\name{NEWS}
\title{News for Package 'rhdf5'}

\section{Changes in version 2.8.0}{
  \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{
    \itemize{
      \item New function h5version implemented.
      \item New low level general library functions H5open, H5close, H5garbage_collect, H5get_libversion, and H5Dset_extent implemented.
    }
  }
  \subsection{USER VISIBLE CHANGES}{
    \itemize{
      \item h5createDataset automatically uses chunking and compression.
      \item Added a warning if chunk size is equal to dimensions for large compressed datasets.
    }
  }
  \subsection{BUG FIXES}{
    \itemize{
      \item C-stack overflow when reading large fixed-length strings.
      \item error in i/o with chunksize or blocksize parameters.
      \item compiling errors due to missing int return value.
    }
  }
}

\section{Changes in version 2.6.0}{
  \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{
    \itemize{
      \item support for logical added
      \item support for reading attributes added (use read.attributes=TRUE)
      \item enabeled compression for data.frame in h5write
    }
  }
  \subsection{USER VISIBLE CHANGES}{
    \itemize{
      \item Use BiocStyles for package vignette
    }
  }
}

\section{Changes in version 2.4.0}{
  \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{
    \itemize{
      \item support for reading 64-bit integers added
      \item support for reading variable length strings added
      \item support for reading scalar objects added
    }
  }
  \subsection{USER VISIBLE CHANGES}{
    \itemize{
      \item NEWS.Rd added
      \item display of chunksize.pdf as a vignette avoided
    }
  }
}
