Release of HDF5-1.12.1 (Newsletter #178)
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 improvements were...