Hello everyone,

A pre-release candidate version of HDF5 1.8.16 is available for testing and can 
be downloaded at the following link:

https://gamma.hdfgroup.org/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.16-pre1/

This is a maintenance release that has many bug fixes and updates to autotools 
configure.  For more information see 
https://gamma.hdfgroup.org/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.16-pre1/hdf5-1.8.16-pre1-RELEASE.txt

If you have time to test this release candidate, we would greatly appreciate 
it. We try our best to test HDF5 on a variety of platforms and with multiple 
compilers, but there is always a system that we couldn't test on. Your feedback 
is critical.

For those who use autoconf to build HDF5, please notice that the default 
configuration mode for this distribution is "development". Use the 
"--enable-production" configure flag if you want to build HDF5 in the 
production mode. The default will be changed to "production" in the next 
release candidate and the release itself.

Please note that the pre1 release candidate source will not build with Visual 
Studio 2015.

CMake fans will need CMake 3.1 or greater to build HDF5-1.8.16.

The shared library version numbers for lib.so.* files in HDF5-1.8.16-pre1 have 
been updated according to libtool's versioning system and the changes in 
symbols from HDF5-1.8.15-patch1. The API compatibility report is at this link:  
https://gamma.hdfgroup.org/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.16-pre1/interface_compatibility_report.
  The effect on the numbers from HDF5-1.8.15-patch1 to HDF5-1.8.16 was to 
increase libhdf5.so.10.0.1 to libhdf5.so.10.1.0, libhdf5_cpp.so.10.0.1 to 
libhdf5_cpp.so.11.0.0, and all other wrapper library files from 
libhdf5*.so.10.0.1 to libhdf5*.so.10.0.2.
Your reports will be invaluable and very much appreciated. Thank you and happy 
testing!

Larry

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Larry Knox  The HDF Group  http://hdfgroup.org
1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820
217.531.6122
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