Hierarchical Data Format, version 5

🔆 Executive Summary: HDF5 Version 2.2.0 Performance Enhancements: Added an I/O block cache to the ROS3 VFD to reduce the number of requests to S3 for files not using paged allocation Improved the performance of several tools (h5dump, h5ls, h5diff, h5repack, h5stat and h5format_convert) for specific file structures where many objects are linked to with multiple hard links Enhanced Features: Made several improvements to the CMake logic for handling filter libraries Java Enhancements: Added CMake cache variables for configuring Java dependency JAR paths, allowing system-provided JARs to be used in place of the bundled copies Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the many HDF5 community members who contributed to this release of HDF5. Changelog and release information: The full list of changes in this release can be found in CHANGELOG.md. Information about a specific HDF5 release can be found at https://support.hdfgroup.org/documentation/hdf5/latest/release_specific_info.html. [!NOTE] Release assets: The hdf5(-VERSION).zip and hdf5(-VERSION).tar.gz archives contain the HDF5 source code for this release. Binary installers are provided for Windows and MacOS in .msi and .dmg format, respectively[^1]. hdf5-VERSION.html.abi.reports.tar.gz contains ABI compatibility reports for this release of HDF5. hdf5-VERSION.doxygen.zip contains the generated Doxygen documentation for this release of HDF5. The remaining archives contain HDF5 binaries with a pre-installed layout. These archives can be extracted and used directly, without having to use a binary installer program. [^1]: While the HDF Group explores alternative packaging methods for future releases, RPM and DEB packages for Linux are not provided for this release of HDF5.