August 3, 2001
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Release of Java HDF5 Products Version 2.2
Release of HDF5-1.4.2
HDF5-1.4.2 is now available for download. You can obtain the HDF5-1.4.2
software from the HDF5 home page:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/
Documentation is included in the source code and can also be found from:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/
This is a fully tested release. To see the configuration features
supported with HDF5 look at:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/SuppConfigFeats.html
New Features and Changes
Important changes in HDF5 include:
- File sizes greater than 2GB are now supported on Linux systems with kernel version 2.4.x and higher.
- Fortran 90 is now supported for Windows (static library), HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 and the IBM SP platforms.
- In order to support Fortran 90 on Windows, additional parameters were added to the h5dread_f and h5dwrite_f subroutines.
- An H5 <-> GIF converter has been added to the utilities.
- Support has been added for Solaris 2.8 with the -64 bit option, for Linux in parallel mode, and for the Metrowerks Code Warrior compiler on Windows.
- Numerous bugs have been fixed and performance improvements added for both parallel and serial HDF5.
Please refer to the RELEASE.txt file that comes with the source code for details:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
Platforms Supported
AIX IBM SP powerpc (4.3.3.0) and IBM SP RS6000 (4.3)
Cray T3E sn6711 2.0.5.49a
Cray SV1 10.0.0.8
FreeBSD 4.3
HP-UX B.10.20 and B.11.00
SGI IRIX 6.5, IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)
Linux 2.4.4 and 2.2.18smp
OSF1 V4.0
Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.0.7 i386
Windows 2000 (NT5.0), NT4.0, 98
Please refer to the following page for a detailed list of the platforms supported:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/platforms5.html
Known Problems
Known problems in this release are listed in the RELEASE.txt file in the HDF5 source code:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/unpacked/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
For information on known problems that occur after the release, see:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/release/known_problems5.html
Release of Java HDF5 Products Version 2.2
The latest version of the Java HDF5 Products, Version 2.2, which has been updated to work with HDF5-1.4.2 is available from:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/java-hdf5-html/
The H5View tool contains several new features, in addition to fixes to major bugs reported in version 2.1. New features in H5View include:
- View a generic dataset as an image using a default palette.
- Display image data in a spreadsheet.
- View 24-bit image of pixel or plane interlace.
- Show a line plot of row/column data in spreadsheet.
- Show a histogram of pixel values of image.
- Select the default palettes from Gray Scale, Rainbow, Nature and Wave.
- Save the whole or subset of an HDF5 image as a JPEG image.
- Save the whole or subset of a dataset to a text file with tab, space, comma or colon delimiter.
- User preferences to set:
- Web browser path.
- H4toH5 tool path.
- H5View users guide URL.
- The default palette to use if a dataset does not have a palette.
- The delimiter character when save spreadsheet data into text file.
- A list of most recent files to the file menu.
- Can add or change values of an attribute that is a one-dimensional array.
This release was tested with JDK 1.2.x. It should work with JDK1.3.1, but this has not been extensively tested.
This product contains the Xerces 1.4.1 from Apache (http://www.apache.org)
NOTE: The pre-built binaries for Windows platforms were linked with a pre-release version of HDF5-1.4.2. This will be updated soon.
Improved HDF5 XML Web Pages
The HDF5 XML pages have been re-written to make it easier to find information:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/XML/
Dropping Support for Solaris 2.6
HDF5-1.4.2 is the last release of HDF5 that supports Solaris 2.6.
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