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diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt index c005ff7..4e16931 100644 --- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt +++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ HDF5 History This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch +8. Release Information for hdf5-1.8.7 7. Release Information for hdf5-1.8.6 6. Release Information for hdf5-1.8.5 5. Release Information for hdf5-1.8.4 @@ -13,6 +14,12 @@ This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch [Search on the string '%%%%' for per-release section breaks.] +%%%%1.8.7%%%% + + +<NOTE: Copy the RELEASE.txt from 1.8.7 Release Branch HERE when it's finalized!> + + %%%%1.8.6%%%% diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 401a1f2..cea9257 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -4,22 +4,22 @@ HDF5 version 1.8.8-snap0 currently under development INTRODUCTION ============ -This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.6 and -HDF5 1.8.7-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and -known problems in HDF5-1.8.7-*. +This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.7 and +HDF5 1.8.8-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and +known problems in HDF5-1.8.8-*. 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 1.8.7 source code, documentation, and additional materials +Links to the HDF5 1.8.8 source code, documentation, and additional materials can be found on the HDF5 web page at: http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/ -The HDF5 1.8.7 release can be obtained from: +The HDF5 1.8.8 release can be obtained from: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html -User documentation for 1.8.7 can be accessed directly at this location: +User documentation for 1.8.8 can be accessed directly at this location: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ 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 1.8.7 (current -release) versus Release 1.8.6": +from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.8 (current +release) versus Release 1.8.7": http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ CONTENTS - New Features - Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers -- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6 +- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7 - Platforms Tested - Supported Configuration Features Summary - Known Problems @@ -56,31 +56,11 @@ New Features Configuration ------------- - - Configure now generates Makefiles that build in "silent make mode" - by default in which compile and link lines are significantly - simplified for clarity. To override this and view actual compile and - link lines during building, the --disable-silent-rules flag can be used - at configure time, or the 'make' command can be followed by V=1, to - indicate a "verbose" make. (MAM - 2011/4/14). - - Added mpicc and mpif90 as the default C and Fortran compilers for Linux - systems when --enable-parallel is specified but no $CC or $FC is defined. - (AKC - 2011/2/7) - - Added a new configure option, "--enable-unsupported", which can - be used to stop configure from preventing the use of unsupported - configure option combinations, such as c++ in parallel or Fortran - with threadsafe. Use at your own risk, as it may result in a - library that won't compile or run as expected! - (MAM - 2010/11/17 - Bug 2061) - + - None + Library ------- - - Added ability to cache files opened through external links. Added new - public functions H5Pset_elink_file_cache_size(), - H5Pget_elink_file_cache_size(), and H5Fclear_elink_file_cache(). - (NAF - 2011/02/17) - - Finished implementing all options for 'log' VFD. (QAK - 2011/1/25) - - Removed all old code for Metraowerks compilers, bracketed by - __MWERKS__). Metraowerks compiler is long gone. (AKC - 2010/11/17) + - None Parallel Library ---------------- @@ -88,16 +68,7 @@ New Features Tools ----- - - h5diff: Added new "verbose with levels" option, '-vN, --verbose=N'. - The old '-v, --verbose' option is deprecated but remains available; - it is exactly equivalent to '-v0, --verbose=0'. - The new levels 1 ('-v1' or '--verbose=1') and 2 ('-v2' or - '--verbose=2') can be specified to view more information regarding - attributes differences. Bug #2121 (JKM 2011/3/23) - - h5dump: Added new option --enable-error-stack. This option will - display error stack information in the output stream. This is - useful when the "h5dump: Unable to print data" message is output. - (ADB - 2011/03/03) + - None High-Level APIs --------------- @@ -114,45 +85,19 @@ New Features Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers =================================================== - - Intel V11.1 uses now -O3 optimization in production mode (EIP - 2010/10/08) - + - None -Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6 +Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.7 ========================== Configuration ------------- - - Removed config/ibm-aix6.x. All IBM-AIX settings are in one file, - ibm-aix. (AKC - 2011/4/14) - - Shared C libraries are no longer disabled on Mac when Fortran - is enabled. Shared Fortran libraries are still not supported on Mac, - so configure will disable them by default, but this is overrideable - with the new --enable-unsupported configure option. The configure - summary has been updated to reflect the fact that the shared-ness of - the C++/Fortran wrapper libraries may not align with the C library. - (MAM - 2011/04/11 - HDFFV-4353). + - None Library ------- - - Changed assertion failure when decoding a compound datatype with no - fields into a normal error failure. Also prohibit using this sort - of datatype for creating an attribute (as is already the case for - datasets and committed (named) datatypes). (QAK - 2011/04/15, Jira - issue #HDFFV-2766) - - Tell the VFL flush call that the file will be closing, allowing - the VFDs to avoid sync'ing the file (particularly valuable in parallel). - (QAK - 2011/03/09) - - The datatype handler created with H5Tencode/decode used to have the - reference count 0 (zero); it now has the reference count 1 (one). - (SLU - 2011/2/18) - - Fixed the definition of H5_HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY on Windows so that - HDgettimeofday() is defined and works properly. Bug HDFFV-5931 - (DER - 2011/04/14) - - Added basic VFD tests for the Windows, STDIO and log VFD tests. The - STDIO test is skipped for now due to failures on a few older platforms - (see "known problems", below). - (DER - 2011/04/11) + - None Parallel Library ---------------- @@ -160,62 +105,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.6 Tools ----- - - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure when - source directory is read-only. Bug #HDFFV-4342 (JKM 2011/4/12) - - Updated some HDF5 tools to standardize the option name as - '--enable-error-stack' for printing HDF5 error stack messages. h5ls and - h5dump have been updated. For h5ls, this replaces "-e/--errors" option, - which is deprecated. For h5dump, this is a new option. Bug #2182 - (JKM 2011/3/30) - - Fixed the h5diff --use-system-epsilon option. The formula used in the - calculation was changed from ( |a - b| / b ) to ( |a - b| ). - This was done to improve performance. Bug #2184 (JKM 2011/3/24) - - Fixed output for H5T_REFERENCE in h5dump. According to the BNF document - the output of a H5T_REFERENCE should be followed by the type; - <reference> ::= H5T_REFERENCE { <ref_type> } - <ref_type> ::= H5T_STD_REF_OBJECT | H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG - Previously this was only displayed if the -R option was used. - Bug #1725 (ADB 2011/3/28) - - Fixed two h5diff issues. 1) h5diff compared attributes correctly only - when two objects had the same number of attributes and the attribute - names were identical. 2) h5diff did not display useful information about - attribute differences. Bug #2121 (JKM 2011/3/17) - - Fixed a memory leak in h5diff that occurred when accessing symbolic links - with the --follow-symlink option. Bug #2214 (JKM 2011/3/18) - - Fixed a memory leak in h5diff that occurred when accessing variable length - string data. Bug #2216 (JKM 2011/3/18) - - Fixed a memory leak in h5diff that occurred when accessing symbolic links - with the --follow-symlink option. Bug #2214 (JKM 2011/3/18) - - Fixed and improved the help page for h5ls -a, --address option. - Bug #1904 (JKM 2011/3/11) - - Fixed h5copy to enable copying an object into the same HDF5 file. - Previously h5copy displayed an error message when the target file - was the same as the source file. (XCAO 2011/3/8) - - Fixed an h5dump problem that caused the tool to skip some data elements - in large datasets with a large array datatype on Windows. This issue - arose only on Windows due to the different return behavior of the - _vsnprintf() function. Bug #2161 (JKM 2011/3/3) - - Fixed h5dump which was skipping some array indices in large datasets - with a relatively large array datatype. The interval of skipped indices - varied according to the size of the array. Bug #2092 (JKM 2011/2/15) - - Fixed h5diff which was segfaulting when comparing compound datasets - with a combination of fixed-length string datatypes and variable-length - string datatypes in certain orders. Bug #2089 (JKM 2010/12/28) - - Improved h5diff performance. 1) Now use HDmemcmp() before comparing two - elements. 2) Replace expensive H5Tequals() calls. 3) Retrieve datatype - information at dataset level, not at each element level for compound - datasets. HDFFV-7516 (JKM 2011/4/18) - - Fixed h5ls to display nested compound types with curly brackets - when -S (--simple) option is used with -l (--label), so it shows - which members (in curly brackets) belong to which nested compound type, - making the output clearer. Bug #1979 (JKM 2010/11/09) - - Fixed h5diff to handle variable-length strings in a compound dataset - and variable-length string arrays in a compound dataset correctly. - Garbage values were previously displayed when h5diff compared multiple - variable-length strings in a compound type dataset. - Bug #1989 (JKM 2010/10/28) - - Fixed h5copy to fail gracefully when copying an object to a non- - existing group without the -p option. Bug #2040 (JKM 2010/10/18) + - None F90 API ------ |