Describes HDF5 Release 1.8.18, November 2016.
and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 |
HDF5 User’s Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide |
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These documents provide information of particular interest to
developers of applications that employ the HDF5 Library.
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Release Related | ||
| HDF5 Library Changes from Release to Release | A summary of changes in the HDF5 Library | |
| RELEASE.txt | Technical notes regarding the current release of the HDF5 Library* | |
| HISTORY-1_8.txt | Technical notes for previous 1.8 releases of the HDF5 Library by release* | |
| HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt | Technical notes for releases prior to the 1.8.0 release of the HDF5 Library by release* | |
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* RELEASE.txt, HISTORY-1_8.txt, and HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt are located at the top level of the HDF5 source code tree in the release_docs directory of the distributed HDF5 source code. | ||
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Moving from 1.6.x to 1.8.x | ||
| What’s New in HDF5 Release 1.8.0 | A brief summary of new features in the 1.8.0 HDF5 release | |
| Release 1.8.0 and Data Format Compatibility | “New Features in HDF5 Release 1.8.0 and Format Compatibility Considerations”: A discussion of data format compatibility issues to consider in the transition to Release 1.8.0 | |
| API Compatibility Macros in HDF5 | Interface compatibility issues | |
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General | ||
| HDF5 Image and Palette Specification | A specification for the implementation of images and palettes in HDF5 applications | |
| Mapping HDF4 Objects to HDF5 Objects | Guidelines for translating HDF4 file objects into valid HDF5 file objects (PDF) | |
| Fill Value and Space Allocation Issues | A summary of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation issues | |
| Fill Value and Space Allocation Behavior | A table summarizing of the behavioral interactions of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation settings | |
| SZIP Compression in HDF5 | A description of SZIP compression in
HDF5, H5Pset_szip, terms of use and copyright notice,
and references
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| Shuffle Performance | An analysis of bzip and gzip compression
performance in HDF5 with and without the shuffle filter,
H5Pset_shuffle
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| Generic Properties | An overview of and the motivation for the implementation and use of generic properties in HDF5 | |
| Error-detecting Codes for HDF5 | A discussion of error-detection codes, for example, checksums, in HDF5 | |
| Fletcher32 Checksum Design and Spec | Design, API function specification, and test for the Fletcher32 checksum implementation in HDF5 | |
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HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 |
HDF5 User’s Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide |
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