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diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt index a364274..616aa24 100644 --- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt +++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8_0-1_10_0.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ HDF5 HISTORY INTRODUCTION This document describes the development history between the HDF5-1.8.0 and -HDF5 1.10.0 releases. For more iformation see the SVN log. +HDF5 1.10.0 releases. For more information see the SVN log. Information about supported and tested platforms is provided for historical reasons only and may not be accurate. @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ New Features using --enable-fortran --enable-fortran2003 configure flags AND if fortran compiler is Fortran2003 compliant: - - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type: + - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type: h5pget_f h5pget_fill_value_f h5pinsert_f @@ -251,53 +251,52 @@ New Features h5rderefrence_f h5rget_name_f h5rget_obj_type_f - - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type - and simplified signatures: + - Subroutines overloaded with the C_PTR derived type and simplified signatures: h5aread_f h5awrite_f h5dread_f h5dwrite_f - - New subroutines + - New subroutines h5dvlen_reclaim_f h5literate_by_name_f h5literate_f h5ovisit_f h5tconvert_f - - Subroutines with additional optional parameters: + - Subroutines with additional optional parameters: h5pcreate_class_f (EIP - 2011/10/14) - - Added for the C APIs the Fortran wrappers: - h5dget_access_plist_f - h5iis_valid_f - h5pset_chunk_cache_f - h5pget_chunk_cache_f - (MSB - 2009/04/17) + - Added for the C APIs the Fortran wrappers: + h5dget_access_plist_f + h5iis_valid_f + h5pset_chunk_cache_f + h5pget_chunk_cache_f + (MSB - 2009/04/17) C++ Library: ------------ - - New member function added + - New member function added - The assignment operator ArrayType::operator= is added because ArrayType - has pointer data members. + The assignment operator ArrayType::operator= is added because ArrayType + has pointer data members. - (BMR, 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9562) + (BMR, 2016/03/07, HDFFV-9562) - - New member functions - + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx to take char* for name - + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjTypeByIdx to return type name as a char*. - (BMR - 2010/05/02) - + DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify getting the dataset's - data size in memory. (BMR - 2009/07/26) - - These member functions were added as wrapper for H5Rdereference to - replace the incorrect IdComponent::dereference(). + - New member functions + + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx to take char* for name + + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjTypeByIdx to return type name as a char*. + (BMR - 2010/05/02) + + DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify getting the dataset's + data size in memory. (BMR - 2009/07/26) + - These member functions were added as wrapper for H5Rdereference to + replace the incorrect IdComponent::dereference(). void H5Object::dereference(H5File& h5file, void* ref) void H5Object::dereference(H5Object& obj, void* ref) - In addition, these constructors were added to create the associated - objects by way of dereference: + In addition, these constructors were added to create the associated + objects by way of dereference: Attribute(H5Object& obj, void* ref); Attribute(H5File& file, void* ref); DataSet(H5Object& obj, void* ref); @@ -306,140 +305,140 @@ New Features DataType(H5File& file, void* ref); Group(H5Object& obj, void* ref); Group(H5File& obj, void* ref); - (BMR - 2008/08/10) + (BMR - 2008/08/10) Tools: ------ - - h5repack: Added ability to use plugin filters. HDFFV-8345 (ADB - 2013/09/04). - - h5dump: Added option -N --any_path, which searches the file for paths that + - h5repack: Added ability to use plugin filters. HDFFV-8345 (ADB - 2013/09/04). + - h5dump: Added option -N --any_path, which searches the file for paths that match the search path. HDFFV-7989 (ADB - 2013/08/12). - - h5dump: Added optional arg 0 to -A, which excludes attributes from display. + - h5dump: Added optional arg 0 to -A, which excludes attributes from display. HDFFV-8134 (ADB - 2013/08/01). - - h5dump: Fixed displaying compression ratio for unknown or user-defined + - h5dump: Fixed displaying compression ratio for unknown or user-defined filters. HDFFV-8344 (XCAO 2013/03/19) - - h5dump: Changed UNKNOWN_FILTER to USER_DEFINED_FILTER for user defined filter. + - h5dump: Changed UNKNOWN_FILTER to USER_DEFINED_FILTER for user defined filter. HDFFV-8346 (XCAO 2013/03/19) - - h5dump: Added capability for "-a" option to show attributes containing "/" + - h5dump: Added capability for "-a" option to show attributes containing "/" by using an escape character. For example, for a dataset "/dset" containing attribute "speed(m/h)", use "h5dump -a "/dset/speed(\/h)" to show the content of the attribute. See details at HDFFV-7523 (PC -- 2012/03/12) - - h5dump: Added ability to apply command options across multiple files using a + - h5dump: Added ability to apply command options across multiple files using a wildcard in the filename. Example; "h5dump -H -d Dataset1 tarr*.h5". HDFFV-7876 (ADB - 2012/03/12). - - h5repack: Improved performance for big chunked datasets (size > 128MB) + - h5repack: Improved performance for big chunked datasets (size > 128MB) when used with layout (-l) or compression (-f) option. It would perform much better prior to the improvement, especially for cases that chunk dimentions looks like "1024x5x1" (compare to "1x5x1024"). When bigger numbers are toward front and smaller number is toward back in chunk dimentions. HDFFV-7862 (JKM - 2012/03/01) - - h5dump: Added new option --no-compact-subset. This option will not + - h5dump: Added new option --no-compact-subset. This option will not interpret the '[' character as starting the compact form of subsetting. This is useful when the "h5dump error: unable to open dataset "datset_name"" message is output because a dataset name contains a '[' character. HDFFV-7689 (ADB - 2012/01/31) - - h5dump: Corrected schema location: + - h5dump: Corrected schema location: <hdf5:HDF5-File xmlns:hdf5="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/XML/schema/HDF5-File.xsd"> (ADB - 2011/08/10) - - h5diff: Added new level for -v (verbose) option. The new levels are + - h5diff: Added new level for -v (verbose) option. The new levels are 1 and 2. So -v1 and -v2 can be specified to view more information about attributes differences. Bug#2121 (JKM 2011/3/23) - - h5dump: Added new option --enable-error-stack. This option will display + - 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 - 2011/02/24) - - h5diff: Add a new flag --exclude-path. Specified path to an object will + - h5diff: Add a new flag --exclude-path. Specified path to an object will be excluded from comparing the two files or two groups. If group is specified all the member objects will be excluded. (JKM - 2010/09/16). - - h5ls: Add new flag --no-dangling-links. (refer to --help for details) + - h5ls: Add new flag --no-dangling-links. (refer to --help for details) (JKM - 2010/06/15) - - h5ls: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details) + - h5ls: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details) (JKM - 2010/05/25) - - h5diff: Add new flag --no-dangling-links. (refer to --help for details) + - h5diff: Add new flag --no-dangling-links. (refer to --help for details) (JKM - 2010/02/10) - - h5diff: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details) + - h5diff: Add new flag --follow-symlinks. (refer to --help for details) (JKM - 2010/01/25) - - h5diff: fix for displaying garbage value on LE machine for BE data. + - h5diff: fix for displaying garbage value on LE machine for BE data. (JKM - 2009/11/20) - - h5dump: subsetting now allows default for count. Also trailing ; in short form + - h5dump: subsetting now allows default for count. Also trailing ; in short form can be omitted after last specified value. (ADB - 2009/09/04) - - h5dump/h5ls: now can display data in region references + - h5dump/h5ls: now can display data in region references using new -R, --region flag. (ADB - 2009/09/04) - - h5diff: new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable. + - h5diff: new flag, -c, --compare, list objects that are not comparable. (PVN - 2009/4/10 - 1368) - - h5diff new flag, -N, --nan, avoids NaNs detection. (PVN - 2009/4/10) - - h5dump correctly specifies XML dtd / schema urls (ADB - 2009/4/3 - 1519) - - h5repack now handles group creation order. (PVN - 2009/4/2 - 1402) - - h5dump: added a printing of the compression ratio of uncompressed and compressed + - h5diff new flag, -N, --nan, avoids NaNs detection. (PVN - 2009/4/10) + - h5dump correctly specifies XML dtd / schema urls (ADB - 2009/4/3 - 1519) + - h5repack now handles group creation order. (PVN - 2009/4/2 - 1402) + - h5dump: added a printing of the compression ratio of uncompressed and compressed sizes for cases where compression filters are present. (PVN - 2008/05/01) - - h5dump: added an option to allow a user defined formatting string for printf + - h5dump: added an option to allow a user defined formatting string for printf regarding floating point numbers. (PVN - 2008/05/06) - - h5dump: support for external links, display the object that the external link + - h5dump: support for external links, display the object that the external link points to. (PVN - 2008/05/12) - - h5repack: add a userblock to an HDF5 file during the repack. (PVN - 2008/08/26) - - h5repack: add 2 options that call H5Pset_alignment in the repacked file. (PVN - 2008/08/29) - - h5ls: added capability to traverse through external links when the -r + - h5repack: add a userblock to an HDF5 file during the repack. (PVN - 2008/08/26) + - h5repack: add 2 options that call H5Pset_alignment in the repacked file. (PVN - 2008/08/29) + - h5ls: added capability to traverse through external links when the -r (recursive) flag is given. (NAF - 2008/09/16) - - h5ls: added -E option to enable traversal of external links. h5ls will + - h5ls: added -E option to enable traversal of external links. h5ls will not traverse external links without this flag being set. (NAF - 2008/10/06) - - h5diff: added support for long double (PVN - 2008/10/28) - - h5dump: binary output defaults to NATIVE with -b optionally accepting + - h5diff: added support for long double (PVN - 2008/10/28) + - h5dump: binary output defaults to NATIVE with -b optionally accepting the form of binary output (NATIVE, FILE, BE, LE). (PVN - 2008/10/30) - - h5diff: return 1 for file differences when both file graphs differ by any object. + - h5diff: return 1 for file differences when both file graphs differ by any object. Error return code was changed to 2 from -1. (PVN - 2008/10/30) - - h5import: TEXTFPE (scientific format) was deprecated. Use TEXTFP + - h5import: TEXTFPE (scientific format) was deprecated. Use TEXTFP instead (PVN - 2008/10/30) - - h5repack: When user doesn't specify a chunk size, h5repack now defines a default + - h5repack: When user doesn't specify a chunk size, h5repack now defines a default chunk size as the same size of the size of the hyperslab used to read the chunks. The size of the hyperslabs are defined as the size of each dimension or a predefined constant, whatever is smaller. This assures that the chunk read fits in the chunk cache. (PVN - 2008/11/21) - - h5diff: h5diff treats two INFINITY values different. Fixed by checking (value==expect) + - h5diff: h5diff treats two INFINITY values different. Fixed by checking (value==expect) before call ABS(...) at h5diff_array.c This will make that (INF==INF) is true (INF is treated as an number instead of NaN) (PC -- 2009/07/28) - - h5diff: add option "--use-system-epsilon" to print difference if (|a-b| > EPSILON) + - h5diff: add option "--use-system-epsilon" to print difference if (|a-b| > EPSILON) Change default to use strict equality (PC -- 2009/09/12) High-Level APIs: --------------- - C Packet Table API - ------------------ - - Replacement of a public function + C Packet Table API + ------------------ + - Replacement of a public function The existing function H5PTcreate_fl limits applications to deflate compression only. The public function H5PTcreate is added to replace H5PTcreate_fl. H5PTcreate takes a property list ID to provide flexibility on creation properties. - hid_t H5PTcreate(hid_t loc_id, const char *dset_name, + hid_t H5PTcreate(hid_t loc_id, const char *dset_name, hid_t dtype_id, hsize_t chunk_size, hid_t plist_id); (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623) - - New public functions + - New public functions Two accessor functions were added per HDFFV-8623/patch 003. - /* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table */ - hid_t H5PTget_dataset(hid_t table_id); + /* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table */ + hid_t H5PTget_dataset(hid_t table_id); - /* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */ - hid_t H5PTget_type(hid_t table_id); + /* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */ + hid_t H5PTget_type(hid_t table_id); (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623) - - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED + - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED The #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED blocks are removed from the PT library source except the following cases: @@ -447,54 +446,54 @@ New Features + H5PTfree_vlen_readbuff() now became H5PTfree_vlen_buff() (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-442) - C++ Packet Table API - -------------------- - - New constructor + C++ Packet Table API + -------------------- + - New constructor An overloaded constructor is added to FL_PacketTable and takes a property list ID to provide flexibility on creation properties. - FL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, hid_t plist_id, const char* name, hid_t dtypeID, hsize_t chunkSize); + FL_PacketTable(hid_t fileID, hid_t plist_id, const char* name, hid_t dtypeID, hsize_t chunkSize); (BMR, 2016/03/08, HDFFV-8623) - - New public functions + - New public functions Two accessor wrappers to class PacketTable, per HDFFV-8623/patch 004. - /* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table */ - hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset() + /* Returns the ID of the dataset associated with the packet table */ + hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset() - /* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */ - hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset() + /* Returns the ID of the datatype the packet table uses */ + hid_t PacketTable::GetDataset() (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-8623) - - Member functions having "char*" as an argument + - Member functions having "char*" as an argument Overloaded functions were added to provide "const char*" argument, the existing version will be deprecated. (BMR, 2016/03/04) - - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED + - Regarding #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED The #ifdef VLPT_REMOVED blocks are removed from the PT library source except the following cases: - + VL_PacketTable::IsVariableLength() is moved to PacketTable - + VL_PacketTable::FreeReadBuff() now became PacketTable::FreeBuff() + + VL_PacketTable::IsVariableLength() is moved to PacketTable + + VL_PacketTable::FreeReadBuff() now became PacketTable::FreeBuff() (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-442) - Internal header file - -------------------- - - A new API function H5DOwrite_chunk. It writes a data chunk directly + Internal header file + -------------------- + - A new API function H5DOwrite_chunk. It writes a data chunk directly into a file bypassing hyperslab selection, data conversion, and filter pipeline. The user must be careful with the function and clearly understand the I/O process of the library. (SLU - 2013/2/11) - - New API: h5ltpath_valid (Fortran: h5ltpath_valid_f) which checks + - New API: h5ltpath_valid (Fortran: h5ltpath_valid_f) which checks if a path is correct and determines if a link resolves to a valid object and checks that the link does not dangle. (MSB- 2012/3/15) - - Added Fortran wrappers for Dimension Scale APIs. HDFFV-3797 + - Added Fortran wrappers for Dimension Scale APIs. HDFFV-3797 h5dsset_scale_f h5dsattach_scale_f h5dsdetach_scale_f @@ -506,7 +505,7 @@ New Features h5dsget_num_scales_f (EIP for SB - 2011/10/13) - - Table: In version 3.0 of Table, "NROWS" (used to store number of records) was + - Table: In version 3.0 of Table, "NROWS" (used to store number of records) was deprecated (PVN - 2008/11/24) Documentation @@ -525,68 +524,68 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Library ------- - - Incorrect usage of list in CMake COMPILE_DEFINITIONS set_property + - Incorrect usage of list in CMake COMPILE_DEFINITIONS set_property - The CMake command, set_property with COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property - needs a quoted semi-colon separated list of values. CMake will - transform the list to a series of -D{value} for the compile. + The CMake command, set_property with COMPILE_DEFINITIONS property + needs a quoted semi-colon separated list of values. CMake will + transform the list to a series of -D{value} for the compile. - (ADB - 2014/12/09, HDFV-9041) + (ADB - 2014/12/09, HDFV-9041) - - H5Z.c: H5Zfilter_avail(H5Z_filter_t id) + - H5Z.c: H5Zfilter_avail(H5Z_filter_t id) Added else block if the call to the internal H5Z_filter_avail(id) does not fail and returns FALSE. This block calls the H5PL_load(H5PL_TYPE_FILTER, (int)id) function to attempt to dynamically load the filter plugin. (ADB - 2014/03/03 HDFFV-8629) - - Added const qualifier to source buffer parameters in H5Dgather and + - Added const qualifier to source buffer parameters in H5Dgather and H5D_scatter_func_t (H5Dscatter callback). (NAF - 2013/7/02) - - Fixed an error involving failure to write fill values to the user's + - Fixed an error involving failure to write fill values to the user's buffer when reading unallocated chunks from datasets that have a fill value set to H5D_FILL_VALUE_DEFAULT. A consequence of this was the reporting of spurious data values in h5dump and h5diff output. (HDFFV-8247; JP - 2013/05/03) - - Fixed an error that could occur when calling H5Ocopy within an + - Fixed an error that could occur when calling H5Ocopy within an H5Literate callback (and possibly other situations). (NAF - 2012/7/25 - HDFFV-5853) - - Fixed an error that would occur when copying an object with attribute + - Fixed an error that would occur when copying an object with attribute creation order tracked and indexed. (NAF - 2012/3/28 - HDFFV-7762) - - Fixed a bug in H5Ocopy(): When copying an opened object, call the - object's flush class action to ensure that cached data is flushed + - Fixed a bug in H5Ocopy(): When copying an opened object, call the + object's flush class action to ensure that cached data is flushed so that H5Ocopy will get the correct data. - (VC - 2012/3/27 - HDFFV-7853) - - When an application tries to write or read many small data chunks and + (VC - 2012/3/27 - HDFFV-7853) + - When an application tries to write or read many small data chunks and runs out of memory, the library had a seg fault. The fix is to return the error stack with proper information. (SLU - 2012/3/23. Issue 7785) - - H5Pset_data_transform had seg fault in some cases like x*-100. It + - H5Pset_data_transform had seg fault in some cases like x*-100. It works correctly now and handles other cases like 100-x or 2/x. (SLU - 2012/3/15. Issue 7922) - - Fixed rare corruption bugs that could occur when using the new object + - Fixed rare corruption bugs that could occur when using the new object header format. (NAF - 2012/3/15 - HDFFV-7879) - - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused seg fault when the file + - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused seg fault when the file is closed. It's fixed. The attemp to create a dataset will fail with the error stack indicating the file is read-only. (SLU - 2012/1/25. Issue 7756) - - Fixed a seg fault that could occur when shrinking a dataset with chunks + - Fixed a seg fault that could occur when shrinking a dataset with chunks larger than 1 MB. (NAF - 2011/11/30 - HDFFV-7833) - - Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption when copying named + - Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption when copying named datatypes to a file using shared messages. (NAF - 2011/11/14) - - Fixed a bug that could cause H5Oget_info to return the wrong address + - Fixed a bug that could cause H5Oget_info to return the wrong address after copying a named datatype. (NAF - 2011/11/14) - - The library allowed the conversion of strings between ASCII and UTF8 + - The library allowed the conversion of strings between ASCII and UTF8 (Issue 7582). We have corrected it to report an error under this situation. (SLU - 2011/11/8) - - The library had seg fault when it tried to shrink the size of compound type + - The library had seg fault when it tried to shrink the size of compound type through H5Tset_size immediately after the type was created (Issue 7618). It's fixed now. (SLU - 2011/10/26) - - Fixed a bug that occurred when using H5Ocopy on a committed datatype + - Fixed a bug that occurred when using H5Ocopy on a committed datatype containing an attribute using that committed datatype. (NAF - 2011/10/13 - Issue 5854) - - #ifdef _WIN32 instances changed to #ifdef H5_HAVE_WIN32_API and added + - #ifdef _WIN32 instances changed to #ifdef H5_HAVE_WIN32_API and added H5_HAVE_VISUAL_STUDIO checks where necessary. CMake only as configure never set _WIN32. - - CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv + - CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv discovered 3 problems in tests and tools' library (Issue 7674): 1. In dsets.c, left shifting an unsigned int for 32 bits or more caused undefined behavior. @@ -595,193 +594,193 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release 3. In tools/lib/h5tools_str.c, right shifting an int value for 32 bits or more caused undefined behavior. All the problems have been corrected. (SLU - 2011/9/2) - - In v1.6 library, there was EOA for the whole MULTI file saved in the + - In v1.6 library, there was EOA for the whole MULTI file saved in the super block. We took it out in v1.8 library because it's meaningless for the MULTI file. v1.8 library saves the EOA for the metadata file, instead. But this caused some backward compatibility problem. v1.8 library couldn't open the file created with v1.6 library. We fixed the problem by checking the EOA value to detect the file created with v1.6 library. (SLU - 2011/6/22) - - When a dataset had filters and reading data failed, the error message + - When a dataset had filters and reading data failed, the error message didn't say which filter isn't registered. It's fixed now. (SLU - 2011/6/3) - - The datatype handler created with H5Tencode/decode used to have the + - The datatype handler created with H5Tencode/decode used to have the reference count 0 (zero). I have fixed it. It is 1 (one) now. (SLU - 2011/2/18) - - Fixed a bug that caused big endian machines to generate corrupt files + - Fixed a bug that caused big endian machines to generate corrupt files when using the scale-offset filter with floating point data or fill values. Note that such datasets will no longer be readable by any machine after this patch. (NAF - 2010/02/02 - Bug 2131) - - Retrieving a link's name by index in the case where the link is + - Retrieving a link's name by index in the case where the link is external and the file that the link refers to doesn't exist will now fail gracefully rather than cause a segmentation fault. (MAM - 2010/11/17) - - Modified library to always cache symbol table information. Libraries + - Modified library to always cache symbol table information. Libraries version 1.6.3 have a bug which causes them to require this information for some operations. (NAF - 2010/09/21 - 1864) - - Fixed a bug that could occur when getting information for a new-style + - Fixed a bug that could occur when getting information for a new-style group that was previously opened through a file handle that was later closed. (NAF - 2010/09/15) - - Added define check in H5public.h if stdint.h is supported by the C++ + - Added define check in H5public.h if stdint.h is supported by the C++ compiler. This define is only available on Windows with VS2010 and using CMake to build the library. (ADB - 2010/09/13 - Bug 1938) - - H5Eset_current_stack now also closes the error stack to be set as the + - H5Eset_current_stack now also closes the error stack to be set as the default. This is to avoid a potential problem (Bug 1799). (SLU - 2010/9/7) - - Fixed the bug in the filter's public CAN_APPLY function. The return + - Fixed the bug in the filter's public CAN_APPLY function. The return value should be htri_t not herr_t (Bug #1239). (SLU - 2010/8/5) - - Fixed a bug in the direct I/O driver that could render files with + - Fixed a bug in the direct I/O driver that could render files with certain kinds of unaligned data unreadable or corrupt them. (NAF - 2010/07/28) - - valgrind reported an error of copying data to itself when a new attribute + - valgrind reported an error of copying data to itself when a new attribute is written (Bug #1956). I fixed it by taking out the memcpy step in the attribute code. (SLU - 2010/07/28) - - Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption when using non-default + - Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption when using non-default sizes of addresses and/or lengths. This bug could also cause uncorrupted files with this property to be unreadable. This bug was introduced in 1.8.5. (NAF - 2010/07/16 - 1951) - - Fixed a file corruption bug that could happen when shrinking a + - Fixed a file corruption bug that could happen when shrinking a compressed dataset. (NAF - 2010/05/20) - - Fixed some memory leaks in VL datatype conversion when strings are + - Fixed some memory leaks in VL datatype conversion when strings are used as fill values. (MAM - 2010/05/12 - BZ# 1826) - - Fixed a bug when copying objects with NULL references with the + - Fixed a bug when copying objects with NULL references with the H5O_COPY_EXPAND_REFERENCE_FLAG flag set. (NAF - 2010/04/08 - 1815) - - Files can now be concurrently opened more than once using the core file + - Files can now be concurrently opened more than once using the core file driver, as long as the backing store is used. (NAF - 2010/03/09) - - Added support for H5O_COPY_EXPAND_EXT_LINK_FLAG to H5Ocopy. External + - Added support for H5O_COPY_EXPAND_EXT_LINK_FLAG to H5Ocopy. External links will now be expanded if this flag is set. (NAF - 2010/03/05 - 1733) - - Fixed a bug where the library, when traversing an external link, would + - Fixed a bug where the library, when traversing an external link, would reopen the source file if nothing else worked. (NAF - 2010/03/05) - - Fixed an intermittent bug in the b-tree code which could be triggered + - Fixed an intermittent bug in the b-tree code which could be triggered by expanding and shrinking chunked datasets in certain ways. (NAF - 2010/02/16) - - H5Tdetect_class said a VL string is a string type. But when it's + - H5Tdetect_class said a VL string is a string type. But when it's in a compound type, it said it's a VL type (Bug #1584). I fixed it to be consistent. It always return string type. (SLU - 2009/12/10) - - Fixed a bug where writing and deleting many global heap objects (i.e. + - Fixed a bug where writing and deleting many global heap objects (i.e. variable length data) would render the file unreadable. Previously created files exhibiting this problem should now be readable. (NAF - 2009/10/27 - 1483) - - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_preserve. (AKC - 2009/10/08 - 1628) - - Fixed an assertion failure that occurred when H5Ocopy was called on a + - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_preserve. (AKC - 2009/10/08 - 1628) + - Fixed an assertion failure that occurred when H5Ocopy was called on a dataset using a vlen inside a compound. (NAF - 2009/10/02 - 1597) - - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_filter_by_id1/2 in H5Ppublic.h. + - Fixed incorrect return value for H5Pget_filter_by_id1/2 in H5Ppublic.h. (NAF - 2009/09/25 - 1620) - - Fixed a bug where properties weren't being compared with the registered + - Fixed a bug where properties weren't being compared with the registered compare callback. (NAF - 2009/09/25 - 1555) - - Fixed a bug where H5Pget_fitler_by_id would succeed when called for a + - Fixed a bug where H5Pget_fitler_by_id would succeed when called for a filter that wasn't present. (NAF - 2009/06/25 - 1250) - - Fixed an issue with committed compound datatypes containing a vlen. + - Fixed an issue with committed compound datatypes containing a vlen. Also fixed memory leaks involving committed datatypes. (NAF - 2009/06/10 - 1593) - - Added versioning to H5Z_class_t struct to allow compatibility with 1.6 + - Added versioning to H5Z_class_t struct to allow compatibility with 1.6 API. (NAF - 2009/04/20 - 1533) - - Fixed a problem with using data transforms with non-native types in the + - Fixed a problem with using data transforms with non-native types in the file. (NAF - 2009/04/20 - 1548) - - Added direct.h include file to windows section of H5private.h + - Added direct.h include file to windows section of H5private.h to fix _getcwd() warning. (ADB - 2009/04/14 - 1536) - - Fixed a bug that prevented external links from working after calling + - Fixed a bug that prevented external links from working after calling H5close(). (NAF - 2009/04/10 - 1539) - - Modified library to write cached symbol table information to the + - Modified library to write cached symbol table information to the superblock, to allow library versions 1.3.0 to 1.6.3 to read files created by this version. (NAF - 2009/04/08 - 1423) - - Changed skip lists to use a deterministic algorithm. The library should + - Changed skip lists to use a deterministic algorithm. The library should now never call rand() or srand(). (NAF - 2009/04/08 - 503) - - Fixed a bug where H5Lcopy and H5Lmove wouldn't create intermediate + - Fixed a bug where H5Lcopy and H5Lmove wouldn't create intermediate groups when that property was set. (NAF - 2009/04/07 - 1526) - - Fixed a bug that caused files with a user block to grow by the size of + - Fixed a bug that caused files with a user block to grow by the size of the user block every time they were opened. (NAF - 2009/03/26 - 1499) - - Fixed a rare problem that could occur with files using the old (pre 1.4) + - Fixed a rare problem that could occur with files using the old (pre 1.4) array datatype. (NAF - 2009/03/23) - - Modified library to be able to open files with corrupt root group symbol + - Modified library to be able to open files with corrupt root group symbol table messages, and correct these errors if they are found. Such files can only be successfully opened with write access. (NAF - 2009/03/23 - 1189) - - Removed the long_long #define and replaced all instances with + - Removed the long_long #define and replaced all instances with "long long". This caused problems with third party products. All currently supported compliers support the type. (ADB - 2009/03/05) - - Fixed various bugs that could prevent the fill value from being written + - Fixed various bugs that could prevent the fill value from being written in certain rare cases. (NAF - 2009/02/26 - 1469) - - Fixed a bug that prevented more than one dataset chunk from being cached + - Fixed a bug that prevented more than one dataset chunk from being cached at a time. (NAF - 2009/02/12 - 1015) - - Fixed an assertion failure caused by opening an attribute multiple times + - Fixed an assertion failure caused by opening an attribute multiple times through multiple file handles. (NAF - 2009/02/12 - 1420) - - Fixed a problem that could prevent the user from adding attributes (or + - Fixed a problem that could prevent the user from adding attributes (or any object header message) in some circumstances. (NAF - 2009/02/12 - 1427) - - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when an attribute was added to a + - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when an attribute was added to a committed datatype using the committed datatype's datatype. (NAF - 2009/02/12) - - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when copying an object with a + - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when copying an object with a shared message in its own object header. (NAF - 2009/01/29) - - Changed H5Tset_order to properly reject H5T_ORDER_NONE for most + - Changed H5Tset_order to properly reject H5T_ORDER_NONE for most datatypes. (NAF - 2009/01/27 - 1443) - - Fixed a bug where H5Tpack wouldn't remove trailing space from an + - Fixed a bug where H5Tpack wouldn't remove trailing space from an otherwise packed compound type. (NAF - 2009/01/14) - - Fixed up some old v2 btree assertions that get run in debug mode that + - Fixed up some old v2 btree assertions that get run in debug mode that were previously failing on compilation, and removed some of the more heavily outdated and non-rewritable ones. (MAM - 2008/12/15) - - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when "automatically" unmounting + - Fixed a bug that could cause problems when "automatically" unmounting multiple files. (NAF - 2008/11/17) - - H5Ovisit and H5Ovisit_by_name will now properly terminate when the + - H5Ovisit and H5Ovisit_by_name will now properly terminate when the callback function returns a positive value on the starting object. (NAF - 2008/11/03) - - Fixed an error where a null message could be created that was larger + - Fixed an error where a null message could be created that was larger than could be written to the file. (NAF - 2008/10/23) - - Corrected error with family/split/multi VFD not updating driver info + - Corrected error with family/split/multi VFD not updating driver info when "latest" version of the file format used. (QAK - 2008/10/14) - - Corrected alignment+threshold errors to work correctly when metadata + - Corrected alignment+threshold errors to work correctly when metadata aggregation is enabled. (QAK - 2008/10/06) - - Changed H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids to ignore objects registered + - Changed H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids to ignore objects registered by the library for internal library use. (NAF - 2008/10/06) - - Fixed potential memory leak during compound conversion. + - Fixed potential memory leak during compound conversion. (NAF - 2008/10/06) - - Changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_count from INT to SSIZE_T. Also + - Changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_count from INT to SSIZE_T. Also changed the return value of H5Fget_obj_ids from HERR_T to SSIZE_T and the type of the parameter MAX_OBJS from INT to SIZE_T. (SLU - 2008/09/26) - - Fixed an issue that could cause data to be improperly overwritten + - Fixed an issue that could cause data to be improperly overwritten during compound type conversion. (NAF - 2008/09/19) - - Fixed pointer alignment violations that could occur during vlen + - Fixed pointer alignment violations that could occur during vlen conversion. (NAF - 2008/09/16) - - Fixed problem where library could cause a segmentation fault when + - Fixed problem where library could cause a segmentation fault when an invalid location ID was given to H5Giterate(). (QAK - 2008/08/19) - - Fixed improper shutdown when objects have reference count > 1. The + - Fixed improper shutdown when objects have reference count > 1. The library now tracks reference count due to the application separately from that due to internal library routines. (NAF - 2008/08/19) - - Fixed assertion failure caused by incorrect array datatype version. + - Fixed assertion failure caused by incorrect array datatype version. (NAF - 2008/08/08) - - Fixed an issue where mount point traversal would fail when using + - Fixed an issue where mount point traversal would fail when using multiple handles for the child. (NAF - 2008/08/07) - - Fixed an issue where mount points were inaccessible when using multiple + - Fixed an issue where mount points were inaccessible when using multiple file handles for the parent. The mount table is now in the shared file structure (the parent pointer is still in the top structure). (NAF - 2008/08/07) - - when an attribute was opened twice and data was written with one of the handles, + - when an attribute was opened twice and data was written with one of the handles, the file didn't have the data. It happened because each handle had its own object structure, and the empty one overwrote the data with fill value. This is fixed by making some attribute information like the data be shared in the attribute structure. SLU - 2008/07/22 - - Fixed issue where a group could have a file mounted on it twice. + - Fixed issue where a group could have a file mounted on it twice. (QAK - 2008/07/15) - - Fixed a Windows-specific issue in the ohdr test which was causing users - in some timezones to get false errors. This a deficiency in the Windows - mktime() function, and has been handled properly. SJW - 2008/06/19 - - Fixed the problem with the searching of target file for H5Lcreate_external(). - The searching pattern will depend on whether the target file's - pathname is an absolute or a relative path. Please see the description - in the RM for H5Lcreate_external(). (VC - 2008/04/08) - - Fixed possible file corruption bug when encoding datatype + - Fixed a Windows-specific issue in the ohdr test which was causing users + in some timezones to get false errors. This a deficiency in the Windows + mktime() function, and has been handled properly. SJW - 2008/06/19 + - Fixed the problem with the searching of target file for H5Lcreate_external(). + The searching pattern will depend on whether the target file's + pathname is an absolute or a relative path. Please see the description + in the RM for H5Lcreate_external(). (VC - 2008/04/08) + - Fixed possible file corruption bug when encoding datatype descriptions for compound datatypes whose size was between 256 & 511 bytes and the file was opened with the "use the latest format" property enabled (with H5Pset_libver_bounds). (QAK - 2008/03/13) - - Fixed bug in H5Aget_num_attrs() routine to handle invalid location + - Fixed bug in H5Aget_num_attrs() routine to handle invalid location ID correctly. (QAK - 2008/03/11) - - H5Dset_extent: when shrinking dimensions, some chunks were not deleted. + - H5Dset_extent: when shrinking dimensions, some chunks were not deleted. (PVN - 2009/01/8) - - Added code to maintain a min_clean_fraction in the metadata cache when + - Added code to maintain a min_clean_fraction in the metadata cache when in serial mode. (MAM - 2009/01/9) @@ -880,62 +879,63 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Performance ------------- - - Removed program perform/benchpar from the enable-build-all list. The - program will be retired or moved to another location. HDFFV-8156 - (AKC 2012/10/01) - - Retired program perform/mpi-perf. Its purpose has been incorporated - into h5perf before. (AKC 2012/09/20) - - ifdefs added to tests around include unistd.h and function to simulate + - Removed program perform/benchpar from the enable-build-all list. The + program will be retired or moved to another location. HDFFV-8156 + (AKC 2012/10/01) + - Retired program perform/mpi-perf. Its purpose has been incorporated + into h5perf before. (AKC 2012/09/20) + - ifdefs added to tests around include unistd.h and function to simulate getlogin() on Windows. (ADB - 2011/08/15) - - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file. + - perf_serial test added to Windows projects and check batch file. (ADB - 2009/06/11) + Fortran -------- - - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function ( was 1 + - Fixed a typo in return value of the nh5dread_f_c function ( was 1 instead of 0 on success); fixed the return value to make it consistent with other Fortran functions; cleaned the code from debug statements. (EIP - 2012/06/23) - - Fixed problem writing/reading control characters to a dataset; writing + - Fixed problem writing/reading control characters to a dataset; writing a string containing: alerts, backspace, carriage_return, form_feed, horizontal_tab, vertical_tab, new_line is now tested and working. (MSB - 2012/09/01) - - Corrected the integer type of H5S_UNLIMITED_F to HSIZE_T (MSB - 2012/09/01) + - Corrected the integer type of H5S_UNLIMITED_F to HSIZE_T (MSB - 2012/09/01) - - Corrected the number of continuation lines in the src files + - Corrected the number of continuation lines in the src files to be less then 32 lines for F95 compliance. (MSB - 2012/10/01) Tools ----- - - h5dump subsetting fixed for dims greater then two + - h5dump subsetting fixed for dims greater then two When a dataset has more then two dimensions, subsetting would incorrectly calculate the data that needed to be displayed. Added in block and stride calculation that account for dimensions greater then two. NOTE: lines that have line breaks inserted because of display length calculations, may have index info that is incorrect until the next dimension break. (ADB, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-9698) - - h5repack: h5repack would not attempt to remove UD filters. Added a + - h5repack: h5repack would not attempt to remove UD filters. Added a check to h5repack for UD filters that checks if the filter can be dynamically loaded. This will require a change in the library to add the H5PL_load() to the H5Zfilter_avail(). (ADB - 2014/03/03 HDFFV-8629) - - h5repack: Fixed failure for converting a layout of small chunked dataset + - h5repack: Fixed failure for converting a layout of small chunked dataset (size < 1K) to contiguous layout. HDFFV-8214 (JKM 2013/03/18) - - h5diff: Fixed to return correct exit code 1 when detect unique extra + - h5diff: Fixed to return correct exit code 1 when detect unique extra attribute. Prior to this fix, h5diff returned exit code 0 indicating two files are identical. HDFFV-7643 (JKM 2013/02/15) - - h5diff: Improved speed when comparing HDF5 files with lots of + - h5diff: Improved speed when comparing HDF5 files with lots of attributes. Much slower performance was identified with release version from 1.8.7 to 1.8.10 compared to 1.8.6. (JKM 2012/10/19) - - h5repack: "h5repack -f NONE file1.h5 out.h5" command failed if + - h5repack: "h5repack -f NONE file1.h5 out.h5" command failed if source file contains chunked dataset and a chunk dim is bigger than the dataset dim. Another issue is that the command changed max dims if chunk dim is smaller than the dataset dim. These issue occurred when dataset size is smaller than 64k (compact size limit) Fixed both. HDFFV-8012 (JKM 2012/09/24) - - h5diff: Fixed not to accumulate attribute difference to dataset + - h5diff: Fixed not to accumulate attribute difference to dataset difference in verbose mode (-v, -r), which caused incorrect difference between dataset and group/datatype object if attribute exist with any differences. This also lead to fix inconsistent @@ -948,214 +948,214 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release parallel mode. It was detected by daily test for comparing non-comparable objects, but it could have occurred in other operations depend on machine condition. HDFFV-8003 (JKM 2012/08/01) - - h5diff: Fixed test failure for "make check" due to failure of + - h5diff: Fixed test failure for "make check" due to failure of copying test files when performed in HDF5 source tree. Also applied to other tools. HDFFV-8107 (JKM 2012/08/01) - - h5diff: Fixed the Function COPY_TESTFILES_TO_TESTDIR() of - testh5diff.sh to better report when there is an error in the file - copying. HDFFV-8105 (AKC -2012/07/22) - - h5diff: Fixed not to check and display dangling link status without + - h5diff: Fixed the Function COPY_TESTFILES_TO_TESTDIR() of + testh5diff.sh to better report when there is an error in the file + copying. HDFFV-8105 (AKC -2012/07/22) + - h5diff: Fixed not to check and display dangling link status without --follow-symlinks option. This also improved performance when comparing lots of external links without the --follow-symlinks option. HDFFV-7998 (JKM 2012/04/26) - - h5unjam: Fixed sefgault when used -V (show version) option. + - h5unjam: Fixed sefgault when used -V (show version) option. HDFFV-8001 (JKM 2012/04/19) - - h5repack: Fixed a failure when change the chunk size of a specified + - h5repack: Fixed a failure when change the chunk size of a specified chunked dataset with unlimited max dims. HDFFV-7993 (JKM 2012/04/11) - - h5diff: Fixed failure for comparing same named object with different + - h5diff: Fixed failure for comparing same named object with different object types in comparing groups. Prior to the fix, h5diff resulted in error. After the fix, h5diff detects such case as non-comparable and display messages accordingly. HDFFV-7664 (JKM 2012/03/28) - - h5diff: If unique objects exists only in one file and try to exclude + - h5diff: If unique objects exists only in one file and try to exclude the unique objects with --exclude-path option, h5diff missed excluding some objects. Fixed to exclude objects correctly in such case. HDFFV-7837 (JKM 2012/03/20) - - h5dump: Added tools library error stack to properly catch error + - h5dump: Added tools library error stack to properly catch error information generated within the library. HDFFV-7958 (ADB 2012/03/12) - - h5dump: Dangling links no longer throw error message, change process + - h5dump: Dangling links no longer throw error message, change process when open link fails. HDFFV-7839 (ADB 2012/03/12) - - h5diff: When two symbolic dangling links are compared with + - h5diff: When two symbolic dangling links are compared with --follow-symlinks option, the result should be same. It worked for comparing two files, but didn't work for comparing two objects. HDFFV-7835 (JKM 2012/03/09) - - h5dump: Refactored code to remove duplicated functions. Split XML + - h5dump: Refactored code to remove duplicated functions. Split XML functions from DDL functions. Corrected indentation and formatting errors. Also fixed subsetting counting overflow (HDFFV-5874). Verified all tools call tools_init() in main. HDFFV-7560 (ADB 2012/02/17) - - h5diff: fixed to prevent from displaying error stack message when + - h5diff: fixed to prevent from displaying error stack message when comparing the two dangling symlinks with follow-symlinks option. HDFFV-7836 (JKM 2012/01/13) - - h5repack: fixed memory leak for handling variable length string in + - h5repack: fixed memory leak for handling variable length string in attribute. HDFFV-7840 (JKM 2012/01/06) - - h5ls: fixed segfault when access region reference data in an + - h5ls: fixed segfault when access region reference data in an attribute. HDFFV-7838 (JKM 2011/12/29) - - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different + - h5diff: fixed segfault over non-comparable attribute with different dimention or rank, along with '-c' option to display details. HDFFV-7770 (JKM 2011/10/24) - - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable object and attribute + - Fixed h5diff to display all the comparable object and attribute regardless of non-comparables. HDFFV-7693 (JKM 2011/09/16) - - Fixed h5repack to update values of references(object and region) of + - Fixed h5repack to update values of references(object and region) of attributes in h5repack for 1) references, 2) ARRAY of references, 3) VLEN of references, and 4) COMPOUND of references. (JIRA HDF5 5932) PC -2011/09/14 - - h5diff: fixed segfault over dataset with container types + - h5diff: fixed segfault over dataset with container types (array,lven) with multiple nested compound types. (ex: compound->array->compound, compound->vlen->compound) HDFFV-7712 JKM (2011/09/01) - - h5repack: added macro to handle failure in H5Dread/write when memory + - h5repack: added macro to handle failure in H5Dread/write when memory allocation failed inside the library. (PC -- 2011/08/19) - - Fixed h5jam not to allow specifying an HDF5 formatted file as input + - Fixed h5jam not to allow specifying an HDF5 formatted file as input file for -u (user block file) option, because the original HDF5 file will not be accessible if allows. HDFFV-5941 (JKM 2011/08/15) - - Revised command help pages of h5jam and h5unjam. The descriptions + - Revised command help pages of h5jam and h5unjam. The descriptions were not up to date and some were missing. HDFFV-7515 (JKM 2011/08/15) - - h5repack: h5repack failed to copy dataset if the layout is changed + - h5repack: h5repack failed to copy dataset if the layout is changed from chunked with unlimited dims to contiguous. HDFFV-7649 (PC -- 2011/07/15) - - h5diff: "--delta" option considers two NaN of the same type are + - h5diff: "--delta" option considers two NaN of the same type are different, which is wrong based on h5diff description in Reference Manual. HDFFV-7656 (PC -- 2011/07/15) - - Fixed h5diff to display instructive error message and exit with 1 + - Fixed h5diff to display instructive error message and exit with 1 when mutually exclusive options (-d, -p and --use-system-epsilon) are used together. HDFFV-7600 (JKM 2011/07/07) - - Fixed h5dump to display the first line of each element into correct + - Fixed h5dump to display the first line of each element into correct position for multiple dimention array type. Before this fix, the first line of each element in array were displayed after the last line of previous element without moving to the next line (+indentation). Bug #HDFFV-5878 (JKM 2011/06/15) - - Fixed h5dump to display correct value for H5T_STD_I8LE dataset + - Fixed h5dump to display correct value for H5T_STD_I8LE dataset on a system (ppc64, linux, Big-Endian, clustering). Bug #HDFFV-7594 (ABERT & JKM 2011/05/12) - - Fixed h5diff to compare file itself correctly. Previously h5diff + - Fixed h5diff to compare file itself correctly. Previously h5diff reported either different or not compatible in certain cases even comparing file itself. This fix also improve performance when comparing same target objects through verifying the obj&file addresses before comparing the details in the objects (ex: datasets or attributes) Bug #HDFFV-5928 (XCAO & JKM 2011/05/06) - - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure upon + - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure upon source directory is read-only. Bug# HDFFV-4342 (JKM 2011/4/12) - - Fixed h5dump displaying incorrect values for H5T_STD_I8BE type data in + - Fixed h5dump displaying incorrect values for H5T_STD_I8BE type data in attribute on Big-Endian machine. H5T_STD_I8BE is unsigned 8bit type, so h5dump is supposed to display -2 instead of 254. It worked correctly on Little-Endian system , but not on Big-Endian system. Bug #HDFFV-4358 (JKM 2011/04/08) - - Updated to unify option name to '--enable-error-stack' for printing + - Updated to unify option name to '--enable-error-stack' for printing HDF5 error stack messages for HDF5 tools. h5ls and h5dump for now. For h5ls, this replaces "-e/--errors" option, which is deprecated. Bug#2182 (JKM 2011/3/30) - - Fix h5diff for --use-system-epsilon option: the calculation changed + - Fix h5diff for --use-system-epsilon option: the calculation changed from ( |a - b| / b ) to ( |a - b| ). This was decided for better performance. Bug#2184 (JKM 2011/3/24) - - Fixed output for H5T_REFERENCE in h5dump. According to the BNF document + - 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) - - Fix h5diff issues for #1: h5diff compared attributes correctly only + - Fix h5diff issues for #1: h5diff compared attributes correctly only when two objects have the same number of attributes and attribute names are identical, #2: didn't display useful information about attribute difference. Bug#2121 (JKM 2011/3/17) - - Fixed memory leak for h5diff when accessing symbolic links with + - Fixed memory leak for h5diff when accessing symbolic links with --follow-symlink option. Bug#2214 (JKM 2011/3/18) - - Fixed memory leak for h5diff when access variable length string + - Fixed memory leak for h5diff when access variable length string data. Bug#2216 (JKM 2011/3/18) - - Fixed and improved help page for -a option of h5ls. + - Fixed and improved help page for -a option of h5ls. Bug#1904 (JKM 2011/3/11) - - Fixed h5dump not to include attribute values in the output file when + - Fixed h5dump not to include attribute values in the output file when h5dump "-y -o output_file" options were used. The problem was introduced in HDF5 1.8.6 by showing data pointed by region references. (XCAO 2011/3/9) - - Fixed h5copy to be able to copy any object into the same HDF5 file. + - Fixed h5copy to be able to copy any object into the same HDF5 file. Previously h5copy displayed error message when target file is same as source file. (XCAO 2011/3/8) - - Fixed h5dump for skipping some values for long array type dataset on + - Fixed h5dump for skipping some values for long array type dataset on Windows. This issue only occurred on Windows due to the different return behavior from _vsnprintf() funtion. Bug#2161 (JKM 2011/3/3) - - Fixed h5dump for skipping array indices every certain number + - Fixed h5dump for skipping array indices every certain number when the array type dataset is relatively big. The certain number varies according to the size of array. Bug#2092 (JKM 2011/2/15). - - Fixed h5diff for the segfault when compares compound datasets + - Fixed h5diff for the segfault when compares compound datasets with combination of fixed length string types and vlen string types in certain orders. bug#2089 (JKM 2010/12/28) - - Improve h5diff performance. 1) use HDmemcmp() before comparing each + - Improve h5diff performance. 1) use HDmemcmp() before comparing each elements. 2) replace expensive H5Tequals() calls 3) retrieve datatype information at dataset level not each element level for compound datasets - - Fixed h5ls to display nested compound type with curly bracket + - Fixed h5ls to display nested compound type with curly bracket when -S (--simple) option is used with -l (--label), so it shows which member (in curly bracket) belong to which nested compound type and make the output make sense. bug#1979 (JKM 2010/11/09) - - Fixed h5diff to handle variable-length strings in a compound dataset + - Fixed h5diff to handle variable-length strings in a compound dataset correctly. (also variable-length string array in a compound dataset) Garbage values were 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 object to non-exist + - Fixed h5copy to fail gracefully when copying object to non-exist group without -p option. Bug#2040 (JKM 2010/10/18) - - Fixed to compare member objects and groups recursively when two + - Fixed to compare member objects and groups recursively when two files or groups are specified to be compared. Bug#1975 (JKM 2010/9/16) - - Make h5repack be able to convert a layout to COMPACT for small size + - Make h5repack be able to convert a layout to COMPACT for small size dataset as default. bug#1896 (JKM 2010/09/15) - - Change h5ls not to manipulate special characters in object name or + - Change h5ls not to manipulate special characters in object name or attribute name for smart display. bug#1784 (JKM 2010/06/28) - - Fixed h5ls to return exit code 1 (error) when non-existent file is + - Fixed h5ls to return exit code 1 (error) when non-existent file is specified. bug#1793. (JKM 2010/04/27) - - h5copy failed to copy dangling link when the link is specified + - h5copy failed to copy dangling link when the link is specified directly. bug#1817. (JKM 2010/04/22) - - h5repack lost attributes from a dataset of reference type. bug#1726. + - h5repack lost attributes from a dataset of reference type. bug#1726. (JKM 2010/3/25) - - h5repack sets NULL for object reference value for group or + - h5repack sets NULL for object reference value for group or named datatype. bug#1814. (JKM 2010/03/19) - - h5diff: fixed incorrect behavior (hang) in parallel mode when - specify invalid options (ex: -v and -q) (JKM 2010/02/17) - - h5dump/h5ls display buffer resize fixed in tools library. - (ADB - 2009/07/21 - 1520) - - Fixed many problems that could occur when using h5repack with named - datatypes. (NAF - 2009/4/20 - 1516/1466) - - h5dump, h5diff, h5repack were not reading (by hyperslabs) datasets - that have a datatype datum size greater than H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE, a - constant defined as 1024Kb, such as array types with large - dimensions (PVN - 2009/4/1 - 1501) - - h5import: By selecting a compression type, a big endian byte order was being - selected (PVN - 2009/3/11 - 1462) - - zip_perf.c had missing argument on one of the open() calls. Fixed. - (AKC - 2008/12/9) - - h5dump now checks for uniqueness of committed datatypes. - (NAF - 2008/10/15) - - Fixed unnecessary indentation of committed datatypes in h5dump. - (NAF - 2008/10/15) - - Fixed bugs in h5stat:segmemtation fault when printing groups and + - h5diff: fixed incorrect behavior (hang) in parallel mode when + specify invalid options (ex: -v and -q) (JKM 2010/02/17) + - h5dump/h5ls display buffer resize fixed in tools library. + (ADB - 2009/07/21 - 1520) + - Fixed many problems that could occur when using h5repack with named + datatypes. (NAF - 2009/4/20 - 1516/1466) + - h5dump, h5diff, h5repack were not reading (by hyperslabs) datasets + that have a datatype datum size greater than H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE, a + constant defined as 1024Kb, such as array types with large + dimensions (PVN - 2009/4/1 - 1501) + - h5import: By selecting a compression type, a big endian byte order was being + selected (PVN - 2009/3/11 - 1462) + - zip_perf.c had missing argument on one of the open() calls. Fixed. + (AKC - 2008/12/9) + - h5dump now checks for uniqueness of committed datatypes. + (NAF - 2008/10/15) + - Fixed unnecessary indentation of committed datatypes in h5dump. + (NAF - 2008/10/15) + - Fixed bugs in h5stat:segmemtation fault when printing groups and print warning message when traversal of objects is unsuccessful. (see bug #1253) (VC- 2008/10/13) - - Fixed bug in h5ls that prevented relative group listings (like - "h5ls foo.h5/bar") from working correctly (QAK - 2008/06/03) - - Fixed bug in h5diff that prevented datasets & attributes with - variable-length string elements from comparing correctly. - (QAK - 2008/02/28) - - h5import bug on Windows w/binary datasets. fread in windows needs a - binary file to be open with 'rb' instead of 'r' otherwise it - terminates execution if an end of file character is found on the - input file. Besides that the binary file generated needs to be open - with 'wb' , otherwise an end of line character is read twice. - (PVN - 2008/02/19) - - Fixed bug in h5dump that caused binary output to be made only for the first - dataset, when several datasets were requested. (PVN - 2008/04/07) - - h5dump: when doing binary output (-b), the stdout printing of attributes - was done incorrectly. Removed printing of attributes when doing binary - output. PVN - 2008/06/05 + - Fixed bug in h5ls that prevented relative group listings (like + "h5ls foo.h5/bar") from working correctly (QAK - 2008/06/03) + - Fixed bug in h5diff that prevented datasets & attributes with + variable-length string elements from comparing correctly. + (QAK - 2008/02/28) + - h5import bug on Windows w/binary datasets. fread in windows needs a + binary file to be open with 'rb' instead of 'r' otherwise it + terminates execution if an end of file character is found on the + input file. Besides that the binary file generated needs to be open + with 'wb' , otherwise an end of line character is read twice. + (PVN - 2008/02/19) + - Fixed bug in h5dump that caused binary output to be made only for the first + dataset, when several datasets were requested. (PVN - 2008/04/07) + - h5dump: when doing binary output (-b), the stdout printing of attributes + was done incorrectly. Removed printing of attributes when doing binary + output. PVN - 2008/06/05 High-Level APIs: - ------ - - Packet Table is updated. + ------ + - Packet Table is updated. In the Packet Table C API, there are changes with the following functions, which had been ifdef'ed out with VLPT_REMOVED since 2006 @@ -1166,60 +1166,57 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Various cleanup: replacing 0/-1 with SUCCEED/FAIL and H5I_BADID with H5I_INVALID_HID. (BMR, 2016/03/04, HDFFV-442) - - Fixed problem with H5DSget_scale_name including the NULL terminator in + - Fixed problem with H5DSget_scale_name including the NULL terminator in the size calculation returned by the function. The API does not include the NULL terminator in the size returned (MSB- 2013/2/10) - - Fixed problem with H5TBdelete_record destroying all data following the deletion + - Fixed problem with H5TBdelete_record destroying all data following the deletion of a row. (MSB- 2012/7/26) - - Fixed H5LTget_attribute_string not closing an object identifier when an + - Fixed H5LTget_attribute_string not closing an object identifier when an error occurs. (MSB- 2012/7/21) - - Fixed the H5LTdtype_to_text function. It had some memory problems when + - Fixed the H5LTdtype_to_text function. It had some memory problems when dealing with some complicated data types. HDFFVI-7701 (SLU - 2011/10/19) - - Fixed a bug in H5DSattach_scale, H5DSis_attached and H5DSdetach_scale + - Fixed a bug in H5DSattach_scale, H5DSis_attached and H5DSdetach_scale caused by using H5Tget_native_type function to determine the native type for reading REFERENCE_LIST attribute. The bug was exposed on Mac PPC. (EIP - 2010/05/22 -1851) - - Fixed a bug in the H5DSdetach_scale function when 0 bytes + - Fixed a bug in the H5DSdetach_scale function when 0 bytes were allocated after the last reference to a dim. scale was removed from the list of references in a VL element of the DIMENSION_LIST attribute; modified the function to comply with the Spec: DIMENSION_LIST attribute is deleted now when no dimension scales left attached. (EIP - 2010/05/14 -1822) - - Fixed a bug where the H5TB API would forget the order of fields when + - Fixed a bug where the H5TB API would forget the order of fields when added out of offset order. (NAF - 2009/10/27 - 1582) - - H5DSis_attached failed to account for different platform types. Added a + - H5DSis_attached failed to account for different platform types. Added a get native type call. (ADB - 2009/9/29 - 1562) - - Dimension scales: The scale index return value in H5DSiterate_scales was not always + - Dimension scales: The scale index return value in H5DSiterate_scales was not always incremented. (PVN - 2009/4/8 - 1538) Fortran High-Level APIs: - ------ + ------ - - Lite: The h5ltget_attribute_string_f used to return the C NULL character in the + - Lite: The h5ltget_attribute_string_f used to return the C NULL character in the returned character buffer. The returned Fortran charactor buffer now does not return the C NULL character. (MSB - 2012/3/23) - - Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about a dataset) + - Lite: The h5ltget_dataset_info_f function (gets information about a dataset) was not correctly returning the dimension array. (PVN - 2009/3/23) - - Lite: the h5ltread_dataset_string_f and h5ltget_attribute_string_f functions + - Lite: the h5ltread_dataset_string_f and h5ltget_attribute_string_f functions had memory problems with the g95 fortran compiler. (PVN � 5/13/2009) 1522 - - - Documentation ------------- F90 APIs -------- - - Modified the h5open_f and h5close_f subroutines to not to call H5open + - Modified the h5open_f and h5close_f subroutines to not to call H5open and H5close correspodningly. While the H5open call just adds overhead, the H5close call called by an Fortran application shuts down the HDF5 library making it unaccessible to the application. |