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| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 14 |
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index f64fe74..115bbdc 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -356,6 +356,20 @@ New Features Library: -------- + - H5FDregister() now allows registration of read-only VFDs + + The H5FDregister() call required a VFD to have a write callback, + which prevented registering read-only VFDs like the read-only S3 + (ros3) and HDFS (hdfs) VFDs from being registered unless they + implemented a no-op, fail-always write callback. + + The registration checks no longer check for a write callback and + the no-op stubs have been removed from the ros3 and hdfs VFDs. + If a write operation is called on a VFD with no write callback, a + normal HDF5 error is returned. + + (DER - 2021/01/12, HDFFV-11205) + - Replaced H5E_ATOM with H5E_ID in H5Epubgen.h The term "atom" is archaic and not in line with current HDF5 library |