[Nexus-developers] NeXus 4.0 RC1 Announcement (Corrections)

[Nick Maliszewskyj]

Greetings,

This announcement of the NeXus 4.0 release candidate 1 is a corrected
version of what was released last week. The corrected text is below:
=====================================================================

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 (in HDF4/HDF5)
 * Support for group attributes in all three file formats
 * Support allowing HDF5 API to read generic HDF5 files
 * NXmakenamedlink function for all three file formats (This is link
   created with a different name than the target data)
 * External linking
 * Automatic searching of NeXus files in the NX_LOAD_PATH
 * 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


===============================================================

-- 
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
o Dr. Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj
o Center for Neutron Research
o National Institute of Standards & Technology
o 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8562
o Gaithersburg MD 20899-8562
o nickm at nist.gov     Phone: (301)975-3171    Fax: (301)921-9847
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo