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
