Changes in version 2.8.0:

NEW FEATURES

    o   New function h5version implemented.

    o   New low level general library functions H5open, H5close,
	H5garbage_collect, H5get_libversion, and H5Dset_extent implemented.

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   h5createDataset automatically uses chunking and compression.

    o   Added a warning if chunk size is equal to dimensions for large
	compressed datasets.

BUG FIXES

    o   C-stack overflow when reading large fixed-length strings.

    o   error in i/o with chunksize or blocksize parameters.

    o   compiling errors due to missing int return value.

Changes in version 2.6.0:

NEW FEATURES

    o   support for logical added

    o   support for reading attributes added (use read.attributes=TRUE)

    o   enabeled compression for data.frame in h5write

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   Use BiocStyles for package vignette

Changes in version 2.4.0:

NEW FEATURES

    o   support for reading 64-bit integers added

    o   support for reading variable length strings added

    o   support for reading scalar objects added

USER VISIBLE CHANGES

    o   NEWS.Rd added

    o   display of chunksize.pdf as a vignette avoided