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Rick, > Re. release plans for netCDF. Will there be more 3.x releases after > 3.6.2 or is 4.0 the next thing on the horizon? We expect 3.6.2 will be the last 3.x release, since the netCDF-4.0 release will include netCDF-3 and just support the netCDF-3 libraries if a compatible version of HDF5 needed for netCDF-4 is not installed. --Russ