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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 279ec7e..3f32a43 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -HDF5 version 1.9.76 currently under development +HDF5 version 1.9.80 currently under development ================================================================================ @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ New Features Configuration: ------------- + - Added a new configure option, "--enable-unsupported", which can + be used to stop configure from preventing the use of unsupported + configure option combinations, such as c++ in parallel or parallel + HDF5 with threadsafe. Use at your own risk, as it may result in a + library that won't compile or run as expected! + (MAM - 2010/11/17 - Bug 2061) - PHDF5 changed to use "mpiexec", instead of mpirun, as the default MPI applications startup command as defined in the MPI-2 definition, section 4.1. (AKC - 2010/6/11 - Bug 1921) @@ -76,6 +82,8 @@ New Features Library: -------- + - Removed all old code for Metraowerks compilers, bracketed by + __MWERKS__). Metraowerks compiler is long gone. (AKC - 2010/11/17) - Added support for threadsafety on windows using the windows threads library. Use the HDF5_ENABLE_THREADSAFE option in CMake while on a windows platform to enable this functionality. This is supported on @@ -240,6 +248,7 @@ New Features Support for new platforms, languages and compilers. ======================================= + - Intel V11.1 uses now -O3 optimization in production mode (EIP - 2010/10/08) - PathScale compilers are recognized and can build the HDF5 library properly. AKC - 2009/7/28 - @@ -248,6 +257,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Library ------- + - 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 + 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 version 1.6.3 have a bug which causes them to require this information for some operations. (NAF - 2010/09/21 - 1864) @@ -473,6 +490,24 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Tools ----- + - 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + group without -p option. Bug#2040 (JKM 2010/10/18) - Fixed to compare member objects and groups recursively when two files or groups are specified to be compared. Bug#1975 (JKM 2010/9/16) @@ -640,15 +675,22 @@ Platforms Tested Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1 Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.1 mpich-gm-1.2.5..10-intel-r2 + + Windows XP Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 + Visual Studio 2010 + Cygwin(1.7.7 native gcc(4.3.4) compiler and gfortran) - Windows XP Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1 - Cygwin(1.7.5 native gcc compiler and gfortran) + Windows XP x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 + Visual Studio 2010 + Cygwin(1.7.7 native gcc(4.3.4) compiler and gfortran) + + Windows Vista Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 - Windows XP x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1 + Windows Vista x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 - Windows Vista Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1 + Windows 7 Visual Studio 2010 - Windows Vista x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1 + Windows 7 x64 Visual Studio 2010 MAC OS 10.5 (Intel) gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006) @@ -708,8 +750,8 @@ Cray XT3 (not tested for this release) n n n x n Windows XP y y(3) y y n Windows XP x64 y y(3) y y n -Windows Vista y y(3) y y n -Windows Vista x64 y y(3) y y n +Windows Vista y y(3) y y y +Windows Vista x64 y y(3) y y y Mac OS X 10.5 Intel y y y x n FreeBSD 6.2 32-bit y y y x n FreeBSD 6.2 64-bit y y y x n @@ -738,6 +780,18 @@ SuSe Linux 2.6.5 Known Problems ============== +* While working on the 1.8.6 release of HDF5, a bug was discovered that can + occur when reading from a dataset in parallel shortly after it has been + written to collectively. The issue was exposed by a new test in the parallel + HDF5 test suite, but had existed before that. We believe the problem lies with + certain MPI implementations and/or filesystems. + + We have provided a pure MPI test program, as well as a standalone HDF5 + program, that can be used to determine if this is an issue on your system. + They should be run across multiple nodes with a varying number of processes. + These programs can be found at: + http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/known_problems/ + * Parallel mode in AIX will fail some of the testcheck_version.sh tests where it treats "exit(134) the same as if process 0 had received an abort signal. This is fixed and will be available in the next release. AKC - 2009/11/3 |