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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index deaa871..986b1e8 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -48,6 +48,28 @@ New Features Configuration: ------------- + - Add option to build only shared libs + + A request was made to prevent building static libraries and only build + shared. A new option was added to CMake, ONLY_SHARED_LIBS, which will + skip building static libraries. Certain utility functions will build with + static libs but are not published. Tests are adjusted to use the correct + libraries. + + (ADB - 2019/06/12, HDFFV-10805) + + - Add options to enable or disable building tools and tests + + Configure options --enable-tests and --enable-tools were added for + autotools configure. These options are enabled by default, and can be + disabled with either --disable-tests (or tools) or --enable-tests=no + (or --enable-tools=no). Build time is reduced ~20% when tools are + disabled, 35% when tests are disabled, 45% when both are disabled. + Reenabling them after the initial build requires running configure + again with the option(s) enabled. + + (LRK - 2019/06/12, HDFFV-9976) + - Change tools test that test the error stack There are some use cases which can cause the error stack of tools to be @@ -130,6 +152,14 @@ New Features Library: -------- + - Improved the performance of virtual dataset I/O + + Refactored the internal dataspace routines used by the virtual dataset + code to improve performance, especially when one of the selections + involved is very long and non-contiguous. + + (NAF - 2019/05/31, HDFFV-10693) + - Allow pre-generated H5Tinit.c and H5make_libsettings.c to be used. Rather than always running H5detect and generating H5Tinit.c and @@ -248,6 +278,19 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release Library ------- + - Fixed an issue where copying a version 1.8 dataset between files using + H5Ocopy fails due to an incompatible fill version + + When using the HDF5 1.10.x H5Ocopy() API call to copy a version 1.8 + dataset to a file created with both high and low library bounds set to + H5F_LIBVER_V18, the H5Ocopy() call will fail with the error stack indicating + that the fill value version is out of bounds. + + This was fixed by changing the fill value message version to H5O_FILL_VERSION_3 + (from H5O_FILL_VERSION_2) for H5F_LIBVER_V18. + + (VC - 2019/6/14, HDFFV-10800) + - Fixed a bug that would cause an error or cause fill values to be incorrectly read from a chunked dataset using the "single chunk" index if the data was held in cache and there was no data on disk. @@ -342,6 +385,18 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release (JTH - 2018/08/25, HDFFV-10501) + - When iterating over an old-style group (i.e., when not using the latest + file format) of size 0, a NULL pointer representing the empty links + table would be sent to qsort(3) for sorting, which is undefined behavior. + + Iterating over an empty group is explicitly tested in the links test. + This has not caused any failures to date and was flagged by gcc's + -fsanitize=undefined. + + The library no longer attempts to sort an empty array. + + (DER - 2019/06/18, HDFFV-10829) + Java Library: ---------------- - JNI native library dependencies @@ -852,6 +907,10 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release. Known Problems ============== + CMake files do not behave correctly with paths containing spaces. + Do not use spaces in paths because the required escaping for handling spaces + results in very complex and fragile build files. + ADB - 2019/05/07 At present, metadata cache images may not be generated by parallel applications. Parallel applications can read files with metadata cache |