This page provides information on the changes that a maintenance developer needs to be aware of between successive releases of HDF5, such as:
- New or changed features or tools
- Syntax and behavioral changes in the existing application programming interface (the API)
- Certain types of changes in configuration or build processes
Note that bug fixes and performance enhancements in the C library are automatically picked up by the C++, Fortran, and Java libraries.
The following information is included below.
- Changes from 1.13.2 to 1.13.3
- Changes from 1.13.1 to 1.13.2
- Changes from 1.13.0 to 1.13.1
- Changes from 1.12.1 to 1.13.0
The release notes also list changes made to the library, but these notes tend to be more at a more detail-oriented level. The release notes may include new features, bugs fixed, supported configuration features, platforms on which the library has been tested, and known problems. The release note files are listed below and can be found at the top level of the HDF5 source code tree in the release_docs directory.
Changes from 1.13.2 to 1.13.3
See the API Compatibility Reports between 1.13.2 and 1.13.3 for complete details.
In continuation with our Experimental Releases series, HDF5 version 1.13.3 is now available with minimal changes. If you are unfamiliar with the experimental releases, please read the Blog.
HDF5 version 1.13.3 introduces the new multi dataset I/O operation. More details about this new feature can be found in the Release Notes. In addition, this version provides a new CMake configuration variable and a new Fortran wrapper, and several several bug fixes in the main library.
Note that bug fixes and performance enhancements in the C library are automatically picked up by the C++, Fortran, and Java libraries.
Changes from 1.13.1 to 1.13.2
See the API Compatibility Reports between 1.13.1 and 1.13.2 for complete details.
In continuation with our Experimental Releases series, HDF5 version 1.13.2 is now available with minimal changes. If you are unfamiliar with the experimental releases, please read the Blog.
HDF5 version 1.13.2 introduces the new Subfiling VFD and onion VFD. More details about these VFDs can be found in the Release Notes. In addition, this version provides a number of new wrappers in the C++ and Java libraries, and several improvements in tools and the Fortran and Java libraries.
Note that bug fixes and performance enhancements in the C library are automatically picked up by the C++, Fortran, and Java libraries.
Changes from 1.13.0 to 1.13.1
See the API Compatibility Reports between 1.13.0 and 1.13.1 for complete details.
In continuation with our new series of Experimental Releases, HDF5 version 1.13.1 is now available with minimal changes. If you are unfamiliar with the experimental releases, please read the Blog.
HDF5 version 1.13.1 includes several improvements to parallel compression feature and they are described in the Parallel compression improvements in HDF5 1.13.1 blog post. It also offers a new new public function, H5ESget_requests(), to allow an application to retrieve request pointers from an event set. It is intended for use primarily by VOL plugin developers.
Note that bug fixes and performance enhancements in the C library are automatically picked up by the C++, Fortran, and Java libraries.
Changes from 1.12.1 to 1.13.0
See the API Compatibility Reports between 1.12.1 and 1.13.0 for complete details.
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