-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The HDF Group Home Page: http://hdfgroup.org/ Helpdesk & Mailing Lists Info: http://hdfgroup.org/services/support.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter #129 November 13, 2012 CONTENTS: - Release of HDF5-1.8.10 . New Features and Changes . Future Changes to Supported Platforms - Release of HDF4 File Content Map Writer 1.0.4 - Retirement of HDF-EOS5 to NetCDF4 Converter (eos5nc4) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Release of HDF5-1.8.10 ====================== The HDF5-1.8.10 release is now available from The HDF Group Downloads page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/ It can also be obtained directly from: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html The HDF5-1.8.10 documentation is located in: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ For information on HDF5, see the HDF5 home page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/index.html New Features and Changes ------------------------ HDF5-1.8.10 is a minor release, but contains several important new features and bug fixes. Changes in this release include the following: o Two new query APIs were added to the Parallel library: H5Pget_mpio_no_collective_cause - retrieves reasons why the collective I/O was broken during read/write I/O access. H5Pget_mpio_actual_io_mode_f - Fortran counterpart to H5Pget_mpio_actual_io_mode (already in library for retrieving the parallel I/O type performed). o The h5import utility now allows the use of h5dump output as input into h5import. o The conversion tests no longer fail in dt_arith.c on Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8. o The windows pre-built binaries are now provided with debug information. This enables users to debug their HDF5 applications using the pre-built binaries. This release contains many other changes and bug fixes not listed here, including fixes to various tools. Please be sure to read the Release Notes for a comprehensive list of new features and bug fixes: http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.10-RELEASE.txt Future Changes to Supported Platforms ------------------------------------- We will be dropping support for the following platforms after this release: o VS 2008 and Windows XP o Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 32-bit Also, we will no longer provide the VS project files for Windows after this release, and will be moving to CMake 2.8.10. Release of HDF4 File Content Map Writer 1.0.4 ============================================= We are pleased to announce the release of HDF4 File Content Map Writer version 1.0.4. This release provides a fix for handling some NASA OCTS Level 3 products (e.g., O19963061996335.L3m_MO_CHLO) that involve palettes. Please see the h4mapwriter web page for complete details regarding this release: http://www.hdfgroup.org/projects/h4map/h4map_writer.html Retirement of HDF-EOS5 to NetCDF4 Converter (eos5nc4) ===================================================== The HDF Group plans to retire the HDF-EOS5 to NetCDF-4 Converter (eos5nc4) tool effective Dec 31, 2012. If you are using the eos5nc4 tool and would like for it to continue to be maintained, please either send a message to eoshelp@hdfgroup.org or post a message to the HDF-EOS Forum by no later than December 19, 2012. Please see the HDF-EOS Forum announcement for more information: http://www.hdfeos.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1254#post1254 ------------------------------------------------------------- For questions regarding these or other HDF issues, contact: help@hdfgroup.org