v2.6.0

New Features

• Enable page buffered reading (#639).

Improvements

• Warn when detecting lossy reads or write of floating point data (#636).

v2.5.1

Bug Fix

• Fix missing inline for collective metadata properties.

v2.5.0

New Features

• Enable collective MPI IO using the Data Transfer Property (#623). Thanks to @roblatham00.
• Add a support for half-precision (16-bit) floating-point based on the Half library (http://half.sourceforge.net) (#587). Thanks to @ssbotelh .
• Enable choosing the allocation time of datasets (#627).
• Add possibility to get and set file space strategy. For page allocated files wrap the API to set/retrieve the page size (#618).
• Add API for getting Access and Create property lists of HighFive objects (#629).
• Let users configure metadata reads and writes at file level (#624). Thanks to @roblatham00 .

Improvements

• MPIOFileDriver is now deprecated. Use FileAccessProps (#622).
• Support of block argument in API (#584).
• Serialization of types is now automagic and so recursive (#586).
• Add an argument to specific File Create Properties in File class construtor (#626).

Bug Fixes

• Padding of Compound Types (#581).
• Compilation with Visual Studio with C++17 or later (#578). Thanks to @MarkBicknellONT.
• Avoid leaking when printing stack for error (#583).

v2.4.1

New Features

• Support std::complex. Thanks to @fibbo.

Improvements

• Improve EnumType/CompoundType
• Revert quirky behaviour of select(const HyperSlab&).
• All get_name functions takes size_t and not hsize_t.
• Remove nix recipes.

Bug Fixes

• Computation of padding.
• Related to 0 being an invalid hid but not equal to H5I_INVALID_HID.

v2.4.0

Drop support for hdf5 1.8

New Features:

• Construct a compound type from an already existing hid (#469). Thanks to Maximilian Nöthe.
• Add support for long double (#494)
• Add support for H5Pset_libver_bounds and H5Pset_meta_block_size support (#500)
• New interface to select complex hyperslabs, irregular hyperslabs are limited to/from 1D array (#538 and #545)

Improvements:

• Use inline where it is needed, otherwise some code can lead to "multiple definition" (#516). Thanks to Chris Byrohl.
• Use Catch2 instead of boost for tests to reduce dependencies (#521)
• CI now run with more external librairies (boost, eige, xtensor, xtl) (#536)

Bug Fixes:

• Better support of const types (#460). Thanks to Philip Deegan.
• Vector of size zero was previously lead to UB (#502). Thanks to Haoran Ni.
• Use H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR instead of H5T_NATIVE_CHAR for "signed char" (#518)

v2.3.1: Minor improvements and bugfixes

Version 2.3.1 - 2021-08-04

Improvements

• Clean cmake files from old code (#465)
• Adding path to type warning message (#471)
• Adding compound types example, w dataset and attr (#467)

Bug Fixes

• Resolve an issue where padding of nested compound types were being calculated incorrectly (#461) (#468)
• GHA: drop previous runs (#462)

v2.3: Several new features and various improvements

New Features:

• Add SZIP support (#435)
• Add option parents to createDataSet (#425)
• Implementing getting the filename dynamically (#424)
• Ability to create soft and external links (#421)
• Generalizing getPath and adding getFile as PathTraits (#417)

Improvements:

• Unified reading/writing attributes and datasets (#450)
• Old compilers have been removed from docker image (#430)
• Cleaning up and improving property lists (#429)
• An example using hdf5 references (#396) (#397)
• Add all property lists alias for completeness (#427)
• Add property CreateIntermediateGroup (#423)
• Add code coverage through codecov.io (#420)
• Introducing GitHub Actions CI (#416)
• Create issue and PR templates (#412)
• Initialize SilenceHDF5 to true in _exist (#411)
• Generalizing xtensor API (#407)
• Minor doc updates (#409)
• Fixing minor error in GH Action (#408)
• Uploading docs to gh-pages using GitHub Actions (#403)
• Various minor documentation updates (#405)
• optional documentation building in cmake (#377)
• From can be automatic now (#384)
• get_dim_vector in inspector (#383)
• Put type_of_array in inspector (#382)
• Move array_dims in the future manipulator (#381)
• Unify interface of H5Attribute with H5Slice_traits (#378)
• Use std::move in NRVO depending of version of GCC (#375)
• Fixed typo '-DD' to '-D' in 'Dependencies'. (#371)
• Changing date format (#364)

Bug fixes:

• Fix use before initialization (#414)
• Adding CMake include guard (#389)

v2.2.2 API extension

New Features

• [H5Easy] Adding OpenCV support (#343)
• [H5Easy] Enabling compression & Adding attributes (#337)
• Adding missing function to H5Attribute (#337)
• Add methods to retrieve Node paths or Dataset names and rename objects (#346)
• Add a file with the current version number of HighFive (#349)

Improvements

• [H5Easy] Updating error message dump (#335)
• [H5Easy] Switching implementation to partial specialization based on static dispatch (#327)
• Simplifying imports, new policy (#324)

v2.2.1 Patch Release

• Fix SilenceHDF5 initialization for NodeTraits
• Add a mechanism to not include target HighFive several times

v2.2: Release 2.2

New Features:

• Compound Types: API to register and read/write structs (#78). Thanks to Richard Shaw.
• Fixed-length strings. API via char[] and FixedLenStringArray(#277)
• Enum data types (#297)
• Datasets of HDF5 References. Support to dereference groups and datasets (#306)
• Objects (hard/soft link) can now be deleted with unlink (#284). Thanks to Tom Vander Aa.
• Attributes can be deleted with deleteAttribute (#239)

Improvements:

• Attributes (metadata) now support additional types (#298)
• H5Easy: Reworked for compatibility with Eigen::ref and Eigen::Map (#291, #293)
• Hdf5 1.12 compatibility: working Object::getInfo and marking getAddress deprecated (#311)
• Strict compatibility with CMake 3.1 and C++11 (#304)
• CMake: Dependencies may be re-detected on FindPackage, fixed export targets and added integration tests (#255, #304, #312, #317)
• Support for array of Eigen::Matrix (#258)
• Selection: ElementSet working for N-dimensions (#247)

Bug Fixes:

• Shortcut syntax with c arrays (#273)
• Compatibility with in MSVC (Exception messages #263 and avoid throwing in exist check #308)