HDF Newsletter 85

November 21, 2005


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CONTENTS


Release of HDF5-1.6.5

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


New Features and Changes

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.


Platforms Tested

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

Known Problems

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.