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 This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch
 
+4.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.3
 3.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.2
 2.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.1
 1.      Release Information for hdf5-1.8.0
@@ -10,6 +11,568 @@ This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch
 [Search on the string '%%%%' for per-release section breaks.]
 
 
+%%%%1.8.3%%%%   
+
+
+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 
+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
+can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/
+
+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: 
+
+     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 
+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 
+release) versus Release 1.8.2":
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/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 HDF5-1.8.2
+- Platforms Tested
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - 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
+      installing via the prefix= or $DESTDIR options. AKC - 2009/04/14
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Embed the content of libhdf5.settings into the hdf5 executables
+      so that an "orphaned" executables can display (via the Unix
+      strings command, for example) the library settings used to build
+      the executables.  This is a prototype implementation. Improvement will
+      be added in next release.  AKC - 2009/04/20
+    - Separated "factory" free list class from block free lists. These free
+      lists are dynamically created and manage blocks of a fixed size.
+      H5set_free_list_limits() will use the same settings specified for block
+      free lists for factory free lists. NAF - 2009/04/08
+    - Added support for dense attributes to H5Ocopy. XCao/NAF - 2009/01/29
+    - Added H5Pset_elink_cb and H5Pget_elink_cb functions to support a
+      user-defined callback function for external link traversal.
+      NAF - 2009/01/08
+    - Added H5Pset_elink_acc_flags and H5Pget_elink_acc_flags functions to
+      allow the user to specify the file access flags used to open the target
+      file of an external link. NAF - 2009/01/08
+    - Added H5Pset_chunk_cache() and H5Pget_chunk_cache() functions to allow
+      individual rdcc configuration for each dataset.  Added
+      H5Dget_access_plist() function to retrieve a dataset access property
+      list from a dataset. NAF - 2008/11/12
+    - Added H5Iis_valid() function to check if an id is valid without
+      producing an error message. NAF - 2008/11/5
+    - Added code to maintain a min_clean_fraction in the metadata cache when
+      in serial mode. MAM - 2009/01/9
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - Modified parallel tests to run with arbitrary number of processes. The
+      modified tests are testphdf5 (parallel dataset access), t_chunk_alloc
+      (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.
+      PVN - 2009/4/2 - 1368
+    - 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 
+      chunk cache. PVN - 2008/11/21
+
+    High-Level APIs
+    ---------------
+    - 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
+    -------
+    - 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++ API
+    -------
+    - None
+
+
+Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+===================================================
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
+==========================
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - 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 
+      prior to configuration. MAM - 2009/03/09 - BZ #1401
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - 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
+      file. NAF - 2009/04/20 - 1548
+    - 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
+    - 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
+      now never call rand() or srand(). NAF - 2009/04/08 - 503
+    - 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 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)
+      array datatype. NAF - 2009/03/23
+    - 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 
+      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
+    - 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
+      through multiple file handles. NAF - 2009/02/12 - 1420
+    - 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
+      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 shared
+      message in its own object header. NAF - 2009/01/29
+    - 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 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 
+      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 
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - None
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - 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
+
+    F90 API
+    ------
+    - None
+
+    C++ API
+    ------
+    - None
+
+    High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - 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 
+                                   PVN - 2009/3/23
+
+
+Platforms Tested
+================
+The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
+
+    AIX 5.3                       xlc 7.0.0.8
+    (LLNL Up)                     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
+    (SNL red storm)               ftn (pgf90) 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
+                                  gcc 4.3.4 20090419
+                                  g++ 4.3.4 20090419
+                                  gfortran 4.3.4 20090419
+
+    FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE amd64      gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+    (liberty)                     g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+                                  gcc 4.4.1 20090421
+                                  g++ 4.4.1 20090421
+                                  gfortran 4.4.1 20090421
+
+    IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 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
+    #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Feb 4 2009)
+    (jam)                         PGI C, Fortran, C++ 7.2-1 32-bit
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ 8.0-1 32-bit
+                                  Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Versions 10.1, 11.0
+                                  Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Version 10.1, 11.0
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Version 10.1, 11.0
+                                  Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.7
+                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
+                                  gcc 4.1.2 and G95  (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!)
+
+    Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1  gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
+    SMP i686 i686 i386            G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Feb 4 2009)
+    (kagiso)                      MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
+                                  gcc 3.4.6 and G95  (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!)
+
+    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, 
+                                  Versions 10.1, 11.0.
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 7.2-1, 8.0-1
+                                         for 64-bit target on x86-64
+                                  gcc 4.1.2 and G95  (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!)
+                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
+                                  gcc 4.1.2 and G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!)
+                                  tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
+
+    Linux 2.6.16.54-0.2.5 #1      Intel(R) C++ Version 10.1.017
+    SGI Altix SMP ia64            Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 10.1.017
+    (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 
+                                  Patch 127000-07
+                                  Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.8 
+                                  Patch 124863-11
+
+    Intel Xeon Linux 2.6.18-      gcc 3.4.6 20060404
+    92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp-  Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.026
+    perfctr #2 SMP                Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0.026
+    (abe)                         Open MPI 1.2.2
+                                  MVAPICH2-0.9.8p28p2patched-intel-ofed-1.2
+                                  compiled with icc v10.0.026 and ifort 10.0.026
+
+    IA-64 Linux 2.4.21-309.tg1    gcc (GCC) 3.2.2
+    #1 SMP ia64                   Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1.037
+    (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, 
+    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, 
+    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 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, 
+    (LLNL Zeus)                   Versions 9.1.
+				  gcc/gfortran/g++ (GCC) 4.1.2.
+
+    Windows XP                    Visual Studio .NET
+                                  Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
+                                  Cygwin(native gcc compiler and g95)
+
+    Windows XP x64                Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
+
+    Windows Vista                 Visual Studio 2005
+
+    MAC OS  10.5.6 (Intel)        i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
+                                  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
+========================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested and supported
+          n   = not supported or 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        parallel
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                   n        y      n        y     y     y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                   n        y      n        y     y     y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                    n        n      n        n     y     y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                    n        y      y        y     y     y
+Windows XP                           n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
+Windows XP x64                       n        y(4)   n(4)     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 32&64 bit         n        y      n        y     y     y
+RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1)  W  y        y      y        y     y     y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y        y(2)   y        y     y     y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel  W  n        y      n        y     y     n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  n        y      n        y     y     n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y        y(3)   y        y     y     y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  n        y      n        y     y     n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  n        y      n        y     y     y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y        y      y        y     y     y
+RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre     C  y        y      y        y     y     n
+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        
+RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre     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.
+           (2) With PGI and Absoft compilers.
+           (3) With PGI compiler for Fortran.
+           (4) Using Visual Studio 2005 or Cygwin
+    Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+    "Platforms Tested" table.
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+* 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 
+  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 
+  superblock. A fix is currently underway and should be included in the 1.8.4
+  release of HDF5. MAM - 2009/04/28
+
+* For gcc v4.3 and v4.4, with production mode, if -O3 is used, H5Tinit.c
+  would fail to compile. Actually bad H5Tinit.c is produced.  If -O (same
+  as -O1) is used, H5Tinit.c compiled okay but test/dt_arith would fail.
+  When -O0 (no optimizatio) is used, H5Tinit.c compilete okay and all
+  tests passed. Therefore, -O0 is imposed for v4.3 and v4.4 of gcc.
+  AKC - 2009/04/20
+
+* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh and
+  tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh will fail some of its 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.  Skip all the "failing" test for now
+  by changing them as following.
+
+  ======== Original tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh =========
+  TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5
+  ======== Change to ===============================
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5
+  ==================================================
+
+  ======== Original tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh =========
+  TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets  -d grp_rename
+  TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets  -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets
+  TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets
+  TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested
+  H5LSTEST $FILEOUT
+  ======== Change to ===============================
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets  -d grp_rename
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets  -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested
+  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 seeing this message.  See the section of "Red
+  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 
+  Linux cluster at NCSA.
+
+  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 
+     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 
+  IO instead.
+
+  To avoid this behavior, change the following line in your code
+      H5Pset_dxpl_mpio(xfer_plist, H5FD_MPIO_COLLECTIVE);
+  to
+      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. 
+
+* 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. 
+
+* 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. 
+
+* 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 - 2005/6/30
+
+* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
+  messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...".  This is from the command `poe'.
+  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.  
+  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 
+  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 
+  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 
+  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%%%%   
  
 
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index a6b4780..f5e691f 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-HDF5 version 1.8.3 released on Mon May  4 09:21:00 CDT 2009
+HDF5 version 1.8.3-post0 currently under development
 ================================================================================
 
 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. 
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.3 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.
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ CONTENTS
 
 - New Features
 - Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
-- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3
 - Platforms Tested
 - Supported Configuration Features Summary
 - Known Problems
@@ -56,74 +56,28 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-    - 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
-      installing via the prefix= or $DESTDIR options. AKC - 2009/04/14
+    - Entry goes here
+      				EIP 2009/05/04.
 
     Library
     -------
-    - Embed the content of libhdf5.settings into the hdf5 executables
-      so that an "orphaned" executables can display (via the Unix
-      strings command, for example) the library settings used to build
-      the executables.  This is a prototype implementation. Improvement will
-      be added in next release.  AKC - 2009/04/20
-    - Separated "factory" free list class from block free lists. These free
-      lists are dynamically created and manage blocks of a fixed size.
-      H5set_free_list_limits() will use the same settings specified for block
-      free lists for factory free lists. NAF - 2009/04/08
-    - Added support for dense attributes to H5Ocopy. XCao/NAF - 2009/01/29
-    - Added H5Pset_elink_cb and H5Pget_elink_cb functions to support a
-      user-defined callback function for external link traversal.
-      NAF - 2009/01/08
-    - Added H5Pset_elink_acc_flags and H5Pget_elink_acc_flags functions to
-      allow the user to specify the file access flags used to open the target
-      file of an external link. NAF - 2009/01/08
-    - Added H5Pset_chunk_cache() and H5Pget_chunk_cache() functions to allow
-      individual rdcc configuration for each dataset.  Added
-      H5Dget_access_plist() function to retrieve a dataset access property
-      list from a dataset. NAF - 2008/11/12
-    - Added H5Iis_valid() function to check if an id is valid without
-      producing an error message. NAF - 2008/11/5
-    - Added code to maintain a min_clean_fraction in the metadata cache when
-      in serial mode. MAM - 2009/01/9
+    - None
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
-    - Modified parallel tests to run with arbitrary number of processes. The
-      modified tests are testphdf5 (parallel dataset access), t_chunk_alloc
-      (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)
+    - None
  
     Tools
     -----
-    - h5diff new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable.
-      PVN - 2009/4/2 - 1368
-    - 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 
-      chunk cache. PVN - 2008/11/21
+    - None
 
     High-Level APIs
     ---------------
-    - 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
+    - None
 
     F90 API
     -------
-    - 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
+    - None
 
     C++ API
     -------
@@ -132,72 +86,19 @@ New Features
 
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
+    - None
 
 
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3
 ==========================
 
     Configuration
     -------------
-    - 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 
-      prior to configuration. MAM - 2009/03/09 - BZ #1401
+    - None
 
     Library
     -------
-    - 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
-      file. NAF - 2009/04/20 - 1548
-    - 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
-    - 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
-      now never call rand() or srand(). NAF - 2009/04/08 - 503
-    - 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 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)
-      array datatype. NAF - 2009/03/23
-    - 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 
-      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
-    - 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
-      through multiple file handles. NAF - 2009/02/12 - 1420
-    - 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
-      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 shared
-      message in its own object header. NAF - 2009/01/29
-    - 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 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 
-      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 
+    - None
 
     Parallel Library
     ----------------
@@ -205,16 +106,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
 
     Tools
     -----
-    - 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
+    - None
 
     F90 API
     ------
@@ -226,14 +118,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
 
     High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - Dimension scales: The scale index return value in H5DSiterate_scales 
-      was not always incremented. PVN - 2009/4/8 - 1538
+    - None
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs:
     ------
-    - Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about 
-      a dataset) was not correctly returning the dimension array 
-                                   PVN - 2009/3/23
+    - None
 
 
 Platforms Tested