Hdf5 1 12 Update missing release note info. (#777)

* OESS-98 fix tools test for plugins

* sync fork

* Merge of changes from dev

* Move problem option to bottom of the list until fixed

* HDFFV-11106 - fix parsing optional args

* HDFFV-11106 add note

* grammer fix

* Whitespace after clang formatting

* Undo format version 11 changes

* Update check to working version

* Merge workflow and minor changes from develop

* Update supported platforms

* PR#3 merge from develop

* Merge gcc 10 diagnostics option from develop

* Merge #318 OSX changes from develop

* Merge serval small changes from dev

* fix typo

* Minor non-space formatting changes

* GH #386 copyright corrections for java folder

* revert because logic requires false return

* Merges from develop

#358 patches from vtk
#361 fix header guard spelling

* Remove case statement for H5I_EVENTSET

* Correct call with versioning

* Remove tabs

* Double underscore change

* Merges from develop

#340 clang -Wformat-security warnings
#360 Fixed uninitialized warnings
Remove more underscores from header guards

* Merge #380 from develop

* Correct date entry

* Split format source and commit changes on repo push

* remove pre-split setting

* Change windows TS to use older VS.

* HDFFV-11212 JNI export util and Javadoc

* Suggested review changes

* Another change found

* Committing clang-format changes

* Some Javadoc warning fixes

* Committing clang-format changes

* Updated javadoc fixes

* HDFFV-11228/9 merges from develop

* remove obsolete debug comment

* Fix conflict

* HDFFV-11229 merge changes from develop

* HDFFV-11229 merge second compare from develop

* HDFFV-11229 fix reference file

* HDFFV-11229 update autotools test script for two ref files

* HDFFV-11229 merge dev changes for long double display in tools

* Committing clang-format changes

* Update with changes from develop

* Add "option" command for clang options

* Rework CMake add_custom to use the BYPRODUCTS argument

Update pkgconfig scripts for parallel builds.
Fix install COPYING file reference.
Remove unused round defines.
Change CMake default setting of BUILD_CPP to off.

* Whitespace changes

* Rework CMake add_custom to use the BYPRODUCTS argument

* Revert CMake configure checks for round defines

* With VS 2015 minimum strdup is supported

* Doxygen comments merged from develop

* doxygen build updates

* Correct version string for map functions

* TRILAB-227 and tools debug merge from develop

* TRILAB-227 Enable test

* Quote subset args

* Use MATCHES in compiler id compare, merge from dev

* Revert test enable

* Add file to list

* doxygen version errors

* if blocks needed for build modes

* Update list of test platforms

* Issue #669 remove version from pkgcfg filename

* remove version from h5cc script

* Merge CMake and java refs from dev

* Reworked CMake Fortran configure macros to allow multiple runs.

* Fix CMake issue with tests not comparing test argument properly.

* MAX_PRECISION defines must be defined with a value

* Fix warnings files and -std

* remove std for c++11

* Replace file

* Fix cmake configure path

* Update missing release note info.

* Update code owners

* Correct JIRA note

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1 files changed, 89 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index c484a2e..3a54130 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,39 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration:
     -------------
+   - Adds C++ Autotools configuration file for Intel
+
+      * Checks for icpc as the compiler
+      * Sets std=c++11
+      * Copies most non-warning flags from intel-flags
+
+      (DER - 2021/06/02)
+
+    - Adds C++ Autotools configuration file for PGI
+
+      * Checks for pgc++ as the compiler name (was: pgCC)
+      * Sets -std=c++11
+      * Other options basically match new C options (below)
+
+      (DER - 2021/06/02)
+
+    - Updates PGI C options
+
+      * -Minform set to warn (was: inform) to suppress spurious messages
+      * Sets -gopt -O2 as debug options
+      * Sets -O4 as 'high optimization' option
+      * Sets -O0 as 'no optimization' option
+      * Removes specific settings for PGI 9 and 10
+
+      (DER - 2021/06/02)
+
+    - A C++11-compliant compiler is now required to build the C++ wrappers
+
+      CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD is now set to 11 when building with CMake and
+      -std=c++11 is added when building with clang/gcc via the Autotools.
+
+      (DER - 2021/05/27)
+
     - Added an option to make the global thread-safe lock a recursive R/W lock
 
         Prior to this release, the HDF5 library supported multi-threaded
@@ -107,7 +140,7 @@ New Features
 
       To do so, set CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="x86_64;arm64"
 
-      (SAM - 2021/02/07, https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/311)
+      (SAM - 2021/02/07, github-311)
 
     - Added a configure-time option to control certain compiler warnings
       diagnostics
@@ -202,7 +235,7 @@ New Features
           CMake target is 'doxygen' for all available doxygen targets
           CMake target is 'hdf5lib_doc' for the src subdirectory
 
-        (ADB - 2020/11/13)
+        (ADB - 2020/11/13, HDFFV-11243)
 
     - CMake option to use MSVC naming conventions with MinGW
 
@@ -648,6 +681,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
 
       (ADB - 2021/06/03)
 
+    - Move emscripten flag to compile flags
+
+      The emscripten flag, -O0, was removed from target_link_libraries command
+      to the correct target_compile_options command.
+
+      (ADB - 2021/04/26 HDFFV-11083)
+
     - Remove arbitrary warning flag groups from CMake builds
 
       The arbitrary groups were created to reduce the quantity of warnings being
@@ -684,6 +724,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
 
       (DER - 2021/01/07, HDFFV-11201)
 
+    - Add missing ENV variable line to hdfoptions.cmake file
+
+      Using the build options to use system SZIP/ZLIB libraries need to also
+      specify the library root directory. Setting the {library}_ROOT ENV
+      variable was added to the hdfoptions.cmake file.
+
+      (ADB - 2020/10/19 HDFFV-11108)
+
 
     Tools
     -----
@@ -696,7 +744,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
         also show the number of bits for precision.
         These files are also used in the java tests.
 
-        (ADB - 2021/03/24, HDFFV-11229)
+        (ADB - 2021/03/24, HDFFV-11229,HDFFV-11113)
 
     - Fixed tools argument parsing.
 
@@ -707,6 +755,44 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
 
         (ADB - 2021/01/19, HDFFV-11106)
 
+    - The tools library was updated by standardizing the error stack process.
+
+        General sequence is:
+          h5tools_setprogname(PROGRAMNAME);
+          h5tools_setstatus(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+          h5tools_init();
+          ... process the command-line (check for error-stack enable) ...
+          h5tools_error_report();
+          ... (do work) ...
+          h5diff_exit(ret);
+
+        (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-11066)
+
+    - h5diff fixed a command line parsing error.
+
+        h5diff would ignore the argument to -d (delta) if it is smaller than DBL_EPSILON.
+        The macro H5_DBL_ABS_EQUAL was removed and a direct value comparision was used.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-10897)
+
+    - h5diff added a command line option to ignore attributes.
+
+        h5diff would ignore all objects with a supplied path if the exclude-path argument is used.
+        Adding the exclude-attribute argument will only exclude attributes, with the supplied path,
+        from comparison.
+
+        (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-5935)
+
+    - h5diff added another level to the verbose argument to print filenames.
+
+        Added verbose level 3 that is level 2 plus the filenames. The levels are:
+          0 : Identical to '-v' or '--verbose'
+          1 : All level 0 information plus one-line attribute status summary
+          2 : All level 1 information plus extended attribute status report
+          3 : All level 2 information plus file names
+
+        (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-1005)
+
 
     Fortran API
     -----------