<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;">Dear all,</span><br><div id="bodyWrapper"><br><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;">We are happy to
announce the release of HDFql 1.4.0. HDFql now supports not only C, C++, Java,
Python and C#, but also Fortran. In addition to this, we have resumed the
availability of distribution packages for Mac OS X.<br><br>This version includes:<br></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
of Fortran (Linux and Mac OS X only – Windows will be supported pending user
interest)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;"></span>
<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">New
wrapper for C++</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Debug
static and shared libraries</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Updated
reference manual</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">(Please check the release notes for further
details)</span></p><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;"></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;">What's next?</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;"> Pending interest from the user
community, future versions of HDFql are expected to include:<br></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
R</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
Julia</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
BLAS operations on the fly</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings;color:#404040;"><span><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
dynamically loaded filters</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
compound datatypes</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
enumeration datatypes</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings;color:#404040;"><span><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
access to distributed data stored in HDF and Hyrax OPeNDAP servers</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#404040;">Support
H5Q and H5X APIs (querying/indexing features from The HDF Group)</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;">If any of these
features are of particular interest to you or your organization, please reach
out to us!</span></p><p><br><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;">For heads up on
releases and the latest on HDFql, we welcome you to connect on </span><a href="http://twitter.com/hdfql"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;">twitter.com/hdfql</span></a></p>
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