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Updated for 1.8.0-beta1.
    Updated URLs from hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu 
        to www.hdfgroup.org or www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu, as appropriate
        and corrected otherwise-out-of-date URLs.
    Updated HDF Help Desk address to 'help@hdfgroup.org'.
    Added notes regarding beta documentation.
    And here were a few minor edits.
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@ -9,28 +9,33 @@ HDF5-1.8.0-beta1, and contains information on the platforms tested and
known problems in HDF5-1.8.0-beta1. For more details check the HISTORY.txt
file in the HDF5 source.
The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
(ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu) in the directory:
/HDF/HDF5/docs/
Links to HDF5 1.8.0-beta* source code, documentation, and additional materials
can be found on THG's development server (www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu) at the
following location:
http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/beta/obtain518.html
User documentation for the beta can be accessed directly at this location:
http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/
The HDF5 1.8.0-beta* documentation can be found on the NCSA web
server http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/beta/obtain518.html
New features of the upcoming 1.8.0 release are described in
the "What's New in 1.8.0?" document:
http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/WhatsNew180.html
New features of upcoming 1.8.0 release are described in
the "What is new in 1.8.0?" document at the following URL:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/WhatsNew180.html
New and modified APIs are described briefly in
http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/WhatsNew180.html
and will be listed in the "HDF5 Software Changes" document:
http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
New and modified APIs are listed in
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
For more information look at the HDF5 home page at:
For more information, see the HDF5 home page:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/
If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
help@hdfgroup.org
hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu
CONTENTS
@ -283,7 +288,7 @@ New Features
If MPI-IO packages at your Linux and Altix support this case,
please comment out the last line and report to us at
hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu. We can tune in our configuration to
help@hdfgroup.org. We can tune in our configuration to
support this.
KY - 2006/02/16
@ -555,6 +560,19 @@ New Features
- Added Packet Table API for creating tables with less overhead than
H5TB API. Added C++ wrapper for Packet Tables. See documentation.
JML - 2004/03/28
Documentation
-------------
- The documentation for this release is largely complete, but
trails the source code. A few of the newer functions are
not yet documented. FMB - 2007/04/18
- The user documents for this beta can be accessed directly at
this location:
http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_1.8pre/doc/
The most recent document versions (updated daily) in the
1.8 development branch can be accessed at this location:
http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc_dev_snapshot/H5_dev/
FMB - 2007/04/18
Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
@ -632,7 +650,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
If your files have been affected by this bug, or you are concerned
that your files might have been, please contact the HDF Helpdesk
at hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu for a tool to detect and repair files
at help@hdfgroup.org for a tool to detect and repair files
affected by this problem. QAK - 2006/6/16
- Fixed various problems with retrieving names of objects, especially
with mounted files. QAK - 2005/12/25
@ -926,6 +944,7 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
Documentation
-------------
F90 APIs
--------
- h5pget_driver_f was returning information that could not be
@ -1005,7 +1024,7 @@ Platforms marked with * were not tested for hdf5-1.8.0-beta release
Windows 64 Windows 2005 (32-bit only)
Intel 9.1 C, C++, Fortran
MAC OS 10.4 (Intel) gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
MAC OS 10.4 (Intel) gcc i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.91!) Nov 21 2006)
Alpha Open VMS 7.3
@ -1227,8 +1246,8 @@ Known Problems
* Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays
replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
from the site:
ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.6.2/F90_source_for_Crays
from this site:
ftp://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.8.0-pre/PATCH/
* Not all platforms behave correctly with szip's shared libraries. Szip is
disabled in these cases, and a message is relayed at configure time. Static