HDF5 version 1.8.12 released on 2013-11-21 Please refer to the release_docs/INSTALL file for installation instructions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This release is fully functional for the API described in the documentation. See the RELEASE.txt file in the release_docs/ directory for information specific to this release of the library. Several INSTALL* files can also be found in the release_docs/ directory: INSTALL contains instructions for compiling and installing the library; INSTALL_parallel contains instructions for installing the parallel version of the library; similarly-named files contain instructions for VMS and several environments on MS Windows systems. Documentation for this release can be found at the following URL: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/. The following mailing lists are currently set up for HDF5 Library users: news - For announcements of HDF5 related developments, not a discussion list. hdf-forum - For general discussion of the HDF5 library with other users. To subscribe to a list, send mail to "<list>-subscribe@lists.hdfgroup.org". where <list> is the name of the list. For example, send a request to subscribe to the 'news' mail list to the following address: news-subscribe@lists.hdfgroup.org Messages sent to the list should be addressed to "<list>@lists.hdfgroup.org". Periodic code snapshots are provided at the following URL: ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots Please read the README.txt file in that directory before working with a library snapshot. The HDF5 website is located at http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/ Bugs should be reported to help@hdfgroup.org.