-------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe to the hdfnews mailing list, please send your request to ncsalist@ncsa.uiuc.edu with the appropriate command (e.g. subscribe hdfnews, unsubscribe hdfnews, help) in the *body* of the message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter #60 August 3, 2001 CONTENTS ******************************* . Release of HDF5-1.4.2 * Visit the HDF home page * - New Features and Changes * for up-to-date information * - Platforms Supported * * - Known Problems * http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ * * * . Release of Java HDF5 Products ******************************* Version 2.2 . Improved HDF5 XML Web Pages . Dropping Support of Solaris 2.6 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 see: 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 from 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. -------------------------------------------------------------- For questions regarding these or other HDF issues, contact: hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu