Hello everyone,

A second 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-pre2/

The HDF5 1.8.16-pre2 pre-release candidate has 2 changes from HDF 1.8.16-pre1:

*       The default production mode has been switched from development to 
production.

*       The three issues that prevented building HDF5 1.8.16-pre1 with Visual 
Studio 2015 were addressed; Visual Studio 2015 will build the pre2 release 
candidate.
Thank you to Marco Atzeri and Sean McBride who reported test results from 
Cygwin 64 bit and on  Mac 10.8 - 10.10 and Windows 8.  The Mac errors seem to 
involve flags that we don't test.  A Jira issue will be created specifying the 
flags with which the tests fail or produce errors to be addressed as possible.  
Any patches to be considered will be welcomed.

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.  If there are no problems reported next week that will seriously 
impair the operation of HDF5 1.8.16, we will proceed with the final 1.8.16 
release expected by November 15.

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-pre2/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 are 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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