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authorlrknox <lrknox>2017-08-25 20:10:42 (GMT)
committerlrknox <lrknox>2017-08-25 20:10:42 (GMT)
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Merge branch '1.8/master' of https://bitbucket.hdfgroup.org/scm/hdffv/hdf5 into hdf5_1_8
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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.