HDF News Bulletin 04/17/03

To subscribe/unsubscribe to the hdfnews mailing list, please send your
request to ncsalist@ncsa.uiuc.edu with the appropriate command (e.g.
subscribe hdfnews, unsubscribe hdfnews, help) in the *body* of the message.

File Corruption Bug in HDF5-1.4.5

A critical file corruption bug was found in HDF5-1.4.5, which can cause metadata to not be written to a file. If you are using HDF5-1.4.5, please upgrade to HDF5-1.4.5-post2 as soon as possible.

We will NOT be providing pre-compiled binaries for HDF5-1.4.5-post2. We are also not removing the pre-compiled binaries for HDF5-1.4.5, so be aware that this problem exists in these binaries.


The HDF5-1.4.5-post2 source code can be obtained from the HDF5 web page at:

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/

To access the source code directly from the NCSA ftp server, go to:

ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/

This problem will be fixed in the HDF5-1.6 release which is due out in May. We will be providing pre-compiled binaries for HDF5-1.6.

Please contact help@hdfgroup.org if you need help building the software.