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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.5.40 released on Sat Nov 2 03:51:51 CST 2002
+HDF5 version 1.5.41 released on Wed Nov 20 11:03:57 CST 2002
================================================================================
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.4.0
Library
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+ * Added two new API functions: H5Zunregister & H5Zfilter_avail.
+ QAK - 2002/11/16
+ * Add data shuffle filter(source code H5Zshuffle.c), the combination of the
+ shuffling and compression can make data compression better without suffering
+ much encoding and decoding CPU time for many application datasets(especially
+ for floating point data). This adds a new API function: H5Pset_shuffle.
+ KY - 2002/11/13
+ * Allow scalar dataspaces to be used for parallel I/O. QAK - 2002/11/05
* Fixed error condition where "none" selections were not being handled
correctly in parallel. QAK - 2002/10/29
* New functions H5Gget_comment(modification), H5Aget_storage_size,
@@ -193,6 +201,8 @@ Configuration
Tools
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+ * The VL string bug(data and datatype cannot be shown) in h5dump is fixed.
+ -SLU - 2002/11/18
* Fixed segfault if h5dump was invoked with some options but no file (e.g.,
h5dump -H). -AKC, 2002/10/15
* Fixed limitation in h5dumper with object names which reached over 1024
@@ -229,6 +239,11 @@ Documentation
New Features
============
+ * H5Dget_offset is added to return the offset of a dataset's data relative
+ to the beginning of the file. SLU - 2002/11/7
+ * Functions H5Tget_native_type and H5Tis_variable_str are added. The first
+ one reconstructs a datatype based on native memory datatype. The second
+ one checks if a datatype is variable string. SLU - 2002/11/6
* Added environment variable "HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK", which disables
the version checking between the header files and the library linked into
an application if set to '1'. This should be used with caution, mis-