######################################################################### # HDF-Java 2.6.1 # # March 5, 2010 # ######################################################################### This release was built with HDF 4.2.5 and HDF5 1.8.4 Patch 1 with the 1.6 API Compatibility Macros, using jdk 1.6.x. HDF5 1.8.4 Patch 1 fixes a corruption problem that existed from HDF5 1.8.0 through HDF5 1.8.4. For more information, see the Known Problems page at http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/known_problems/index.html" No major change in hdf-java since hdf-java 2.6. Some minor changes include: 1) Use better memory allocation in HDF4 JNI to avoid crash on OutOfMemory error on large dataset. 2) Show some HDF-EOS attributes stored in HDF4 vdata. 3) Fix a problem of displaying information for HDF4 vdata without name. 4) Add HDF-Java logging levels to HDF5 JNI and set default level to "SEVERE". Files included in the release: 1) The "hdfview/" directory contains the installation programs for easy download and installation for HDFView. 2) The "bin/" directory includes the pre-built binaries for all of the HDF-Java product. You can either download the tarball, which has all the necessary binaries, or individual part of pre-built binaries. 3) The "src/" directory has all of the source code for the HDF-Java product. You will only need it if you are building HDF-Java from the source.