Hello all,
On behalf of the netCDF-C development team, we are happy to announce the
availability of the the first release candidate for netCDF-C version 4.3.1.
Highlights of this release include:
* Support for renaming groups in netCDF-4 files (nc_group_rename).
* Support for dynamic loading, to complement the dynamic loading support
introduced in hdf 1.8.11.
* Ability to read HDF5 scalar numeric attributes, other HDF5-related
improvements.
* Improved parallel-netcdf support.
* Numerous bug fixes.
Complete release notes may be found at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/release_notes.html
Source-code archives can be found at:
http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/releases/
Pre-built Windows binaries are available at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/winbin.html
Note that, for the time being, building from the source package provided
by GitHub requires either:
1. Generating the 'configure' script and accompanying Makefile templates
by invoking 'autoreconf -i -f' in the root directory.
or,
2. Using CMake to configure netCDF. Instructions here:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netCDF-CMake.html
We look forward to addressing any issues, questions or concerns which
may arise from this release candidate.
Sincerely,
-Ward
Ward Fisher
wfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
