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.
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.
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?
Yes.
*** Bug 1670379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***