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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 7e42b01..364a3b1 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -47,6 +47,14 @@ New Features Configuration: ------------- + - New option for building and naming tools in CMake + + The following option has been added: + HDF5_BUILD_STATIC_TOOLS "Build Static Tools Not Shared Tools" OFF + + The default will build shared tools unless BUILD_SHARED_LIBS = OFF. + Tools will no longer have "-shared" as only one set of tools will be created. + - Incorporated HDF5 examples repository into HDF5 library. The HDF5Examples folder is equivalent to the repository hdf5-examples. @@ -171,6 +179,33 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.14.3 release =================================== Library ------- + - Fixed H5Fget_access_plist so that it returns the file locking + settings for a file + + When H5Fget_access_plist (and the internal H5F_get_access_plist) + is called on a file, the returned File Access Property List has + the library's default file locking settings rather than any + settings set for the file. This causes two problems: + + - Opening an HDF5 file through an external link using H5Gopen, + H5Dopen, etc. with H5P_DEFAULT for the Dataset/Group/etc. + Access Property List will cause the external file to be opened + with the library's default file locking settings rather than + inheriting them from the parent file. This can be surprising + when a file is opened with file locking disabled, but its + external files are opened with file locking enabled. + + - An application cannot make use of the H5Pset_elink_fapl + function to match file locking settings between an external + file and its parent file without knowing the correct setting + ahead of time, as calling H5Fget_access_plist on the parent + file will not return the correct settings. + + This has been fixed by copying a file's file locking settings + into the newly-created File Access Property List in H5F_get_access_plist. + + This fix partially addresses GitHub issue #4011 + - Memory usage growth issue Starting with the HDF5 1.12.1 release, an issue (GitHub issue #1256) @@ -284,7 +319,16 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.14.3 release High-Level Library ------------------ - - + - Fixed a memory leak in H5LTopen_file_image with H5LT_FILE_IMAGE_DONT_COPY flag + + When the H5LT_FILE_IMAGE_DONT_COPY flag is passed to H5LTopen_file_image, the + internally-allocated udata structure gets leaked as the core file driver doesn't + have a way to determine when or if it needs to call the "udata_free" callback. + This has been fixed by freeing the udata structure when the "image_free" callback + gets made during file close, where the file is holding the last reference to the + udata structure. + + Fixes GitHub issue #827 Fortran High-Level APIs |