diff --git a/.github/workflows/run_tests_ubuntu.yml b/.github/workflows/run_tests_ubuntu.yml
index 927ea68e4b..a21ac5b001 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run_tests_ubuntu.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run_tests_ubuntu.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 name: Run Ubuntu/Linux netCDF Tests
 
-on: [ pull_request ]
+on: [pull_request]
 
 jobs:
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e89e351c5e..846ceb6416 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -623,26 +623,6 @@ ENDIF(ENABLE_STRICT_NULL_BYTE_HEADER_PADDING)
 # 3. is nczarr enabled?
 # We need separate flags for cases 1 and 2
 
-# We need to determine if libsz is available both for HDF5 and NCZarr
-# If user has specified the `SZIP_LIBRARY`, use it; otherwise try to find...
-IF(NOT SZIP_LIBRARY)
-  FIND_LIBRARY(SZIP PATH NAMES szip sz sz2)
-  IF(SZIP)
-    SET(SZIP_LIBRARY ${SZIP})
-  ELSE()
-    UNSET(SZIP_LIBRARY)
-    UNSET(SZIP)
-  ENDIF()
-ENDIF()
-
-IF(SZIP_LIBRARY)
-  SET(SZIP_FOUND yes)
-  SET(HAVE_SZ yes)
-ELSE()
-  SET(SZIP_FOUND no)
-  SET(HAVE_SZ no)
-ENDIF()
-
 ##
 # Option to Enable HDF5
 #
@@ -905,15 +885,6 @@ IF(USE_HDF5)
    int x = 1;}" USE_HDF5_SZIP)
   IF(USE_HDF5_SZIP)
     SET(HAVE_H5Z_SZIP yes)
-    # If user has specified the `SZIP_LIBRARY`, use it; otherwise try to find...
-    IF(SZIP_FOUND)
-      SET(CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES ${SZIP_LIBRARY} ${CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES})
-      MESSAGE(STATUS "HDF5 has szip.")
-    ELSE()
-        MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "HDF5 Requires SZIP, but cannot find libszip or libsz.")
-    ENDIF()
-  ELSE()
-    SET(HAVE_H5Z_SZIP no)  
   ENDIF()
 
   ####
@@ -1114,31 +1085,53 @@ string(TOLOWER "${filter}" downfilter)
 IF(${filter}_FOUND)
   INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${filter}_INCLUDE_DIRS})
   SET(ENABLE_${upfilter} TRUE)
-  SET(STD_FILTERS "${STD_FILTERS},${downfilter}")
+  SET(HAVE_${upfilter} ON)
+  SET(STD_FILTERS "${STD_FILTERS} ${downfilter}")
+  MESSAGE(">>> Standard Filter: ${downfilter}")
 ELSE()
   SET(ENABLE_${upfilter} FALSE)
+  SET(HAVE_${upfilter} OFF)
 ENDIF()
 endmacro(set_std_filter)
 
 # Locate some compressors
+FIND_PACKAGE(Szip)
 FIND_PACKAGE(Bz2)
 FIND_PACKAGE(Blosc)
 FIND_PACKAGE(Zstd)
 
-IF(Zstd_FOUND)
-  SET(HAVE_ZSTD yes)
-ELSE()
-  SET(HAVE_ZSTD no)
-ENDIF()
-
 # Accumulate standard filters
-set(STD_FILTERS "deflate") # Always have deflate */
-set_std_filter(SZIP)
+set(STD_FILTERS "deflate") # Always have deflate*/
+set_std_filter(Szip)
+  SET(HAVE_SZ ${Szip_FOUND})
 set_std_filter(Blosc)
 set_std_filter(Zstd)
-set_std_filter(Bz2)
-IF(NOT Bz2_FOUND)
-set(STD_FILTERS "${STD_FILTERS},bzip2") # Always have bzip2 */
+IF(Bz2_FOUND)
+  set_std_filter(Bz2)
+ELSE()
+  # The reason we use a local version is to support a more comples test case
+  MESSAGE(WARNING "libbz2 not found using built-in version")
+  SET(HAVE_LOCAL_BZ2 ON)
+  SET(HAVE_BZ2 ON)
+  set(STD_FILTERS "${STD_FILTERS} bz2")
+ENDIF()
+
+
+# If user wants, then install selected plugins
+SET(PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR "" CACHE STRING "Whether and where we should install plugins")
+SET(ENABLE_PLUGIN_INSTALL OFF)
+if(DEFINED PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR OR DEFINED CACHE{PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR})
+  IF(PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR STREQUAL "")
+    MESSAGE(WARNING "No plugin directory value specified; option ignored.")  
+    UNSET(PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR)
+    UNSET(PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR CACHE)
+    SET(PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR_SETTING "N.A.")
+  ELSE()
+      SET(PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR_SETTING "${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR}")
+      SET(ENABLE_PLUGIN_INSTALL ON)
+  ENDIF()
+ELSE()
+    SET(PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR_SETTING "N.A.")
 ENDIF()
 
 # See if we have libzip
@@ -2528,6 +2521,10 @@ IF(ENABLE_NCZARR)
 configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/nc_test4/findplugin.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/nczarr_test/findplugin.sh @ONLY NEWLINE_STYLE LF)
 ENDIF()
 
+IF(ENABLE_PLUGINS)
+configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/nc_test4/findplugin.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/plugins/findplugin.sh @ONLY NEWLINE_STYLE LF)
+ENDIF()
+
 IF(ENABLE_EXAMPLES)
 configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/nc_test4/findplugin.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/examples/C/findplugin.sh @ONLY NEWLINE_STYLE LF)
 ENDIF()
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 9d0d2398d5..d0ce10764d 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This file contains a high-level description of this package's evolution. Release
 
 ## 4.8.2 - TBD
 
+* [Enhancement] Support installation of pre-built standard filters into user-specified location. See [Github #2318](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2318).
 * [Enhancement] Improve filter support. More specifically (1) add nc_inq_filter_avail to check if a filter is available, (2) add the notion of standard filters, (3) cleanup szip support to fix interaction with NCZarr. See [Github #2245](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2245).
 * [Enhancement] Switch to tinyxml2 as the default xml parser implementation. See [Github #2170](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2170).
 * [Bug Fix] Require that the type of the variable in nc_def_var_filter is not variable length. See [Github #/2231](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/2231).
diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindBzip2.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindBzip2.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b6c9471d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/modules/FindBzip2.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# Searches for an installation of the bzip2 library. On success, it sets the following variables:
+#
+#   Bzip2_FOUND              Set to true to indicate the bzip2 library was found
+#   Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS       The directory containing the header file bzip2/bzip2.h
+#   Bzip2_LIBRARIES          The libraries needed to use the bzip2 library
+#
+# To specify an additional directory to search, set Bzip2_ROOT.
+#
+# Author: Siddhartha Chaudhuri, 2009
+#
+
+# Look for the header, first in the user-specified location and then in the system locations
+SET(Bzip2_INCLUDE_DOC "The directory containing the header file bzip2.h")
+FIND_PATH(Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS NAMES bzip2.h bzip2/bzip2.h PATHS ${Bzip2_ROOT} ${Bzip2_ROOT}/include DOC ${Bzip2_INCLUDE_DOC} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+IF(NOT Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS)  # now look in system locations
+  FIND_PATH(Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS NAMES bzlib.h DOC ${Bzip2_INCLUDE_DOC})
+ENDIF(NOT Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS)
+
+SET(Bzip2_FOUND FALSE)
+
+IF(Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS)
+  SET(Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS ${Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
+  IF("${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS}" MATCHES "/include$")
+    # Strip off the trailing "/include" in the path.
+    GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS ${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS} PATH)
+  ENDIF("${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS}" MATCHES "/include$")
+
+  IF(EXISTS "${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS}/lib")
+    SET(Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS ${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS}/lib)
+  ENDIF(EXISTS "${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS}/lib")
+
+  # Find Bzip2 libraries
+  FIND_LIBRARY(Bzip2_DEBUG_LIBRARY NAMES bzip2d bzip2_d libbzip2d libbzip2_d libbzip2
+               PATH_SUFFIXES Debug ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE} ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/Debug
+               PATHS ${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+  FIND_LIBRARY(Bzip2_RELEASE_LIBRARY NAMES bzip2 libbzip2
+               PATH_SUFFIXES Release ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE} ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/Release
+               PATHS ${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+
+  SET(Bzip2_LIBRARIES )
+  IF(Bzip2_DEBUG_LIBRARY AND Bzip2_RELEASE_LIBRARY)
+    SET(Bzip2_LIBRARIES debug ${Bzip2_DEBUG_LIBRARY} optimized ${Bzip2_RELEASE_LIBRARY})
+  ELSEIF(Bzip2_DEBUG_LIBRARY)
+    SET(Bzip2_LIBRARIES ${Bzip2_DEBUG_LIBRARY})
+  ELSEIF(Bzip2_RELEASE_LIBRARY)
+    SET(Bzip2_LIBRARIES ${Bzip2_RELEASE_LIBRARY})
+  ENDIF(Bzip2_DEBUG_LIBRARY AND Bzip2_RELEASE_LIBRARY)
+
+  IF(Bzip2_LIBRARIES)
+    SET(Bzip2_FOUND TRUE)
+  ENDIF(Bzip2_LIBRARIES)
+ENDIF(Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS)
+
+IF(Bzip2_FOUND)
+#  IF(NOT Bzip2_FIND_QUIETLY)
+    MESSAGE(STATUS "Found Bzip2: headers at ${Bzip2_INCLUDE_DIRS}, libraries at ${Bzip2_LIBRARY_DIRS}")
+    MESSAGE(STATUS "	library is ${Bzip2_LIBRARIES}")    
+#  ENDIF(NOT Bzip2_FIND_QUIETLY)
+ELSE(Bzip2_FOUND)
+  IF(Bzip2_FIND_REQUIRED)
+    MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "Bzip2 library not found")
+  ENDIF(Bzip2_FIND_REQUIRED)
+ENDIF(Bzip2_FOUND)
diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindSZIP.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindSZIP.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index dc972e5bd0..0000000000
--- a/cmake/modules/FindSZIP.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,179 +0,0 @@
-
-# - Find SZIP library
-# - Derived from the FindTiff.cmake that is included with cmake
-# Find the native SZIP includes and library
-# This module defines
-#  SZIP_INCLUDE_DIRS, where to find tiff.h, etc.
-#  SZIP_LIBRARIES, libraries to link against to use SZIP.
-#  SZIP_FOUND, If false, do not try to use SZIP.
-#    also defined, but not for general use are
-#  SZIP_LIBRARY, where to find the SZIP library.
-#  SZIP_LIBRARY_DEBUG - Debug version of SZIP library
-#  SZIP_LIBRARY_RELEASE - Release Version of SZIP library
-
-# MESSAGE (STATUS "Finding SZIP library and headers..." )
-
-############################################
-#
-# Check the existence of the libraries.
-#
-############################################
-# This macro was taken directly from the FindQt4.cmake file that is included
-# with the CMake distribution. This is NOT my work. All work was done by the
-# original authors of the FindQt4.cmake file. Only minor modifications were
-# made to remove references to Qt and make this file more generally applicable
-#########################################################################
-
-MACRO (SZIP_ADJUST_LIB_VARS basename)
-  IF (${basename}_INCLUDE_DIR)
-
-    # if only the release version was found, set the debug variable also to the release version
-    IF (${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE AND NOT ${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG)
-      SET (${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG ${${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE})
-      SET (${basename}_LIBRARY       ${${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE})
-      SET (${basename}_LIBRARIES     ${${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE})
-    ENDIF (${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE AND NOT ${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG)
-
-    # if only the debug version was found, set the release variable also to the debug version
-    IF (${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG AND NOT ${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE)
-      SET (${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE ${${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG})
-      SET (${basename}_LIBRARY         ${${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG})
-      SET (${basename}_LIBRARIES       ${${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG})
-    ENDIF (${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG AND NOT ${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE)
-    IF (${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG AND ${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE)
-      # if the generator supports configuration types then set
-      # optimized and debug libraries, or if the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE has a value
-      IF (CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES OR CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
-	SET (${basename}_LIBRARY       optimized ${${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE} debug ${${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG})
-      ELSE(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES OR CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
-	# if there are no configuration types and CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE has no value
-	# then just use the release libraries
-	SET (${basename}_LIBRARY       ${${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE} )
-      ENDIF (CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES OR CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
-      SET (${basename}_LIBRARIES       optimized ${${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE} debug ${${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG})
-    ENDIF (${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG AND ${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE)
-
-    SET (${basename}_LIBRARY ${${basename}_LIBRARY} CACHE FILEPATH "The ${basename} library")
-
-    IF (${basename}_LIBRARY)
-      SET (${basename}_FOUND 1)
-    ENDIF (${basename}_LIBRARY)
-
-  ENDIF (${basename}_INCLUDE_DIR )
-
-  # Make variables changeble to the advanced user
-  MARK_AS_ADVANCED (${basename}_LIBRARY ${basename}_LIBRARY_RELEASE ${basename}_LIBRARY_DEBUG ${basename}_INCLUDE_DIR )
-ENDMACRO (SZIP_ADJUST_LIB_VARS)
-
-
-# Look for the header file.
-SET (SZIP_INCLUDE_SEARCH_DIRS
-    $ENV{SZIP_INSTALL}/include
-    $ENV{SZIP_INSTALL}/include/szip
-    /usr/include
-    /usr/include/szip
-)
-
-SET (SZIP_LIB_SEARCH_DIRS
-    $ENV{SZIP_INSTALL}/lib
-    /usr/lib
-)
-
-SET (SZIP_BIN_SEARCH_DIRS
-    $ENV{SZIP_INSTALL}/bin
-    /usr/bin
-)
-
-FIND_PATH (SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR
-    NAMES szlib.h
-    PATHS ${SZIP_INCLUDE_SEARCH_DIRS}
-    NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-)
-
-IF (WIN32 AND NOT MINGW)
-    SET (SZIP_SEARCH_DEBUG_NAMES "sz_d;libsz_d")
-    SET (SZIP_SEARCH_RELEASE_NAMES "sz;libsz;szip")
-ELSE (WIN32 AND NOT MINGW)
-    SET (SZIP_SEARCH_DEBUG_NAMES "sz_d")
-    SET (SZIP_SEARCH_RELEASE_NAMES "sz")
-ENDIF (WIN32 AND NOT MINGW)
-
-# Look for the library.
-FIND_LIBRARY (SZIP_LIBRARY_DEBUG
-    NAMES ${SZIP_SEARCH_DEBUG_NAMES}
-    PATHS ${SZIP_LIB_SEARCH_DIRS}
-    NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-)
-
-FIND_LIBRARY (SZIP_LIBRARY_RELEASE
-    NAMES ${SZIP_SEARCH_RELEASE_NAMES}
-    PATHS ${SZIP_LIB_SEARCH_DIRS}
-    NO_DEFAULT_PATH
-)
-
-SZIP_ADJUST_LIB_VARS (SZIP)
-
-IF (SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR AND SZIP_LIBRARY)
-  SET (SZIP_FOUND 1)
-  SET (SZIP_LIBRARIES ${SZIP_LIBRARY})
-  SET (SZIP_INCLUDE_DIRS ${SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR})
-  IF (SZIP_LIBRARY_DEBUG)
-    GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT (SZIP_LIBRARY_PATH ${SZIP_LIBRARY_DEBUG} PATH)
-    SET (SZIP_LIB_DIR  ${SZIP_LIBRARY_PATH})
-  ELSEIF (SZIP_LIBRARY_RELEASE)
-    GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT (SZIP_LIBRARY_PATH ${SZIP_LIBRARY_RELEASE} PATH)
-    SET (SZIP_LIB_DIR  ${SZIP_LIBRARY_PATH})
-  ENDIF (SZIP_LIBRARY_DEBUG)
-
-ELSE (SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR AND SZIP_LIBRARY)
-  SET (SZIP_FOUND 0)
-  SET (SZIP_LIBRARIES)
-  SET (SZIP_INCLUDE_DIRS)
-ENDIF (SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR AND SZIP_LIBRARY)
-
-# Report the results.
-IF (NOT SZIP_FOUND)
-  SET (SZIP_DIR_MESSAGE
-      "SZip was not found. Make sure SZIP_LIBRARY and SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR are set or set the SZIP_INSTALL environment variable."
-  )
-  IF (NOT SZIP_FIND_QUIETLY)
-    MESSAGE (STATUS "${SZIP_DIR_MESSAGE}")
-  ELSE (NOT SZIP_FIND_QUIETLY)
-    IF (SZIP_FIND_REQUIRED)
-      MESSAGE (FATAL_ERROR "SZip was NOT found and is Required by this project")
-    ENDIF (SZIP_FIND_REQUIRED)
-  ENDIF (NOT SZIP_FIND_QUIETLY)
-ENDIF (NOT SZIP_FOUND)
-
-IF (SZIP_FOUND)
-  INCLUDE (CheckSymbolExists)
-  #############################################
-  # Find out if SZIP was build using dll's
-  #############################################
-  # Save required variable
-  SET (CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES_SAVE ${CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES})
-  SET (CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS_SAVE    ${CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS})
-  # Add SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR to CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES
-  SET (CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES "${CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES};${SZIP_INCLUDE_DIRS}")
-
-  CHECK_SYMBOL_EXISTS (SZIP_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB "SZconfig.h" HAVE_SZIP_DLL)
-
-  IF (HAVE_SZIP_DLL STREQUAL "TRUE")
-    SET (HAVE_SZIP_DLL "1")
-  ENDIF (HAVE_SZIP_DLL STREQUAL "TRUE")
-
-  # Restore CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES and CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS variables
-  SET (CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES ${CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES_SAVE})
-  SET (CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS    ${CMAKE_REQUIRED_FLAGS_SAVE})
-  #
-  #############################################
-ENDIF (SZIP_FOUND)
-
-IF (FIND_SZIP_DEBUG)
-  MESSAGE (STATUS "SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR: ${SZIP_INCLUDE_DIR}")
-  MESSAGE (STATUS "SZIP_INCLUDE_DIRS: ${SZIP_INCLUDE_DIRS}")
-  MESSAGE (STATUS "SZIP_LIBRARY_DEBUG: ${SZIP_LIBRARY_DEBUG}")
-  MESSAGE (STATUS "SZIP_LIBRARY_RELEASE: ${SZIP_LIBRARY_RELEASE}")
-  MESSAGE (STATUS "HAVE_SZIP_DLL: ${HAVE_SZIP_DLL}")
-  MESSAGE (STATUS "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: ${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}")
-ENDIF (FIND_SZIP_DEBUG)
diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindSzip.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindSzip.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4deca3347a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/modules/FindSzip.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# Searches for an installation of the szip library. On success, it sets the following variables:
+#
+#   Szip_FOUND              Set to true to indicate the szip library was found
+#   Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS       The directory containing the header file szip/szip.h
+#   Szip_LIBRARIES          The libraries needed to use the szip library
+#
+# To specify an additional directory to search, set Szip_ROOT.
+#
+# Author: Siddhartha Chaudhuri, 2009
+#
+
+# Look for the header, first in the user-specified location and then in the system locations
+SET(Szip_INCLUDE_DOC "The directory containing the header file szip.h")
+FIND_PATH(Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS NAMES szlib.h szip.h szip/szip.h PATHS ${Szip_ROOT} ${Szip_ROOT}/include DOC ${Szip_INCLUDE_DOC} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+IF(NOT Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS)  # now look in system locations
+  FIND_PATH(Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS NAMES szlib.h szip.h szip/szip.h DOC ${Szip_INCLUDE_DOC})
+ENDIF(NOT Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS)
+
+SET(Szip_FOUND FALSE)
+
+IF(Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS)
+  SET(Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS ${Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
+  IF("${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS}" MATCHES "/include$")
+    # Strip off the trailing "/include" in the path.
+    GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT(Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS ${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS} PATH)
+  ENDIF("${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS}" MATCHES "/include$")
+
+  IF(EXISTS "${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS}/lib")
+    SET(Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS ${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS}/lib)
+  ENDIF(EXISTS "${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS}/lib")
+
+  # Find Szip libraries
+  FIND_LIBRARY(Szip_DEBUG_LIBRARY NAMES szipd szip_d libszipd libszip_d szip libszip sz2 libsz2
+               PATH_SUFFIXES Debug ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE} ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/Debug
+               PATHS ${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+  FIND_LIBRARY(Szip_RELEASE_LIBRARY NAMES szip libszip sz libsz sz2 libsz2
+               PATH_SUFFIXES Release ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE} ${CMAKE_LIBRARY_ARCHITECTURE}/Release
+               PATHS ${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+
+  SET(Szip_LIBRARIES )
+  IF(Szip_DEBUG_LIBRARY AND Szip_RELEASE_LIBRARY)
+    SET(Szip_LIBRARIES debug ${Szip_DEBUG_LIBRARY} optimized ${Szip_RELEASE_LIBRARY})
+  ELSEIF(Szip_DEBUG_LIBRARY)
+    SET(Szip_LIBRARIES ${Szip_DEBUG_LIBRARY})
+  ELSEIF(Szip_RELEASE_LIBRARY)
+    SET(Szip_LIBRARIES ${Szip_RELEASE_LIBRARY})
+  ENDIF(Szip_DEBUG_LIBRARY AND Szip_RELEASE_LIBRARY)
+
+  IF(Szip_LIBRARIES)
+    SET(Szip_FOUND TRUE)
+  ENDIF(Szip_LIBRARIES)
+ENDIF(Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS)
+
+IF(Szip_FOUND)
+#  IF(NOT Szip_FIND_QUIETLY)
+    MESSAGE(STATUS "Found Szip: headers at ${Szip_INCLUDE_DIRS}, libraries at ${Szip_LIBRARY_DIRS}")
+    MESSAGE(STATUS "	library is ${Szip_LIBRARIES}")    
+#  ENDIF(NOT Szip_FIND_QUIETLY)
+ELSE(Szip_FOUND)
+  IF(Szip_FIND_REQUIRED)
+    MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "Szip library not found")
+  ENDIF(Szip_FIND_REQUIRED)
+ENDIF(Szip_FOUND)
diff --git a/config.h.cmake.in b/config.h.cmake.in
index b77c1bab24..97004f62c1 100644
--- a/config.h.cmake.in
+++ b/config.h.cmake.in
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ are set when opening a binary file on Windows. */
 #cmakedefine HAVE_ATEXIT 1
 
 /* Define to 1 if bzip2 library available. */
-#cmakedefine HAVE_BZIP2 1
+#cmakedefine HAVE_BZ2 1
 
 /* Define to 1 if zstd library available. */
 #cmakedefine HAVE_ZSTD 1
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index eb1abf6601..74ae167344 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -667,24 +667,21 @@ fi
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether libzstd library is available])
 AC_MSG_RESULT([${have_zstd}])
 
-# See if we have libbzip2 or libbz2
-AC_CHECK_LIB([bz2],[BZ2_bzCompress],[have_bzip2=yes],[have_bzip2=no])
-if test "x$have_bzip2" = "xyes" ; then
+# See if we have libbz2
+AC_CHECK_LIB([bz2],[BZ2_bzCompress],[have_bz2=yes],[have_bz2=no])
+if test "x$have_bz2" = "xyes" ; then
      AC_SEARCH_LIBS([BZ2_bzCompress],[bz2 bz2.dll cygbz2.dll], [], [])
-     AC_DEFINE([HAVE_BZIP2], [1], [if true, bz2 library is installed])
+     AC_DEFINE([HAVE_BZ2], [1], [if true, bz2 library is installed])
 fi
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether libbz2 library is available])
-AC_MSG_RESULT([${have_bzip2}])
+AC_MSG_RESULT([${have_bz2}])
 
-if test "x$have_bzip2" = "xno" ; then
-AC_CHECK_LIB([bzip2],[BZ2_bzCompress],[have_bzip2=yes],[have_bzip2=no])
-if test "x$have_bzip2" = "xyes" ; then
-   AC_SEARCH_LIBS([BZ2_bzCompress],[bzip2 bzip2.dll cygbzip2.dll], [], [])
-   AC_DEFINE([HAVE_BZIP2], [1], [if true, bzip2 library is installed])
-fi
-AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether libbzip2 library is available])
-AC_MSG_RESULT([${have_bzip2}])
+if test "x$have_bz2" = "xno" ; then
+  have_local_bz2=yes
+else
+  have_local_bz2=no
 fi
+AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_LOCAL_BZ2, [test "x$have_local_bz2" = xyes])
 
 # Note that szip management is tricky.
 # This is because we have three things to consider:
@@ -1753,7 +1750,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(HAS_MULTIFILTERS, [test "x$has_multifilters" = xyes])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_SZ, [test "x$have_sz" = xyes])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_H5Z_SZIP, [test "x$enable_hdf5_szip" = xyes])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_BLOSC, [test "x$have_blosc" = xyes])
-AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_BZIP2, [test "x$have_bzip2" = xyes])
+AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_BZ2, [test "x$have_bz2" = xyes])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_ZSTD, [test "x$have_zstd" = xyes])
 
 # If the machine doesn't have a long long, and we want netCDF-4, then
@@ -1864,26 +1861,45 @@ AC_SUBST(HAS_SZLIB_WRITE, [$have_sz])
 AC_SUBST(HAS_ZSTD,[$have_zstd])
 
 # Always available
-std_filters="deflate,bzip2"
+std_filters="deflate bz2"
 if test "x$enable_szlib" = xyes ; then
-std_filters="${std_filters},szip"
+std_filters="${std_filters} szip"
 fi
 # We need to include szip iff HDF5 && HDF5_HAS_SZIP || !HDF5 && NCZARR && libsz
 if test "x$enable_hdf5" = xyes && test "x$enable_hdf5_szip" = xyes ; then
-  std_filters="${std_filters},szip"
+  std_filters="${std_filters} szip"
 fi
 if test "x$enable_hdf5" = xno && test "x$have_sz" = xyes ; then
-std_filters="${std_filters},szip"
+std_filters="${std_filters} szip"
 fi
 if test "x$have_blosc" = xyes ; then
-std_filters="${std_filters},blosc"
+std_filters="${std_filters} blosc"
 fi
 if test "x$have_zstd" = xyes ; then
-std_filters="${std_filters},zst"
+std_filters="${std_filters} zstd"
 fi
 
 AC_SUBST(STD_FILTERS,[$std_filters])
 
+# If user wants, then install selected standard filters
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether and where we should install plugins])
+AC_ARG_WITH([plugin-dir], [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-plugin-dir=<absolute directory>],
+              [Install selected standard filters in specified directory])])
+AC_MSG_RESULT([$with_plugin_dir])
+if test "x$with_plugin_dir" = x ; then
+    AC_MSG_WARN([No plugin directory value specified; option ignored.])  
+    with_plugin_dir=
+    with_plugin_dir_setting="N.A."
+    enable_plugin_dir=no
+else
+    with_plugin_dir_setting="$with_plugin_dir"
+    enable_plugin_dir=yes
+fi
+AM_CONDITIONAL([ENABLE_PLUGIN_DIR], [test "x$enable_plugin_dir" = xyes])
+AC_SUBST([PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR], [$with_plugin_dir])
+# Better value for libnetcdf.settings
+AC_SUBST([PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR_SETTING], [$with_plugin_dir_setting])
+
 # Access netcdf specific version of config.h
 AH_BOTTOM([#include "ncconfigure.h"])
 
@@ -1973,6 +1989,7 @@ AC_MSG_NOTICE([generating header files and makefiles])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(test_common.sh:test_common.in)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(nc_test4/findplugin.sh:nc_test4/findplugin.in)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(nczarr_test/findplugin.sh:nc_test4/findplugin.in)
+AC_CONFIG_FILES(plugins/findplugin.sh:nc_test4/findplugin.in)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(examples/C/findplugin.sh:nc_test4/findplugin.in)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(ncdap_test/findtestserver.c:ncdap_test/findtestserver.c.in)
 AC_CONFIG_FILES(dap4_test/findtestserver4.c:ncdap_test/findtestserver.c.in)
diff --git a/docs/filters.md b/docs/filters.md
index 303a2644d4..00dbe59304 100644
--- a/docs/filters.md
+++ b/docs/filters.md
@@ -932,28 +932,40 @@ This is for internal use only.
 
 # Appendix F. Pre-built Filters
 
-As part of the overall build process, a number of filters are built as shared libraries in the "plugins" directory.
-They may be in that directory or the "plugins/.libs" subdirectory.
-It may be possible for users to utilize some of those libraries to provide filter support for general use.
-One simple way to reuse these libraries is to make the environment variable "HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH" refer to the plugin directory or the subdirectory, whichever contains the shared libraries.
-This may not be possible if the user already has other filter shared libraries in use.
+As part of the overall build process, a number of filters are built as shared libraries in the "plugins" directory
+&mdash; in that directory or the "plugins/.libs" subdirectory.
 
-The second way is to copy the necessary shared libraries from the plugins directory to the user's HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH directory.
-If the user is using HDF5, then the following filters are probably usable:
+An option exists to allow some of those filters to be installed into a user-specified directory. The relevant options are as follows:
+````
+./configure: --with-plugin-dir=<absolute-directory-path>
+cmake:       -DPLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR=<absolute-directory-path>
+````
+If the value of the environment variable "HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH" is a single directory, then
+a good value for the install directory is "$HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH", so for example:
+````
+./configure ... --with-plugin-dir="$HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR"
+````
 
-* ''libh5bzip2.so'' -- an HDF5 filter for bzip2 compression
-* ''libh5blosc.so'' -- an HDF5 filter for blosc compression
+If this option is specified, then as part of the "install" build action,
+a specified set of filter shared libraries will be copied into the specified directory.
+Any existing library of the same name will be overwritten. If the specified directory
+itself does not exist, then it will be created.
 
-If the user is using NCZarr filters, then you can install the following additional shared libraries:
+Currently, if the following filters are available, they will be installed;
+* ''libh5bzip2.so'' -- an HDF5 filter wrapper for bzip2 compression
+* ''libh5blosc.so'' -- an HDF5 filter wrapper for blosc compression
+* ''libh5zstd.so'' -- an HDF5 filter wrapper for zstandardcompression
 
+If the user is using NCZarr filters, then the following additional filters will be installed.
 * libh5shuffle.so -- shuffle filter
 * libh5fletcher32.so -- fletcher32 checksum
 * libh5deflate.so -- deflate compression
+* libh5szip.so -- szip compression
 * libnczdefaults.so -- provide NCZarr support for shuffle, fletcher32, and deflate.
+* libnczszip.so -- provide NCZarr support for szip.
 
-The shuffle, fletcher32, and deflate filters in this case will be ignored by HDF5 and only used by the NCZarr code.
-But in order to use them, it needs additional Codec capabilities provided by the libnczdefauts.so shared library.
-Note also that if you disable HDF5 support, but leave NCZarr support enabled, then all of the above filters
+The shuffle, fletcher32, deflate, and szip filters in this case will be ignored by HDF5 and only used by the NCZarr code.
+Note that if you disable HDF5 support, but leave NCZarr support enabled, then all of the above filters
 should continue to work.
 
 # Point of Contact {#filters_poc}
diff --git a/examples/C/Makefile.am b/examples/C/Makefile.am
index e9f087adac..34dbfbec41 100644
--- a/examples/C/Makefile.am
+++ b/examples/C/Makefile.am
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 
 # Un comment to use a more verbose test driver
 #SH_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
+#sh_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
 #LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
+#TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = export SETX=1;
 
 # Put together AM_CPPFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS.
 include $(top_srcdir)/lib_flags.am
diff --git a/examples/C/run_filter.sh b/examples/C/run_filter.sh
index 37dc8f8068..90e0935fe9 100755
--- a/examples/C/run_filter.sh
+++ b/examples/C/run_filter.sh
@@ -10,26 +10,25 @@ if test "x$srcdir" = x ; then srcdir=`pwd`; fi
 . ../../test_common.sh
 
 echo "*** Running filter example for netCDF-4."
+
 set -e
 
-if test -f ${builddir}/findplugin.sh ; then
 echo "*** running test_filter example..."
 . ${builddir}/findplugin.sh
 
 # Locate the plugin path and the library names; argument order is critical
 # Find bzip2 and capture
 findplugin h5bzip2
-BZIP2PATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
+BZIP2PATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
+
 # Verify
 if ! test -f ${BZIP2PATH} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${BZIP2PATH}"; exit 1; fi
-export HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
 
-echo "*** running filter_example..."
 rm -f ./bzip2.nc
+export HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}"
+echo "*** running filter_example..."
 ${execdir}/filter_example
-#rm -f ./bzip2.nc
-
-fi # Filter enabled
+rm -f ./bzip2.nc
 
 echo "*** Filter example successful!"
 exit 0
diff --git a/include/netcdf_filter_build.h b/include/netcdf_filter_build.h
index 6c6f8e9481..11c80f8095 100644
--- a/include/netcdf_filter_build.h
+++ b/include/netcdf_filter_build.h
@@ -34,17 +34,46 @@
 /* Defined flags for filter invocation (not stored); powers of two */
 #define NCZ_FILTER_DECODE 0x00000001
 
-/* External Discovery Function */
+/* External Discovery Functions */
 
 /*
 Obtain a pointer to an instance of NCZ_codec_class_t.
 
+NCZ_get_codec_info(void) --  returns pointer to instance of NCZ_codec_class_t.
+			      Instance an be recast based on version+sort to the plugin type specific info.
+So the void* return value is typically actually of type NCZ_codec_class_t*.
+
+Signature: typedef const void* (*NCZ_get_codec_info_proto)(void);
+
+The current object returned by NCZ_get_codec_info is a
+ pointer to an instance of NCZ_codec_t.
+
+The key to this struct are the several function pointers that do
+initialize/finalize and conversion between codec JSON and HDF5
+parameters.  The function pointers defined in NCZ_codec_t
+manipulate HDF5 parameters and NumCodec JSON.
+
+Obtain a pointer to an instance of NCZ_codec_class_t.
+
 NCZ_get_codec_info(void) --  returns pointer to instance of NCZ_codec_class_t.
 			      Instance an be recast based on version+sort to the plugin type specific info.
 So the void* return value is typically actually of type NCZ_codec_class_t*.
 */
 typedef const void* (*NCZ_get_codec_info_proto)(void);
 
+/*
+Obtain a pointer to a NULL terminated vector of NCZ_codec_class_t*.
+
+NCZ_codec_info_defaults(void) --  returns pointer to a vector of pointers to instances of NCZ_codec_class_t. The vector is NULL terminated.
+So the void* return value is typically actually of type NCZ_codec_class_t**.
+
+Signature: typedef const void* (*NCZ_codec_info_defaults_proto)(void);
+
+This entry point is used to return the codec information for
+multiple filters that otherwise do not have codec information defined.
+*/
+typedef const void* (*NCZ_codec_info_defaults_proto)(void);
+
 /* The current object returned by NCZ_get_plugin_info is a
    pointer to an instance of NCZ_codec_t.
 
@@ -86,7 +115,7 @@ int (*NCZ_hdf5_to_codec)(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
 * Convert a set of visible parameters to a set of working parameters using extra environmental information.
 Also allows for changes to the visible parameters. Invoked before filter is actually used.
 
-int (*NCZ_build_parameters)(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** vparamsp, size_t* wnparamsp, unsigned** wparamsp);
+int (*NCZ_modify_parameters)(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** vparamsp, size_t* wnparamsp, unsigned** wparamsp);
 
 @param ncid -- (in) ncid of the variable's group
 @param varid -- (in) varid of the variable
@@ -96,8 +125,15 @@ int (*NCZ_build_parameters)(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** v
 @params wparamsp -- (out) vector of working parameters
 @return -- a netcdf-c error code.
 
-* Convert a set of working parameters to a set of visible parameters using extra environmental information, if needed.
-Invoked before filter metadata is written.
+* Convert an HDF5 vector of visible parameters to a JSON representation.
+
+int (*NCZ_hdf5_to_codec)(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
+
+@param nparams -- (in) the length of the HDF5 unsigned vector
+@param params -- (in) pointer to the HDF5 unsigned vector.
+@param codecp -- (out) store the string representation of the codec; caller must free.
+@return -- a netcdf-c error code.
+
 */
 
 /*
diff --git a/libdispatch/dutil.c b/libdispatch/dutil.c
index b8f48e17cf..d4b37a3448 100644
--- a/libdispatch/dutil.c
+++ b/libdispatch/dutil.c
@@ -211,11 +211,11 @@ NC_mktmp(const char* base)
     int fd = -1;
     char* tmp = NULL;
     size_t len;
+#ifndef HAVE_MKSTEMP
+    int tries;
 #define MAXTRIES 4
-#ifdef HAVE_MKSTEMP
-    mode_t mask;
 #else
-    int tries;
+    mode_t mask;
 #endif
 
     len = strlen(base)+6+1;
diff --git a/libnczarr/zfilter.c b/libnczarr/zfilter.c
index 58bb0984d4..963a977183 100644
--- a/libnczarr/zfilter.c
+++ b/libnczarr/zfilter.c
@@ -52,9 +52,11 @@
 #include "netcdf_filter_build.h"
 #include "netcdf_aux.h"
 
-#undef DEBUG
-#undef DEBUGF
-#undef DEBUGL
+#if 0
+#define DEBUG
+#define DEBUGF
+#define DEBUGL
+#endif
 
 /* If set, then triage potential shared libraries based on extension */
 #define NAMEOPT
@@ -177,7 +179,7 @@ NCJtrace(const NCjson* j)
 const char*
 printplugin(const NCZ_Plugin* plugin)
 {
-    char* plbuf = malloc(4096);
+    static char plbuf[4096];
     char plbuf2[2000];
     char plbuf1[2000];
 
@@ -194,8 +196,7 @@ printplugin(const NCZ_Plugin* plugin)
 static char*
 printparams(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params)
 {
-    char* ppbuf = malloc(4096);
-
+    static char ppbuf[4096];
     if(nparams == 0)
         snprintf(ppbuf,4096,"{0,%p}",params);
     else 
@@ -1378,20 +1379,27 @@ NCZ_load_plugin(const char* path, struct NCZ_Plugin** plugp)
 
     /* See what we have */
     {
-	H5PL_get_plugin_type_proto gpt =  (H5PL_get_plugin_type_proto)ncpgetsymbol(lib,"H5PLget_plugin_type");
-	H5PL_get_plugin_info_proto gpi =  (H5PL_get_plugin_info_proto)ncpgetsymbol(lib,"H5PLget_plugin_info");
-	NCZ_get_codec_info_proto  npi =  (NCZ_get_codec_info_proto)ncpgetsymbol(lib,"NCZ_get_codec_info");
-	NCZ_codec_info_defaults_proto  cpd =  (NCZ_codec_info_defaults_proto)ncpgetsymbol(lib,"NCZ_codec_info_defaults");
+	const H5PL_get_plugin_type_proto gpt =  (H5PL_get_plugin_type_proto)ncpgetsymbol(lib,"H5PLget_plugin_type");
+	const H5PL_get_plugin_info_proto gpi =  (H5PL_get_plugin_info_proto)ncpgetsymbol(lib,"H5PLget_plugin_info");
+	const NCZ_get_codec_info_proto  npi =  (NCZ_get_codec_info_proto)ncpgetsymbol(lib,"NCZ_get_codec_info");
+	const NCZ_codec_info_defaults_proto  cpd =  (NCZ_codec_info_defaults_proto)ncpgetsymbol(lib,"NCZ_codec_info_defaults");
 
 	if(gpt == NULL && gpi == NULL && npi == NULL && cpd == NULL)
 	    {stat = NC_ENOFILTER; goto done;}
 
 	if(cpd != NULL) {
 	    /* Deal with defaults first */
-	    NCZ_codec_t** cp = NULL;
+	    const NCZ_codec_t** cp = NULL;
 	    nclistpush(default_libs,lib);
-	    for(cp=cpd();*cp;cp++) {
+	    cp = (const NCZ_codec_t**)cpd();
+#ifdef DEBUGL
+	    fprintf(stderr,"@@@ %s: default codec library found: %p\n",path,cp);
+#endif
+	    for(;*cp;cp++) {
 		    struct CodecAPI* c0;
+#ifdef DEBUGL
+		    fprintf(stderr,"@@@ %s: %s = %u\n",path,(*cp)->codecid,(*cp)->hdf5id);
+#endif
 		    c0 = (struct CodecAPI*)calloc(1,sizeof(struct CodecAPI));
 		    if(c0 == NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done1;}
 		    c0->codec = *cp;
diff --git a/libnczarr/zfilter.h b/libnczarr/zfilter.h
index 4aa7de80aa..38d8b0c3d8 100644
--- a/libnczarr/zfilter.h
+++ b/libnczarr/zfilter.h
@@ -25,16 +25,6 @@
 #define plugin_dir_win "%s/hdf5/lib/plugin"
 #define win32_root_env "ALLUSERSPROFILE"
 
-/*
-Return a NULL terminated vector of pointers to instances of ''NCZ_codec_t''.
-The value returned is actually of type ''NCZ_codec_t**'',
-but is of type ''void*'' to allow for extensions.
-The list of returned items are used to try to provide defaults
-for any HDF5 filters that have no corresponding Codec.
-This is for internal use only.
-*/
-typedef void* (*NCZ_codec_info_defaults_proto)(void);
-
 /* Opaque */
 struct NCZ_Filter;
 
diff --git a/libnetcdf.settings.in b/libnetcdf.settings.in
index d9cc1af96f..6dea12d5c7 100644
--- a/libnetcdf.settings.in
+++ b/libnetcdf.settings.in
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Configured On:		@CONFIG_DATE@
 Host System:		@host_cpu@-@host_vendor@-@host_os@
 Build Directory: 	@abs_top_builddir@
 Install Prefix:         @prefix@
+Plugin Install Prefix:  @PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR_SETTING@
 
 # Compiling Options
 -----------------
@@ -49,4 +50,4 @@ Logging:     		@HAS_LOGGING@
 SZIP Write Support:     @HAS_SZLIB_WRITE@
 Standard Filters:       @STD_FILTERS@
 ZSTD Support:           @HAS_ZSTD@
-Benchmarks:		@HAS_BENCHMARKS@
\ No newline at end of file
+Benchmarks:		@HAS_BENCHMARKS@
diff --git a/nc_test4/Makefile.am b/nc_test4/Makefile.am
index 8ce7e97ded..9524339f3e 100644
--- a/nc_test4/Makefile.am
+++ b/nc_test4/Makefile.am
@@ -109,9 +109,15 @@ ref_filteredvv.cdl ref_multi.cdl                                        \
 ref_ncgenF.cdl ref_nccopyF.cdl                                          \
 ref_filter_repeat.txt ref_fillonly.cdl test_fillonly.sh                 \
 ref_filter_order_create.txt ref_filter_order_read.txt			\
-ref_any.cdl tst_specific_filters.sh \
+ref_any.cdl tst_specific_filters.sh                                     \
 tst_virtual_datasets.c
 
+# The tst_filterinstall test can only be run after an install
+# occurred with --with-plugin-dir enabled. So there is no point
+#in running it via make check. It is kept here so it can be
+# manually invoked if desired
+EXTRA_DIST += tst_filterinstall.sh
+
 CLEANFILES = tst_mpi_parallel.bin cdm_sea_soundings.nc bm_chunking.nc	\
 tst_floats_1D.cdl floats_1D_3.nc floats_1D.cdl tst_*.nc tmp_*.txt       \
 tst_floats2_*.cdl tst_ints2_*.cdl tst_shorts2_*.cdl tst_elena_*.cdl	\
diff --git a/nc_test4/findplugin.in b/nc_test4/findplugin.in
index fb30686307..a8f2a4e3b8 100644
--- a/nc_test4/findplugin.in
+++ b/nc_test4/findplugin.in
@@ -9,12 +9,10 @@
 #   $2 is 1 if we are running under cmake
 #   $3 is 1 if we are running using Visual Studio, blank otherwise
 #   $4 is the build type; only used if $3 is 1
-# Optional Input:
-#   HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable
 # Outputs:
 #   return code is 0 is success, 1 if failed
 #   Variable HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB is set to the library file name
-#   Variable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH is setthe absolute path to the
+#   Variable HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR is set to the absolute path to the
 #                    directory containing the plugin library file
 # Local variables are prefixed with FP_
 #
@@ -27,7 +25,7 @@ findplugin() {
 FP_NAME="$1"
 
 FP_PLUGIN_LIB=
-FP_PLUGIN_PATH=
+FP_PLUGIN_DIR=
 
 # Figure out the plugin file name
 # Test for visual studio before cygwin since both might be true
@@ -43,14 +41,6 @@ else # Presumably some form on *nix"
   FP_PLUGIN_LIB="lib${FP_NAME}.so"
 fi
 
-# If HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH is defined, then it overrides everything else.
-if test "x$HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH" != x ; then
-    HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB="$FP_PLUGIN_LIB"
-    # HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH already set
-    HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH=`${NCPATHCVT} $HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH`
-    return 0;
-fi
-
 # Figure out the path to where the lib is stored
 # This can probably be simplified
 
@@ -59,40 +49,38 @@ cd ${TOPBUILDDIR}/plugins
 FP_PLUGINS=`pwd`
 cd ${CURWD}
 
-# Case 1: Cmake with Visual Studio
-# Do not know where to look for a dylib
 # Case 1: Cmake with Visual Studio
 if test "x$FP_ISCMAKE" != x -a "x${FP_ISMSVC}" != x ; then
     # Case 1a: ignore the build type directory
     if test -f "${FP_PLUGINS}/${FP_PLUGIN_LIB}" ; then
-      FP_PLUGIN_PATH="${FP_PLUGINS}"
+      FP_PLUGIN_DIR="${FP_PLUGINS}"
     fi
 else # Case 2: automake
   # Case 2a: look in .libs
   if test -f "${FP_PLUGINS}/.libs/${FP_PLUGIN_LIB}" ; then
-    FP_PLUGIN_PATH="${FP_PLUGINS}/.libs"
+    FP_PLUGIN_DIR="${FP_PLUGINS}/.libs"
   else # Case 2: look in FP_PLUGINS directly
     if test -f "${FP_PLUGINS}/${FP_PLUGIN_LIB}" ; then
-      FP_PLUGIN_PATH="${FP_PLUGINS}"
+      FP_PLUGIN_DIR="${FP_PLUGINS}"
     fi
   fi
 fi
 
 # Verify
-if test "x$FP_PLUGIN_PATH" = x ; then
-  echo "***Fail: Could not locate a usable HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH"
+if test "x$FP_PLUGIN_DIR" = x ; then
+  echo "***Fail: Could not locate a usable HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR"
   return 1
 fi
-if ! test -f "$FP_PLUGIN_PATH/$FP_PLUGIN_LIB" ; then
+if ! test -f "$FP_PLUGIN_DIR/$FP_PLUGIN_LIB" ; then
   echo "***Fail: Could not locate a usable HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB"
   return 1
 fi
 
-FP_PLUGIN_PATH=`${NCPATHCVT} $FP_PLUGIN_PATH`
+FP_PLUGIN_DIR=`${NCPATHCVT} $FP_PLUGIN_DIR`
 
 # Set the final output variables
 HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB="$FP_PLUGIN_LIB"
-HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH="$FP_PLUGIN_PATH"
+HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR="$FP_PLUGIN_DIR"
 
 return 0
 }
diff --git a/nc_test4/tst_filter.sh b/nc_test4/tst_filter.sh
index 44bcf211ad..b478079092 100755
--- a/nc_test4/tst_filter.sh
+++ b/nc_test4/tst_filter.sh
@@ -43,36 +43,37 @@ sed -e 's/[ 	]*\([^ 	].*\)/\1/' <$1 >$2
 
 # Hide/unhide the noop filter
 hidenoop() {
-  rm -fr ${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/save
-  mkdir ${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/save
-  mv ${NOOPPATH} ${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/save
+  rm -fr ${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/save
+  mkdir ${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/save
+  mv ${NOOPDIR} ${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/save
 }
 
 unhidenoop() {
-  mv ${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/save/${NOOPLIB} ${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}
-  rm -fr ${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/save
+  mv ${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/save/${NOOPLIB} ${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}
+  rm -fr ${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/save
 }
 
-# Locate the plugin path and the library names; argument order is critical
+# Locate the plugin dir and the library names; argument order is critical
 # Find bzip2 and capture
 findplugin h5bzip2
 BZIP2LIB="${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
-BZIP2PATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/${BZIP2LIB}"
+BZIP2DIR="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/${BZIP2LIB}"
 # Find misc and capture
 findplugin h5misc
-MISCPATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
+MISCDIR="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
 # Find noop and capture
 findplugin h5noop
 NOOPLIB="${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
-NOOPPATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
+NOOPDIR="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
 
-echo "final HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH=${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}"
-export HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
+echo "final HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR=${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}"
+export HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR
+export HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH="$HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR"
 
 # Verify
-if ! test -f ${BZIP2PATH} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${BZIP2PATH}"; exit 1; fi
-if ! test -f ${MISCPATH} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${MISCPATH}"; exit 1; fi
-if ! test -f ${NOOPPATH} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${NOOPPATH}"; exit 1; fi
+if ! test -f ${BZIP2DIR} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${BZIP2DIR}"; exit 1; fi
+if ! test -f ${MISCDIR} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${MISCDIR}"; exit 1; fi
+if ! test -f ${NOOPDIR} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${NOOPDIR}"; exit 1; fi
 
 # See if we have szip
 if avail szip; then HAVE_SZIP=1; else HAVE_SZIP=0; fi
diff --git a/nc_test4/tst_filterinstall.sh b/nc_test4/tst_filterinstall.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..465a42141d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nc_test4/tst_filterinstall.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+#!/bin/bash 
+
+# Test the filter install
+
+if test "x$srcdir" = x ; then srcdir=`pwd`; fi
+. ../test_common.sh
+
+if test "x$TESTNCZARR" = x1 ; then
+. ./test_nczarr.sh
+fi
+
+set -e
+
+# Use this plugin path
+export HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH="${FEATURE_PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR}"
+
+# Function to remove selected -s attributes from file;
+# These attributes might be platform dependent
+sclean() {
+    cat $1 \
+ 	| sed -e '/:_IsNetcdf4/d' \
+	| sed -e '/:_Endianness/d' \
+	| sed -e '/_NCProperties/d' \
+	| sed -e '/_SuperblockVersion/d' \
+      	| sed -e '/_Format/d' \
+        | sed -e '/global attributes:/d' \
+	| cat > $2
+}
+
+# Function to extract _Filter attribute from a file
+# These attributes might be platform dependent
+getfilterattr() {
+V="$1"
+sed -e '/${V}.*:_Filter/p' -ed <$2 >$3
+}
+
+# Function to extract _Codecs attribute from a file
+# These attributes might be platform dependent
+getcodecsattr() {
+V="$1"
+sed -e '/${V}.*:_Codecs/p' -ed <$2 >$3
+}
+
+trimleft() {
+sed -e 's/[ 	]*\([^ 	].*\)/\1/' <$1 >$2
+}
+
+setfilter() {
+    FF="$1"
+    FSRC="$2"
+    FDST="$3"
+    FIH5="$4"
+    FICX="$5"
+    FFH5="$6"
+    FFCX="$7"
+    if test "x$FFH5" = x ; then FFH5="$FIH5" ; fi
+    if test "x$FFCX" = x ; then FFCX="$FICX" ; fi
+    rm -f $FDST
+    cat ${srcdir}/$FSRC \
+	| sed -e "s/ref_any/${FF}/" \
+	| sed -e "s/IH5/${FIH5}/" -e "s/FH5/${FFH5}/" \
+	| sed -e "s/ICX/${FICX}/" -e "s/FCX/${FFCX}/" \
+	| sed -e 's/"/\\"/g' -e 's/@/"/g' \
+	| cat > $FDST
+}
+
+# Execute the specified tests
+
+runfilter() {
+zext=$1
+zfilt="$2"
+zparams="$3"
+zcodec="$4"
+echo "*** Testing processing of filter $zfilt for map $zext"
+if test "x$TESTNCZARR" = x1 ; then
+fileargs "tmp_filt_${zfilt}"
+deletemap $zext $file
+else
+file="tmp_filt_${zfilt}.nc"
+rm -f $file
+fi
+setfilter $zfilt ref_any.cdl "tmp_filt_${zfilt}.cdl" "$zparams" "$zcodec"
+if test "x$TESTNCZARR" = x1 ; then
+${NCGEN} -4 -lb -o $fileurl "tmp_filt_${zfilt}.cdl"
+${NCDUMP} -n $zfilt -sF $fileurl > "tmp_filt_${zfilt}.tmp"
+else
+${NCGEN} -4 -lb -o $file "tmp_filt_${zfilt}.cdl"
+${NCDUMP} -n $zfilt -sF $file > "tmp_filt_${zfilt}.tmp"
+fi
+sclean "tmp_filt_${zfilt}.tmp" "tmp_filt_${zfilt}.dump"
+}
+
+testbzip2() {
+  zext=$1
+  if ! avail bzip2; then return 0; fi
+  runfilter $zext bzip2 '307,9' '[{\"id\": \"bz2\",\"level\": \"9\"}]'
+  diff -b -w "tmp_filt_bzip2.cdl" "tmp_filt_bzip2.dump"
+}
+
+testset() {
+# Which test cases to exercise
+    testbzip2 $1
+}
+
+if test "x$TESTNCZARR" = x1 ; then
+    testset file
+    if test "x$FEATURE_NCZARR_ZIP" = xyes ; then testset zip ; fi
+    if test "x$FEATURE_S3TESTS" = xyes ; then testset s3 ; fi
+else
+    testset nc
+fi
diff --git a/nc_test4/tst_specific_filters.sh b/nc_test4/tst_specific_filters.sh
index 874aabcd0c..43235d2869 100755
--- a/nc_test4/tst_specific_filters.sh
+++ b/nc_test4/tst_specific_filters.sh
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ echo "findplugin.sh loaded"
 # Assume all test filters are in same plugin dir
 findplugin h5bzip2
 
-echo "final HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH=${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}"
-export HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
-
 # Function to remove selected -s attributes from file;
 # These attributes might be platform dependent
 sclean() {
@@ -167,14 +164,14 @@ testzstd() {
 testset() {
 # Which test cases to exercise
 if test "x$TESTNCZARR" = x1 ; then
-#    testfletcher32 $1
+    testfletcher32 $1
     testshuffle $1    
 fi
-#    testdeflate $1
-#    testszip $1
-#    testbzip2 $1
-#    testblosc $1
-#    testzstd $1
+    testdeflate $1
+    testszip $1
+    testbzip2 $1
+    testblosc $1
+    testzstd $1
 }
 
 if test "x$TESTNCZARR" = x1 ; then
diff --git a/ncdap_test/Makefile.am b/ncdap_test/Makefile.am
index b8de229ca4..25b19cde26 100644
--- a/ncdap_test/Makefile.am
+++ b/ncdap_test/Makefile.am
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/lib_flags.am
 #SH_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
 #LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
 #TEST_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
-#TESTS_ENVIRONMENT += export SETX=1;
+#TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = export SETX=1;
 
 # Note which tests depend on other tests. Necessary for make -j check.
 TEST_EXTENSIONS = .sh
diff --git a/ncdump/Makefile.am b/ncdump/Makefile.am
index d3513794d4..c381f30d99 100644
--- a/ncdump/Makefile.am
+++ b/ncdump/Makefile.am
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 
 # Ed Hartnett, Dennis Heimbigner, Ward Fisher
 
-SH_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
-sh_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
-LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
-TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = export SETX=1;
+#SH_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
+#sh_LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
+#LOG_DRIVER = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/test-driver-verbose
+#TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = export SETX=1;
 
 # Put together AM_CPPFLAGS and AM_LDFLAGS.
 include $(top_srcdir)/lib_flags.am
diff --git a/ncdump/tst_nccopy3.sh b/ncdump/tst_nccopy3.sh
index 449e896865..7dcfc910c5 100755
--- a/ncdump/tst_nccopy3.sh
+++ b/ncdump/tst_nccopy3.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
 if test "x$srcdir" = x ; then srcdir=`pwd`; fi
 . ../test_common.sh
 
+set -x
 set -e
+
 echo ""
 
 # get some config.h parameters
diff --git a/ncdump/tst_output.sh b/ncdump/tst_output.sh
index 40c7e7cd47..18da9c3e6f 100755
--- a/ncdump/tst_output.sh
+++ b/ncdump/tst_output.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ if test "x$srcdir" = x ; then srcdir=`pwd`; fi
 . ../test_common.sh
 
 # This shell script tests the output from several previous tests.
+set -x
 set -e
 
 echo ""
diff --git a/nczarr_test/Makefile.am b/nczarr_test/Makefile.am
index c7c15565d8..6563344861 100644
--- a/nczarr_test/Makefile.am
+++ b/nczarr_test/Makefile.am
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += ref_power_901_constants.zip ref_power_901_constants.cdl ref_quotes
 
 CLEANFILES = ut_*.txt ut*.cdl tmp*.nc tmp*.cdl tmp*.txt tmp*.dmp tmp*.zip tmp*.nc tmp*.dump tmp*.tmp tmp_ngc.c ref_zarr_test_data.cdl
 
-BUILT_SOURCES = test_quantize.c test_filter_avail.c run_specific_filters.sh
+BUILT_SOURCES = test_quantize.c test_filter_avail.c run_specific_filters.sh run_filterinstall.sh
 test_quantize.c: $(top_srcdir)/nc_test4/tst_quantize.c
 	rm -f $@
 	echo "#define TESTNCZARR" > $@
@@ -174,6 +174,15 @@ run_specific_filters.sh: $(top_srcdir)/nc_test4/tst_specific_filters.sh
 	chmod a+x $@
 	rm -f run_specific_filters.tmp
 
+run_filterinstall.sh: $(top_srcdir)/nc_test4/tst_filterinstall.sh
+	rm -f $@ run_filterinstall.tmp
+	echo "#!/bin/bash" > run_filterinstall.tmp
+	echo "TESTNCZARR=1" >> run_filterinstall.tmp
+	cat $(top_srcdir)/nc_test4/tst_filterinstall.sh >> run_filterinstall.tmp
+	tr -d '\r' < run_filterinstall.tmp > $@
+	chmod a+x $@
+	rm -f run_filterinstall.tmp
+
 # Remove directories
 clean-local:
 	rm -fr tmp*.file results.file results.s3 results.zip
diff --git a/nczarr_test/run_filter.sh b/nczarr_test/run_filter.sh
index fce92ba606..da653a985c 100755
--- a/nczarr_test/run_filter.sh
+++ b/nczarr_test/run_filter.sh
@@ -51,21 +51,21 @@ sed -e 's/[ 	]*\([^ 	].*\)/\1/' <$1 >$2
 
 # Find misc and capture
 findplugin h5misc
-MISCPATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
+MISCDIR="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
 
 # Find noop and capture
 findplugin h5noop
 NOOPLIB="${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
-NOOPPATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/${NOOPLIB}"
+NOOPDIR="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/${NOOPLIB}"
 
 # Find bzip2 and capture
 findplugin h5bzip2
 BZIP2LIB="${HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB}"
-BZIP2PATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}/${BZIP2LIB}"
+BZIP2DIR="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/${BZIP2LIB}"
 
 # Verify
-if ! test -f ${BZIP2PATH} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${BZIP2PATH}"; exit 1; fi
-if ! test -f ${MISCPATH} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${MISCPATH}"; exit 1; fi
+if ! test -f ${BZIP2DIR} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${BZIP2DIR}"; exit 1; fi
+if ! test -f ${MISCDIR} ; then echo "Unable to locate ${MISCDIR}"; exit 1; fi
 
 # Execute the specified tests
 
@@ -144,11 +144,11 @@ ${NCDUMP} -hs $fileurl > ./tmp_known_$zext.txt
 # Remove irrelevant -s output
 sclean ./tmp_known_$zext.txt tmp_known_$zext.dump
 # Now hide the filter code
-mv ${NOOPPATH} ./${NOOPLIB}.save
+mv ${NOOPDIR} ./${NOOPLIB}.save
 # dump and clean noop.nc header when filter is not avail
 ${NCDUMP} -hs $fileurl > ./tmp_unk_$zext.txt
 # Restore the filter code
-mv ./${NOOPLIB}.save ${NOOPPATH}
+mv ./${NOOPLIB}.save ${NOOPDIR}
 # Verify that the filter is no longer defined
 UNK=`sed -e '/var:_Filter/p' -e d ./tmp_unk_$zext.txt`
 test "x$UNK" = x
diff --git a/nczarr_test/test_nczarr.sh b/nczarr_test/test_nczarr.sh
index 489bc0512f..e63b82a42d 100755
--- a/nczarr_test/test_nczarr.sh
+++ b/nczarr_test/test_nczarr.sh
@@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ if test "x$FP_USEPLUGINS" = xyes; then
 echo "findplugin.sh loaded"
 
 # Locate the plugin path and the library names; argument order is critical
-# Find bzip2 and capture
+# Find misc in order to determine HDF5_PLUGIN+PATH.
 # Assume all test filters are in same plugin dir
 findplugin h5misc
 
-echo "final HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH=${HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH}"
-export HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH
+echo "final HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR=${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}"
+export HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH="${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}"
 fi # USEPLUGINS
 
 resetrc() {
diff --git a/plugins/CMakeLists.txt b/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
index 71a6af7c40..e606b392a3 100644
--- a/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,12 +10,6 @@ FILE(READ H5Znoop.c NOOP_SOURCE)
 FILE(WRITE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/H5Znoop1.c "#define NOOP_INSTANCE 1\n")
 FILE(APPEND ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/H5Znoop1.c "${NOOP_SOURCE}")
 
-SET(h5bzip2_SOURCES H5Zbzip2.c)
-
-IF(NOT HAVE_BZIP2)
-SET(h5bzip2_SOURCES ${h5bzip2_SOURCES} blocksort.c huffman.c crctable.c randtable.c compress.c decompress.c bzlib.c)
-ENDIF()
-
 SET(h5misc_SOURCES H5Zmisc.c H5Zutil.c h5misc.h)
 
 SET(h5noop_SOURCES H5Znoop.c H5Zutil.c h5noop.h)
@@ -29,11 +23,10 @@ SET(h5fletcher32_SOURCES H5Zfletcher32.c H5checksum.c)
 SET(h5deflate_SOURCES H5Zdeflate.c)
 
 SET(nczmisc_SOURCES NCZmisc.c)
-SET(nczdefaults_SOURCES NCZdefaults.c)
-
-IF(ENABLE_FILTER_TESTING)
-IF(BUILD_UTILITIES)
+SET(nczhdf5filters_SOURCES NCZhdf5filters.c)
+SET(nczstdfilters_SOURCES NCZstdfilters.c)
 
+IF(ENABLE_PLUGINS)
 # LDFLAGS = -module -avoid-version -shared -export-dynamic -no-undefined
 
 SET(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")
@@ -64,7 +57,8 @@ buildplugin(h5fletcher32 "h5fletcher32")
 buildplugin(h5deflate "h5deflate")
 
 buildplugin(nczmisc "nczmisc")
-buildplugin(nczdefaults "nczdefaults" netcdf)
+buildplugin(nczhdf5filters "nczhdf5filters" netcdf)
+buildplugin(nczstdfilters "nczstdfilters" netcdf)
 
 IF(ENABLE_BLOSC)
 SET(h5blosc_SOURCES H5Zblosc.c)
@@ -80,17 +74,54 @@ ENDIF()
 IF(HAVE_SZ)
   SET(h5szip_SOURCES H5Zszip.c H5Zszip.h)
   buildplugin(h5szip "h5szip" ${Szip_LIBRARIES})
-  SET(nczszip_SOURCES NCZszip.c)
-  buildplugin(nczszip "nczszip" netcdf)
 ENDIF()
 
+IF(HAVE_LOCAL_BZ2)
+SET(h5bzip2_SOURCES H5Zbzip2.c blocksort.c huffman.c crctable.c randtable.c compress.c decompress.c bzlib.c bzlib.h bzlib_private.h)
+buildplugin(h5bzip2 "h5bzip2")
+ELSE()
+SET(h5bzip2_SOURCES H5Zbzip2.c)
 buildplugin(h5bzip2 "h5bzip2" ${Bzip2_LIBRARIES})
-# Note we use name h5bzip2 instead of bzip2 to avoid logical
-# target name clash with examples/C/hdf5plugins
-SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(h5bzip2 PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME "bzip2")
+ENDIF()
+
+
+# Installation
+IF(ENABLE_PLUGIN_INSTALL)
+
+MACRO(installplugin PLUG)
+IF(MSVC)
+  SET(BUILD_PLUGIN_LIB "${PLUG}.dll")
+ELSE()
+   SET(BUILD_PLUGIN_LIB "lib${PLUG}.so")
+ENDIF()
+MESSAGE(STATUS "Installing: ${BUILD_PLUGIN_LIB} into ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR}")
+install(PROGRAMS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${BUILD_PLUGIN_LIB} DESTINATION ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR})
+ENDMACRO()
+
+install(DIRECTORY DESTINATION ${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR})
+IF(Bzip2_FOUND)
+installplugin(h5bzip2)
+ENDIF()
+IF(Zstd_FOUND)
+installplugin(h5zstd)
+ENDIF()
+IF(Blosc_FOUND)
+installplugin(h5blosc)
+ENDIF()
+IF(ENABLE_NCZARR)
+  installplugin(h5fletcher32)
+  installplugin(h5shuffle)
+  installplugin(h5deflate)
+  installplugin(nczhdf5filters)
+  installplugin(nczstdfilters)
+IF(Szip_FOUND)
+  installplugin(h5szip)
+ENDIF()
+ENDIF()
+
+ENDIF(ENABLE_PLUGIN_INSTALL)
 
-ENDIF(BUILD_UTILITIES)
-ENDIF(ENABLE_FILTER_TESTING)
+ENDIF(ENABLE_PLUGINS)
 
 # Copy some test files from current source dir to out-of-tree build dir.
 FILE(COPY ${COPY_FILES} DESTINATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/)
diff --git a/plugins/H5Zblosc.c b/plugins/H5Zblosc.c
index 06afc4c719..3b36d568ce 100755
--- a/plugins/H5Zblosc.c
+++ b/plugins/H5Zblosc.c
@@ -125,8 +125,6 @@ OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 #define PUSH_ERR(f,m,s,...) fprintf(stderr,"%s\n",s)
 #endif /*USE_HDF5*/
 
-static int h5z_blosc_initialized = 0;
-
 static size_t blosc_filter(unsigned flags, size_t cd_nelmts,
                     const unsigned cd_values[], size_t nbytes,
                     size_t* buf_size, void** buf);
@@ -162,7 +160,7 @@ herr_t blosc_set_local(hid_t dcpl, hid_t type, hid_t space)
   hid_t super_type;
   H5T_class_t classt;
 
-  r = GET_FILTER(dcpl, FILTER_BLOSC, &flags, &nelements, values, 0, NULL);
+  r = GET_FILTER(dcpl, H5Z_FILTER_BLOSC, &flags, &nelements, values, 0, NULL);
   if (r < 0) return -1;
 
   if (nelements < 4) nelements = 4;  /* First 4 slots reserved. */
@@ -209,7 +207,7 @@ herr_t blosc_set_local(hid_t dcpl, hid_t type, hid_t space)
   fprintf(stderr, "Blosc: Computed buffer size %d\n", bufsize);
 #endif
 
-  r = H5Pmodify_filter(dcpl, FILTER_BLOSC, flags, nelements, values);
+  r = H5Pmodify_filter(dcpl, H5Z_FILTER_BLOSC, flags, nelements, values);
   if (r < 0) return -1;
 
   return 1;
@@ -365,7 +363,7 @@ size_t blosc_filter(unsigned flags, size_t cd_nelmts,
 const H5Z_class2_t blosc_H5Filter[1] = {
     {
         H5Z_CLASS_T_VERS,
-        (H5Z_filter_t)(FILTER_BLOSC),
+        (H5Z_filter_t)(H5Z_FILTER_BLOSC),
         1,                   /* encoder_present flag (set to true) */
         1,                   /* decoder_present flag (set to true) */
         "blosc",
@@ -379,235 +377,3 @@ const H5Z_class2_t blosc_H5Filter[1] = {
 
 H5PL_type_t H5PLget_plugin_type(void) { return H5PL_TYPE_FILTER; }
 const void* H5PLget_plugin_info(void) { return blosc_H5Filter; }
-
-
-/* Provide the codec support for the HDF5 blosc library */
-
-/* NCZarr Filter Objects */
-
-#define DEFAULT_LEVEL		9
-#define DEFAULT_BLOCKSIZE	1
-#define DEFAULT_TYPESIZE	1
-#define DEFAULT_COMPCODE	BLOSC_LZ4
-
-/* Forward */
-static void NCZ_blosc_codec_finalize(void);
-static int NCZ_blosc_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp);
-static int NCZ_blosc_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
-static int NCZ_blosc_modify_parameters(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** vparamsp, size_t* wnparamsp, unsigned** wparamsp);
-
-/* Structure for NCZ_PLUGIN_CODEC */
-static NCZ_codec_t NCZ_blosc_codec = {/* NCZ_codec_t  codec fields */ 
-  NCZ_CODEC_CLASS_VER,	/* Struct version number */
-  NCZ_CODEC_HDF5,	/* Struct sort */
-  "blosc",	        /* Standard name/id of the codec */
-  FILTER_BLOSC,	        /* HDF5 alias for blosc */
-  NULL, /*NCZ_blosc_codec_initialize*/
-  NCZ_blosc_codec_finalize,
-  NCZ_blosc_codec_to_hdf5,
-  NCZ_blosc_hdf5_to_codec,
-  NCZ_blosc_modify_parameters,
-};
-
-/* External Export API */
-const void*
-NCZ_get_codec_info(void)
-{
-    if(!h5z_blosc_initialized) {
-	h5z_blosc_initialized = 1;
-	blosc_init();
-    }
-    return (void*)&NCZ_blosc_codec;
-}
-
-/* NCZarr Interface Functions */
-
-/* Create the true parameter set:
-Visible parameters:
-param[0] -- reserved
-param[1] -- reserved
-param[2] -- reserved
-param[3] -- variable chunksize in bytes | 0 (=>default)
-param[4] -- compression level
-param[5] -- BLOSC_SHUFFLE|BLOSC_BITSHUFFLE
-param[6] -- compressor index
-
-Working parameters:
-param[0] -- filter revision
-param[1] -- blosc version
-param[2] -- variable type size in bytes
-param[3] -- variable chunksize in bytes
-param[4] -- compression level
-param[5] -- BLOSC_SHUFFLE|BLOSC_BITSHUFFLE
-param[6] -- compressor index
-*/
-
-static void
-NCZ_blosc_codec_finalize(void)
-{
-    if(h5z_blosc_initialized) {
-        blosc_destroy();
-	h5z_blosc_initialized = 0;
-    }
-}
-
-static int
-NCZ_blosc_modify_parameters(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** vparamsp, size_t* wnparamsp, unsigned** wparamsp)
-{
-    int i,stat = NC_NOERR;
-    nc_type vtype;
-    int storage, ndims;
-    size_t* chunklens = NULL;
-    size_t typesize, chunksize;
-    char vname[NC_MAX_NAME+1];
-    unsigned* params = NULL;
-    size_t nparams;
-    size_t vnparams = *vnparamsp;
-    unsigned* vparams = *vparamsp;
-    
-    if(vnparams < 7)
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    nparams = 7;
-
-    if(vparams == NULL)
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-
-    if(wnparamsp == NULL || wparamsp == NULL)
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-
-    vnparams = *vnparamsp;
-    vparams = *vparamsp;
-
-    /* Get variable info */
-    if((stat = nc_inq_var(ncid,varid,vname,&vtype,&ndims,NULL,NULL))) goto done;
-
-    if(ndims == 0) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-
-    /* Get the typesize */
-    if((stat = nc_inq_type(ncid,vtype,NULL,&typesize))) goto done;
-
-    /* Compute chunksize */
-    if((chunklens = (size_t*)calloc(ndims,sizeof(size_t)))==NULL) goto done;
-    if((stat = nc_inq_var_chunking(ncid,varid,&storage,chunklens))) goto done;
-    if(storage != NC_CHUNKED) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    chunksize = typesize;
-    for(i=0;i<ndims;i++) chunksize *= chunklens[i];
-
-    if((params = (unsigned*)malloc(vnparams*sizeof(unsigned)))==NULL)
-        {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
-    memcpy(params,vparams,vnparams*sizeof(unsigned));
-
-    params[0] = FILTER_BLOSC_VERSION;
-    params[1] = BLOSC_VERSION_FORMAT;
-    params[2] = (unsigned)typesize;
-
-    params[3] = chunksize;
-    params[4] = params[4];
-    params[5] = params[5];
-    params[6] = params[6];
-
-    *wnparamsp = nparams;
-    nullfree(*wparamsp);
-    *wparamsp = params; params = NULL;
-    
-done:
-    nullfree(chunklens);
-    nullfree(params);
-    FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(stat)
-}
-
-static int
-NCZ_blosc_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec_json, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp)
-{
-    int stat = NC_NOERR;
-    NCjson* jcodec = NULL;
-    NCjson* jtmp = NULL;
-    unsigned* params = NULL;
-    struct NCJconst jc = {0,0,0,NULL};
-    int compcode;
-
-    /* parse the JSON */
-    if(NCJparse(codec_json,0,&jcodec)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(NCJsort(jcodec) != NCJ_DICT) {stat = NC_EPLUGIN; goto done;}
-    /* Verify the codec ID */
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"id",&jtmp))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(jtmp == NULL || !NCJisatomic(jtmp)) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
-    if(strcmp(NCJstring(jtmp),NCZ_blosc_codec.codecid)!=0) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
-
-    if((params = (unsigned*)calloc(7,sizeof(unsigned)))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
-
-    /* Get compression level*/
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"clevel",&jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(jtmp) {
-        if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc)) {stat = NC_EFILTER;  goto done;}
-    } else
-        jc.ival = DEFAULT_LEVEL;
-    if(jc.ival < 0 || jc.ival > NC_MAX_UINT) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    params[4] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
-
-    /* Get blocksize */
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"blocksize",&jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER;  goto done;}
-    if(jtmp) {
-        if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    } else
-        jc.ival = DEFAULT_BLOCKSIZE;
-    if(jc.ival < 0 || jc.ival > NC_MAX_UINT) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    params[3] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
-
-    /* Get shuffle */
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"shuffle",&jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(jtmp) {
-        if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    } else
-        jc.ival = BLOSC_NOSHUFFLE;
-    params[5] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
-
-    /* Get compname */
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"cname",&jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER;  goto done;}
-    if(jtmp) {
-        if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_STRING,&jc)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-        if(jc.sval == NULL || strlen(jc.sval) == 0) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-        if((compcode = blosc_compname_to_compcode(jc.sval)) < 0) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    } else
-        compcode = DEFAULT_COMPCODE;
-    params[6] = (unsigned)compcode;
-
-    if(nparamsp) *nparamsp = 7;
-    if(paramsp) {*paramsp = params; params = NULL;}
-    
-done:
-    if(jc.sval) {
-	free(jc.sval);
-    }
-    if(params) {
-        free(params);
-    }
-    NCJreclaim(jcodec);
-    return stat;
-}
-
-static int
-NCZ_blosc_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp)
-{
-    int stat = NC_NOERR;
-    char json[1024];
-    const char* compname = NULL;
-
-    if(nparams == 0 || params == NULL)
-        {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
-
-    /* Get the sub-compressor name */
-    if(blosc_compcode_to_compname((int)params[6],&compname) < 0) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-
-    snprintf(json,sizeof(json),
-	"{\"id\": \"blosc\",\"clevel\": %u,\"blocksize\": %u,\"cname\": \"%s\",\"shuffle\": %d}",
-	params[4],params[3],compname,params[5]);
-
-    if(codecp) {
-        if((*codecp = strdup(json))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
-    }
-    
-done:
-    return stat;
-}
diff --git a/plugins/H5Zblosc.h b/plugins/H5Zblosc.h
index 6e834a2931..911f24c2b3 100755
--- a/plugins/H5Zblosc.h
+++ b/plugins/H5Zblosc.h
@@ -29,13 +29,6 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "netcdf_filter_build.h"
 #include "blosc.h"
 
-/* Filter revision number, starting at 1 */
-/* #define FILTER_BLOSC_VERSION 1 */
-#define FILTER_BLOSC_VERSION 2	/* multiple compressors since Blosc 1.3 */
-
-/* Filter ID registered with the HDF Group */
-#define FILTER_BLOSC 32001
-
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
   #ifdef DLL_EXPORT /* define when building the library */
     #define DECLSPEC __declspec(dllexport)
@@ -46,6 +39,15 @@ extern "C" {
   #define DECLSPEC extern
 #endif
 
+/* Filter revision number, starting at 1 */
+/* #define FILTER_BLOSC_VERSION 1 */
+#define FILTER_BLOSC_VERSION 2	/* multiple compressors since Blosc 1.3 */
+
+#define DEFAULT_LEVEL		9
+#define DEFAULT_BLOCKSIZE	1
+#define DEFAULT_TYPESIZE	1
+#define DEFAULT_COMPCODE	BLOSC_LZ4
+
 /* HDF5 Plugin API */
 DECLSPEC H5PL_type_t H5PLget_plugin_type(void);
 DECLSPEC const void* H5PLget_plugin_info(void);
diff --git a/plugins/H5Zbzip2.c b/plugins/H5Zbzip2.c
index fa9ed8a6c0..6f1128c48e 100644
--- a/plugins/H5Zbzip2.c
+++ b/plugins/H5Zbzip2.c
@@ -214,92 +214,3 @@ H5Z_filter_bzip2(unsigned int flags, size_t cd_nelmts,
   return 0;
 }
 
-/**************************************************/
-/* NCZarr Filter Objects */
-
-/* Provide the codec support for the HDF5 bzip library */
-
-static int NCZ_bzip2_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp);
-static int NCZ_bzip2_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
-
-static NCZ_codec_t NCZ_bzip2_codec = {/* NCZ_codec_t  codec fields */ 
-  NCZ_CODEC_CLASS_VER,	/* Struct version number */
-  NCZ_CODEC_HDF5,	/* Struct sort */
-  "bz2",	        /* Standard name/id of the codec */
-  H5Z_FILTER_BZIP2,   /* HDF5 alias for bzip2 */
-  NULL, /*NCZ_bzip2_codec_initialize*/
-  NULL, /*NCZ_bzip2_codec_finalize*/
-  NCZ_bzip2_codec_to_hdf5,
-  NCZ_bzip2_hdf5_to_codec,
-  NULL, /*NCZ_bzip2_modify_parameters*/
-};
-
-/* External Export API */
-DLLEXPORT
-const void*
-NCZ_get_codec_info(void)
-{
-    return (void*)&NCZ_bzip2_codec;
-}
-
-static int
-NCZ_bzip2_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec_json, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp)
-{
-    int stat = NC_NOERR;
-    NCjson* jcodec = NULL;
-    NCjson* jtmp = NULL;
-    unsigned* params = NULL;
-    struct NCJconst jc;
-  
-    if(nparamsp == NULL || paramsp == NULL)
-        {stat = NC_EINTERNAL; goto done;}
-    
-    if((params = (unsigned*)calloc(1,sizeof(unsigned)))== NULL)
-        {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
-
-    /* parse the JSON */
-    if(NCJparse(codec_json,0,&jcodec))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(NCJsort(jcodec) != NCJ_DICT) {stat = NC_EPLUGIN; goto done;}
-    /* Verify the codec ID */
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"id",&jtmp))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(jtmp == NULL || !NCJisatomic(jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(strcmp(NCJstring(jtmp),NCZ_bzip2_codec.codecid)!=0) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
-
-    /* Get Level */
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"level",&jtmp))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(jc.ival < 0 || jc.ival > NC_MAX_UINT) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
-    params[0] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
-    *nparamsp = 1;
-    *paramsp = params; params = NULL;
-    
-done:
-    if(params) free(params);
-    NCJreclaim(jcodec);
-    return stat;
-}
-
-static int
-NCZ_bzip2_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp)
-{
-    int stat = NC_NOERR;
-    unsigned level = 0;
-    char json[1024];
-
-    if(nparams == 0 || params == NULL)
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-
-    level = params[0];
-    snprintf(json,sizeof(json),"{\"id\": \"%s\", \"level\": \"%u\"}",NCZ_bzip2_codec.codecid,level);
-    if(codecp) {
-        if((*codecp = strdup(json))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
-    }
-    
-done:
-    return stat;
-}
-
diff --git a/plugins/H5Zzstd.c b/plugins/H5Zzstd.c
index 9d56425c71..58759ce5ae 100644
--- a/plugins/H5Zzstd.c
+++ b/plugins/H5Zzstd.c
@@ -166,92 +166,3 @@ H5Z_filter_zstd(unsigned int flags, size_t cd_nelmts,
    return 0;
 }
 
-/**************************************************/
-/* NCZarr Filter Objects */
-
-/* Provide the codec support for the HDF5 zstandard library */
-
-static int NCZ_zstd_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp);
-static int NCZ_zstd_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
-
-static NCZ_codec_t NCZ_zstd_codec = {/* NCZ_codec_t  codec fields */ 
-  NCZ_CODEC_CLASS_VER,	/* Struct version number */
-  NCZ_CODEC_HDF5,	/* Struct sort */
-  "zstd",	        /* Standard name/id of the codec */
-  H5Z_FILTER_ZSTD,   /* HDF5 alias for zstd */
-  NULL, /*NCZ_zstd_codec_initialize*/
-  NULL, /*NCZ_zstd_codec_finalize*/
-  NCZ_zstd_codec_to_hdf5,
-  NCZ_zstd_hdf5_to_codec,
-  NULL, /*NCZ_zstd_modify_parameters*/
-};
-
-/* External Export API */
-DLLEXPORT
-const void*
-NCZ_get_codec_info(void)
-{
-    return (void*)&NCZ_zstd_codec;
-}
-
-static int
-NCZ_zstd_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec_json, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp)
-{
-    int stat = NC_NOERR;
-    NCjson* jcodec = NULL;
-    NCjson* jtmp = NULL;
-    unsigned* params = NULL;
-    struct NCJconst jc;
-  
-    if(nparamsp == NULL || paramsp == NULL)
-        {stat = NC_EINTERNAL; goto done;}
-    
-    if((params = (unsigned*)calloc(1,sizeof(unsigned)))== NULL)
-        {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
-
-    /* parse the JSON */
-    if(NCJparse(codec_json,0,&jcodec))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(NCJsort(jcodec) != NCJ_DICT) {stat = NC_EPLUGIN; goto done;}
-    /* Verify the codec ID */
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"id",&jtmp))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(jtmp == NULL || !NCJisatomic(jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(strcmp(NCJstring(jtmp),NCZ_zstd_codec.codecid)!=0) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
-
-    /* Get Level */
-    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"level",&jtmp))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc))
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-    if(jc.ival < 0 || jc.ival > NC_MAX_UINT) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
-    params[0] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
-    *nparamsp = 1;
-    *paramsp = params; params = NULL;
-    
-done:
-    if(params) free(params);
-    NCJreclaim(jcodec);
-    return stat;
-}
-
-static int
-NCZ_zstd_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp)
-{
-    int stat = NC_NOERR;
-    unsigned level = 0;
-    char json[1024];
-
-    if(nparams == 0 || params == NULL)
-        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
-
-    level = params[0];
-    snprintf(json,sizeof(json),"{\"id\": \"%s\", \"level\": \"%u\"}",NCZ_zstd_codec.codecid,level);
-    if(codecp) {
-        if((*codecp = strdup(json))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
-    }
-    
-done:
-    return stat;
-}
-
diff --git a/plugins/Makefile.am b/plugins/Makefile.am
index b367c98d04..ded5b30760 100644
--- a/plugins/Makefile.am
+++ b/plugins/Makefile.am
@@ -14,34 +14,22 @@ if ISMINGW
 LDADD =  ${top_builddir}/liblib/libnetcdf.la
 endif
 
-# BZIP2 version 1.0.8 (https://sourceware.org/bzip2/)
-BZIP2SRC = blocksort.c huffman.c crctable.c randtable.c compress.c decompress.c bzlib.c bzlib.h bzlib_private.h
-
 EXTRA_DIST = CMakeLists.txt
 
 # The HDF5 filter wrappers
-EXTRA_DIST += \
+EXTRA_DIST += stdinstall.sh \
 	H5Ztemplate.c H5Zmisc.c H5Zutil.c H5Znoop.c h5noop.h NCZmisc.c \
 	H5Zshuffle.c H5Zdeflate.c H5Zszip.c H5Zszip.h \
         H5Zbzip2.c h5bzip2.h H5Zblosc.c H5Zblosc.h H5Zzstd.c H5Zzstd.h
+
 # The Codec filter wrappers
-EXTRA_DIST += NCZdefaults.c NCZszip.c
+EXTRA_DIST += NCZhdf5filters.c NCZstdfilters.c
 # The Filter implementations
 EXTRA_DIST += H5checksum.c
 
-
-EXTRA_DIST += ${BZIP2SRC} BZIP2_LICENSE
-
 if ENABLE_FILTER_TESTING
 
-lib_LTLIBRARIES += libh5bzip2.la
-libh5bzip2_la_SOURCES = H5Zbzip2.c h5bzip2.h
-if ! HAVE_BZIP2
-libh5bzip2_la_SOURCES += ${BZIP2SRC}
-endif
-
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5misc.la libh5noop.la libh5noop1.la libnczmisc.la
-noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libnczdefaults.la
 
 if ENABLE_NCZARR_FILTERS
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5fletcher32.la libh5shuffle.la libh5deflate.la
@@ -51,27 +39,39 @@ libh5deflate_la_SOURCES = H5Zdeflate.c
 
 # Need our version of szip if libsz available and we are not using HDF5
 if HAVE_SZ
-noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5szip.la libnczszip.la
+noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5szip.la
 libh5szip_la_SOURCES = H5Zszip.c H5Zszip.h
-libnczszip_la_SOURCES = NCZszip.c
 endif
 
-libnczdefaults_la_SOURCES = NCZdefaults.c
-
 endif # ENABLE_NCZARR_FILTERS
 
+if ENABLE_PLUGINS
+
+libnczstdfilters_la_SOURCES = NCZstdfilters.c
+
+libnczhdf5filters_la_SOURCES = NCZhdf5filters.c
+
 if HAVE_BLOSC
-noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5blosc.la
 libh5blosc_la_SOURCES = H5Zblosc.c H5Zblosc.h
 endif
 
 if HAVE_ZSTD
-noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5zstd.la
 libh5zstd_la_SOURCES = H5Zzstd.c H5Zzstd.h
 endif
 
-libh5misc_la_SOURCES = H5Zmisc.c H5Zutil.c h5misc.h
+noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libnczhdf5filters.la
+noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libnczstdfilters.la
 
+if HAVE_BLOSC
+noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5blosc.la
+endif
+if HAVE_ZSTD
+noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5zstd.la
+endif
+
+endif #ENABLE_PLUGINS
+
+libh5misc_la_SOURCES = H5Zmisc.c H5Zutil.c h5misc.h
 libnczmisc_la_SOURCES = NCZmisc.c
 
 # The noop filter is to allow testing of multifilters and filter order
@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ libnczmisc_la_SOURCES = NCZmisc.c
 libh5noop_la_SOURCES = H5Znoop.c H5Zutil.c h5noop.h
 libh5noop1_la_SOURCES = H5Znoop1.c H5Zutil.c h5noop.h
 
+# Bzip2 is used to test more complex filters
+libh5bzip2_la_SOURCES = H5Zbzip2.c h5bzip2.h
+BZIP2SRC = blocksort.c huffman.c crctable.c randtable.c compress.c decompress.c bzlib.c bzlib.h bzlib_private.h
+EXTRA_DIST += ${BZIP2SRC} BZIP2_LICENSE
+if HAVE_LOCAL_BZ2
+libh5bzip2_la_SOURCES += ${BZIP2SRC}
+endif
+
 endif #ENABLE_FILTER_TESTING
 
 BUILT_SOURCES = H5Znoop1.c
@@ -87,6 +95,9 @@ H5Znoop1.c: Makefile H5Znoop.c
 	echo '#define NOOP_INSTANCE 1' > $@
 	cat ${srcdir}/H5Znoop.c >> $@
 
+noinst_LTLIBRARIES += libh5bzip2.la
+
+# Record where bzip2 came from; may be out of date
 BZIP2VER = 1.0.8
 BZIP2DIR = bzip2-${BZIP2VER}
 BZIP2URL = https://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/${BZIP2DIR}.tar.gz
@@ -96,3 +107,7 @@ bzip2::
 	tar -zxf ${BZIP2DIR}.tar.gz
 	cd ${BZIP2DIR}; cp ${BZIP2SRC} ..; cp LICENSE ../BZIP2_LICENSE ; cd ..
 	rm -fr ./${BZIP2DIR}
+
+# Custom install
+install-exec-hook:
+	sh ./stdinstall.sh
diff --git a/plugins/NCZdefaults.c b/plugins/NCZhdf5filters.c
similarity index 53%
rename from plugins/NCZdefaults.c
rename to plugins/NCZhdf5filters.c
index 48dc3439b4..a8336ad730 100644
--- a/plugins/NCZdefaults.c
+++ b/plugins/NCZhdf5filters.c
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Author: Dennis Heimbigner
 #include "netcdf_filter_build.h"
 #include "netcdf_json.h"
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SZ
+#include <szlib.h>
+#include "H5Zszip.h"
+#endif
+
 #define H5Z_FILTER_DEFLATE	1 	/*deflation like gzip	     	*/
 #define H5Z_FILTER_SHUFFLE      2       /*shuffle the data              */
 #define H5Z_FILTER_FLETCHER32   3       /*fletcher32 checksum of EDC    */
@@ -40,6 +45,12 @@ static int NCZ_fletcher32_modify_parameters(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparam
 static int NCZ_deflate_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp);
 static int NCZ_deflate_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SZ
+static int NCZ_szip_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp);
+static int NCZ_szip_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
+static int NCZ_szip_modify_parameters(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** vparamsp, size_t* wnparamsp, unsigned** wparamsp);
+#endif
+
 /**************************************************/
 
 static NCZ_codec_t NCZ_shuffle_codec = {
@@ -302,10 +313,224 @@ NCZ_deflate_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp)
 
 /**************************************************/
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SZ
+
+static NCZ_codec_t NCZ_szip_codec = {
+  NCZ_CODEC_CLASS_VER,	/* Struct version number */
+  NCZ_CODEC_HDF5,	/* Struct sort */
+  "szip",	        /* Standard name/id of the codec */
+  H5Z_FILTER_SZIP,   /* HDF5 alias for szip */
+  NULL, /*NCZ_szip_codec_initialize*/
+  NULL, /*NCZ_szip_codec_finalize*/
+  NCZ_szip_codec_to_hdf5,
+  NCZ_szip_hdf5_to_codec,
+  NCZ_szip_modify_parameters,
+};
+
+static int
+NCZ_szip_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec_json, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    unsigned* params = NULL;
+    size_t nparams = 2; /* No. of visible parameters */
+    NCjson* json = NULL;
+    NCjson* jtmp = NULL;
+    struct NCJconst jc = {0,0,0,NULL};
+    
+    if(nparamsp == NULL || paramsp == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EINTERNAL; goto done;}
+
+    if((params = (unsigned*)calloc(nparams,sizeof(unsigned)))== NULL)
+        {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+
+    if(NCJparse(codec_json,0,&json))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    if(NCJdictget(json,"mask",&jtmp) || jtmp == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER;  goto done;}
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
+
+    jtmp = NULL;
+    if(NCJdictget(json,"pixels-per-block",&jtmp) || jtmp == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER;  goto done;}
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
+
+    *nparamsp = nparams;
+    *paramsp = params; params = NULL;
+    
+done:
+    NCJreclaim(json);
+    nullfree(params);
+    return stat;
+}
+
+static int
+NCZ_szip_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    char json[2048];
+
+    snprintf(json,sizeof(json),"{\"id\": \"%s\", \"mask\": %u, \"pixels-per-block\": %u}",
+    		NCZ_szip_codec.codecid,
+		params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK],
+		params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB]);
+    if(codecp) {
+        if((*codecp = strdup(json))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+    }
+    
+done:
+    return stat;
+}
+
+static int
+NCZ_szip_modify_parameters(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** vparamsp, size_t* wnparamsp, unsigned** wparamsp)
+{
+    int i,ret_value = NC_NOERR;
+    nc_type vtype;
+    size_t typesize, scanline, dtype_precision, npoints;
+    int ndims, storage, dtype_order;
+    int dimids[NC_MAX_VAR_DIMS];
+    char vname[NC_MAX_NAME+1];
+    size_t chunklens[NC_MAX_VAR_DIMS];
+    unsigned* params = NULL;
+    unsigned* vparams = NULL;
+    size_t wnparams = 4;
+    
+    if(wnparamsp == NULL || wparamsp == NULL)
+        {ret_value = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(vnparamsp == NULL || vparamsp == NULL)
+        {ret_value = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(*vnparamsp > 0 && *vparamsp == NULL)
+        {ret_value = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    vparams = *vparamsp;
+
+    /* Get variable info */
+    if((ret_value = nc_inq_var(ncid,varid,vname,&vtype,&ndims,dimids,NULL))) goto done;
+
+    /* Get the typesize */
+    if((ret_value = nc_inq_type(ncid,vtype,NULL,&typesize))) goto done;
+
+    /* Get datatype's precision, in case is less than full bits  */
+    dtype_precision = typesize*8;
+
+    if(dtype_precision > 24) {
+        if(dtype_precision <= 32)
+            dtype_precision = 32;
+        else if(dtype_precision <= 64)
+            dtype_precision = 64;
+    } /* end if */
+
+    if(ndims == 0) {ret_value = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    /* Set "local" parameter for this dataset's "pixels-per-scanline" */
+    if((ret_value = nc_inq_dimlen(ncid,dimids[ndims-1],&scanline))) goto done;
+
+    /* Get number of elements for the dataspace;  use
+       total number of elements in the chunk to define the new 'scanline' size */
+    /* Compute chunksize */
+    if((ret_value = nc_inq_var_chunking(ncid,varid,&storage,chunklens))) goto done;
+    if(storage != NC_CHUNKED) {ret_value = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    npoints = 1;
+    for(i=0;i<ndims;i++) npoints *= chunklens[i];
+
+    /* Get datatype's endianness order */
+    if((ret_value = nc_inq_var_endian(ncid,varid,&dtype_order))) goto done;
+
+    if((params = (unsigned*)malloc(wnparams*sizeof(unsigned)))==NULL)
+        {ret_value = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] = vparams[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK];
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB] = vparams[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB];
+
+    /* Set "local" parameter for this dataset's "bits-per-pixel" */
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_BPP] = dtype_precision;
+
+    /* Adjust scanline if it is smaller than number of pixels per block or
+       if it is bigger than maximum pixels per scanline, or there are more than
+       SZ_MAX_BLOCKS_PER_SCANLINE blocks per scanline  */
+    if(scanline < vparams[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB]) {
+        if(npoints < vparams[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB])
+	    HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ARGS, H5E_BADVALUE, FAIL, "pixels per block greater than total number of elements in the chunk")
+	scanline = MIN((vparams[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB] * SZ_MAX_BLOCKS_PER_SCANLINE), npoints);
+    } else {
+        if(scanline <= SZ_MAX_PIXELS_PER_SCANLINE)
+            scanline = MIN((vparams[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB] * SZ_MAX_BLOCKS_PER_SCANLINE), scanline);
+        else
+            scanline = vparams[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB] * SZ_MAX_BLOCKS_PER_SCANLINE;
+    } /* end else */
+    /* Assign the final value to the scanline */
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPS] = (unsigned)scanline;
+
+    /* Set the correct mask flags */
+
+    /* From H5Pdcpl.c#H5Pset_szip */
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] &= (unsigned)(~H5_SZIP_CHIP_OPTION_MASK);
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] |= H5_SZIP_ALLOW_K13_OPTION_MASK;
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] |= H5_SZIP_RAW_OPTION_MASK;
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] &= (unsigned)(~(H5_SZIP_LSB_OPTION_MASK | H5_SZIP_MSB_OPTION_MASK));
+
+    /* From H5Zszip.c#H5Z__set_local_szip */
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] &= (unsigned)(~(H5_SZIP_LSB_OPTION_MASK | H5_SZIP_MSB_OPTION_MASK));
+    switch(dtype_order) {
+    case NC_ENDIAN_LITTLE:      /* Little-endian byte order */
+        params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] |= H5_SZIP_LSB_OPTION_MASK;
+        break;
+    case NC_ENDIAN_BIG:      /* Big-endian byte order */
+        params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] |= H5_SZIP_MSB_OPTION_MASK;
+        break;
+    default:
+        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_PLINE, H5E_BADTYPE, FAIL, "bad datatype endianness order")
+    } /* end switch */
+
+    *wnparamsp = wnparams;
+    nullfree(*wparamsp);
+    *wparamsp = params; params = NULL;
+    
+done:
+    nullfree(params);
+    FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(ret_value)
+}
+
+#if 0
+static int
+NCZ_szip_visible_parameters(int ncid, int varid, size_t nparamsin, const unsigned int* paramsin, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    unsigned* params = NULL;
+
+    if(nparamsp == NULL || paramsp == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    
+    if((params = (unsigned*)malloc(2*sizeof(unsigned)))==NULL)
+        {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK] = paramsin[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_MASK];
+    params[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB] = paramsin[H5Z_SZIP_PARM_PPB];
+
+    nullfree(*paramsp);
+    *paramsp = params; params = NULL;
+
+done:
+    nullfree(params);
+    return stat;
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /*HAVE_SZ*/
+
+/**************************************************/
+
 NCZ_codec_t* NCZ_default_codecs[] = {
 &NCZ_shuffle_codec,
 &NCZ_fletcher32_codec,
 &NCZ_zlib_codec,
+#ifdef HAVE_SZ
+&NCZ_szip_codec,
+#endif
 NULL
 };
 
diff --git a/plugins/NCZstdfilters.c b/plugins/NCZstdfilters.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eda1865162
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/NCZstdfilters.c
@@ -0,0 +1,460 @@
+/* Copyright 2003-2018, University Corporation for Atmospheric
+ * Research. See the COPYRIGHT file for copying and redistribution
+ * conditions.
+ */
+
+/*
+Author: Dennis Heimbigner
+*/
+
+#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
+#include "config.h"
+#endif
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+
+#include "netcdf.h"
+#include "netcdf_filter.h"
+#include "netcdf_filter_build.h"
+#include "netcdf_json.h"
+
+/* Provide Codec information for the standard filters */
+
+#ifndef H5Z_FILTER_BZIP2
+#define H5Z_FILTER_BZIP2	1
+#define H5Z_FILTER_ZSTD		2
+#define H5Z_FILTER_BLOSC	3
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_BLOSC
+#include "H5Zblosc.h"
+#endif
+
+/**************************************************/
+/* NCZarr Filter Objects */
+
+/* Forward */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_BZ2
+static int NCZ_bzip2_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp);
+static int NCZ_bzip2_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_ZSTD
+static int NCZ_zstd_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp);
+static int NCZ_zstd_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
+#endif
+
+#ifdef HAVE_BLOSC
+static int NCZ_blosc_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp);
+static int NCZ_blosc_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp);
+static int NCZ_blosc_modify_parameters(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** vparamsp, size_t* wnparamsp, unsigned** wparamsp);
+static void NCZ_blosc_codec_finalize(void);
+#endif
+
+/**************************************************/
+/* Provide the codec support for bzip2 filter */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_BZ2
+static NCZ_codec_t NCZ_bzip2_codec = {/* NCZ_codec_t  codec fields */ 
+  NCZ_CODEC_CLASS_VER,	/* Struct version number */
+  NCZ_CODEC_HDF5,	/* Struct sort */
+  "bz2",	        /* Standard name/id of the codec */
+  H5Z_FILTER_BZIP2,   /* HDF5 alias for bzip2 */
+  NULL, /*NCZ_bzip2_codec_initialize*/
+  NULL, /*NCZ_bzip2_codec_finalize*/
+  NCZ_bzip2_codec_to_hdf5,
+  NCZ_bzip2_hdf5_to_codec,
+  NULL, /*NCZ_bzip2_modify_parameters*/
+};
+
+/* External Export API */
+DLLEXPORT
+const void*
+NCZ_get_codec_info(void)
+{
+    return (void*)&NCZ_bzip2_codec;
+}
+
+static int
+NCZ_bzip2_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec_json, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    NCjson* jcodec = NULL;
+    NCjson* jtmp = NULL;
+    unsigned* params = NULL;
+    struct NCJconst jc;
+  
+    if(nparamsp == NULL || paramsp == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EINTERNAL; goto done;}
+    
+    if((params = (unsigned*)calloc(1,sizeof(unsigned)))== NULL)
+        {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+
+    /* parse the JSON */
+    if(NCJparse(codec_json,0,&jcodec))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(NCJsort(jcodec) != NCJ_DICT) {stat = NC_EPLUGIN; goto done;}
+    /* Verify the codec ID */
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"id",&jtmp))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(jtmp == NULL || !NCJisatomic(jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(strcmp(NCJstring(jtmp),NCZ_bzip2_codec.codecid)!=0) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
+
+    /* Get Level */
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"level",&jtmp))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(jc.ival < 0 || jc.ival > NC_MAX_UINT) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
+    params[0] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
+    *nparamsp = 1;
+    *paramsp = params; params = NULL;
+    
+done:
+    if(params) free(params);
+    NCJreclaim(jcodec);
+    return stat;
+}
+
+static int
+NCZ_bzip2_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    unsigned level = 0;
+    char json[1024];
+
+    if(nparams == 0 || params == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    level = params[0];
+    snprintf(json,sizeof(json),"{\"id\": \"%s\", \"level\": \"%u\"}",NCZ_bzip2_codec.codecid,level);
+    if(codecp) {
+        if((*codecp = strdup(json))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+    }
+    
+done:
+    return stat;
+}
+#endif
+
+/**************************************************/
+/* Provide the codec support for zstandard filter */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_ZSTD
+
+static NCZ_codec_t NCZ_zstd_codec = {/* NCZ_codec_t  codec fields */ 
+  NCZ_CODEC_CLASS_VER,	/* Struct version number */
+  NCZ_CODEC_HDF5,	/* Struct sort */
+  "zstd",	        /* Standard name/id of the codec */
+  H5Z_FILTER_ZSTD,   /* HDF5 alias for zstd */
+  NULL, /*NCZ_zstd_codec_initialize*/
+  NULL, /*NCZ_zstd_codec_finalize*/
+  NCZ_zstd_codec_to_hdf5,
+  NCZ_zstd_hdf5_to_codec,
+  NULL, /*NCZ_zstd_modify_parameters*/
+};
+
+static int
+NCZ_zstd_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec_json, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    NCjson* jcodec = NULL;
+    NCjson* jtmp = NULL;
+    unsigned* params = NULL;
+    struct NCJconst jc;
+  
+    if(nparamsp == NULL || paramsp == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EINTERNAL; goto done;}
+    
+    if((params = (unsigned*)calloc(1,sizeof(unsigned)))== NULL)
+        {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+
+    /* parse the JSON */
+    if(NCJparse(codec_json,0,&jcodec))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(NCJsort(jcodec) != NCJ_DICT) {stat = NC_EPLUGIN; goto done;}
+    /* Verify the codec ID */
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"id",&jtmp))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(jtmp == NULL || !NCJisatomic(jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(strcmp(NCJstring(jtmp),NCZ_zstd_codec.codecid)!=0) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
+
+    /* Get Level */
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"level",&jtmp))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(jc.ival < 0 || jc.ival > NC_MAX_UINT) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
+    params[0] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
+    *nparamsp = 1;
+    *paramsp = params; params = NULL;
+    
+done:
+    if(params) free(params);
+    NCJreclaim(jcodec);
+    return stat;
+}
+
+static int
+NCZ_zstd_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    unsigned level = 0;
+    char json[1024];
+
+    if(nparams == 0 || params == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    level = params[0];
+    snprintf(json,sizeof(json),"{\"id\": \"%s\", \"level\": \"%u\"}",NCZ_zstd_codec.codecid,level);
+    if(codecp) {
+        if((*codecp = strdup(json))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+    }
+    
+done:
+    return stat;
+}
+#endif
+
+/**************************************************/
+/* Provide the codec support for blosc filter */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_BLOSC
+
+/* Structure for NCZ_PLUGIN_CODEC */
+static NCZ_codec_t NCZ_blosc_codec = {/* NCZ_codec_t  codec fields */ 
+  NCZ_CODEC_CLASS_VER,	/* Struct version number */
+  NCZ_CODEC_HDF5,	/* Struct sort */
+  "blosc",	        /* Standard name/id of the codec */
+  H5Z_FILTER_BLOSC,    /* HDF5 alias for blosc */
+  NULL, /*NCZ_blosc_codec_initialize*/
+  NCZ_blosc_codec_finalize,
+  NCZ_blosc_codec_to_hdf5,
+  NCZ_blosc_hdf5_to_codec,
+  NCZ_blosc_modify_parameters,
+};
+
+/* NCZarr Interface Functions */
+
+/* Create the true parameter set:
+Visible parameters:
+param[0] -- reserved
+param[1] -- reserved
+param[2] -- reserved
+param[3] -- variable chunksize in bytes | 0 (=>default)
+param[4] -- compression level
+param[5] -- BLOSC_SHUFFLE|BLOSC_BITSHUFFLE
+param[6] -- compressor index
+
+Working parameters:
+param[0] -- filter revision
+param[1] -- blosc version
+param[2] -- variable type size in bytes
+param[3] -- variable chunksize in bytes
+param[4] -- compression level
+param[5] -- BLOSC_SHUFFLE|BLOSC_BITSHUFFLE
+param[6] -- compressor index
+*/
+
+void blosc_destroy(void);
+
+static int ncz_blosc_initialized = 0;
+
+static void
+NCZ_blosc_codec_finalize(void)
+{
+    if(ncz_blosc_initialized) {
+        blosc_destroy();
+	ncz_blosc_initialized = 0;
+    }
+}
+
+static int
+NCZ_blosc_modify_parameters(int ncid, int varid, size_t* vnparamsp, unsigned** vparamsp, size_t* wnparamsp, unsigned** wparamsp)
+{
+    int i,stat = NC_NOERR;
+    nc_type vtype;
+    int storage, ndims;
+    size_t* chunklens = NULL;
+    size_t typesize, chunksize;
+    char vname[NC_MAX_NAME+1];
+    unsigned* params = NULL;
+    size_t nparams;
+    size_t vnparams = *vnparamsp;
+    unsigned* vparams = *vparamsp;
+    
+    if(vnparams < 7)
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    nparams = 7;
+
+    if(vparams == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    if(wnparamsp == NULL || wparamsp == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    vnparams = *vnparamsp;
+    vparams = *vparamsp;
+
+    /* Get variable info */
+    if((stat = nc_inq_var(ncid,varid,vname,&vtype,&ndims,NULL,NULL))) goto done;
+
+    if(ndims == 0) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    /* Get the typesize */
+    if((stat = nc_inq_type(ncid,vtype,NULL,&typesize))) goto done;
+
+    /* Compute chunksize */
+    if((chunklens = (size_t*)calloc(ndims,sizeof(size_t)))==NULL) goto done;
+    if((stat = nc_inq_var_chunking(ncid,varid,&storage,chunklens))) goto done;
+    if(storage != NC_CHUNKED) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    chunksize = typesize;
+    for(i=0;i<ndims;i++) chunksize *= chunklens[i];
+
+    if((params = (unsigned*)malloc(vnparams*sizeof(unsigned)))==NULL)
+        {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+    memcpy(params,vparams,vnparams*sizeof(unsigned));
+
+    params[0] = FILTER_BLOSC_VERSION;
+    params[1] = BLOSC_VERSION_FORMAT;
+    params[2] = (unsigned)typesize;
+
+    params[3] = chunksize;
+    params[4] = params[4];
+    params[5] = params[5];
+    params[6] = params[6];
+
+    *wnparamsp = nparams;
+    nullfree(*wparamsp);
+    *wparamsp = params; params = NULL;
+    
+done:
+    nullfree(chunklens);
+    nullfree(params);
+    FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(stat)
+}
+
+static int
+NCZ_blosc_codec_to_hdf5(const char* codec_json, size_t* nparamsp, unsigned** paramsp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    NCjson* jcodec = NULL;
+    NCjson* jtmp = NULL;
+    unsigned* params = NULL;
+    struct NCJconst jc = {0,0,0,NULL};
+    int compcode;
+
+    /* parse the JSON */
+    if(NCJparse(codec_json,0,&jcodec)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(NCJsort(jcodec) != NCJ_DICT) {stat = NC_EPLUGIN; goto done;}
+    /* Verify the codec ID */
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"id",&jtmp))
+        {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(jtmp == NULL || !NCJisatomic(jtmp)) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
+    if(strcmp(NCJstring(jtmp),NCZ_blosc_codec.codecid)!=0) {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
+
+    if((params = (unsigned*)calloc(7,sizeof(unsigned)))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+
+    /* Get compression level*/
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"clevel",&jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(jtmp) {
+        if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc)) {stat = NC_EFILTER;  goto done;}
+    } else
+        jc.ival = DEFAULT_LEVEL;
+    if(jc.ival < 0 || jc.ival > NC_MAX_UINT) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    params[4] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
+
+    /* Get blocksize */
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"blocksize",&jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER;  goto done;}
+    if(jtmp) {
+        if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    } else
+        jc.ival = DEFAULT_BLOCKSIZE;
+    if(jc.ival < 0 || jc.ival > NC_MAX_UINT) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    params[3] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
+
+    /* Get shuffle */
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"shuffle",&jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    if(jtmp) {
+        if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_INT,&jc)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    } else
+        jc.ival = BLOSC_NOSHUFFLE;
+    params[5] = (unsigned)jc.ival;
+
+    /* Get compname */
+    if(NCJdictget(jcodec,"cname",&jtmp)) {stat = NC_EFILTER;  goto done;}
+    if(jtmp) {
+        if(NCJcvt(jtmp,NCJ_STRING,&jc)) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+        if(jc.sval == NULL || strlen(jc.sval) == 0) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+        if((compcode = blosc_compname_to_compcode(jc.sval)) < 0) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+    } else
+        compcode = DEFAULT_COMPCODE;
+    params[6] = (unsigned)compcode;
+
+    if(nparamsp) *nparamsp = 7;
+    if(paramsp) {*paramsp = params; params = NULL;}
+    
+done:
+    if(jc.sval) {
+	free(jc.sval);
+    }
+    if(params) {
+        free(params);
+    }
+    NCJreclaim(jcodec);
+    return stat;
+}
+
+static int
+NCZ_blosc_hdf5_to_codec(size_t nparams, const unsigned* params, char** codecp)
+{
+    int stat = NC_NOERR;
+    char json[1024];
+    const char* compname = NULL;
+
+    if(nparams == 0 || params == NULL)
+        {stat = NC_EINVAL; goto done;}
+
+    /* Get the sub-compressor name */
+    if(blosc_compcode_to_compname((int)params[6],&compname) < 0) {stat = NC_EFILTER; goto done;}
+
+    snprintf(json,sizeof(json),
+	"{\"id\": \"blosc\",\"clevel\": %u,\"blocksize\": %u,\"cname\": \"%s\",\"shuffle\": %d}",
+	params[4],params[3],compname,params[5]);
+
+    if(codecp) {
+        if((*codecp = strdup(json))==NULL) {stat = NC_ENOMEM; goto done;}
+    }
+    
+done:
+    return stat;
+}
+#endif
+
+/**************************************************/
+
+NCZ_codec_t* NCZ_stdfilters_codecs[] = {
+#ifdef HAVE_BZ2
+&NCZ_bzip2_codec,
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_ZSTD
+&NCZ_zstd_codec,
+#endif
+#ifdef HAVE_BLOSC
+&NCZ_blosc_codec,
+#endif
+NULL
+};
+
+/* External Export API */
+DLLEXPORT
+const void*
+NCZ_codec_info_defaults(void)
+{
+    return (void*)&NCZ_stdfilters_codecs;
+}
+
diff --git a/plugins/stdinstall.in b/plugins/stdinstall.in
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..74a73765a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/stdinstall.in
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/bin/bash 
+
+if test "x$srcdir" = x ; then srcdir=`pwd`; fi
+. ../test_common.sh
+
+set -x
+
+INSTALLDIR=@PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR@
+
+# Load the findplugins function
+. ${builddir}/findplugin.sh
+echo "findplugin.sh loaded"
+
+installplugin() {
+PLUG="$1"
+# Locate the plugin path and the library name; argument order is critical
+findplugin ${PLUG}
+if ! test -f "$HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR/$HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB" ; then
+    echo "Not exists: ${HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR}/$HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB ; ignored"   
+    return
+fi
+if ! test -d "${INSTALLDIR}" ; then
+    echo "Not exists: ${INSTALLDIR} ; creating"
+    mkdir ${INSTALLDIR}
+fi
+echo "Installing: $HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR/$HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB into $INSTALLDIR"
+cp -f "$HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR/$HDF5_PLUGIN_LIB" $INSTALLDIR
+}
+
+if test "x$USEPLUGINS" != x ; then
+  if test "x$INSTALLDIR" != x ; then
+    installplugin h5bzip2
+    installplugin h5zstd
+    installplugin h5blosc
+    if test "x$FEATURE_NCZARR" ; then
+      installplugin h5fletcher32
+      installplugin h5shuffle
+      installplugin h5deflate
+      installplugin h5szip
+      installplugin nczdefaults
+      installplugin nczszip
+    fi
+  fi
+fi
diff --git a/test_common.in b/test_common.in
index e010870b45..eff6baf8e5 100644
--- a/test_common.in
+++ b/test_common.in
@@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ FEATURE_PARALLEL=@HAS_PARALLEL@
 
 # Define selected features of the build
 FEATURE_HDF5=@HAS_HDF5@
+FEATURE_NCZARR=@HAS_NCZARR@
 FEATURE_S3TESTS=@DO_NCZARR_S3_TESTS@
 FEATURE_NCZARR_ZIP=@DO_NCZARR_ZIP_TESTS@
 FEATURE_FILTERTESTS=@DO_FILTER_TESTS@
+FEATURE_PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR=@PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR@
 
 set -e
 
diff --git a/unit_test/test_pathcvt.c b/unit_test/test_pathcvt.c
index 6c12b107f4..b0230f53b3 100644
--- a/unit_test/test_pathcvt.c
+++ b/unit_test/test_pathcvt.c
@@ -108,12 +108,12 @@ static Test PATHTESTS[] = {
 char* macros[128];
 
 /*Forward */
-#ifdef DEBUG
-static const char* kind2string(int kind);
-#endif
 static char* expand(const char* s);
 static void setmacros(void);
 static void reclaimmacros(void);
+#ifdef DEBUG
+static const char* kind2string(int kind);
+#endif
 
 int
 main(int argc, char** argv)