Dear HDF5 users, A pre-release candidate of HDF5 1.8.13 for UNIX and Windows is available for testing and can be downloaded from the following location:
ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.13/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. Notice to the autoconf Unix users: The default configuration for this release candidate is "development". The next release candidate will be available in the "production" mode as the release itself. The list of the features, bug fixes, and platforms tested by The HDF Group can be found in the ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.13/pre1/hdf5-1.8.13-pre1-RELEASE.txt file. Highlights: - Simplified configuration for building thread-safe library (use --enable-threadsafe configure flag) - New H5free_memory function to ensure that the same CRT handles both allocation and free - Support for collective I/O on point selections for parallel applications - New C++ wrappers to get object's name and type - Improved handling of NULL pointers in H5Dread/H5Dwrite calls: H5Dwrite/read doesn't fail anymore when a NULL pointer was passed for a data buffer and 0 elements were selected. - Support for user-defined (both registered or dynamically loaded) filters in h5repack (yes, you can remove UD filter now!) - MPI POSIX driver has been removed Please don't be discouraged if you don't see your patch in this release. Some patches came too late or need rework. Happy testing and we look forward to hearing from you! 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
