Yes, it appears that the documentation needs to be updated; I will update this
in-place now (it will take a few minutes as I'm working from home and have to
jump through the usual network hoops). Thanks for pointing this out!
-Ward
On Nov 2, 2018, 3:03 PM -0600, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate
<dave.allured@xxxxxxxx>, wrote:
> Ward and netCDF team,
>
> Thanks for all the enhancements, debug, and refactoring that went into this
> release. I know there was a lot.
>
> My group is interested in the new per-variable chunk sizing for nccopy. It
> seems that per-variable chunk sizing is missing from the RC2 documentation
> for nccopy (User's Guide under NetCDF Utilities). Can you please add this?
> Confession, I did not have a chance to build and check the man page yet.
> Thanks.
>
> --Dave
>
>
> > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Ward Fisher <wfisher@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > The Unidata netCDF team is happy to announce the second release candidate
> > > for netCDF-C 4.6.2.
> > > Barring any surprises, we should have the full release in short order,
> > > followed by Fortran and C++ interface releases.
> > > Resources:
> > >
> > > • Download source:
> > > https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/releases/tag/v4.6.2-rc2
> > > • Documentation: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_rc
> > > • Windows binaries download:
> > > https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_rc/winbin.html
> > >
> > > Please feel free to contact us with any bug reports or questions!
> > > Thank you very much all, have a great day,
> > > -Ward
> > > Ward Fisher
> > > Unidata
> > > Software Engineer - NetCDF Team Lead
> > > The changes from the previous version include (but are not limited to):
> > >
> > > • [Enhancement] Add nccopy command options for per-variable chunk sizing,
> > > and minimum chunk size. See GitHub #1087.
> > > • [Bug Fix] Fix nccopy handling of user specified chunk sizes. See GitHub
> > > #725,#1087.
> > > • [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.
> > > • [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.
> > > • [Obsolete] Obsolete the MPIPOSIX flag.
> > > • [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.
> > >
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