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4.3.11. Backward compatibility
- The 1.10 version of the HDF5 library can be configured to operate
- identically to the v1.8 library with the
+ The 1.12 version of the HDF5 library can be configured to operate
+ identically to the v1.10 library with the
+ --with-default-api-version=v110
+ configure flag, or identically to the v1.8 library with the
--with-default-api-version=v18
configure flag, or identically to the v1.6 library with the
--with-default-api-version=v16
configure flag. This allows existing code to be compiled with the
- v1.10 library without requiring immediate changes to the application
+ v1.12 library without requiring immediate changes to the application
source code. For additional configuration options and other details,
see "API Compatibility Macros":