Version 17.08.0 (August 24, 2017)

• Build system
  • Added HDF_ROOT variable to customize HDF5 install location
• Legion
  • New error message format and online reference at http://legion.stanford.edu/messages
• Legion Prof
  • Added new compact binary format for profile logs
  • Added flag: -hl:prof_logfile prof_%.gz
• Realm
  • Fixes to support big-endian systems
  • Several performance improvements to DMA subsystem
  • Added REALM_DEFAULT_ARGS environment variable containing flags to be inserted at front of command line
• Regent
  • Removed new operator. Unstructured regions are now fully allocated by default
  • Added optimization to automatically skip empty tasks
  • Initial support for extern tasks that are defined elsewhere
  • Tasks that use __demand(__openmp) are now constrained to run on OpenMP processors by default
  • RDIR: Better support for deeper nested region trees