Ward,
Thanks to you and the rest of the NetCDF team for all your efforts on this
release.
In the release notes attached to your message:
I do not see any fix on GitHub for the following issue. Also the status of
#390 shows as Bumping to next release. #387 fixes something different.
Since this is not a priority for me, I would prefer that you get out the
4.5 release and save this bug fix for another time:
* [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.
Also, this issue is listed twice:
* [Upgrade] The bash based test scripts have been upgraded to use a common
test_common.sh include file that isolates build specific information.
--Dave
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Ward Fisher <wfisher@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello netCDF Community,
>
> We are pleased to announce the availability of netCDF 4.5.0 - Release
> Candidate 1. There have been a number of bug fixes and improvements since
> the release of 4.4.1.1; a high-level summary of changes is listed below.
> We encourage everybody to give this release candidate a try pending the
> final 4.5.0 release. I would like to get the final release out in short
> order, so the quicker we can find any lingering issues, the better!
>
> Relevant links are as follows:
>
> - Download the release candidate: https://github.com/Unidata/net
> cdf-c/releases/v4.5.0-rc1
> - Release Candidate Documentation: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/so
> ftware/netcdf/docs_rc/
> - Windows installer downloads: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/so
> ftware/netcdf/docs_rc/winbin.html
> <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_rc/winbin.html>
>
> Thanks for your patience, we hope to have a more rapid release cycle once
> more, moving forward. The next step pending the final 4.5.0 release of
> the C interface is to update and release the Fortran and C++ releases.
>
> Looking forward to any bug reports and/or issues!
>
> -Ward
>
> Ward Fisher
> wfisher@xxxxxxxx
> UCAR/Unidata - Software Engineer
> Release Notes 4.5.0-rc1 - June 5, 2017
>
> - [Enhancement] DAP4 is now included. Since dap2 is the default for
> urls, dap4 must be specified by
> (1) using “dap4:” as the url protocol, or
> (2) appending “#protocol=dap4” to the end of the url, or
> (3) appending “#dap4” to the end of the url
> Note that dap4 is enabled by default but remote-testing is
> disbled until the testserver situation is resolved.
> - [Enhancement] The remote testing server can now be specified with
> the --with-testserver option to ./configure.
> - [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.
> - [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.
> - [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.
> - [Bug Fix] Corrected an issue on Windows with Large file tests. See Github
> #385 <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/385%5D> for more
> information.
> - [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.
> - [Upgrade] The bash based test scripts have been upgraded to use a
> common test_common.sh include file that isolates build specific
> information.
> - [Upgrade] The bash based test scripts have been upgraded to use a
> common test_common.sh include file that isolates build specific
> information.
> - [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.
> - [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.
> - [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.
> - [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.
> - [Upgrade] Update utf8proc.[ch] to use the version now maintained by
> the Julia Language project (https://github.com/JuliaLang/
> utf8proc/blob/master/LICENSE.md
> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc/blob/master/LICENSE.md>).
> - [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.
> - [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.
> - [Bug] Addressed a potential type punning issue. See GitHub #351
> <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/351> for more information.
> - [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.
> - [Bug] Fixed an issue related to potential type punning, see GitHub
> #344 <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/344> for more
> information.
> - [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.
>
>
