Remove NEWSLETTER files. (#5859)

* Remove NEWSLETTER files.
Update tarball.yml and release-files.yml to upload description for
snapshots and releases.

* Add path to CHANGELOG.md in tarball.yml.

Author: lrknox

.github/workflows/release-files.yml

@@ -208,9 +208,11 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           echo "${{ steps.get-file-base.outputs.FILE_BASE }}" > ./last-file.txt
 
-      - name: Create description for release/snapshot from "Executive Summary" section of CHANGELOG.md
-        run: |
-          sed -n '/^# .* Executive Summary: HDF5 Version .*/,/^# .* Breaking Changes/p' CHANGELOG.md | sed '$d' > description.txt
+      - name: Get description.txt for release/snapshot
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@d3f86a106a0bac45b974a628896c90dbdf5c8093 # v4.3.0
+        with:
+                name: description.txt
+                path: ${{ github.workspace }}
 
       - name: PreRelease tag
         id: create_prerelease

.github/workflows/tarball.yml

@@ -193,9 +193,18 @@ jobs:
               path: hdf5.zip
               if-no-files-found: error # 'warn' or 'ignore' are also available, defaults to `warn`
 
-      - name: Save NEWSLETTER
+      - name: Create description for release/snapshot from "Executive Summary" section of CHANGELOG.md
+        run: |
+          sed -n '/^# .* Executive Summary: HDF5 Version .*/,/^# .* Breaking Changes/p'  ./hdfsrc/release_docs/CHANGELOG.md | sed '$d' > description.txt
+
+      - name: List files in the repository
+        run: |
+              ls -l ${{ github.workspace }}
+              ls $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
+
+      - name: Upload description.txt
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
-              name: NEWSLETTER
-              path: ./hdfsrc/release_docs/NEWSLETTER.txt
+              name: description.txt
+              path: ./description.txt
               if-no-files-found: error # 'warn' or 'ignore' are also available, defaults to `warn`

bin/h5vers

@@ -187,10 +187,6 @@ die "unable to read file: $README\n" unless -r $file;
 my $RELEASE = $file;
 $RELEASE =~ s/[^\/]*$/..\/release_docs\/RELEASE.txt/;
 die "unable to read file: $RELEASE\n" unless -r $file;
-# release_docs/NEWSLETTER.txt
-my $NEWS = $file;
-$NEWS =~ s/[^\/]*$/..\/release_docs\/NEWSLETTER.txt/;
-die "unable to read file: $NEWS\n" unless -r $file;
 my $H5_JAVA = $file;
 $H5_JAVA =~ s/[^\/]*$/..\/java\/src\/hdf\/hdf5lib\/H5.java/;
 die "unable to read file: $H5_JAVA\n" unless -r $file;
@@ -246,7 +242,6 @@ if ($set) {
   # Nothing to do but print result
   $README = "";
   $RELEASE = "";
-  $NEWS = "";
   $LT_VERS = "";       
   $HDF5CONFIGCMAKE = "";
   $HDF5EXCONFCMAKE = "";
@@ -328,20 +323,6 @@ if ($RELEASE) {
   close FILE;
 }
 
-# Update the release_docs/NEWSLETTER.txt file
-if ($NEWS) {
-  open FILE, $NEWS or die "$NEWS: $!\n";
-  my @contents = <FILE>;
-  close FILE;
-  $contents[0] = sprintf("HDF5 version %d.%d.%d%s %s",
-             @newver[0,1,2],
-             $newver[3] eq "" ? "" : "-".$newver[3],
-             "currently under development\n");
-  open FILE, ">$NEWS" or die "$NEWS: $!\n";
-  print FILE @contents;
-  close FILE;
-}
-
 # Update the config/cmake/scripts/HDF5config.cmake file
 if ($HDF5CONFIGCMAKE) {
   my $data = read_file($HDF5CONFIGCMAKE);

bin/release

@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ ln -s `pwd` $tmpdir/$HDF5_IN_VERS || exit 1
 
 # Update README.md and release_docs/RELEASE.txt with release information in
 # line 1.
-for f in README.md release_docs/RELEASE.txt release_docs/NEWSLETTER.txt; do
+for f in README.md release_docs/RELEASE.txt; do
     echo "HDF5 version $VERS released on $release_date" >$f.x
     sed -e 1d $f >>$f.x
     mv $f.x $f

release_docs/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ HDF5 release, platforms tested, and known problems in this release.
 
 ## Significant Advancements:
 
-- Full [UTF-8](https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/blob/develop/release_docs/CHANGELOG.md#utf8) filename support on Windows, resolving encoding issues from previous versions.
+- Full [UTF-8](https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/blob/develop/release_docs/CHANGELOG.md#utf-8) filename support on Windows, resolving encoding issues from previous versions.
 - Introduction of bfloat16 predefined datatypes for efficient machine learning conversions.
 - First-class support for [complex numbers](https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/blob/develop/release_docs/CHANGELOG.md#complex), eliminating manual workarounds in scientific applications.