This doesn't pass self-tests, but it isn't regression,
previous package didn't pass them as well.
(While here, make both packages share the same distinfo.)
Changes in HDF5 1.8.9
HDF5 1.8.9 is a minor release, but contains several important
new features and bug fixes. Changes in this release include the
following:
* Committed datatypes can now be merged when copying objects,
using the new flag H5O_COPY_MERGE_COMMITTED_DTYPE_FLAG.
Several new API routines have been included in support of
this feature.
* A file in memory can now be accessed in the same way as a
file on disk. New APIs were added to support this feature.
* Many changes to the tools have been made, including the following:
+ The h5repack performance has been improved dramatically
for large chunked datasets.
+ The -S (or --summary) option was added to h5stat to
display a summary of the file space usage for a file.
+ A wildcard can now be used with h5dump to specify multiple files.
* H5LTpath_valid was added to determine if a path is correct
and a link resolves to a valid object.
* The Fortran counterpart to H5Ocopy, h5ocopy_f, was added.
This release contains many other changes and bug fixes not listed here.
Please be sure to read the Release Notes for a comprehensive
list of new features and bug fixes.
Changes in HDF5 1.8.8
HDF5 1.8.8 is a minor release, but contains a few important new
features and bug fixes. Changes in this release include the
following:
* Changes to the Fortran interface:
+ Fortran wrappers for the Dimension Scales APIs were added.
For the new subroutine signatures, see:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/HL/RM_H5DS.html
+ The Fortran interface now uses the Fortran 2003 standard,
enabling a wider set of Fortran and HDF5 datatypes to be
supported, including:
o Any kind of INTEGER or REAL
o Fortran derived types
o Fortran and HDF5 enumeration
o HDF5 variable-length datatypes
o HDF5 compound datatypes of any complexity
It also contains new subroutines corresponding to those
C APIs which have callback functions as parameters.
For a general overview and information on how to enable
these new Fortran features, please see the following paper:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/fortran/NewFeatures_F2003.pdf
HDF5 examples that use Fortran 2003 (with the suffix "F03") can be found here:
http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/examples-by-api/api18-fortran.html
The --enable-fortran2003 configure flag was added to
enable Fortran 2003 support in the HDF5 Fortran library.
This flag should be used along with the --enable-fortran
flag and takes affect only when a Fortran compiler is
Fortran 2003 compliant.
* H5Tcreate now supports a string type (fixed-length and variable-length).
* New APIs, H5Pget_mpio_actual_chunk_opt_mode and H5Pget_mpio_actual_io_mode,
were added for querying whether/how a collective I/O operation completed.
* Numerous changes were made to the tools (h5diff, h5repack, h5jam, h5dump).
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