Merge branch '1.8/master' of https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/scm/hdffv/hdf5 into hdf5_1_8

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL
index 0fb2787..812d7ec 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL
@@ -56,21 +56,10 @@ CONTENTS
 
 1. Obtaining HDF5
         The latest supported public release of HDF5 is available from
-        ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src.  For Unix and UNIX-like 
-        platforms, it is available in tar format compressed with gzip.  
+        https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html.  For Unix and 
+        UNIX-like platforms, it is available in tar format compressed with gzip.  
         For Microsoft Windows, it is in ZIP format.
 
-        The HDF team also makes snapshots of the source code available on
-        a regular basis. These snapshots are unsupported (that is, the
-        HDF team will not release a bug-fix on a particular snapshot;
-        rather any bug fixes will be rolled into the next snapshot).
-        Furthermore, the snapshots have only been tested on a few
-        machines and may not test correctly for parallel applications.
-        Snapshots, in a limited number of formats, can be found on The
-        HDF Group's development FTP server:
-
-            ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots 
-
 
 2. Quick installation
 2.1. UNIX platforms
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index d7381ca..4349311 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -90,6 +90,22 @@ New Features
     - None
 
 
+    High-Level APIs
+    ---------------
+    - H5DOread_chunk
+
+      Users wanted to read compressed data directly from a file without any
+      processing by the HDF5 data transfer pipeline, just as they were able
+      to write it directly to a file with H5DOwrite_chunk.
+    
+      New API function, corresponding to existing function H5DOwrite_chunk.
+      H5DOread_chunk reads a raw data chunk directly from a chunked dataset
+      in the file into the application buffer, bypassing the library’s internal
+      data transfer pipeline, including filters.
+
+      (VC - 2017/05/02, HDFFV-9934)
+
+
 Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
 ===================================================
 
@@ -335,6 +351,12 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
 Known Problems
 ==============
 
+    The dynamically loaded plugin test libraries require undefined references 
+    to HDF5 functions to be resolved at runtime in order to function properly.
+    With autotools on CYGWIN this results in build errors, and we have not 
+    found a solution that satisfies both.  Therefore the dynamically loaded 
+    plugin tests have been disabled on CYGWIN.
+
     Known problems in previous releases can be found in the HISTORY*.txt files
     in the HDF5 source. Please report any new problems found to
     help@hdfgroup.org.