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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 2f12e11..c1eeaea 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -172,6 +172,28 @@ New Features Library: -------- + - Add H5L link APIs. Old APIs (H5Glink, H5Gmove, etc.) are still + supported but deprecated. + New APIs are: + H5Llink - create a link to an object given its ID + H5Lmove - just like H5Gmove2 + H5Lcopy - copy a link without copying the underlying object + H5Lcreate_hard - like H5Glink2 for hard links + H5Lcreate_soft - like H5Glink2 for soft links + H5Lunlink - just like H5Gunlink + H5Lget_linkval - just link H5Gget_linkval + H5Lget_linkinfo - gets link-specific info (like H5Gget_objinfo) + + In addition, H5Gcreate_expand, H5Tcommit_expand, and H5Dcreate_expand + no longer create links to objects; objects must be manually linked + using H5Llink or they will be deleted when the ID is closed. + + Link Creation Property Lists can be used to pass character + encoding (ASCII or UTF-8) for link names and to set the Intermediate + Group Creation Flag: + H5Pset_char_encoding, H5Pget_char_encoding + H5Pset_copy_object, H5Pget_copy_object + -JML 2006/7/5 - Added managements of collective IO supports for chunking storage inside parallel HDF5 1) Implemented One IO with collective mode for all chunks in the |