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author | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2011-10-14 18:29:39 (GMT) |
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committer | Dana Robinson <derobins@hdfgroup.org> | 2011-10-14 18:29:39 (GMT) |
commit | b92a7abb344f9965853464697c64503c5953ee49 (patch) | |
tree | 9e7650c21c0541d3cec89cdeda5eee634af22e69 /release_docs | |
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[svn-r21567] Updated RELEASE.txt
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 9e8d0d5..62915be 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -56,12 +56,24 @@ New Features Configuration ------------- - - None + - 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 ------- - H5Tcreate now supports string type (fixed-length and variable-length). (SLU - 2011/05/20) + - The Windows VFD code has been removed with the exception of the functions + which set it (H5Pset_fapl_windows, for example). Setting the Windows + VFD now really sets the SEC2 VFD. The WINDOWS_MAX_BUF and + WINDOWS_USE_STDIO configuration options and #defines have also been + removed. See HDFFV-7740 and 7744. + + NOTE: Since the Windows VFD was a clone of the SEC2 VFD, this change + should be transparent to users. + (DER - 2011/10/12) Parallel Library ---------------- @@ -98,9 +110,6 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7 Configuration ------------- - - In the Windows platform, the default VFD was changed from the Windows VFD - back to the POSIX (aka SEC2) VFD. The Windows VFD is deprecated. HDFFV-7740 - (AKC 2011/09/26) - 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 @@ -111,7 +120,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7 manual, since we define _BSD_SOURCE. (DER - 2011/05/24) - Fixed a bug in the bin/trace Perl script where API functions that take a variable number of arguments were not processed for - trace statement fixup. (DER - 2011/08/25) + trace statement fixup. (DER - 2011/08/25) + - The Windows and VMS versions of H5pubconf.h were brought into sync with + the linux/posix version. (DER - 2011/10/12) + - Changed the size of H5_SIZEOF_OFF_T to 4 bytes (was 8) in the VMS + h5pubconf.h based on the output of a test program. (DER - 2011/10/12) Library ------- @@ -155,6 +168,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7 - H5Epush2() now has the correct trace functionality (this is related to the bin/trace Perl script bug noted in the configure section). (DER 2011/08/25) + - Converted post-checks for appropriate POSIX I/O sizes to pre-checks in + order to avoid platform-specific/undefined behavior. (DER - 2011/10/12) + - Corrected some Windows behavior in the SEC2 and log VFDs. This mainly + involved data type correctness fixes, Windows API call error checks and + adding the volume serial number to the VFD cmp functions. + (DER 2011/10/12) + - Added generic VFD I/O types to the SEC2 and log VFDs to ensure correct + I/O sizes (and remove compiler warnings) between Windows and true POSIX + systems. (DER - 2011/10/12) Parallel Library ---------------- @@ -525,7 +547,16 @@ Known Problems 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 1.8.8. + a fix should appear in a future release, possibly 1.8.9. + +* 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. See JIRA + issue HDFFV-7768 for more information. DER - 10/14/2011 + +* 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 the next release. See JIRA issue + HDFFV-7527. DER - 10/14/2011 ======== Original tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh ========= TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5 |