HDF5 User’s Guide Update Status

The HDF5 User’s Guide has been updated for HDF5 Release 1.8.8. These updates have been made since the 1.8.7 version of this document was published in May 2011.

The main updates are the following:

• The list of virtual file layer drivers has been updated. See section 3.8 in "The HDF5 File" chapter for more information.
• A section was added to describe how to use the H5Fmount function. See section 3.10 in "The HDF5 File" chapter for more information.

We welcome feedback on the documentation. Please send your comments to docs@hdfgroup.org.