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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.9.215 currently under development
+HDF5 version 1.9.218 currently under development
================================================================================
@@ -117,6 +117,18 @@ New Features
Library:
--------
+ - H5F_ACC_DEBUG labeled "deprecated"
+
+ The symbol was originally used to emit some extra debugging
+ informationi in the multi VFD. The underlying functionality
+ was removed due to disuse in HDF5 1.8.16 though the symbol
+ remained defined since it was visible in H5Fpublic.h.
+
+ In this release, the symbol has been labeled deprecated and will
+ not be defined when H5_NO_DEPRECATED_SYMBOLS is defined.
+
+ (DER - 2015-04-30, HDFFV-1074)
+
- The library can load filter libraries dynamically during runtime. Users
can set the search path through environment variable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
and call H5Pset_filter to enable a dynamic filter. (SLU - 2013/04/08)
@@ -1383,6 +1395,11 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release.
Known Problems
==============
+* "make check" fails on CYGWIN when building shared lib files is enabled. The
+ default on Cygwin has been changed to disable shared. It can be enabled with
+ the --enable-shared configure option but is likely to fail "make check"
+ with GCC compilers. (LK -2015/04/16)
+
* CLANG compiler with the options -fcatch-undefined-behavior and -ftrapv
catches some undefined behavior in the alignment algorithm of the macro DETECT_I
in H5detect.c (Issue 8147). Since the algorithm is trying to detect the alignment