This file contains a high-level description of this package's evolution.
Entries are in reverse chronological order (most recent first).
VERSION COMMENTS
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3.6.2 beta6 2007-01-20
Fine tuning of build system to properly handle cygwin,
Mingw, and strange configuration issues.
Automake 1.10 has a problem with running our tests on
MinGW, so I'm switching back to automake 1.9.6 for
this release.
3.6.2 beta5 2006-12-30
Now netCDF configuration uses autoconf 2.61, and
automake 1.10. (Thanks to Ralf Wildenhues for the
patches, and all the autotools help in general!)
Final major revision (I hope!) of netCDF tutorial
before the 3.6.2 release. Now the tutorial contains
all the content that I think it should. (Ed)
Now netCDF builds under MinGW, producing a windows DLL
with the C and F77 APIs. Use the --enable-shared --enable-dll
--disable-cxx --disable-f90 flags to configure. (C++
and F90 have never been built as windows DLLs, but
might be in a future release if there is user
interest). This has all been documented in the netCDF
Porting and Installation Guide.
Now extreme numbers (i.e. those close to the limits of
their type) can be turned off in nc_test/nf_test, with
--disable-extreme-numbers. It is turned off
automatically for Solaris i386 systems.
Added --enable-c-only option to configure. This causes
only the core netCDF-3 C library to be built. It's the
same as --disable-f77 --disable-cxx --disable-v2
--disable-utilities.
Added --disable-utilities to turn off building and
testing of ncgen/ncdump.
Fix a long-standing bug in nf90_get_att_text() pointed
out by Ryo Furue, to make sure resulting string is
blank-padded on return. This is fixed in the
Fortran-90 interface, but is impractical to fix in the
Fortran-77 interface implemented via cfortran.h.
Now large file tests are run if --enable-large-file-tests
is used in the configure.
For Cray users, the ffio module is used if the
--enable-ffio option is passed to configure.
Unrolled loops in byte-swapping code used on
little-endian platforms to reduce loop overhead. This
optimization resulted in a 22% speedup for some
applications accessing floats or ints (e.g. NCO
utilities ncap and ncbo) and a smaller speedup for
shorts or doubles.
Added "-k" option to ncdump and ncgen, for identifying
and specifying the kind of netCDF file, one of
"classic", "64-bit-offset", "hdf5", or "hdf5-nc3".
Removed output of kind of netCDF file in CDL comment
produced by ncdump.
Fixed bug of ncdump seg-faulting if invoked
incorrectly with option like "-c" or "-h" but no file
name.
3.6.2 beta4 2006-08-15
Changed F77/F90 man pages from netcdf.3f and
netcdf.3f90 to netcdf_f77.3 and netcdf_f90.3. Also
fixed broken install of man pages.
Changed configure script so that "-g -O2" is no longer
set as CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and FFLAGS by default if a
GNU compiler is being used. Now nothing is set.
Changed configure script so that fortran flag is set
in config.h.
Updated Installation and Porting Guide, C++
Interface Guide, F77 and F90 Interface Guides.
Build with static libraries by default.
Added configure option --enable-separate-fortran,
which causes the fortran library to be built
separately. This is turned on automatically for shared
libraries.
Improved clarity of error messages.
Changed configuration to get cygwin DLL and mingw DLL
builds working, for the C library only (i.e. no
F77, F90, or C++ APIs).
Changed type of ncbyte in C++ interface from unsigned
char to signed char, for consistency with C interface.
The C++ documentation warned this change would
eventually occur.
Changed the C++ interface to use only the netCDF-3 C
interface instead of the older netCDF-2 C interface.
This has the added benefit that on-the-fly numeric
conversions are now supported using get methods, for
example you can get data of any type as double. When
using --disable-v2 flag to configure, the C++
interface can now be built and installed.
3.6.2 beta3 2006-05-24
Changed to use default prefix of /usr/local instead of
package-based prefix of previous releases of
netCDF. Use the --prefix argument to the configure
script to override the default.
Made separate fortran library file, instead of
appending fortran library functions to the C library
file, if --enable-separate-fortran is used during
configure (it's turned on automatically if
--enable-shared is used). If uses, the fortran API
users must link to *both* the C library and the new
fortran library, like this: -lnetcdff -lnetcdf
Added netCDF examples in C, C++, F77, F90, and
CDL. See the examples subdirectory.
Added the NetCDF Tutorial.
Minor fixes to some of the netCDF documentation.
Made it possible to build without V2 API using
--disable-v2 from configure.
Switched to new build system, with automake and
libtool. Now shared libraries are built (as well as
static ones) on platforms which support it. For more
information about shared libraries, see
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/faq.html#shared_intro
Fixed ncdump crash that happened when no arguments were
used.
Fixed for building with gfortran 4.1.0.
Important fix for machines whose SIZEOF_SIZE_T !=
SIZEOF_LONG, such as NEC-SX, thanks to Stephen Leak.
Fixed C++ on AIX platform.
Fixed 64-bit builds on AIX platform.
Removed bad assertion that could be triggered in rare
cases when reading a small file.
Added comments in v1hpg.c to clarify purpose of each
internal function.
Make sure filesize is determined in nc_close() *after*
buffers get flushed.
Fix long-standing problem resulting in files up to 3
bytes longer than necessary if there is exactly one
record variable of type byte, char, or short and if
the number of values per record for that variable is
not divisible by 4 (or 2 in the case of short). Now
the filesize determined from header info by
NC_calcsize should be correct in all cases.
3.6.1 2006-01-31
Updated installation manual for 3.6.1.
Changed installation to try to provide correct
compiler flags for compiling in 64-bit mode on Sun,
Irix, AIX, and HPUX. (HPUX doesn't work for me,
however). Now run configure with --enable-64bit to get
a 64 bit compile.
Fixed long-standing bug that would cause small netCDF
files to be padded on the end with zero bytes to 4096
bytes when they were opened and changed. Now small
files should stay small after you change a value.
Fixed bug in assertions in putget.c that would only be
noticed if you change the manifest constant
NC_MAX_DIMS in netcdf.h to be different from
NC_MAX_VAR_DIMS.
Moved test ftest.F from fortran to nf_test directory,
and fixed bug in ftest.F which caused it to return 0
even if tests failed (no tests were failing,
however). Also renamed some test
output files to make things a little clearer.
If open for writing, pad with up to 3 extra zero bytes
before close to the correct canonical length,
calculated from the header. Previously files could be
short due to not padding when writing in NOFILL mode.
Doubled arbitrary limits on number of dimensions,
variables, attributes, and length of names.
Change name of nc_get_format() to nc_inq_format().
Add analogous interfaces for nf_inq_format(),
nf90_inquire(), and NcFile::get_format() to f77, f90,
and C++ interfaces. Document new function in texinfo
files. Add minimal test to nc_test, nf_test.
3.6.1-beta3 2005-02-17
Added function nc_get_format(int ncid, int* formatp)
that returns either NC_FORMAT_CLASSIC or
NC_FORMAT_64BIT for a CDF1 or CDF2 file, respectively.
Added test to nc_test that detects whether format
version was changed after a file is reopened and
define mode is entered.
Correctly configure for Intel ifort Fortran compiler on Linux.
3.6.0-p1 2005-02-18
Fixed bug that changes CDF2 files to CDF1 files if CDF2
file is reopened for write access and either an
attribute is changed or define mode is entered.
3.6.1-beta2 2005-1-6
Fixed absoft compile problem. Maybe.
3.6.1-beta1 2005-1-3
Fixed Cygwin C++ problem.
Fixed large file problem in MS Visual C++.NET environment.
More information in installation and porting guide.
3.6.0 2004-12-16
Added texinfo source for the documentation.
Added large file tests to Windows directory in distribution.
Modified win32 visual studio project files so that m4
is no longer required to build netcdf under visual studio.
Modified rules.make to use install instead of cp,
fixing install problem for cygwin users.
Modified configure/install stuff to support HP-UX.
Modified configure/install stuff to support G95.
In the f90 interface, applied Arnaud Desitter's fixes
to correct mismatches between scalar and array
arguments, eliminating (legitimate) complaints by the
NAGWare f95 compiler. Also fixed bugs introduced in
3.6.0-beta5 in the mapped array interfaces.
3.6.0-beta6 2004-10-05
Fixed AIX 64-bit/largefile install problems.
Removed FAQ section from netcdf.texi User's Guide, in
deference to online version that can be kept up to
date more easily.
3.6.0-beta5 2004-10-04
Fixed assertion violation on 64-bit platforms when
size of last fixed size variable exceeds 2^32 - 1.
Removed another restriction on file size by making
record size (derived from other sizes, not part of the
format) an off_t instead of a size_t, when an off_t is
larger than a size_t. This permits records to be
*much* larger in either classic format or
64-bit-offset format.
Incorporated patch from Mathis Rosenhauer to improve
performance of Fortran 90 interface for calls to
nf90_put_var_TYPE(), nf90_get_var_TYPE(),
nf90_put_vara_TYPE(), and nf90_get_vara_TYPE()
functions by not emulating them with the corresponding
nf90_put_varm_TYPE() and nf90_get_varm_TYPE() calls.
Added tests for invalid offsets in classic format when
defining multiple large variables.
Improved installation ease. Have configure script use
Large File Support as a default, if available.
Add "extra_test" as a target for testing Large File
Support.
3.6.0-beta3 2004-08-24
Upgraded to recent autoconf, changed configure to
(hopefully) improve installation. Also added macros
to deal with large file systems.
Added nf_set_default_format to Fortran interface.
Added testing to the set_default_format functions to
nc_test and nf_test.
Added documentation to the man page for
set_default_format functions.
Added two new error return codes to C, f77, and f90
interfaces for invalid dimension size and for bad
variable size. Made test for max dimension size
depend on whether 64-bit offsets used. Fixed bug with
dimension sizes between 2^31 and 2^32 (for byte
variables).
Fixed ncdump to properly print dimensions larger than
2^31.
Fixed ncgen to properly handle dimensions between 2^31
and 2^32.
3.6.0-beta2
Added -v2 (version 2 format with 64-bit offsets)
option to ncgen, to specify that generated files or
generated C/Fortran code should create 64-bit offset
files. Also added -x option to ncgen to specify use
of no-fill mode for fast creation of large files.
Added function to set default create mode to C
interface (nc_set_default_create).
Added win32 directory, with NET subdirectory to hold
.NET port of netCDF. To use, open netcdf.sln with
Visual Studio, and do a clean and then a build of
either the debug or release builds. Tests will be run
as part of the build process. VC++ with managed
extensions is required (i.e. VC++.NET).
Added windows installer files to build windows binary
installs.
3.6.0-beta1 By incorporating Greg Sjaardema's patch, added support
for 64-bit offset files, which remove many of the
restrictions relating to very large files (i.e.
larger than 2 GB.) This introduces a new data format
for the first time since the original netCDF format
was introduced. Files in this new 64-bit offset
format can't be read by earlier versions of
netCDF. Users should continue to use the netCDF
classic format unless they need to create very large
files.
The test suite, nc_test, will now be run twice, once for
netCDF classic format testing, and once for 64-bit offset
format testing.
The implementation of the Fortran-77 interface has been
adapted to version 4.3 of Burkhard Burow's "cfortran.h".
3.6.0-alpha
Added NEC SX specific optimization for NFILL tunable
parameter in libsrc/putget.c
Added support for the ifc Fortran-90 compiler creating
files "netcdf.d" and "typesizes.d" (instead of ".mod"
files).
Fixed access to iargc and getarg functions from
Fortran-90 for NAG f90 compiler, contributed by Harald
Anlauf.
3.5.1 2004-02-03
Updated INSTALL.html for Mac OS X (Darwin).
Made the installation of the netCDF Fortran-90 module
file more robust regarding the name of the file.
Added support for eight-byte integers in Fortran90
interface.
Increased advisory limits in C netcdf.h and Fortran
netcdf.inc for maximum number of dimensions,
variables, and attributes.
Changed C++ declarations "friend NcFile" to "friend
class NcFile" in cxx/netcdfcpp.h to conform to
standard.
Added Dan Schmitt's backward compatible extension to
the C++ record interface to work with arbitrary
dimension slices.
Added C++ documentation note that caller is
responsible for deleting pointer returned by
Variable::values() method when no longer needed.
Made C++ interface more standard; the result may not
compile on some old pre-standard C++ compilers.
Fixed bug in ncgen when parsing values of a
multidimensional char variable that resulted in
failure to pad a value with nulls on IRIX.
Fixed ncdump bug adding extra quote to char variable
data when using -fc or -ff option.
Fixed so compiling with -DNO_NETCDF_2 will work for
building without backward-compatibility netCDF-2
interfaces.
Eliminated use of ftruncate(), because it fails on
FAT32 file systems under Linux.
Initialized a pointer in putget.m4 (used to generate
putget.c) that was involved in uninitialized memory
references when nc_test is run under Purify. Two
users had reported seeing crashes resulting from this
problem in their applications.
Reverted pointer initializations in putget.m4, after
testing revealed these caused a performance problem,
resulting in many extra calls to px_pgin and px_pgout
when running nc_test.
Added checking of size of "dimids" vector in function
nf90_inquire_variable(...) and error-returning if it
isn't sufficiently capacious.
Added variable index to ncvarget() and ncattinq() error
messages and attribute name to ncattinq() error message.
Tweaked configure script to work with recent C++ compilers.
Fixed a memory leak in C++ interface, making sure
NcVar::cur_rec[] gets deleted in NcVar destructor.
Reimplemented nc_sync() fix of version 3.5.0 to eliminate
performance penalty when synchronization is unnecessary.
Changed order of targets in Makefile to build Fortran
interface last, as a workaround for problem with make
on AIX platforms.
3.5.0 2001-03-23
Added Fortran 90 interface.
Changed C macro TIMELEN in file cxx/nctst.cpp to
TIMESTRINGLEN to avoid clash with macro defined on AIX
systems in /usr/include/time.h.
Fixed miswriting of netCDF header when exiting define
mode. Because the header was always written correctly
later, this was only a problem if there was another
reader of the netCDF file.
Fixed explicit synchronizing between netCDF writer and
readers via the nc_sync(), nf_sync(), and ncsync()
functions.
Fixed a number of bugs related to attempts to support
shrinking the header in netCDF files when attributes
are rewritten or deleted. Also fixed the problem that
nc__endef() did not work as intended in reserving
extra space in the file header, since the extra space
would be compacted again on calling nc_close().
Fixed the "redef bug" that occurred when nc_enddef()
or nf_enddef() is called after nc_redef() or
nf_redef(), the file is growing such that the new
beginning of a record variable is in the next "chunk",
and the size of at least one record variable exceeds
the chunk size (see netcdf.3 man page for a
description of this tuning parameter and how to set
it). This bug resulted in corruption of some values
in other variables than the one being added.
The "__" tuning functions for the Fortran interface,
nf__create, nf__open, and nf__enddef, are now
documented in the Fortran interface man pages.
Add an 'uninstall' target to all the Makefiles.
Dave Glowacki <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU> 199810011851.MAA27335
Added support for multiprocessing on Cray T3E.
Hooks added by Glenn, but the majority of the work
was done at NERSC. Also includes changes to ffio
option specification. Patch rollup provided by
R. K. Owen <rkowen@Nersc.GOV>. The following functions
are added to the public interface.
nc__create_mp()
nc__open_mp()
nc_set_base_pe()
nc_inq_base_pe()
Fixed makefile URL for Win32 systems in INSTALL file.
Made test for UNICOS system in the configure script case
independent.
Ported to the following systems:
AIX 4.3 (both /bin/xlc and /usr/vac/bin/xlc compilers)
IRIX 6.5
IRIX64 6.5
Changed the extension of C++ files from ".cc" to ".cpp".
Renamed the C++ interface header file "netcdfcpp.h"
instead of "netcdf.hh", changing "netcdf.hh" to
include "netcdfcpp.h" for backward compatibility.
Treat "FreeBSD" systems the same as "BSD/OS" system
w.r.t. Fortran and "whatis" database.
Corrected manual pages: corrected spelling of "enddef" (was
"endef") and ensured that the words "index" and "format"
will be correctly printed.
Updated support for Fortran-calling-C interface by
updating "fortran/cfortran.h" from version 3.9 to
version 4.1. This new version supports the Portland
Group Fortran compiler (C macro "pgiFortran")
and the Absoft Pro Fortran compiler (C macro
"AbsoftProFortran").
Corrected use of non-integral-constant-expression
in specifying size of temporary arrays in file
"libsrc/ncx_cray.c".
Added Compaq Alpha Linux workstation example to INSTALL
file.
Ported cfortran.h to Cygnus GNU Win32 C compiler (gcc
for Windows).
Fixed bug in ncdump using same CDL header name when
called with multiple files.
Added new NULL data type NC_NAT (Not A Type) to
facilitate checking whether a variable object has had
its type defined yet, for example when working with
packed values.
Fixed use of compile-time macro NO_NETCDF_2 so it
really doesn't include old netCDF-2 interfaces, as
intended.
Ported to MacOS X Public Beta (Darwin 1.2/PowerPC).
Fixed C++ friend declarations to conform to C++ standard.
Changed INSTALL file to INSTALL.html instead.
3.4 1998-03-09
Fixed ncx_cray.c to work on all CRAY systems,
not just CRAY1. Reworked USE_IEG, which was incorrect.
Reworked short support. Now USE_IEG and otherwise
both pass t_ncx.
To better support parallel systems, static and malloc'ed
scratch areas which were shared in the library
were eliminated. These were made private and on the
stack where possible. To support this, the macros
ALLOC_ONSTACK and FREE_ONSTACK are defined in onstack.h.
The buffered i/o system implementation in posixio.c
was reimplemented to limit the number and size of read()
or write() system calls and use greater reliance on memory
to memory copy. This saves a great deal of wall clock time
on slow (NFS) filesystems, especially during nc_endef().
Added performance tuning "underbar underbar" interfaces
nc__open(), nc__create(), and nc__enddef().
The 'sizehint' contract between the higher
layers and the ncio layer is consistently enforced.
The C++ interface has been updated so that the
deprecated "nclong" typedef should no longer be
required, and casts to nclong no longer necessary. Just
use int or long as appropriate. nclong is still
supported for backwards compatibility.
The ncdump utility now displays byte values as signed,
even on platforms where the type corresponding to a C
char is unsigned (SGI, for example). Also the ncdump
and ncgen utilities have been updated to display and
accept byte attributes as signed numeric values (with a
"b" suffix) instead of using character constants.
In libsrc/error.c:nc_strerror(int), explain that
NC_EBADTYPE applies to "_FillValue type mismatch".
Some changes to configure scripts (aclocal.m4),
macros.make.in and ncgen/Makefile to support
NEC SUPER-UX 7.2.
The "usage" messages of ncgen and ncdump include the
string returned from nc_inq_libvers().
Corrected some casts in the library so that all phases of
the arithmetic computing file offsets occurs with "off_t"
type. This allows certain larger netcdf files to be created
and read on systems with larger (64bit) off_t.
In ncgen, multidimensional character variables are now
padded to the length of last dimension, instead of just
concatenating them. This restores an undocumented but
convenient feature of ncgen under netCDF-2. Also, a
syntax error is now reliably reported if the netcdf name
is omitted in CDL input.
Fortran and C code generated by ncgen for netCDF
components whose names contain "-" characters will now
compile and run correctly instead of causing syntax
errors.
The library allows "." characters in names as well
as "_" and "-" characters. A zero length name "" is
explicitly not allowed. The ncgen utility will now
permit "." characters in CDL names as well.
Memory leaks in the C++ interface NcVar::as_*() member
functions and NcFile::add_var() member function are
fixed. The documentation was fixed where it indicated
incorrectly that the library managed value blocks that
the user is actually responsible for deleting.
The values of the version 2 Fortran error codes have
been modified to make the version 2 Fortran interface
more backward compatible at the source level.
Added support for systems whose Fortran INTEGER*1 and
INTEGER*2 types are equivalent to the C "long" type but
whose C "int" and "long" types differ. An example of
such a system is the NEC SX-4 with the "-ew" option to
the f90 compiler (sheesh, what a system!).
Fixed Version 2 Fortran compatibility bug: NCVGTG,
NCVGGC, NCVPTG, and NCVPGC didn't work according to the
Version 2 documentation if the innermost mapping value
(i.e. IMAP[1]) was zero (indicating that the netCDF
structure of the variable should be used).
3.3.1 1997-06-16
One can now inquire about the number of attributes that a
variable has using the global variable ID.
The FORTRAN interface should now work on more systems.
In particular:
It should now work with FORTRAN compilers whose
"integer*1" datatype is either a C "signed char",
"short", or "int" and whose "integer*2" datatype is
either a C "short" or "int".
It should now work with FORTRAN compilers that are
extremely picky about source code formatting (e.g.
the NAG f90 compiler).
The dependency on the non-POSIX utility m4(1) for
generating the C and FORTRAN manual pages has been
eliminated.
EXTERNAL statements have been added to the FORTRAN
include-file "netcdf.inc" to eliminate excessive
warnings about "unused" variables (which were actually
functions) by some compilers (e.g. SunOS 4.1.3's f77(1)
version 1.x).
Building the netCDF-3 package no longer requires the
existence of the Standard C macro RAND_MAX.
Fixed an ncdump bug resulting in ncdump reporting
Attempt to convert between text & numbers
when _FillValue attribute of a character variable set to
the empty string "".
Made ncgen tests more stringent and fixed various bugs
this uncovered. These included bugs in handling byte
attributes on platforms on which char is unsigned,
initializing scalar character variables in generated C
code under "-c" option, interspersing DATA statements
with declaration statements in generated Fortran code
under "-f" option, handling empty string as a value
correctly in generated C and Fortran, and handling
escape characters in strings. The Fortran output under
the "-f" option was also made less obscure and more
portable, using automatic conversion with netCDF-3
interfaces instead of "BYTE", "INTEGER*1", or
"INTEGER*2" declarations.
Fixed a C++ interface problem that prevented compiling
the C++ library with Digital's cxx compiler.
Made ncgen "make test" report failure and stop if test
resulted in a failure of generated C or Fortran code.
The file that you are now reading was created to contain
a high-level description of the evolution of the
netCDF-3 package.
3.3 1997-05-15
The production version of the netCDF-3 package was
released.
A comparison of the netCDF-2 and netCDF-3 releases can
be found in the file COMPATIBILITY.
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