Know you guys are busy, but do you have an idea on timing for the Single
Writer Multiple Reader interface (SWMR)?

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Mike McGreevy <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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