[Nexus-developers] NeXus 4.0 RC1

[Nick Maliszewskyj]

Greetings,

The release of version 4.0 of the NeXus API is imminent. New features in 
this
release include:

 * Extended XML-API to handle unlimited dimensions
 * Creation of Doxygen documentation
 * Support for two dimensional character arrays
 * Support for group attributes in HDF4
 * Support allowing HDF5 API to read generic HDF5 files
 * NXmakenamedlink function for all three file formats (external linking)
 * NXprintlink utility function
 * Improved link testing in test suite
 * Facility to enable/disable error reporting

In addition, bugs reported via our trouble reporting system
(http://trac.nexusformat.org/code/) have been resolved.

Kits for the 4.0 release candidate are available for download at
http://download.nexusformat.org/kits/ The NeXus technical group requests
your assistance as a member of the developer mailing list in contributing
to the quality assurance effort that is part of the release process.
You can do this by running the test suite included with the package on your
platform (for the source packages it should be as simple as "make test").
Please report your findings along with the platform on which you work on
our testing page (http://www.nexusformat.org/NeXus_4_Testing) and report
any new bugs encountered via the trac system
(http://www.nexusformat.org/IssueReporting).

In order to expedite the testing and release process, we request that you
perform testing and report results at your earliest convenience.

Thanks for your attention,

Nick Maliszewskyj
NeXus Technical Committee