We have released HDF4 4.0 this week. It is going to be the last official release of the HDF4 library. In this release, we have
- moved to build with CMake exclusively
- addressed many memory issues and security vulnerabilities
- resolved various issues involving how reading szipped data and the availability of the szip/aec libraries work together
- hardened error handling and resource cleanup in tests and tools for improved security and better maintainability
- removed outdated NetCDF interface
There are breaking changes to address vulnerabilities. Please refer to the RELEASE.txt for details.
Please find out more in our blog post.
Thank you!