March 25, 2005
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HDF5-1.6.4 is now available for download from the NCSA HDF5 home
page at:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
The HDF5 documentation is included in the source code and can also
be accessed from:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/
This is a fully tested release. The configuration features supported
in this release can be viewed at:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/SuppConfigFeats.html
The RELEASE.txt file in the source code contains detailed information
about this release:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
For information on functions that have changed in HDF5-1.6.4, see:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/aDGuide/Changes.html
The major new features and changes in HDF5-1.6.4 are:
please refer to the RELEASE.txt file in the source code for a comprehensive list of new features and changes.
AIX 5.1 and 5.2 (32 and 64 bit) AMD Opteron Cray T90, SV1 FreeBSD Hp-UX IRIX64 (32 and 64 bit) linux 2.4 Mac OS X OSF1 SGI Altix Solaris (32 and 64 bit) Windows
For further information please refer to the following page (or the
RELEASE.txt file):
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/platforms5.html
Known problems at release time are listed in the
RELEASE.txt file that
comes with the source code.
Further information on known problems can be found on the following page:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/known_problems5.html
The latest release, version 1.2, of the H4 to H5 conversion
library and tools is now available. For information, see:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/h4toh5/
The source code, as well as the pre-compiled binaries, can be
obtained from the following directory:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/h4toh5/
pre-compiled binaries are provided for:
AIX 5.1 (-32 bit, -64 bit)
AMD Opteron
FreeBSD
Hp-UX B.11.00
SGI IRIX64 version 6.5 (-n32, -64 bit)
linux 2.4
Mac OS X
Solaris 2.8 (-32bit, -64 bit)
Windows
The latest version of the HDF Java products, version 2.2,
is available. This version was tested with HDF5-1.6.4 and
HDF 4.2r1. The HDF Java products can be downloaded from the
following page:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdf-java-html/
Version 2.2 includes bug fixes and a few new features. Following is a list of the major changes in HDFView with this release:
You can now view datasets with:
There was a problem with the hrepack tool that came with HDF 4.2r1. This problem affected datasets for which no data had been written. The hrepack tool was incorrectly exiting in this case. The correct behavior for hrepack is to continue, creating the output as an empty dataset.
The changes which enable hrepack to continue for empty datasets
can be obtained from the directory:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF/HDF_Current/src/patches/
The file containing the changed files is:
4.2r1-hrepack-patch.tar
Download this file, untar it, and replace the files in the corresponding directories of the HDF 4.2r1 source code, with these files.
In case you missed reading about it in a previous newsletter, we now have the HDF Web-browser plugin, which can extend a web browser to display HDF4 and HDF5 files.
This version of the HDF Web-browser plugin is for Windows
Only. It can be downloaded from the following page:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/plugins/
The HDF Web-browser plugin is different from HDFView. Unlike HDFView, it is a 'light browser', with less browsing features and no editing features. It is also not an applet. It is downloaded and installed once, whereas an applet is downloaded with each invocation.
please try it out and let us know what you think about it.