-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The HDF Group Home Page: http://hdfgroup.org/ Helpdesk & Mailing List Info: http://hdfgroup.org/services/support.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter #128 August 15, 2012 CONTENTS - Release of HDF 4.2.8 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Release of HDF 4.2.8 ==================== The HDF 4.2.8 release is now available. It can be obtained from the HDF Downloads page: http://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/index.html#hdf4 For the HDF 4.2.8 documentation, see: http://www.hdfgroup.org/doc.html HDF 4.2.8 is a minor release with a few new features and changes, including the following: o Modifications were made in support of the HDF Mapping Project: - The function, GRgetpalinfo, was added to allow applications to get information about palettes. - Support was added to the library and hdp to detect IMCOMP compression. - A new function, GRgetcomptype, was added for returning an image's compression, including IMCOMP. o Support was added for Mac OS X 10.7.4 with GNU gcc and gfortran. Please be sure to review the HDF 4.2.8 Release Notes for complete details on what has changed in this release: http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF/HDF_Current/src/hdf-4.2.8-RELEASE.txt ------------------------------------------------------------- For questions regarding these or other HDF issues, contact: help@hdfgroup.org