I compiled the release candidate on win8 and win7 using VS 2012 (vs11), all 
went smoothly, comiled right out of the box (with parallel enabled and without).
I ran tests on win8 and got 2169 pass, 1 fail
Results are here.
http://cdash.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/index.php?project=HDF518&date=2013-04-22

Great job.

One thing. 

I had a discussion on the cmake list about what to do about transitive linking 
and would like to make one small change to the hdf5 cmake before the next full 
release.

If Parallel IO is enabled, any project using hdf5 also needs to pull in mpi 
includes and link to mpi lib. I'd like to add these to the hdf5-config.cmake 
when it is installed so that a project using hdf5 will pick up the mpi settings 
automatically. Currently, the user needs to add this stuff to their cmakelists 
to handle the case when mpi is used, but sometimes this can be tricky.

My use case is when paraview uses system hdf5 and it has mpi enabled, one needs 
to modify netcdf, xdmf, exodus, ... and a few other subprojects I can't 
remember to pick up the MPI settings and it is quite painful. If the 
hdf5-config added them automatically life would be much easier

Any objections?

JB


-----Original Message-----
From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Albert 
Cheng
Sent: 12 April 2013 23:00
To: HDF Users Discussion List
Subject: [Hdf-forum] HDF5 1.8.11 release candidate is available for testing

Hello everyone,

A pre-release candidate version of HDF5 1.8.11 is available for testing and can 
be downloaded at the following link:

http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.11/hdf5-1.8.11-pre1.tar.gz

If you have some time to test this pre-release, we would greatly appreciate it. 
We try to test on a wide variety of platforms and environments but are unable 
to test everywhere so feedback from the user community is always welcome.

Please note that while the release notes contained in the pre-release are 
reflective of the changes and additions present in this release, the 'platforms 
tested' and 'tested configurations' sections have yet to be updated for this 
version of HDF5.

We plan to release HDF5 1.8.11 in mid-May barring the discovery of any critical 
issues.

Thank you!

The HDF Group


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