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authorAlbert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org>2013-04-09 17:48:11 (GMT)
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[svn-r23567] Post v1.8.11 branch-off, changed version to 1.8.12-snap0.
Reset RELEASE.txt for next release (1.8.12). Tested: h5committest.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
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--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
-HDF5 version 1.8.11-snap17 currently under development
+HDF5 version 1.8.12-snap0 currently under development
================================================================================
INTRODUCTION
============
-This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.10 and
-HDF5-1.8.11-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.11-*.
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.11 and
+HDF5-1.8.12-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.12-*.
For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt
and HISTORY-1_8.txt in the release_docs/ directory of the HDF5 source.
-Links to the HDF5 1.8.11 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+Links to the HDF5 1.8.12 source code, documentation, and additional materials
can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/
-The HDF5 1.8.11 release can be obtained from:
+The HDF5 1.8.12 release can be obtained from:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
-User documentation for 1.8.11 can be accessed directly at this location:
+User documentation for 1.8.12 can be accessed directly at this location:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ in 1.8.0?" document:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/WhatsNew180.html
All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes
-from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.11 (current
-release) versus Release 1.8.10":
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.12 (current
+release) versus Release 1.8.11":
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ CONTENTS
- New Features
- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
-- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.11
- Supported Platforms
- Supported Configuration Features Summary
- More Tested Platforms
@@ -57,22 +57,11 @@ New Features
Configuration
-------------
- - CMake minimum is now 2.8.10. (ADB 2013/1/14)
- - A new tool, cmakehdf5, which is a build command script similar to
- buildhdf5 is added and is available in the bin directory.
- (AKC - 2013/01/16)
+ - None
Library
-------
- - The library can load filter libraries dynamically during runtime. Users
- can set the search path through environment variable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
- and call H5Pset_filter to enable a dynamic filter. (SLU - 2013/04/08)
- - Added new API functions H5Dscatter and H5Dgather to scatter data to and
- and gather data from a selection within a memory buffer.
- (NAF - 2013/02/05)
- - The library now supports the data conversion from enumeration to numeric
- (integer and floating-point number) datatypes. See Issue 8221.
- (SLU - 2012/10/23)
+ - None
Parallel Library
----------------
@@ -80,27 +69,15 @@ New Features
Tools
-----
- - h5dump: added new option -O or -ddl to output the ddl text to a file. This
- is a complement to the -o or --output option, which redirects the data to
- a file. HDFFV-8229 (ADB - 2013/2/25)
+ - None
High-Level APIs
---------------
- - A new API function, H5DOwrite_chunk. This function writes a data chunk
- directly into a file, bypassing hyperslab selection, data conversion,
- and the filter pipeline. The user must be careful with the function and
- clearly understand the I/O process of the library. (SLU - 2013/2/11)
+ - None
Fortran API
-----------
- - New API functions added (MSB - 2013/3/23):
-
- h5odecr_refcount_f, h5oexists_by_name_f, h5oget_comment_f,
- h5oget_comment_by_name_f, h5oincr_refcount_f, h5oopen_by_idx_f, h5oset_comment_f,
- h5oset_comment_by_name_f, h5oset_comment_by_name_f
-
- F2003: h5oget_info_f, h5oget_info_by_idx_f, h5ovisit_by_name_f
-
+ - None
C++ API
-------
@@ -111,39 +88,16 @@ Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
===================================================
- None
-Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
-==========================
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.11
+===========================
Configuration
-------------
- - Configure will check the result of header searches before searching for
- the library.
- Fixes HDFFV-8257 (ADB 2013/03/04)
- - HDF does not support building SHARED Fortran libraries on OSX. Added CMake
- code to check for this condition.
- Fixes HDFFV-8227 (ADB 2013/03/04)
- - CMake builds on Windows will no longer use legacy naming for libraries,
- the "dll" tag will no longer be added to the name of *.lib and *.dll.
- The option HDF_LEGACY_NAMING is now OFF by default.
- Fixes HDFFV-8292 (ADB 2013/01/30)
+ - None
Library
-------
- - The library now behaves correctly when performing large I/O operations on
- Mac OS-X. Previously, single I/O operations > 2 GB would fail since the
- Darwin read/write calls cannot handle the number of bytes that their
- parameter types imply.
- Fixes HDFFV-7975 and HDFFV-8240 (DER 2013/01/07)
- - Fixed a bug in the core VFD that cause failures when opening files > 2 GB.
- Fixes HDFFV-8124 and HDFFV-8158 (DER 2013/01/07)
- - Fixed a bug where unintialized memory was read during variable-length
- type conversion. This caused segfaults in netCDF. Fixes HDFFV-8159.
- (DER 2013/03/30)
- - Removed the H5Pset/get_dxpl_multi functions from the library. The
- intended functionality for them was never fully implemented and they
- have always been fundamentally broken. NOTE: This does not affect setting
- the multi VFD or any expected VFD functionality. Multi VFD usage
- remains unchanged. Fixes HDFFV-8296. (DER 2013/03/30)
+ - None
Parallel Library
----------------
@@ -155,54 +109,19 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
Tools
-----
- - h5repack: Fixed failure for converting a layout of small chunked dataset
- (size < 1K) to contiguous layout. HDFFV-8214 (JKM 2013/03/26)
- - h5dump: Fixed displaying compression ratio for unknown or user-defined
- filters. HDFFV-8344 (XCAO 2013/03/19)
- - h5dump: Changed UNKNOWN_FILTER to USER_DEFINED_FILTER for user defined filter.
- HDFFV-8346 (XCAO 2013/03/19)
- - h5diff: Fixed to return correct exit code 1 when detect unique extra
- attribute. Prior to this fix, h5diff returned exit code 0 indicating
- two files are identical. HDFFV-7643 (JKM 2013/02/15)
- - h5dump: Fixed writing nulls to a binary file when exporting a dataset
- with compound string datatype. HDFFV-8169 (ADB 2013/1/31)
- - The following h5stat test case failed in BG/P machines (and potentially
- other machines that display extra output if an MPI task returns with a
- non-zero code.)
- Testing h5stat notexist.h5
- The test script was fixed to ignore the extra output. HDFFV-8233 (AKC
- - 2012/11/30)
- - h5diff: Improved speed when comparing HDF5 files with lots of
- attributes. Much slower performance was identified with release version
- from 1.8.7 to 1.8.10 compared to 1.8.6. (JKM 2012/10/19)
+ - None
F90 API
-------
- - The integer type of the 'offset' argument in h5pset_external_f and
- h5pget_external_f was changed to INTEGER(KIND=OFF_T) to support 8-byte
- integers, matching the C type definition of off_t. (MSB - 2013/3/23)
-
- - h5fc updated to recognize .f95, .f03 and .f08 file extensions.
+ - None
C++ API
------
- - The C++ wrappers DSetMemXferPropList::setMulti/getMulti are removed because
- the C functions H5Pset/get_dxpl_multi functions are removed from the library.
- Fixes HDFFV-8296 by DER. (BMR 2013/03/30)
- - An exception thrown by an internal function was not propagating to the
- test program during stack unwinding, so it couldn't be caught by the
- test and the program terminated "without an active exception." It seemed
- that the problem happened when c_str() was used to generate an equivalant
- const char* from a std::string and the resulting string was passed to
- the internal function. As a work-around, we added a try/catch around
- the the call to the internal function and when the exception is caught there,
- it is re-thrown. Fixes HDFFV-8067. (BMR 2013/03/30)
+ - None
High-Level APIs:
------
- - Fixed problem with H5DSget_scale_name including the NULL terminator in
- the size calculation returned by the function. The API was changed to NOT
- include the NULL terminator in the size of name returned (MSB- 2013/2/10)
+ - None
Fortran High-Level APIs:
------
@@ -210,17 +129,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.10
Testing
-------
- - In some Mac system, testlibinfo.sh failed with this error:
- Check file ../src/.libs/libhdf5.7.dylib
- strings: object: ../src/.libs/libhdf5.7.dylib malformed object \
- (unknown load command 15)
- The strings command of Mac inspects library files and older
- versions of strings may not know newer library format, resulting
- in errors. Fixed by sending the library file as stdin to the strings
- command to avoid this problem. (AKC - 2013/03/08 HDFFV-8305)
-
- - Fixed a typo in the ERROR macro in test/testhdf5.h. It segmentation
- faulted when used before. (AKC - 2013/02/12 HDFFV-8267)
+ - None
Supported Platforms
===================