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The agenda for the 2021 HDF5 User Group meeting has been posted. This event, scheduled with US time zones in mind, runs each day October 12-14 from about 9:00 a.m. central to 1:30 p.m. central time and features a variety of speakers on topics including the HDF5 ecosystem, apps, and features. This is event is free and online only; registration is required. We look forward to having you join us!...

On Friday, September 24 at 11:00 a.m. CDT, Dana Robinson and Joe Lee of The HDF Group presented a webinar covering the major new features of the HDF5 1.13.0 release. They discussed the pluggable virtual file drivers (VFDs) and changes to the virtual object layer (VOL) and showed how to build and use the async, pass-through, and cache VOL connectors....

We have scheduled a webinar for Friday, September 24 at 11:00 a.m. CDT covering the major new features of the HDF5 1.13.0 release. This will mainly cover pluggable virtual file drivers (VFDs) and changes to the virtual object layer (VOL). We'll also show how to build and use the async, pass-through, and cache VOL connectors. Registration is required....

HSDS (Highly Scalable Data Service) is a REST based service for HDF data, part of HDF Cloud, our set of solutions for cloud deployments. In the recent blog about the latest release of HSDS we discussed many of the new features in the 0.6 release including support for Azure....

We are very pleased to announce the release of HDF5 1.12.1, which can now be obtained from the HDF5 Download page. Information about this release can be found on the Support Portal as follows: HDF5 documentation Software Changes from Release to Release HDF5 1.12.1 is a minor release with a few new features and changes: The new Mirror and Splitter VFDs were added, enabling "concurrent" file writes to two files, one of which could be on a remote system. The following vulnerability issues were addressed:CVE-2018-11206CVE-2018-14033 (same as CVE-2020-10811)CVE-2018-14460 Autotools and CMake options were added to enable or disable file locking. C functions and C++, Fortran and Java wrappers were also added for setting and getting the file locking parameters. In addition, file locking now works on Windows. Various...