HDF5 version 1.6.7-snap6 currently under development
Please refer to the release_docs/INSTALL file for installation instructions.
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January 28, 2007

This release is fully functional for the entire API defined in the
documentation.  

See the RELEASE.txt file in the release_docs/ directory for information 
specific to this release of the library.  

Several INSTALL* files can be found in the release_docs/ directory.
The INSTALL file contains instructions for compiling and installing the 
library.  The INSTALL_parallel file contains instructions for installing the 
parallel version of the library.  Other INSTALL* files have similarly
descriptive names.

Documentation for this release can be found in the doc/html/ directory;
start with the file "index.html" in that directory.  Online documentation
for the current release of the 1.6.x release series is available at: 
    http:/hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/

Several mailing lists are currently set up for use with the HDF5 library:

    news        - For announcements of HDF5 related developments,
                  not a discussion list.

    hdf-forum   - For general discussion of the HDF5 library with
                  other users.

    hdf5dev     - For discussion of HDF5 library development
                  with developers and other interested parties.

To subscribe to a list, send mail to "<list>-subscribe@hdfgroup.org".
where <list> is the name of the list.  For example:
    mail news-subscribe@hdfgroup.org

Messages to be sent to the list should be sent to "<list>@hdfgroup.org".

Periodic code snapshots are provided at the following URL:
    ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots
Please read the README.txt file in that directory before working with a 
library snapshot.

The HDF5 website is located at http://hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/.

Bugs should be reported to help@hdfgroup.org.