In this session of Call the Doctor, The HDF Group's Dana Robinson discusses various topics related to the HDF5 library. He mentions an upcoming session at Supercomputing 23, provides information about the release schedule for version 1.14.3, and talks about a Fortran floating point issue. Dana explains the fix for the issue, which involves handling floating-point exceptions during initialization. He also outlines plans for version 1.14.4, including improvements such as Unicode file support on Windows, new data types, better testing for the read-only S3 VFD, addressing CVE issues, and other enhancements.

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