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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 25bcbbf..26c3a67 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -529,6 +529,26 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.14.0 release =================================== Library ------- + - Fixed asserts raised by large values of H5Pset_est_link_info() parameters + + If large values for est_num_entries and/or est_name_len were passed + to H5Pset_est_link_info(), the library would attempt to create an + object header NIL message to reserve enough space to hold the links in + compact form (i.e., concatenated), which could exceed allowable object + header message size limits and trip asserts in the library. + + This bug only occurred when using the HDF5 1.8 file format or later and + required the product of the two values to be ~64k more than the size + of any links written to the group, which would cause the library to + write out a too-large NIL spacer message to reserve the space for the + unwritten links. + + The library now inspects the phase change values to see if the dataset + is likely to be compact and checks the size to ensure any NIL spacer + messages won't be larger than the library allows. + + Fixes GitHub #1632 + - Fixed a bug where H5Tset_fields does not account for any offset set for a floating-point datatype when determining if values set for spos, epos, esize, mpos and msize make sense for the datatype |