🔆 Executive Summary: HDF5 Version 2.0.0

Performance Enhancements:

• Up to 2500% faster Virtual Dataset read/write operations
• 30% faster opening and 25% faster closing of virtual datasets.
• Reduced memory overhead via shared...

HDF5 version 1.14.6 released on 2025-02-05

This is a maintenance release with a few changes and updates:

• Reverted a change to the library's handling of UTF-8 file names. A change was made in the HDF5 1.14.4 release to address some issues with the library's handling of code pages and file paths on Windows. T...

HDF5 version 1.14.5 released on 2024-09-30

This is a maintenance release with a few changes and updates:

• The release process now provides signed Windows and Mac installation binaries in addition to the Debian and rpm installation binaries. The Mac binaries are built as universal binaries on an ARM-based M...

HDF5 version 1.14.4-3 released on 2024-05-22

This is a maintenance release with a few changes and updates:

• Fixed a leak of datatype IDs created internally during datatype conversion

  Fixes h5py GitHub h5py/h5py#2419

• Added support for _Float16 16-bit floating-point datatype

  Support for the 16-bit fl...

HDF5 version 1.14.4-2 released on 2024-04-15

This is a maintenance release with a few changes and updates:

• Added support for _Float16 16-bit floating-point datatype

  Support for the 16-bit floating-point _Float16 C type has been added to HDF5. On platforms where this type is available, this can enable mor...