November 21, 2005
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HDF5-1.6.5 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 HDF5-1.6.5, see:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
The major new features and changes in HDF5-1.6.5 are:
Please refer to the RELEASE.txt file in the source code for a comprehensive list of new features and changes.
AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 AMD Opteron Cray X1 FreeBSD HP-UX 11.00, 11.23 IRIX64 v6.5 (-64, -n32) Linux 2.4 Mac OS X OSF1 v5.1 SGI Altix Solaris (-32, -64)) Windows
Fortran support is not included for Windows XP MSVC++ 6.0 or .NET, due to numerous test and compilation failures.
Please refer to the RELEASE.txt file in the source code for a comprehensive list of the known problems at release time.