called on a
             dataset using a vlen inside a compound. (NAF - 2009/10/02 - 1597)
-      - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_filter_by_id1/2 in H5Ppublic.h.
+    - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_filter_by_id1/2 in H5Ppublic.h.
             (NAF - 2009/09/25 - 1620)
-      - Fixed a bug where properties weren't being compared with the registered
+    - Fixed a bug where properties weren't being compared with the registered
             compare callback. (NAF - 2009/09/25 - 1555)
-      - Fixed a bug where H5Pget_fitler_by_id would succeed when called for a
+    - Fixed a bug where H5Pget_fitler_by_id would succeed when called for a
             filter that wasn't present. (NAF - 2009/06/25 - 1250)
-      - Fixed an issue with committed compound datatypes containing a vlen.
+    - Fixed an issue with committed compound datatypes containing a vlen.
             Also fixed memory leaks involving committed datatypes.
             (NAF - 2009/06/10 - 1593)
-      - Added versioning to H5Z_class_t struct to allow compatibility with 1.6
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - 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)
-      - Fixed a rare problem that could occur with files using the old (pre 1.4)
+    - Fixed a rare problem that could occur with files using the old (pre 1.4)
             array datatype. (NAF - 2009/03/23)
-      - Modified library to be able to open files with corrupt root group symbol
+    - Modified library to be able to open files with corrupt root group symbol
             table messages, and correct these errors if they are found.  Such
             files can only be successfully opened with write access.
             (NAF - 2009/03/23 - 1189)
-      - Removed the long_long #define and replaced all instances with
+    - 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)
-      - Fixed various bugs that could prevent the fill value from being written
+    - 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
+    - Fixed a bug that prevented more than one dataset chunk from being cached
             at a time. (NAF - 2009/02/12 - 1015)
-      - Fixed an assertion failure caused by opening an attribute multiple times
+    - Fixed an assertion failure caused by opening an attribute multiple times
             through multiple file handles. (NAF - 2009/02/12 - 1420)
-      - Fixed a problem that could prevent the user from adding attributes (or
+    - Fixed a problem that could prevent the user from adding attributes (or
             any object header message) in some circumstances.
             (NAF - 2009/02/12 - 1427)
-      - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when an attribute was added to a
+    - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when an attribute was added to a
             committed datatype using the committed datatype's datatype.
             (NAF - 2009/02/12)
-      - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when copying an object with a
+    - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when copying an object with a
             shared message in its own object header. (NAF - 2009/01/29)
-      - Changed H5Tset_order to properly reject H5T_ORDER_NONE for most
+    - Changed H5Tset_order to properly reject H5T_ORDER_NONE for most
             datatypes. (NAF - 2009/01/27 - 1443)
-      - Fixed a bug where H5Tpack wouldn't remove trailing space from an
+    - Fixed a bug where H5Tpack wouldn't remove trailing space from an
             otherwise packed compound type. (NAF - 2009/01/14)
-      - Fixed up some old v2 btree assertions that get run in debug mode that
+    - Fixed up some old v2 btree assertions that get run in debug mode that
             were previously failing on compilation, and removed some of the
             more heavily outdated and non-rewritable ones. (MAM - 2008/12/15)
-      - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when "automatically" unmounting
+    - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when "automatically" unmounting
             multiple files. (NAF - 2008/11/17)
-      - H5Ovisit and H5Ovisit_by_name will now properly terminate when the
+    - H5Ovisit and H5Ovisit_by_name will now properly terminate when the
             callback function returns a positive value on the starting object.
             (NAF - 2008/11/03)
-      - Fixed an error where a null message could be created that was larger
+    - Fixed an error where a null message could be created that was larger
             than could be written to the file. (NAF - 2008/10/23)
-      - Corrected error with family/split/multi VFD not updating driver info
+    - Corrected error with family/split/multi VFD not updating driver info
             when "latest" version of the file format used. (QAK - 2008/10/14)
-      - Corrected alignment+threshold errors to work correctly when metadata
+    - Corrected alignment+threshold errors to work correctly when metadata
             aggregation is enabled. (QAK - 2008/10/06)
-      - Changed H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids to ignore objects registered
+    - Changed H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids to ignore objects registered
             by the library for internal library use. (NAF - 2008/10/06)
-      - Fixed potential memory leak during compound conversion.
+    - Fixed potential memory leak during compound conversion.
             (NAF - 2008/10/06)
-      - Changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_count from INT to SSIZE_T. Also
+    - Changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_count from INT to SSIZE_T. Also
             changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_ids from HERR_T to SSIZE_T and
             the type of the parameter MAX_OBJS from INT to SIZE_T. (SLU - 2008/09/26)
-      - Fixed an issue that could cause data to be improperly overwritten
+    - Fixed an issue that could cause data to be improperly overwritten
             during compound type conversion. (NAF - 2008/09/19)
-      - Fixed pointer alignment violations that could occur during vlen
+    - Fixed pointer alignment violations that could occur during vlen
             conversion. (NAF - 2008/09/16)
-      - Fixed problem where library could cause a segmentation fault when
+    - Fixed problem where library could cause a segmentation fault when
             an invalid location ID was given to H5Giterate(). (QAK - 2008/08/19)
-      - Fixed improper shutdown when objects have reference count > 1.  The
+    - Fixed improper shutdown when objects have reference count > 1.  The
             library now tracks reference count due to the application separately
             from that due to internal library routines. (NAF - 2008/08/19)
-      - Fixed assertion failure caused by incorrect array datatype version.
+    - Fixed assertion failure caused by incorrect array datatype version.
             (NAF - 2008/08/08)
-      - Fixed an issue where mount point traversal would fail when using
+    - Fixed an issue where mount point traversal would fail when using
             multiple handles for the child. (NAF - 2008/08/07)
-      - Fixed an issue where mount points were inaccessible when using multiple
+    - Fixed an issue where mount points were inaccessible when using multiple
             file handles for the parent.  The mount table is now in the shared
             file structure (the parent pointer is still in the top structure).
             (NAF - 2008/08/07)
-      - when an attribute was opened twice and data was written with one of the handles,
+    - when an attribute was opened twice and data was written with one of the handles,
             the file didn't have the data.  It happened because each handle had its own
             object structure, and the empty one overwrote the data with fill value.  This is
             fixed by making some attribute information like the data be shared in the
             attribute structure.  SLU - 2008/07/22
-      - Fixed issue where a group could have a file mounted on it twice.
+    - Fixed issue where a group could have a file mounted on it twice.
             (QAK - 2008/07/15)
-      - Fixed a Windows-specific issue in the ohdr test which was causing users
-        in some timezones to get false errors.  This a deficiency in the Windows
-        mktime() function, and has been handled properly.  SJW  - 2008/06/19
-      - Fixed the problem with the searching of target file for H5Lcreate_external().
-      The searching pattern will depend on whether the target file's
-      pathname is an absolute or a relative path. Please see the description
-      in the RM for H5Lcreate_external().  (VC - 2008/04/08)
-      - Fixed possible file corruption bug when encoding datatype
+    - Fixed a Windows-specific issue in the ohdr test which was causing users
+            in some timezones to get false errors.  This a deficiency in the Windows
+            mktime() function, and has been handled properly.  SJW  - 2008/06/19
+    - Fixed the problem with the searching of target file for H5Lcreate_external().
+            The searching pattern will depend on whether the target file's
+            pathname is an absolute or a relative path. Please see the description
+            in the RM for H5Lcreate_external().  (VC - 2008/04/08)
+    - Fixed possible file corruption bug when encoding datatype
             descriptions for compound datatypes whose size was between
             256 & 511 bytes and the file was opened with the "use the
             latest format" property enabled (with H5Pset_libver_bounds).
             (QAK - 2008/03/13)
-      - Fixed bug in H5Aget_num_attrs() routine to handle invalid location
+    - Fixed bug in H5Aget_num_attrs() routine to handle invalid location
             ID correctly.  (QAK - 2008/03/11)
-      - H5Dset_extent: when shrinking dimensions, some chunks were not deleted.
+    - H5Dset_extent: when shrinking dimensions, some chunks were not deleted.
             (PVN - 2009/01/8)
-      - Added code to maintain a min_clean_fraction in the metadata cache when
+    - Added code to maintain a min_clean_fraction in the metadata cache when
             in serial mode. (MAM - 2009/01/9)
 
 
@@ -880,62 +879,63 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
 
     Performance
     -------------
-      - Removed program perform/benchpar from the enable-build-all list. The
-    program will be retired or moved to another location. HDFFV-8156
-    (AKC 2012/10/01)
-      - Retired program perform/mpi-perf. Its purpose has been incorporated
-    into h5perf before. (AKC 2012/09/20)
-      - ifdefs added to tests around include unistd.h and function to simulate
+    - Removed program perform/benchpar from the enable-build-all list. The
+      program will be retired or moved to another location. HDFFV-8156
+      (AKC 2012/10/01)
+    - Retired program perform/mpi-perf. Its purpose has been incorporated
+      into h5perf before. (AKC 2012/09/20)
+    - ifdefs added to tests around include unistd.h and function to simulate
         getlogin() on Windows.
         (ADB - 2011/08/15)
-      - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file.
+    - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file.
         (ADB - 2009/06/11)
+
     Fortran
     --------
-      - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function ( was 1
+    - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function ( was 1
         instead of 0 on success); fixed the return value to make it consistent
         with other Fortran functions; cleaned the code from debug statements.
         (EIP - 2012/06/23)
 
-      - Fixed problem writing/reading control characters to a dataset; writing
+    - Fixed problem writing/reading control characters to a dataset; writing
         a string containing: alerts, backspace, carriage_return, form_feed,
         horizontal_tab, vertical_tab, new_line is now tested and working.
         (MSB - 2012/09/01)
 
-      - Corrected the integer type of H5S_UNLIMITED_F to HSIZE_T (MSB - 2012/09/01)
+    - Corrected the integer type of H5S_UNLIMITED_F to HSIZE_T (MSB - 2012/09/01)
 
-      - Corrected the number of continuation lines in the src files
+    - Corrected the number of continuation lines in the src files
         to be less then 32 lines for F95 compliance. (MSB - 2012/10/01)
 
     Tools
     -----
-        - h5dump subsetting fixed for dims greater then two
+    - h5dump subsetting fixed for dims greater then two
           When a dataset has more then two dimensions, subsetting would incorrectly
           calculate the data that needed to be displayed.
           Added in block and stride calculation that account for dimensions greater
           then two.  NOTE: lines that have line breaks inserted because of display
           length calculations, may have index info that is incorrect until the next
           dimension break.  (ADB, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-9698)
-        - h5repack: h5repack would not attempt to remove UD filters. Added a
+    - h5repack: h5repack would not attempt to remove UD filters. Added a
           check to h5repack for UD filters that checks if the filter can
           be dynamically loaded. This will require a change in the library to
           add the H5PL_load() to the H5Zfilter_avail(). (ADB - 2014/03/03 HDFFV-8629)
-        - h5repack: Fixed failure for converting a layout of small chunked dataset
+    - h5repack: Fixed failure for converting a layout of small chunked dataset
           (size < 1K) to contiguous layout.  HDFFV-8214 (JKM 2013/03/18)
-        - h5diff: Fixed to return correct exit code 1 when detect unique extra
+    - h5diff: Fixed to return correct exit code 1 when detect unique extra
           attribute. Prior to this fix, h5diff returned exit code 0 indicating
           two files are identical.   HDFFV-7643 (JKM 2013/02/15)
-        - h5diff: Improved speed when comparing HDF5 files with lots of
+    - h5diff: Improved speed when comparing HDF5 files with lots of
           attributes. Much slower performance was identified with release
           version from 1.8.7 to 1.8.10 compared to 1.8.6. (JKM 2012/10/19)
-        - h5repack: "h5repack -f NONE file1.h5 out.h5" command failed if
+    - h5repack: "h5repack -f NONE file1.h5 out.h5" command failed if
           source file contains chunked dataset and a chunk dim is bigger than
           the dataset dim. Another issue is that the command changed max dims
           if chunk dim is smaller than the dataset dim.
           These issue occurred when dataset size is smaller than 64k (compact
           size limit)  Fixed both.
           HDFFV-8012 (JKM 2012/09/24)
-        - h5diff: Fixed not to accumulate attribute difference to dataset
+    - h5diff: Fixed not to accumulate attribute difference to dataset
           difference in verbose mode (-v, -r), which caused incorrect
           difference between dataset and group/datatype object if attribute
           exist with any differences. This also lead to fix inconsistent
@@ -948,214 +948,214 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
           parallel mode. It was detected by daily test for comparing
           non-comparable objects, but it could have occurred in other
           operations depend on machine condition.  HDFFV-8003 (JKM 2012/08/01)
-        - h5diff: Fixed test failure for "make check" due to failure of
+    - h5diff: Fixed test failure for "make check" due to failure of
           copying test files when performed in HDF5 source tree. Also applied
           to other tools.
           HDFFV-8107 (JKM 2012/08/01)
-        - h5diff: Fixed the Function COPY_TESTFILES_TO_TESTDIR() of
-    testh5diff.sh to better report when there is an error in the file
-    copying. HDFFV-8105 (AKC -2012/07/22)
-        - h5diff: Fixed not to check and display dangling link status without
+    - h5diff: Fixed the Function COPY_TESTFILES_TO_TESTDIR() of
+          testh5diff.sh to better report when there is an error in the file
+          copying. HDFFV-8105 (AKC -2012/07/22)
+    - h5diff: Fixed not to check and display dangling link status without
           --follow-symlinks option. This also improved performance when
           comparing lots of external links without the --follow-symlinks
           option.  HDFFV-7998 (JKM 2012/04/26)
-        - h5unjam: Fixed sefgault when used -V (show version) option.
+    - h5unjam: Fixed sefgault when used -V (show version) option.
           HDFFV-8001 (JKM 2012/04/19)
-        - h5repack: Fixed a failure when change the chunk size of a specified
+    - h5repack: Fixed a failure when change the chunk size of a specified
           chunked dataset with unlimited max dims. HDFFV-7993 (JKM 2012/04/11)
-        - h5diff: Fixed failure for comparing same named object with different
+    - 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
+    - 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
+    - h5dump: Added tools library error stack to properly catch error
           information generated within the library.
           HDFFV-7958 (ADB 2012/03/12)
-        - h5dump: Dangling links no longer throw error message, change process
+    - h5dump: Dangling links no longer throw error message, change process
           when open link fails.
           HDFFV-7839 (ADB 2012/03/12)
-        - h5diff: When two symbolic dangling links are compared with
+    - h5diff: When two symbolic dangling links are compared with
           --follow-symlinks option, the result should be same. It worked for
           comparing two files, but didn't work for comparing two objects.
           HDFFV-7835 (JKM 2012/03/09)
-        - h5dump: Refactored code to remove duplicated functions. Split XML
+    - h5dump: Refactored code to remove duplicated functions. Split XML
           functions from DDL functions. Corrected indentation and formatting
           errors. Also fixed subsetting counting overflow (HDFFV-5874). Verified
           all tools call tools_init() in main.
           HDFFV-7560 (ADB 2012/02/17)
-        - h5diff: fixed to prevent from displaying error stack message when
+    - h5diff: fixed to prevent from displaying error stack message when
           comparing the two dangling symlinks with follow-symlinks option.
           HDFFV-7836 (JKM 2012/01/13)
-        - h5repack: fixed memory leak for handling variable length string in
+    - h5repack: fixed memory leak for handling variable length string in
           attribute.  HDFFV-7840 (JKM 2012/01/06)
-        - h5ls: fixed segfault when access region reference data in an
+    - h5ls: fixed segfault when access region reference data in an
           attribute. HDFFV-7838 (JKM 2011/12/29)
-        - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different
+    - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different
           dimention or rank, along with '-c' option to display details.
           HDFFV-7770 (JKM 2011/10/24)
-        - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable object and attribute
+    - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable object and attribute
           regardless of non-comparables. HDFFV-7693 (JKM 2011/09/16)
-        - Fixed h5repack to update values of references(object and region) of
+    - Fixed h5repack to update values of references(object and region) of
           attributes in h5repack for 1) references, 2) ARRAY of references,
           3) VLEN of references, and 4) COMPOUND of references.
           (JIRA HDF5 5932) PC -2011/09/14
-        - h5diff: fixed segfault over dataset with container types
+    - h5diff: fixed segfault over dataset with container types
           (array,lven) with multiple nested compound types.
           (ex: compound->array->compound, compound->vlen->compound)
           HDFFV-7712  JKM (2011/09/01)
-        - h5repack: added macro to handle failure in H5Dread/write when memory
+    - h5repack: added macro to handle failure in H5Dread/write when memory
           allocation failed inside the library. (PC -- 2011/08/19)
-        - Fixed h5jam not to allow specifying an HDF5 formatted file as input
+    - Fixed h5jam not to allow specifying an HDF5 formatted file as input
           file for -u (user block file) option, because the original HDF5 file
           will not be accessible if allows. HDFFV-5941 (JKM 2011/08/15)
-        - Revised command help pages of h5jam and h5unjam. The descriptions
+    - Revised command help pages of h5jam and h5unjam. The descriptions
           were not up to date and some were missing.
           HDFFV-7515 (JKM 2011/08/15)
-        - h5repack: h5repack failed to copy dataset if the layout is changed
+    - h5repack: h5repack failed to copy dataset if the layout is changed
           from chunked with unlimited dims to contiguous. HDFFV-7649
           (PC -- 2011/07/15)
-        - h5diff: "--delta" option considers two NaN of the same type are
+    - h5diff: "--delta" option considers two NaN of the same type are
           different, which is wrong based on h5diff description in Reference
           Manual. HDFFV-7656  (PC -- 2011/07/15)
-        - Fixed h5diff to display instructive error message and exit with 1
+    - Fixed h5diff to display instructive error message and exit with 1
           when mutually exclusive options (-d, -p and --use-system-epsilon)
           are used together. HDFFV-7600  (JKM 2011/07/07)
-        - Fixed h5dump to display the first line of each element into correct
+    - Fixed h5dump to display the first line of each element into correct
           position for multiple dimention array type.
           Before this fix, the first line of each element in array were
           displayed after the last line of previous element without
           moving to the next line (+indentation).
           Bug #HDFFV-5878  (JKM 2011/06/15)
-        - Fixed h5dump to display correct value for H5T_STD_I8LE dataset
+    - Fixed h5dump to display correct value for H5T_STD_I8LE dataset
           on a system (ppc64, linux, Big-Endian, clustering).
           Bug #HDFFV-7594  (ABERT & JKM 2011/05/12)
-        - Fixed h5diff to compare file itself correctly. Previously h5diff
+    - Fixed h5diff to compare file itself correctly. Previously h5diff
           reported either different or not compatible in certain cases even
           comparing file itself. This fix also improve performance when
           comparing same target objects through verifying the obj&file
           addresses before comparing the details in the objects (ex: datasets
           or attributes) Bug #HDFFV-5928  (XCAO & JKM 2011/05/06)
-        - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure upon
+    - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure upon
           source directory is read-only. Bug# HDFFV-4342 (JKM 2011/4/12)
-        - Fixed h5dump displaying incorrect values for H5T_STD_I8BE type data in
+    - Fixed h5dump displaying incorrect values for H5T_STD_I8BE type data in
           attribute on Big-Endian machine. H5T_STD_I8BE is unsigned 8bit type,
           so h5dump is supposed to display -2 instead of 254. It worked
           correctly on Little-Endian system , but not on Big-Endian system.
           Bug #HDFFV-4358 (JKM 2011/04/08)
-        - Updated to unify option name to '--enable-error-stack' for printing
+    - Updated to unify option name to '--enable-error-stack' for printing
           HDF5 error stack messages for HDF5 tools. h5ls and h5dump for now.
           For h5ls, this replaces "-e/--errors" option, which is deprecated.
           Bug#2182 (JKM 2011/3/30)
-        - Fix h5diff for --use-system-epsilon option: the calculation changed
+    - Fix h5diff for --use-system-epsilon option: the calculation changed
           from ( |a - b| / b ) to ( |a - b| ). This was decided for better
           performance. Bug#2184 (JKM 2011/3/24)
-        - Fixed output for H5T_REFERENCE in h5dump. According to the BNF document
+    - Fixed output for H5T_REFERENCE in h5dump. According to the BNF document
           the output of a H5T_REFERENCE should be followed by the type;
           <reference> ::= H5T_REFERENCE { <ref_type> }
           <ref_type> ::= H5T_STD_REF_OBJECT | H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG
           Previously this was only displayed if the -R option was used.
           Bug#1725 (ADB 2011/3/28)
-        - Fix h5diff issues for #1: h5diff compared attributes correctly only
+    - Fix h5diff issues for #1: h5diff compared attributes correctly only
           when two objects have the same number of attributes and attribute
           names are identical, #2: didn't display useful information about
           attribute difference. Bug#2121 (JKM 2011/3/17)
-        - Fixed memory leak for h5diff when accessing symbolic links with
+    - Fixed memory leak for h5diff when accessing symbolic links with
           --follow-symlink option. Bug#2214  (JKM 2011/3/18)
-        - Fixed memory leak for h5diff when access variable length string
+    - Fixed memory leak for h5diff when access variable length string
           data. Bug#2216 (JKM 2011/3/18)
-        - Fixed and improved help page for -a option of h5ls.
+    - Fixed and improved help page for -a option of h5ls.
           Bug#1904 (JKM 2011/3/11)
-        - Fixed h5dump not to include attribute values in the output file when
+    - Fixed h5dump not to include attribute values in the output file when
           h5dump "-y -o output_file" options were used. The problem was introduced
           in HDF5 1.8.6 by showing data pointed by region references. (XCAO 2011/3/9)
-        - Fixed h5copy to be able to copy any object into the same HDF5 file.
+    - Fixed h5copy to be able to copy any object into the same HDF5 file.
           Previously h5copy displayed error message when target file is same
           as source file. (XCAO 2011/3/8)
-        - Fixed h5dump for skipping some values for long array type dataset on
+    - Fixed h5dump for skipping some values for long array type dataset on
           Windows. This issue only occurred on Windows due to the different
           return behavior from _vsnprintf() funtion. Bug#2161 (JKM 2011/3/3)
-        - Fixed h5dump for skipping array indices every certain number
+    - Fixed h5dump for skipping array indices every certain number
           when the array type dataset is relatively big. The certain number
           varies according to the size of array. Bug#2092 (JKM 2011/2/15).
-        - Fixed h5diff for the segfault when compares compound datasets
+    - Fixed h5diff for the segfault when compares compound datasets
           with combination of fixed length string types and vlen string types
           in certain orders. bug#2089 (JKM 2010/12/28)
-        - Improve h5diff performance. 1) use HDmemcmp() before comparing each
+    - Improve h5diff performance. 1) use HDmemcmp() before comparing each
           elements. 2) replace expensive H5Tequals() calls 3) retrieve datatype
           information at dataset level not each element level for compound
           datasets
-        - Fixed h5ls to display nested compound type with curly bracket
+    - Fixed h5ls to display nested compound type with curly bracket
           when -S (--simple) option is used with -l (--label), so it shows
           which member (in curly bracket) belong to which nested compound type
           and make the output make sense.  bug#1979 (JKM 2010/11/09)
-        - Fixed h5diff to handle variable-length strings in a compound dataset
+    - Fixed h5diff to handle variable-length strings in a compound dataset
           correctly. (also variable-length string array in a compound dataset)
           Garbage values were displayed when h5diff compared multiple
           variable-length strings in a compound type dataset.
           Bug#1989 (JKM 2010/10/28)
-        - Fixed h5copy to fail gracefully when copying object to non-exist
+    - Fixed h5copy to fail gracefully when copying object to non-exist
           group without -p option. Bug#2040 (JKM 2010/10/18)
-        - Fixed to compare member objects and groups recursively when two
+    - Fixed to compare member objects and groups recursively when two
           files or groups are specified to be compared. Bug#1975
           (JKM 2010/9/16)
-        - Make h5repack be able to convert a layout to COMPACT for small size
+    - Make h5repack be able to convert a layout to COMPACT for small size
           dataset as default.  bug#1896 (JKM 2010/09/15)
-        - Change h5ls not to manipulate special characters in object name or
+    - Change h5ls not to manipulate special characters in object name or
           attribute name for smart display.  bug#1784 (JKM 2010/06/28)
-        - Fixed h5ls to return exit code 1 (error) when non-existent file is
+    - Fixed h5ls to return exit code 1 (error) when non-existent file is
           specified. bug#1793. (JKM 2010/04/27)
-        - h5copy failed to copy dangling link when the link is specified
+    - h5copy failed to copy dangling link when the link is specified
           directly. bug#1817. (JKM 2010/04/22)
-        - h5repack lost attributes from a dataset of reference type. bug#1726.
+    - h5repack lost attributes from a dataset of reference type. bug#1726.
           (JKM 2010/3/25)
-        - h5repack sets NULL for object reference value for group or
+    - h5repack sets NULL for object reference value for group or
           named datatype. bug#1814. (JKM 2010/03/19)
-        - h5diff: fixed incorrect behavior (hang) in parallel mode when
-                  specify invalid options (ex: -v and -q) (JKM 2010/02/17)
-        - h5dump/h5ls display buffer resize fixed in tools library.
-            (ADB - 2009/07/21 - 1520)
-        - 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.
-            (NAF - 2008/10/15)
-        - Fixed unnecessary indentation of committed datatypes in h5dump.
-            (NAF - 2008/10/15)
-        - Fixed bugs in h5stat:segmemtation fault when printing groups and
+    - h5diff: fixed incorrect behavior (hang) in parallel mode when
+          specify invalid options (ex: -v and -q) (JKM 2010/02/17)
+    - h5dump/h5ls display buffer resize fixed in tools library.
+          (ADB - 2009/07/21 - 1520)
+    - 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.
+          (NAF - 2008/10/15)
+    - Fixed unnecessary indentation of committed datatypes in h5dump.
+          (NAF - 2008/10/15)
+    - Fixed bugs in h5stat:segmemtation fault when printing groups and
           print warning message when traversal of objects is unsuccessful.
           (see bug #1253) (VC- 2008/10/13)
-        - Fixed bug in h5ls that prevented relative group listings (like
-            "h5ls foo.h5/bar") from working correctly (QAK - 2008/06/03)
-        - Fixed bug in h5diff that prevented datasets & attributes with
-            variable-length string elements from comparing correctly.
-            (QAK - 2008/02/28)
-        - h5import bug on Windows w/binary datasets. fread in windows needs a
-            binary file to be open with 'rb' instead of 'r' otherwise it
-            terminates execution if an end of file character is found on the
-            input file. Besides that the binary file generated needs to be open
-            with 'wb' , otherwise an end of line character is read twice.
-            (PVN - 2008/02/19)
-        - Fixed bug in h5dump that caused binary output to be made only for the first
-           dataset, when several datasets were requested. (PVN - 2008/04/07)
-        - h5dump: when doing binary output (-b), the stdout printing of attributes
-           was done incorrectly. Removed printing of attributes when doing binary
-           output. PVN - 2008/06/05
+    - Fixed bug in h5ls that prevented relative group listings (like
+          "h5ls foo.h5/bar") from working correctly (QAK - 2008/06/03)
+    - Fixed bug in h5diff that prevented datasets & attributes with
+          variable-length string elements from comparing correctly.
+          (QAK - 2008/02/28)
+    - h5import bug on Windows w/binary datasets. fread in windows needs a
+          binary file to be open with 'rb' instead of 'r' otherwise it
+          terminates execution if an end of file character is found on the
+          input file. Besides that the binary file generated needs to be open
+          with 'wb' , otherwise an end of line character is read twice.
+          (PVN - 2008/02/19)
+    - Fixed bug in h5dump that caused binary output to be made only for the first
+          dataset, when several datasets were requested. (PVN - 2008/04/07)
+    - h5dump: when doing binary output (-b), the stdout printing of attributes
+         was done incorrectly. Removed printing of attributes when doing binary
+         output. PVN - 2008/06/05
 
 
     High-Level APIs:
-     ------
-      - Packet Table is updated.
+    ------
+    - Packet Table is updated.
 
         In the Packet Table C API, there are changes with the following functions,
         which had been ifdef'ed out with VLPT_REMOVED since 2006
@@ -1166,60 +1166,57 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release
           Various cleanup: replacing 0/-1 with SUCCEED/FAIL and H5I_BADID with
           H5I_INVALID_HID.  (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-442)
 
-      - Fixed problem with H5DSget_scale_name including the NULL terminator in
+    - Fixed problem with H5DSget_scale_name including the NULL terminator in
         the size calculation returned by the function. The API does not
         include the NULL terminator in the size returned (MSB- 2013/2/10)
 
-      - Fixed problem with H5TBdelete_record destroying all data following the deletion
+    - Fixed problem with H5TBdelete_record destroying all data following the deletion
         of a row. (MSB- 2012/7/26)
 
-      - Fixed H5LTget_attribute_string not closing an object identifier when an
+    - Fixed H5LTget_attribute_string not closing an object identifier when an
         error occurs. (MSB- 2012/7/21)
 
-      - Fixed the H5LTdtype_to_text function.  It had some memory problems when
+    - Fixed the H5LTdtype_to_text function.  It had some memory problems when
         dealing with some complicated data types. HDFFVI-7701 (SLU - 2011/10/19)
 
-      - Fixed a bug in H5DSattach_scale, H5DSis_attached and H5DSdetach_scale
+    - Fixed a bug in H5DSattach_scale, H5DSis_attached and H5DSdetach_scale
         caused by using H5Tget_native_type function to determine the native
         type for reading REFERENCE_LIST attribute. The bug was exposed
         on Mac PPC.
                                      (EIP - 2010/05/22 -1851)
-      - Fixed a bug in the H5DSdetach_scale function when 0 bytes
+    - Fixed a bug in the H5DSdetach_scale function when 0 bytes
         were allocated after the last reference to a dim. scale
         was removed from the list of references in a VL element of the
         DIMENSION_LIST attribute; modified the function to comply
         with the Spec: DIMENSION_LIST attribute is deleted now when no
         dimension scales left attached.
                                      (EIP - 2010/05/14 -1822)
-      - Fixed a bug where the H5TB API would forget the order of fields when
+    - Fixed a bug where the H5TB API would forget the order of fields when
           added out of offset order. (NAF - 2009/10/27 - 1582)
-      - H5DSis_attached failed to account for different platform types. Added a
+    - H5DSis_attached failed to account for different platform types. Added a
           get native type call. (ADB - 2009/9/29 - 1562)
-      - Dimension scales: The scale index return value in H5DSiterate_scales was not always
+    - 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_attribute_string_f used to return the C NULL character in the
+    - 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)
+    - 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
+    - Lite: the h5ltread_dataset_string_f and h5ltget_attribute_string_f functions
            had memory problems with the g95 fortran compiler. (PVN � 5/13/2009) 1522
 
 
-
-
-
     Documentation
     -------------
 
 
     F90 APIs
     --------
-       - Modified the h5open_f and h5close_f subroutines to not to call H5open
+    - Modified the h5open_f and h5close_f subroutines to not to call H5open
          and H5close correspodningly. While the H5open call just adds overhead,
          the H5close call called by an Fortran application shuts down the HDF5
          library making it unaccessible to the application.
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 2756c90..de4d378 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ CONTENTS
 - New Features
 - Support for new platforms and languages
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0-alpha1
-- Major Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.0
 - Supported Platforms
 - Tested Configuration Features Summary
 - More Tested Platforms
@@ -48,116 +47,116 @@ New Features
     -------------
     - Autotools and CMake target added to produce doxygen generated documentation
 
-      The default is OFF or disabled.
-      Autoconf option is '--enable-doxygen'
+        The default is OFF or disabled.
+        Autoconf option is '--enable-doxygen'
           autotools make target is 'doxygen' and will build all doxygen targets
-      CMake configure option is 'HDF5_BUILD_DOC'.
+        CMake configure option is 'HDF5_BUILD_DOC'.
           CMake target is 'doxygen' for all available doxygen targets
           CMake target is 'hdf5lib_doc' for the src subdirectory
 
-      (ADB - 2020/11/13)
+        (ADB - 2020/11/13)
 
     - CMake option to use MSVC naming conventions with MinGW
 
-      HDF5_MSVC_NAMING_CONVENTION option enable to use MSVC naming conventions
-      when using a MinGW toolchain
+        HDF5_MSVC_NAMING_CONVENTION option enable to use MSVC naming conventions
+        when using a MinGW toolchain
 
-      (xan - 2020/10/30)
+        (xan - 2020/10/30)
 
     - CMake option to statically link gcc libs with MinGW
 
-      HDF5_MINGW_STATIC_GCC_LIBS allows to statically link libg/libstdc++
-      with the MinGW toolchain
+        HDF5_MINGW_STATIC_GCC_LIBS allows to statically link libg/libstdc++
+        with the MinGW toolchain
 
-      (xan - 2020/10/30)
+        (xan - 2020/10/30)
 
     - CMake option to build the HDF filter plugins project as an external project
 
-      The HDF filter plugins project is a collection of registered compression
-      filters that can be dynamically loaded when needed to access data stored
-      in a hdf5 file. This CMake-only option allows the plugins to be built and
-      distributed with the hdf5 library and tools. Like the options for szip and
-      zlib, either a tgz file or a git repository can be specified for the source.
+        The HDF filter plugins project is a collection of registered compression
+        filters that can be dynamically loaded when needed to access data stored
+        in a hdf5 file. This CMake-only option allows the plugins to be built and
+        distributed with the hdf5 library and tools. Like the options for szip and
+        zlib, either a tgz file or a git repository can be specified for the source.
 
-      The necessary options are (see the INSTALL_CMake.txt file):
+        The necessary options are (see the INSTALL_CMake.txt file):
           HDF5_ENABLE_PLUGIN_SUPPORT
           PLUGIN_TGZ_NAME or PLUGIN_GIT_URL
-      There are more options necessary for various filters and the plugin project
-      documents should be referenced.
+        There are more options necessary for various filters and the plugin project
+        documents should be referenced.
 
       (ADB - 2020/10/16, OESS-98)
 
     - Added CMake option to format source files
 
-      HDF5_ENABLE_FORMATTERS option will enable creation of targets using the
-      pattern - HDF5_*_SRC_FORMAT - where * corresponds to the source folder
-      or tool folder. All sources can be formatted by executing the format target;
-         make format
+        HDF5_ENABLE_FORMATTERS option will enable creation of targets using the
+        pattern - HDF5_*_SRC_FORMAT - where * corresponds to the source folder
+        or tool folder. All sources can be formatted by executing the format target;
+        make format
 
-      (ADB - 2020/09/24)
+        (ADB - 2020/09/24)
 
     - CMake option to link the generated Fortran MOD files into the include
-      directory.
-
-      The Fortran generation of MOD files by a Fortran compile can produce
-      different binary files between SHARED and STATIC compiles with different
-      compilers and/or different platforms. Note that it has been found that
-      different versions of Fortran compilers will produce incompatible MOD
-      files. Currently, CMake will locate these MOD files in subfolders of
-      the include directory and add that path to the Fortran library target
-      in the CMake config file, which can be used by the CMake find library
-      process. For other build systems using the binary from a CMake install,
-      a new CMake configuration can be used to copy the pre-chosen version
-      of the Fortran MOD files into the install include directory.
-
-      The default will depend on the configuration of
-      BUILD_STATIC_LIBS and BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:
+        directory.
+
+        The Fortran generation of MOD files by a Fortran compile can produce
+        different binary files between SHARED and STATIC compiles with different
+        compilers and/or different platforms. Note that it has been found that
+        different versions of Fortran compilers will produce incompatible MOD
+        files. Currently, CMake will locate these MOD files in subfolders of
+        the include directory and add that path to the Fortran library target
+        in the CMake config file, which can be used by the CMake find library
+        process. For other build systems using the binary from a CMake install,
+        a new CMake configuration can be used to copy the pre-chosen version
+        of the Fortran MOD files into the install include directory.
+
+        The default will depend on the configuration of
+        BUILD_STATIC_LIBS and BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:
             YES                   YES         Default to SHARED
             YES                   NO          Default to STATIC
             NO                    YES         Default to SHARED
             NO                    NO          Default to SHARED
-      The defaults can be overriden by setting the config option
-         HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN to one of NO, SHARED, or STATIC
+        The defaults can be overriden by setting the config option
+            HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN to one of NO, SHARED, or STATIC
 
-      (ADB - 2020/07/9, HDFFV-11116)
+        (ADB - 2020/07/9, HDFFV-11116)
 
     - CMake option to use AEC (open source SZip) library instead of SZip
 
-      The open source AEC library is a replacement library for SZip. In
-      order to use it for hdf5 the libaec CMake source was changed to add
-      "-fPIC" and exclude test files. Autotools does not build the
-      compression libraries within hdf5 builds. New option USE_LIBAEC is
-      required to compensate for the different files produced by AEC build.
+        The open source AEC library is a replacement library for SZip. In
+        order to use it for hdf5 the libaec CMake source was changed to add
+        "-fPIC" and exclude test files. Autotools does not build the
+        compression libraries within hdf5 builds. New option USE_LIBAEC is
+        required to compensate for the different files produced by AEC build.
 
-      (ADB - 2020/04/22, OESS-65)
+        (ADB - 2020/04/22, OESS-65)
 
     - CMake ConfigureChecks.cmake file now uses CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER
 
-      Some handcrafted tests in HDFTests.c has been removed and the CMake
-      CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER module has been used.
+        Some handcrafted tests in HDFTests.c has been removed and the CMake
+        CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER module has been used.
 
-      (ADB - 2020/03/24, TRILAB-24)
+        (ADB - 2020/03/24, TRILAB-24)
 
     - Both build systems use same set of warnings flags
 
-      GNU C, C++ and gfortran warnings flags were moved to files in a config
-      sub-folder named gnu-warnings. Flags that only are available for a specific
-      version of the compiler are in files named with that version.
-      Clang C warnings flags were moved to files in a config sub-folder
-      named clang-warnings.
-      Intel C, Fortran warnings flags were moved to files in a config sub-folder
-      named intel-warnings.
+        GNU C, C++ and gfortran warnings flags were moved to files in a config
+        sub-folder named gnu-warnings. Flags that only are available for a specific
+        version of the compiler are in files named with that version.
+        Clang C warnings flags were moved to files in a config sub-folder
+        named clang-warnings.
+        Intel C, Fortran warnings flags were moved to files in a config sub-folder
+        named intel-warnings.
 
-      There are flags in named "error-xxx" files with warnings that may
-      be promoted to errors. Some source files may still need fixes.
+        There are flags in named "error-xxx" files with warnings that may
+        be promoted to errors. Some source files may still need fixes.
 
-      There are also pairs of files named "developer-xxx" and "no-developer-xxx"
-      that are chosen by the CMake option:HDF5_ENABLE_DEV_WARNINGS or the
-      configure option:--enable-developer-warnings.
+        There are also pairs of files named "developer-xxx" and "no-developer-xxx"
+        that are chosen by the CMake option:HDF5_ENABLE_DEV_WARNINGS or the
+        configure option:--enable-developer-warnings.
 
-      In addition, CMake no longer applies these warnings for examples.
+        In addition, CMake no longer applies these warnings for examples.
 
-      (ADB - 2020/03/24, TRILAB-192)
+        (ADB - 2020/03/24, TRILAB-192)
 
 
     Library:
@@ -165,32 +164,32 @@ New Features
     - Added two new API routines for tracking library memory use:
         H5get_alloc_stats() and H5get_free_list_sizes().
 
-      (QAK - 2020/03/25)
+        (QAK - 2020/03/25)
 
     Java Library:
     ----------------
     - Added new H5S functions.
 
-      H5Sselect_copy, H5Sselect_shape_same, H5Sselect_adjust,
-      H5Sselect_intersect_block, H5Sselect_project_intersection,
-      H5Scombine_hyperslab, H5Smodify_select, H5Scombine_select
-      wrapper functions added.
+        H5Sselect_copy, H5Sselect_shape_same, H5Sselect_adjust,
+        H5Sselect_intersect_block, H5Sselect_project_intersection,
+        H5Scombine_hyperslab, H5Smodify_select, H5Scombine_select
+        wrapper functions added.
 
-      (ADB - 2020/10/27, HDFFV-10868)
+        (ADB - 2020/10/27, HDFFV-10868)
 
 
     Tools:
     ------
     - h5repack added options to control how external links are handled.
 
-      Currently h5repack preserves external links and cannot copy and merge
-      data from the external files. Two options, merge and prune, were added to
-      control how to merge data from an external link into the resulting file.
-       --merge             Follow external soft link recursively and merge data.
-       --prune             Do not follow external soft links and remove link.
-       --merge --prune     Follow external link, merge data and remove dangling link.
+        Currently h5repack preserves external links and cannot copy and merge
+        data from the external files. Two options, merge and prune, were added to
+        control how to merge data from an external link into the resulting file.
+           --merge             Follow external soft link recursively and merge data.
+           --prune             Do not follow external soft links and remove link.
+           --merge --prune     Follow external link, merge data and remove dangling link.
 
-      (ADB - 2020/08/05, HDFFV-9984)
+        (ADB - 2020/08/05, HDFFV-9984)
 
 
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
@@ -205,82 +204,83 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
         have no entries to contribute.  This fixes parallel regression test
         failures with IBM SpectrumScale MPI on the Summit system at ORNL.
 
-      (QAK - 2020/09/02)
+        (QAK - 2020/09/02)
 
     - Avoid setting up complex MPI types with 0-length vectors, which some
         MPI implementations don't handle well.  (In particular, IBM
         SpectrumScale MPI on the Summit system at ORNL)
 
-      (QAK - 2020/08/21)
+        (QAK - 2020/08/21)
 
     - Explicitly declared dlopen to use RTLD_LOCAL
 
-      dlopen documentation states that if neither RTLD_GLOBAL nor
-      RTLD_LOCAL are specified, then the default behavior is unspecified.
-      The default on linux is usually RTLD_LOCAL while macos will default
-      to RTLD_GLOBAL.
+        dlopen documentation states that if neither RTLD_GLOBAL nor
+        RTLD_LOCAL are specified, then the default behavior is unspecified.
+        The default on linux is usually RTLD_LOCAL while macos will default
+        to RTLD_GLOBAL.
 
-      (ADB - 2020/08/12, HDFFV-11127)
+        (ADB - 2020/08/12, HDFFV-11127)
+
+    - H5Sset_extent_none() sets the dataspace class to H5S_NO_CLASS which
+        causes asserts/errors when passed to other dataspace API calls.
+
+        H5S_NO_CLASS is an internal class value that should not have been
+        exposed via a public API call.
+
+        In debug builds of the library, this can cause asserts to trip. In
+        non-debug builds, it will produce normal library errors.
+
+        The new library behavior is for H5Sset_extent_none() to convert
+        the dataspace into one of type H5S_NULL, which is better handled
+         by the library and easier for developers to reason about.
+
+        (DER - 2020/07/27, HDFFV-11027)
 
     - Fixed the segmentation fault when reading attributes with multiple threads
 
-      It was reported that the reading of attributes with variable length string
-      datatype will crash with segmentation fault particularly when the number of
-      threads is high (>16 threads).  The problem was due to the file pointer that
-      was set in the variable length string datatype for the attribute.  That file
-      pointer was already closed when the attribute was accessed.
+        It was reported that the reading of attributes with variable length string
+        datatype will crash with segmentation fault particularly when the number of
+        threads is high (>16 threads).  The problem was due to the file pointer that
+        was set in the variable length string datatype for the attribute.  That file
+        pointer was already closed when the attribute was accessed.
 
-      The problem was fixed by setting the file pointer to the current opened file pointer
-      when the attribute was accessed.  Similar patch up was done before when reading
-      dataset with variable length string datatype.
+        The problem was fixed by setting the file pointer to the current opened file pointer
+        when the attribute was accessed.  Similar patch up was done before when reading
+        dataset with variable length string datatype.
 
-      (VC - 2020/07/13, HDFFV-11080)
+        (VC - 2020/07/13, HDFFV-11080)
 
     - Reduce overhead for H5open(), which is involved in public symbols like
         H5T_NATIVE_INT, etc.
 
-      (QAK - 2020/06/18)
+        (QAK - 2020/06/18)
 
     - Cache last ID looked up for an ID type (dataset, datatype, file, etc),
         improving performance when accessing the same ID repeatedly.
 
-      (QAK - 2020/06/11)
+        (QAK - 2020/06/11)
 
     - Streamline I/O to a single element, improving performance for record
         appends to chunked datasets.
 
-      (QAK - 2020/06/11)
+        (QAK - 2020/06/11)
 
     - Remove redundant tagging of metadata cache entries for some chunked
         dataset operations, slightly improving performance for chunked
         datasets.
 
-      (QAK - 2020/06/10)
+        (QAK - 2020/06/10)
 
     - Better detect selections with the same shape, improving performance for
         some uses of H5DOappend (and other situations).
 
-      (QAK - 2020/06/07)
+        (QAK - 2020/06/07)
 
     - Don't allocate an empty (0-dimensioned) chunked dataset's chunk
         index, until the dataset's dimensions are increased.
 
-      (QAK - 2020/05/07)
-
-    - H5Sset_extent_none() sets the dataspace class to H5S_NO_CLASS which
-      causes asserts/errors when passed to other dataspace API calls.
-
-      H5S_NO_CLASS is an internal class value that should not have been
-      exposed via a public API call.
-
-      In debug builds of the library, this can cause asserts to trip. In
-      non-debug builds, it will produce normal library errors.
-
-      The new library behavior is for H5Sset_extent_none() to convert
-      the dataspace into one of type H5S_NULL, which is better handled
-      by the library and easier for developers to reason about.
+        (QAK - 2020/05/07)
 
-      (DER - 2020/07/27, HDFFV-11027)
 
     Tools:
     ------
@@ -291,26 +291,26 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
 
     - Fixed configure issue when building HDF5 with NAG Fortran 7.0.
 
-    HDF5 now accounts for the addition of half-precision floating-point
-    in NAG 7.0 with a KIND=16.
+        HDF5 now accounts for the addition of half-precision floating-point
+        in NAG 7.0 with a KIND=16.
 
-    (MSB - 2020/02/28, HDFFV-11033)
+        (MSB - 2020/02/28, HDFFV-11033)
 
     High-Level Library
     ------------------
     - Eliminated unnecessary code in H5DOappend(), improving its performance.
 
-      (QAK - 2020/06/05)
+        (QAK - 2020/06/05)
 
     Testing
     -------
     - Stopped java/test/junit.sh.in installing libs for testing under ${prefix}
 
-      Lib files needed are now copied to a subdirectory in the java/test
-      directory, and on Macs the loader path for libhdf5.xxxs.so is changed
-      in the temporary copy of libhdf5_java.dylib.
+        Lib files needed are now copied to a subdirectory in the java/test
+        directory, and on Macs the loader path for libhdf5.xxxs.so is changed
+        in the temporary copy of libhdf5_java.dylib.
 
-      (LRK, 2020/7/2, HDFFV-11063)
+        (LRK, 2020/7/2, HDFFV-11063)
 
 
 Supported Platforms