HDF Newsletter #60

August 3, 2001


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CONTENTS

Release of HDF5-1.4.2


Release of Java HDF5 Products Version 2.2


Release of HDF5-1.4.2

HDF5-1.4.2 is now available for download. You can obtain the HDF5-1.4.2 software from the HDF5 home page:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/

Documentation is included in the source code and can also be found from:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/

This is a fully tested release. To see the configuration features supported with HDF5 look at:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/SuppConfigFeats.html


New Features and Changes

Important changes in HDF5 include:

Please refer to the RELEASE.txt file that comes with the source code for details:

  ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/release_docs/RELEASE.txt 

Platforms Supported

    AIX IBM SP powerpc (4.3.3.0) and IBM SP RS6000 (4.3)
    Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.49a    
    Cray SV1 10.0.0.8         
    FreeBSD 4.3             
    HP-UX B.10.20 and B.11.00
    SGI IRIX 6.5, IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)
    Linux 2.4.4 and 2.2.18smp
    OSF1 V4.0  
    Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
    TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.0.7 i386  
    Windows 2000 (NT5.0), NT4.0, 98 

Please refer to the following page for a detailed list of the platforms supported:

   http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/platforms5.html


Known Problems

Known problems in this release are listed in the RELEASE.txt file in the HDF5 source code:

  ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/release_docs/RELEASE.txt

For information on known problems that occur after the release, see:

  http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/known_problems5.html


Release of Java HDF5 Products Version 2.2

The latest version of the Java HDF5 Products, Version 2.2, which has been updated to work with HDF5-1.4.2 is available from:

   http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/java-hdf5-html/

The H5View tool contains several new features, in addition to fixes to major bugs reported in version 2.1. New features in H5View include:

This release was tested with JDK 1.2.x. It should work with JDK1.3.1, but this has not been extensively tested.

This product contains the Xerces 1.4.1 from Apache (http://www.apache.org)

NOTE: The pre-built binaries for Windows platforms were linked with a pre-release version of HDF5-1.4.2. This will be updated soon.


Improved HDF5 XML Web Pages

The HDF5 XML pages have been re-written to make it easier to find information:

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

Dropping Support for Solaris 2.6

HDF5-1.4.2 is the last release of HDF5 that supports Solaris 2.6.