CHANGELOG (Unreleased) records libver_bounds and the 1.8 checks; known-issues moves "the writer does not produce output HDF5 1.8 can read" to Fixed (history) as an opt-in fix and keeps what is still open (Python 'w' has no libver, no pre-1.8 format, B-tree node filling vs libhdf5's chunk cache); README's capability table lists 1.8 output and v1 B-tree chunk indexes as written; BENCHMARKS gains the dated A/B of the two formats on the read harness (tank, 2026-09-28, under load), which is why the default stays the 1.10 format. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>