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authorElena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org>2009-04-28 02:12:42 (GMT)
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[svn-r16866] Maintenance: Update file in preparation for the HDF5-1.8.3 release
Update information for Mac Intel 10.5.6.
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@@ -5,21 +5,21 @@ INTRODUCTION
============
This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.2 and
-HDF5 1.8.2-snap*, and contains information on the platforms tested and
-known problems in HDF5-1.8.2-snap*.
+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 1.8.2 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+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 1.8.2 release can be obtained from:
+The HDF5 1.8.3 release can be obtained from:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
-User documentation for 1.8.2 can be accessed directly at this location:
+User documentation for 1.8.3 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 1.8.2 (current
-release) versus Release 1.8.1":
+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
@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@ New Features
- 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
- - Add description here. Do not exceed 80 characters per line.
- EIP - 2008/11/12
Library
-------
@@ -88,7 +86,8 @@ New Features
Parallel Library
----------------
-
+ - None
+
Tools
-----
- h5diff new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable.
@@ -96,16 +95,17 @@ New Features
- h5diff new flag, -N, --nan, avoids NaNs detection. PVN - 2009/4/2
- h5dump correctly specifies XML dtd / schema urls ADB - 2009/4/3 - 1519
- h5repack now handles group creation order. PVN - 2009/4/2 - 1402
- - h5repack: When user doesn't specify a chunk size, h5repack now defines a default
- chunk size as the same size of the size of the hyperslab used to read the chunks.
- The size of the hyperslabs are defined as the size of each dimension or a
- predefined constant, whatever is smaller. This assures that the chunk
- read fits in the chunk cache. PVN - 2008/11/21
+ - 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
+ - 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
@@ -116,11 +116,12 @@ New Features
h5iis_valid_f
h5pset_chunk_cache_f
h5pget_chunk_cache_f
- (MSB - 2009/04/17)
+ MSB - 2009/04/17
C++ API
------
+ - None
Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
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)
+ 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
@@ -204,26 +205,28 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.2
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
+ - 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
------
High-Level APIs:
------
- - Dimension scales: The scale index return value in H5DSiterate_scales was not always
- incremented. (PVN - 2009/4/8 - 1538)
+ - 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)
+ - Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about
+ a dataset) was not correctly returning the dimension array
+ PVN - 2009/3/23
@@ -321,7 +324,7 @@ The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
Windows Vista Visual Studio 2005
- MAC OS 10.5.4 (Intel) i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
+ 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