GDAL/OGR 2.0.0 released

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.0.0. 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.

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The [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.0.0-News 2.0.0] release is a major new feature release with the following highlights:

* GDAL and OGR driver and dataset unification: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc46_gdal_ogr_unification
* Support for curve geometries: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc49_curve_geometries
* Support for OGR field subtypes (boolean, int16, float32): http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc50_ogr_field_subtype
* RasterIO() improvements : resampling and progress callback http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc51_rasterio_resampling_progress
* Stricter SQL quoting: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc52_strict_sql_quoting
* OGR not-null constraints and default values: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc53_ogr_notnull_default
* OGR dataset transactions: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc54_dataset_transactions
* Refined SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() semantics: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc55_refined_setfeature_deletefeature_semantics
* OFTTime/OFTDateTime millisecond accuracy: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc56_millisecond_precisio
* 64bit histogram bucket count: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc57_histogram_64bit_count
* 64-bit integer fields and feature IDs: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc31_ogr_64
* New GDAL drivers:
** BPG: read-only driver for Better Portable Graphics format (experimental)
** GPKG: read/write/update capabilities in the unified raster/vector driver http://gdal.org/drv_geopackage_raster.html
** KEA: read/write driver for KEA format http://gdal.org/frmt_kea.html
** PLMosaic: read-only driver for Planet Labs Mosaics API http://gdal.org/frmt_plmosaic.html
** ROI_PAC: read/write driver for image formats of JPL’s ROI_PAC project http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#ROI_PAC
** VICAR: read-only driver for VICAR format http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html
* New OGR drivers:
**Cloudant : read/write driver for Cloudant service http://gdal.org/drv_cloudant.html
**CSW: read-only driver for OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) protocol http://gdal.org/drv_csw.html
**JML: read/write driver for OpenJUMP .jml format http://gdal.org/drv_jml.html
**PLScenes: read-only driver for Planet Labs Scenes API http://gdal.org/drv_plscenes.html
**Selaphin: read/write driver for the Selaphin/Seraphin format http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_selafin.html
* Significantly improved drivers: CSV, GPKG, GTiff, JP2OpenJPEG, MapInfo, PG,SQLite
* Upgrade to EPSG 8.5 database
* Fix locale related issues when formatting or reading floating point numbers

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.0.0 release can be found at:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.0.0-News

The release can be downloaded from:

* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200.zip – source as a zip
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.gz – source as .tar.gz
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.xz – source as .tar.xz
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdalautotest-2.0.0.tar.gz – test suite
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200doc.zip – documentation / website

As there have been a few changes to the C++ API, and to a lesser extent to the C API, developers are strongly advised to read :

https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.0/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

Best regards,

Even


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