Newsletter #130
November 15, 2012

CONTENTS

• Release of HDF-Java Products 2.9
        Highlights
        Future Changes to Supported Platforms

Release of HDF-Java Products 2.9

The HDF-Java Products 2.9 release is now available. This release was built with HDF 4.2.8 and HDF5-1.8.10 using jdk 1.7.x. It can be obtained from The HDF Group Downloads page:

   https://support.hdfgroup.org/downloads/index.html

For information on HDF-Java, see the HDF-Java Products home page:

   https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/java/hdf-java-html/

Highlights

This is a maintenance release with no major changes in functionality. It includes bug fixes and some minor enhancements.

Here are the highlights:

• Fixed 29 bugs including the following:
      Fixed HDFView to display 64-bit unsigned integers
      Fixed HDFView to display SCALAR arrays
      Fixed a fill value problem on Mac machines
      Fixed ImageView showing the wrong values for 3D arrays
• Added 10 minor enhancements including the following:
      Added a feature to show groups/attributes in creation order
      Excluded fill values from data calculations
      Added a 'reload' option to quickly close and reopen a file
  

For more information on the current release, please read "About This Release" at:

   https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/java/hdf-java-html/hdfview/UsersGuide/ug01introduction.html#ug01release

Future Changes to Supported Platforms

Please note that this is the last release to support 32-bit Mac and 32-bit Solaris. Future releases will not support these two platforms.