Hi everyone,
A new pre-release candidate of our HDF5 1.8.6 release is available for
testing (hdf5-1.8.6-pre3), and can be downloaded at the following link:
http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/
We have addressed some additional issues exposed during the previous
round of release candidate testing, including fixing an important bug in
the scale-offset compression filter. The bug caused big-endian machines
to generate corrupt data when using the scale-offset filter on floating
point datasets or on datasets with fill values. Such datasets will no
longer be readable by this and future versions of the HDF5 library. The
current workaround for such files is to remove the filter by using the
h5repack utility in version 1.8.5-patch1 or earlier, and then to repack
the file with the h5repack utility in version 1.8.6. Please let us know
if you have a lot of archived data that used the scale-offset filter
and the "h5repack" workaround is not a practical solution.
If you have some time to test this tar-ball, it would be greatly
appreciated. If there are no critical errors reported, we hope to
release around mid-February.
Thank you, all!
The HDF Team
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