GDAL 3.7.0 is released

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

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