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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index c5c8300..879c3f3 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.11.4 currently under development + version 1.11.4 currently under development ================================================================================ @@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ New Features Configuration: ------------- + - Keep stderr and stdout separate in tests + + Changed test handling of output capture. Tests now keep the stderr + output separate from the stdout output. It is up to the test to decide + which output to check against a reference. Also added the option + to grep for a string in either output. + + (ADB - 2018/12/12, HDFFV-10632) + - Add toolchain and cross-compile support Added info on using a toolchain file to INSTALL_CMAKE.txt. A @@ -110,7 +119,7 @@ New Features (ADB - 2018/07/16) - + Library: -------- - Allow pre-generated H5Tinit.c and H5make_libsettings.c to be used. @@ -120,67 +129,71 @@ New Features (ADB - 2018/09/18, HDFFV-10332) + - Remove H5I_REFERENCE from the library + + This ID class was never used by the library and has been removed. + + (DER - 2018/12/08, HDFFV-10252) + Parallel Library: ----------------- - - + - Changed the default behavior in parallel when reading the same dataset in its entirely + (i.e. H5S_ALL dataset selection) which is being read by all the processes collectively. + The dataset mush be contiguous, less than 2GB, and of an atomic datatype. + The new behavior is the HDF5 library will use an MPI_Bcast to pass the data read from + the disk by the root process to the remain processes in the MPI communicator associated + with the HDF5 file. + + (MSB - 2019/01/02, HDFFV-10652) Fortran Library: ---------------- - - + - Added new Fortran derived type, c_h5o_info_t, which is interoperable with + C's h5o_info_t. This is needed for callback functions which + pass C's h5o_info_t data type definition. - C++ Library: - ------------ - - New wrappers + (MSB, 2019/01/08, HDFFV-10443) - Added the following items: + - Added new Fortran API, H5gmtime, which converts (C) 'time_t' structure + to Fortran DATE AND TIME storage format. + + (MSB, 2019/01/08, HDFFV-10443) - + Class DSetAccPropList for the dataset access property list. + - Added new Fortran 'fields' optional parameter to: h5ovisit_f, h5oget_info_by_name_f, + h5oget_info, h5oget_info_by_idx and h5ovisit_by_name_f. - + Wrapper for H5Dget_access_plist to class DataSet - // Gets the access property list of this dataset. - DSetAccPropList getAccessPlist() const; + (MSB, 2019/01/08, HDFFV-10443) - + Wrappers for H5Pset_chunk_cache and H5Pget_chunk_cache to class DSetAccPropList - // Sets the raw data chunk cache parameters. - void setChunkCache(size_t rdcc_nslots, size_t rdcc_nbytes, double rdcc_w0) + C++ Library: + ------------ + - Added new function to the C++ interface - // Retrieves the raw data chunk cache parameters. - void getChunkCache(size_t &rdcc_nslots, size_t &rdcc_nbytes, double &rdcc_w0) + Added wrapper for H5Ovisit2: + H5Object::visit() - + New operator!= to class DataType (HDFFV-10472) - // Determines whether two datatypes are not the same. - bool operator!=(const DataType& compared_type) + (BMR - 2019/02/14, HDFFV-10532) - + Wrappers for H5Oget_info2, H5Oget_info_by_name2, and H5Oget_info_by_idx2 - (HDFFV-10458) - // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object. - void getObjinfo(H5O_info_t& objinfo, unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC) const; + Java Library: + ---------------- + - Duplicate the data read/write functions of Datasets for Attributes. - // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object, given its name. - void getObjinfo(const char* name, H5O_info_t& objinfo, - unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC, - const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const; - void getObjinfo(const H5std_string& name, H5O_info_t& objinfo, - unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC, - const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const; + Region references could not be displayed for attributes as they could + for datasets. Datasets had overloaded read and write functions for different + datatypes that were not available for attributes. After adding similar + functions, attribute region references work normally. - // Retrieves information about an HDF5 object, given its index. - void getObjinfo(const char* grp_name, H5_index_t idx_type, - H5_iter_order_t order, hsize_t idx, H5O_info_t& objinfo, - unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC, - const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const; - void getObjinfo(const H5std_string& grp_name, H5_index_t idx_type, - H5_iter_order_t order, hsize_t idx, H5O_info_t& objinfo, - unsigned fields = H5O_INFO_BASIC, - const LinkAccPropList& lapl = LinkAccPropList::DEFAULT) const; + (ADB - 2018/12/12, HDFVIEW-4) - (BMR - 2018/07/22, HDFFV-10150, HDFFV-10458, HDFFV-1047) + - Removed H5I_REFERENCE from the Java wrappers + + This ID class was never used by the library and has been removed + from the Java wrappers. + + (DER - 2018/12/08, HDFFV-10252) - Java Library: - ---------------- Tools: ------ @@ -211,6 +224,51 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release Library ------- + - Fix hangs with collective metadata reads during chunked dataset I/O + + In the parallel library, it was discovered that when a particular + sequence of operations following a pattern of: + + "write to chunked dataset" -> "flush file" -> "read from dataset" + + occurred with collective metadata reads enabled, hangs could be + observed due to certain MPI ranks not participating in the collective + metadata reads. + + To fix the issue, collective metadata reads are now disabled during + chunked dataset raw data I/O. + + (JTH - 2019/02/11, HDFFV-10563, HDFFV-10688) + + - Performance issue when closing an object + + The slow down is due to the search of the "tag_list" to find + out the "corked" status of an object and "uncork" it if so. + + Improve porformance by skipping the search of the "tag_list" + if there are no "corked" objects when closing an object. + + (VC - 2019/2/6) + + - Fixed a potential invalid memory access and failure that could occur when + decoding an unknown object header message (from a future version of the + library). + + (NAF - 2019/01/07) + + - Deleting attributes in dense storage + + The library aborts with "infinite loop closing library" after + attributes in dense storage are created and then deleted. + + When deleting the attribute nodes from the name index v2 B-tree, + if an attribute is found in the intermediate B-tree nodes, + which may be merged/redistributed in the process, we need to + free the dynamically allocated spaces for the intermediate + decoded attribute. + + (VC - 2018/12/26, HDFFV-10659) + - Allow H5detect and H5make_libsettings to take a file as an argument. Rather than only writing to stdout, add a command argument to name @@ -282,12 +340,27 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release Fortran -------- + - Added symbolic links libhdf5_hl_fortran.so to libhdf5hl_fortran.so and + libhdf5_hl_fortran.a to libhdf5hl_fortran.a in hdf5/lib directory for + autotools installs. These were added to match the name of the files + installed by cmake and the general pattern of hl lib files. We will + change the names of the installed lib files to the matching name in + the next major release. + + (LRK - 2019/01/04, HDFFV-10596) + - Made Fortran specific subroutines PRIVATE in generic procedures. Effected generic procedures were functions in H5A, H5D, H5P, H5R and H5T. - + (MSB, 2018/12/04, HDFFV-10511) - + + - Fixed issue with Fortran not returning h5o_info_t field values + meta_size%attr%index_size and meta_size%attr%heap_size. + + (MSB, 2018/1/8, HDFFV-10443) + + Tools ----- - @@ -314,6 +387,11 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release Testing ------- + - Fixed a test failure in testpar/t_dset.c caused by + the test trying to use the parallel filters feature + on MPI-2 implementations. + + (JTH, 2019/2/7) Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2 release ================================== @@ -556,6 +634,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.2 release Testing ------- + - The dt_arith test failed on IBM Power8 and Power9 machines when testing + conversions from or to long double types, especially when special values + such as infinity or NAN were involved. In some cases the results differed + by extremely small amounts from those on other machines, while some other + tests resulted in segmentation faults. These conversion tests with long + double types have been disabled for ppc64 machines until the problems are + better understood and can be properly addressed. + + (SRL - 2019/01/07, TRILAB-98) Supported Platforms =================== |