Release of PnetCDF 1.5.0

[Wei-keng Liao]

Hello to the PnetCDF community,

The PnetCDF team is pleased to announce the availability of 
new stable release of PnetCDF version 1.5.0.

The source codes can be downloaded from
http://cucis.ece.northwestern.edu/projects/PnetCDF/download.html

Below is a brief list of noticeable changes.

 o New features
   * A new configure option "--disable-in-place-swap"
   * A new configure option "--enable-debug"

 o New APIs
   * C++ APIs are now available.
   * ncmpi_put_att, ncmpi_get_att, nfmpi_put_att, and nfmpi_get_att
   * ncmpi__enddef, nfmpi__enddef, and nf90mpi_enddef
   * ncmpi_inq_file_info, nfmpi_inq_file_info, nf90mpi_inq_file_info
   * ncmpi_inq_striping, nfmpi_inq_striping, nf90mpi_inq_striping
   * ncmpi_inq_malloc_size, ncmpi_inq_max_malloc_size, ncmpi_inq_malloc_walk
   * ncmpi_inq_files_opened, nfmpi_inq_files_opened

 o New PnetCDF hint
   * nc_record_align_size - aligns the starting file offset of the record
     variable section.

 o New error code
   * NC_ENOTENABLED, NC_EBAD_FILE, NC_ENO_SPACE, NC_EQUOTA, NC_EMULTIDEFINE_FNC_ARGS

 o New test program
   * The test mechanism for parallel runs is command "make ptest".
   * Two sample PBS script files are provided to test "make ptest" on machines
     with a batch queue system: pbs.script and cobalt.script.

 o New utility program
   * pnetcdf_version prints the version information of the PnetCDF library and
     command-line arguments used at configure

 o Other updates:
   * Revise FLASH-IO benchmark to use nonblocking APIs.
   * File creation was revised for handling NC_CLOBBER and NC_NOCLOBBER modes.
   * subfiling is now enabled by default.

 o Bug fixes
   * fix ncmpigen.y on parsing CDL file to get the number of records.
   * fix the update for number of records when writing to a record that is
     not the last record.

Wei-keng Liao