Newsletter #131
January 28, 2013

CONTENTS


Release of HDF5-1.8.10-patch1

The HDF5-1.8.10-patch1 release is now available. This is a source code release only. Pre-compiled binary distributions were not generated for HDF5-1.8.10-patch1 and the HDF5-1.8.10 pre-built binary distributions are still available.

This release is available from the HDF Group Downloads page:

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

It can also be obtained directly from:

    https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html

There are a few notable fixes in HDF5-1.8.10-patch1:

If you are currently using HDF5-1.8.10 and these changes do not affect you, then there is no need to install this patch.

Please refer to the HDF5-1.8.10-patch1 Release Notes for detailed information regarding this release.

Please note that there is no change to the HDF5-1.8.10 documentation, which is available from here:

    https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/

For information on HDF5, see the HDF5 home page:

    https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/index.html

Release of h5edit 1.1.0-beta1

A new release of h5edit, version 1.1.0-beta1, is now available. New features and changes in this release include:

H5edit is a command line tool to edit HDF5 files. The current version is limited to operations on attributes only. For more information see:

    https://support.hdfgroup.org/projects/npoess/h5edit_index.html

HDFView Survey Update

Thank you to everyone who participated in the HDFView User Survey. Your feedback and comments are extremely helpful to us. Please see the HDFView User Survey Report regarding the responses received.

A link to the survey has been added to the HDFView home page for anyone who has further comments or suggestions.
 

RESTful HDF5 Interface Specification 0.1

RESTful HDF5 Interface Specification 0.1 is a document that specifies a REST (REpresentational State Transfer) interface for HDF5 data stores. It describes HDF5 resources, URIs, and resource representations, and shows a simple example of how to use this interface to populate an HDF5 store.

Please note that this is version 0.1 of this specification. Resource granularity and representations are based on our own experiments and a limited understanding of "real" applications.

We invite you to share your comments/thoughts regarding this, via the HDF-Forum or you can reply directly to the author. We would like to know how you would use an HDF5/REST interface with your data. If you would consider participating in a trial, please let us know that, as well.
 

Retirement of HDF-EOS5 to NetCDF-4 Converter

Effective 12/31/2012, the HDF-EOS5 to NetCDF-4 Converter is no longer supported by The HDF Group. For information regarding this tool, see:

    http://hdfeos.org/software/convert_hdfeos5.php

Contact eoshelp AT hdfgroup.org if you have any questions or concerns about this.