To view from a browser see: https://support.hdfgroup.org/newsletters/newsletter155.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The HDF Group Home Page: https://www.hdfgroup.org/ Support Services: https://www.hdfgroup.org/support/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter #155 June 16, 2017 CONTENTS . Release of HDF5-1.8.19 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Release of HDF5-1.8.19 ====================== The HDF5-1.8.19 release is now available. It can be obtained from the HDF5 Download page: https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/ It can also be obtained directly from: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html HDF5-1.8.19 is a minor release with a few new features and changes. Important changes include: o Several H5PL (C) APIs were added to manipulate the entries of the plugin path table: H5PLappend, H5PLget, H5PLinsert, H5PLprepend, H5PLremove, H5PLreplace, and H5PLsize. o H5Dget_chunk_storage_size (C) was added to obtain the storage size of a chunk in the file. This API was specifically added in support of H5DOread_chunk, but may also be useful for other purposes. o H5DOread_chunk (High Level C) was added to read a raw data chunk directly from a dataset in a file, bypassing HDF5's internal data transfer pipeline, including filters. o Numerous C++ APIs were added or modified to better reflect the HDF5 model. o Support was added for OpenMPI 2.0.1 compiled with GCC 4.9.3. 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: https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8/hdf5-1.8.19/src/hdf5-1.8.19-RELEASE.txt Changes that affect maintainers of HDF5-dependent applications are listed on the HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release page. See: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html ------------------------------------------------------------- For questions regarding these or other HDF issues, contact: help@hdfgroup.org