Merge pull request #1239 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~LRKNOX/hdf5_lrk:hdf5_1_10 to hdf5_1_10

* commit '3110fd53c0b072e6be250235061a6349921765e9':
  Add contents of HDF5 1.10.3 RELEASE.txt to HISTORY-1_10.txt and update RELEASE.txt for continuing development.

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diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_10.txt
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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ HDF5 History
 
 This file contains development history of the HDF5 1.10 branch
 
+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 
@@ -10,6 +11,673 @@ This file contains development history of the HDF5 1.10 branch
 
 [Search on the string '%%%%' for section breaks of each release.]
 
+%%%%1.10.3%%%%
+
+HDF5 version 1.10.3 released on 2018-08-21
+================================================================================
+
+
+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
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2
+- Supported Platforms
+- Tested Configuration Features Summary
+- More Tested Platforms
+- Known Problems
+- CMake vs. Autotools installations
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Moved the H5DOread/write_chunk() API calls to H5Dread/write_chunk()
+
+      The functionality of the direct chunk I/O calls in the high-level
+      library has been moved to the H5D package in the main library. This
+      will allow using those functions without building the high-level
+      library. The parameters and functionality of the H5D calls are
+      identical to the H5DO calls.
+
+      The original H5DO high-level API calls have been retained, though
+      they are now just wrappers for the H5D calls. They are marked as
+      deprecated and are only available when the library is built with
+      deprecated functions. New code should use the H5D calls for this
+      reason.
+
+      As a part of this work, the following symbols from H5Dpublic.h are no
+      longer used:
+
+        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_FLAG_NAME
+        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_FILTERS_NAME
+        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_OFFSET_NAME
+        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_DATASIZE_NAME
+        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_FLAG_NAME
+        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_OFFSET_NAME
+        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_FILTERS_NAME
+
+      And properties with these names are no longer stored in the dataset
+      transfer property lists. The symbols are still defined in H5Dpublic.h,
+      but only when the library is built with deprecated symbols.
+
+      (DER - 2018/05/04)
+
+    Configuration:
+    -------------
+    - Add missing USE_110_API_DEFAULT option.
+
+      Option USE_110_API_DEFAULT sets the default version of
+      versioned APIs. The bin/makevers perl script did not set
+      the maxidx variable correctly when the 1.10 branch was
+      created. This caused the versioning process to always use
+      the latest version of any API.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/08/17, HDFFV-10552)
+
+    - Added configuration checks for the following MPI functions:
+
+      MPI_Mprobe - Used for the Parallel Compression feature
+      MPI_Imrecv - Used for the Parallel Compression feature
+
+      MPI_Get_elements_x - Used for the "big Parallel I/O" feature
+      MPI_Type_size_x - Used for the "big Parallel I/O" feature
+
+      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
+
+    - Added section to the libhdf5.settings file to indicate
+      the status of the Parallel Compression and "big Parallel I/O"
+      features.
+
+      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
+
+    - Add option to execute swmr shell scripts from CMake.
+
+      Option TEST_SHELL_SCRIPTS redirects processing into a
+      separate ShellTests.cmake file for UNIX types. The tests
+      execute the shell scripts if a SH program is found.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/07/16)
+
+
+    C++ Library:
+    ------------
+    - New wrappers
+
+      Added the following items:
+
+      + Class DSetAccPropList for the dataset access property list.
+
+      + Wrapper for H5Dget_access_plist to class DataSet
+        // Gets the access property list of this dataset.
+        DSetAccPropList getAccessPlist() const;
+
+      + Wrappers for H5Pset_chunk_cache and H5Pget_chunk_cache to class DSetAccPropList
+        // Sets the raw data chunk cache parameters.
+        void setChunkCache(size_t rdcc_nslots, size_t rdcc_nbytes, double rdcc_w0)
+
+        // Retrieves the raw data chunk cache parameters.
+        void getChunkCache(size_t &rdcc_nslots, size_t &rdcc_nbytes, double &rdcc_w0)
+
+      + New operator!= to class DataType (HDFFV-10472)
+        // Determines whether two datatypes are not the same.
+        bool operator!=(const DataType& compared_type)
+
+      + Wrappers for H5Oget_info2, H5Oget_info_by_name2, and H5Oget_info_by_idx2
+        (HDFFV-10458)
+
+        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object.
+        void getObjinfo(H5O_info_t& objinfo, unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC) const;
+
+        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object, given its name.
+        void getObjinfo(const char* name, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
+                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
+                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
+        void getObjinfo(const H5std_string& name, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
+                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
+                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
+
+        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object, given its index.
+        void getObjinfo(const char* grp_name, H5_index_t idx_type,
+                H5_iter_order_t order, hsize_t idx, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
+                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
+                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
+        void getObjinfo(const H5std_string& grp_name, H5_index_t idx_type,
+                H5_iter_order_t order, hsize_t idx, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
+                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
+                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
+
+      (BMR - 2018/07/22, HDFFV-10150, HDFFV-10458, HDFFV-1047)
+
+
+    Java Library:
+    ----------------
+    - Java HDFLibraryException class
+
+      Change parent class from Exception to RuntimeException.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/07/30, HDFFV-10534)
+
+    - JNI Read and Write
+
+      Refactored variable-length functions, H5DreadVL and H5AreadVL,
+      to correct dataset and attribute reads. New write functions,
+      H5DwriteVL and H5AwriteVL, are under construction.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/06/02, HDFFV-10519)
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2 release
+==================================
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Performance issue with H5Oget_info
+
+      H5Oget_info family of routines retrieves information for an object such
+      as object type, access time, number of attributes, and storage space etc.
+      Retrieving all such information regardless is an overkill and causes
+      performance issue when doing so for many objects.
+
+      Add an additional parameter "fields" to the the H5Oget_info family of routines
+      indicating the type of information to be retrieved.  The same is done to
+      the H5Ovisit family of routines which recursively visits an object
+      returning object information in a callback function.  Both sets of routines
+      are versioned and the corresponding compatibility macros are added.
+
+      The version 2 names of the two sets of routines are:
+        (1) H5Oget_info2, H5Oget_info_by_idx2, H5Oget_info_by_name2
+        (2) H5Ovisit2, H5Ovisit_by_name2
+
+      (VC - 2018/08/15, HDFFV-10180)
+
+    - Test failure due to metadata size in test/vds.c
+
+      The size of metadata from test_api_get_ex_dcpl() in test/vds.c is not as expected
+      because the latest format should be used when encoding the layout for VDS.
+
+      Set the latest format in a temporary fapl and pass the setting to the routines that
+      encode the dataset selection for VDS.
+
+      (VC - 2018/08/14 HDFFV-10469)
+
+    - Java HDF5LibraryException class
+
+      The error minor and major values would be lost after the
+      constructor executed.
+
+      Created two local class variables to hold the values obtained during
+      execution of the constructor. Refactored the class functions to retrieve
+      the class values rather then calling the native functions.
+      The native functions were renamed and called only during execution
+      of the constructor.
+      Added error checking to calling class constructors in JNI classes.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/08/06, HDFFV-10544)
+
+    - Added checks of the defined MPI_VERSION to guard against usage of
+      MPI-3 functions in the Parallel Compression and "big Parallel I/O"
+      features when HDF5 is built with MPI-2. Previously, the configure
+      step would pass but the build itself would fail when it could not
+      locate the MPI-3 functions used.
+
+      As a result of these new checks, HDF5 can again be built with MPI-2,
+      but the Parallel Compression feature will be disabled as it relies
+      on the MPI-3 functions used.
+
+      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
+
+    - User's patches: CVEs
+
+      The following patches have been applied:
+
+      CVE-2018-11202 - NULL pointer dereference was discovered in
+                       H5S_hyper_make_spans in H5Shyper.c (HDFFV-10476)
+        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11202
+        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11202
+
+      CVE-2018-11203 - A division by zero was discovered in
+                       H5D__btree_decode_key in H5Dbtree.c (HDFFV-10477)
+        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11203
+        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11203
+
+      CVE-2018-11204 - A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in
+                       H5O__chunk_deserialize in H5Ocache.c (HDFFV-10478)
+        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11204
+        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11204
+
+      CVE-2018-11206 - An out of bound read was discovered in
+                       H5O_fill_new_decode and H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c
+                       (HDFFV-10480)
+        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11206
+        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11206
+
+      CVE-2018-11207 - A division by zero was discovered in
+                       H5D__chunk_init in H5Dchunk.c  (HDFFV-10481)
+        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11207
+        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11207
+
+      (BMR - 2018/7/22, PR#s: 1134 and 1139,
+       HDFFV-10476, HDFFV-10477, HDFFV-10478, HDFFV-10480, HDFFV-10481)
+
+    - H5Adelete
+
+      H5Adelete failed when deleting the last "large" attribute that
+      is stored densely via fractal heap/v2 b-tree.
+
+      After removing the attribute, update the ainfo message.  If the
+      number of attributes goes to zero, remove the message.
+
+      (VC - 2018/07/20, HDFFV-9277)
+
+    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused partial
+      parallel reads of filtered datasets to return incorrect data. The
+      library used the incorrect dataspace for each chunk read, causing
+      the selection used in each chunk to be wrong.
+
+      The bug was not caught during testing because all of the current
+      tests which do parallel reads of filtered data read all of the data
+      using an H5S_ALL selection. Several tests were added which exercise
+      partial parallel reads.
+
+      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10467)
+
+    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused parallel
+      writes of filtered datasets to trigger an assertion failure in the
+      file free space manager.
+
+      This occurred when the filter used caused chunks to repeatedly shrink
+      and grow over the course of several dataset writes. The previous chunk
+      information, such as the size of the chunk and the offset in the file,
+      was being cached and not updated after each write, causing the next write
+      to the chunk to retrieve the incorrect cached information and run into
+      issues when reallocating space in the file for the chunk.
+
+      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10509)
+
+    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused the
+      H5D__mpio_array_gatherv() function to allocate too much memory.
+
+      When the function is called with the 'allgather' parameter set
+      to a non-true value, the function will receive data from all MPI
+      ranks and gather it to the single rank specied by the 'root'
+      parameter. However, the bug in the function caused memory for
+      the received data to be allocated on all MPI ranks, not just the
+      singular rank specified as the receiver. In some circumstances,
+      this would cause an application to fail due to the large amounts
+      of memory being allocated.
+
+      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10467)
+
+    - Error checks in h5stat and when decoding messages
+
+      h5stat exited with seg fault/core dumped when
+      errors are encountered in the internal library.
+
+      Add error checks and --enable-error-stack option to h5stat.
+      Add range checks when decoding messages: old fill value, old
+      layout and refcount.
+
+      (VC - 2018/07/11, HDFFV-10333)
+
+    - 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)
+
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Applied patches to address Cywin build issues
+
+      There were three issues for Cygwin builds:
+      - Shared libs were not built.
+      - The -std=c99 flag caused a SIG_SETMASK undeclared error.
+      - Undefined errors when buildbing test shared libraries.
+
+      Patches to address these issues were received and incorporated in this version.
+
+      (LRK - 2018/07/18, HDFFV-10475)
+
+    - The --enable-debug/production configure flags are listed as 'deprecated'
+      when they should really be listed as 'removed'.
+
+      In the autotools overhaul several years ago, we removed these flags and
+      implemented a new --enable-build-mode= flag. This was done because we
+      changed the semantics of the modes and didn't want users to silently
+      be exposed to them. The newer system is also more flexible and us to
+      add other modes (like 'clean').
+
+      The --enable-debug/production flags are now listed as removed.
+
+      (DER - 2018/05/31, HDFFV-10505)
+
+    - 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)
+
+    - Reworked java test suite into individual JUnit tests.
+
+      Testing the whole suite of java unit tests in a single JUnit run
+      made it difficult to determine actual failures when tests would fail.
+      Running each file set of tests individually, allows individual failures
+      to be diagnosed easier. A side benefit is that tests for optional components
+      of the library can be disabled if not configured.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/05/16, HDFFV-9739)
+
+    - Converted CMake global commands ADD_DEFINITIONS and INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
+      to use target_* type commands. This change modernizes the CMake usage
+      in the HDF5 library.
+
+      In addition, there is the intention to convert to generator expressions,
+      where possible. The exception is Fortran FLAGS on Windows Visual Studio.
+      The HDF macros TARGET_C_PROPERTIES and TARGET_FORTRAN_PROPERTIES have
+      been removed with this change in usage.
+
+      The additional language (C++ and Fortran) checks have also been localized
+      to only be checked when that language is enabled.
+
+      (ADB - 2018/05/08)
+
+
+    Performance
+    -------------
+    - Revamped internal use of DXPLs, improving performance
+
+      (QAK - 2018/05/20)
+
+
+    Fortran
+    --------
+    - Fixed issue with h5fget_obj_count_f and using a file id of H5F_OBJ_ALL_F not
+      returning the correct count.
+
+      (MSB - 2018/5/15, HDFFV-10405)
+
+
+    C++ APIs
+    --------
+    - Adding default arguments to existing functions
+
+      Added the following items:
+      + Two more property list arguments are added to H5Location::createDataSet:
+        const DSetAccPropList& dapl = DSetAccPropList::DEFAULT
+        const LinkCreatPropList& lcpl = LinkCreatPropList::DEFAULT
+
+      + One more property list argument is added to H5Location::openDataSet:
+        const DSetAccPropList& dapl = DSetAccPropList::DEFAULT
+
+      (BMR - 2018/07/21, PR# 1146)
+
+    - Improvement C++ documentation
+
+      Replaced the table in main page of the C++ documentation from mht to htm format
+      for portability.
+
+      (BMR - 2018/07/17, PR# 1141)
+
+
+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 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 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
+
+    Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6         Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang/clang++-802.0.42)
+    64-bit                        gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 7.1.0
+    (swallow/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
+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 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
+CentOS 7.2 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/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 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
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI         y       y         y         n
+CentOS 7.2 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU         y       y         y         y
+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,
+                                     3.1.0-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)
+
+    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
+
+    Debian 8.4 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc, g++ (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  GNU Fortran (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+    Fedora 24  4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc, g++ (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)
+
+    Ubuntu 16.04.1 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
+                                  gcc, g++ (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2)
+                                      5.4.0 20160609
+                                  GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2)
+                                      5.4.0 20160609
+                                  (cmake and autotools)
+
+
+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.
+
+    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.
+
+
 %%%%1.10.2%%%%
 
 HDF5 version 1.10.2 released on 2018-03-29
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index ca30d10..609202c 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ CONTENTS
 - New Features
 - Support for new platforms and languages
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3
-- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2
 - Supported Platforms
 - Tested Configuration Features Summary
 - More Tested Platforms
@@ -46,81 +45,14 @@ CONTENTS
 New Features
 ============
 
-    Library
-    -------
-
-    - Moved the H5DOread/write_chunk() API calls to H5Dread/write_chunk()
-
-      The functionality of the direct chunk I/O calls in the high-level
-      library has been moved to the H5D package in the main library. This
-      will allow using those functions without building the high-level
-      library. The parameters and functionality of the H5D calls are
-      identical to the H5DO calls.
-
-      The original H5DO high-level API calls have been retained, though
-      they are now just wrappers for the H5D calls. They are marked as
-      deprecated and are only available when the library is built with
-      deprecated functions. New code should use the H5D calls for this
-      reason.
-
-      As a part of this work, the following symbols from H5Dpublic.h are no
-      longer used:
-
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_FLAG_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_FILTERS_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_OFFSET_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_WRITE_DATASIZE_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_FLAG_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_OFFSET_NAME
-        H5D_XFER_DIRECT_CHUNK_READ_FILTERS_NAME
-
-      And properties with these names are no longer stored in the dataset
-      transfer property lists. The symbols are still defined in H5Dpublic.h,
-      but only when the library is built with deprecated symbols.
-
-      (DER - 2018/05/04)
-
     Configuration:
     -------------
-    - Add missing USE_110_API_DEFAULT option.
-
-      Option USE_110_API_DEFAULT sets the default version of
-      versioned APIs. The bin/makevers perl script did not set
-      the maxidx variable correctly when the 1.10 branch was
-      created. This caused the versioning process to always use
-      the latest version of any API.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/08/17, HDFFV-10552)
-
-    - Added configuration checks for the following MPI functions:
-
-      MPI_Mprobe - Used for the Parallel Compression feature
-      MPI_Imrecv - Used for the Parallel Compression feature
-
-      MPI_Get_elements_x - Used for the "big Parallel I/O" feature
-      MPI_Type_size_x - Used for the "big Parallel I/O" feature
-
-      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
-
-    - Added section to the libhdf5.settings file to indicate
-      the status of the Parallel Compression and "big Parallel I/O"
-      features.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
-
-    - Add option to execute swmr shell scripts from CMake.
-
-      Option TEST_SHELL_SCRIPTS redirects processing into a
-      separate ShellTests.cmake file for UNIX types. The tests
-      execute the shell scripts if a SH program is found.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/07/16)
+    -
 
     Library:
     --------
     -
 
-
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
     -
@@ -129,91 +61,13 @@ New Features
     ----------------
     -
 
-
     C++ Library:
     ------------
-    - New wrappers
-
-      Added the following items:
-
-      + Class DSetAccPropList for the dataset access property list.
-
-      + Wrapper for H5Dget_access_plist to class DataSet
-        // Gets the access property list of this dataset.
-        DSetAccPropList getAccessPlist() const;
-
-      + Wrappers for H5Pset_chunk_cache and H5Pget_chunk_cache to class DSetAccPropList
-        // Sets the raw data chunk cache parameters.
-        void setChunkCache(size_t rdcc_nslots, size_t rdcc_nbytes, double rdcc_w0)
-
-        // Retrieves the raw data chunk cache parameters.
-        void getChunkCache(size_t &rdcc_nslots, size_t &rdcc_nbytes, double &rdcc_w0)
-
-      + New operator!= to class DataType (HDFFV-10472)
-        // Determines whether two datatypes are not the same.
-        bool operator!=(const DataType& compared_type)
-
-      + Wrappers for H5Oget_info2, H5Oget_info_by_name2, and H5Oget_info_by_idx2
-        (HDFFV-10458)
-
-        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object.
-        void getObjinfo(H5O_info_t& objinfo, unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC) const;
-
-        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object, given its name.
-        void getObjinfo(const char* name, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
-                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
-                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
-        void getObjinfo(const H5std_string& name, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
-                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
-                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
-
-        // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object, given its index.
-        void getObjinfo(const char* grp_name, H5_index_t idx_type,
-                H5_iter_order_t order, hsize_t idx, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
-                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
-                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
-        void getObjinfo(const H5std_string& grp_name, H5_index_t idx_type,
-                H5_iter_order_t order, hsize_t idx, H5O_info_t& objinfo,
-                unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC,
-                const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const;
-
-      (BMR - 2018/07/22, HDFFV-10150, HDFFV-10458, HDFFV-1047)
-
+    - 
 
     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
-      paths to change also.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/08/31, HDFFV-10568)
-
-    - Java iterator callbacks
-
-      Change global callback object to a small stack structure in order
-      to fix a runtime crash. This crash was discovered when iterating
-      through a file with nested group members. The global variable
-      visit_callback is overwritten when recursion starts. When recursion
-      completes, visit_callback will be pointing to the wrong callback method.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/08/15, HDFFV-10536)
-
-    - Java HDFLibraryException class
-
-      Change parent class from Exception to RuntimeException.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/07/30, HDFFV-10534)
-
-    - JNI Read and Write
-
-      Refactored variable-length functions, H5DreadVL and H5AreadVL,
-      to correct dataset and attribute reads. New write functions,
-      H5DwriteVL and H5AwriteVL, are under construction.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/06/02, HDFFV-10519)
+    - 
 
     Tools:
     ------
@@ -262,336 +116,17 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release
 
       (JTH - 2018/08/25, HDFFV-10501)
 
-    Configuration
-    -------------
-    -
-
-    Performance
-    -------------
-    -
-
-    Fortran
-    --------
-    -
-
-    Tools
-    -----
-    -
-
-    High-Level APIs:
-    ------
-    -
-
-    Fortran High-Level APIs:
-    ------
-    -
-
-    Documentation
-    -------------
-    -
-
-    F90 APIs
-    --------
-    -
-
-    C++ APIs
-    --------
-    -
-
-    Testing
-    -------
-
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2 release
-==================================
-
-    Library
-    -------
-    - Performance issue with H5Oget_info
-
-      H5Oget_info family of routines retrieves information for an object such
-      as object type, access time, number of attributes, and storage space etc.
-      Retrieving all such information regardless is an overkill and causes 
-      performance issue when doing so for many objects.
-
-      Add an additional parameter "fields" to the the H5Oget_info family of routines
-      indicating the type of information to be retrieved.  The same is done to
-      the H5Ovisit family of routines which recursively visits an object 
-      returning object information in a callback function.  Both sets of routines
-      are versioned and the corresponding compatibility macros are added.
-
-      The version 2 names of the two sets of routines are:
-        (1) H5Oget_info2, H5Oget_info_by_idx2, H5Oget_info_by_name2
-        (2) H5Ovisit2, H5Ovisit_by_name2
-
-      (VC - 2018/08/15, HDFFV-10180)
-
-    - Test failure due to metadata size in test/vds.c
-
-      The size of metadata from test_api_get_ex_dcpl() in test/vds.c is not as expected
-      because the latest format should be used when encoding the layout for VDS.
-
-      Set the latest format in a temporary fapl and pass the setting to the routines that 
-      encode the dataset selection for VDS.
-
-      (VC - 2018/08/14 HDFFV-10469)
-
-    - Java HDF5LibraryException class
-
-      The error minor and major values would be lost after the
-      constructor executed.
-
-      Created two local class variables to hold the values obtained during
-      execution of the constructor. Refactored the class functions to retrieve
-      the class values rather then calling the native functions.
-      The native functions were renamed and called only during execution
-      of the constructor.
-      Added error checking to calling class constructors in JNI classes.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/08/06, HDFFV-10544)
-
-    - Added checks of the defined MPI_VERSION to guard against usage of
-      MPI-3 functions in the Parallel Compression and "big Parallel I/O"
-      features when HDF5 is built with MPI-2. Previously, the configure
-      step would pass but the build itself would fail when it could not
-      locate the MPI-3 functions used.
-
-      As a result of these new checks, HDF5 can again be built with MPI-2,
-      but the Parallel Compression feature will be disabled as it relies
-      on the MPI-3 functions used.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/08/02, HDFFV-10512)
-
-    - User's patches: CVEs
-
-      The following patches have been applied:
-
-      CVE-2018-11202 - NULL pointer dereference was discovered in
-                       H5S_hyper_make_spans in H5Shyper.c (HDFFV-10476)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11202
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11202
-
-      CVE-2018-11203 - A division by zero was discovered in
-                       H5D__btree_decode_key in H5Dbtree.c (HDFFV-10477)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11203
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11203
-
-      CVE-2018-11204 - A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in
-                       H5O__chunk_deserialize in H5Ocache.c (HDFFV-10478)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11204
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11204
-
-      CVE-2018-11206 - An out of bound read was discovered in
-                       H5O_fill_new_decode and H5O_fill_old_decode in H5Ofill.c
-                       (HDFFV-10480)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11206
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11206
-
-      CVE-2018-11207 - A division by zero was discovered in
-                       H5D__chunk_init in H5Dchunk.c  (HDFFV-10481)
-        https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11207
-        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2018-11207
-
-      (BMR - 2018/7/22, PR#s: 1134 and 1139,
-       HDFFV-10476, HDFFV-10477, HDFFV-10478, HDFFV-10480, HDFFV-10481)
-
-    - H5Adelete
-
-      H5Adelete failed when deleting the last "large" attribute that
-      is stored densely via fractal heap/v2 b-tree.
-
-      After removing the attribute, update the ainfo message.  If the
-      number of attributes goes to zero, remove the message.
-
-      (VC - 2018/07/20, HDFFV-9277)
-
-    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused partial
-      parallel reads of filtered datasets to return incorrect data. The
-      library used the incorrect dataspace for each chunk read, causing
-      the selection used in each chunk to be wrong.
-
-      The bug was not caught during testing because all of the current
-      tests which do parallel reads of filtered data read all of the data
-      using an H5S_ALL selection. Several tests were added which exercise
-      partial parallel reads.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10467)
-
-    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused parallel
-      writes of filtered datasets to trigger an assertion failure in the
-      file free space manager.
-
-      This occurred when the filter used caused chunks to repeatedly shrink
-      and grow over the course of several dataset writes. The previous chunk
-      information, such as the size of the chunk and the offset in the file,
-      was being cached and not updated after each write, causing the next write
-      to the chunk to retrieve the incorrect cached information and run into
-      issues when reallocating space in the file for the chunk.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10509)
-
-    - A bug was discovered in the parallel library which caused the
-      H5D__mpio_array_gatherv() function to allocate too much memory.
-
-      When the function is called with the 'allgather' parameter set
-      to a non-true value, the function will receive data from all MPI
-      ranks and gather it to the single rank specied by the 'root'
-      parameter. However, the bug in the function caused memory for
-      the received data to be allocated on all MPI ranks, not just the
-      singular rank specified as the receiver. In some circumstances,
-      this would cause an application to fail due to the large amounts
-      of memory being allocated.
-
-      (JTH - 2018/07/16, HDFFV-10467)
-
-    - Error checks in h5stat and when decoding messages
-
-      h5stat exited with seg fault/core dumped when
-      errors are encountered in the internal library.
-
-      Add error checks and --enable-error-stack option to h5stat.
-      Add range checks when decoding messages: old fill value, old
-      layout and refcount.
-
-      (VC - 2018/07/11, HDFFV-10333)
-
-    - 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)
-
-
-    Configuration
-    -------------
-    - Applied patches to address Cywin build issues
-
-      There were three issues for Cygwin builds:
-      - Shared libs were not built.
-      - The -std=c99 flag caused a SIG_SETMASK undeclared error.
-      - Undefined errors when buildbing test shared libraries.
-
-      Patches to address these issues were received and incorporated in this version.
-
-      (LRK - 2018/07/18, HDFFV-10475)
-
-    - The --enable-debug/production configure flags are listed as 'deprecated'
-      when they should really be listed as 'removed'.
-
-      In the autotools overhaul several years ago, we removed these flags and
-      implemented a new --enable-build-mode= flag. This was done because we
-      changed the semantics of the modes and didn't want users to silently
-      be exposed to them. The newer system is also more flexible and us to
-      add other modes (like 'clean').
-
-      The --enable-debug/production flags are now listed as removed.
-
-      (DER - 2018/05/31, HDFFV-10505)
-
-    - 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)
-
-    - Reworked java test suite into individual JUnit tests.
-
-      Testing the whole suite of java unit tests in a single JUnit run
-      made it difficult to determine actual failures when tests would fail.
-      Running each file set of tests individually, allows individual failures
-      to be diagnosed easier. A side benefit is that tests for optional components
-      of the library can be disabled if not configured.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/05/16, HDFFV-9739)
-
-    - Converted CMake global commands ADD_DEFINITIONS and INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
-      to use target_* type commands. This change modernizes the CMake usage
-      in the HDF5 library.
-
-      In addition, there is the intention to convert to generator expressions,
-      where possible. The exception is Fortran FLAGS on Windows Visual Studio.
-      The HDF macros TARGET_C_PROPERTIES and TARGET_FORTRAN_PROPERTIES have
-      been removed with this change in usage.
-
-      The additional language (C++ and Fortran) checks have also been localized
-      to only be checked when that language is enabled.
-
-      (ADB - 2018/05/08)
-
-    Performance
-    -------------
-    - Revamped internal use of DXPLs, improving performance
-
-      (QAK - 2018/05/20)
-
-    Fortran
-    --------
-    - Fixed issue with h5fget_obj_count_f and using a file id of H5F_OBJ_ALL_F not
-      returning the correct count.
-
-      (MSB - 2018/5/15, HDFFV-10405)
-
-
-    Tools
-    -----
-    -
-
-    High-Level APIs:
-    ------
-    -
-
-    Fortran High-Level APIs:
-    ------
-    -
-
-    Documentation
-    -------------
-    -
-
-    F90 APIs
-    --------
-    -
-
-    C++ APIs
-    --------
-    - Adding default arguments to existing functions
-
-      Added the following items:
-      + Two more property list arguments are added to H5Location::createDataSet:
-        const DSetAccPropList& dapl = DSetAccPropList::DEFAULT
-        const LinkCreatPropList& lcpl = LinkCreatPropList::DEFAULT
-
-      + One more property list argument is added to H5Location::openDataSet:
-        const DSetAccPropList& dapl = DSetAccPropList::DEFAULT
-
-      (BMR - 2018/07/21, PR# 1146)
-
-    - Improvement C++ documentation
-
-      Replaced the table in main page of the C++ documentation from mht to htm format
-      for portability.
+    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
+      paths to change also.
 
-      (BMR - 2018/07/17, PR# 1141)
+      (ADB - 2018/08/31, HDFFV-10568)
 
-    Testing
-    -------
-    -
 
 Supported Platforms
 ===================