1 Release Notes {#RELEASE_NOTES}
4 \brief Release notes file for the netcdf-c package.
6 This file contains a high-level description of this package's evolution. Releases are in reverse chronological order (most recent first). Note that, as of netcdf 4.2, the `netcdf-c++` and `netcdf-fortran` libraries have been separated into their own libraries.
10 ## 4.9.2 - March 14, 2023
12 This is the maintenance release which adds support for HDF5 version 1.14.0, in addition to a handful of other changes and bugfixes.
14 * Fix 'make distcheck' error in run_interop.sh. See [Github #????](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/????).
15 * Update `nc-config` to remove inclusion from automatically-detected `nf-config` and `ncxx-config` files, as the wrong files could be included in the output. This is in support of [GitHub #2274](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2274).
16 * Update H5FDhttp.[ch] to work with HDF5 version 1.13.2 and later. See [Github #2635](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2635).
17 * [Bug Fix] Update DAP code to enable CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING by default. See [Github #2630](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2630).
18 * [Bug Fix] Fix byterange failures for certain URLs. See [Github #2649](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2649).
19 * [Bug Fix] Fix 'make distcheck' error in run_interop.sh. See [Github #2631](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2631).
20 * [Enhancement] Update `nc-config` to remove inclusion from automatically-detected `nf-config` and `ncxx-config` files, as the wrong files could be included in the output. This is in support of [GitHub #2274](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2274).
21 * [Enhancement] Update H5FDhttp.[ch] to work with HDF5 version 1.14.0. See [Github #2615](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2615).
23 ## 4.9.1 - February 2, 2023
27 * A test in the `main` branch of `netcdf-cxx4` is broken by this rc; this will bear further investigation, but not being treated as a roadblock for the release candidate.
28 * The new document, `netcdf-c/docs/filter_quickstart.md` is in rough-draft form.
29 * Race conditions exist in some of the tests when run concurrently with large numbers of processors
31 ## What's Changed from v4.9.0 (automatically generated)
33 * Fix nc_def_var_fletcher32 operation by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2403
34 * Merge relevant info updates back into `main` by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2387
35 * Add manual GitHub actions triggers for the tests. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2404
36 * Use env variable USERPROFILE instead of HOME for windows and mingw. by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2405
37 * Make public a limited API for programmatic access to internal .rc tables by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2408
38 * Fix typo in CMakeLists.txt by \@georgthegreat in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2412
39 * Fix choice of HOME dir by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2416
40 * Check for libxml2 development files by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2417
41 * Updating Doxyfile.in with doxygen-1.8.17, turned on WARN_AS_ERROR, added doxygen build to CI run by \@edwardhartnett in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2377
42 * updated release notes by \@edwardhartnett in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2392
43 * increase read block size from 1 KB to 4 MB by \@wkliao in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2319
44 * fixed RELEASE_NOTES.md by \@edwardhartnett in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2423
45 * Fix pnetcdf tests in cmake by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2437
46 * Updated CMakeLists to avoid corner case cmake error by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2438
47 * Add `--disable-quantize` to configure by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2439
48 * Fix the way CMake handles -DPLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2430
49 * fix and test quantize mode for NC_CLASSIC_MODEL by \@edwardhartnett in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2445
50 * Guard _declspec(dllexport) in support of #2446 by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2460
51 * Ensure that netcdf_json.h does not interfere with ncjson. by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2448
52 * Prevent cmake writing to source dir by \@magnusuMET in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2463
53 * more quantize testing and adding pre-processor constant NC_MAX_FILENAME to nc_tests.h by \@edwardhartnett in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2457
54 * Provide a default enum const when fill value does not match any enum constant by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2462
55 * Fix support for reading arrays of HDF5 fixed size strings by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2466
56 * fix musl build by \@magnusuMET in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1701
57 * Fix AWS SDK linking errors by \@dzenanz in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2470
58 * Address jump-misses-init issue. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2488
59 * Remove stray merge conflict markers by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2493
60 * Add support for Zarr string type to NCZarr by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2492
61 * Fix some problems with PR 2492 by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2497
62 * Fix some bugs in the blosc filter wrapper by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2461
63 * Add option to control accessing external servers by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2491
64 * Changed attribute case in documentation by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2482
65 * Adding all-error-codes.md back in to distribution documentation. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2501
66 * Update hdf5 version in github actions. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2504
67 * Minor update to doxygen function documentation by \@gsjaardema in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2451
68 * Fix some addtional errors in NCZarr by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2503
69 * Cleanup szip handling some more by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2421
70 * Check for zstd development headers in autotools by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2507
71 * Add new options to nc-config by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2509
72 * Cleanup built test sources in nczarr_test by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2508
73 * Fix inconsistency in netcdf_meta.h by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2512
74 * Small fix in nc-config.in by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2513
75 * For loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode by \@gsjaardema in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2517
76 * Fix some dependencies in tst_nccopy3 by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2518
77 * Update plugins/Makefile.am by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2519
78 * Fix prereqs in ncdump/tst_nccopy4 in order to avoid race conditions. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2520
79 * Move construction of VERSION file to end of the build by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2527
80 * Add draft filter quickstart guide by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2531
81 * Turn off extraneous debug output by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2537
82 * typo fix by \@wkliao in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2538
83 * replace 4194304 with READ_BLOCK_SIZE by \@wkliao in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2539
84 * Rename variable to avoid function name conflict by \@ibaned in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2550
85 * Add Cygwin CI and stop installing unwanted plugins by \@DWesl in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2529
86 * Merge subset of v4.9.1 files back into main development branch by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2530
87 * Add a Filter quickstart guide document by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2524
88 * Fix race condition in ncdump (and other) tests. by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2552
89 * Make dap4 reference dap instead of hard-wired to be disabled. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2553
90 * Suppress nczarr_test/tst_unknown filter test by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2557
91 * Add fenceposting for HAVE_DECL_ISINF and HAVE_DECL_ISNAN by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2559
92 * Add an old static file. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2575
93 * Fix infinite loop in file inferencing by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2574
94 * Merge Wellspring back into development branch by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2560
95 * Allow ncdump -t to handle variable length string attributes by \@srherbener in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2584
96 * Fix an issue I introduced with make distcheck by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2590
97 * make UDF0 not require NC_NETCDF4 by \@jedwards4b in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2586
98 * Expose user-facing documentation related to byterange DAP functionality. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2596
99 * Fix Memory Leak by \@DennisHeimbigner in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2598
100 * CI: Change autotools CI build to out-of-tree build. by \@DWesl in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2577
101 * Update github action configuration scripts. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2600
102 * Update the filter quickstart guide. by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2602
103 * Fix symbol export on Windows by \@WardF in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2604
106 * \@georgthegreat made their first contribution in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2412
107 * \@dzenanz made their first contribution in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2470
108 * \@DWesl made their first contribution in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2529
109 * \@srherbener made their first contribution in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2584
110 * \@jedwards4b made their first contribution in https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2586
112 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/compare/v4.9.0...v4.9.1
114 ### 4.9.1 - Release Candidate 2 - November 21, 2022
118 * A test in the `main` branch of `netcdf-cxx4` is broken by this rc; this will bear further investigation, but not being treated as a roadblock for the release candidate.
119 * The new document, `netcdf-c/docs/filter_quickstart.md` is in rough-draft form.
123 * [Bug Fix] Fix a race condition when testing missing filters. See [Github #2557](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2557).
124 * [Bug Fix] Fix some race conditions due to use of a common file in multiple shell scripts . See [Github #2552](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2552).
127 ### 4.9.1 - Release Candidate 1 - October 24, 2022
129 * [Enhancement][Documentation] Add Plugins Quick Start Guide. See [GitHub #2524](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2524) for more information.
130 * [Enhancement] Add new entries in `netcdf_meta.h`, `NC_HAS_BLOSC` and `NC_HAS_BZ2`. See [Github #2511](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2511) and [Github #2512](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2512) for more information.
131 * [Enhancement] Add new options to `nc-config`: `--has-multifilters`, `--has-stdfilters`, `--has-quantize`, `--plugindir`. See [Github #2509](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2509) for more information.
132 * [Bug Fix] Fix some errors detected in PR 2497. [PR #2497](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2497) . See [Github #2503](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2503).
133 * [Bug Fix] Split the remote tests into two parts: one for the remotetest server and one for all other external servers. Also add a configure option to enable the latter set. See [Github #2491](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2491).
134 * [Bug Fix] Fix blosc plugin errors. See [Github #2461](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2461).
135 * [Bug Fix] Fix support for reading arrays of HDF5 fixed size strings. See [Github #2466](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2466).
136 * [Bug Fix] Fix some errors detected in [PR #2492](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2492) . See [Github #2497](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2497).
137 * [Enhancement] Add support for Zarr (fixed length) string type in nczarr. See [Github #2492](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2492).
138 * [Bug Fix] Split the remote tests into two parts: one for the remotetest server and one for all other external servers. Also add a configure option to enable the latter set. See [Github #2491](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2491).
139 * [Bug Fix] Fix support for reading arrays of HDF5 fixed size strings. See [Github #2462](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2466).
140 * [Bug Fix] Provide a default enum const when fill value does not match any enum constant for the value zero. See [Github #2462](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2462).
141 * [Bug Fix] Fix the json submodule symbol conflicts between libnetcdf and the plugin specific netcdf_json.h. See [Github #2448](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2448).
142 * [Bug Fix] Fix quantize with CLASSIC_MODEL files. See [Github #2405](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2445).
143 * [Enhancement] Add `--disable-quantize` option to `configure`.
144 * [Bug Fix] Fix CMakeLists.txt to handle all acceptable boolean values for -DPLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR. See [Github #2430](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2430).
145 * [Bug Fix] Fix tst_vars3.c to use the proper szip flag. See [Github #2421](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2421).
146 * [Enhancement] Provide a simple API to allow user access to the internal .rc file table: supports get/set/overwrite of entries of the form "key=value". See [Github #2408](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2408).
147 * [Bug Fix] Use env variable USERPROFILE instead of HOME for windows and mingw. See [Github #2405](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2405).
148 * [Bug Fix] Fix the nc_def_var_fletcher32 code in hdf5 to properly test value of the fletcher32 argument. See [Github #2403](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2403).
150 ## 4.9.0 - June 10, 2022
152 * [Enhancement] Add quantize functions nc_def_var_quantize() and nc_inq_var_quantize() to enable lossy compression. See [Github #1548](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1548).
153 * [Enhancement] Add zstandard compression functions nc_def_var_zstandard() and nc_inq_var_zstandard(). See [Github #2173](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2173).
154 * [Enhancement] Have netCDF-4 logging output one file per processor when used with parallel I/O. See [Github #1762](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1762).
155 * [Enhancement] Improve filter installation process to avoid use of an extra shell script. See [Github #2348](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2348).
156 * [Bug Fix] Get "make distcheck" to work See [Github #2343](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2343).
157 * [Enhancement] Allow the read/write of JSON-valued Zarr attributes to allow
158 for domain specific info such as used by GDAL/Zarr. See [Github #2278](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2278).
159 * [Enhancement] Turn on the XArray convention for NCZarr files by default. WARNING, this means that the mode should explicitly specify "nczarr" or "zarr" even if "xarray" or "noxarray" is specified. See [Github #2257](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2257).
160 * [Enhancement] Update the documentation to match the current filter capabilities See [Github #2249](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2249).
161 * [Enhancement] Update the documentation to match the current filter capabilities. See [Github #2249](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2249).
162 * [Enhancement] Support installation of pre-built standard filters into user-specified location. See [Github #2318](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2318).
163 * [Enhancement] Improve filter support. More specifically (1) add nc_inq_filter_avail to check if a filter is available, (2) add the notion of standard filters, (3) cleanup szip support to fix interaction with NCZarr. See [Github #2245](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2245).
164 * [Enhancement] Switch to tinyxml2 as the default xml parser implementation. See [Github #2170](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2170).
165 * [Bug Fix] Require that the type of the variable in nc_def_var_filter is not variable length. See [Github #/2231](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2231).
166 * [File Change] Apply HDF5 v1.8 format compatibility when writing to previous files, as well as when creating new files. The superblock version remains at 2 for newly created files. Full backward read/write compatibility for netCDF-4 is maintained in all cases. See [Github #2176](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2176).
167 * [Enhancement] Add ability to set dataset alignment for netcdf-4/HDF5 files. See [Github #2206](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2206).
168 * [Bug Fix] Improve UTF8 support on windows so that it can use utf8 natively. See [Github #2222](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2222).
169 * [Enhancement] Add complete bitgroom support to NCZarr. See [Github #2197](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2197).
170 * [Bug Fix] Clean up the handling of deeply nested VLEN types. Marks nc_free_vlen() and nc_free_string as deprecated in favor of ncaux_reclaim_data(). See [Github #2179](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2179).
171 * [Bug Fix] Make sure that netcdf.h accurately defines the flags in the open/create mode flags. See [Github #2183](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2183).
172 * [Enhancement] Improve support for msys2+mingw platform. See [Github #2171](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2171).
173 * [Bug Fix] Clean up the various inter-test dependencies in ncdump for CMake. See [Github #2168](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2168).
174 * [Bug Fix] Fix use of non-aws appliances. See [Github #2152](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2152).
175 * [Enhancement] Added options to suppress the new behavior from [Github #2135](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2135). The options for `cmake` and `configure` are, respectively `-DENABLE_LIBXML2` and `--(enable/disable)-libxml2`. Both of these options defaul to 'on/enabled'. When disabled, the bundled `ezxml` XML interpreter is used regardless of whether `libxml2` is present on the system.
176 * [Enhancement] Support optional use of libxml2, otherwise default to ezxml. See [Github #2135](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2135) -- H/T to [Egbert Eich](https://github.com/e4t).
177 * [Bug Fix] Fix several os related errors. See [Github #2138](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2138).
178 * [Enhancement] Support byte-range reading of netcdf-3 files stored in private buckets in S3. See [Github #2134](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2134)
179 * [Enhancement] Support Amazon S3 access for NCZarr. Also support use of the existing Amazon SDK credentials system. See [Github #2114](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2114)
180 * [Bug Fix] Fix string allocation error in H5FDhttp.c. See [Github #2127](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2127).
181 * [Bug Fix] Apply patches for ezxml and for selected oss-fuzz detected errors. See [Github #2125](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2125).
182 * [Bug Fix] Ensure that internal Fortran APIs are always defined. See [Github #2098](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2098).
183 * [Enhancement] Support filters for NCZarr. See [Github #2101](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2101)
184 * [Bug Fix] Make PR 2075 long file name be idempotent. See [Github #2094](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2094).
185 ## 4.8.1 - August 18, 2021
187 * [Bug Fix] Fix multiple bugs in libnczarr. See [Github #2066](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2066).
188 * [Enhancement] Support windows network paths (e.g. \\svc\...). See [Github #2065](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2065).
189 * [Enhancement] Convert to a new representation of the NCZarr meta-data extensions: version 2. Read-only backward compatibility is provided. See [Github #2032](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2032).
190 * [Bug Fix] Fix dimension_separator bug in libnczarr. See [Github #2035](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2035).
191 * [Bug Fix] Fix bugs in libdap4. See [Github #2005](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2005).
192 * [Bug Fix] Store NCZarr fillvalue as a singleton instead of a 1-element array. See [Github #2017](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2017).
193 * [Bug Fixes] The netcdf-c library was incorrectly determining the scope of dimension; similar to the type scope problem. See [Github #2012](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2012) for more information.
194 * [Bug Fix] Re-enable DAP2 authorization testing. See [Github #2011](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2011).
195 * [Bug Fix] Fix bug with windows version of mkstemp that causes failure to create more than 26 temp files. See [Github #1998](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1998).
196 * [Bug Fix] Fix ncdump bug when printing VLENs with basetype char. See [Github #1986](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1986).
197 * [Bug Fixes] The netcdf-c library was incorrectly determining the scope of types referred to by nc_inq_type_equal. See [Github #1959](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1959) for more information.
198 * [Bug Fix] Fix bug in use of XGetopt when building under Mingw. See [Github #2009](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2009).
199 * [Enhancement] Improve the error reporting when attempting to use a filter for which no implementation can be found in HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH. See [Github #2000](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2000) for more information.
200 * [Bug Fix] Fix `make distcheck` issue in `nczarr_test/` directory. See [Github #2007](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2007).
201 * [Bug Fix] Fix bug in NCclosedir in dpathmgr.c. See [Github #2003](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2003).
202 * [Bug Fix] Fix bug in ncdump that assumes that there is a relationship between the total number of dimensions and the max dimension id. See [Github #2004](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/2004).
203 * [Bug Fix] Fix bug in JSON processing of strings with embedded quotes. See [Github #1993](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1993).
204 * [Enhancement] Add support for the new "dimension_separator" enhancement to Zarr v2. See [Github #1990](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1990) for more information.
205 * [Bug Fix] Fix hack for handling failure of shell programs to properly handle escape characters. See [Github #1989](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1989).
206 * [Bug Fix] Allow some primitive type names to be used as identifiers depending on the file format. See [Github #1984](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1984).
207 * [Enhancement] Add support for reading/writing pure Zarr storage format that supports the XArray _ARRAY_DIMENSIONS attribute. See [Github #1952](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1952) for more information.
208 * [Update] Updated version of bzip2 used in filter testing/functionality, in support of [Github #1969](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1969).
209 * [Bug Fix] Corrected HDF5 version detection logic as described in [Github #1962](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1962).
211 ## 4.8.0 - March 30, 2021
213 * [Enhancement] Bump the NC_DISPATCH_VERSION from 2 to 3, and as a side effect, unify the definition of NC_DISPATCH_VERSION so it only needs to be defined in CMakeLists.txt and configure.ac. See [Github #1945](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1945) for more information.
214 * [Enhancement] Provide better cross platform path name management. This converts paths for various platforms (e.g. Windows, MSYS, etc.) so that they are in the proper format for the executing platform. See [Github #1958](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1958) for more information.
215 * [Bug Fixes] The nccopy program was treating -d0 as turning deflation on rather than interpreting it as "turn off deflation". See [Github #1944](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1944) for more information.
216 * [Enhancement] Add support for storing NCZarr data in zip files. See [Github #1942](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1942) for more information.
217 * [Bug Fixes] Make fillmismatch the default for DAP2 and DAP4; too many servers ignore this requirement.
218 * [Bug Fixes] Fix some memory leaks in NCZarr, fix a bug with long strides in NCZarr. See [Github #1913](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1913) for more information.
219 * [Enhancement] Add some optimizations to NCZarr, dosome cleanup of code cruft, add some NCZarr test cases, add a performance test to NCZarr. See [Github #1908](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1908) for more information.
220 * [Bug Fix] Implement a better chunk cache system for NCZarr. The cache now uses extendible hashing plus a linked list for provide a combination of expandibility, fast access, and LRU behavior. See [Github #1887](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1887) for more information.
221 * [Enhancement] Provide .rc fields for S3 authentication: HTTP.S3.ACCESSID and HTTP.S3.SECRETKEY.
222 * [Enhancement] Give the client control over what parts of a DAP2 URL are URL encoded (i.e. %xx). This is to support the different decoding rules that servers apply to incoming URLS. See [Github #1884](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1884) for more information.
223 * [Bug Fix] Fix incorrect time offsets from `ncdump -t`, in some cases when the time `units` attribute contains both a **non-zero** time-of-day, and a time zone suffix containing the letter "T", such as "UTC". See [Github #1866](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1866) for more information.
224 * [Bug Fix] Cleanup the NCZarr S3 build options. See [Github #1869](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1869) for more information.
225 * [Bug Fix] Support aligned access for selected ARM processors. See [Github #1871](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1871) for more information.
226 * [Documentation] Migrated the documents in the NUG/ directory to the dedicated NUG repository found at https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf
227 * [Bug Fix] Revert the internal filter code to simplify it. From the user's point of view, the only visible change should be that (1) the functions that convert text to filter specs have had their signature reverted and renamed and have been moved to netcdf_aux.h, and (2) Some filter API functions now return NC_ENOFILTER when inquiry is made about some filter. Internally, the dispatch table has been modified to get rid of the complex structures.
228 * [Bug Fix] If the HDF5 byte-range Virtual File Driver is available )HDf5 1.10.6 or later) then use it because it has better performance than the one currently built into the netcdf library.
229 * [Bug Fix] Fixed byte-range support with cURL > 7.69. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1798].
230 * [Enhancement] Added new test for using compression with parallel I/O: nc_test4/tst_h_par_compress.c. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1784].
231 * [Bug Fix] Don't return error for extra calls to nc_redef() for netCDF/HDF5 files, unless classic model is in use. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1779].
232 * [Enhancement] Added new parallel I/O benchmark program to mimic NOAA UFS data writes, built when --enable-benchmarks is in configure. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1777].
233 * [Bug Fix] Now allow szip to be used on variables with unlimited dimension [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1774].
234 * [Enhancement] Add support for cloud storage using a variant of the Zarr storage format. Warning: this feature is highly experimental and is subject to rapid evolution [https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/developer/en/entry/overview-of-zarr-support-in].
235 * [Bug Fix] Fix nccopy to properly set default chunking parameters when not otherwise specified. This can significantly improve performance in selected cases. Note that if seeing slow performance with nccopy, then, as a work-around, specifically set the chunking parameters. [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1763].
236 * [Bug Fix] Fix some protocol bugs/differences between the netcdf-c library and the OPeNDAP Hyrax server. Also cleanup checksum handling [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1712].* [Bug Fix] IMPORTANT: Ncgen was not properly handling large
237 data sections. The problem manifests as incorrect ordering of
238 data in the created file. Aside from examining the file with
239 ncdump, the error can be detected by running ncgen with the -lc
240 flag (to produce a C file). Examine the file to see if any
241 variable is written in pieces as opposed to a single call to
242 nc_put_vara. If multiple calls to nc_put_vara are used to write
243 a variable, then it is probable that the data order is
244 incorrect. Such multiple writes can occur for large variables
245 and especially when one of the dimensions is unlimited.
246 * [Bug Fix] Add necessary __declspec declarations to allow compilation
247 of netcdf library without causing errors or (_declspec related)
248 warnings [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1725].
249 * [Enhancement] When a filter is applied twice with different
250 parameters, then the second set is used for writing the dataset
251 [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1713].
252 * [Bug Fix] Now larger cache settings are used for sequential HDF5 file creates/opens on parallel I/O capable builds; see [Github #1716](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1716) for more information.
253 * [Bug Fix] Add functions to libdispatch/dnotnc4.c to support
254 dispatch table operations that should work for any dispatch
255 table, even if they do not do anything; functions such as
256 nc_inq_var_filter [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1693].
257 * [Bug Fix] Fixed a scalar annotation error when scalar == 0; see [Github #1707](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1707) for more information.
258 * [Bug Fix] Use proper CURLOPT values for VERIFYHOST and VERIFYPEER; the semantics for VERIFYHOST in particular changed. Documented in NUG/DAP2.md. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1684].
259 * [Bug Fix][cmake] Correct an issue with parallel filter test logic in CMake-based builds.
260 * [Bug Fix] Now allow nc_inq_var_deflate()/nc_inq_var_szip() to be called for all formats, not just HDF5. Non-HDF5 files return NC_NOERR and report no compression in use. This reverts behavior that was changed in the 4.7.4 release. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1691].
261 * [Bug Fix] Compiling on a big-endian machine exposes some missing forward delcarations in dfilter.c.
262 * [File Change] Change from HDF5 v1.6 format compatibility, back to v1.8 compatibility, for newly created files. The superblock changes from version 0 back to version 2. An exception is when using libhdf5 deprecated versions 1.10.0 and 1.10.1, which can only create v1.6 compatible format. Full backward read/write compatibility for netCDF-4 is maintained in all cases. See [Github #951](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/951).
264 ## 4.7.4 - March 27, 2020
266 * [Windows] Bumped packaged HDF5 to 1.10.6, HDF4 to 4.2.14, and libcurl to 7.60.0.
267 * [Enhancement] Support has been added for HDF5-1.12.0. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1528].
268 * [Bug Fix] Correct behavior for the command line utilities when directly accessing a directory using utf8 characters. See [Github #1669](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1669), [Github #1668](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1668) and [Github #1666](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1666) for more information.
269 * [Bug Fix] Attempts to set filters or chunked storage on scalar vars will now return NC_EINVAL. Scalar vars cannot be chunked, and only chunked vars can have filters. Previously the library ignored these attempts, and always storing scalars as contiguous storage. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1644].
270 * [Enhancement] Support has been added for multiple filters per variable. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1584].
271 * [Enhancement] Now nc_inq_var_szip retuns 0 for parameter values if szip is not in use for var. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1618].
272 * [Enhancement] Now allow parallel I/O with filters, for HDF5-1.10.3 and later. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1473].
273 * [Enhancement] Increased default size of cache buffer to 16 MB, from 4 MB. Increased number of slots to 4133. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1541].
274 * [Enhancement] Allow zlib compression to be used with parallel I/O writes, if HDF5 version is 1.10.3 or greater. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1580].
275 * [Enhancement] Restore use of szip compression when writing data (including writing in parallel if HDF5 version is 1.10.3 or greater). See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1546].
276 * [Enhancement] Enable use of compact storage option for small vars in netCDF/HDF5 files. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1570].
277 * [Enhancement] Updated benchmarking program bm_file.c to better handle very large files. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1555].
278 * [Enhancement] Added version number to dispatch table, and now check version with nc_def_user_format(). See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1599].
279 * [Bug Fix] Fixed user setting of MPI launcher for parallel I/O HDF5 test in h5_test. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1626].
280 * [Bug Fix] Fixed problem of growing memory when netCDF-4 files were opened and closed. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1575 and https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1571].
281 * [Enhancement] Increased size of maximum allowed name in HDF4 files to NC_MAX_NAME. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1631].
283 ## 4.7.3 - November 20, 2019
285 * [Bug Fix]Fixed an issue where installs from tarballs will not properly compile in parallel environments.
286 * [Bug Fix] Library was modified so that rewriting the same attribute happens without deleting the attribute, to avoid a limit on how many times this may be done in HDF5. This fix was thought to be in 4.6.2 but was not. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/350].
287 * [Enhancement] Add a dispatch version number to netcdf_meta.h and libnetcdf.settings, in case we decide to change dispatch table in future. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1469].
288 * [Bug Fix] Now testing that endianness can only be set on atomic ints and floats. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1479].
289 * [Bug Fix] Fix for subtle error involving var and unlimited dim of the same name, but unrelated, in netCDF-4. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1496].
290 * [Enhancement] Update for attribute documentation. See [https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1512].
291 * [Bug Fix][Enhancement] Corrected assignment of anonymous (a.k.a. phony) dimensions in an HDF5 file. Now when a dataset uses multiple dimensions of the same size, netcdf assumes they are different dimensions. See [GitHub #1484](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1484) for more information.
293 ## 4.7.2 - October 22, 2019
295 * [Bug Fix][Enhancement] Various bug fixes and enhancements.
296 * [Bug Fix][Enhancement] Corrected an issue where protected memory was being written to with some pointer slight-of-hand. This has been in the code for a while, but appears to be caught by the compiler on OSX, under circumstances yet to be completely nailed down. See [GitHub #1486](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1486) for more information.
297 * [Enhancement] [Parallel IO] Added support for parallel functions in MSVC. See [Github #1492](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1492) for more information.
298 * [Enhancement] Added a function for changing the ncid of an open file. This function should only be used if you know what you are doing, and is meant to be used primarily with PIO integration. See [GitHub #1483](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1483) and [GitHub #1487](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1487) for more information.
300 ## 4.7.1 - August 27, 2019
302 * [Enhancement] Added unit_test directory, which contains unit tests for the libdispatch and libsrc4 code (and any other directories that want to put unit tests there). Use --disable-unit-tests to run without unit tests (ex. for code coverage analysis). See [GitHub #1458](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1458).
304 * [Bug Fix] Remove obsolete _CRAYMPP and LOCKNUMREC macros from code. Also brought documentation up to date in man page. These macros were used in ancient times, before modern parallel I/O systems were developed. Programmers interested in parallel I/O should see nc_open_par() and nc_create_par(). See [GitHub #1459](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1459).
306 * [Enhancement] Remove obsolete and deprecated functions nc_set_base_pe() and nc_inq_base_pe() from the dispatch table. (Both functions are still supported in the library, this is an internal change only.) See [GitHub #1468](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1468).
308 * [Bug Fix] Reverted nccopy behavior so that if no -c parameters are given, then any default chunking is left to the netcdf-c library to decide. See [GitHub #1436](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1436).
310 ## 4.7.0 - April 29, 2019
312 * [Enhancement] Updated behavior of `pkgconfig` and `nc-config` to allow the use of the `--static` flags, e.g. `nc-config --libs --static`, which will show information for linking against `libnetcdf` statically. See [Github #1360](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1360) and [Github #1257](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1257) for more information.
314 * [Enhancement] Provide byte-range reading of remote datasets. This allows
315 read-only access to, for example, Amazon S3 objects and also Thredds Server
316 datasets via the HTTPService access method.
317 See [GitHub #1251](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1251).
319 * Update the license from the home-brewed NetCDF license to the standard 3-Clause BSD License. This change does not result in any new restrictions; it is merely the adoption of a standard, well-known and well-understood license in place of the historic NetCDF license written at Unidata. This is part of a broader push by Unidata to adopt modern, standardized licensing.
321 ## 4.6.3 - February 28, 2019
323 * [Bug Fix] Correctly generated `netcdf.pc` generated either by `configure` or `cmake`. If linking against a static netcdf, you would need to pass the `--static` argument to `pkg-config` in order to list all of the downstream dependencies. See [Github #1324](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1324) for more information.
324 * Now always write hidden coordinates attribute, which allows faster file opens when present. See [Github #1262](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1262) for more information.
325 * Some fixes for rename, including fix for renumbering of varids after a rename (#1307), renaming var to dim without coordinate var. See [Github #1297](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1297).
326 * Fix of NULL parameter causing segfaults in put_vars functions. See [Github #1265](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1265) for more information.
327 * Fix of --enable-benchmark benchmark tests [Github #1211](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1211)
328 * Update the license from the home-brewed NetCDF license to the standard 3-Clause BSD License. This change does not result in any new restrictions; it is merely the adoption of a standard, well-known and well-understood license in place of the historic NetCDF license written at Unidata. This is part of a broader push by Unidata to adopt modern, standardized licensing.
329 * [BugFix] Corrected DAP-related issues on big-endian machines. See [Github #1321](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1321), [Github #1302](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1302) for more information.
330 * [BugFix][Enhancement] Various and sundry bugfixes and performance enhancements, thanks to \@edhartnett, \@gsjarrdema, \@t-b, \@wkliao, and all of our other contributors.
331 * [Enhancement] Extended `nccopy -F` syntax to support multiple variables with a single invocation. See [Github #1311](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1311) for more information.
332 * [BugFix] Corrected an issue where DAP2 was incorrectly converting signed bytes, resulting in an erroneous error message under some circumstances. See [GitHub #1317](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1317) for more information. See [Github #1319](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1319) for related information.
333 * [BugFix][Enhancement] Modified `nccopy` so that `_NCProperties` is not copied over verbatim but is instead generated based on the version of `libnetcdf` used when copying the file. Additionally, `_NCProperties` are displayed if/when associated with a netcdf3 file, now. See [GitHub #803](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/803) for more information.
335 ## 4.6.2 - November 16, 2018
337 * [Enhancement] Lazy att read - only read atts when user requests one of them. See [GitHub #857](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/857).
338 * [Enhancement] Fast global att read - when global atts are read, they are read much more quickly. See [GitHub #857](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/857).
340 ## 4.6.2-rc2 November 1, 2018
343 * [Enhancement] Add nccopy command options for per-variable chunk sizing, and minimum chunk size. See [GitHub #1087](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1087).
344 * [Bug Fix] Fix nccopy handling of user specified chunk sizes. See [GitHub #725](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/725),[#1087](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1087).
345 * [Bug Fix] Avoid limit on number of times a netCDF4 attribute can be updated. Not a complete fix for the HDF5 "maximum creation order" problem, but should greatly reduce occurrences in many real-world cases. See [GitHub #350](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/350).
346 * [Bug Fix] The use of NC_DISKLESS has been modified to make it cleaner. This adds a new flag called NC_PERSIST that takes over the now obsolete NC_MPIPOSIX.
347 * [Obsolete] Obsolete the MPIPOSIX flag.
348 * [Bug Fix] When using filters with HDF5 1.10.x or later, it is necessary to utilize the HDF5 replacements for malloc, realloc, and free in the filter code.
350 ## 4.6.2-rc1 - September 19, 2018
352 * [Enhancement] Create a new version of _NCProperties provenance attribute. This version (version 2) supports arbitrary key-value pairs. It is the default when new files are created. Version 1 continues to be accepted.
353 * [Enhancement] Allow user to set http read buffersize for DAP2 and DAP4 using the tag HTTP.READ.BUFFERSIZE in the .daprc file.
354 * [Enhancement] Allow user to set http keepalive for DAP2 and DAP4 using the tag HTTP.KEEPALIVE in the .daprc file (see the OPeNDAP documentation for details).
355 * [Enhancement] Support DAP4 remote tests using a new remote test server located on the Unidata JetStream project.
356 * [Enhancement] Improved the performance of the nc_get/put_vars operations by using the equivalent slab capabilities of hdf5. Result is a significant speedup of these operations. See [GitHub #1001](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1001) for more information.
357 * [Enhancement] Expanded the capabilities of `NC_INMEMORY` to support writing and accessing the final modified memory. See [GitHub #879](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/879) for more information.
358 * [Enhancement] Made CDF5 support enabled by default. See [Github #931](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/931) for more information.
359 * [Bug Fix] Corrected a number of memory issues identified in `ncgen`. See [GitHub #558 for more information](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/558).
361 ## 4.6.1 - March 19, 2018
363 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue which could result in a dap4 failure. See [Github #888](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/888) for more information.
364 * [Bug Fix][Enhancement] Allow `nccopy` to control output filter suppresion. See [Github #894](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/894) for more information.
365 * [Enhancement] Reverted some new behaviors that, while in line with the netCDF specification, broke existing workflows. See [Github #843](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/843) for more information.
366 * [Bug Fix] Improved support for CRT builds with Visual Studio, improves zlib detection in hdf5 library. See [Github #853](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/853) for more information.
367 * [Enhancement][Internal] Moved HDF4 into a distinct dispatch layer. See [Github #849](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/849) for more information.
369 ## 4.6.0 - January 24, 2018
370 * [Enhancement] Full support for using HDF5 dynamic filters, both for reading and writing. See the file docs/filters.md.
371 * [Enhancement] Added an option to enable strict null-byte padding for headers; this padding was specified in the spec but was not enforced. Enabling this option will allow you to check your files, as it will return an E_NULLPAD error. It is possible for these files to have been written by older versions of libnetcdf. There is no effective problem caused by this lack of null padding, so enabling these options is informational only. The options for `configure` and `cmake` are `--enable-strict-null-byte-header-padding` and `-DENABLE_STRICT_NULL_BYTE_HEADER_PADDING`, respectively. See [Github #657](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/657) for more information.
372 * [Enhancement] Reverted behavior/handling of out-of-range attribute values to pre-4.5.0 default. See [Github #512](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/512) for more information.
373 * [Bug] Fixed error in tst_parallel2.c. See [Github #545](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/545) for more information.
374 * [Bug] Fixed handling of corrupt files + proper offset handling for hdf5 files. See [Github #552](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/552) for more information.
375 * [Bug] Corrected a memory overflow in `tst_h_dimscales`, see [Github #511](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/511), [Github #505](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/505), [Github #363](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/363) and [Github #244](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/244) for more information.
377 ## 4.5.0 - October 20, 2017
379 * Corrected an issue which could potential result in a hang while using parallel file I/O. See [Github #449](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/449) for more information.
380 * Addressed an issue with `ncdump` not properly handling dates on a 366 day calendar. See [GitHub #359](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/359) for more information.
382 ### 4.5.0-rc3 - September 29, 2017
384 * [Update] Due to ongoing issues, native CDF5 support has been disabled by **default**. You can use the options mentioned below (`--enable-cdf5` or `-DENABLE_CDF5=TRUE` for `configure` or `cmake`, respectively). Just be aware that for the time being, Reading/Writing CDF5 files on 32-bit platforms may result in unexpected behavior when using extremely large variables. For 32-bit platforms it is best to continue using `NC_FORMAT_64BIT_OFFSET`.
385 * [Bug] Corrected an issue where older versions of curl might fail. See [GitHub #487](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/487) for more information.
386 * [Enhancement] Added options to enable/disable `CDF5` support at configure time for autotools and cmake-based builds. The options are `--enable/disable-cdf5` and `ENABLE_CDF5`, respectively. See [Github #484](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/484) for more information.
387 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue when subsetting a netcdf3 file via `nccopy -v/-V`. See [Github #425](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/425) and [Github #463](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/463) for more information.
388 * [Bug Fix] Corrected `--has-dap` and `--has-dap4` output for cmake-based builds. See [GitHub #473](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/473) for more information.
389 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue where `NC_64BIT_DATA` files were being read incorrectly by ncdump, despite the data having been written correctly. See [GitHub #457](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/457) for more information.
390 * [Bug Fix] Corrected a potential stack buffer overflow. See [GitHub #450](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/450) for more information.
392 ### 4.5.0-rc2 - August 7, 2017
394 * [Bug Fix] Addressed an issue with how cmake was implementing large file support on 32-bit systems. See [GitHub #385](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/385) for more information.
395 * [Bug Fix] Addressed an issue where ncgen would not respect keyword case. See [GitHub #310](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/310) for more information.
397 ### 4.5.0-rc1 - June 5, 2017
399 * [Enhancement] DAP4 is now included. Since dap2 is the default for urls, dap4 must be specified by
400 1. using "dap4:" as the url protocol, or
401 2. appending "\#protocol=dap4" to the end of the url, or
402 3. appending "\#dap4" to the end of the url
404 Note that dap4 is enabled by default but remote-testing is
405 disabled until the testserver situation is resolved.
407 * [Enhancement] The remote testing server can now be specified with the `--with-testserver` option to ./configure.
408 * [Enhancement] Modified netCDF4 to use ASCII for NC_CHAR. See [Github Pull request #316](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/316) for more information.
409 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an error with how dimsizes might be read. See [Github #410](https://github.com/unidata/netcdf-c/issues/410) for more information.
410 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue where 'make check' would fail if 'make' or 'make all' had not run first. See [Github #339](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/339) for more information.
411 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue on Windows with Large file tests. See [Github #385](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/385]) for more information.
412 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue with diskless file access, see [Pull Request #400](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/400) and [Pull Request #403](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/403) for more information.
413 * [Upgrade] The bash based test scripts have been upgraded to use a common test_common.sh include file that isolates build specific information.
414 * [Upgrade] The bash based test scripts have been upgraded to use a common test_common.sh include file that isolates build specific information.
415 * [Refactor] the oc2 library is no longer independent of the main netcdf-c library. For example, it now uses ncuri, nclist, and ncbytes instead of its homegrown equivalents.
416 * [Bug Fix] `NC_EGLOBAL` is now properly returned when attempting to set a global `_FillValue` attribute. See [GitHub #388](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/388) and [GitHub #389](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/389) for more information.
417 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue where data loss would occur when `_FillValue` was mistakenly allowed to be redefined. See [Github #390](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/390), [GitHub #387](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/387) for more information.
418 * [Upgrade][Bug] Corrected an issue regarding how "orphaned" DAS attributes were handled. See [GitHub #376](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/376) for more information.
419 * [Upgrade] Update utf8proc.[ch] to use the version now maintained by the Julia Language project (https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc/blob/master/LICENSE.md).
420 * [Bug] Addressed conversion problem with Windows sscanf. This primarily affected some OPeNDAP URLs on Windows. See [GitHub #365](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/365) and [GitHub #366](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/366) for more information.
421 * [Enhancement] Added support for HDF5 collective metadata operations when available. Patch submitted by Greg Sjaardema, see [Pull request #335](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/335) for more information.
422 * [Bug] Addressed a potential type punning issue. See [GitHub #351](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/351) for more information.
423 * [Bug] Addressed an issue where netCDF wouldn't build on Windows systems using MSVC 2012. See [GitHub #304](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/304) for more information.
424 * [Bug] Fixed an issue related to potential type punning, see [GitHub #344](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/344) for more information.
425 * [Enhancement] Incorporated an enhancement provided by Greg Sjaardema, which may improve read/write times for some complex files. Basically, linked lists were replaced in some locations where it was safe to use an array/table. See [Pull request #328](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/328) for more information.
427 ## 4.4.1.1 - November 21, 2016
429 * [Bug] Fixed an issue where `ncgen` would potentially crash or write incorrect netCDF4 binary data under very specific circumstances. This bug did *not* affect data written on 32-bit systems or by using the netCDF library; it was specific to `ncgen`. This would only happen when writing a compound data type containing an 8-byte data type followed by a 4-byte data type *and* the 4-byte data type was not properly aligned; this would *possibly* result in incorrect padding. This did not affect 32-bit systems, or data written directly by the library. See [GitHub #323](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/323) for more information.
430 * [Documentation] Updated documentation related to netCDF variable names and DAP2 access to reflect the undefined behavior potentially observed when DAP2 reserved keywords are used as netCDF variable names. See [GitHub #308](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/308) for more information.
431 * [Bug] Fixed an issue with `nc_inq_type()` not returning proper value in some circumstances. See [GitHub #317](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/317) for more information.
432 * [Bug] Corrected an issue related to test failures when `--disable-utilities` or `-DENABLE_UTILITIES=OFF` are specified when building with autotools or cmake, respectively. See [GitHub #313](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/313) for more information.
433 * [Bug][Enhancement] Corrected a behavioral issue with the `_NCProperties` attribute taking up too much space. See [GitHub #300](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/300) and [GitHub #301](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/301) for more information.
435 * [Bug] Corrected behavior for `nc-config` so that, if `nf-config` is found in system, the proper fortran-related information will be conveyed. See [GitHub #296](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/296] for more information.
437 ## 4.4.1 - June 28, 2016
439 * [File Change] Starting with release 4.4.1, netCDF-4 files are created with HDF5 v1.6 format compatibility, rather than v1.8. The superblock changes from version 2, as was observed in previous netCDF versions, to version 0. This is due to a workaround required to avoid backwards binary incompatibility when using libhdf5 1.10.x or greater. Superblock versions 0 and 2 appear to be forward and backward compatible for netCDF purposes. Other than a different superblock number, the data should remain consistent. See [GitHub #250](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/250).
440 * [Enhancement] Added better error reporting when ncdump/nccopy are given a bad constraint in a DAP url. See [GitHub #279](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/279) for more information.
442 ### 4.4.1-RC3 - June 17, 2016
444 * [Bug Fix] Misc. bug fixes and improvements.
445 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue where adding a \_FillValue attribute to a variable would result in other attributes being lost. See [GitHub #239](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/239) for more details.
446 * [Bug Fix][Parallel I/O] Corrected an issue reported by Kent Yang at the HDF group related to Collective Parallel I/O and a potential hang.
448 ### 4.4.1-RC2 - May 13, 2016
450 * [Enhancement] Added provenance information to files created. This information consists of a persistent attribute named `_NCProperties` plus two computed attributes, `_IsNetcdf4` and `_SuperblockVersion`. Associated documentation was added to the file `docs/attribute_conventions.md`. See [GitHub pull request #260](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/260) for more information.
451 * [Bug Fix] Cleaned up some dead links in the doxygen-generated documentation.
452 * [Bug Fix] Corrected several issues related to building under Visual Studio 2014.
453 * [Bug Fix] Corrected several test failures related to HDF5 `1.10.0`
454 * [Bug Fix] Reverted SOVersion *current* to 11 from 12; it was incorrectly incremented in netCDF-C release 4.4.1-RC1.
455 * [Enhancement][Windows] Bumped the included libhdf5 to 1.8.16 from 1.8.15 for pre-built Visual Studio installer files.
458 ### 4.4.1-RC1 - April 15, 2016
460 * [Bug Fix][Enhancement] Fixed an issue with netCDF4 files generated using version `1.10.0` of the HDF5 library. The 1.10 release potentially changed the underlying file format, introducing a backwards compatibility issue with the files generated. HDF5 provided an API for retaining the 1.8.x file format, which is now on by default. See [GitHub Issue #250](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/250) for more information.
461 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue with autotools-based builds performed out-of-source-tree. See [GitHub Issue #242](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/242) for more information.
462 * [Enhancement] Modified `nc_inq_type()` so that it would work more broadly without requiring a valid ncid. See [GitHub Issue #240](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/240) for more information.
463 * [Enhancement] Accepted a patch code which added a hashmap lookup for rapid var and dim retrieval in nc3 files, contributed by Greg Sjaardema. See [GitHub Pull Request #238](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/238) for more information.
464 * [Bug Fix] Accepted a contributed pull request which corrected an issue with how the cmake-generated `nc-config` file determined the location of installed files. See [GitHub Pull Request #235](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/235) for more information.
465 * [Enhancement] Added an advanced option for CMake-based builds, `ENABLE_SHARED_LIBRARY_VERSION`. This option is `ON` by default, but if turned off, only `libnetcdf.dylib` will be generated, instead of files containing the SOVERSION in the file name. This is a requested feature most people might not care about. See [GitHub #228](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/228) for more information.
466 * [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue with duplicated error codes defined in multiple header files. See [GitHub #213](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/213) for more information.
467 * [Bug Fix] Addressed an issue specific to Visual Studio 2015 on Windows. On very large files, some calls to the `fstat` class of functions would fail for no apparent reason. This behavior was **not** observed under Visual Studio 2013. This has now been mitigated. See [GitHub #188](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/188) for more information.
468 * [Enhancement] Updated `nc-config` to report whether `logging` is enabled in netcdf. Additionally, if `f03` is available in an installed netcdf-fortran library, it will now be reported as well.
469 * [Bug Fix] Addressed an issue where `netcdf_mem.h` was not being installed by cmake. See [GitHub #227](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/227) for more information.
470 * [Bug Fix] Addressed an issue where `ncdump` would crash when trying to read a netcdf file containing an empty ragged `VLEN` variable in an unlimited dimension. See [GitHub #221](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/221) for more information.
472 ## 4.4.0 Released - January 13, 2016
474 * Bumped SO version to 11.0.0.
476 * Modified `CMakeLists.txt` to work with the re-organized cmake configuration used by the latest HDF5, `1.8.16`, on Windows. Before this fix, netCDF would fail to locate hdf5 1.8.16 when using cmake on Windows. See [GitHub #186](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/186) for more information.
478 * Addressed an issue with `ncdump` when annotations were used. The indices for the last row suffered from an off-by-1 error. See [GitHub issue #181](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/181) for more information.
480 * Addressed an issue on platforms where `char` is `unsigned` by default (such as `ARM`), as well as an issue describing regarding undefined behavior, again on `ARM`. See [GitHub issue #159](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/159) for detailed information.
482 * Fixed an ambiguity in the grammar for cdl files. See [GitHub #178](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/178) for more information.
484 * Updated documentation for `nc_get_att_string()` to reflect the fact that it returns allocated memory which must be explicitly free'd using `nc_free_string()`. Reported by Constantine Khroulev, see [GitHub Issue 171](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/171) for more information.
486 * Modified ncgen to properly handle the L and UL suffixes for integer constants
487 to keep backward compatibility. Now it is the case the single L suffix
488 (e.g. 111L) is treated as a 32 bit integer. This makes it consistent with
489 the fact that NC_LONG (netcdf.h) is an alias for NC_INT. Existing .cdl
490 files should be examined for occurrences of the L prefix to ensure that
491 this change will not affect them.
492 (see Github issue 156[https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/156]).
494 * Updated documentation to reference the new `NodeJS` interface to netcdf4, by Sven Willner. It is available from [https://www.npmjs.com/package/netcdf4](https://www.npmjs.com/package/netcdf4) or from the GitHub repository at [https://github.com/swillner/netcdf4-js](https://github.com/swillner/netcdf4-js).
496 * Incorporated pull request https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/150 from Greg Sjaardema to remove the internal hard-wired use of `NC_MAX_DIMS`, instead using a dynamic memory allocation.
498 ### 4.4.0-RC5 Released - November 11, 2015
500 * Added a fix for https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/149, which was reported several times in quick succession within an hour of the RC4 release.
502 ### 4.4.0-RC4 Released - November 10, 2015
504 * Added CDM-5 support via new mode flag called NC_64BIT_DATA (alias NC_CDF5).
506 Major kudos to Wei-Keng Liao for all the effort he put into getting this to work.
508 This cascaded into a number of other changes.
510 1. Renamed libsrcp5 -> libsrcp because PnetCDF can do parallel io for CDF-1, CDF-2 and CDF-5, not just CDF-5.
511 2. Given #1, then the NC_PNETCDF mode flag becomes a subset of NC_MPIIO, so made NC_PNETCDF an alias for NC_MPII.
512 3. NC_FORMAT_64BIT is now deprecated. Use NC_FORMAT_64BIT_OFFSET.
514 Further information regarding the CDF-5 file format specifrication may be found here: http://cucis.ece.northwestern.edu/projects/PnetCDF/CDF-5.html
516 * Modified configure.ac to provide finer control over parallel
517 support. Specifically, add flags for:
519 1. HDF5_PARALLEL when hdf5 library has parallel enabled
520 2. --disable-parallel4 to be used when we do not want
521 netcdf-4 to use parallelism even if hdf5 has it enabled.
524 * Deprecating various extended format flags.
526 The various extended format flags of the format `NC_FORMAT_FOO` have been refactored into the form `NC_FORMATX_FOO`. The old flags still exist but have been marked as deprecated and will be removed at some point. This was done to avoid confusion between the extended format flags and the format flags `NC_FORMAT_CLASSIC`, `NC_FORMAT_64BIT_OFFSET`, etc. The mapping of deprecated-to-new flags is as follows:
528 Deprecated | Replaced with
529 -----------|-------------
530 NC\_FORMAT\_NC3 | NC\_FORMATX\_NC3
531 NC\_FORMAT\_NC\_HDF5 | NC\_FORMATX\_NC\_HDF5
532 NC\_FORMAT\_NC4 | NC\_FORMATX\_NC4
533 NC\_FORMAT\_NC\_HDF4 | NC\_FORMATX\_NC\_HDF4
534 NC\_FORMAT\_PNETCDF | NC\_FORMATX\_PNETCDF
535 NC\_FORMAT\_DAP2 | NC\_FORMATX\_DAP2
536 NC\_FORMAT\_DAP4 | NC\_FORMATX\_DAP4
537 NC\_FORMAT\_UNDEFINED | NC\_FORMATX\_UNDEFINED
539 * Reduced minimum cmake version to `2.8.11` from `2.8.12`. This will allow for cmake use on a broader set of popular linux platforms without having to do a custom cmake install. See https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/135 for more information.
541 * The documentation section `The Default Chunking Scheme` has been updated with more information. This lives in the `guide.dox` file in the `docs/` directory, or can be found online in the appropriate location (typically https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/), once this release has been published.
543 ### 4.4.0-RC3 2015-10-08
545 * Addressed an inefficiency in how bytes would be swapped when converting between `LITTLE` and `BIG` ENDIANNESS. See [NCF-338](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-338) for more information.
547 * Addressed an issue where an interrupted read on a `POSIX` system would return an error even if errno had been properly set to `EINTR`. This issue was initially reported by David Knaak at Cray. More information may be found at [NCF-337](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-337).
549 * Added a note to the install directions pointing out that parallel make
550 cannot be used for 'make check'.
552 ### 4.4.0-RC2 Released 2015-07-09
554 * Minor bug fixes and cleanup of issues reported with first release candidate.
556 ### 4.4.0-RC1 Released 2015-06-09
558 * The pre-built Windows binaries are now built using `Visual Studio 2012`, instead of `Visual Studio 2010`. Source-code compilation remains function with `Visual Studio 2010`, this is just a change in the pre-built binaries.
560 * Added support for opening in-memory file content. See `include/netcdf_mem.h` for the procedure signature. Basically, it allows one to fill a chunk of memory with the equivalent of some netCDF file and then open it and read from it as if it were any other file. See [NCF-328](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-328) for more information.
562 * Addressed an issue when reading hdf4 files with explicit little-endian datatypes. This issue was [reported by Tim Burgess at GitHub](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/113). See [NCF-332](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-332) for more information.
564 * Addressed an issue with IBM's `XL C` compiler on AIX and how it handled some calls to malloc. Also, as suggested by Wolfgang Hayek, developers using this compiler may need to pass `CPPFLAGS=-D_LINUX_SOURCE_COMPAT` to avoid some test failures.
566 * Addressed an issure in netcdf4 related to specifying an endianness explicitly. When specifying an endianness for `NC_FLOAT`, the value would appear to not be written to file, if checked with `ncdump -s`. The issue was more subtle; the value would be written but was not being read from file properly for non-`NC_INT`. See [GitHub Issue](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/112) or [NCF-331](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-331) for more information.
568 * Addressed an issue in netcdf4 on Windows w/DAP related to how byte values were copied with sscanf. Issue originally reported by Ellen Johnson at Mathworks, see [NCF-330](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-330) for more information.
570 * Addressed in issue in netcdf4 files on Windows, built with Microsoft Visual Studio, which could result in a memory leak. See [NCF-329](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-329) for more information.
572 * Addressed an issue in netcdf4 files where writing unlimited dimensions that were not declared at head of the dimensions list, as reported by Ellen Johnson at Mathworks. See [NCF-326](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-326) for more information.
574 * Added an authorization reference document as oc2/ocauth.html.
576 * Fixed bug resulting in segmentation violation when trying to add a
577 _FillValue attribute to a variable in an existing netCDF-4 file
578 defined without it (thanks to Alexander Barth). See
579 [NCF-187](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-187) for
582 ## 4.3.3.1 Released 2015-02-25
584 * Fixed a bug related to renaming the attributes of coordinate variables in a subgroup. See [NCF-325](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-325) for more information.
586 ## 4.3.3 Released 2015-02-12
588 * Fixed bug resulting in error closing a valid netCDF-4 file with a dimension and a non-coordinate variable with the same name. [NCF-324](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-324)
590 * Enabled previously-disabled shell-script-based tests for Visual Studio when `bash` is detected.
592 ### 4.3.3-rc3 Released 2015-01-14
594 * Added functionality to make it easier to build `netcdf-fortran` as part of the `netcdf-c` build for *NON-MSVC* builds. This functionality is enabled at configure time by using the following **Highly Experimental** options:
596 * CMake: `-DENABLE_REMOTE_FORTRAN_BOOTSTRAP=ON`
597 * Autotools: `--enable-remote-fortran-bootstrap`
599 Details are as follows:
603 Enabling these options creates two new make targets:
605 * `build-netcdf-fortran`
606 * `install-netcdf-fortran`
608 Example Work Flow from netcdf-c source directory:
610 * $ `./configure --enable-remote-fortran-bootstrap --prefix=$HOME/local`
613 * $ `make build-netcdf-fortran`
614 * $ `make install-netcdf-fortran`
616 > These make targets are **only** valid after `make install` has been invoked. This cannot be enforced rigidly in the makefile for reasons we will expand on in the documentation, but in short: `make install` may require sudo, but using sudo will discard environmental variables required when attempting to build netcdf-fortran in this manner.<br><br>
618 > It is important to note that this is functionality is for *convenience only*. It will remain possible to build `netcdf-c` and `netcdf-fortran` manually. These make targets should hopefully suffice for the majority of our users, but for corner cases it may still be required of the user to perform a manual build. [NCF-323](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-323)
622 * Added a failure state if the `m4` utility is not found on non-Windows systems; previously, the build would fail when it reached the point of invoking m4.
624 * Added an explicit check in the build systems (autotools, cmake) for the CURL-related option `CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION`. This option was introduced in libcurl version `7.21.0`. On installations which require libcurl and have this version, `CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION` will be available. Otherwise, it will not.
626 * The PnetCDF support was not properly being used to provide mpi parallel io for netcdf-3 classic files. The wrong dispatch table was being used. [NCF-319](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-319)
628 * In nccopy utility, provided proper default for unlimited dimension in chunk-size specification instead of requiring explicit chunk size. Added associated test. [NCF-321](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-321)
630 * Fixed documentation typo in FILL_DOUBLE definition in classic format specification grammar. Fixed other typos and inconsistencies in Doxygen version of User Guide.
632 * For nccopy and ncgen, added numeric options (-3, -4, -6, -7) for output format, to provide less confusing format version specifications than the error-prone equivalent -k options (-k1, -k2, -k3, -k4). The new numeric options are compatible with NCO's mnemonic version options. The old -k numeric options will still be accepted but are deprecated, due to easy confusion between format numbers and format names. [NCF-314](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-314)
634 * Fixed bug in ncgen. When classic format was in force (k=1 or k=4), the "long" datatype should be treated as int32. Was returning an error. [NCF-318](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-318)
636 * Fixed bug where if the netCDF-C library is built with the HDF5 library but without the HDF4 library and one attempts to open an HDF4 file, an abort occurs rather than returning a proper error code (NC_ENOTNC). [NCF-317](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-317)
638 * Added a new option, `NC_EXTRA_DEPS`, for cmake-based builds. This is analogous to `LIBS` in autotools-based builds. Example usage:
640 $ cmake .. -NC_EXTRA_DEPS="-lcustom_lib"
642 More details may be found at the Unidata JIRA Dashboard. [NCF-316](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-316)
645 ### 4.3.3-rc2 Released 2014-09-24
647 * Fixed the code for handling character constants
648 in datalists in ncgen. Two of the problems were:
649 1. It failed on large constants
650 2. It did not handle e.g. var = 'a', 'b', ...
651 in the same way that ncgen3 did.
652 See [NCF-309](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-309).
654 * Added a new file, `netcdf_meta.h`. This file is generated automatically at configure time and contains information related to the capabilities of the netcdf library. This file may be used by projects dependent upon `netcdf` to make decisions during configuration, based on how the `netcdf` library was built. The macro `NC_HAVE_META_H` is defined in `netcdf.h`. Paired with judicious use of `ifdef`'s, this macro will indicate to developers whether or not the meta-header file is present. See [NCF-313](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-313).
656 > Determining the presence of `netcdf_meta.h` can also be accomplished by methods common to autotools and cmake-based build systems.
658 * Changed `Doxygen`-generated documentation hosted by Unidata to use more robust server-based searching.
659 * Corrected embedded URLs in release notes.
660 * Corrected an issue where building with HDF4 support with Visual Studio would fail.
662 ### 4.3.3-rc1 Released 2014-08-25
664 * Added `CMake`-based export files, contributed by Nico Schlömer. See https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/74.
666 * Documented that ncgen input can come from standard input.
668 * Regularized generation of libnetcdf.settings file to make parsing it easier.
670 * Fixed ncdump bug for char variables with multiple unlimited dimensions and added an associated test. Now the output CDL properly disambiguates dimension groupings, so that ncgen can generate the original file from the CDL. [NCF-310](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-310)
672 * Converted the [Manually-maintained FAQ page](https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/faq.html) into markdown and added it to the `docs/` directory. This way the html version will be generated when the rest of the documentation is built, the FAQ will be under version control, and it will be in a more visible location, hopefully making it easier to maintain.
674 * Bumped minimum required version of `cmake` to `2.8.12`. This was necessitated by the adoption of the new `CMAKE_MACOSX_RPATH` property, for use on OSX.
676 * Jennifer Adams has requested a reversion in behavior so that all dap requests include a constraint. Problem is caused by change in prefetch where if all variables are requested, then no constraint is generated. Fix is to always generate a constraint in prefetch.
677 [NCF-308](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-308)
679 * Added a new option for cmake-based builds, `ENABLE_DOXYGEN_LATEX_OUTPUT`. On those systems with `make` and `pdflatex`, setting this option **ON** will result in pdf versions of the documentation being built. This feature is experimental.
681 * Bumped minimum CMake version to `2.8.9` from `2.8.8` as part of a larger pull request contributed by Nico Schlömer. [Pull Request #64](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/64)
683 * Replaced the `NetCDF Library Architecture` image with an updated version from the 2012 NetCDF Workshop slides.
685 * Fix HDF4 files to support chunking.
686 [NCF-272](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-272)
688 * NetCDF creates a `libnetcdf.settings` file after configuration now, similar to those generated by `HDF4` and `HDF5`. It is installed into the same directory as the libraries. [NCF-303](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-303).
691 * Renamed `man4/` directory to `docs/` to make the purpose and contents clearer. See [man4 vs. docs #60](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/60).
693 * Removed redundant variable `BUILD_DOCS` from the CMake configuration file. See the issue at github: [#59](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/59).
695 * Added missing documentation templates to `man4/Makefile.am`, to correct an issue when trying to build the local `Doxygen`-generated documentation. This issue was reported by Nico Schlömer and may be viewed on github. [Releases miss Doxygen files #56](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/56)
697 * When the NC_MPIPOSIX flag is given for parallel I/O access and the HDF5 library does not have the MPI-POSIX VFD configured in, the NC_MPIPOSIX flag is transparently aliased to the NC_MPIIO flag within the netCDF-4 library.
699 ## 4.3.2 Released 2014-04-23
701 * As part of an ongoing project, the Doxygen-generated netcdf documentation has been reorganized. The goal is to make the documentation easier to parse, and to eliminate redundant material. This project is ongoing.
703 * The oc .dodsrc reader was improperly handling the user name and password entries. [NCF-299](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-299)
705 * CTestConfig.cmake has been made into a template so that users may easily specify the location of an alternative CDash-based Dashboard using the following two options:
707 * `NC_TEST_DROP_SITE` - Specify an alternative Dashboard by URL or IP address.
709 * `NC_CTEST_DROP_LOC_PREFIX` - Specify a prefix on the remote webserver relative to the root directory. This lets CTest accommodate dashboards that do not live at the top level of the web server.
711 * Return an error code on open instead of an assertion violation for truncated file.
713 * Documented limit on number of Groups per netCDF-4 file (32767).
715 ### 4.3.2-rc2 Released 2014-04-15
717 * Cleaned up a number of CMake inconsistencies related to CMake usage, parallel builds.
718 * Now passing -Wl,--no-undefined to linker when appropriate.
719 * Corrected an issue preventing large file tests from running correctly under Windows.
720 * Misc Bug Fixes detected by static analysis.
722 ### 4.3.2-rc1 Released 2014-03-20
724 * Pre-built Windows downloads will now be bundled with the latest (as of the time of this writing) versions of the various dependencies:
729 * Added a separate flag to enable DAP AUTH tests. These tests are disabled by default. The flags for autotools and CMAKE-based builds are (respectively):
730 * --enable-dap-auth-tests
731 * -DENABLE\_DAP\_AUTH\_TESTS
733 * Fixed small default chunk size for 1-dimensional record variables. [NCF-211](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-211)
735 * Cleaned up type handling in netCDF-4 to fix bugs with fill-values.
737 * Corrected "BAIL" macros to avoid infinite loop when logging is disabled and an error occurs.
739 * Refactored how types are used for attributes, variables, and committed types, clarifying and categorizing fields in structs, and eliminating duplicated type information between variables and types they use.
741 * Made type structure shareable by committed datatypes and variables that use it.
743 * Handled string datatypes correctly, particularly for fill value attributes. Expanded testing for string fill values.
745 * Simplified iteration of objects in the file when it's opened, tracking fewer objects and using less memory.
747 * Enabled netCDF-4 bit-for-bit reproducibility for nccopy and other applications (thanks to Rimvydas Jasinskas and Quincey Koziol) by turning off HDF5 object creation, access, and modification time tracking. [NCF-290](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-290)
749 * Addressed an issue where `cmake`-based builds would not properly create a `pkg-config` file. This file is now created properly by `cmake`. [NCF-288](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-288)
751 * Addressed an issue related to old DAP servers. [NCF-287](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-287)
753 * Modified nc_{get/put}_vars to no longer use
754 nc_get/put_varm. They now directly use nc_get/put_vara
755 directly. This means that nc_get/put_vars now work
756 properly for user defined types as well as atomic types.
757 [NCF-228] (https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-228)
759 ## 4.3.1.1 Released 2014-02-05
761 This is a bug-fix-only release for version 4.3.1.
763 * Corrected a DAP issue reported by Jeff Whitaker related to non-conforming servers.
765 * Corrected an issue with DAP tests failing in a 64-bit Cygwin environment. [NCF-286](https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-286)
767 ## 4.3.1 Released 2014-01-16
769 * Add an extended format inquiry method to the netCDF API: nc\_inq\_format\_extended. NC\_HAVE\_INQ\_FORMAT\_EXTENDED is defined in netcdf.h [NCF-273]
771 [NCF-273]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-273
774 ### 4.3.1-rc6 Released 2013-12-19
776 * Fixed fill value handling for string types in nc4\_get\_vara().
778 * Corrected behavior of nc\_inq\_unlimdim and nv\_inq\_unlimdims to report dimids
779 in same order as nc\_inq\_dimids.
781 * Addressed an issue reported by Jeff Whitaker regarding `nc_inq_nvars` returning an incorrect number of dimensions (this issue was introduced in 4.3.1-rc5). Integrated a test contributed by Jeff Whitaker.
783 * A number of previously-disabled unit tests were reviewed and made active.
786 ### 4.3.1-rc5 Released 2013-12-06
788 * When opening a netCDF-4 file, streamline the iteration over objects in the underlying HDF5 file.
790 * Fixed netCDF-4 failure when renaming a dimension and renaming a variable using that dimension, in either order. [NCF-177]
792 [NCF-177]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-177
794 * When compiling with `hdf4` support, both autotools and cmake-based builds now properly look for the `libjpeg` dependency and will link against it when found (or complain if it's not). Also added `ENABLE_HDF4_FILE_TESTS` option to CMake-based builds.
796 * Fixed bug in ncgen; it was not properly filling empty string constants ("") to be the proper length. [NCF-279]
798 [NCF-279]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-279
800 * Fixed bug in ncgen where it was interpreting int64 constants
801 as uint64 constants. [NCF-278]
803 [NCF-278]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-278
805 * Fixed bug in handling Http Basic Authorization. The code was actually there but was not being executed. [NCF-277]
807 [NCF-277]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-277
809 * Added hack to the DAP code to address a problem with the Columbia.edu server. That server does not serve up proper DAP2 DDS replies. The Dataset {...} name changes depending on if the request has certain kinds of constraints. [NCF-276]
811 [NCF-276]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-276
813 * Fixed bugs with ncdump annotation of values, using -b or -f
816 [NCF-275]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-275
819 ### 4.3.1-rc4 Released 2013-11-06
821 * Addressed an issue on Windows where `fstat` would report an incorrect file size on files > 4GB. [NCF-219]
824 * Added better documentation about accessing ESG datasets.
825 See https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/esg.html.
827 * Corrected an issue with CMake-based builds enabling HDF4 support where the HDF4 libraries were in a non-standard location.
829 * Fix bug introduced by [NCF-267] where octal constants above
830 '\177' were not recognized as proper octal constants. [NCF-271]
832 [NCF-271]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-271
834 * Fixed an issue where the `netcdf.3` man page was not being installed by CMake-based builds. [Github](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/3)
838 ### 4.3.1-rc3 Released 2013-09-24
840 * Modify ncgen to support NUL characters in character array
843 [NCF-267]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-267
845 * Modify ncgen to support disambiguating references to
846 an enum constant in a data list. [NCF-265]
848 [NCF-265]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-265
850 * Corrected bug in netCDF-4 dimension ID ordering assumptions, resulting in access that works locally but fails through DAP server. [NCF-166]
852 [NCF-166]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-166
854 * Added a new configuration flag, `NC_USE_STATIC_CRT` for CMake-based Windows builds. The default value is 'OFF'. This will allow the user to define whether to use the shared CRT libraries (\\MD) or static CRT libraries (\\MT) in Visual Studio builds.
856 * Ensure netCDF-4 compiles with OpenMPI as an alternative to MPICH2. [NCF-160]
858 [NCF-160]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-160
860 * Addressed issue with hanging Parallel netCDF-4 using HDF5 1.8.10. [NCF-240]
862 [NCF-240]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-240
864 * Addressed issue with Large File Support on Windows, using both 32 and 64-bit builds. [NCF-219]
866 [NCF-219]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-219
868 * Removed deprecated directories:
874 ### 4.3.1-rc2 Released 2013-08-19
876 * Added `configure` and accompanying configuration files/templates to release repository. **These will only be added to tagged releases on GitHub**.
878 * Integrated a fix by Quincey Koziol which addressed a variation of [NCF-250], *Fix issue of netCDF-4 parallel independent access with unlimited dimension hanging*.
880 [NCF-250]:https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-250
882 * Integrated change contributed by Orion Poplawski which integrated GNUInstallDirs into the netCDF-C CMake system; this will permit systems that install into lib64 (such as Fedora) to `make install` without problem.
884 * Corrected an error with the CMake config files that resulted in the `netcdf.3` manpage not being built or installed.
886 ### 4.3.1-rc1 Released 2013-08-09
888 * Migrated from the netCDF-C `subversion` repository to a publicly available GitHub repository available at https://github.com/Unidata/netCDF-C. This repository may be checked out (cloned) with the following command:
890 $ git clone https://github.com/Unidata/netCDF-C.git
892 * Note: in this release, it is necessary to generate the `configure` script and makefile templates using `autoreconf` in the root netCDF-C directory.:
896 * Added `nc_rename_grp` to allow for group renaming in netCDF-4 files. [NCF-204]
898 [NCF-204]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-204
900 * Added a `NC_HAVE_RENAME_GRP` macro to netcdf.h, [as per a request by Charlie Zender][cz1]. This will allow software compiling against netcdf to easily query whether or not nc\_rename\_grp() is available.
902 [cz1]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-204
904 * Added Greg Sjaardema's contributed optimization for the nc4\_find\_dim\_len function in libsrc4/nc4internal.c. The patch eliminates several malloc/free calls that exist in the original coding.
906 * Added support for dynamic loading, to compliment the dynamic loading support introduced in hdf 1.8.11. Dynamic loading support depends on libdl, and is enabled as follows: [NCF-258]
907 * autotools-based builds: --enable-dynamic-loading
908 * cmake-based builds: -DENABLE\_DYNAMIC\_LOADING=ON
910 [NCF-258]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-258
912 * Fix issue of netCDF-4 parallel independent access with unlimited dimension hanging. Extending the size of an unlimited dimension in HDF5 must be a collective operation, so now an error is returned if trying to extend in independent access mode. [NCF-250]
914 [NCF-250]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-250
916 * Fixed bug with netCDF-4's inability to read HDF5 scalar numeric attributes. Also allow, in addition to zero length strings, a new NULL pointer as a string value. to improve interoperability with HDF5. This required a new CDL constant, 'NIL', that can be output from ncdump for such a string value in an HDF5 or netCDF-4 file. The ncgen utility was also modified to properly handle such NIL values for strings. [NCF-56]
918 [NCF-56]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-56
920 * Parallel-build portability fixes, particularly for OpenMPI and gcc/gfortran-4.8.x on OSX.
922 * Fix contributed by Nath Gopalaswamy to large file problem reading netCDF classic or 64-bit offset files that have a UINT32_MAX flag for large last record size of a variable that has values larger than 1 byte. This problem had previously been fixed for *writing* such data, but was only tested with an ncbyte variable.
924 * Fixed various minor documentation problems.
926 ## 4.3.0 Released 2013-04-29
928 * fsync: Changed default in autotools config file; fsync must now be
929 explicitly enabled instead of explicitly disabled. [NCF-239]
931 [NCF-239]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-239
933 * Fixed netCDF-4 bug where odometer code for libdap2 mishandled stride > 1. Bug reported by Ansley Manke. [NCF-249]
935 [NCF-249]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-249
937 * Fixed netCDF-4 bug so netCDF just ignores objects of HDF5 reference type in
938 the file, instead of rejecting the file. [NCF-29]
940 [NCF-29]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-29
942 * Fixed netCDF-4 bug with particular order of creation of dimensions,
943 coordinate variables, and subgroups resulting in two dimensions with the
944 same dimension ID. [NCF-244]
946 [NCF-244]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-244
948 * Fixed netCDF-4 bug with a multidimensional coordinate variable in a
949 subgroup getting the wrong dimension IDs for its dimensions. [NCF-247]
951 [NCF-247]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-247
953 * Fixed bug with incorrect fixed-size variable offsets in header getting
954 written when schema changed for files created by PnetCDF Thanks
955 to Wei-keng Liao for developing and contributing the fix. [NCF-234]
957 [NCF-234]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-234
959 * Fixed bug in handling old servers that do not do proper Grid to
960 Structure conversions. [NCF-232]
962 [NCF-232]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-232
964 * Replaced the oc library with oc2.0
966 * Fix bug with nc\_get\_var1\_uint() not accepting unsigned ints larger
967 than 2\*\*31. [NCF-226]
969 [NCF-226]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-226
971 * Fix to convert occurrences of '/' in DAP names to %2f. [NCF-223]
973 [NCF-223]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-223
975 * Fix bug in netCDF-4 with scalar non-coordinate variables with same name
976 as dimensions. [NCF-222]
978 [NCF-222]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-222
980 * Fix bug in which calling netCDF-4 functions in which behavior that
981 should not depend on order of calls sometimes produces the wrong
984 [NCF-217]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-217
986 * Merged in nccopy additions from Martin van Driel to support -g and -v
987 options for specifying which groups or variables are to be copied.
990 [NCF-216]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-216
992 * Merged in PnetCDF bugs fixes from Greg Sjaardema. [NCF-214]
994 [NCF-214]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-214
996 * Modify ncgen so that if the incoming file has a special attribute, then
997 it is used to establish the special property of the netcdf file, but the
998 attribute is not included as a real attribute in the file. [NCF-213].
1000 [NCF-213]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-213
1002 * Added library version info to the user-agent string so that the server
1003 logs will be more informative. [NCF-210]
1005 [NCF-210]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-210
1007 * Added work around for bad servers that sometimes sends DAP dataset with
1008 duplicate field names. [NCF-208]
1010 [NCF-208]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-208
1012 * Fixed bug with strided access for NC\_STRING type. [NCF-206]
1014 [NCF-206]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-206
1016 * Prevented adding an invalid \_FillValue attribute to a variable (with
1017 nonmatching type or multiple values), to avoid later error when any
1018 record variable is extended. [NCF-190]
1020 [NCF-190]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-190
1022 * Fix bug in which some uses of vlen within compounds causes HDF5 errors.
1025 [NCF-155]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-155
1027 * Fixed ncdump bug in display of data values of variables that use
1028 multiple unlimited dimensions. [NCF-144]
1030 [NCF-144]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-144
1032 * Fix bug in which interspersing def\_var calls with put\_var calls can
1033 lead to corrupt metadata in a netCDF file with groups and inherited
1034 dimensions. [NCF-134]
1036 [NCF-134]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-134
1038 * Building shared libraries works with DAP and netCDF4 functionality.
1041 [NCF-205]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-205
1042 [NCF-57]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-57
1044 * 32-and-64-bit builds are working under MinGW on Windows. [NCF-112]
1046 [NCF-112]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-112
1048 * Config.h for Windows compiles are included in the build. [NCF-98]
1050 [NCF-98]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-98
1052 * NetCDF-4 dependency on NC\_MAX\_DIMS has been removed. [NCF-71]
1054 [NCF-71]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-71
1056 * 64-bit DLL's are produced on Windows. [NCF-65]
1058 [NCF-65]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-65
1060 * DLL Packaging issues are resolved. [NCF-54]
1062 [NCF-54]: https://bugtracking.unidata.ucar.edu/browse/NCF-54
1064 * The CMake build system (with related ctest and cdash systems for
1065 testing) has been integrated into netCDF-C. This allows for Visual
1066 Studio-based builds in addition to gcc-based builds. This requires at
1067 least CMake version 2.8.8. This replaces/supplements the cross-compiled
1068 set of Visual-Studio compatible netCDF libraries introduced in netCDF
1071 ## 4.2.1.1 Released 2012-08-03
1073 * Patched libdap2/ncdap3.c to fix DAP performance bug remotely accessing large files (> 2GiB).
1075 * Patched ncdump/dumplib.c to properly escape special characters in CDL output from ncdump for netCDF-4 string data.
1078 ### 4.2.1 Released 2012-07-18
1080 * Added a specific NC\_MMAP mode flag to modify behavior of NC\_DISKLESS.
1082 * Changed the file protections for NC\_DISKLESS created files to 0666
1085 * Fixed ncdump to report error when an unsupported option is specified.
1088 * Fixed documentation of CDL char constants in Users Guide and ncgen man
1091 * Fixed memory leak detected by valgrind in one of the HDF5 tests.
1093 * Fixed problem with \#elif directives in posixio.c revealed by PGI
1096 ### 4.2.1-rc1 Released 2012-06-18
1098 * Ported static and shared libraries (DLL's) for both 32- and 64-bit
1099 Windows, including support for DAP remote access, with netCDF-3 and
1100 netCDF-4/HDF5 support enabled. The environment for this build is
1101 MSYS/MinGW/MinGW64, but the resulting DLLs may be used with Visual
1102 Studio. [NCF-112] [NCF-54] [NCF-57] [NCF-65]
1104 * Implemented diskless files for all netCDF formats. For nc\_create(),
1105 diskless operation performs all operations in memory and then optionally
1106 persists the results to a file on close. For nc\_open(), but only for
1107 netcdf classic files, diskless operation caches the file in-memory,
1108 performs all operations on the memory resident version and then writes
1109 all changes back to the original file on close.
1110 [NCF-110][NCF-109][NCF-5]
1112 * Added MMAP support. If diskless file support is enabled, then it is
1113 possible to enable implementation of diskless files using the operating
1114 system's MMAP facility (if available). The enabling flag is
1115 "--enable-mmap". This is most useful when using nc\_open() and when only
1116 parts of files, a single variable say, need to be read.
1118 * Added configure flag for --disable-diskless.
1120 * Added nccopy command-line options to exploit diskless files, resulting
1121 in large speedups for some operations, for example converting unlimited
1122 dimension to fixed size or rechunking files for faster access. Upgraded
1123 doxygen and man-page documentation for ncdump and nccopy utilities,
1124 including new -w option for diskless nccopy, with an example.
1126 * Modified Makefile to allow for concurrent builds and to support builds
1127 outside the source tree, e.g. 'mkdir build; cd build;
1128 SOURCE-DIR/configure' where SOURCE-DIR is the top-level source
1131 * Fixed some netCDF-4 bugs with handling strings in non-netCDF-4 HDF5
1134 * Fixed bug using nccopy to compress with shuffling that doesn't compress
1135 output variables unless they were already compressed in the input file.
1138 * Fixed bug in 64-bit offset files with large records, when last record
1139 variable requires more than 2\*\*32 bytes per record. [NCF-164]
1141 * Fix bug in which passing a NULL path to nc\_open causes failure.
1144 * Fixed ncgen bugs in parsing and handling opaque data.
1146 * Fixed ncdump bug, not escaping characters special to CDL in enumeration
1149 * Fixed bug reading netCDF int into a C longlong or writing from longlong
1150 to external int on 32-bit platforms with classic format files. The upper
1151 32 bits of the longlong were not cleared on read or used on write.
1154 * Resolved some erroneous returns of BADTYPE errors and RANGE errors due
1155 to conflating C memory types with external netCDF types when accessing
1156 classic or 64-bit offset files. [NCF-172]
1158 * Fixed bug with ncdump -t interpreting unit attribute without base time
1159 as a time unit. [NCF-175]
1161 * Changed port for testing remote access test server to increase
1162 reliability of tests.
1164 * Modified ncio mechanism to support multiple ncio packages, so that it is
1165 possible to have e.g. posixio and memio operating at the same time.
1167 * Generation of documentation is disabled by default. Use --enable-doxygen
1168 to generate. [NCF-168]
1170 * Added description of configure flags to installation guide.
1172 * Clarified documentation of arguments to nc**open() and nc**create() and
1173 their default values.
1175 * Fixed doxygen installation guide source file to preserve line breaks in
1176 code and scripts. [NCF-174]
1178 * Cleaned up a bunch of lint issues (unused variables, etc.) and some
1179 similar problems reported by clang static analysis.
1181 * Updated and fixed pkg-config source file netcdf.pc.in to work with
1182 separated netCDF language-specific packages. Also fixed nc-config to
1183 call nf-config, ncxx-config, and ncxx4-config for for backward
1184 compatibility with use of nc-config in current Makefiles. [NCF-165]
1189 * Completely rebuilt the DAP constraint handling. This primarily affects
1190 users who specify a DAP constraint as part of their URL. [NCF-120]
1192 * Fixed cause of slow nccopy performance on file systems with many records
1193 and large disk block size or many record variables, by accessing data a
1194 record at a time instead of a variable at a time. [NCF-142]
1196 * Performance improvement to DAP code to support fetching partial
1197 variables into the cache; especially important when using nc\_get\_var()
1198 API. A partial variable is one that has ranges attached to the
1199 projection variables (e.g. x[1:10][20:21]) [NCF-157]
1201 * Separate the Fortran and C++ libraries and release the C library and
1202 ncdump/ncgen/nccopy without Fortran or C++. [NCF-24]
1204 * Documentation mostly migrated to Doxygen, from Texinfo. [NCF-26]
1206 * Properly convert vara start/count parameters to DAP [NCF-105][NCF-106]
1208 * Fixed major wasted space from previous default variable chunk sizes
1211 * Fixed bug in nccopy, in which compression and chunking options were
1212 ignored for netCDF-4 input files. [NCF-79]
1214 * Fixed bug in ncgen in which large variables (more than 2**18 elements)
1215 duplicates the first 2**18 values into subsequent chunks of data
1218 * Applied Greg Sjaardema's nccopy bug fix, not compressing output
1219 variables f they were not already using compression on the input file
1220 when shuffle specified. [NCF-162]
1222 * Fixed problem when a URL is provided that contains only a host name.
1225 * Fixed behavior of ncgen flags so that -o => -lb and, in the absence of
1226 any other markers, make the default be -k1 [NCF-158]
1228 * Created a text INSTALL file for netCDF-4.2 release. [NCF-161]
1230 * Fixed bug in ncgen for vlen arrays as fields of compound types where
1231 datalists for those types was improperly interpreted [NCF-145] (but see
1234 * Improve use of chunk cache in nccopy utility, making it practical for
1235 rechunking large files. [NCF-85]
1237 * Fixed nccopy bug copying a netCDF-4 file with a chunksize for an
1238 unlimited dimension that is larger than the associated dimension size.
1241 * Fixed nccopy bug when rechunking a netCDF-4 file with a chunkspec option
1242 that doesn't explicitly specify all dimensions. [NCF-140]
1244 * Fixed bug in netCDF-4 files with non-coordinate variable with the same
1245 name as a dimension. [NCF-141]
1247 * Incorporated Wei Huang's fix for bug where netCDF-4 sometimes skips over
1248 too many values before adding fill values to an in-memory buffer.
1251 * Fixed ncgen bug with netCDF-4 variable-length constants (H/T to Lynton
1254 * Incorporated Peter Cao's performance fixes using HDF5 link iterator for
1255 any group with many variables or types. [NCF-148]
1257 * Incorporated Constantine Khroulev's bug fix for invalid usage of
1258 MPI\_Comm\_f2c in nc\_create\_par. [NCF-135]
1260 * Fixed turning off fill values in HDF5 layers when NOFILL mode is set in
1261 netCDF-4 API (thanks to Karen Schuchardt). [NCF-151]
1263 * Fixed bug with scalar coordinate variables in netCDF-4 files, causing
1264 failure with --enable-extra-tests [NCF-149]
1266 * Cleaned up the definition and use of nulldup. [NCF-92][NCF-93][NCF-94]
1268 * Fixed various '\#include' bugs. [NCF-91][NCF-96][NCF-127]
1270 * v2 API functions modified to properly call the external API instead of
1271 directly calling the netcdf-3 functions. [NCF-100]
1273 * Fixed problem with 64-bit offset format where writing more than 2\*\*31
1274 records resulted in erroneous NC\_EINVALCOORDS error. [NCF-101]
1276 * Restored original functionality of ncgen so that a call with no flags,
1277 only does the syntax check. [NCF-104]
1279 * Corrected misc. test bugs [NCF-107]
1281 * Modified ncdump to properly output various new types (ubyte, ushort,
1282 uint, int64, and uint64). [NCF-111]
1284 * Fixed incorrect link flag for szip in configure.ac [NCF-116]
1286 * ncdump -t now properly parses ISO "T" separator in date-time strings.
1289 * ncdump -t "human time" functionality now available for attributes and
1290 bounds variables [NCF-70]
1292 * In ncdump, add -g option to support selection of groups for which data
1293 is displayed. [NCF-11]
1295 * Now supports bluefire platform [NCF-52]
1297 * ncdump now properly displays values of attributes of type NC\_USHORT as
1298 signed shorts [NCF-82]
1300 * Rename some code files so that there are no duplicate filenames.
1303 * Demonstration of netCDF-4 Performance Improvement with KNMI Data
1306 * Dimension size in classic model netCDF-4 files now allows larger sizes
1307 than allowed for 64-bit offset classic files. [NCF-117]
1309 * ncdump now reports correct error message when "-x" option specifying
1310 NcML output is used on netCDF-4 enhanced model input. [NCF-129]
1312 * Fixed bug causing infinite loop in ncdump -c of netCDF-4 file with
1313 subgroup with variables using inherited dimensions. [NCF-136]
1317 * Replace use of --with-hdf5= and other such configure options that
1318 violate conventions and causes build problems. Set environment variables
1319 CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH instead, before running
1320 configure script. [NCF-20]
1322 * Detect from configure script when szlib is needed [NCF-21]
1324 * Fix bug that can silently zero out portions of a file when writing data
1325 in nofill mode beyond the end of a file, crossing disk-block boundaries
1326 with region to be written while in-memory buffer is in a specific state.
1327 This bug was observed disabling fill mode using Lustre (or other large
1328 blksize file system) and writing data slices in reverse order on disk.
1331 * Fix bug that prevents netCDF-4/HDF5 files created with netCDF-4.1.2 from
1332 being read by earlier versions of netCDF or HDF5 versions before 1.8.7.
1335 * Fix bug in configure that did not make the search for the xdr library
1336 depend on --enable-dap. [NCF-41]
1338 * Fix ncgen bug that did not use the value of a \_Format attribute in the
1339 input CDL file to determine the kind of output file created, when not
1340 specified by the -k command-line flag. [NCF-42]
1342 * Fix ncgen bug, not properly handling unsigned longlong parsing. [NCF-43]
1344 * Fix DAP client code to suppress variables with names such as "x.y",
1345 which DAP protocol interprets as variable "y" inside container "x". Such
1346 variables will be invisible when accessed through DAP client. [NCF-47]
1348 * Define uint type for unsigned integer, if not otherwise available.
1349 Symptom was compile error involving uint in putget.c. [NCF-49]
1351 * Fix username+password handling in the DAP client code. [NCF-50]
1353 * Add test for handling parallel I/O problem from f77 when user forgets to
1354 turn on one of the two MPI flags. [NCF-60]
1356 * Resolved "make check" problems when ifort compiler. Some "make install"
1357 problems remain when using MPI and shared libraries. [NCF-61]
1359 * Fix problem with f90\_def\_var not always handle deflate setting when
1360 compiler was ifort. [NCF-67]
1362 * Check that either MPIIO or MPIPOSIX flag is set when parallel create or
1363 open is called. Also fix examples that didn't set at least one of these
1366 * Improve documentation on handling client-side certificates [NCF-48]
1368 * Document that array arguments, except in varm functions, must point to
1369 contiguous blocks of memory. [NCF-69]
1371 * Get netCDF-4 tests working for DLLs generated with mingw. [NCF-6]
1373 * Make changes necessary for upgrading to HDF5 1.8.7 [NCF-66]
1375 ### 4.1.3-rc1 2011-05-06
1377 * Stop looking for xdr if --disable-dap is used.
1379 * Don't try to run (some) fortran configure tests on machines with no
1382 * Allow nccopy to rechunk with chunksizes larger than current dimension
1385 * Initial implementation of CDMREMOTE is complete; needs comprehensive
1388 ### 4.1.3-beta1 2011-04-29
1390 * Fixed szlib not linking bug.
1392 * Fixed dreaded "nofill bug", lurking in netCDF classic since at least
1393 1999. Writing more than a disk block's worth of data that crossed disk
1394 block boundaries more than a disk block beyond the end of file in nofill
1395 mode could zero out recently written earlier data that hadn't yet been
1398 * Changed setting for H5Pset\_libver\_bounds to ensure that all netCDF-4
1399 files can be read by HDF5 1.8.x.
1401 * Merged libncdap3 and libncdap4 into new libdap2 library. The suffix dap2
1402 now refers to the dap protocol. This is in prep for adding dap4 protocol
1405 * Took out --with-hdf5 and related options due to high cost of maintaining
1406 this non-standard way of finding libraries.
1410 * Changes in build system to support building dlls on cygwin/mingw32.
1412 * Changes to fix portability problems and get things running on all test
1415 * Some minor documentation fixes.
1417 * Fixed opendap performance bug for nc\_get\_vars; required adding
1418 nc\_get\_var{s,m} to the dispatch table.
1420 * Now check for libz in configure.ac.
1422 * Fixed some bugs and some performance problems with default chunksizes.
1424 ### 4.1.2-beta2 2011-01-11
1426 * Add "-c" option to nccopy to specify chunk sizes used in output in terms
1427 of list of dimension names.
1429 * Rewrite netCDF-4 attribute put code for a large speedup when writing
1432 * Fix nc-config --libs when static dependent libraries are not installed
1433 in the same directory as netCDF libraries (thanks to Jeff Whitaker).
1435 * Build shared libraries by default, requiring separate Fortran library.
1436 Static libraries now built only with --disable-shared.
1438 * Refactor of HDF5 file metadata scan for large speedup in opening files,
1439 especially large files.
1441 * Complete rewrite of the handling of character datalist constants. The
1442 heuristics are documented in ncgen.1.
1444 * Eliminate use of NC\_MAX\_DIMS and NC\_MAX\_VARS in ncdump and nccopy,
1445 allocating memory as needed and reducing their memory footprint.
1447 * Add documentation for new nc\_inq\_path() function.
1449 * Use hashing to speedup lookups by name for files with lots of dimensions
1450 and variables (thanks to Greg Sjaardema).
1452 * Add options to nccopy to support uniform compression of variables in
1453 output, shuffling, and fixing unlimited dimensions. Documented in
1454 nccopy.1 man page and User's Guide.
1456 ### 4.1.2-beta1 2010-07-09
1458 * Fix "ncdump -c" bug identifying coordinate variables in groups.
1460 * Fix bug in libsrc/posixio.c when providing sizehint larger than default,
1461 which then doesn't get used (thanks to Harald Anlauf).
1463 * Fix netCDF-4 bug caused when doing enddef/redef and then defining
1464 coordinate variable out of order.
1466 * Fixed bug in man4 directory automake file which caused documentation to
1467 be rebuilt after make clean.
1469 * Turned off HDF5 caching when parallel I/O is in use because of its
1472 * Refactoring of netCDF code with dispatch layer to decide whether to call
1473 netCDF classic, netCDF-4, or opendap version of a function.
1475 * Refactoring of netCDF-4 memory internals to reduce memory use and end
1476 dependence on NC\_MAX\_DIMS and NC\_MAX\_NAME.
1478 * Modified constraint parser to be more compatible with a java version of
1481 * Modified ncgen to utilize iterators internally; should be no user
1484 * Fixed two large-file bugs with using classic format or 64-bit offset
1485 format and accessing multidimensional variables with more than 2\*\*32
1490 * Fixed various build issues.
1492 * Fixed various memory bugs.
1494 * Fixed bug for netCDF-4 files with dimensions and coord vars written in
1495 different orders, with data writes interspersed.
1497 * Added test for HDF5-1.8.4 bug.
1499 * Added new C++ API from Lynton Appel.
1503 * Much better memory leak checking with valgrind.
1505 * Added per-variable chunk cache control for better performance. Use
1506 nc\_set\_var\_chunk\_cache / nf\_set\_var\_chunk\_cache /
1507 nf90\_set\_var\_chunk\_cache to set the per-variable cache.
1509 * Automatically set per-variable chunk cache when opening a file, or
1510 creating a variable, so that the cache is big enough for more than one
1511 chunk. (Can be overridden by user). Settings may be changed with
1512 configure options --max-default-chunk-size and
1513 --default-chunks-in-cache.
1515 * Better default chunks size. Now chunks are sized to fit inside the
1516 DEFAULT\_CHUNK\_SIZE (settable at configure time with
1517 --with-default-chunk-size= option.)
1519 * Added nccopy utility for converting among netCDF format variants or to
1520 copy data from DAP servers to netCDF files.
1522 * The oc library has been modified to allow the occurrence of alias
1523 definitions in the DAS, but they will be ignored.
1525 * The old ncgen has been moved to ncgen3 and ncgen is now the new ncgen4.
1527 * Modified --enable-remote-tests to be on by default.
1529 * Fixed the nc\_get\_varm code as applied to DAP data sources.
1531 * Added tests for nc-config.
1533 * Many documentation fixes.
1535 * Added capability to use the PnetCDF library to
1536 perform parallel I/O on classic and 32-bit offset files. Use the
1537 NC\_PNETCDF mode flag to get parallel I/O for non-netcdf-4 files.
1539 * Added libcf library to netCDF distribution. Turn it on with configure
1540 option --with-libcf.
1542 * Added capability to read HDF4 files created with the SD (Scientific
1545 * The DAP support was revised to closely mimic the original libnc-dap
1548 * Significantly revised the data handling mechanism in ncgen4 to more
1549 closely mimic the output from the original ncgen.
1551 * Added prototype NcML output capability to ncgen4. It is specified by the
1554 * Added capability to read HDF5 files without dimension scales. This will
1555 allow most existing HDF5 datasets to be read by netCDF-4.
1557 * Fixed bug with endianness of default fill values for integer types when
1558 variables are created with a non-native endianness and use the default
1561 * Significant refactoring of HDF5 type handling to improve performance and
1562 handle complicated nesting of types in cross-platform cases.
1564 * Added UDUNITS2 to the distribution. Use --with-udunits to build udunits
1567 * Made changes suggested by HDF5 team to relax creation-order requirement
1568 (for read-only cases) which allows HDF5 1.6.x files to be retrofitted
1569 with dimension scales, and be readable to netCDF-4.
1571 * Handle duplicate type names within different groups in ncdump. Fix group
1572 path handling in absolute and relative variable names for "-v" option.
1574 * Added nc-config shell script to help users build netCDF programs without
1575 having to figure out all the compiler options they will need.
1577 * Fixed ncdump -s bug with displaying special attributes for classic and
1578 64-bit offset files.
1580 * For writers, nc\_sync() now calls fsync() to flush data to disk sooner.
1582 * The nc\_inq\_type() function now works for primitive types.
1586 * Added optional arguments to F90 API to nf90\_open/create,
1587 nf90\_create\_var, and nf90\_inquire\_variable so that all netCDF-4
1588 settings may be accomplished with optional arguments, instead of
1589 separate function calls.
1591 * Added control of HDF5 chunk cache to allow for user performance tuning.
1593 * Added parallel example program in F90.
1595 * Changed default chunking to better handle very large variables.
1597 * Made contiguous the default for fixed size data sets with no filters.
1599 * Fixed bug in nc\_inq\_ncid; now it returns NC\_ENOGRP if the named group
1602 * Fixed man pages for C and F77 so that netCDF-4 builds will result in man
1603 pages that document new netCDF-4 functions.
1605 * Added OPeNDAP support based on a new C-only implementation. This is
1606 enabled using --enable-dap option and requires libcurl. The configure
1607 script will attempt to locate libcurl, but if it fails, then its
1608 location must be specified by the --with-curl option.
1610 ### 4.0.1-beta2 2008-12-26
1612 * Changed chunksizes to size\_t from int.
1614 * Fixed fill value problem from F77 API.
1616 * Fixed problems in netcdf-4 files with multi-dimensional coordinate
1619 * Fixed ncgen to properly handle CDL input that uses Windows line endings
1620 ("\r\n"), instead of getting a syntax error.
1622 * Added "-s" option to ncdump to display performance characteristics of
1623 netCDF-4 files as special virtual attributes, such as \_Chunking,
1624 \_DeflateLevel, \_Format, and \_Endianness.
1626 * Added "-t" option to ncdump to display times in human readable form as
1627 strings. Added code to interpret "calendar" attribute according to CF
1628 conventions, if present, in displaying human-readable times.
1630 * Added experimental version of ncgen4 capable of generating netcdf-4 data
1631 files and C code for creating them. In addition, it supports the special
1632 attributes \_Format, etc.
1634 * 4.0.1-beta1 2008-10-16
1636 * Fixed Fortran 90 int64 problems.
1638 * Rewrote HDF5 read/write code in accordance with performance advice from
1641 * Fixed memory leaks in gets/puts of HDF5 data.
1643 * Fixed some broken tests for parallel I/O (i.e. MPI) builds.
1645 * Fixed some cross-compile problems.
1647 * Rewrote code which placed bogus errors on the HDF5 error stack, trying
1648 to open non-existent attributes and variables. Now no HDF5 errors are
1651 * Removed man subdirectory. Now man4 subdirectory is used for all builds.
1653 * Changed build so that users with access to parallel make can use it.
1655 * Added experimental support for accessing data through OPeNDAP servers
1656 using the DAP protocol (use --enable-opendap to build it).
1658 * Fixed ncdump bugs with array field members of compound type variables.
1659 Fixed ncdump bug of assuming default fill value for data of type
1664 * Introduced the use of HDF5 as a storage layer, which allows use of
1665 groups, user-defined types, multiple unlimited dimensions, compression,
1666 data chunking, parallel I/O, and other features. See the netCDF Users
1667 Guide for more information.
1671 * In ncdump and ncgen, added CDL support for UTF-8 encoding of characters
1672 in names and for escaped special chars in names. Made sure UTF-8 names
1673 are normalized using NFC rules before storing or comparing.
1675 * Handle IEEE NaNs and infinities in a platform-independent way in ncdump
1678 * Added support for ARM representation of doubles, (thanks to Warren
1681 * Fixed bug in C++ API creating 64-bit offset files. (See
1682 https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/known_problems.html#cxx_64-bit).
1684 * Fixed bug for variables larger than 4 GB. (See
1685 https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/known_problems.html#large_vars_362).
1687 * Changed the configure.ac to build either 3.6.x or 4.x build from the
1690 * Build now checks gfortran version and handles it cleanly, also Portland
1691 Group in Intel fortran, with various configurations.
1693 * A Fortran netcdf.inc file is now created at build time, based on the
1694 setting of --disable-v2.
1696 * Documentation has been fixed in several places.
1698 * Upgraded to automake 1.10, autoconf 2.62, and libtool 2.2.2.
1700 * Includes missing Windows Visual Studio build files.
1702 * Fixed missing include of config.h in a C++ test program.
1704 * Fixed maintainer-clean in man directory.
1706 * Fixed --enable-c-only and make check.
1708 * Fixed behavior when opening a zero-length file.
1710 * Many portability enhancements to build cleanly on various platforms.
1712 * Turned on some old test programs which were not being used in the build.
1718 ### 3.6.2 beta6 2007-01-20
1720 * Fine tuning of build system to properly handle cygwin, Mingw, and
1721 strange configuration issues.
1723 * Automake 1.10 has a problem with running our tests on MinGW, so I'm
1724 switching back to automake 1.9.6 for this release.
1726 ### 3.6.2 beta5 2006-12-30
1728 * Now netCDF configuration uses autoconf 2.61, and automake 1.10. (Thanks
1729 to Ralf Wildenhues for the patches, and all the autotools help in
1732 * Final major revision of netCDF tutorial before the 3.6.2 release.
1734 * Now netCDF builds under MinGW, producing a windows DLL with the C and
1735 F77 APIs. Use the --enable-shared --enable-dll --disable-cxx
1736 --disable-f90 flags to configure. (C++ and F90 have never been built as
1737 windows DLLs, but might be in a future release if there is user
1738 interest). This has all been documented in the netCDF Porting and
1741 * Now extreme numbers (i.e. those close to the limits of their type) can
1742 be turned off in nc\_test/nf\_test, with --disable-extreme-numbers. It
1743 is turned off automatically for Solaris i386 systems.
1745 * Added --enable-c-only option to configure. This causes only the core
1746 netCDF-3 C library to be built. It's the same as --disable-f77
1747 --disable-cxx --disable-v2 --disable-utilities.
1749 * Added --disable-utilities to turn off building and testing of
1752 * Fix a long-standing bug in nf90\_get\_att\_text() pointed out by Ryo
1753 Furue, to make sure resulting string is blank-padded on return. This is
1754 fixed in the Fortran-90 interface, but is impractical to fix in the
1755 Fortran-77 interface implemented via cfortran.h.
1757 * Now large file tests are run if --enable-large-file-tests is used in the
1760 * For Cray users, the ffio module is used if the --enable-ffio option is
1761 passed to configure.
1763 * Unrolled loops in byte-swapping code used on little-endian platforms to
1764 reduce loop overhead. This optimization resulted in a 22% speedup for
1765 some applications accessing floats or ints (e.g. NCO utilities ncap and
1766 ncbo) and a smaller speedup for shorts or doubles.
1768 * Added "-k" option to ncdump and ncgen, for identifying and specifying
1769 the kind of netCDF file, one of "classic", "64-bit-offset", "hdf5", or
1770 "hdf5-nc3". Removed output of kind of netCDF file in CDL comment
1773 * Fixed bug of ncdump seg-faulting if invoked incorrectly with option like
1774 "-c" or "-h" but no file name.
1776 ### 3.6.2 beta4 2006-08-15
1778 * Changed F77/F90 man pages from netcdf.3f and netcdf.3f90 to
1779 netcdf\_f77.3 and netcdf\_f90.3. Also fixed broken install of man pages.
1781 * Changed configure script so that "-g -O2" is no longer set as CFLAGS,
1782 CXXFLAGS, and FFLAGS by default if a GNU compiler is being used. Now
1785 * Changed configure script so that fortran flag is set in config.h.
1787 * Updated Installation and Porting Guide, C++ Interface Guide, F77 and F90
1790 * Build with static libraries by default.
1792 * Added configure option --enable-separate-fortran, which causes the
1793 fortran library to be built separately. This is turned on automatically
1794 for shared libraries.
1796 * Improved clarity of error messages.
1798 * Changed configuration to get cygwin DLL and mingw DLL builds working,
1799 for the C library only (i.e. no F77, F90, or C++ APIs).
1801 * Changed type of ncbyte in C++ interface from unsigned char to signed
1802 char, for consistency with C interface. The C++ documentation warned
1803 this change would eventually occur.
1805 * Changed the C++ interface to use only the netCDF-3 C interface instead
1806 of the older netCDF-2 C interface. This has the added benefit that
1807 on-the-fly numeric conversions are now supported using get methods, for
1808 example you can get data of any type as double. When using --disable-v2
1809 flag to configure, the C++ interface can now be built and installed.
1811 ### 3.6.2 beta3 2006-05-24
1813 * Changed to use default prefix of /usr/local instead of package-based
1814 prefix of previous releases of netCDF. Use the --prefix argument to the
1815 configure script to override the default.
1817 * Made separate fortran library file, instead of appending fortran library
1818 functions to the C library file, if --enable-separate-fortran is used
1819 during configure (it's turned on automatically if --enable-shared is
1820 used). If uses, the fortran API users must link to *both* the C library
1821 and the new fortran library, like this: -lnetcdff -lnetcdf
1823 * Added netCDF examples in C, C++, F77, F90, and CDL. See the examples
1826 * Added the NetCDF Tutorial.
1828 * Minor fixes to some of the netCDF documentation.
1830 * Made it possible to build without V2 API using --disable-v2 from
1833 * Switched to new build system, with automake and libtool. Now shared
1834 libraries are built (as well as static ones) on platforms which support
1835 it. For more information about shared libraries, see
1836 https://docs.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf-c/current/faq.html#shared_intro
1838 * Fixed ncdump crash that happened when no arguments were used.
1840 * Fixed for building with gfortran 4.1.0.
1842 * Important fix for machines whose SIZEOF\_SIZE\_T != SIZEOF\_LONG, such
1843 as NEC-SX, thanks to Stephen Leak.
1845 * Fixed C++ on AIX platform.
1847 * Fixed 64-bit builds on AIX platform.
1849 * Removed bad assertion that could be triggered in rare cases when reading
1852 * Added comments in v1hpg.c to clarify purpose of each internal function.
1854 * Make sure filesize is determined in nc\_close() *after* buffers get
1857 * Fix long-standing problem resulting in files up to 3 bytes longer than
1858 necessary if there is exactly one record variable of type byte, char, or
1859 short and if the number of values per record for that variable is not
1860 divisible by 4 (or 2 in the case of short). Now the filesize determined
1861 from header info by NC\_calcsize should be correct in all cases.
1865 * Updated installation manual for 3.6.1.
1867 * Changed installation to try to provide correct compiler flags for
1868 compiling in 64-bit mode on Sun, Irix, AIX, and HPUX. (HPUX doesn't work
1869 for me, however). Now run configure with --enable-64bit to get a 64 bit
1872 * Fixed long-standing bug that would cause small netCDF files to be padded
1873 on the end with zero bytes to 4096 bytes when they were opened and
1874 changed. Now small files should stay small after you change a value.
1876 * Fixed bug in assertions in putget.c that would only be noticed if you
1877 change the manifest constant NC\_MAX\_DIMS in netcdf.h to be different
1878 from NC\_MAX\_VAR\_DIMS.
1880 * Moved test ftest.F from fortran to nf\_test directory, and fixed bug in
1881 ftest.F which caused it to return 0 even if tests failed (no tests were
1882 failing, however). Also renamed some test output files to make things a
1885 * If open for writing, pad with up to 3 extra zero bytes before close to
1886 the correct canonical length, calculated from the header. Previously
1887 files could be short due to not padding when writing in NOFILL mode.
1889 * Doubled arbitrary limits on number of dimensions, variables, attributes,
1890 and length of names.
1892 * Change name of nc\_get\_format() to nc\_inq\_format(). Add analogous
1893 interfaces for nf\_inq\_format(), nf90\_inquire(), and
1894 NcFile::get\_format() to f77, f90, and C++ interfaces. Document new
1895 function in texinfo files. Add minimal test to nc\_test, nf\_test.
1897 ### 3.6.1-beta3 2005-02-17
1899 * Added function nc\_get\_format(int ncid, int\* formatp) that returns
1900 either NC\_FORMAT\_CLASSIC or NC\_FORMAT\_64BIT for a CDF1 or CDF2 file,
1903 * Added test to nc\_test that detects whether format version was changed
1904 after a file is reopened and define mode is entered.
1906 * Correctly configure for Intel ifort Fortran compiler on Linux.
1908 ### 3.6.0-p1 2005-02-18
1910 * Fixed bug that changes CDF2 files to CDF1 files if CDF2 file is reopened
1911 for write access and either an attribute is changed or define mode is
1914 ### 3.6.1-beta2 2005-1-6
1916 * Fixed absoft compile problem. Maybe.
1918 ### 3.6.1-beta1 2005-1-3
1920 * Fixed Cygwin C++ problem.
1922 * Fixed large file problem in MS Visual C++.NET environment.
1924 * More information in installation and porting guide.
1928 * Added texinfo source for the documentation.
1930 * Added large file tests to Windows directory in distribution.
1932 * Modified win32 visual studio project files so that m4 is no longer
1933 required to build netcdf under visual studio.
1935 * Modified rules.make to use install instead of cp, fixing install problem
1938 * Modified configure/install stuff to support HP-UX.
1940 * Modified configure/install stuff to support G95.
1942 * In the f90 interface, applied Arnaud Desitter's fixes to correct
1943 mismatches between scalar and array arguments, eliminating (legitimate)
1944 complaints by the NAGWare f95 compiler. Also fixed bugs introduced in
1945 3.6.0-beta5 in the mapped array interfaces.
1947 ### 3.6.0-beta6 2004-10-05
1949 * Fixed AIX 64-bit/largefile install problems.
1951 * Removed FAQ section from netcdf.texi User's Guide, in deference to
1952 online version that can be kept up to date more easily.
1954 ### 3.6.0-beta5 2004-10-04
1956 * Fixed assertion violation on 64-bit platforms when size of last fixed
1957 size variable exceeds 2\^32 - 1.
1959 * Removed another restriction on file size by making record size (derived
1960 from other sizes, not part of the format) an off\_t instead of a
1961 size\_t, when an off\_t is larger than a size\_t. This permits records
1962 to be *much* larger in either classic format or 64-bit-offset format.
1964 * Incorporated patch from Mathis Rosenhauer to improve performance of
1965 Fortran 90 interface for calls to nf90\_put\_var\_TYPE(),
1966 nf90\_get\_var\_TYPE(), nf90\_put\_vara\_TYPE(), and
1967 nf90\_get\_vara\_TYPE() functions by not emulating them with the
1968 corresponding nf90\_put\_varm\_TYPE() and nf90\_get\_varm\_TYPE() calls.
1970 * Added tests for invalid offsets in classic format when defining multiple
1973 * Improved installation ease. Have configure script use Large File Support
1974 as a default, if available.
1976 * Add "extra\_test" as a target for testing Large File Support.
1978 ### 3.6.0-beta3 2004-08-24
1980 * Upgraded to recent autoconf, changed configure to (hopefully) improve
1981 installation. Also added macros to deal with large file systems.
1983 * Added nf\_set\_default\_format to Fortran interface.
1985 * Added testing to the set\_default\_format functions to nc\_test and
1988 * Added documentation to the man page for set\_default\_format functions.
1990 * Added two new error return codes to C, f77, and f90 interfaces for
1991 invalid dimension size and for bad variable size. Made test for max
1992 dimension size depend on whether 64-bit offsets used. Fixed bug with
1993 dimension sizes between 2\^31 and 2\^32 (for byte variables).
1995 * Fixed ncdump to properly print dimensions larger than 2\^31.
1997 * Fixed ncgen to properly handle dimensions between 2\^31 and 2\^32.
2001 * Added -v2 (version 2 format with 64-bit offsets) option to
2002 ncgen, to specify that generated files or generated C/Fortran code
2003 should create 64-bit offset files. Also added -x option to ncgen to
2004 specify use of no-fill mode for fast creation of large files.
2006 * Added function to set default create mode to C interface
2007 (nc\_set\_default\_create).
2009 * Added win32 directory, with NET subdirectory to hold .NET port of
2010 netCDF. To use, open netcdf.sln with Visual Studio, and do a clean and
2011 then a build of either the debug or release builds. Tests will be run as
2012 part of the build process. VC++ with managed extensions is required
2015 * Added windows installer files to build windows binary installs.
2019 * By incorporating Greg Sjaardema's patch, added support for
2020 64-bit offset files, which remove many of the restrictions relating to
2021 very large files (i.e. larger than 2 GB.) This introduces a new data
2022 format for the first time since the original netCDF format was
2023 introduced. Files in this new 64-bit offset format can't be read by
2024 earlier versions of netCDF. Users should continue to use the netCDF
2025 classic format unless they need to create very large files.
2027 * The test suite, nc\_test, will now be run twice, once for netCDF classic
2028 format testing, and once for 64-bit offset format testing.
2030 * The implementation of the Fortran-77 interface has been adapted to
2031 version 4.3 of Burkhard Burow's "cfortran.h".
2035 * Added NEC SX specific optimization for NFILL tunable
2036 parameter in libsrc/putget.c
2038 Added support for the ifc Fortran-90 compiler creating files "netcdf.d"
2039 and "typesizes.d" (instead of ".mod" files).
2041 * Fixed access to iargc and getarg functions from Fortran-90 for NAG f90
2042 compiler, contributed by Harald Anlauf.
2046 * Updated INSTALL.html for Mac OS X (Darwin).
2048 * Made the installation of the netCDF Fortran-90 module file more robust
2049 regarding the name of the file.
2051 * Added support for eight-byte integers in Fortran90 interface.
2053 * Increased advisory limits in C netcdf.h and Fortran netcdf.inc for
2054 maximum number of dimensions, variables, and attributes.
2056 * Changed C++ declarations "friend NcFile" to "friend class NcFile" in
2057 cxx/netcdfcpp.h to conform to standard.
2059 * Added Dan Schmitt's backward compatible extension to the C++ record
2060 interface to work with arbitrary dimension slices.
2062 * Added C++ documentation note that caller is responsible for deleting
2063 pointer returned by Variable::values() method when no longer needed.
2065 * Made C++ interface more standard; the result may not compile on some old
2066 pre-standard C++ compilers.
2068 * Fixed bug in ncgen when parsing values of a multidimensional char
2069 variable that resulted in failure to pad a value with nulls on IRIX.
2071 * Fixed ncdump bug adding extra quote to char variable data when using -fc
2074 * Fixed so compiling with -DNO\_NETCDF\_2 will work for building without
2075 backward-compatibility netCDF-2 interfaces.
2077 * Eliminated use of ftruncate(), because it fails on FAT32 file systems
2080 * Initialized a pointer in putget.m4 (used to generate putget.c) that was
2081 involved in uninitialized memory references when nc\_test is run under
2082 Purify. Two users had reported seeing crashes resulting from this
2083 problem in their applications.
2085 * Reverted pointer initializations in putget.m4, after testing revealed
2086 these caused a performance problem, resulting in many extra calls to
2087 px\_pgin and px\_pgout when running nc\_test.
2089 * Added checking of size of "dimids" vector in function
2090 nf90\_inquire\_variable(...) and error-returning if it isn't
2091 sufficiently capacious.
2093 * Added variable index to ncvarget() and ncattinq() error messages and
2094 attribute name to ncattinq() error message.
2096 * Tweaked configure script to work with recent C++ compilers.
2098 * Fixed a memory leak in C++ interface, making sure NcVar::cur\_rec[] gets
2099 deleted in NcVar destructor.
2101 * Reimplemented nc\_sync() fix of version 3.5.0 to eliminate performance
2102 penalty when synchronization is unnecessary.
2104 * Changed order of targets in Makefile to build Fortran interface last, as
2105 a workaround for problem with make on AIX platforms.
2109 * Added Fortran 90 interface.
2111 * Changed C macro TIMELEN in file cxx/nctst.cpp to TIMESTRINGLEN to avoid
2112 clash with macro defined on AIX systems in /usr/include/time.h.
2114 * Fixed miswriting of netCDF header when exiting define mode. Because the
2115 header was always written correctly later, this was only a problem if
2116 there was another reader of the netCDF file.
2118 * Fixed explicit synchronizing between netCDF writer and readers via the
2119 nc\_sync(), nf\_sync(), and ncsync() functions.
2121 * Fixed a number of bugs related to attempts to support shrinking the
2122 header in netCDF files when attributes are rewritten or deleted. Also
2123 fixed the problem that nc\_\_endef() did not work as intended in
2124 reserving extra space in the file header, since the extra space would be
2125 compacted again on calling nc\_close().
2127 * Fixed the "redef bug" that occurred when nc\_enddef() or nf\_enddef() is
2128 called after nc\_redef() or nf\_redef(), the file is growing such that
2129 the new beginning of a record variable is in the next "chunk", and the
2130 size of at least one record variable exceeds the chunk size (see
2131 netcdf.3 man page for a description of this tuning parameter and how to
2132 set it). This bug resulted in corruption of some values in other
2133 variables than the one being added.
2135 * The "\*\*" tuning functions for the Fortran interface, nf\*\*create,
2136 nf\*\*open, and nf\*\*enddef, are now documented in the Fortran interface
2139 * Add an 'uninstall' target to all the Makefiles. Dave Glowacki
2140 <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU> 199810011851.MAA27335
2142 * Added support for multiprocessing on Cray T3E. Hooks added by Glenn, but
2143 the majority of the work was done at NERSC. Also includes changes to
2144 ffio option specification. Patch rollup provided by R. K. Owen
2145 <rkowen@Nersc.GOV>. The following functions are added to the public
2146 interface. nc**create\_mp() nc**open\_mp() nc\_set\_base\_pe()
2149 * Fixed makefile URL for Win32 systems in INSTALL file.
2151 * Made test for UNICOS system in the configure script case independent.
2153 * Ported to the following systems: AIX 4.3 (both /bin/xlc and
2154 /usr/vac/bin/xlc compilers) IRIX 6.5 IRIX64 6.5
2156 * Changed the extension of C++ files from ".cc" to ".cpp". Renamed the C++
2157 interface header file "netcdfcpp.h" instead of "netcdf.hh", changing
2158 "netcdf.hh" to include "netcdfcpp.h" for backward compatibility.
2160 * Treat "FreeBSD" systems the same as "BSD/OS" system w.r.t. Fortran and
2163 * Corrected manual pages: corrected spelling of "enddef" (was "endef") and
2164 ensured that the words "index" and "format" will be correctly printed.
2166 * Updated support for Fortran-calling-C interface by updating
2167 "fortran/cfortran.h" from version 3.9 to version 4.1. This new version
2168 supports the Portland Group Fortran compiler (C macro "pgiFortran") and
2169 the Absoft Pro Fortran compiler (C macro "AbsoftProFortran").
2171 * Corrected use of non-integral-constant-expression in specifying size of
2172 temporary arrays in file "libsrc/ncx\_cray.c".
2174 * Added Compaq Alpha Linux workstation example to INSTALL file.
2176 * Ported cfortran.h to Cygnus GNU Win32 C compiler (gcc for Windows).
2178 * Fixed bug in ncdump using same CDL header name when called with multiple
2181 * Added new NULL data type NC\_NAT (Not A Type) to facilitate checking
2182 whether a variable object has had its type defined yet, for example when
2183 working with packed values.
2185 * Fixed use of compile-time macro NO\_NETCDF\_2 so it really doesn't
2186 include old netCDF-2 interfaces, as intended.
2188 * Ported to MacOS X Public Beta (Darwin 1.2/PowerPC).
2190 * Fixed C++ friend declarations to conform to C++ standard.
2192 * Changed INSTALL file to INSTALL.html instead.
2196 * Fixed ncx\_cray.c to work on all CRAY systems, not just CRAY1. Reworked
2197 USE\_IEG, which was incorrect. Reworked short support. Now USE\_IEG and
2198 otherwise both pass t\_ncx.
2200 * To better support parallel systems, static and malloc'ed scratch areas
2201 which were shared in the library were eliminated. These were made
2202 private and on the stack where possible. To support this, the macros
2203 ALLOC\_ONSTACK and FREE\_ONSTACK are defined in onstack.h.
2205 * The buffered i/o system implementation in posixio.c was reimplemented to
2206 limit the number and size of read() or write() system calls and use
2207 greater reliance on memory to memory copy. This saves a great deal of
2208 wall clock time on slow (NFS) filesystems, especially during
2211 * Added performance tuning "underbar underbar" interfaces nc**open(),
2212 nc**create(), and nc\_\_enddef().
2214 * The 'sizehint' contract between the higher layers and the ncio layer is
2215 consistently enforced.
2217 * The C++ interface has been updated so that the deprecated "nclong"
2218 typedef should no longer be required, and casts to nclong no longer
2219 necessary. Just use int or long as appropriate. nclong is still
2220 supported for backwards compatibility.
2222 * The ncdump utility now displays byte values as signed, even on platforms
2223 where the type corresponding to a C char is unsigned (SGI, for example).
2224 Also the ncdump and ncgen utilities have been updated to display and
2225 accept byte attributes as signed numeric values (with a "b" suffix)
2226 instead of using character constants.
2228 * In libsrc/error.c:nc\_strerror(int), explain that NC\_EBADTYPE applies
2229 to "\_FillValue type mismatch".
2231 * Some changes to configure scripts (aclocal.m4), macros.make.in and
2232 ncgen/Makefile to support NEC SUPER-UX 7.2.
2234 * The "usage" messages of ncgen and ncdump include the string returned
2235 from nc\_inq\_libvers().
2237 * Corrected some casts in the library so that all phases of the arithmetic
2238 computing file offsets occurs with "off\_t" type. This allows certain
2239 larger netcdf files to be created and read on systems with larger
2242 * In ncgen, multidimensional character variables are now padded to the
2243 length of last dimension, instead of just concatenating them. This
2244 restores an undocumented but convenient feature of ncgen under netCDF-2.
2245 Also, a syntax error is now reliably reported if the netcdf name is
2246 omitted in CDL input.
2248 * Fortran and C code generated by ncgen for netCDF components whose names
2249 contain "-" characters will now compile and run correctly instead of
2250 causing syntax errors.
2252 * The library allows "." characters in names as well as "\_" and "-"
2253 characters. A zero length name "" is explicitly not allowed. The ncgen
2254 utility will now permit "." characters in CDL names as well.
2256 * Memory leaks in the C++ interface NcVar::as\_\*() member functions and
2257 NcFile::add\_var() member function are fixed. The documentation was
2258 fixed where it indicated incorrectly that the library managed value
2259 blocks that the user is actually responsible for deleting.
2261 * he values of the version 2 Fortran error codes have been modified to
2262 make the version 2 Fortran interface more backward compatible at the
2265 * Added support for systems whose Fortran INTEGER*1 and INTEGER*2 types
2266 are equivalent to the C "long" type but whose C "int" and "long" types
2267 differ. An example of such a system is the NEC SX-4 with the "-ew"
2268 option to the f90 compiler (sheesh, what a system!).
2270 * Fixed Version 2 Fortran compatibility bug: NCVGTG, NCVGGC, NCVPTG, and
2271 NCVPGC didn't work according to the Version 2 documentation if the
2272 innermost mapping value (i.e. IMAP[1]) was zero (indicating that the
2273 netCDF structure of the variable should be used).
2277 * One can now inquire about the number of attributes that a variable has
2278 using the global variable ID.
2280 * The FORTRAN interface should now work on more systems. In particular:
2282 * It should now work with FORTRAN compilers whose "integer*1" datatype is
2283 either a C "signed char", "short", or "int" and whose "integer*2"
2284 datatype is either a C "short" or "int".
2286 * It should now work with FORTRAN compilers that are extremely picky about
2287 source code formatting (e.g. the NAG f90 compiler).
2289 * The dependency on the non-POSIX utility m4(1) for generating the C and
2290 FORTRAN manual pages has been eliminated.
2292 * EXTERNAL statements have been added to the FORTRAN include-file
2293 "netcdf.inc" to eliminate excessive warnings about "unused" variables
2294 (which were actually functions) by some compilers (e.g. SunOS 4.1.3's
2295 f77(1) version 1.x).
2297 * Building the netCDF-3 package no longer requires the existence of the
2298 Standard C macro RAND\_MAX.
2300 * Fixed an ncdump bug resulting in ncdump reporting Attempt to convert
2301 between text & numbers when \_FillValue attribute of a character
2302 variable set to the empty string "".
2304 * Made ncgen tests more stringent and fixed various bugs this uncovered.
2305 These included bugs in handling byte attributes on platforms on which
2306 char is unsigned, initializing scalar character variables in generated C
2307 code under "-c" option, interspersing DATA statements with declaration
2308 statements in generated Fortran code under "-f" option, handling empty
2309 string as a value correctly in generated C and Fortran, and handling
2310 escape characters in strings. The Fortran output under the "-f" option
2311 was also made less obscure and more portable, using automatic conversion
2312 with netCDF-3 interfaces instead of "BYTE", "INTEGER*1", or "INTEGER*2"
2315 * Fixed a C++ interface problem that prevented compiling the C++ library
2316 with Digital's cxx compiler.
2318 * Made ncgen "make test" report failure and stop if test resulted in a
2319 failure of generated C or Fortran code.
2321 * The file that you are now reading was created to contain a high-level
2322 description of the evolution of the netCDF-3 package.
2326 * The production version of the netCDF-3 package was released.
2328 * A comparison of the netCDF-2 and netCDF-3 releases can be found in the