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 Darshan Release Change Log
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+Darshan-3.1.3-pre1
+=============
+* add --enable-HDF5_1.10 configure option to explicitly enable HDF5 1.10+
+  support, needed on some platforms for API compatibility 
+  - contributed by Karl-Ulrich Bamberg
+
 Darshan-3.1.2
 =============
 * bug fix in resolving underlying call to fopen64 when using the LD_PRELOAD