release of PnetCDF 1.8.0

[Wei-keng Liao]

Hello to the PnetCDF community,

The release of Parallel-netCDF 1.8.0 is now available for download from
http://cucis.ece.northwestern.edu/projects/PnetCDF/download.html

Below is a brief list of noticeable changes from the previous release of 1.7.0.
1. Two configure options were added: --disable-erange-fill and --enable-relax-coord-bound.
   The former is to disable the new, now default, feature that uses a variable's fill
   value for data elements that cause NC_ERANGE error and the latter is to enable a
   more relaxed boundary check for argument start in all APIs.
2. Use a hash function for checking whether the name of a variable or dimension
   has already been used.
3. Added pnetcdf-config shell script to display the options used in building PnetCDF.
4. Consistency check for header data has been moved to individual APIs and the check
   is only enabled when safe mode is on.
5. Adopted a precedence of error code reporting.
6. Resolved issues regarding the use of various OpenMPI versions.
7. Addressed interoperability issue with netCDF library.

Full release notes are available in
https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parallel-netcdf/wiki/ReleaseNotes-1.8.0

Additional resources:
* PnetCDF project pages:
  http://cucis.ece.northwestern.edu/projects/PnetCDF
  http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parallel-netcdf
* PnetCDF C reference guide:
  http://cucis.ece.northwestern.edu/projects/PnetCDF/doc/pnetcdf-c/index.html
* Example programs of netCDF-4 using PnetCDF to access files in classic formats
  are available from http://cucis.ece.northwestern.edu/projects/PnetCDF
* PnetCDF's svn repository is available in
  https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/parallel-netcdf/trunk
* PnetCDF mailing list: parallel-netcdf at lists.mcs.anl.gov and its archives:
  http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/parallel-netcdf/


Have a happy holiday!

Wei-keng Liao on behave of PnetCDF development team