From e1fa5a23db3057db97c662c8d33dee3309d720fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert Cheng Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:42:10 -0500 Subject: [svn-r22889] Copy finished RELEASE.txt from the 1.8.9 branch to 1.8's HISTORY-1_8.txt file. --- release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt | 722 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 720 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt index 9941aaf..0c99ce3 100644 --- a/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt +++ b/release_docs/HISTORY-1_8.txt @@ -19,8 +19,726 @@ This file contains development history of HDF5 1.8 branch %%%%1.8.9%%%% - +HDF5 version 1.8.9 released on 2012-05-09 +================================================================================ + +INTRODUCTION +============ + +This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.8 and +HDF5 1.8.9. It also contains information on the platforms tested and +known problems in HDF5-1.8.9. + +For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt +and HISTORY-1_8.txt in the release_docs/ directory of the HDF5 source. + +Links to the HDF5 1.8.9 source code, documentation, and additional materials +can be found on the HDF5 web page at: + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/ + +The HDF5 1.8.9 release can be obtained from: + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html + +User documentation for 1.8.9 can be accessed directly at this location: + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ + +New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general +descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New +in 1.8.0?" document: + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/WhatsNew180.html + +All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes +from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.9 (current +release) versus Release 1.8.8": + + http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html + +If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk: + + help@hdfgroup.org + + +CONTENTS +======== + +- New Features +- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers +- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.8 +- Platforms Tested +- Supported Configuration Features Summary +- Known Problems + + +New Features +============ + + Configuration + ------------- + - None + + Library + ------- + - Added new feature to merge committed datatypes when copying objects, + using new H5O_COPY_MERGE_COMMITTED_DTYPE_FLAG, modified by new API + routines: H5Padd_merge_committed_dtype_path(), + H5Pfree_merge_committed_dtype_paths(), H5Pset_mcdt_search_cb() and + H5Pget_mcdt_search_cb(). (QAK - 2012/03/30) + - Added new feature which allows working with files in memory in the + same ways files are worked with on disk. New API routines include + H5Pset_file_image, H5Pget_file_image, H5Pset_file_image_callbacks, + H5Pget_file_image_callbacks, H5Fget_file_image, and + H5LTopen_file_image. (QAK - 2012/04/17) + + Parallel Library + ---------------- + - Corrected memory allocation error in MPI datatype construction code. + (QAK - 2012/04/23) + - Add two new routines to set/get the atomicity parameter in the + MPI library to perform atomic operations. Some file systems (for + example PVFS2) do not support atomic updates, so those routines + would not be supported. (MSC - 2012/03/27 - HDFFV-7961) + + Tools + ----- + - h5repack: Added ability to set the metadata block size of the output + file, with the '-M'/'--metadata_block_size' command line parameter. + (QAK - 2012/03/30) + - h5stat: Added ability to display a summary of the file space usage for a + file, with the '-S'/'--summary' command line parameter. (QAK - 2012/03/28) + - h5dump: Added capability for "-a" option to show attributes containing "/" + by using an escape character. For example, for a dataset "/dset" + containing attribute "speed(m/h)", use "h5dump -a "/dset/speed(\/h)" + to show the content of the attribute. (PC - 2012/03/12 - HDFFV-7523) + - h5dump: Added ability to apply command options across multiple files using a + wildcard in the filename. Unix example; "h5dump -H -d Dataset1 tarr*.h5". + Cross platform example; "h5dump -H -d Dataset1 tarray1.h5 tarray2.h5 tarray3.h5". + (ADB - 2012/03/12 - HDFFV-7876). + - h5dump: Added new option --no-compact-subset. This option will not + interpret the '[' character as starting the compact form of + subsetting. This is useful when the "h5dump error: unable to + open dataset "datset_name"" message is output because a dataset + name contains a '[' character. (ADB - 2012/03/05 - HDFFV-7689). + - h5repack: Improved performance for big chunked datasets (size > 128MB) + when used with the layout (-l) or compression (-f) options. + Before this change, repacking datasets with chunks with a large first + dimension would take extremely long. For example, repacking a dataset + with chunk dimensions of 1024x5x1 might take many hours to process + while changing a dataset with chunk dimensions set to 1x5x1024 + might take under an hour. After this change, processing the dataset + with chunk dimensions of 1024x5x1 takes about 15 minutes, and processing + a dataset with chunk dimensions of 1x5x1024 takes about 14 minutes. + (JKM - 2012/03/01 - HDFFV-7862) + + High-Level APIs + --------------- + - New API: H5LTpath_valid (Fortran: h5ltpath_valid_f) checks + if a path is correct, determines if a link resolves to a valid + object, and checks that the link does not dangle. (MSB - 2012/03/15) + + Fortran API + ----------- + + - Added for the C API the Fortran wrapper: + h5ocopy_f (MSB - 2012/03/22) + + C++ API + ------- + - None + + +Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers +=================================================== + - None + +Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.8 +========================== + + Configuration + ------------- + - Fixed Makefile issue in which "-Wl," was not properly specified + prior to -rpath when building parallel Fortran libraries with + an Intel compiler. (MAM - 2012/03/26) + - Makefiles generated by other packages using h5cc as the compiler + no longer error when 'make' is invoked more than once in order + to 'rebuild' after changes to source. (MAM - 2012/03/26) + - Added code to display the version information of XL Fortran and C++ + in the summary of configure. (AKC - 2012/02/28 - HDFFV-7793) + - Updated all CMakeLists.txt files to indicate the minimum CMake version is + the current standard of 2.8.6 (ADB - 2011/12/05 - HDFFV-7854) + + Library + ------- + - Windows and STDIO correctness changes have been propagated from the SEC2 + and old Windows drivers to the STDIO VFD. (DER - 2012/03/30 - HDFFV-7917) + - Fixed an error that would occur when copying an object with attribute + creation order tracked and indexed. (NAF - 2012/03/28 - HDFFV-7762) + - Fixed a bug in H5Ocopy(): When copying an opened object, call the + object's flush class action to ensure that cached data is flushed so + that H5Ocopy will get the correct data. (VC - 2012/03/27 - HDFFV-7853) + - The istore test will now skip the sparse 50x50x50 test when the VFD does + not support sparse files on that platform. The most important platforms + on which this will be skipped are Windows (NTFS sparse files are not + supported) and Mac OS-X (HFS sparse files are not supported). This + fixes CTest timeout issues on Windows. (DER - 2012/03/27 - HDFFV-7769) + - Windows and POSIX correctness changes have been propagated from the SEC2 + VFD to the Core VFD. This mainly affects file operations on the + driver's backing store and fixes a problem on Windows where large files + could not be read. (DER - 2012/03/27 - HDFFV-7916 - HDFFV-7603) + - When an application tries to write or read many small data chunks and + runs out of memory, the library had a segmentation fault. The fix is to + return the error stack with proper information. + (SLU - 2012/03/23 - HDFFV-7785) + - H5Pset_data_transform had a segmentation fault in some cases like x*-100. + It works correctly now and handles other cases like 100-x or 2/x. + (SLU - 2012/03/15 - HDFFV-7922) + - Fixed rare corruption bugs that could occur when using the new object + header format. (NAF - 2012/03/15 - HDFFV-7879) + - Fixed an error that occurred when creating a contiguous dataset with a + zero-sized dataspace and space allocation time set to 'early'. + (QAK - 2012/03/12) + - Changed Windows thread creation to use _beginthread() instead of + CreateThread(). Threads created by the latter can be killed in + low-memory situations. (DER - 2012/02/10 - HDFFV-7780) + - Creating a dataset in a read-only file caused a segmentation fault when + the file is closed. It's fixed. The attempt to create a dataset will + fail with an error indicating the file is read-only. + (SLU - 2012/01/25 - HDFFV-7756) + - Fixed a segmentation fault that could occur when shrinking a dataset + with chunks larger than 1 MB. (NAF - 2011/11/30 - HDFFV-7833) + - Fixed a bug that could cause H5Oget_info to return the wrong address + after copying a committed (named) datatype. (NAF - 2011/11/14) + - The library allowed the conversion of strings between ASCII and UTF8 + We have corrected it to report an error under this situation. + (SLU - 2011/11/8 - HDFFV-7582) + - Fixed a segmentation fault when the library tried to shrink the size + of a compound datatype through H5Tset_size immediately after the + datatype was created. (SLU - 2011/11/4 - HDFFV-7618) + + Parallel Library + ---------------- + - None + + Tools + ----- + - h5unjam: Fixed a segmentation fault that occurred when h5unjam was used + with the -V (show version) option. (JKM - 2012/04/19 - HDFFV-8001) + - h5repack: Fixed a failure that occurred when repacking the chunk size + of a specified chunked dataset with unlimited max dims. + (JKM - 2012/04/11 - HDFFV-7993) + - h5diff: Fixed a failure when comparing groups. Before the fix, if an + object in a group was compared with an object in another group where + both had the same name but the object type was different, then h5diff + would fail. After the fix, h5diff detects such cases as non-comparable + and displays appropriate error messages. + (JKM - 2012/03/28 - HDFFV-7644) + - h5diff: If unique objects exist only in one file and if h5diff is set to + exclude the unique objects with the --exclude-path option, then h5diff + might miss excluding some objects. This was fixed to correctly exclude + objects. (JKM - 2012/03/20 - HDFFV-7837) + - h5diff: When two symbolic dangling links are compared with the + --follow-symlinks option, the result should be the same. This worked when + comparing two files, but didn't work when comparing two objects. + h5diff now works when comparing two objects. + (JKM - 2012/03/09 - HDFFV-7835) + - h5dump: Added the tools library error stack to properly catch error + information generated within the library. (ADB - 2012/03/12 - HDFFV-7958) + - h5dump: Changed the process where an open link used to fail. Now dangling + links no longer throw error messages. (ADB - 2012/03/12 - HDFFV-7839) + - h5dump: Refactored code to remove duplicated functions. Split XML + functions from DDL functions. Corrected indentation and formatting + errors. Also fixed subsetting counting overflow (HDFFV-5874). Verified + all tools call tools_init() in main. The USER_BLOCK data now correctly + displays within the SUPER_BLOCK info. NOTE: WHITESPACE IN THE OUTPUT + HAS CHANGED. (ADB - 2012/02/17 - HDFFV-7560) + - h5diff: Fixed to prevent from displaying error stack message when + comparing two dangling symbolic links with the follow-symlinks option. + (JKM - 2012/01/13 - HDFFV-7836) + - h5repack: Fixed a memory leak that occurred with the handling of + variable length strings in attributes. + (JKM - 2012/01/10 - HDFFV-7840) + - h5ls: Fixed a segmentation fault that occurred when accessing region + reference data in an attribute. (JKM - 2012/01/06 - HDFFV-7838) + + F90 API + ------- + - None + + C++ API + ------ + - None + + High-Level APIs: + ------ + - None + + Fortran High-Level APIs: + ------ + - h5ltget_attribute_string_f: The h5ltget_attribute_string_f used to return + the C NULL character in the returned character buffer. The returned + charactor buffer now does not return the C NULL character; the buffer + is blank-padded if needed. (MSB - 2012/03/23) + + +Platforms Tested +================ +The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release. + + AIX 5.3 xlc 10.1.0.5 + (NASA G-ADA) xlC 10.1.0.5 + xlf90 12.1.0.6 + + FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386 gcc 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719 + (loyalty) g++ 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719 + gcc 4.6.1 20110422 + g++ 4.6.1 20110422 + gfortran 4.6.1 20110422 + + FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 gcc 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719 + (freedom) g++ 4.2.1 [FreeBSD] 20070719 + gcc 4.6.1 20110422 + g++ 4.6.1 20110422 + gfortran 4.6.1 20110422 + + Linux 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++) + #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 compilers for 32-bit applications; + (jam) Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) + Version 4.5.2 + PGI C, Fortran, C++ Compilers for 32-bit + applications; + Version 11.8-0 + Version 11.9-0 + Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compiler for 32-bit + applications; + Version 12.0 + Version 12.1 + MPICH mpich2-1.3.1 compiled with + gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2 + + Linux 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 GNU C (gcc), Fortran (gfortran), C++ (g++) + #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux compilers for 32-bit applications; + (koala) Version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) + Version 4.5.2 + PGI C, Fortran, C++ for 64-bit target on + x86-64; + Version 11.9-0 (64-bit) + Version 11.8-0 (32-bit) + Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for + applications running on Intel(R) 64; + Version 12.0 + Version 12.1 + MPICH mpich2-1.3.1 compiled with + gcc 4.1.2 and gfortran 4.1.2 + + Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) + #1 SMP ppc64 GNU/Linux g++ (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 + (ostrich) GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3) + + Linux 2.6.18-108chaos Intel C, C++, Fortran Compilers Version 11.1 + #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux + (LLNL Aztec) + + IBM Blue Gene/P XL C for Blue Gene/P, bgxlc V9.0 + (LLNL uDawn) XL C++ for Blue Gene/P, bgxlC V9.0 + XL Fortran for Blue Gene/P, bgxlf0 V11.1 + + SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit Sun C 5.9 Sun OS_sparc Patch 124867-16 + (linew) Sun Fortran 95 8.3 Sun OS_sparc Patch 127000-13 + Sun C++ 5.9 Sun OS_sparc Patch 124863-26 + Sun C 5.11 SunOS_sparc + Sun Fortran 95 8.5 SunOS_sparc + Sun C++ 5.11 SunOS_sparc + + SGI Altix UV Intel(R) C, Fortran Compilers + SGI ProPack 7 Linux Version 11.1 20100806 + 2.6.32.24-0.2.1.2230.2.PTF- SGI MPT 2.02 + default #1 SMP + (NCSA ember) + + Dell NVIDIA Cluster Intel(R) C, Fortran Compilers + Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Version 12.0.4 20110427 + 2.6.32-131.4.1.el6.x86_64 mvapich2 1.7rc1-intel-12.0.4 + (NCSA forge) + + Windows XP Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1 (project files) + Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 12 (cmake) + + Windows XP x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1 (project files) + Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 12 (cmake) + + Windows 7 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 12 (cmake) + Cygwin(1.7.9 native gcc(4.5.3) compiler and gfortran) + + Windows 7 x64 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 11.1 (cmake) + Visual Studio 2010 w/ Intel Fortran 12 (cmake) + Cygwin(1.7.9 native gcc(4.5.3) compiler and gfortran) + + Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (gcc) + Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0 i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (g++) + Intel 64-bit (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3) + (fred) GNU Fortan (GCC) 4.6.1 (gfortran) + Intel C (icc), Fortran (ifort), C++ (icpc) + 12.1.0.038 Build 20110811 + + Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (gcc) + Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0 i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (g++) + Intel 32-bit (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3) + (tejeda) GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.1 (gfortran) + Intel C (icc), Fortran (ifort), C++ (icpc) + 12.1.0.038 Build 20110811 + + Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 GCC 4.2.1 gcc + 32- and 64-bit GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.1 gfortran + (duck) GCC 4.2.1. g++ + + Debian6.0.3 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP i686 GNU/Linux + gcc (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5 + GNU Fortran (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5 + + Debian6.0.3 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux + gcc (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5 + GNU Fortran (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5 + + Fedora16 3.2.9-2.fc16.i6866 #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux + gcc (GCC) 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1) + GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1) + + Fedora16 3.2.9-2.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux + gcc (GCC) 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1) + GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.2 20111027 (Red Hat 4.6.2-1) + + SUSE 12.1 3.1.9-1.4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux + gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2 + GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2 + + SUSE 12.1 3.1.9-1.4-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux + gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2 + GNU Fortran (SUSE Linux) 4.6.2 + + Ubuntu 11.10 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux + gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1 + GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.4-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1 + + Ubuntu 11.10 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux + gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1 + GNU Fortran (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1 + + Cray Linux Environment (CLE) PrgEnv-pgi 2.2.74 + hopper.nersc.gov pgcc 11.9-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp k8e + pgf90 11.9-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp k8e + pgCC 11.9-0 64-bit target on x86-64 Linux -tp k8e + + +Tested Configuration Features Summary +===================================== + + In the tables below + y = tested + n = not tested in this release + C = Cluster + W = Workstation + x = not working in this release + dna = does not apply + ( ) = footnote appears below second table + = testing incomplete on this feature or platform + +Platform C F90 F90 C++ zlib SZIP + parallel parallel +Solaris2.10 32-bit n y n y y y +Solaris2.10 64-bit n y n y y y +Windows XP n y(4) n y y y +Windows XP x64 n y(4) n y y y +Windows Vista n y(4) n y y y +Windows Vista x64 n y(4) n y y y +Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit n y n y y n +Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit n y n y y y +Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit n y n y y n +Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit n y n y y y +AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit y y y y y y +FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE 32&64 bit n x n x y y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 GNU (1)W y y(2) y y y y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 Intel W n y n y y y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 PGI W n y n y y y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU (1) W y y(3) y y y y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel W n y n y y y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI W n y n y y y +Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 n y n y y y +SGI ProPack 7 Linux 2.6.32.24 y y y y y y +Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 y y y y y y +CLE hopper.nersc.gov y y(3) y y y n + + +Platform Shared Shared Shared Thread- + C libs F90 libs C++ libs safe +Solaris2.10 32-bit y y y y +Solaris2.10 64-bit n n n n +Windows XP y y(4) y n +Windows XP x64 y y(4) y n +Windows Vista y y(4) y y +Windows Vista x64 y y(4) y y +Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit y n y n +Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 64-bit y n y n +Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 32-bit y n y y +Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 64-bit y n y y +AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit n n n y +FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE 32&64 bit y x x y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 GNU (1)W y y(2) y y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 Intel W y y y n +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18-194 i686 PGI W y y y n +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 GNU (1) W y y y y +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel W y y y n +CentOS 5.5 Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 PGI W y y y n +Linux 2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.ppc64 y y y n +SGI ProPack 7 Linux 2.6.32.24 y y y n +Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 y y y n +CLE hopper.nersc.gov n n n n + + (1) Fortran compiled with gfortran. + (2) With PGI and Absoft compilers. + (3) With PGI compiler for Fortran. + (4) Using Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1 (Cygwin shared libraries are not supported) + (5) C and C++ shared libraries will not be built when Fortran is enabled. + Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding + "Platforms Tested" table. + + +Known Problems +============== +* The h5repacktst test fails on AIX 32-bit because the test uses more + memory than the default amount. The failure message typically looks like: + + "time: 0551-010 The process was stopped abnormally. Try again." + + This is an issue with the test only and does not represent a problem with + the library. To allow the test to pass, request more memory when testing + via appropriate command such as: + + $ env LDR_CNRTL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA make check + + (AKC - 2012/05/09 - HDFFV-8016) + +* The file_image test will fail in the "initial file image and callbacks in + the core VFD" sub-test if the source directory is read-only as the test + fails to create its test files in the build directory. This will be + resolved in a future release. + (AKC - 2012/05/05 - HDFFV-8009) + +* The dt_arith test reports several errors involving "long double" on + Mac OS X 10.7 Lion when any level of optimization is enabled. The test does + not fail in debug mode. This will be addressed in a future release. + (SLU - 2012/05/08) + +* The following h5dump test case fails in BG/P machines (and potentially other + machines that use a command script to launch executables): + + h5dump --no-compact-subset -d "AHFINDERDIRECT::ah_centroid_t[0] it=0 tl=0" + tno-subset.h5 + + This is due to the embedded spaces in the dataset name being interpreted + by the command script launcher as meta-characters, thus passing three + arguments to h5dump's -d flag. The command passes if run by hand, just + not via the test script. + (AKC - 2012/05/03) + +* The ph5diff (parallel h5diff) tool can intermittently hang in parallel mode + when comparing two HDF5 files that contain objects with the same names but + with different object types. + (JKM - 2012/04/27) + +* On hopper, the build failed when RUNSERIAL and RUNPARALLEL are set + to aprun -np X, because the H5lib_settings.c file was not generated + properly. Not setting those environment variables works, because + configure was able to automatically detect that it's a Cray system + and used the proper launch commands when necessary. + (MSC - 2012/04/18) + +* The data conversion test dt_arith.c fails in "long double" to integer + conversion on Ubuntu 11.10 (3.0.0.13 kernal) with GCC 4.6.1 if the library + is built with optimization -O3 or -O2. The older GCC (4.5) or newer kernal + (3.2.2 on Fedora) doesn't have the problem. Users should lower the + optimization level (-O1 or -O0) by defining CFLAGS in the command line of + "configure" like: + + CFLAGS=-O1 ./configure + + This will overwrite the library's default optimization level. + (SLU - 2012/02/07 - HDFFV-7829) + +* The STDIO VFD does not work on some architectures, possibly due to 32/64 + bit or large file issues. The basic STDIO VFD test is known to fail on + 64-bit SunOS 5.10 on SPARC when built with -m64 and 32-bit OS X/Darwin + 10.7.0. The STDIO VFD test has been disabled while we investigate and + a fix should appear in a future release. + (DER - 2011/10/14) + +* h5diff can report inconsistent results when comparing datasets of enum type + that contain invalid values. This is due to how enum types are handled in + the library and will be addressed in a future release. + (DER - 2011/10/14 - HDFFV-7527) + +* The links test can fail under the stdio VFD due to some issues with external + links. This will be investigated and fixed in a future release. + (DER - 2011/10/14 - HDFFV-7768) + +* After the shared library support was fixed for some bugs, it was discovered + that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer works for shared libraries. It + still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to + install the HDF5 shared libraries in a location such as /usr/local/hdf5, + you need to specify the location via the --prefix option during configure + time. E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ... + (AKC - 2011/05/07 - HDFFV-7583) + +* The parallel test, t_shapesame, in testpar/, may run for a long time and may + be terminated by the alarm signal. If that happens, one can increase the + alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the + environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600 + (60 minutes). Note that the t_shapesame test may fail in some systems + (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem below). If + it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set + to a larger value. + (AKC - 2011/05/07) + +* The C++ and FORTRAN bindings are not currently working on FreeBSD. + (QAK - 2011/04/26) + +* Shared Fortran libraries are not quite working on AIX. While they are + generated when --enable-shared is specified, the fortran and hl/fortran + tests fail. We are looking into the issue. HL and C++ shared libraries + should now be working as intended, however. + (MAM - 2011/04/20) + +* The --with-mpe configure option does not work with Mpich2. + (AKC - 2011/03/10) + +* While working on the 1.8.6 release of HDF5, a bug was discovered that can + occur when reading from a dataset in parallel shortly after it has been + written to collectively. The issue was exposed by a new test in the parallel + HDF5 test suite, but had existed before that. We believe the problem lies with + certain MPI implementations and/or file systems. + + We have provided a pure MPI test program, as well as a standalone HDF5 + program, that can be used to determine if this is an issue on your system. + They should be run across multiple nodes with a varying number of processes. + These programs can be found at: + http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/known_problems/ + (NAF - 2011/01/19) + +* The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on + Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double. The + library's own conversion works fine. We defined a macro for Cygwin to + skip this test until we can solve the problem. + (SLU - 2010/05/05 - HDFFV-1264) + +* All the VFL drivers aren't backward compatible. In H5FDpublic.h, the + structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8. There is new parameter added to + get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions. A new callback function + get_type_map was added in. The public function H5FDrealloc was taken + out in 1.8. The problem only happens when users define their own driver + for 1.6 and try to plug in 1.8 library. Because there's only one user + complaining about it, we (Elena, Quincey, and I) decided to leave it as + it is (see bug report #1279). Quincey will make a plan for 1.10. + (SLU - 2010/02/02) + +* MinGW has a missing libstdc++.dll.a library file and will not successfully link + C++ applications/tests. Do not use the enable-cxx configure option. Read all of + the INSTALL_MINGW.txt file for all restrictions. + (ADB - 2009/11/11) + +* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries + if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version + of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac, + for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a + successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be + fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the + executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library. + (MAM - 2009/11/04) + +* The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would + cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file does not + exist. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the mode has + the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. + (AKC - 2009/08/11 - HDFFV-988) + +* Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5 + / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with + collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks + with MPI IO. + (CMC - 2009/04/28) + +* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh and + tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh will fail some of its sub-tests. These sub-tests + are expected to fail and should exit with a non-zero code but the yod + command does not propagate the exit code of the executables. Yod always + returns 0 if it can launch the executable. The test suite shell expects + a non-zero for this particular test, therefore it concludes the test has + failed when it receives 0 from yod. Skip all the "failing" test for now + by changing them as following. + + ======== Original tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh ========= + TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5 + ======== Change to =============================== + echo SKIP TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5 + ================================================== + + ======== Original tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh ========= + TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d grp_rename + TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets + TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets + TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested + H5LSTEST $FILEOUT + ======== Change to =============================== + echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d grp_rename + echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets + echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets + echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested + echo SKIP H5LSTEST $FILEOUT + ================================================== + (AKC - 2008/11/10) + +* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the + message, "yod allocation delayed for node recovery". This interferes with + test suites that do not expect to see this message. See the section of "Red + Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem. + (AKC - 2008/05/28) + +* On an Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, + use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of + optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. + +* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and + the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 + processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be + verified with t_mpi test under testpar. + +* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read + with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled. + There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the + library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big- + endian and little-endian systems. This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3. + However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as + before on little-endian system. Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read + datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before. + (SLU - 2005/06/30) + +* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error + messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...". This is from the command `poe'. + Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages + and run the tests again. + + The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use", + but HDF5 does not use sockets. This failure is due to problems with the + poe command trying to set up the debug socket. To resolve this problem, + check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around. + These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed + commands. First, ask your system administrator to clean them out. + Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket. + (AKC - 2004/12/08) %%%%1.8.8%%%% -- cgit v0.12