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CONTENTS

  • Release of HDF5-1.4.1
  • Release of Java HDF5 Products
  • More HDF5 tools support XML

  • Release of HDF5-1.4.1

    HDF5-1.4.1 is now available for download. The changes in this release are primarily to the HDF5 utilities, and not all features were tested. Therefore, we have not provided the entire pre-compiled binary distribution (libraries, include files, utilities) for the platforms we support. We do provide the pre-compiled utilities as well as the source code for HDF5-1.4.1.

    You can obtain the HDF5-1.4.1 software from the HDF5 home page or from the NCSA ftp server:

       ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/
    
    The HDF5 home page is located at:
       http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
    
    Documentation is included in the source code and can also be found in:
       ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/docs/
    

    New Features and Changes

    Platforms Tested

    Due to the nature of this release only the C, C++ libraries and tools were tested.
        AIX 4.3.3.0 (IBM SP powerpc)  xlc 3.6.6
                                      mpcc_r 3.6.6
        Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.47      Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.0
        Cray SV1 10.0.0.8             Cray Standard C Version 6.5.0.0
        FreeBSD 4.3                   gcc 2.95.2
        HP-UX B.10.20                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.10.32.30
        HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20
        IRIX 6.5                      MIPSpro cc 7.30
        IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1m
        Linux 2.2.18smp               gcc-2.95.2
                                      g++ 2.95.2
        OSF1 V4.0                     DEC-V5.2-040
                                      Digital Fortran 90 V4.1-270
        SunOS 5.6                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
         (Solaris 2.6)
        SunOS 5.7                     WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
         (Solaris 2.7)                Workshop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0
        TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.0            mpich-1.2.1 with local changes
        Windows NT4.0, 2000 (NT5.0)   MSVC++ 6.0
        Windows 98                    MSVC++ 6.0
    

    Known Problems

    Release of Java HDF5 Products

    The latest version of the Java HDF5 Products which has been updated to work with HDF5-1.4.1 is now available from:
         http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/java-hdf5-html/
    
    Several new features have been added to H5View in this release: Please refer to the java-hdf5-html/ web page for a comprehensive list of all of the changes.

    More HDF5 tools support XML

    This release features an initial set of tools that convert between XML and HDF5 (and vice versa).

    The initial tool set includes:

    These tools use the standard DTD, and the same XML can be read and written by all the tools.

    More information about the tools and XML is available at:

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