v0.17.2

HDF5 v0.17.2

Diff since v0.17.1

Merged pull requests:

• mention package extension for MPI (#1122) (@ranocha)
• Update HISTORY.md (#1125) (@musm)
• Fix variable length strings as attributes (#1130) (@simonbyrne)
• Update helpers.jl with initial value for Ref{Cuint} (#1138) (@david-macmahon)
• update CompatHelper.yml and also run it for subpackages (#1139) (@antholzer)
• bump compat for filter package dependencies (#1140) (@baumgold)
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 (#1141) (@dependabot[bot])
• Bump CodecZstd compat to 0.8, H5Zzstd version to 0.1.2 (#1144) (@mkitti)
• Fix H5F_LIBVER_LATEST, map lib 1.15 to H5F_LIBVER_V116 (#1145) (@mkitti)
• Add Julia 1.11 nightly to tests (#1146) (@mkitti)
• Remove unused type var in write_dataset(... (#1147) (@mkitti)

Closed issues:

• Can't get HDF5.jl work with Julia running in docker (julia:1.8-alpine3.17) - can't find libmpi.so.12 (#1123)
• Segfault when writing variable length string as attribute (#1129)
• Support szip (freely) (#1132)
• Installing HDF5.jl on ARM M1 (#1133)
• HDF5.jl triggers segfault in ccall with openmp+clang(m1) with julia 1.10 (#1134)
• h5_is_library_threadsafe() gives unreliable results due to unspecified initial value (#1137)
• The HDF Group CI (#1142)