GDAL/OGR 1.9.0 Released

The GDAL/OGR team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.9.0.
This is a major new release including the following major new features:

• New GDAL drivers: ACE2, CTG, E00GRID, ECRGTOC, GRASSASCIIGrid, GTA, NGSGEOID, SNODAS, WebP, ZMap
• New OGR drivers: ARCGEN, CouchDB, DWG, EDIGEO, ESRI FileGDB, Geomedia, Google Fusion Tables, IDRISI, MDB, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SVG, XLS
• Significantly improved drivers: NetCDF
• Encoding support for shapefile/dbf (#882)
• RFC 35: Delete, reorder and alter field definitions of OGR layers
• RFC 37: Add mechanism to provide user data to CPLErrorHandler (#4295)
• gdalsrsinfo: new supported utility to report SRS in various form (supercedes testepsg)

Complete news on the new release can be found at:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.9.0-News

The new release can be downloaded from:

• http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal190.zip - source as a zip
• http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
• http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.9.0.tar.gz - test suite
• http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal190doc.zip - documentation / website