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@@ -123,7 +123,16 @@ New Features
Tools:
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+ - h5repack added options to control how external links are handled.
+ Currently h5repack preserves external links and cannot copy and merge
+ data from the external files. Two options, merge and prune, were added to
+ control how to merge data from an external link into the resulting file.
+ --merge Follow external soft link recursively and merge data.
+ --prune Do not follow external soft links and remove link.
+ --merge --prune Follow external link, merge data and remove dangling link.
+
+ (ADB - 2020/08/05, HDFFV-9984)
Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.