Unidata/netcdf-c v4.8.1

netCDF-C v4.8.1

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4.8.1 - August 18, 2021

• [Bug Fix] Fix multiple bugs in libnczarr. See Github #2066.
• [Enhancement] Support windows network paths (e.g. \svc...). See Github #2065.
• [Enhancement] Convert to a new representation of the NCZarr meta-data extensions: version 2. Read-only backward compatibility is provided. See Github #2032.
• [Bug Fix] Fix dimension_separator bug in libnczarr. See Github #2035.
• [Bug Fix] Fix bugs in libdap4. See Github #2005.
• [Bug Fix] Store NCZarr fillvalue as a singleton instead of a 1-element array. See Github #2017.
• [Bug Fixes] The netcdf-c library was incorrectly determining the scope of dimension; similar to the type scope problem. See Github #2012 for more information.
• [Bug Fix] Re-enable DAP2 authorization testing. See Github #2011.
• [Bug Fix] Fix bug with windows version of mkstemp that causes failure to create more than 26 temp files. See Github #1998.
• [Bug Fix] Fix ncdump bug when printing VLENs with basetype char. See Github #1986.
• [Bug Fixes] The netcdf-c library was incorrectly determining the scope of types referred to by nc_inq_type_equal. See Github #1959 for more information.
• [Bug Fix] Fix bug in use of XGetopt when building under Mingw. See Github #2009.
• [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 for more information.
• [Bug Fix] Fix make distcheck issue in nczarr_test/ directory. See Github #2007.
• [Bug Fix] Fix bug in NCclosedir in dpathmgr.c. See Github #2003.
• [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.
• [Bug Fix] Fix bug in JSON processing of strings with embedded quotes. See Github #1993.
• [Enhancement] Add support for the new "dimension_separator" enhancement to Zarr v2. See Github #1990 for more information.
• [Bug Fix] Fix hack for handling failure of shell programs to properly handle escape characters. See Github #1989.
• [Bug Fix] Allow some primitive type names to be used as identifiers depending on the file format. See Github #1984.
• [Enhancement] Add support for reading/writing pure Zarr storage format that supports the XArray _ARRAY_DIMENSIONS attribute. See Github #1952 for more information.
• [Update] Updated version of bzip2 used in filter testing/functionality, in support of Github #1969.
• [Bug Fix] Corrected HDF5 version detection logic as described in Github #1962.