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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The HDF Group Home Page: http://hdfgroup.org/ Helpdesk & Mailing Lists Info: http://hdfgroup.org/services/support.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter #127 May 15, 2012 CONTENTS - Release of HDF5-1.8.9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Release of HDF5-1.8.9 ===================== The HDF5-1.8.9 release is now available. Many thanks to the users who helped test this release. The HDF5-1.8.9 software can be obtained from the following page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html This page can be accessed from The HDF Group Downloads page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/ The HDF5-1.8.9 documentation is located in: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ For information on HDF5, see the HDF5 home page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/index.html HDF5-1.8.9 is a minor release, but contains several important new features and bug fixes. Changes in this release include the following: - Committed datatypes can now be merged when copying objects, using the new flag H5O_COPY_MERGE_COMMITTED_DTYPE_FLAG. Several new API routines have been included in support of this feature. - A file in memory can now be accessed in the same way as a file on disk. New APIs were added to support this feature. - Many changes to the tools have been made, including the following: o The h5repack performance has been improved dramatically for large chunked datasets. o The -S (or --summary) option was added to h5stat to display a summary of the file space usage for a file. o A wildcard can now be used with h5dump to specify multiple files. - H5LTpath_valid was added to determine if a path is correct and a link resolves to a valid object. - The Fortran counterpart to H5Ocopy, h5ocopy_f, was added. This release contains many other changes and bug fixes not listed here. Please be sure to read the Release Notes for a comprehensive list of new features and bug fixes: http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.9-RELEASE.txt ------------------------------------------------------------- For questions regarding these or other HDF issues, contact: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
