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# HDF5 Application Developer's Guide

These documents provide information of particular interest to developers of applications that employ the HDF5 Library.
Release Related
HDF5 Library Changes from Release to Release |  | A summary of changes in the HDF5 Library
RELEASE.txt |  | Technical notes regarding the current release of the HDF5 Library*
HISTORY-1_8.txt |  | Technical notes for previous 1.8 releases of the HDF5 Library by release*
HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt |  | Technical notes for releases prior to the 1.8.0 release of the HDF5 Library by release*
|  | * RELEASE.txt, HISTORY-1_8.txt, and HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt are located at the top level of the HDF5 source code tree in the release_docs directory of the distributed HDF5 source code.
Moving from 1.6.x to 1.8.x
What’s New in HDF5 Release 1.8.0 |  | A brief summary of new features in the 1.8.0 HDF5 release
Release 1.8.0 and Data Format Compatibility |  | “New Features in HDF5 Release 1.8.0 and Format Compatibility Considerations”: A discussion of data format compatibility issues to consider in the transition to Release 1.8.0
API Compatibility Macros in HDF5 |  | Interface compatibility issues
General
HDF5 Image and Palette Specification |  | A specification for the implementation of images and palettes in HDF5 applications
Mapping HDF4 Objects to HDF5 Objects |  | Guidelines for translating HDF4 file objects into valid HDF5 file objects (PDF)
Fill Value and Space Allocation Issues |  | A summary of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation issues
Fill Value and Space Allocation Behavior |  | A table summarizing of the behavioral interactions of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation settings
SZIP Compression in HDF5 |  | A description of SZIP compression in HDF5, `H5Pset_szip`, terms of use and copyright notice, and references
Shuffle Performance |  | An analysis of bzip and gzip compression performance in HDF5 with and without the shuffle filter, `H5Pset_shuffle`
Generic Properties |  | An overview of and the motivation for the implementation and use of generic properties in HDF5
Error-detecting Codes for HDF5 |  | A discussion of error-detection codes, for example, checksums, in HDF5
Fletcher32 Checksum Design and Spec |  | Design, API function specification, and test for the Fletcher32 checksum implementation in HDF5

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