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1 files changed, 46 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
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@@ -57,16 +57,40 @@ New Features
Configuration
-------------
- - CMake minimum is now 3.2.2. (ADB 2016/01/10)
+ -
+ - CMake in the Tools
+
+ User-defined filters on Windows require that tools be built
+ with shared libraries.
+
+ CMake commands added to builds tools with
+ shared libraries as well as with static libraries.
+
+ (ADB - 2017/02/07, HDFFV-10123)
Library
-------
- - Filter plugin API added to access the table of paths to search for a
- library.
- (HDFFV-10143 ADB 2017/04/04)
+ - H5PL package
+
+ Users would like to be able to set the plugin path programmatically
+ instead of through the environment variable.
+
+ H5PL package obtained new APIs for manipulating the entries of
+ the plugin path table. The new APIs are;
+ H5PLappend - Insert a plugin path at the end of the list.
+ H5PLprepend - Insert a plugin path at the beginning of the list.
+ H5PLreplace - Replace the path at the specified index.
+ H5PLinsert - Insert a plugin path at the specified index, moving
+ other paths after the index.
+ H5PLremove - Remove the plugin path at the specifed index and
+ compacting the list.
+ H5PLget - Query the plugin path at the specified index.
+ H5PLsize - Query the size of the current list of plugin paths.
+
+ (ADB - 2017/04/04, HDFFV-10143)
Parallel Library
@@ -124,6 +148,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.18
Library
-------
+ - bitfield datatypes
+
+ bitfield datatypes did not fully support endianess of the data.
+
+ Improved the endianess of bitfield datatypes by adding missing functional
+ code. This code used integer types as a template.
+
+ (ADB - 2017/05/12, HDFFV-10186)
+
- Missing #ifdef __cplusplus macros were added to the generated H5Epubgen.h file.
(HDFFV-9638, DER, 4/25/2017)
@@ -165,6 +198,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.18
(ADB - 2017/05/18, HDFFV-9055, HDFFV-10128)
+ - h5diff
+
+ h5diff did not report user-defined filters differences correctly..
+
+ Improved h5diff compare of user-defined filters by reporting an
+ error if the user-defined filter plugin cannot be found..
+
+ (ADB - 2017/01/18, HDFFV-9994)
+
Fortran API
-----------
- None