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diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt index 87b6c73..a7aad02 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 +21. Release Information for hdff5-1.8.19 20. Release Information for hdf5-1.8.18 19. Release Information for hdf5-1.8.17 18. Release Information for hdf5-1.8.16 @@ -26,6 +27,435 @@ This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch [Search on the string '%%%%' for section breaks of each release.] +%%%%1.8.19%%%% + + +HDF5 version 1.8.19 released on 2017-06-15 +================================================================================ + +INTRODUCTION +============ + +This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.18 and +HDF5-1.8.19, and contains information on the platforms tested and +known problems in HDF5-1.8.19. +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 1.8.19 source code, documentation, and additional materials +can be found on the HDF5 web page at: + + https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ + +The HDF5 1.8.19 release can be obtained from: + + https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html + +User documentation for 1.8.19 can be accessed directly at this location: + + https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ + +New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general +descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New +in 1.8.0?" document: + + https://support.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 1.8.19 (current +release) versus Release 1.8.18 + + https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html + +If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk: + + help@hdfgroup.org + + +CONTENTS +======== + +- New Features +- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers +- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.19 +- Supported Platforms +- Supported Configuration Features Summary +- More Tested Platforms +- Known Problems + + +New Features +============ + + Configuration + -------------- + - CMake in the Tools + + User-defined filters on Windows require that tools be built + with shared libraries. + + CMake command code added to build tools with + shared libraries as well as with static libraries. + + (ADB - 2017/02/07, HDFFV-10123) + + + Library + ------- + - 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) + + - H5Dget_chunk_storage_size + + The storage size of a chunk in the file is needed to determine the size + of the buffer to be allocated for reading a chunk directly from a file. + + New API function gets the size in bytes currently allocated within a + file for a raw data chunk in a dataset. This function was added to get + the chunk size in support of the implementation of H5DOread_chunks, but + may also be useful for other purposes. + + (VC - 2017/05/02, HDFFV-9934) + + C++ API + ------- + - The following C++ API wrappers have been added to the C++ Library: + // Determines if a name exists. + H5Location::nameExists() - C API H5Lexists() + + // Checks if an ID is valid. + IdComponent::isValid() - C API H5Iis_valid() + + // Sets the number of soft or user-defined links that can be + // traversed before a failure occurs. + LinkAccPropList::setNumLinks() - C API H5Pset_nlinks() + + // Gets the number of soft or user-defined link traversals allowed + LinkAccPropList::getNumLinks() - C API H5Pget_nlinks() + + // Returns a copy of the creation property list of a datatype. + DataType::getCreatePlist() - C API H5Tget_create_plist() + + // Opens an object within a location, regarless its type. + H5Location::openObjId() - C API H5Oopen() + H5Location::openObjId() - C API H5Oopen() + + // Closes an object opened by openObjId(). + H5Location::closeObjId() - C API H5Oclose() + + // Gets general information about a file. + H5File::getFileInfo() - C API H5Fget_info() + + // Returns the header version of an HDF5 object. + H5Object::objVersion() - C API H5Oget_info() + + (BMR, 2017/05/13, HDFFV-10004, HDFFV-10156) + + - New class LinkAccPropList is added for link access proprety list + + (BMR, 2017/05/13, HDFFV-10156) + + 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 +=================================================== + + - Added OpenMPI 2.0.1 compiled with GCC 4.9.3 + + +Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.18 +=========================== + + Configuration + ------------- + - Support for Fortran shared libraries on OS X with autotools now + works. Cmake builds still disables Fortran shared libraries on OS X. + (MSB - 2017/04/30, HDFFV-2772) + + + Library + ------- + - bitfield datatypes + + bitfield datatypes did not fully support endianness of the data. + + Improved the endianness of bitfield datatypes by adding missing functional + code. This code used integer types as a template. + + (ADB - 2017/05/12, HDFFV-10186) + + - Newly created datasets with H5D_COMPACT layout failed to open after + several H5Dopen/H5Dclose cycles. + + The layout "dirty" flag for a compact dataset is now properly reset + before flushing the message. + + (VC - 2017/05/11, HDFFV-10051) + - Missing #ifdef __cplusplus macros were added to the generated H5Epubgen.h file. + + (DER - 2017/04/25, HDFFV-9638) + + + Tools + ----- + - h5repack + + h5repack did not maintain the creation order flag of the root + group. + + Improved h5repack by reading the creation order and applying the + flag to the new root group. Also added arguments to set the + order and index direction, which applies to the traversing of the + original file, on the command line. + + (ADB - 2017/05/26, HDFFV-8611) + + - h5diff + + h5diff failed to account for strpad type and null terminators + of char strings. Also, h5diff failed to account for string length + differences and would give a different result depending on file + order in the command line. + + Improved h5diff compare of strings and arrays by adding a check for + string lengths and if the strpad was null filled. + + (ADB - 2017/05/18, HDFFV-9055, HDFFV-10128) + + - h5diff + + h5diff help text about epsilon comparison was confusing. + + Changed h5diff help text to indicate that the 'a' refers to the + datapoint in file1 and 'b' refers to the datapoint value in file2. + + (ADB - 2017/05/16, HDFFV-9995) + + - h5diff + + h5diff did not report user-defined filter data differences correctly. + + Improved h5diff compare of user-defined filter data by reporting an + error if the user-defined filter plugin cannot be found. + + (ADB - 2017/01/18, HDFFV-9994) + C++ API + ------- + - The class hierarchy is revised to better reflect the HDF5 model. + Class H5File is now derived from class Group instead of H5Location. + Class Attribute is now derived from H5Location instead of IdComponent. + Wrappers of H5A APIs in H5Location are now duplicated in H5Object, + the original wrappers in H5Location will be deprecated in future + releases. + + (BMR - 2017/05/15, HDFFV-10156) + + + +Supported Platforms +=================== +The following platforms are supported and have been tested for this release. +They are built with the configure process unless specified otherwise. + + Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6 GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++) + #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux compilers: + (platypus/mayll) Version 4.4.7 20120313 + Versions 4.9.3, 5.2.0, 6.2.0 + PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on + x86-64; + Version 16.10-0 + Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc) + compilers: + Version 17.0.0.098 Build 20160721 + MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3 + OpenMPI 2.0.1 compiled with GCC 4.9.3 + + Linux 2.6.32-573.18.1.el6 gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16) + #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux g++ (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16) + (ostrich) GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16) + IBM XL C/C++ V13.1 + IBM XL Fortran V15.1 + + Linux 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7 GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++) + #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux compilers: + (kituo/moohan) Version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4) + Versions 4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.2.0 + Intel(R) C (icc), C++ (icpc), Fortran (icc) + compilers: + Version 17.0.4.196 Build 20170411 + MPICH 3.1.4 compiled with GCC 4.9.3 + + SunOS 5.11 32- and 64-bit Sun C 5.12 SunOS_sparc + (emu) Sun Fortran 95 8.6 SunOS_sparc + Sun C++ 5.12 SunOS_sparc + Windows 7 Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake) + + Windows 7 x64 Visual Studio 2012 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2013 w/ Intel Fortran 15 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel C, Fortran 2017 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2015 w/ MSMPI 8 (cmake) + Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) + gcc and gfortran compilers (GCC 5.4.0) + (cmake and autotools) + + Windows 10 Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake) + Cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) + gcc and gfortran compilers (GCC 5.4.0) + (cmake and autotools) + + Windows 10 x64 Visual Studio 2015 w/ Intel Fortran 16 (cmake) + + Mac OS X Mt. Lion 10.8.5 Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) + 64-bit gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.2 + (swallow/kite) Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3 + + Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.57) + 64-bit gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2 + (wren/quail) Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3 + + Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 Apple LLVM version 6.1 (clang-602.0.53) + 64-bit gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.9.2 + (osx1010dev/osx1010test) Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 15.0.3 + + Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29) + 64-bit gfortran GNU Fortran (GCC) 5.2.0 + (VM osx1011dev/osx1011test) Intel icc/icpc/ifort version 16.0.2 + + +Tested Configuration Features Summary +===================================== + + In the tables below + y = tested + n = not tested in this release + C = Cluster + W = Workstation + x = not working in this release + dna = does not apply + ( ) = footnote appears below second table + <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform +Platform C F90/ F90 C++ zlib SZIP + parallel F2003 parallel +SunOS 5.11 32-bit n y/y n y y y +SunOS 5.11 64-bit n y/y n y y y +Windows 7 y y/y n y y y +Windows 7 x64 y y/y n y y y +Windows 7 Cygwin n y/n n y y y +Windows 7 x64 Cygwin n y/n n y y y +Windows 10 y y/y n y y y +Windows 10 x64 y y/y n y y y +Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit n y/y n y y y +Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit n y/y n y y y +Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit n y/y n y y y +AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit n y/n n y y y +CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU y y/y y y y y +CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel n y/y n y y y +CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI n y/y n y y y +CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU y y/y y y y y +CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel n y/y n y y y +Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64 n y/n n y y y + +Platform Shared Shared Shared Thread- + C libs F90 libs C++ libs safe +SunOS 5.11 32-bit y y y y +SunOS 5.11 64-bit y y y y +Windows 7 y y y y +Windows 7 x64 y y y y +Windows 7 Cygwin n n n y +Windows 7 x64 Cygwin n n n y +Windows 10 y y y y +Windows 10 x64 y y y y +Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 64-bit y n y y +Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 64-bit y n y y +Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 64-bit y n y y +AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit y n n y +CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 GNU y y y y +CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 Intel y y y y +CentOS 6.7 Linux 2.6.32 x86_64 PGI y y y y +CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 GNU y y y y +CentOS 7.1 Linux 3.10.0 x86_64 Intel y y y y +Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.ppc64 y y y y + +Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding +"Supported Platforms" table. + + +More Tested Platforms +===================== +The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release. + + Linux 2.6.32-573.22.1.el6 g95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.94!) + #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux + (mayll) + + Debian8.4.0 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux + gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2 + GNU Fortran (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2 + (cmake and autotools) + + Fedora24 4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux + gcc (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3) + GNU Fortran (GCC) 6.1.1 20160621 (Red Hat 6.1.1-3) + (cmake and autotools) + + CentOS 7.2 3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux + gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4) + GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4) + (cmake and autotools) + + Ubuntu 16.04 4.4.0-38-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux + gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0 + GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0 + (cmake and autotools) + + +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. + + %%%%1.8.18%%%% |