Greetings, SCF Toolkit 5.2.16 and related software are officially released. The release contains SCF Toolkit 5.2.16, HDF-EOS 2.16, HDF-EOS 5.1.12. The HDF4 support is at HDF4.2r4 and HDF5 support is at hdf5-1.8.3. The following tar files have been placed on the EDHS ftp site (ftp to edhs1.gsfc.nasa.gov and change directory to edhs) in the directories as identified: /sdptk/latest_release: SDPTK5.2.16v1.00.tar.Z SDPTK5.2.16v1.00_TestDrivers.tar.Z SDPTK_UG_Ch_1To5.pdf SDPTK_UG_Ch_6.pdf SDPTK_UG_Ch_6_Optional.pdf SDPTK_UG_Append.pdf Release5.2.16_prod_descrp.pdf /hdfeos/latest_release: HDF-EOS2.16v1.00.tar.Z HDF-EOS2.16v1.00_TestDrivers.tar.Z HDF4.2r4.tar.gz zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz jpegsrc.v6b.tar.Z HDF-EOS_REF.pdf HDF-EOS_UG.pdf /hdfeos5/latest_release: HDF-EOS5.1.12.tar.Z HDF-EOS5.1.12_TESTDRIVERS.tar.Z hdf5-1.8.3.tar.gz szip2.1.tar.gz HDF-EOS5_REF.pdf HDF-EOS5_UG.pdf /hdfeos/latest_release/windows: Compile_WIN.readme.txt Install_HDFEOS_WIN.readme.txt hdfeos2_16.zip hdfeos2_16b.zip win42r4-VS2005-IVF101.zip jpeg6-vs2005.zip szip21-vs2005-enc.zip szip21-vs2005-noenc.zip zlib123-vs2005.zip /hdfeos5/latest_release/windows: Compile_WIN.readme.txt Install_HDFEOS5_WIN.readme.txt hdfeos5_1_12.zip hdfeos5_1_12b.zip hdf5_183_xp32_vs2008_ivf101.zip hdf5_183_xp32_vs2005_ivf91.zip jpeg6-vs2005.zip szip21-vs2005-enc.zip szip21-vs2005-noenc.zip zlib123-vs2005.zip These files are accessible by the normally-used password (send a message to Landover_PGSTLKIT@raytheon.com if you need the password). The User's Guides will also be at our web site http://newsroom.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdptoolkit/toolkit.html, besides the ftp site. We tested the code with our provided test drivers, and with several user-provided code for HDF-EOS5. However, since only a few minor changes made to HDF-EOS2 and TOOLKIT since the last release, the release was not tested with AIRS, MODIS, and MISR PGEs anymore. Below is a list of pertinent problems/resolutions contained in the released. The relevant NCR for each fix has been provided. Please access the ECS DDTS webpage (password required) for additional details. 8048699 Update self-configuration code for HDF-EOS and HDF-EOS2 for changes relating to szip 8048682 Possible problems with datatype conversion in memory and fillvalue 8048681 Add a flag to CFLAGS to support HDF5-1.8 in HDF-EOS5 8048589 Need XML metadata writing capabilty in SDP toolkit 8048486 Modify HDF-EOS to avoid errors because of changes in HDF5 for netCDF 8048472 Possible problem with unlimited dimension in HDF-EOS5 8048436 Possible problem in PTdeftimeperiod routine 8048220 Support TOOLKIT for CYGWIN 8048219 Update HEConvert in baseline for version 2.0 release of HEConvet 8048157 Possible problem in setting tiling and compression in HDF-EOS5 8048145 Update HDF4 and HDF5 in the baseline for the latest versions from The HDF Group 8048062 Possible problem with an attribute data type inquiry 8047952 A build problem after the relb split (REL721ASDCPTE) 8047906 Writing INT8 data field creates wrong datatype 8047905 A few minor fixes in installation scripts needed with 2.10 HDF-EOS5 release 8047900 HDF-EOS fails to detect internal compression method for some products 8047888 Problem in he2tohe5 conversion tool converting an AURA OMI he2 file 8047703 Problem in pccheck utility when there is an empty space at a line begining 8047518 Problem with ODL tools (WriteLable) during writing metadata into HDF files Some release notes: 1. Unlike the old versions before HDF4.2rX, the new HDF4.2rX version does not include zlib and jpeg source codes. The source code for jpeg and zlib are provided in separate tar files and one should install them before attempting to install HDF4. We have modified our install scripts to install zlib, jpeg, and szip before attempting to install HDF4. 2. HDF4 now supports szip. Our installation scripts can now configure HDF4 with szip. This may require TOOLKIT/HDF-EOS users to include szip related header/library files in their makefiles that used to work with the previous version of HDF4. 3. If users install zlib, jpeg, HDF4 and HDF-EOS independent from the TOOLKIT installation and they do not intend to install TOOLKIT, They may require either to modify their existing makefiles to include relevant path/files for zlib (szip and jpeg) header and library files, or to copy those files to relevant directories in HDF4. 4. In SUN platforms when we installed zlib, jpeg, or szip in a deeply nested directory, we noticed that HDF4 or HDF5 could not locate libraries for these software, therefore, configuration failed. On SUN platform please try installing zlib, jpeg, and szip in not too deeply nested directories. 5. In this release we have added support for Cygwin. As in the previous Release we support Mac Intel in addition to Power Mac OSX. In addition we support 32bit installation in 64bit Linux platforms, besides the default 64bit installation. Please note that 32bit installation cannot be made in IA64 platforms since the compiler does not support -m32 flag. Also as the previous release HDF-EOS2 and HDF-EO5 can be auto-configured, so that if users do not require TOOLKIT, or want to try new platforms, they could install HDF-EOS2/HDF-EOS5 separate from TOOLKIT. 6. In the current release the szip decoder will be installed as default. Users will have the choice also to have szip encoder installed during decoder installation. 7. We had a crash on EDHS disk during October 2003 (our ftp site resides on this disk). All our latest toolkit releases have been updated on the site. However, there are still some files missing. If you are in need of any missing files, please send an email request to this address Landover_PGSTLKIT@raytheon.com and we will try to add it if we can locate a saved copy somewhere else. 8. With this release of TOOLKIT users can get core metadata in XML format in addition to the ODL format. To get both *.met and *.xml files user need to modify their PCF file adding 3 lines 10260|XMLstylesheet.temp|||||1 10303|science.xsl|~/database/common/MET||||1 10256|XML METADATA GENERATION FLAG; 0=no, 1=yes|0 (as shown in the template PCF file in the runtime directory of TOOLKIT) and setting XML flag to 1. If PCF does not include the line 10256|XML METADATA GENERATION FLAG; 0=no, 1=yes|0 or flage is set to zero (as above), toolkit should work as in previous versions, creating only ODL metadata. If XML flag is set to 1 in the PCF file, then TOOLKIT will produce .xml besides the .met file for INVENTORY metadata and also will write XML metadata into the HDF file in the "xmlmetadata" global attribute as for the coremetadata. Note On EDHS Disk: recently EDHS was moved on to a linux box. This move added another directory to the path of TOOLKIT/HDF-EOS related softwate. Please change directory to "edhs" once you ftp to edhs1.gsfc.nasa.gov site. All the Toolkit/HDF-EOS directories are in that directory. For Toolkit, HDF-EOS and other related software please visit our web site http://newsroom.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdptoolkit/toolkit.html Please report any problems or suggestions to mailto:Landover_PGSTLKIT@raytheon.com