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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The HDF Group Home Page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/ Helpdesk/Mailing List Info: http://www.hdfgroup.org/services/support.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter #137 November 15, 2013 CONTENTS: . Release of HDF5-1.8.12 . Release of h4mapwriter version 1.0.6 . Release of h5edit 1.2.0 . Book Release of "Python and HDF5" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Release of HDF5-1.8.12 ====================== The HDF5-1.8.12 release is now available, and can be downloaded from the HDF Group Downloads page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/ It can also be obtained directly from: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html HDF5-1.8.12 is a minor release, with a few new features and changes, including: o An option was added to specify the location of a default plugin (dynamically loaded filter) when building HDF5. The configure option is: --with-default-plugindir=location The CMake option is: -DH5_DEFAULT_PLUGINDIR:PATH=location o The h5repack utility was updated to use plugin filters (dynamically loaded filters) to read and write files. o The following options were added to h5dump: - The "-N" or "--any_path" option searches the file for paths that match the search path. - The "-A 0" option excludes the display of attributes. o Several changes were made to the C++ APIs. Some wrappers and overloaded convenience functions were added, as well as a new class, H5::H5Location. This release contains many other changes that are not listed here. Please be sure to read the Release Notes for a comprehensive list of new features and changes: http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.12-RELEASE.txt Changes that affect maintainers of HDF5-dependent applications are listed in "HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release": http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html Future Changes to Supported Platforms ------------------------------------- Please be aware that after this release we will be moving our current standard for Windows from Windows 7 VS 2010 Intel Fortran 12 to Windows 7 VS 2012 Intel Fortran 13. All versions will continue to be tested but only pre-built binaries for VS 2012 Intel Fortran 13 will be provided on the web site. In addition, we plan to drop support for Mac OS X 10.6, move to CMake 2.8.14, and upgrade the GNU Autotools to the latest version. Let us know if you have any concerns about these upcoming changes. Release of h4mapwriter version 1.0.6 ==================================== Version 1.0.6 of the h4mapwriter utility is now available and can be downloaded from the h4mapwriter project page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/projects/h4map/h4map_writer.html The 1.0.6 release improves error handling of unmappable objects. The h4mapwriter is a utility that creates an HDF4 file content map in XML for a given HDF4 file. It enables the data to be retrieved from an HDF4 file without relying on the HDF4 library. Release of h5edit 1.2.0 ======================= Version 1.2.0 of h5edit is available from the JPSS project Downloads page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/projects/jpss/jpss_downloads.html New features in this release include: o Added support for the MODIFY command. o Added support for Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4. The h5edit tool is a general command line tool to edit HDF5 files. The current version is limited to operations on attributes only. For more information see: http://www.hdfgroup.org/projects/jpss/h5edit_index.html Book Release of "Python and HDF5" ================================= We are pleased to announce the release this month of a new O'Reilly book by Andrew Collette entitled "Python and HDF5". For more information see: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030249.do ------------------------------------------------------------- For questions regarding these or other HDF issues, contact: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org
