## 0.2.0 (Apr 17, 2016) Features: - Full support of `msvc` target on Windows. CI tests on AppVeyor now use official reeases of HDF5 binaries (1.8.16, VS2015, x86_x64). The `gnu` target are still unofficially supported but won't be tested. - If `HDF5_LIBDIR` is not specified when building on Windows and `PATH` contains what looks like the `bin` folder of HDF5 installation, the library directory will be inferred automatically. The official HDF5 installers add the `bin` folder to user path, so the official MSVC releases should just work out of the box without having to set any environment variables. - The library is now split into three crates: `libhdf5-lib` (requests linkage to HDF5), `libhdf5-sys` (contains bindings, requires `libhdf5-lib` at build time in order to conditionally enable or disable certain HDF5 functionality), and `hdf5-rs` (the user-facing crate, requires both lower-level crates at build time). - Added `hdf5_rs::hdf5_version` function. - The minimum required version of the HDF5 library is now 1.8.4. - Both `libhdf5-sys` and `hdf5-rs` crates can now use version attributes at compile time to enable/disable/change functionality. All functions and definitions that appeared in HDF5 versions past 1.8.4 are now conditionally enabled in `libhdf5-sys`. - Added bindings for HDF5 functions that were added in releases 1.8.15 and 1.8.16. - Static global variables in HDF5 (H5E, H5P, H5T) are now linked based on HDF5 version and not the target platform (`_ID_g` variables were introduced in 1.8.14). When `msvc` target is used, the dllimport stub prefixes are also accounted for. The constants exposed by `libhdf5-sys` are now of reference type and need to be dereferenced upon use (for `msvc`, they have to be dereferenced twice). Changes: - API simplification: many methods previously expecting `Into` inputs now just take `&str`. - `util::to_cstring` now takes `Borrow` instead of `Into` so as to avoid unnecessary allocations, and the return value is now wrapped in `Result` so that interior null bytes in input strings trigger an error. Bugfixes: - Fixed dangling pointer problems when strings were being passed as pointers to the C API. - Fixed target path not being passed correctly in `Container::link_soft`. ## 0.1.1 (July 2015) Initial public version.