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                            Newsletter #86
                          November 22, 2005

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. Release of HDF Java Products 2.3          *                             *
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Release of HDF Java Products 2.3
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The latest version of the HDF Java Products, version 2.3,
is available.  This version was tested with HDF5-1.6.5 and
HDF 4.2r1.  The HDF Java Products can be downloaded from the
following page:

  http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdf-java-html/

Version 2.3 includes bug fixes and a few new features.
Following is a list of the major changes in HDFView with this
release:

 o  Support for HDF-SRB (Windows and Linux only)
 o  Support for compound datatypes containing 2D arrays (or greater)
 o  Create/display named datatypes in HDF5
 o  Create link in hdf5
 o  Improve ability to manipulate palette
 o  Select row/column data as X axis for xy plot in the table view
 o  Numerous bug fixes


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