HDF5 version 1.6.7 released on Thu Jan 31 21:09:10 CST 2008 Please refer to the release_docs/INSTALL file for installation instructions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 28, 2007 This release is fully functional for the entire API defined in the documentation. See the RELEASE.txt file in the release_docs/ directory for information specific to this release of the library. Several INSTALL* files can be found in the release_docs/ directory. The INSTALL file contains instructions for compiling and installing the library. The INSTALL_parallel file contains instructions for installing the parallel version of the library. Other INSTALL* files have similarly descriptive names. Documentation for this release can be found in the doc/html/ directory; start with the file "index.html" in that directory. Online documentation for the current release of the 1.6.x release series is available at: http:/hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.6/ Several mailing lists are currently set up for use with the HDF5 library: news - For announcements of HDF5 related developments, not a discussion list. hdf-forum - For general discussion of the HDF5 library with other users. hdf5dev - For discussion of HDF5 library development with developers and other interested parties. To subscribe to a list, send mail to "-subscribe@hdfgroup.org". where is the name of the list. For example: mail news-subscribe@hdfgroup.org Messages to be sent to the list should be sent to "@hdfgroup.org". Periodic code snapshots are provided at the following URL: ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots Please read the README.txt file in that directory before working with a library snapshot. The HDF5 website is located at http://hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/. Bugs should be reported to help@hdfgroup.org.