Prepare for 2.3.0RC1

gdal/NEWS

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= GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 *PRELIMINARY* Release Notes (to 1121758f74589f8850193a5baced7ab1335a4b39) =
= GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 Release Notes =

Note: due to the change of SCM during the development, #XXXX still refers to
Trac tickets. GitHub tickets are explicitly indicated with github #XXXX
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Trac tickets. GitHub tickets are explicitly indicated with github #XXXX

See MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

== GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 - General Changes ==
== GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 - Build changes ==

Build(Unix):
 * refresh config.{guess,sub} from latest upstream; upgrade to libtool 2.4.6 files
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ Build(Unix):
 * use .exe extension when building with mingw64* toolchains (#6919)
 * Pass --silent to libtool in compile (C and C++), link, install and clean modes.
 * Limit number of installed cpl*.h files installed to a fixed list.
 * configure / m4/acinclude.m4: replace use of CCFLAGS by plain CFLAGS (github #529)
 * configure / m4/acinclude.m4: require 'long long' type (github #530)

Build(Windows):
 * always build the PDF driver, even when none of poppler/podofo/pdfium are available, in which case it is write-only (#6938)
@@ -67,6 +69,9 @@ Build(Windows):
 * nmake.opt: avoid some settings to be defined unconditionally (#5286)
 * nmake.opt: add configuration to enable openssl (which is needed for thread-safe curl use)

Build(All):
 * fix compilation error with Crypto++ 7.0.0 (github #541)

Developer corner:
 * Add scripts/setdevenv.sh to setup env variables needed for running GDAL without installing it

@@ -138,6 +143,8 @@ Core:
 * Add GDALDataset::Open()
 * Add C++ iterators for layers, bands and features in GDALDataset
 * External .ovr: make sure that ExtraSamples tag is written
 * Overview creation: avoid creating too many levels, and fix related heap buffer overflow (github #557)
 * SetStatistics(): write a STATISTICS_APPROXIMATE=YES metadata item if bApproxOK=true, and take it into account in GetStatistics() (#4857,#4576)

Algorithms:
 * Contour: make sure no 3D geometry is created unless -3d switch is defined (#336)
@@ -221,6 +228,7 @@ ECW driver:

EHdr driver:
 * support reading/writing .clr as/from RAT (#3253)
 * only write .stx if bApproxOK=false (github #514)

ENVI driver:
 * support 'major frame offsets' keyword (#7114)
@@ -239,6 +247,7 @@ GeoPackage driver:
 * make DELLAYER:rastertable / DROP TABLE rastertable delete the table and all references to it (#7013)
 * create single tiled TIFF tiles if they are not bigger than 512x512 pixels
 * avoid multi-threading issues when creating TIFF tiles with GDAL_NUM_THREADS defined.
 * fix overview creation with big overview factors on some datasets

GeoRaster driver:
 * handle memory allocation failures (#6884)
@@ -330,6 +339,7 @@ JP2OpenJPEG driver:
 * add support for OpenJPEG 2.2 (#7002) and 2.3 (#7074). Drop support for openjpeg 2.0
 * fix performance issues with small images with very small tile size, such as some Sentinel2 quicklooks (#7012)
 * emit warning if GMLJP2v2 explicitly requested but georeferencing implemented
 * allow YCC for non-Byte datasets; and allow 4-band MCT with openjpeg >= 2.2

JPEG driver:
 * Add compatibility with libjpeg-turbo 1.5.2 that honours max_memory_to_use
@@ -425,6 +435,9 @@ Sentinel2 driver:
 * make sure that the True Color Image subdatset really uses the R,G,B bands and not the R,R,R (#7251)
 * add support for direct opening of .zip files of new safe_compact L1C products (#7085)

SNODAS driver:
 * accept header lines up to 1024 characters (github #506)

SRTMHGT driver:
 * set appropriate description when opening a .hgt.zip file
 * recognizes the .hgt.gz extension (#7016)
@@ -451,6 +464,7 @@ VRT driver:
 * VRTDerivedRasterBand: fix detection of Python runtime already loaded when more than 100 modules are linked. Fixes QGIS3 use case (#7213)
 * add RAT support
 * for consistency, make sure that VRT intermediate datatype demotion is done, e.g that a VRT band of type Byte, with a source of type Float32, requested as Float32 buffer involves Float32 -> Byte -> Float32 conversions
 * VRTDataset::AddBand(): honour 'PixelFunctionLanguage' option (github #501)

WCS driver:
 * add support for WCS 2.0
@@ -515,6 +529,7 @@ Utilities:
 * ogrmerge.py: allow using wildchar '*' in source names and use glob.glob to expand it
 * ogrmerge.py: correctly guess vrt format
 * ogrmerge.py: error when outputting to a existing vrt if -overwrite_ds is not specified
 * ogrmerge.py: use ogr.wkbUnknown to fix -nlt GEOMETRY
 * ogr2ogr: fix crash when using -f PDF -a_srs (#6920)
 * ogr2ogr: make -f GMT work again (#6993)
 * ogr2ogr: make it fail if GetNextFeature() returned NULL with an error
@@ -525,6 +540,7 @@ Utilities:
 * gnmmanage: fix crash on shape files with linestring and multilinestring geometries mixing
 * ogrtindex: fix crash when using -f SQLITE -t_srs XXXX (#7053)
 * ogrinfo: always open in read-only mode, unless -sql without -ro is specified
 * ogrinfo/ogr2ogr with -sql @filename: remove lines starting with '--' (github #459)

Multi driver changes:
 * port/tag ILI, NAS, DGN, NTF, SDTS, OGR_GMT, Geoconcept, AVCE00, AVCBin to VirtualIO API
@@ -581,7 +597,7 @@ DXF driver:
 * defer inlining of blocks until actually required (#7106)
 * Read DIMSTYLEs and block record handles
 * Handle linetype scales (#7129)
 * mproved support for DIMENSION entities (#7120)
 * Improved support for DIMENSION entities (#7120)
 * handle ByBlock colors (#7130)
 * Fix parsing of complex linetypes (#7134)
 * Correct color for ByBlock text features; respect hidden objects (#5592, #7099, #7121)
@@ -703,6 +719,7 @@ MITAB driver:
 * support 'CREATE INDEX ON layer_name USING field_name' (if called after field creation and before first feature insertion)
 * avoid reporting invalid extent on empty .mif
 * report aspatial .tab as wkbNone geometry type
 * export BRUSH(fc:#.....) with mapinfo brush pattern 2 (solid fill)

mongoDB driver:
 * compilation fix on Windows
@@ -754,6 +771,9 @@ PDF driver:
 * make OGR_PDF_READ_NON_STRUCTURED=YES configuration option work with documents without layers (#6359)
 * Improvements to text and dash pattern support in writer (#7185)

PDS driver:
 * fix reading 8-byte IEEE_REAL fields (github #570)

PG driver:
 * do not be confused by a 'geometry' table in a non-PostGIS enabled database (#6896)
 * PG/PGDump: make sure serial sequence is updated at layer closing/end-of-copy if we inserted features with fixed ids (#7032)

gdal/gcore/gdal_version.h.in

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#if !defined(DO_NOT_DEFINE_GDAL_RELEASE_DATE_AND_GDAL_RELEASE_NAME)
#ifndef GDAL_RELEASE_DATE
#  define GDAL_RELEASE_DATE     20182004
#  define GDAL_RELEASE_DATE     20180504
#endif
#ifndef GDAL_RELEASE_NAME
#  define GDAL_RELEASE_NAME     "2.3.0beta1"
#  define GDAL_RELEASE_NAME     "2.3.0"
#endif
#endif