It was brought to my attention that the new option to specify a default plugin 
directory at configuration time is

--with-default-plugindir=location. 

We've already fixed the RELEASE.txt file.

Thank you!

Elena
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Elena Pourmal  The HDF Group  http://hdfgroup.org   
1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820
217.531.6112
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On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Elena Pourmal <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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