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The Atmos Data Store team from Equinor have been working with The HDF Group over the last couple of years to incorporate the Highly Scalable Data Service (HSDS) as part of their system for managing hundreds of terabytes of metocean (meterological and oceangraphic) data. They’ve graciously agreed to provide some background on their project and how they use HDF5 for their solution....

The HDFView 3.3.2 release is now available from the HDFView 3.3.2 download page. This release was built and tested with HDF 4.3.0, HDF5 1.14.4, and OpenJDK 21. It uses modules, the newest jpackage for distribution, and adds support for float16 datatypes....

Several new HDF5 CVE issues have been filed in MITRE and these should be released to the public sometime in the next few weeks. They are all fixed in HDF5 1.14.4 (released April 15, 2024) and no MITRE CVE issues are unaddressed....

Last month, our portal.hdfgroup.org site, which housed some documentation and downloads, went down. Fortunately, we were able to get it back up and running with some needed changes and improvements, which include: Documentation: Most of the HDF5 documentation now lives in doxygen in the HDF5 Github repo and can be viewed online at https://docs.hdfgroup.org. Please be patient with us as we complete this transition and feel free to reach out to us at https://help.hdfgroup.org if you need help locating anything. You can find links to documentation for our other products on the portal at https://portal.hdfgroup.org/documentation. Downloads: We are in the process of adding previous software releases to the new portal site at https://portal.hdfgroup.org/downloads. If you need a release that's not on the...

Hermes 0.9.8 has been released. This release features tagging. Tags enable users to semantically define associations between blobs and provide an intuitive way of locating blobs which are related....