2.8.0

Changes of Note

• Warn instead of error for when global encoding is not set by @hobu in #4414
• Default writers.las to LAS 1.4 by @hobu in #4482
• Default writers.las.dataformat_id to 7 by @hobu in #4485

New Stages

• Implement filters.label_duplicates by @hobu in #4469
• Add filters.expressionstats and pdal info --breakout option by @hobu in #4487

Enhancements

• TileDB option to enable/disable duplicate points by @normanb in #4370
• implement 'auto' as default CRS for BPF writer #4418 by @hobu in #4428
• Allow forcing VLR creation as EVLR by @hobu in #4443
• add 'bins' item to filters.stats output by @hobu in #4477
• Optional stable sort for filters.sort by @abellgithub in #4478
• Support sorting multiple dimensions at once in filters.sort by @hobu in #4468

Bug Fixes

• Don't break strict aliasing rules. by @abellgithub in #4361
• Don't do LAS ready processing if there are no points. by @abellgithub in #4363
• Make sure all stages are initialized before prepared is called. by @abellgithub in #4372
• Adding log pointer to stac class instantiation to connect to reader logs by @kylemann16 in #4353
• Don't attempt to execute tree location for isolated point in filters.litree by @abellgithub in #4373
• Fix integer overflows in pdal::Raster. by @abellgithub in #4376
• Fix sorting/iterator dereferencing by @abellgithub in #4387
• Fix H3 warnings by @abellgithub in #4391
• Fixing typo that caused Info to not fill gpstime_maximum on copc reads. by @kylemann16 in #4404
• Changes for Matlab plugin to compile under macOS. by @prennich in #4417
• Rewriting OGR Writer Test to match with new GDAL usage by @kylemann16 in #4411
• Join threads and cleanup on stage teardown. by @abellgithub in #4459
• Don't copy PointView pointers to temporaries. by @abellgithub in #4471
• Make DbWriters not need a filename. by @abellgithub in #4474
• add filter() method for filters.h3 and activate test by @hobu in #4479
• Prepare assignment statement in filters.assign before checking dimension existence. by @abellgithub in #4483
• Add density information to output for poisson filter. by @hobu in #4490

Docs

• Update links on Python page by @jomey in #4378
• rotation matrix example corrected by @ovipaul in #4394
• Fixed grammer, sentencing, colons and added text to show that autzen should be included in files by @TomTheTonk in #4400
• Update readers.las.rst by @msmitherdc in #4409
• Update readers.rst by @msmitherdc in #4408
• Fix doc message in crop filter by @pierotofy in #4419
• Add 'dimension' output to filters.sample by @hobu in #4415
• Fix ref to readers.arrow in readers.rst by @wonder-sk in #4436
• Fix typo in chamfer python example by @gui2dev in #4438
• Update writers.tiledb.rst by @Garbage123King in #4441
• Update writers.pgpointcloud.rst by @Garbage123King in #4445
• add a note about readers.ept and forwarding by @hobu in #4484

Build

• use CONFIG for Draco and Arrow. Relax Draco to 1.5+ by @hobu in #4369
• we do not need to bring in GDAL for the Arrow plugins by @hobu in #4365
• catch up to arrow-cpp rename by @hobu in #4384
• use PROJ cmake CONFIG package instead of homespun find_package by @hobu in #4385
• we don't need to link GDAL for readers.arrow and writers.arrow by @hobu in #4377
• build config for filters.cpd STANDALONE by @hobu in #4396
• E57 plugins need to link against PDAL when building standalone by @hobu in #4421
• ensure libxml2 is found for PGPOINTCLOUD by @hobu in #4406
• Fix building on OpenBSD by @brad0 in #4434
• Fix CPD compilation of tests when building filters.cpd in non-standalone builds by @hobu in #4439
• Use POSIX endian.h header on OpenBSD by @brad0 in #4435
• Fix libdir path in pkgconfig file by @imincik in #4464
• CMakeLists: Fix a typo by @lbartoletti in #4488

New Contributors

• @jomey made their first contribution in #4378
• @ovipaul made their first contribution in #4394
• @TomTheTonk made their first contribution in #4400
• @prennich made their first contribution in #4417
• @brad0 made their first contribution in #4434
• @Garbage123King made their first contribution in #4441
• @imincik made their first contribution in #4464

Full Changelog: 2.7.0...2.8.0