HDF Newsletter #128

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                             Newsletter #128
                             August 15, 2012

CONTENTS
  - Release of HDF 4.2.8

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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

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