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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index e71f9c7..0de8686 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -60,6 +60,18 @@ Library when --enable-hdf5v1_2 configure flag is enabled. * Tweaked a few API functions to use 'size_t' instead of 'unsigned' or 'hsize_t', which may cause errors in some cases. + * Fixed a bug of H5pubconf.h causing repeated definitions if it is included + more than once. hdf5.h now includes H5public.h which includes + H5pubconf.h. Applications should #include hdf5.h which handles multiple + inclusion correctly. + * Fixed H5FDmpio.h to be C++ friendly by making Parallel HDF5 API's to be + external to C++. + * Fixed a bug in H5FD_mpio_flush() that might result in negative file seek + if both MPIO and Split-file drivers are used together. + * Added new parallel hdf5 tests in t_mpi. The new test checks if the + filesystem or the MPI-IO can really handle greater than 2GB files. + If it fails, it prints information message only without failing the + test. Configuration ------------- @@ -114,6 +126,19 @@ New Features library to link either with the Trace libraries as before or with the Pablo Performance Caputure Facility. * Improved regular hyperslab I/O by about a factor of 6 or so. + * Added two simple parallel performance tests as mpi-perf.c (MPI + performance) and perf.c (PHDF5 performance) in testpar. + * Added a parallel HDF5 example examples/ph5example.c to illustrate + the basic way of using parallel HDF5. + * Added a new public macro, H5_VERS_INFO, which is a string holding + the HDF5 library version information. This string is also compiled + into all HDF5 binary code which helps to identify the version information + of the binary code. One may use the Unix strings command on the binary + file and looks for the pattern "HDF5 library version". + * Added new checking in H5check_version() to verify the five HDF5 version + information macros (H5_VERS_MAJOR, H5_VERS_MINOR, H5_VERS_RELEASE, + H5_VERS_SUBRELEASE and H5_VERS_INFO) are consistent. + Platforms Tested ================ |