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1.2.0
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1.2.0:

Changes of Note:

  • The GEOS library is now required to build PDAL. In earlier versions it was
    an optional component.
  • Boost is no longer a required component. Unless you are building plugins
    that require boost (notably PCL and Geowave), you no longer will need
    boost installed on your system to build or run PDAL.
  • PDAL now builds on Microsoft Visual Studio 2015.
  • The PipelineReader class has been removed and its functionality has been
    merged into PipelineManager.
  • Plugin libraries now support Linux versioning.
  • Naming changes have been made to allow packaging with the Debian release.
  • filters.height now uses the dimension 'HeightAboveGround' instead of a
    dimension named 'Height' to be compatible with the filters.heightaboveground.
  • Option names no longer contain lowercase characters.
  • PDAL now works with GDAL version 1.9 and later.
  • Stages created with the StageFactory are now owned by the factory.
  • filters.dartthrowing has been renamed filters.dartsample
  • 'pipeline-serialization' now produces JSON output instead of XML.

Enhancements:

  • Pipelines may now be specified using a JSON syntax. XML syntax is still
    supported but users should switch to JSON when possible as the XML support
    will be removed in a future version.
  • PDAL now can be built into a Docker container.
  • Many stages now support "streaming," which allows control of the number
    of points stored in memory during processing. See
    Stage::execute(StreamPointTable&) for more information.
  • A basic text reader has been added.
  • Added support for the dimension 'ClassFlags' in readers.las.
  • The derivative writer can now produce output for multiple primitive types
    with a single execution.
  • 'pdal info' now provides bounding box output instead of a more refined
    boundary when the hexbin plugin isn't found.
  • Added 'pdal density' to provide a command-line interface to the
    filters.hexbin density calcuations.
  • The icebridge reader can now load an associated metadata file. The reader
    also now marks the associated coordinate system as WGS84.
  • The stats filter now emits bounding box information in native and WGS84
    projections.
  • PDAL command-line programs now (generally) check their argument lists for
    correctness and report syntax errors.
  • 'pdal info' now provides spatial reference attributes in addition to
    the actual well-known text.
  • Geometry can now be specified as GeoJSON as well as well-known-text in
    most contexts. Geometry optionally provides Z-dimension output.
  • Stage and plugin creation is now thread-safe (NOTE: Most of PDAL is
    NOT thread-safe, so tread carefully).
  • Many, many documentation enhancements.

Fixes:

  • A bug in generating PCIDs when with multiple simultaneous PDAL executions
    to the same Postgres database has been fixed.
  • Fixed a bug in generated SQL delete statements when certain table names
    were used in the writers.postgres driver.
  • Properly escape quotes when generating JSON output.
  • Fix an off-by-one error when writing data with the derivative writer that
    could lead to a crash.
  • Fixed a dependency error during builds that could lead to a failure to
    properly load Python extensions on Linux.
  • Fixed a bug where passing certain options to 'pdal info' could be handled
    in ambiguous ways.
  • Fixed bugs in the reading of raster data using readers.gdal.
  • Fixed population of the AIMIDB and ACFTB attributes in writers.nitf.
  • Corrected the parsing of some dimension names in filters.colorization.
  • Fixed a potential truncation in the GlobalEncoding dimension of readers.las.
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