[svn-r4780] Snapshot version 1.5 release 17

doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.5.16 released on Thu Dec  6 10:06:46 CST 2001
+HDF5 version 1.5.17 released on Sat Jan  5 04:50:34 CST 2002
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@@ -90,6 +90,17 @@ Library
       properly if they caused close() to fail.
     * Fixed a bug in internal B-tree code where a B-tree was not being copied
       correctly.
+    * Fixed an off-by-one error in H5Sselect_valid when hyperslab selections
+      which would allow hyperslab selections which overlapped the edge of the
+      selection by one element as valid.
+    * Fixed the internal macros used to encode & decode file metadata, to avoid
+      an unaligned access warning on IA64 machines.
+    * Corrected behavior of H5Tinsert to not allow compound datatype fields to
+      be inserted past the end of the datatype.
+    * Retired the DPSS virtual file driver (--with-gridstorage configure
+      option).
+    * Fixed bug where variable-length datatypes for attributes was not working
+      correctly.
 
 Configuration
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@@ -104,6 +115,8 @@ Configuration
       HDF version 4.1r3 and newer meets this requirement.  The compress2
       uses a newer compression algorithm used by the HDF5 library.  Also,
       4.1r3 has an hdp tool that can handle "loops" in Vgroups.
+    * Can use just enable-threadsafe if the C compiler has builtin pthreads
+      support.
 
 
 Tools
@@ -185,6 +198,25 @@ New Features
       writing.
     * Improved performance of non-contiguous hyperslabs (built up with
       several hyperslab selection calls).
+    * Removed H5P(get|set)_hyper_cache API function, since the property is no
+      longer used.
+    * Added a new file access property, file close degree, to control file 
+      close behavior.  It has four values, H5F_CLOSE_WEAK, H5F_CLOSE_SEMI,
+      H5F_CLOSE_STRONG, and H5F_CLOSE_DEFAULT.  Two correspont functions 
+      H5Pset_fclose_degree and H5Pget_fclose_degree are also provided.  Two 
+      new functions H5Fget_obj_count and H5Fget_obj_ids are offerted to assist
+      this new feature.  For full details, please refer to the reference 
+      manual under the description of H5Fcreate, H5Fopen, H5Fclose and the 
+      functions mentioned above. 
+    * Changed internal error handling macros to reduce code size of library by
+      about 10-20%.
+    * Added H5Rget_obj_type() API function, which performs the same functionality
+      as H5Rget_object_type(), but requires the reference type as a parameter
+      in order to correctly handle dataset region references.  Moved
+      H5Rget_object_type() to be only compiled into the library when v1.4
+      compatibility is enabled.
+    * Parallel HDF5 is now supported on HP-UX 11.00 platforms.
+
 
 Platforms Tested
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