From a3fd350483f11a553249d928365e178a54224f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Fortner Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:08:43 -0500 Subject: Add note to RELEASE.txt for GitHub #2016 (#2030) * Fix bug in attribute type conversion where the background buffer would not be initialized with the destination contents when necessary. Other minor simplification. * Committing clang-format changes * Fix warnings. * Address review comments. * Add RELEASE.txt note for PR #2016 * Add GitHub number to release note Co-authored-by: github-actions <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> --- release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index dc51abd..e83d193 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -248,6 +248,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.13.1 release =================================== Library ------- + - Fixed an issue with attribute type conversion with compound datatypes + + Previously, when performing type conversion for attribute I/O with a + compound datatype, the library would not fill the background buffer with + the contents of the destination, potentially causing data to be lost when + only writing to a subset of the compound fields. + + (NAF - 2022/08/22, GitHub #2016) + - Modified H5Fstart_swmr_write() to preserve DAPL properties Internally, H5Fstart_swmr_write() closes and reopens the file in question -- cgit v0.12