add new release, 1.11.1

Author: wkliao

Release/pnetcdf-1.11.1.tar.gz

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+[PnetCDF](https://parallel-netcdf.github.io) Version 1.11.1 Release Notes (April 12, 2019)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* New optimization
+  + When inserting nonblocking requests into the PnetCDF internal pending
+    queues, the queues are now kept sorted (using an insert sort) into an
+    increasing order of variable starting file offsets. This can avoid the
+    quick sort when flushing the pending requests. See [pull request #37]
+    (https://github.com/Parallel-NetCDF/PnetCDF/pull/37). To avoid internal
+    sorts completely, users are recommended to post nonblocking requests in
+    the increasing order of variable IDs and fixed-size variables first
+    followed by record variables.
+
+* New Limitations
+  + When building with NetCDF-4 feature enabled, using a NetCDF-4 library that
+    has already been built with PnetCDF enabled, i.e. --enable-pnetcdf, is not
+    supported. See [Issue #33](https://github.com/Parallel-NetCDF/PnetCDF/issues/33).
+
+* Other updates:
+  + Add a check whether the MPI library is built with shared-library support.
+    If not and `--enable-shared` is used, the configure process of PnetCDF will
+    fail.
+  + In the NetCDF-4 driver, `nc4io_inq_var()` adds a NULL-argument check for
+    `no_fill` and `fill_value`. If both arguments are NULL, it skips the call
+    to `nc_inq_var_fill`.
+  + File header extent area between end of header and first variable will be
+    padded with null bytes if PnetCDF is configured with option
+    `--enable-null-byte-header-padding`.
+  + Add AC_PROG_CPP in configure.ac to check whether `-E` option is required by
+    the C preprocessor.
+  + Add a check for whether `m4` utility is available, and abort the configure
+    if it is not.
+
+* Bug fixes
+  + Fix ncmpidiff when comparing dimension names of 2 variables between files
+    whose dimension define orders are different. See
+    [Issue #42](https://github.com/Parallel-NetCDF/PnetCDF/pull/42).
+  + Fix error checking for programs in examples/C to ignore NC_ENOTENABLED
+    if PnetCDF was not built with --enable-profiling. Thanks to Bruno Pagani
+    and see [Issue #34](https://github.com/Parallel-NetCDF/PnetCDF/issues/34).
+
+* New test program
+  + test/burst_buffer/varn.c -- to test varn API when burst buffer driver is
+    used. The test includes cases when argument counts is NULL or some elements
+    in counts are NULL.
+
+* Clarifications
+  + Padding -- NetCDF classic file format specification states "Header padding
+    uses null (\x00) bytes. In data, padding uses variable's fill value."
+    PnetCDF implements the header padding specification but only enforces it
+    when the configure option `--enable-null-byte-header-padding` is set. Note
+    PnetCDF has not yet implemented the padding for data section.
+

Release_notes/1.11.1.md

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ <h1>PnetCDF: A Parallel I/O Library for NetCDF File Access</h1>
 
 <h2 id="News">News</h2>
 <ul>
+<li><strong>April 12, 2019</strong>: Release of 1.11.1 is available.</li>
 <li><strong>December 19, 2018</strong>: Release of 1.11.0 is available.</li>
 <li><strong>November 2, 2018</strong>: The official PnetCDF project web pages
 have migrated to github.com from its previous location at <a

index.html

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 <center> <h2>PnetCDF Source Code Downloads</h2> </center>
 <br>
 
-The latest stable release of <a href="../index.html">PnetCDF</a> is version 1.11.0.
+The latest stable release of <a href="../index.html">PnetCDF</a> is version 1.11.1.
 <p>
 We encourage PnetCDF users to use the latest released version. If for some
 reason you would like to try out older versions, below is a table of (most of)
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@
    <th>Size</th>
    <th>SHA-1 Checksum</th>
  </tr>
+ <tr>
+   <td align=center>April 12, 2019</td>
+   <td align=center><a href=https://github.com/Parallel-NetCDF/Parallel-NetCDF.github.io/blob/master/Release_notes/1.11.1.md>1.11.1</a></td>
+   <td><a href="../Release/pnetcdf-1.11.1.tar.gz" onClick="var that=this; ga('send', 'event', 'PnetCDF', 'Source Download (GZ)', 'pnetcdf-1.11.1.tar.gz', 1); ga('pnetcdfTracker.send', 'event', 'PnetCDF', 'Source Download (GZ)', 'pnetcdf-1.11.1.tar.gz', 1); ga('parallelnetcdfTracker.send', 'event', 'PnetCDF', 'Source Download (GZ)', 'pnetcdf-1.11.1.tar.gz', 1); setTimeout(function(){location.href=that.href;},500); return false;">pnetcdf-1.11.1.tar.gz</a></td>
+   <td>2.2 MB</td>
+   <td>579697e5e1455ce8c2a14ee7e10a9f36c49c225f</td>
+ </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align=center>December 19, 2018</td>
    <td align=center><a href=https://github.com/Parallel-NetCDF/Parallel-NetCDF.github.io/blob/master/Release_notes/1.11.0.md>1.11.0</a></td>