Configuration
- Libtool version number is changed to 8.0.0 because there are API
changes. See below for details.
- Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) uses clang/clang++ as the
default C and C++ compilers.
- CMake minimum is now 2.8.10.
- A new tool, cmakehdf5, which is a build command script similar to
buildhdf5 is added and is available in the bin directory.
Library
- The library can load filter libraries dynamically during runtime. Users
can set the search path through environment variable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
and call H5Pset_filter to enable a dynamic filter.
- Added new API functions H5Dscatter and H5Dgather to scatter data to and
and gather data from a selection within a memory buffer.
- The library now supports the data conversion from enumeration to numeric
(integer and floating-point number) datatypes. See Issue HDFFV-8221.
Tools
- h5dump: added new option -O or -ddl to output the ddl text to a file. This
is a complement to the -o or --output option, which redirects the data to
a file.
HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and
managing data. It supports an unlimited variety of datatypes, and
is designed for flexible and efficient I/O and for high volume and
complex data. HDF5 is portable and is extensible, allowing applications
to evolve in their use of HDF5. The HDF5 Technology suite includes
tools and applications for managing, manipulating, viewing, and
analyzing data in the HDF5 format.
This package provides C++ wrappers for the HDF5 C library.
