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| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 11 |
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 3102430..4f443fd 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -699,6 +699,17 @@ New Features 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 |