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How many releases of the C-based netCDF software are supported?

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How many releases of the C-based netCDF software are supported?

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When netCDF version 4.0 was released in June 2008, version 3.6.3 was released simultaneously, and both releases were supported by Unidata. Version 3.6.3 supported only the classic and 64-bit offset formats. Version 4.0 supported both of those format variants by default, and also the netCDF-4 and netCDF-4 classic model formats, if built using a previously installed HDF5 library and using the “–enable-netcdf-4” configure option. Software built from the netCDF-4.0 release without specifying “–enable-netcdf-4” (the default) was identical to software built with netCDF-3.6.3. Now that netCDF version 4.0.1 is available, both netCDF-3 and netCDF-4 versions of the software are part of a single software release. The netCDF software may be built to support just the classic and 64-bit offset formats (the default) or to also support the netCDF-4 and netCDF-4 classic model formats, if built using “–enable-netcdf-4”. Unidata no longer supports a separate netCDF-3-only version of the software, but