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        *              1.4 SERIES NEWS                   *
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                CHANGES IN h5r VERSION 1.4.4

NEW FEATURES

    o Added basic support for reading compound data sets. This support
    works reasonably well for the examples that I have tried, one fear
    is that memory is not being properly managed with compound data
    access. Additionally, access to named vectors does not yet exist.



                CHANGES IN h5r VERSION 1.4

NEW FEATURES
    o Added real Windows support thanks to Mengjuei Hsieh
    o Added support to read fixed length character strings
    o Large cleanup of the C interface file


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                CHANGES IN h5r VERSION 1.3

NEW FEATURES
    o Added Windows support thanks to the rhdf5 package.
   

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        *              1.2 SERIES NEWS                   *
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                CHANGES IN h5r VERSION 1.2

NEW FEATURES
    o Added 'ls' function
    o Added 'H5DataFrame' class - this is still a prototype

BUG FIXES
    o Cleaned up some memory that I was leaving behind. Unfortunately,
    there are still some small allocations that I probably need to
    deal with.



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        *              1.1 SERIES NEWS                   *
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                CHANGES IN h5r VERSION 1.1

NEW FEATURES
    o Added native ability to read sets of 1-D slabs.
    o Added basic writing capabilities

BUG FIXES
    o 


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                CHANGES IN h5r VERSION 1.0

NEW FEATURES
    o Added a way to inspect whats in the h5 file: listH5Contents.
    o Added proper test harness.
    o Added support for hyperslab selection.
    o Added support for string attributes and multi-dim string datasets.
    o Added support for 1-d attributes of type: String, Float, and Integer.

BUG FIXES
    o Allowed fixed-length strings.
