HDF5 version > 1.10 not working

[sassy-crick]

Dear maintainers,

I am part of the EasyBuild community and I am trying to build YAFF-1.6.0 with HDF5 version 1.12.x. Due to a change of the API that build is failing.
As we want to use YAFF for testing LAMMPS (see PR #15869 and for dependency reasons we got HDF5-1.12.x in our toolchain, it would be highly desirable to look into that and make the software compatible with newer versions of HDF5.

Please let me know if you require any further information.

Thanks for your help, much appreciated!