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| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/INSTALL_CMake.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 314 |
2 files changed, 318 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_CMake.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_CMake.txt index 5442f6c..89cd9f8 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL_CMake.txt +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_CMake.txt @@ -624,6 +624,7 @@ The config/cmake/cacheinit.cmake file can override the following values. ---------------- General Build Options --------------------- BUILD_SHARED_LIBS "Build Shared Libraries" ON +BUILD_STATIC_LIBS "Build Static Libraries" ON BUILD_STATIC_EXECS "Build Static Executables" OFF BUILD_TESTING "Build HDF5 Unit Testing" ON @@ -636,6 +637,7 @@ HDF5_BUILD_HL_LIB "Build HIGH Level HDF5 Library" ON HDF5_BUILD_TOOLS "Build HDF5 Tools" ON ---------------- HDF5 Advanced Options --------------------- +ONLY_SHARED_LIBS "Only Build Shared Libraries" OFF ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED "Allow unsupported combinations of configure options" OFF HDF5_EXTERNAL_LIB_PREFIX "Use prefix for custom library naming." "" HDF5_DISABLE_COMPILER_WARNINGS "Disable compiler warnings" OFF @@ -676,6 +678,12 @@ if (CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE MATCHES Debug) HDF5_ENABLE_INSTRUMENT "Instrument The library" OFF if (HDF5_TEST_VFD) HDF5_TEST_FHEAP_VFD "Execute fheap test with different VFDs" ON +if (HDF5_BUILD_FORTRAN) + HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN "Copy FORTRAN mod files to include directory (NO SHARED STATIC)" "XX" + if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND BUILD_STATIC_LIBS) default HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN is SHARED + if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND NOT BUILD_STATIC_LIBS) default HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN is SHARED + if (NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND BUILD_STATIC_LIBS) default HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN is STATIC + if (NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND NOT BUILD_STATIC_LIBS) default HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN is SHARED ---------------- External Library Options --------------------- HDF5_ALLOW_EXTERNAL_SUPPORT "Allow External Library Building (NO GIT TGZ)" "NO" diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 102402e..dbf55a9 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -48,6 +48,31 @@ New Features Configuration: ------------- + - CMake option to link the generated Fortran MOD files into the include + directory. + + The Fortran generation of MOD files by a Fortran compile can produce + different binary files between SHARED and STATIC compiles with different + compilers and/or different platforms. Note that it has been found that + different versions of Fortran compilers will produce incompatible MOD + files. Currently, CMake will locate these MOD files in subfolders of + the include directory and add that path to the Fortran library target + in the CMake config file, which can be used by the CMake find library + process. For other build systems using the binary from a CMake install, + a new CMake configuration can be used to copy the pre-chosen version + of the Fortran MOD files into the install include directory. + + The default will depend on the configuration of + BUILD_STATIC_LIBS and BUILD_SHARED_LIBS: + YES YES Default to SHARED + YES NO Default to STATIC + NO YES Default to SHARED + NO NO Default to SHARED + The defaults can be overriden by setting the config option + HDF5_INSTALL_MOD_FORTRAN to one of NO, SHARED, or STATIC + + (ADB - 2020/07/9, HDFFV-11116) + - CMake option to use AEC (open source SZip) library instead of SZip The open source AEC library is a replacement library for SZip. In @@ -305,9 +330,92 @@ New Features (ADB - 2018/07/16) + - Add file locking configure and CMake options + + HDF5 1.10.0 introduced a file locking scheme, primarily to help + enforce SWMR setup. Formerly, the only user-level control of the scheme + was via the HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING environment variable. + + This change introduces configure-time options that control whether + or not file locking will be used and whether or not the library + ignores errors when locking has been disabled on the file system + (useful on some HPC Lustre installations). + + In both the Autotools and CMake, the settings have the effect of changing + the default property list settings (see the H5Pset/get_file_locking() + entry, below). + + The yes/no/best-effort file locking configure setting has also been + added to the libhdf5.settings file. + + Autotools: + + An --enable-file-locking=(yes|no|best-effort) option has been added. + + yes: Use file locking. + no: Do not use file locking. + best-effort: Use file locking and ignore "disabled" errors. + + CMake: + + Two self-explanatory options have been added: + + HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING + HDF5_IGNORE_DISABLED_FILE_LOCKS + + Setting both of these to ON is the equivalent to the Autotools' + best-effort setting. + + NOTE: + The precedence order of the various file locking control mechanisms is: + + 1) HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING environment variable (highest) + + 2) H5Pset_file_locking() + + 3) configure/CMake options (which set the property list defaults) + + 4) library defaults (currently best-effort) + + (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092) + Library: -------- + - Remove HDFS VFD stubs + + The original implementation of the HDFS VFD included non-functional + versions of the following public API calls when the HDFS VFD is + not built as a part of the HDF5 library: + + * H5FD_hdfs_init() + * H5Pget_fapl_hdfs() + * H5Pset_fapl_hdfs() + + They will remain present in HDF5 1.10 and HDF5 1.12 releases + for binary compatibility purposes but have been removed as of 1.14.0. + + Note that this has nothing to do with the real HDFS VFD API calls + that are fully functional when the HDFS VFD is configured and built. + + We simply changed: + + #ifdef LIBHDFS + <real API call> + #else + <useless stub> + #endif + + to: + + #ifdef LIBHDFS + <real API call> + #endif + + Which is how the other optional VFDs are handled. + + (DER - 2020/08/27) + - Add Mirror VFD Use TCP/IP sockets to perform write-only (W/O) file I/O on a remote @@ -482,6 +590,32 @@ New Features (DER - 2020/03/18, HDFFV-11057) + - Add BEST_EFFORT value to HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING environment variable + + This change adds a BEST_EFFORT to the TRUE/FALSE, 1/0 settings that + were previously accepted. This option turns on file locking but + ignores locking errors when the library detects that file locking + has been disabled on a file system (useful on some HPC Lustre + installations). + + The capitalization of BEST_EFFORT is mandatory. + + See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more + information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled. + + (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092) + + + - Add H5Pset/get_file_locking() API calls + + This change adds new API calls which can be used to set or get the + file locking parameters. The single API call sets both the "use file + locking" flag and the "ignore disabled file locking" flag. + + See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more + information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled. + + (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092) Parallel Library: ----------------- @@ -512,11 +646,21 @@ New Features (MSB, 2019/01/08, HDFFV-10443) + - Add wrappers for H5Pset/get_file_locking() API calls + + h5pget_file_locking_f() + h5pset_file_locking_f() + + See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more + information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled. + + (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092) + C++ Library: ------------ - Added new wrappers for H5Pset/get_create_intermediate_group() - LinkCreatPropList::setCreateIntermediateGroup() LinkCreatPropList::getCreateIntermediateGroup() + LinkCreatPropList::setCreateIntermediateGroup() (BMR - 2019/04/22, HDFFV-10622) @@ -525,6 +669,16 @@ New Features (BMR - 2019/02/14, HDFFV-10532) + - Add wrappers for H5Pset/get_file_locking() API calls + + FileAccPropList::setFileLocking() + FileAccPropList::getFileLocking() + + See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more + information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled. + + (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092) + Java Library: ---------------- @@ -562,9 +716,34 @@ New Features (DER - 2018/12/08, HDFFV-10252) + - Add wrappers for H5Pset/get_file_locking() API calls + + H5Pset_file_locking() + H5Pget_use_file_locking() + H5Pget_ignore_disabled_file_locking() + + Unlike the C++ and Fortran wrappers, there are separate getters for the + two file locking settings, each of which returns a boolean value. + + See the configure option discussion for HDFFV-11092 (above) for more + information on the file locking feature and how it's controlled. + + (DER - 2020/07/30, HDFFV-11092) + Tools: ------ + - h5repack added options to control how external links are handled. + + Currently h5repack preserves external links and cannot copy and merge + data from the external files. Two options, merge and prune, were added to + control how to merge data from an external link into the resulting file. + --merge Follow external soft link recursively and merge data. + --prune Do not follow external soft links and remove link. + --merge --prune Follow external link, merge data and remove dangling link. + + (ADB - 2020/08/05, HDFFV-9984) + - h5repack was fixed to repack the reference attributes properly. The code line that checks if the update of reference inside a compound datatype is misplaced outside the code block loop that carries out the @@ -608,7 +787,7 @@ New Features High-Level APIs: --------------- - - + - C Packet Table API ------------------ @@ -631,6 +810,70 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release Library ------- + - Creation of dataset with optional filter + + When the combination of type, space, etc doesn't work for filter + and the filter is optional, it was supposed to be skipped but it was + not skipped and the creation failed. + + Allowed the creation of the dataset in such situation. + + (BMR - 2020/8/13, HDFFV-10933) + + - Explicitly declared dlopen to use RTLD_LOCAL + + dlopen documentation states that if neither RTLD_GLOBAL nor + RTLD_LOCAL are specified, then the default behavior is unspecified. + The default on linux is usually RTLD_LOCAL while macos will default + to RTLD_GLOBAL. + + (ADB - 2020/08/12, HDFFV-11127) + + - Fixed issues CVE-2018-13870 and CVE-2018-13869 + + When a buffer overflow occurred because a name length was corrupted + and became very large, h5dump crashed on memory access violation. + + A check for reading pass the end of the buffer was added to multiple + locations to prevent the crashes and h5dump now simply fails with an + error message when this error condition occurs. + + (BMR - 2020/07/22, HDFFV-11120 and HDFFV-11121) + + - Fixed the segmentation fault when reading attributes with multiple threads + + It was reported that the reading of attributes with variable length string + datatype will crash with segmentation fault particularly when the number of + threads is high (>16 threads). The problem was due to the file pointer that + was set in the variable length string datatype for the attribute. That file + pointer was already closed when the attribute was accessed. + + The problem was fixed by setting the file pointer to the current opened file pointer + when the attribute was accessed. Similar patch up was done before when reading + dataset with variable length string datatype. + + (VC - 2020/07/13, HDFFV-11080) + + - Fixed CVE-2020-10810 + + The tool h5clear produced a segfault during an error recovery in + the superblock decoding. An internal pointer was reset to prevent + further accessing when it is not assigned with a value. + + (BMR - 2020/6/29, HDFFV-11053) + + - Fixed CVE-2018-17435 + + The tool h52gif produced a segfault when the size of an attribute + message was corrupted and caused a buffer overflow. + + The problem was fixed by verifying the attribute message's size + against the buffer size before accessing the buffer. h52gif was + also fixed to display the failure instead of silently exiting + after the segfault was eliminated. + + (BMR - 2020/6/19, HDFFV-10591) + - Improved peformance when creating a large number of small datasets by retrieving default property values from the API context instead of doing skip list searches. @@ -892,6 +1135,21 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release (DER - 2019/12/09, HDFFV-10945) + - H5Sset_extent_none() sets the dataspace class to H5S_NO_CLASS which + causes asserts/errors when passed to other dataspace API calls. + + H5S_NO_CLASS is an internal class value that should not have been + exposed via a public API call. + + In debug builds of the library, this can cause asserts to trip. In + non-debug builds, it will produce normal library errors. + + The new library behavior is for H5Sset_extent_none() to convert + the dataspace into one of type H5S_NULL, which is better handled + by the library and easier for developers to reason about. + + (DER - 2020/07/27, HDFFV-11027) + Java Library: ---------------- @@ -969,11 +1227,51 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release Tools ----- - - + - The tools library was updated by standardizing the error stack process. + + General sequence is: + h5tools_setprogname(PROGRAMNAME); + h5tools_setstatus(EXIT_SUCCESS); + h5tools_init(); + ... process the command-line (check for error-stack enable) ... + h5tools_error_report(); + ... (do work) ... + h5diff_exit(ret); + + (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-11066) + + - h5diff fixed a command line parsing error. + + h5diff would ignore the argument to -d (delta) if it is smaller than DBL_EPSILON. + The macro H5_DBL_ABS_EQUAL was removed and a direct value comparision was used. + + (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-10897) + + - h5diff added a command line option to ignore attributes. + + h5diff would ignore all objects with a supplied path if the exclude-path argument is used. + Adding the exclude-attribute argument will only eclude attributes, with the supplied path, + from comparision. + + (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-5935) + + - h5diff added another level to the verbose argument to print filenames. + + Added verbose level 3 that is level 2 plus the filenames. The levels are: + 0 : Identical to '-v' or '--verbose' + 1 : All level 0 information plus one-line attribute status summary + 2 : All level 1 information plus extended attribute status report + 3 : All level 2 information plus file names + + (ADB - 2020/07/20, HDFFV-10005) High-Level APIs: ------ - - + - The H5DSis_scale function was updated to return "not a dimension scale" (0) + instead of failing (-1), when CLASS or DIMENSION_SCALE attributes are + not written according to Dimension Scales Specification. + + (EIP - 2020/08/12, HDFFV-10436) Fortran High-Level APIs: ------ @@ -993,6 +1291,14 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release Testing ------- + - Stopped java/test/junit.sh.in installing libs for testing under ${prefix} + + Lib files needed are now copied to a subdirectory in the java/test + directory, and on Macs the loader path for libhdf5.xxxs.so is changed + in the temporary copy of libhdf5_java.dylib. + + (LRK, 2020/7/2, HDFFV-11063) + - Fixed a test failure in testpar/t_dset.c caused by the test trying to use the parallel filters feature on MPI-2 implementations. |