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 %%%%1.8.4%%%%   
 
-RELEASE.txt for 1.8.4 will go here when released.
+
+HDF5 version 1.8.4 released on Tue Nov 10 15:33:14 CST 2009
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.3 and 
+HDF5 1.8.4, and contains information on the platforms tested and 
+known problems in HDF5-1.8.4
+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 1.8.4 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/
+
+The HDF5 1.8.4 release can be obtained from:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
+
+User documentation for 1.8.4 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 1.8.4 (current 
+release) versus Release 1.8.3":
+
+     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 HDF5-1.8.3
+- Platforms Tested
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Configuration suite now uses Automake 1.11 and Autoconf 2.64.
+      MAM 2009/08/31.
+    - Changed default Gnu fortran compiler from g95 to gfortran since
+      gfortran is more likely installed with gcc now. -AKC 2009/07/19- 
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - The embedded library information is displayed by H5check_version() if a
+      version mismatch is detected.  Also changed H5check_version() to
+      suppress the warning message totally if $HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK is 2
+      or higher. (Old behavior treated 3 or higher the same as 1, that is
+      print a warning and allows the program to continue. (AKC - 2009/9/28)
+    - If a user does not care for the extra library information insert
+      in the executables, he may turn it off by --disable-embedded-libinfo
+      during configure. (AKC - 2009/9/15)
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - None
+ 
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - h5diff: h5diff treats two INFINITY values different. Fixed by checking
+      (value==expect) before call ABS(...) at h5diff_array.c. This will make 
+      that (INF==INF) is true (INF is treated as an number instead of NaN) 
+      (PC -- 2009/07/28)
+    - h5diff: add option "--use-system-epsilon" to print difference if 
+      (|a-b| > EPSILON).
+      Change default to use strict equality (PC -- 2009/09/12)
+
+    High-Level APIs
+    ---------------
+    - None
+
+    F90 API
+    -------
+     - Added H5Oopen_by_addr_f MSB - 9/14/09
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - None
+
+
+Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+===================================================
+    - PathScale compilers are recognized and can build the HDF5 library
+      properly. AKC - 2009/7/28 -
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.3
+==========================
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Removed the following config files, as we no longer support them:
+        config/dec-osf*, config/hpux11.00, config/irix5.x, 
+        config/powerpc-ibm-aix4.x config/rs6000-ibm-aix5.x config/unicos*
+      MAM - 2009/10/08
+    - Modified configure and make process to properly preserve user's CFLAGS
+      (and company) environment variables. Build will now properly use
+      automake's AM_CFLAGS for any compiler flags set by the configure
+      process. Configure will no longer modify CFLAGS directly, nor will 
+      setting CFLAGS during make completely replace what configure has set up.
+      MAM - 2009/10/08
+    - Support for TFLOPS, config/intel-osf1, is removed since the TFLOPS
+      machine has long retired. AKC - 2009/10/06.
+    - Added $(EXEEXT) extension to H5detect when it's executed in the
+      src/Makefile to generate H5Tinit.c so it works correctly on platforms 
+      that require the full extension when running executables.
+      MAM - 2009/10/01 - BZ #1613
+    - Configure will now set FC and CXX to "no" when fortran and c++
+      are not being compiled, respectively, so configure will not run
+      some of the compiler tests for these languages when they are not 
+      being used. MAM - 2009/10/01
+    - The --enable-static-exec flag will now properly place the -static flag
+      on the link line of all installed executables. This will force the 
+      executable to link with static libraries over shared libraries, provided
+      the static libraries are available. MAM - 2009/08/31 - BZ #1583
+    - The PathScale compiler (v3.2) was mistaken as gcc v4.2.0 but it fails to
+      recognize some gcc options. Fixed. (see bug 1301). AKC - 2009/7/28 -
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Fixed a bug where writing and deleting many global heap objects (i.e.
+      variable length data) would render the file unreadable.  Previously
+      created files exhibiting this problem should now be readable.
+      NAF - 2009/10/27 - 1483
+    - Fixed error in library's internal caching mechanisms which could cause
+      an assertion failure (and attendent core dump) when encountering an
+      unusually formatted file.  (QAK - 2009/10/13)
+    - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_preserve. AKC - 2009/10/08 - 1628
+    - Fixed an assertion failure that occurred when H5Ocopy was called on a
+      dataset using a vlen inside a compound. NAF - 2009/10/02 - 1597
+    - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_filter_by_id1/2 in H5Ppublic.h.
+      NAF - 2009/09/25 - 1620
+    - Fixed a bug where properties weren't being compared with the registered
+      compare callback. NAF - 2009/09/25 - 1555
+    - Corrected problem where library would re-write the superblock in a file
+      opened for R/W access, even when no changes were made to the file.
+      (QAK - 2009/08/20, Bz#1473)
+    - Fixed a bug where H5Pget_filter_by_id would succeed when called for a
+      filter that wasn't present. NAF - 2009/06/25 - 1250
+    - Fixed an issue with committed compound datatypes containing a vlen. Also
+      fixed memory leaks involving committed datatypes. NAF - 2009/06/10 - 1593
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - None
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - h5dump/h5ls display buffer resize fixed in tools library.
+      ADB - 2009/7/21 - 1520
+    - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file. 
+      ADB - 2009/06/11 -1504
+
+
+    F90 API
+    ------
+    - Fixed bug in h5lget_info_by_idx_f by adding missing arguments, 
+      consequently changing the API. New API is:
+
+      SUBROUTINE h5lget_info_by_idx_f(loc_id, group_name, index_field, order, n, &
+        link_type, f_corder_valid, corder, cset, address, val_size, hdferr, lapl_id)
+
+        MSB - 2009/9/17 - 1652
+
+    - Corrected the values for the H5L_flags FORTRAN constants: 
+        H5L_LINK_ERROR_F, H5L_LINK_HARD_F, H5L_LINK_SOFT_F, H5L_LINK_EXTERNAL_F
+        MSB - 2009-09-17 - 1653
+
+    - Added FORTRAN equivalent of C constant H5T_ORDER_NONE: H5T_ORDER_NONE_F
+        MSB - 2009-9-24 - 1471
+
+    C++ API
+    ------
+    - None
+
+    High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - Fixed a bug where the H5TB API would forget the order of fields when added
+      out of offset order. NAF - 2009/10/27 - 1582
+    - H5DSis_attached failed to account for different platform types. Added a
+      get native type call. ADB - 2009/9/29 - 1562
+
+    Fortran High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - Lite: the h5ltread_dataset_string_f and h5ltget_attribute_string_f functions 
+           had memory problems with the g95 fortran compiler. (PVN � 5/13/2009) 1522
+
+
+
+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 4.3.5 20091004
+                                  g++ 4.3.5 20091004
+                                  gfortran 4.3.5 20091004
+
+    FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE amd64      gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+    (liberty)                     g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+                                  gcc 4.4.2 20091006
+                                  g++ 4.4.2 20091006
+                                  gfortran 4.4.2 20091006
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-164.el5          gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
+    #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Jun 24 2009)
+    (jam)                         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 
+                                  (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ 8.0-5 32-bit
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ 8.0-1 32-bit
+                                  Intel(R) C Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Versions 11.0, 11.1
+                                  Intel(R) C++ Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Version 11.0, 11.1
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit
+                                      applications, Version 11.0, 11.1
+                                  Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.7
+                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
+                                  gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 and G95 
+                                  (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!)
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP   gcc 4.1.2 20080704
+    x86_64 GNU/Linux              G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.92!) Jun 24 2009)
+    (amani)                       tested for both 32- and 64-bit binaries
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
+                                  applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+                                  Versions 11.1.
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 9.0-4
+                                         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!)
+                                  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704
+                                  (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
+
+
+    Linux 2.6.16.60-0.42.5 #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 C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-11 2009/04/30
+    (linew)                       Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc 
+                                  Patch 127000-11 2009/10/06
+                                  Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc 
+                                  Patch 124863-16 2009/09/15 
+
+    Intel Xeon Linux 2.6.18-      Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.026
+    92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp-  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0.026
+    perfctr #6 SMP                Open MPI 1.2.2
+    (abe)                         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 10.1.
+    (SNL Thunderbird)             
+                                  
+    Linux 2.6.18-76chaos #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.
+    
+    Windows XP                    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 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
+
+    Windows Vista x64             Visual Studio 2005 w/ Intel Fortran 9.1
+
+    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
+
+
+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
+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 EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 GNU (1)W  y        y(2)   y        y     y     y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 Intel  W  n        y      n        y     y     n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 PGI    W  n        y      n        y     y     n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 GNU(1)W y        y(3)   y        y     y     y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 IntelW  n        y      n        y     y     n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 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 2.0.62                      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        
+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       y         y         y        
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 Intel  W  y       y         y         n        
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 GNU(1)W y       y         y         y        
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 x86_64 IntelW  y       y         y         n        
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-164 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 2.0.62                      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 mode in AIX will fail some of the testcheck_version.sh tests where
+  it treats "exit(134) the same as if process 0 had received an abort signal.
+  This is fixed and will be available in the next release. AKC - 2009/11/3
+
+* Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is used.
+  The error is due to insufficient memory requested. Request a large amount
+  of runtime memory by setting the following environment variable for more
+  memory.
+     LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA
+  AKC - 2009/10/31
+
+* The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would
+  cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file is not
+  existing. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has
+  the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (See bug 1468 for details.) AKC - 2009/8/11
+ 
+* 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
+
+* 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. 
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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 will only statically link libraries
+  if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
+  of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac, 
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
+
+* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+  when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
 
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