Hi,
On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.7.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data
access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web services.
It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line
tools.
http://gdal.org/
The 3.7.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:
- [RFC 87](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc87_signed_int8.html): Add GDT_Int8 support
- [RFC 88](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc88_googletest.html): switch to GoogleTest framework for C++ tests
- [RFC 89](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc89_sql_logging_callback.html): SQL query logging callback
- [RFC 90](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc90_read_compressed_data.html): Direct access to compressed raster data
- [RFC 91](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc91_dataset_close.html): GDALDataset::Close() method
- [RFC 93](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc93_update_feature.html): OGRLayer::UpdateFeature() method
- [RFC 94](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc94_field_precision_width_metadata.html): Numeric fields width/precision metadata
- ogrinfo: make it accessible through a new GDALVectorInfo() C API call, and a -json switch
- Add read-only raster driver [NOAA_B](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/noaa_b.html) to read NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b grids
- Add read-only raster driver [NSIDCbin](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/nsidcbin.html) for Sea Ice Concentrations
- Add read-only vector [GTFS](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/gtfs.html) (General Transit Feed Specification) driver
- [TileDB](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/tiledb.html): add read/write vector side
- Add support for [SOZip](https://sozip.org) (Seek Optimized ZIP) with enhanced /vsizip/ virtual file system and a new sozip utility
- [OpenFileGDB](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/openfilegdb.html): add read-only support for raster datasets (.gdb v10)
- PNG: 1.7-2.0x speed-up in whole image decompression with libdeflate on Intel/AMD CPUs. Benefits to GPKG, MRF drivers
- [RFC 69](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc69_cplusplus_formatting.html): C++ code reformatting
- Code linting and security fixes
- Remove any traces of Rasdaman driver, now moved to OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository (#4808)
- Bump of shared lib major version
More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.7.0 release can be found at:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.7.0/NEWS.md
The release can be downloaded from:
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdal370.zip – source as a zip
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdal-3.7.0.tar.gz – source as .tar.gz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdal-3.7.0.tar.xz – source as .tar.xz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdalautotest-3.7.0.tar.gz – test suite
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdal370doc.zip – documentation / website
Best regards,
Even