Release of HDF5 1.14.6 (Newsletter #205)

The HDF5 1.14.6 release is now available from the HDF5 1.14.6 download page. This is a maintenance release with some minor new changes: Reverted a change to the library’s handling of UTF-8 file names. A change was made in the HDF5 1.14.4 release to address some issues with the library’s handling of code pages and […]

A Turing Test for HDF5

by John Readey “For Heaven’s sake, do not confound HDF5 with anything else!” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Alan Turing devised the Turing test (he referred to it as the “Imitation Game”) in 1950 to determine whether a machine could think. He believed that if machines could give answers that were indistinguishable from human answers, then

New HDF5 CVE Issues (Fixed in 1.14.4)

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.

Release of HDF5 1.12.3 Library and Tools (Newsletter #200)

The HDF5 Library and Tools 1.12.3 release is now available from the Download page. This is a maintenance release with a few updates: Brings the H5Dchunk_iter() API call from HDF5 1.14 Many CVE fixes as part of our continued effort to keep HDF5 CVE-free Please be aware that this will be the last release for

Strategies and Software to Optimize HDF5/netCDF-4 Files for the Cloud

This poster from Aleksandar Jelenak and Dana Robinson of The HDF Group runs through several strategies to optimize HDF5 and netCDF-4 files for the cloud, including consolidating internal metadata, setting a large chunk size, and avoiding or minimizing the use of variable length datatypes. Several code examples for each situation are included. You’re going to

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