The final release is scheduled to be finished by Friday June 16. We expect that we would be able to incorporate minor fixes due to issues reported Monday or Tuesday of next week without delaying the release. Major issues would either delay the release or require a patch release. We do appreciate reports of issues whenever they are available (but as soon as possible).
Thanks, Larry -----Original Message----- From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Jackson Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 1:37 PM To: HDF Users Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hdf-forum] HDF5 1.8.19-pre1 version available for testing What date is the release scheduled for? This will help our team do our own scheduling as we would like to test 1.8.19 for incompatibilities but do not have time until early next week? -- Michael A. Jackson BlueQuartz Software, LLC [e]: [email protected] Larry Knox wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A pre-release version of HDF5 1.8.19 is available for testing and can > be downloaded from the following link: > > https://gamma.hdfgroup.org/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5 > > For more information about the release see > https://gamma.hdfgroup.org/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.19-pre1-RELEASE.txt. > > If you have time to test this release candidate, we would greatly > appreciate it. We 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. > > We have decided to streamline our release process for this release of > HDF5 1.8 software. For those who use autotools to build HDF5, the > default configuration build mode for this distribution is > "production", as it will be for the official release. For the last > several releases we have released a pre1 version with default build mode > "development" > followed by a switch to default build mode "production" for a pre2 > version and for the official release. This was done to catch any bugs > that are exposed in "development" mode but not in production mode. The > same purpose can be satisfied with only one pre-release version (and > one > download) by building and testing the software a second time with the > additional configure option "--disable-production". Please test both > build modes if possible. > > The shared library version numbers for lib.so.* files in HDF5 > 1.8.19-pre1 have been updated according to libtool's versioning system > and the changes in symbols from HDF5 1.8.18. The API compatibility > report is at this link: > https://gamma.hdfgroup.org/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.19-pre1-interface_compatibility_report. > > Your prompt reports of any issues found will be invaluable and very > much appreciated. Thank you and happy testing! > > Larry > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Larry Knox The HDF Group http://hdfgroup.org > 1800 So. Oak St., Suite 203, Champaign IL 61820 > 217.531.6101 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. > [email protected] > http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.or > g > Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/hdf5
