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# HDF5 Application Developer's Guide

These documents provide information of particular interest to developers of applications that employ the HDF5 library.
HDF5 Library Changes from Release to Release |  | A summary of changes in the HDF5 library
Supported Configuration Features Summary |  | A summary of configuration features supported in this release (external link) Archive (external link)
HDF5 Image and Palette Specification |  | A specification for the implementation of images and palettes in HDF5 applications
Mapping HDF4 Objects to HDF5 Objects |  | Guidelines for translating HDF4 file objects into valid HDF5 file objects (PDF format only)
Fill Value and Space Allocation Issues |  | A summary of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation issues (external link)
Fill Value and Space Allocation Behavior |  | A table summarizing of the behavioral interactions of HDF5 fill value and storage allocation settings (external link)
SZIP Compression in HDF5 |  | A description of SZIP compression in HDF5, `H5Pset_szip`, terms of use and copyright notice, and references (external link)
Shuffle Performance |  | An analysis of bzip and gzip compression performance in HDF5 with and without the shuffle filter, `H5Pset_shuffle` (external link)
Generic Properties |  | An overview of and the motivation for the implementation and use of generic properties in HDF5 (external link)
Error-detecting Codes for HDF5 |  | A discussion of error-detection codes, e.g., checksums, in HDF5 (external link)
Fletcher32 Checksum Design and Spec |  | Design, API function specification, and test for the Fletcher32 checksum implementation in HDF5 (external link)
The HDF5 source code, as distributed to users and developers, contains two additional files that will be of interest to readers of this document. Both files are located at the top level of the HDF5 source code tree and are duplicated here for your reference:
RELEASE.txt |  | Technical notes regarding this release
HISTORY.txt |  | A release-by-release history of the HDF5 library

HDF5 documents and links Introduction to HDF5 | HDF5 User's Guide HDF5 Reference Manual HDF5 Application Developer's Guide