These release notes apply to the 4.3.0 netCDF Release, and catalog those changes from the previous version. For a complete change history, please see:
4.3.0 Released 2013-04-29
- fsync: Changed default in autotools config file; fsync must now be
explicitely enabled instead of explicitely disabled. NCF-239 - Fixed netCDF-4 bug where odometer code for libdap2 mishandled stride > 1. Bug reported by Ansley Manke. NCF-249
- Fixed netCDF-4 bug where netCDF would ignore the HDF5 reference type in
the file, instead of rejecting the file as it should. NCF-29 - Fixed netCDF-4 bug with particular order of creation of dimensions,
coordinate variables, and subgroups resulting in two dimensions with the
same dimension ID. NCF-244 - Fixed netCDF-4 bug with a multidimensional coordinate variable in a
subgroup getting the wrong dimension IDs for its dimensions. NCF-247 - Fixed bug with incorrect fixed-size variable offsets in header getting
written when schema changed for files created by parallel-netcdf. Thanks
to Wei-keng Liao for developing and contributing the fix. NCF-234 - Fixed bug in handling old servers that do not do proper Grid to
Structure conversions. NCF-232 - Replaced the oc library with oc2.0
- Fix bug with nc_get_var1_uint() not accepting unsigned ints larger
than 2**31. NCF-226 - Fix to convert occurrences of '/' in DAP names to %2f. NCF-223
- Fix bug in netCDF-4 with scalar non-coordinate variables with same name
as dimensions. NCF-222 - Fix bug in which calling netCDF-4 functions in which behavior that
should not depend on order of calls sometimes produces the wrong
results. NCF-217 - Merged in nccopy additions from Martin van Driel to support -g and -v
options for specifying which groups or variables are to be copied.
NCF-216 - Merged in parallel-netcdf bugs fixes from Greg Sjaardema. NCF-214
- Modify ncgen so that if the incoming file has a special attribute, then
it is used to establish the special property of the netcdf file, but the
attribute is not included as a real attribute in the file. NCF-213. - Added library version info to the user-agent string so that the server
logs will be more informative. NCF-210 - Added work around for bad servers that sometimes sends DAP dataset with
duplicate field names. NCF-208 - Fixed bug with strided access for NC_STRING type. NCF-206
- Prevented adding an invalid _FillValue attribute to a variable (with
nonmatching type or multiple values), to avoid later error when any
record variable is extended. NCF-190 - Fix bug in which some uses of vlen within compounds causes HDF5 errors.
NCF-155 - Fixed ncdump bug in display of data values of variables that use
multiple unlimited dimensions. NCF-144 - Fix bug in which interspersing def_var calls with put_var calls can
lead to corrupt metadata in a netCDF file with groups and inherited
dimensions. NCF-134 - Building shared libraries works with DAP and netCDF4 functionality.
NCF-205 - 32-and-64-bit builds are working under MinGW on Windows. NCF-112
- Config.h for Windows compiles are included in the build. NCF-98
- NetCDF-4 dependency on NC_MAX_DIMS has been removed. NCF-71
- 64-bit DLL's are produced on Windows. NCF-65
- DLL Packaging issues are resolved. NCF-54
- The CMake build system (with related ctest and cdash systems for
testing) has been integrated into netCDF-C. This allows for Visual
Studio-based builds in addition to gcc-based builds. This requires at
least CMake version 2.8.8. This replaces/supplements the cross-compiled
set of Visual-Studio compatible netCDF libraries introduced in netCDF
4.2.1-rc1.