Bug 1666736

Summary: Please update the version of HDF5 library
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Alexander Korsunsky <a.korsunsky>
Component: hdf5Assignee: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Alexander Korsunsky 2019-01-16 13:48:09 UTC 
The most up-to-date version of the HDF5 library that is shipped in EPEL is
1.8.12, and was released on 2013-11-21, which is now over 5 years ago.

Even in a library as stable as HDF5, a lot of things are improved over 

In fact, the library moved to the next "minor" version, 1.10 and after a long time, support for the 1.8 version has ceased:

https://www.hdfgroup.org/2018/06/release-of-hdf5-1-8-21-newsletter-161/

> Please be aware that this is one of the last releases for HDF5-1.8. We 
> encourage users to move to HDF5-1.10, particularly after HDF5-1.10.3 is
> released later this year. All major changes for HDF5-1.10 are in 
> HDF5-1.10.2 and HDF5-1.10.3 will include performance improvements
> for several of the new features.

I would therefor request to update the HDF5 library in EPEL to the newest version, 1.10.4.
Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2019-01-16 15:29:56 UTC 
All clients must be recompiled for each new version of HDF5.  We do not introduce such breakage into EPEL.  And certainly not the major change that is 1.10.
Comment 2 Alexander Korsunsky 2019-01-16 15:51:22 UTC 
So what is the consequence of this? Does this mean effectively that EPEL will forever stay on the same HDF5 version, and never receive newer fixes and features?
Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2019-01-16 16:08:41 UTC 
Yes.
Comment 4 Orion Poplawski 2019-01-29 15:26:00 UTC 
*** Bug 1670379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***