subfiling with selection IO (#1219)

Merged branch 'selection_io' into subfiling branch.

1 files changed, 66 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 8a2c496..fbdbf3f 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -47,10 +47,28 @@ New Features
 
     Configuration:
     -------------
+    - Added new configure options to enable dimension scales APIs (H5DS*) to
+      use new object references with the native VOL connector (aka native HDF5
+      library). New references are always used for non-native terminal VOL
+      connectors (e.g., DAOS).
+
+      Autotools   --enable-dimension-scales-with-new-ref
+      CMake       HDF5_DIMENSION_SCALES_NEW_REF=ON
+
+      (EIP - 2021/10/25, HDFFV-11180)
+
+    - Refactored the utils folder.
+
+      Added subfolder test and moved the 'swmr_check_compat_vfd.c file'
+      from test into utils/test. Deleted the duplicate swmr_check_compat_vfd.c
+      file in hl/tools/h5watch folder. Also fixed vfd check options.
+
+      (ADB - 2021/10/18)
+
     - Changed autotools and CMake configurations to derive both
       compilation warnings-as-errors and warnings-only-warn configurations
-      from the same files, `config/*/*error*`.  Removed redundant files
-      `config/*/*noerror*`.
+      from the same files, 'config/*/*error*'.  Removed redundant files
+      'config/*/*noerror*'.
 
       (DCY - 2021/09/29)
 
@@ -58,7 +76,13 @@ New Features
       that default ON/enabled.
 
       Add configure options (autotools - CMake):
-            enable-hltools       HDF5_BUILD_HL_TOOLS
+            --enable-hltools       HDF5_BUILD_HL_TOOLS
+
+      Disabling this option prevents building the gif tool which
+      contains the following CVEs:
+          HDFFV-10592 CVE-2018-17433
+          HDFFV-10593 CVE-2018-17436
+          HDFFV-11048 CVE-2020-10809
 
       (ADB - 2021/09/16, HDFFV-11266)
 
@@ -1015,6 +1039,13 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
 ===================================
     Library
     -------
+    - Fixed an issue with collective metadata reads being permanently disabled
+      after a dataset chunk lookup operation. This would usually cause a
+      mismatched MPI_Bcast and MPI_ERR_TRUNCATE issue in the library for
+      simple cases of H5Dcreate() -> H5Dwrite() -> H5Dcreate().
+
+      (JTH - 2021/11/08, HDFFV-11090)
+
     - Fixed cross platform incompatibility of references within variable length
       types
 
@@ -1092,6 +1123,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
 
         (ADB - 2021/03/03, #361)
 
+    - Fixed a segmentation fault
+
+      A segmentation fault occurred with a Mathworks corrupted file.
+
+      A detection of accessing a null pointer was added to prevent the problem.
+
+      (BMR - 2021/02/19, HDFFV-11150)
+
     - Fixed issue with MPI communicator and info object not being
       copied into new FAPL retrieved from H5F_get_access_plist
 
@@ -1110,6 +1149,17 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
 
         (NAF - 2021/01/22)
 
+    - Fixed CVE-2018-17432
+
+        The tool h5repack produced a segfault on a corrupted file which had
+        invalid rank for scalar or NULL datatype.
+
+        The problem was fixed by modifying the dataspace encode and decode
+        functions to detect and report invalid rank. h5repack now fails
+        with an error message for the corrupted file.
+
+        (BMR - 2020/10/26, HDFFV-10590)
+
     - Creation of dataset with optional filter
 
         When the combination of type, space, etc doesn't work for filter
@@ -1439,7 +1489,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.12.0 release
 
     High-Level Library
     ------------------
-    -
+    - Fixed HL_test_packet, test for packet table vlen of vlen.
+
+      Incorrect length assignment.
+
+        (ADB - 2021/10/14)
 
 
     Fortran High-Level APIs
@@ -1645,3 +1699,11 @@ The share folder will have the most differences because CMake builds include
 a number of CMake specific files for support of CMake's find_package and support
 for the HDF5 Examples CMake project.
 
+The issues with the gif tool are:
+    HDFFV-10592 CVE-2018-17433
+    HDFFV-10593 CVE-2018-17436
+    HDFFV-11048 CVE-2020-10809
+These CVE issues have not yet been addressed and can be avoided by not building
+the gif tool. Disable building the High-Level tools with these options:
+    autotools:   --disable-hltools
+    cmake:       HDF5_BUILD_HL_TOOLS=OFF