The HDF5-1.8.8 release is now available. Many thanks to the users who helped test this release.
The HDF5-1.8.8 software can be obtained from the following page:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
This page can be accessed from The HDF Group Downloads page:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/downloads/
The HDF5 1.8.8 documentation is located in:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
For information on HDF5, see the HDF5 home page:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/index.html
HDF5 1.8.8 is a minor release, but contains a few important new features and bug fixes. Changes in this release include the following:
Fortran wrappers for the Dimension Scales APIs were added. For the new subroutine signatures, see:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/HL/RM_H5DS.html
The Fortran interface now uses the Fortran 2003 standard, enabling a wider set of Fortran and HDF5 datatypes to be supported, including:
It also contains new subroutines corresponding to those C APIs which have callback functions as parameters. For a general overview and information on how to enable these new Fortran features, please see the following paper:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/fortran/NewFeatures_F2003.pdf
HDF5 examples that use Fortran 2003 (with the suffix "F03") can be found here:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/hdf5-examples/1_8/FORTRAN/
The --enable-fortran2003 configure flag was added to enable Fortran 2003 support in the HDF5 Fortran library. This flag should be used along with the --enable-fortran flag and takes affect only when a Fortran compiler is Fortran 2003 compliant.
H5Tcreate now supports a string type (fixed-length and variable-length).
New APIs, H5Pget_mpio_actual_chunk_opt_mode and H5Pget_mpio_actual_io_mode, were added for querying whether/how a collective I/O operation completed.
Numerous changes were made to the tools (h5diff, h5repack, h5jam, h5dump).
This release contains many other changes not listed here. Please be sure to read the Release Notes for a comprehensive list of new features and bug fixes:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.8-RELEASE.txt
We are pleased to announce the release of h4mapwriter Version 1.0.2.
The source code and documentation are available at:
https://support.hdfgroup.org/projects/h4map/h4map_writer.html
This page also includes a test package and other materials. If you are new to the HDF4 Mapping Project, please read the User's Guide first.
Version 1.0.2 provides these changes from the 1.0.1 version:
We would like to thank all of the people who sent in bug reports and recommendations.
Let us know if you have any questions or comments.
For the HDF5-1.8.* releases, we will continue to supply binaries and
project files built with Visual Studio 2008 and Intel Fortran 10.1.
These files will remain on the last Windows XP OS. However, our current
Windows development and future releases will move to Windows 7 and will
use Visual Studio 2010 with Intel Fortran 12 (XE2011) as the reference
platform. CMake (current 2.8.6) will be the reference build system. The
future HDF5-1.10 source will no longer contain the legacy windows
directory or documents referencing that directory.
We no longer provide a link to the Solaris binaries from our web site
due to few requests. If you have used the pre-built Solaris binaries
in the past and would like us to continue to provide them, please let
us know.