[netcdfgroup] NetCDF 4.6.2 Release Candidate 2 now available

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] NetCDF 4.6.2 Release Candidate 2 now available
• From: Ward Fisher <wfisher@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 14:24:39 -0600

Hello all,

The Unidata netCDF team is happy to announce the second release candidate
for netCDF-C 4.6.2.

Barring any surprises, we should have the full release in short order,
followed by Fortran and C++ interface releases.

Resources:

   - Download source:
   https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/releases/tag/v4.6.2-rc2
   - Documentation: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_rc
   - Windows binaries download:
   https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_rc/winbin.html

Please feel free to contact us with any bug reports or questions!

Thank you very much all, have a great day,

-Ward

Ward Fisher
Unidata
Software Engineer - NetCDF Team Lead

The changes from the previous version include (but are not limited to):

   - [Enhancement] Add nccopy command options for per-variable chunk
   sizing, and minimum chunk size. See GitHub #1087
   <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1087>.
   - [Bug Fix] Fix nccopy handling of user specified chunk sizes. See GitHub
   #725 <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/725>,#1087
   <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1087>.
   - [Bug Fix] Avoid limit on number of times a netCDF4 attribute can be
   updated. Not a complete fix for the HDF5 “maximum creation order” problem,
   but should greatly reduce occurrences in many real-world cases. See GitHub
   #350 <https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/350>.
   - [Bug Fix] The use of NC_DISKLESS has been modified to make it cleaner.
   This adds a new flag called NC_PERSIST that takes over the now obsolete
   NC_MPIPOSIX.
   - [Obsolete] Obsolete the MPIPOSIX flag.
   - [Bug Fix] When using filters with HDF5 1.10.x or later, it is
   necessary to utilize the HDF5 replacements for malloc, realloc, and free in
   the filter code.