Dear HDF5 users, A pre-release candidate of HDF5 1.8.12 is available for testing and can be downloaded from the following location:
ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.12/pre1/ We will greatly appreciate if you test this pre-release on the platform(s) of your choice and report any problems found to this list as soon as possible. We have about three weeks to address the issues. The list of new features, bug fixes, and platforms tested by The HDF Group can be found in the ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.12/pre1/hdf5-1.8.12-pre1-RELEASE.txt file. The new release includes but is not limited to: - Support for Windows 8.1 - Support for OpenVMS on Itanium 64 - Fixes to gcc 4.8.x problems reported on FORUM - Enhancements to h5repack to support user-defined filters as described in section 6.2 of http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Advanced/DynamicallyLoadedFilters/HDF5DynamicallyLoadedFilters.pdf - An option to specify default plugin directories at the HDF5 configuration time using --with-default-plugin=location (configure) -DH5_DEFAULT_PLUGINDIR:PATH=location (CMake) - New command-line options to h5dump + Print an object specified by its path + Exclude printing of attributes Happy testing and we look forward to hearing from you (hopefully no bugs :-)! Thank you! Elena ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elena Pourmal The HDF Group http://hdfgroup.org 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820 217.531.6112 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org
