# GDAL/OGR 3.9.0 Releases Notes GDAL/OGR 3.9.0 is a feature release. Those notes include changes since GDAL 3.8.0, but not already included in a GDAL 3.8.x bugfix release. ## In a nutshell... * [RFC 96](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc96_deferred_plugin_loading.html): Deferred C++ plugin loading * [RFC 97](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc97_feature_and_fielddefn_sealing.html): OGRFeatureDefn, OGRFieldDefn and OGRGeomFieldDefn "sealing" * [RFC 98](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc98_build_requirements_gdal_3_9.html): Build requirements for GDAL 3.9 * [RFC 99](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc99_geometry_coordinate_precision.html): Geometry coordinate precision * Add [S104](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/s104.html) (Water Level Information for Surface Navigation Product) and [S111](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/s111.html) (Surface Currents Product) raster read-only drivers (required libhdf5) * Add raster [GTI](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/gti.html) (GDAL Raster Tile Index) driver to support catalogs with huge number of sources. * Add vector [MiraMonVector](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/miramon.html) read/creation driver (#9688) * Deprecated ARG driver has been removed (#7920) * Code linting ## Build * CMake: add ``[GDAL|OGR]_REGISTER_DRIVER__FOR_LATER_PLUGIN`` variables (RFC 96) * CMake: Bump max compatible version to 3.28 * CMake: add a way of defining an external deferred driver by setting one or several ADD_EXTERNAL_DEFERRED_PLUGIN_XXX CMake variables (RFC 96) * CMake: error out if a driver has been asked as a plugin, but conditions are not met * CMake: rework PROJ detection * CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=YES builds are possible, but not recommended for production * gdal.cmake: set -DDEBUG for CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug for Windows builds as well * CMake: add GDAL_FIND_PACKAGE_OpenJPEG_MODE and GDAL_FIND_PACKAGE_PROJ_MODE variables * FindSQLite3.cmake: avoid repeating finding `SQLite3_INCLUDE_DIR`/ `SQLite3_LIBRARY` if existed. * Add compatibility for Intel Compiler 2024.0.2.29 ## Backward compatibility issues See [MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.8/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT) ## Changes in installed files * data/MM_m_idofic.csv: new * data/gdalvrtti.xsd: new * data/pci_datum.txt and data/pci_ellips.txt: updated (#8034) * include/cpl_minizip_ioapi.h, cpl_minizip_unzip.h, cpl_minizip_zip.h: removed. They use since 3.5 an header that is not installed, so were unusable ## GDAL 3.9.0 - Overview of Changes ### Port * /vsicurl: add ANYSAFE & BEARER to auth methods (#8683) * /vsicurl/: re-emit HTTP error code next times we try opening a resource that failed the first time (#8922) * /vsicurl/: add a VSICURL_PC_URL_SIGNING path-specific option to enable Planetary Computer URL signing only on some URLs * /vsicurl/: Read(): emit error message when receiving HTTP 416 Range Not Satisfiable error * Add VSIVirtualHandle::GetAdviseReadTotalBytesLimit() * cpl_http: retry "Connection reset by peer" * Add a VSICURLMultiCleanup() that runs with SIGPIPE ignored (#9677) * /vsiaz/: fix RmdirRecursive() on an empty directory with just the .gdal_marker_for_dir special marker file * /vsis3/: include region to build s3.{region}.amazonaws.com host name (#9449) * Add VSIVirtualHandle::Printf() * Add VSIRemovePluginHandler() to enable removal of virtual filesystems (#8772) * No longer alias CPLMutex, CPLCond and CPLJoinableThread to void in non-DEBUG builds (ABI change) * Win32 extended filenames (starting with "\\?\"): various fixes; add support for network UNC paths * Add VSIGetDirectorySeparator() to return the directory separator for the specified path * Add CPLXMLNodeGetRAMUsageEstimate() * CPLCreateOrAcquireMutexEx(): fix warning about lock-order inversion (#1108) * Win32 Stat(VSI_STAT_EXISTS_FLAG): improve performance (#3139) * Add CPLDebugProgress() to display a debugging message indicating a progression * CSLConstList/CPLStringList: add iterating facilities and better ``std::vector`` operability * Add CPLStringList::front(), back() and clear() * Add CPLStrtodM() * CPLStrtod(): set errno=0 when no value has been parsed to conform to POSIX * Add CPLUTF8ForceToASCII() * VSICACHE: avoid EOF read (#9669) ### Core * GDALRATValuesIOAsString(): fix wrong type for papszStrList argument * Add GDALDataset::DropCache() (#8938) * Add GDALDataset::UnMarkSuppressOnClose() and IsMarkSuppressOnClose() (#8980) * Add GDALGetOutputDriversForDatasetName() * Modify the logic of selection of overviews for non-nearest resampling; add a GDAL_OVERVIEW_OVERSAMPLING_THRESHOLD config option (#9040) * GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset(): make it possible to use overviews * GDALOpen(): change error message when a dataset isn't recognized (#9009) * GDALDeserializeGCPListFromXML(): validate value of GCP Pixel,Line,X,Y,Z attributes * PAM: only unset GPF_DIRTY flag * GDALGetCacheMax64(): fix warning about lock-order inversion (#1837) * Add gdal::GCP class * QuietDeleteForCreateCopy(): forward source dataset open options (#9422) ### Multidimensional API * Add GDALCreateRasterAttributeTableFromMDArrays() to return a virtual Raster Attribute Table from several GDALMDArray's * fix wrong DataAxisToSRSAxisMapping * GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset(): make it possible to use overviews ### Algorithms * Implement basic Line-of-sight algorithm (#9506, #9050) * Warper: fix artifacts when reprojecting from long/lat to ortho (#9056) * GDALSuggestedWarpOutput2(): ortho->long/lat: limit extent to [lon_0-90,lon_0+90] even when poles are included * Warper: limit artifacts when doing ortho->long/lat (provided that srcNodata is set) * GDALSuggestWarpOutput(): make it return original potential non-square pixel shape for a south-up oriented dataset (#9336) * Warper: add a EXCLUDED_VALUES warping option to specify pixel values to be ignored as contributing source pixels during average resampling * GDALFillNodata(): add a INTERPOLATION=NEAREST option * GDALChecksumImage(): read by multiple of blocks for floating-point bands to improve performance ### Utilities * Add GDALArgumentParser class to extend p-ranav/argparse framework * Use GDALArgumentParser for: gdaladdo, gdalinfo, gdal_translate, gdalwarp, gdal_grid, gdal_viewshed, gdalbuildvrt, nearblack, ogrinfo, ogr2ogr, sozip * Add support for ``--config =`` syntax * gdaladdo: reuse previous resampling method (from GTiff RESAMPLING metadata item) if not specifying -r and overview levels if not specifying them * gdaladdo: make --partial-refresh-from-source-timestamp work on GTI datasets * gdal_contour: fix lowest min value in polygonize mode (#9710) * gdalbuildvrt: add a -nodata_max_mask_threshold option * gdal_create: copy GCPs present in the input file * gdal_edit: add -a_coord_epoch option * gdal_footprint: fix -split_polys and -convex_hull to not consume the argument specified just after them * gdal_footprint: write source dataset path in a 'location' field (#8795) * gdal_grid: error out on in invalid layer name, SQL statement or failed where condition (#9406) * gdallocationinfo: make it output extra content at end of input line, and add -E echo mode, and -field_sep option (#9411) * gdalmdimtranslate: add -arrayoptions * gdalinfo: do not call GDALGetFileList() if -nofl is specified (#9243) * gdal_translate: add -dmo option, for domain-metadata items (#8935) * gdal_translate -expand rgb[a]: automatically select Byte output data type if not specified and color table compatible of it (#9402) * gdaltransform: make it output extra content at end of input line, and add -E echo mode, and -field_sep option (#9411) * gdalmanage: make --utility_version work * gdal_polygonize.py: handle error if creation of destination fails * gdal_viewshed: add support for south-up source datasets (#9432) * gdalwarp: progress bar tunings * gdalwarp: emit error message when transformation isn't inversible (#9149) * gdalwarp: fix performance issue when warping to COG (#9416) * gdalwarp: make target resolution independent from source extent when -te is specified (#9573) * allow passing a WKT geometry as -cutline value, and add -cutline_srs (#7658) * sozip: support generic command line options * --formats option: append list of extensions (#8958) * Make gdaltindex a C callable function: GDALTileIndex() * gdaltindex: add -overwrite, -vrtti_filename, -tr, -te, -ot, -bandcount, -nodata, -colorinterp, -mask, -mo, -recursive, -filename_filter, -min_pixel_size, -max_pixel_size, -fetch_md, -lco options * gdal2tiles: added support for JPEG output * gdal2tiles: Fix case where --exclude still writes fully transparent tiles (#9532) * gdal2tiles: add --excluded-values and --excluded-values-pct-threshold switches * gdal2xyz: Change -srcwin parameter type to integer. * Python sample scripts: add gdalbuildvrtofvrt.py (#9451) * Python utilities: do not display full traceback on OpenDS failures (#9534) * gdalinfo: suggest trying ogrinfo if appropriate, and vice-versa * gdalinfo and ogrinfo -json: add newline character at end of JSON output ### Raster drivers Updates affecting multiple drivers: * All drivers depending on external libraries that can be built as plugins have been updated to implement RFC 96 deferred plugin loading * Drivers that can now be built as plugins if using external libraries and not vendored/internal libraries: GIF, JPEG, MRF, NITF, RAW drivers (as a single plugin), PDS related drivers (as a single plugin) * do not export GMLJP2 if the SRS isn't compatible (#9223): JP2KAK, JP2ECW, JP2Lura, JP2OPENJPEG AAIGRID driver: * fix reading file whose first value is nan (#9666) BAG driver: * make sure to report a subdataset for the bathymetry coverage when we expose one(s) for the georeferenced metadata GeoPackage driver: * support maximum level up to 29 or 30; add a ZOOM_LEVEL creation option GTiff driver: * Internal libtiff: resync with upstream * Use (future) libtiff 4.6.1 TIFFOpenOptionsSetMaxSingleMemAlloc() * add JXL_LOSSLESS_OVERVIEW, JXL_EFFORT_OVERVIEW, JXL_DISTANCE_OVERVIEW and JXL_ALPHA_DISTANCE_OVERVIEW configuration options (#8973) * overviews: generalize saving resampling method in a RESAMPLING metadata item * friendlier error message when attempting to create JXL compressed file with unsupported type/bits_per_sample * deal with issues with multi-band PlanarConfig=Contig, LERC and NaN values (#9530) * make BuildOverviews() in update mode work when there is an external .msk file * no longer condition CreateInternalMaskOverviews() behavior to GDAL_TIFF_INTERNAL_MASK being unset or set to YES * change default value of GDAL_TIFF_INTERNAL_MASK config option to YES * multi-threaded decoding: fix potential mutex deadlock * MultiThreadedRead(): make it take into account AdviseRead() limit to reduce the number of I/O requests (#9682) HDF5 driver: * multidim: fix crash on reading compound data type with fixed-length strings * multidim: implement GDALMDArray::GetBlockSize() and GetStructuralInfo() * improve performance of band IRasterIO() on hyperspectral products JP2KAK driver: * make result of RasterIO() consistent depending if it is called directly or through VRT, with non-nearest upsampling (#8911) * refactor how overviews work JP2OpenJPEG driver: * CreateCopy(): limit number of resolutions taking into account minimum block width/height JPEG driver: * ReadXMPMetadata(): only stop looking for XMP marker at Start Of Scan * ReadFLIRMetadata(): stop on Start-Of-Scan marker (speeds up opening large remote JPEG files) * CreateCopy(): emit warning/error message before progress bar (#9441) MRF driver: * BuildOverviews: bail out when no overviews are needed * emit warning when attempting to clean internal overviews (#9145) * Use ZSTD streaming API for compression: faster and better compression (#9230) netCDF driver: * use the SRS (its geographic part) if found in the file, instead of the hardcoded WGS84 string, for the GEOLOCATION.SRS metadata item (#9526) * Add BAND_NAMES creation option * fix writing of metadata items whose value has an equal sign ["9702) NITF driver: * in xml:DES metadata domain field, expand content of XML_DATA_CONTENT DES as XML in a sub-node of >field name=DESDATA> instead as a Base64 value * fix undefined behavior when using NITFGetField() several times in the same statement OGCAPI driver: * OGCAPI Maps: support image formats beyond PNG/JPG as well as enables content negotiation. (#9231, #9420) PDF driver: * correctly initialize PAM when opening a subdataset (specific page e.g.) * PDFium backend: update to support (and require) PDFium/6309 * deal with the situation where a multipage PDF has layers with same name but specific to some page(s) * Fix build with Poppler 24.05 S102 driver: * add support for spatial metadata of the QualityOfSurvey group * read nodata value from dataset metadata Sentinel2 driver: * include 10m AOT and WVP bands in 10m subdataset (#9066) TileDB driver: * Remove use of deprecated API, and bump minimum version to 2.15 * Added tiledb metadata fields to easily tag array type * be able to read datasets converted with 'tiledb-cf netcdf-convert' * make its identify() method more restrictive by not identifying /vsi file systems it doesn't handle VRT driver: * add a VRTProcessedDataset new mode to apply chained processing steps that apply to several bands at the same time. Currently available algorithms: LocalScaleOffset (for dehazing), BandAffineCombination, Trimming, LUT * vrt:// connection: add a_nodata, sd_name, sd options * add a NoDataFromMaskSource source: replaces the value of the source with the value of the NODATA child element when the value of the mask band of the source is less or equal to the MaskValueThreshold child element. * VRT serialization: emit a warning if RAM usage of XML serialization reaches 80% of RAM (#9212) * VRTWarpedDataset: add an optimized IRasterIO() implementation WMS driver: * change logic to set gdalwmscache directory to honor in particular XDG_CACHE_HOME (#8987) * Use GDAL_HTTP_TIMEOUT Zarr driver: * Add capability to read CRS from CF1 conventions ZMap driver: * support reading variant of format where there is no newline character at end of column ## OGR 3.9.0 - Overview of Changes ### Core * OGRSQL: Support SELECT * EXCLUDE(...) * OGRSQL: add UTF-8 support for LIKE/ILIKE (for layers declaring OLCStringsAsUTF8) (#8835) * Add OGRLayer::GetExtent3D() (#8806) * OGRLayer: Have CreateField/CreateGeomField take const OGRFieldDefn /OGRGeomFieldDefn* argument (#8741) * OGRFeatureDefn, OGRFieldDefn, OGRGeomFieldDefn: add Seal() and Unseal() methods * Fix swq_select::Unparse() * ExecuteSQL(): add a warning if the dialect name isn't recognized (#8843) * ExecuteSQL() with OGRSQL and SQLITE dialects: get OLCStringsAsUTF8 from underlying layer (#9648) * ExecuteSQL() OGRSQL and SQLITE dialects: error out if SetSpatialFilter() fails (#9623) * OGRGeometryFactory::forceTo(): make it honour dimensionality of eTargetType (in particular fix POLYGON -> LINESTRING or POLYGON -> LINESTRINGZ) (#9080) * OGRGeometryCollection::importFromWkb(): fix reading corrupted wkb with mixed 2D and 3D geoms (#9236) * RFC99: Add C++ OGRGeomCoordinatePrecision class and corresponding C / SWIG API * Change prototype of GDALDataset::ICreateLayer() to take a ``const OGRGeomCoordinatePrecision*`` * Add OGRGeometry::SetPrecision() / OGR_G_SetPrecision(), as wrapper of GEOSGeom_setPrecision_r() * Add a OGRGeometry::roundCoordinates() method * OGRFeature: add SerializeToBinary() / DeserializeFromBinary() * OGRFeature::SetField(): add warnings when detecting some lossy conversions (#9792) * Add OGR_G_GeodesicArea() / OGRSurface::get_GeodesicArea() * SQLite SQL dialect: implement ST_Area(geom, use_ellipsoid) * Add OGR_L_GetDataset() and implement GetDataset() in all drivers with creation support * Arrow array: fix decoding of ``date32[days]`` values before Epoch (Arrow->OGRFeature), and fix rounding when encoding such values (OGRFeature->Arrow) (#9636) * OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch(): add tolerance for field type mismatches if int32/int64/real; Also add an option IF_FIELD_NOT_PRESERVED=ERROR to error out when lossy conversion occurs. (#9792) * OGRLayer::SetIgnoredFields(): make it take a CSLConstList argument instead of const char* ### OGRSpatialReference * Add OGRSpatialReference::exportToCF1() and importFromCF1() * Add OSRIsDerivedProjected() / OGRSpatialReference::IsDerivedProjected() * OGRCoordinateTransformation::Transform(): change nCount parameter to size_t (C++ API only for now) (#9074) * OGRProjCT::TransformWithErrorCodes(): Improve performance of axis swapping (#9073) * OSR_CT: fix ``SetDataAxisToSRSAxisMapping([-2, 1])``` on target SRS * exportToXML(): error out on unsupported projection method (#9223) * Add OSRSetFromUserInputEx() and map it to SWIG (#9358) * Add std::string OGRSpatialReference::exportToWkt( const char* const* papszOptions = nullptr) const * OGR_CT: use PROJJSON internally rather than in WKT:2019 (#9732) ### Utilities * ogrinfo: add a -extent3D switch * ogrinfo: output coordinate resolution in -json mode * ogrinfo: add -limit option (#3413) * ogr2ogr: do not copy private layers (would for example break SQLite -> SQLite/GPKG) * ogr2ogr: force -preserve_fid when doing GPX to GPKG (#9225) * ogr2ogr: propagate input coordinate precision * ogr2ogr: add options -xyRes, -zRes, -mRes and -unsetCoordPrecision * ogr2ogr: make -select tokenize only on comma (and not on space), and honour double-quoting (#9613) * Remove ogr2ogr.py sample utilities (gdal.VectorTranslate() is a more powerful replacement) ### Vector drivers Updates affecting multiple drivers: * Drivers updated for RFC 97 feature definition sealing: GPKG, Shape, OpenFileGDB, MITAB, MEM, GeoJSON, JSONFG, TopoJSON, ESRIJSON, ODS, XLSX, PG * Drivers updated for RFC99 geometry coordinate precision: GML, GeoJSON, GeoJSONSeq, JSONFG, GPKG, CSV, OpenFileGDB, FileGDB, OGR VRT * All drivers depending on external libraries that can be built as plugins have been updated to implement RFC 96 deferred plugin loading * GetExtent3D() implemented in Shapefile, Arrow, Parquet, PostgreSQL, GeoJSON, GeoPackage drivers OGR SQLite/SQLite/GPKG: add UTF-8 support for case-insensitive LIKE (#8835) Arrow/Parquet drivers: * GetArrowSchema(): potential fix when there are ignored fields and the FID column is not the first one * Read/write support for GeoArrow (struct-based) encoding * silently ignore column of type null in GetArrowSchema/GetArrowArray * fix crash when reading geometries from a geometry column with a pyarrow-registered extension type * handle fields with a pyarrow-registered extension type * preliminary/in-advance read support for future JSON Canonical Extension * OGRCloneArrowArray(): add missing support for 'tss:' Arrow type CSV driver: * parse header with line breaks (#9172) DGN (v7) driver: * emit explicit error when attempting to open a DGNv8 file and the DGNv8 driver is not available (#9004) FileGDB/OpenFileGDB drivers: * fix co-operation between the 2 drivers to make sure .cdf is opened with FileGDB FileGDB driver: * remove warning 'Empty Spatial Reference' FlatGeobuf driver: * add support for reading and writing layer title, description and metadata * CreateFeature(): error out if a string context is not valid UTF-8 (#7458) GeoJSON driver: * OGRGeoJSONDriverIdentify: return -1 when unsure * writer: add FOREIGN_MEMBERS_FEATURE and FOREIGN_MEMBERS_COLLECTION layer creation options * reader: accept a {"type": "Polygon","coordinates": []} as a representation of POLYGON EMPTY GeoPackage driver: * fixes to make most operations compatible with PRAGMA foreign_keys=1 (#9135) * writer: set Z/M columns of gpkg_geometry_columns when there are Z/M geometries in a 2D declared layer * Read relationships defined using foreign key constraints * CreateFeature(): allow creating a feature with FID=0 (#9225) * Add DISCARD_COORD_LSB layer creation option * map Null CRS to a new srs_id=99999, and add a SRID layer creation option * add a LAUNDER=YES/NO layer creation option (default: NO) * fix random error in threaded RTree creation, particularly on Mac M1 ARM64 GeoRaster driver: * Added GENSTATS options, security fixes, and prevent failing when password is near expiration (#9290) GML driver: * writer: honour geometry field name and isnullable passed to ICreateLayer() GMLAS driver: * faster retrieval of GML and ISO schemas by using zip archives * use CPLHTTPFetch() instead of /vsicurl_streaming/ to allow alternate HTTP downloader (for QGIS 3.36 enhanced WFS provider) LIBKML driver: * improve generation of internal ids for layer names starting with digits (#9538) netCDF driver: * writer: make it more robust to empty geometries OpenFileGDB driver: * add support for Integer64, Date, Time and DateTimeWithOffset data types added in ArcGIS Pro 3.2 (#8862) * writer: set xml shape type to "esriGeometryPolyline" for LineString/ MultiLineString (#9033) OSM driver: * properly escape special characters with TAGS_FORMAT=JSON open option (#9673) Parquet driver: * support reading and writing layer metadata * Read/write support for covering.bbox struct columns for spatial filtering, add SORT_BY_BBOX=YES/NO layer creation option (GeoParquet 1.1) * Read/write support for GeoArrow (struct-based) encoding (GeoParquet 1.1) * add more configuration options for Parquet dataset case, and default to using custom I/O layer (#9497) * ogr2ogr/Parquet: add hack to avoid super lengthy processing when using -limit with a Parquet dataset source (#9497) * make it recognize bbox field from Overture Maps 2024-01-17-alpha.0 and 2024-04-16-beta.0 releases * fix ResetReading() implementation, when using the ParquetDataset API and when there's a single batch * fix opening single file Parquet datasets with the ParquetDataset API when using PARQUET:filename.parquet PGDUMP driver: * add a LAUNDER_ASCII=YES/NO (default NO) layer creation option PMTiles driver: * handle decompressing data with a compression ratio > 16 (#9646) PostgreSQL driver: * serialize GDAL multidomain metadata of layer as XML in a ogr_system_tables.metadata table * be robust to inexact case for schema when creating a layer 'schema_name.layer_name' (#9125) * remove support for PostgreSQL < 9 and PostGIS < 2 (#8937) * add a LAUNDER_ASCII=YES/NO (default NO) layer creation option Shapefile driver: * Shapelib: resync with upstream * GetNextArrowArray(): add specialized implementation restricted to situations where only retrieving of FID values is asked * make it recognize /vsizip/foo.shp.zip directories * add read/write support for DBF Logical field type mapped to OGR OFSTBoolean VFK driver: * Fix solving circle parcel geometry (#8993) ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * add osr.SpatialReference.ImportFromCF1(), ExportToCF1(), ExportToCF1Units() * expose Geometry.UnaryUnion() * expose OLCFastWriteArrowBatch * add gdal.IsLineOfSightVisible() CSharp bindings: * Exposes additional Dataset methods (#918, #9398) Java bindings: * bump minimum version to Java 8 Python bindings: * lots of improvements to documentation * add a pyproject.toml with numpy as a build requirement (#8926, #8069) * pyproject.toml: use numpy>=2.0.0rc1 for python >=3.9 (#9751) * bump setuptools requirement to >= 67.0 * define entry_points.console_scripts (#8811) * add RasterAttributeTable::ReadValuesIOAsString, ReadValuesIOAsInteger, ReadValuesIOAsDouble, RemoveStatistics() * implement ``__arrow_c_stream__()`` interface for ogr.Layer * add a ogr.Layer.GetArrowArrayStreamInterface() method * add a ogr.Layer.WriteArrow() method consuming ``__arrow_c_stream__`` or ``__arrow_c_array__`` interfaces (#9132) * Invalidate layer ref when Dataset closes * Accept str arg in FeatureDefn.GetFieldDefn * Add Band.ReadAsMaskedArray * Make gdal/ogr.GeneralCmdLineProcessor accept int, os.PathLike * Avoid crash when accessing closed file # GDAL/OGR 3.8.0 Releases Notes GDAL/OGR 3.8.0 is a feature release. Those notes include changes since GDAL 3.7.0, but not already included in a GDAL 3.7.x bugfix release. ## In a nutshell... * Add [JSONFG](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/jsonfg.html) read/write vector driver for OGC Features and Geometries JSON. * Add [PMTiles](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/pmtiles.html) read/write vector driver for PMTiles v3 datasets containing MVT PBF tiles * Add [S102](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/s102.html) raster read-only driver for S-102 bathymetric products (depends on libhdf5) * Add [gdal_footprint](https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_footprint.html) utility: compute the footprint of a raster file, taking into account nodata/mask band, and generating polygons/multipolygons corresponding to areas where pixels are valid (#6264) * Python bindings: various enhancements to reduce the number of "gotchas" related to inter-object ownership relationships, and a few syntaxic sugar enhancements * Arrow interface: improve spatial and attribute filtering on read side; add write side with OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch() * GeoPackage: much faster spatial index creation (~ 3-4 times faster) * ARG driver deprecated: will be removed in 3.9.0 ## Backward compatibility issues See [MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.8/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT) ## New optional dependencies * libaec to enable CCSDS Adaptive Entropy Coding decompression in the GRIB driver ## Build * emit better error message when a raster driver cannot be enabled because of OGR_BUILD_OPTIONAL_DRIVERS=OFF * improve static linking for CURL and EXPAT * Java bindings: change default installation directory of JNI shared library and control it with GDAL_JAVA_JNI_INSTALL_DIR * automatically enable SQLite driver if -DOGR_ENABLE_DRIVER_GPKG=ON * Don't use libjpeg if disabled (and libjpeg-turbo >= 3.0 available) (#8336) * gdal.pc generation: use CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR/CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR for includedir/libdir (#8012) * gdal-config: add a --plugindir switch (#8012) ## GDAL 3.8.0 - Overview of Changes ### Port * Add third_party/fast_float header library for fast string->double conversion for CPLStrtodDelim() * /vsimem/: make it safe to use in multi-threaded scenarios * /vsimem/: implicitly create parent directories when creating file * CPLParseXML(): do not call CPLErrorReset() * CPLJSon: add setters for uint64_t * Add CPLJSONArray::AddNull() and CPLJSONObject constructor with primitive types * VSIUnixStdioHandle / VSIWin32Handle: make Close() be callable multiple times to be friendly with VSIVirtualHandleUniquePtr * /vsicurl/: avoid the same region to be downloaded at the same time from concurrent threads (#8041) * /vsicurl/ / /vsicurl_streaming/: recognize IGNORE_FILENAME_RESTRICTIONS=YES open option to skip any extension based filtering (#8162) * /vsicurl/: emit warnings if invalid values of CPL_VSIL_CURL_CHUNK_SIZE and CPL_VSIL_CURL_CACHE_SIZE are used (#8499) * /vsicurl_streaming/: implement retry strategy if GDAL_HTTP_MAX_RETRY is set * /vsis3_streaming/ and the like: implement ReadDir() by forwarding to non-streaming filesystem (#8191) * IVSIS3LikeFSHandler::CopyFile(): retry with non-streaming source for more robustness * /vsis3/ and /vsioss/: less error prone management of redirects / region discovery * /vsiaz/: do not append trailing slash for directories deduced from .gdal_marker_for_dir special file * /vsiaz/: implement server-side copy from /vsis3/, /vsigs/, /vsiadls/, /vsicurl/ to /vsiaz * /vsiaz/: fix CopyObject() when source and target are both /vsiaz/ but in different buckets * /vsiaz/: update to version 2020-12-06 for GetSignedURL(), limit to https and use blob resource type * /vsi network file system: support r+ access under CPL_VSIL_USE_TEMP_FILE_FOR_RANDOM_WRITE=YES by copying initial content of remove file locally * VSISync() network to network: implement SyncStrategy::TIMESTAMP * Add VSIGetCanonicalFilename() * CPLvsnprintf(): deal with '%.*f' formatting * VSIFilesystemHandler: remove 'virtual' qualifier from ReadDir(), which now forwards to ReadDirEx(); modify all implementations to implement ReadDirEx() * Add /vsicached? virtual file system, as another way of doing the same as VSICreateCachedFile() / VSI_CACHE=YES * VSIFilesystemHandler::CopyFile(): detect wrong target file size w.r.t source file size * /vsi7z/: Accept ArcGIS Pro Project Packages extension * cpl_vsil_win32: check return value of FlushFileBuffers(), and open file with GENERIC_WRITE only if access=w or wb * cpl_vsil_win32: implement a WRITE_THROUGH=YEs option to pass to VSIFOpenEx2L() ### Core * GDALIdentifyDriverEx() and GDALDriver::QuietDelete(): do not call CPLErrorReset() * GDALDataset::Open(): take into account open options for OF_SHARED mode (#7824) * PAM .aux.xml: read geotransform from Esri GeodataXform.CoeffX/CoeffY elements (qgis/qgis#53125) * Add a DCAP_FLUSHCACHE_CONSISTENT_STATE capability, and fix GeoJSON, JSONFG, GPKG drivers to implement it * Overview/RasterIO resampling: use Float64 as working data type for Float64 input data (#8187) * Add GDALRegisterPlugins function to register all/only plugins (#8447) * GDALDriver::DefaultCreateCopy(): in non-strict mode, turn (ignored) errors as warnings and do not silence them * Add a GDALPamDataset::SetDerivedDatasetName() method, and use it to be able to save statistics of datasets returned by GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset() * Add GDALGetSubdatasetInfo() and related functions (#8155) ### Multidimensional API * add Rename() methods. Implemented in MEM, netCDF, Zarr drivers * add DeleteGroup(), DeleteMDArray(), DeleteAttribute() methods. Implemented in MEM, netCDF (for attributes) and Zarr drivers * GDALDatasetFromArray: fix write/update support * GDALMDArrayMask: take into account attributes at construction time * GetMask(): add a UNMASK_FLAGS option * GDALMDArray::ComputeStatistics(): add option to set actual_range in netCDF and Zarr when computing statistics * GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset(): add a LOAD_EXTRA_DIM_METADATA_DELAY option, and expose it in Zarr driver * GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset(): allow to map band indexing arrays as band metadata items with BAND_METADATA option * Add GDALGroup::SubsetDimensionFromSelection() ### Algorithms * Warp average resampling: using Weighted incremental algorithm mean for numeric stability * Warper: auto-enable OPTIMIZE_SIZE warping option when reasonable (#7761) * Geoloc transformer: warn if the input dataset is larger in width or height compared to the geoloc array (#7751) * GDALCreateGenImgProjTransformer2(): deal with discontinuity of GCPs around antimeridian (#8371) * TPS transformer: use an iterative method to refine the inverse transformation (#8572) ### Utilities * gdaladdo: add options to partially refresh existing overviews: ``--partial-refresh-from-source-timestamp,``, ``--partial-refresh-from-projwin ``,` ``--partial-refresh-from-source-extent `` * gdal_translate: emit warning when -a_scale/-a_offset + -unscale is specified (#7863) * gdal_translate: GTiff, COG, VRT, PNG and JPEG drivers recognize COPY_SRC_MDD=AUTO/YES/NO and SRC_MDD=domain_name creation options * gdal_translate: add -a_gt option to assign geotransform (#8248) * gdal_translate -scale: change dstMax value from 255.999 to 255 * gdal_translate: when specifying -srcwin, preserve source block size in the temporary VRT if srcwin top,left is a multiple of the block size * gdalwarp: in -tr mode (without -ts / -te), detect blank edge lines/columns before warping and remove them (#7905) * gdalwarp: fix cutline processing when warping with a cutline geometry in UTM 1/60 crossing the antimeridian, on a raster in long/lat SRS (#8163) * gdalwarp: tune usage to allow both -s_coord_epoch and -t_coord_epoch * gdalwarp: fix error when using -ct and -cutline (master only), and actually use the -ct when possible if sourceCRS != targetCRS and targetCRS == cutlineCRS * gdalwarp: do not enter a specific COG optimized code path when some of its preconditons are not met (#8655) * gdalmdiminfo: output details of indexing variables that can be accessed only from the array (typically for TileDB dimension labels) * nearblack: add "-alg floodfill" to select a flood fill algorithm, to address concave areas. * gdalmdimtranslate: add support for resample=yes array spec option * gdalbuildvrt: make -separate option process all bands of input datasets, unless -b is specified (#8584) * gdal_polygonize: add a -overwrite switch (#7913) * gdal_rasterize_lib: fix error messages * gdaltransform: add -s_coord_epoch and -t_coord_epoch * gdalcompare.py: multiple enhancements and new command line options * gdal_pansharpen.py: avoid error trying to generate relative path * Add validate_geoparquet.py sample Python script * gdalinfo.py: use math.isnan() (#8196) * gdalinfo.py: fix wrong order of long,lat corner coordinates (#8199) * make --help and --help-general available in all utilities (#3816) ### Raster drivers AAIGRID driver: * writing: remove leading space on each line (#8344) ARG driver: * mark it deprecated, removal planned for GDAL 3.9 (#7920) BAG driver: * increase the efficiency of getting depth&uncertainty values from the refinement grids * use low-resolution grid as the last overview level in MODE=RESAMPLED_GRID * add a MODE=INTERPOLATED mode using mostly bilinear interpolation of the refinement grid nodes COG driver: * only update mode if the IGNORE_COG_LAYOUT_BREAK=YES open option is specified (#7735) * add a STATISTICS=AUTO/YES/NO creation option and forward gdal_translate -stats to it (#8169) * Lerc: add a MAX_Z_ERROR_OVERVIEW creation option to separately control the error threshold of overviews w.r.t the one of the full resolution image ENVI driver: * warn if assigning different nodata value to different bands * support Int64 and UInt64 ESRIC driver: * Implement ESRI Tile Package (.tpkx) support (#7799) GRIB driver: * allow opening files with invalid Earth of shape (#7811) * implement CCSDS Adaptive Entropy Coding decompression. Requires libaec (#8092) * only emit a CPLDebug() instead of a message on stdout when there are trailing bytes (#8574) * GRIB2 SRS writing: add support for Rotated LatLong grids (fixes #8536) GTiff driver: * Performance improvement: avoid using block cache when writing whole blocks (up to about twice faster in some scenarios) * GTiff multi-threaded reader: catch errors emitted in worker threads and re-emit them in main thread * Internal libtiff: WebP codec: turn exact mode when creating lossless files to avoid altering R,G,B values in areas where alpha=0 (#8038) * Lerc: add a MAX_Z_ERROR_OVERVIEW creation option to separately control the error threshold of overviews w.r.t the one of the full resolution image * SRS writer: write Projected 3D built as a pseudo-compound in .aux.xml * Internal libtiff and libgeotiff: resynchronization with upstream HDF5 driver: * optimize code-paths for RasterIO() without resampling * multidim: speed-up very slow cases of IRead() ISG driver: * make it able to read headers > 1024 bytes * take into ISG format 2.0 JPEG driver: * allow QUALITY down to 1 * redirect JPEG 'output message' to GDAL debug messages * only take into account first Exif directory found MBTiles driver: * Add WEBP support (#8409) MEM driver: * allocate a single buffer for band-interleaved data netCDF driver: * on reading, set NETCDF_DIM_xxx band metadata items in on-demand way (helps with network accesses) * do not set NETCDF_DIM_xxxx_VALUES dataset metadata items for variables of unlimited dimensions on network access for performance reasons * better error message when reading from /vsi is not possible (#8398, #8378) * renormalize CRS and geotransform to metric, typically for EUMETSAT OSI SAF products. Add a PRESERVE_AXIS_UNIT_IN_CRS=YES/NO open option * add support for EMIT band data ordering and geolocation array ( using glt_x/glt_y for multidimensional API) NITF driver: * add support for CSCSDB (Common Sensor Covariance Support Data) DES from GLAS/GFM SDEs OpenFileGDB raster: * add support for FileGDB v9 raster datasets * add a RASTER_DATASET metadata item with the name of the RasterDataset (#8427) PDF driver: * PDFium backend: update to support (and require) PDFium/5952 * Poppler backend: implement overviews by adjusting the DPI value (#8233) * PoDoFo backend: add support for PoDoFo >= 0.10.0 (#8356) * increase threshold to detect tile size and band count (#8236, #8240) * Various robustness fixes PRF driver: * add associated PRJ file read Sentinel2 driver: * additional metadata (#8379) TileDB driver: * add read/write multidimensional support (requires libtiledb >= 2.15) * TileDBRasterBand::IRasterIO(): use correct band indexing * read/write Int8, Int64 and UInt64 * add capability to read arbitrary (i.e. not created by GDAL) 2D/3D dense array (provided it uses uint64 dimension) * Add support for TileDB 2.17 VRT driver: * add `norm_diff` (#8081), `min` and `max` pixel functions (#8292) * ignore when external .vrt.ovr is present, as documented and intended * vrt:// connection string: add `projwin`, `projwin_srs`, `tr`, `r`, `srcwin`, `a_gt`, `oo`, `scale`, `unscale`, `a_coord_epoch`, `nogcp`, `eco`, `epo` * VRTComplexSource (scaling typically): make sure to take into account constraints from VRTRasterBand data type in RasterIO() (rather than just taking into account output buffer data type) * IRasterIO(): avoid edge effects at sources boundaries when downsampling with non-nearest resampling * VRTMDArraySourceFromArray: fix taking into account relativeToVRT=1 * allow a element containing a 2D multidimensional array as a VRTRasterBand source and through the use of a make it possible to create a 2D array from a 3D or more multidimensional one, by slicing, transposing, resampling, gridding, etc. * VRTComplexSource: perf improvement: add specialization when only NODATA for Byte/UInt16/Int16 data types * VRTSimpleSource::GetFileList(): do not issue a stat() as it may be slow on network drives * VRTSourcedRasterBand::GetMinimum/GetMaximum(): limit to 1 second max when iterating over sources * VRTSourcedRasterBand::GetMinimum/GetMaximum(): use STATISTICS_MINIMUM/MAXIMUM metadata first WCS driver: * remove non-standard 'FORMAT' parameter from 'DescribeCoverage' requests (#8381) Zarr driver: * allow update support in classic mode * Zarr V3: update to current specification (breaks backward compatibility) * implement GDALDriver::Rename(), Delete() and CopyFiles() * ignore filename restrictions when reading tile data files (#8162) * add MULTIBAND=YES/NO, DIM_X and DIM_Y open options (#8237) * classic raster API: write multi-band datasets as Zarr 3D arrays (writing them as several 2D arrays as in GDAL 3.7 can be asked with the SINGLE_ARRAY=NO creation option) * fix writing partial tiles ## OGR 3.8.0 - Overview of Changes ### Core * exportToGEOS(): do not drop M dimension with GEOS >= 3.12 * Add OGR_G_IsClockwise() and map it to SWIG * core and ogr2ogr: add logic so that ogr2ogr can try a driver specific implementation of GDALVectorTranslate() * OGRParseDate(): restrict valid times to HH:MM:SS(.sss) with at least 2 figures (#8150) * Add OGR_F_DumpReadableAsString * ArrowArray interface: make PostFilterArrowArray() deal with attribute filter, and enable that in Parquet&Arrow drivers * OGRLayer::GetArrowStream(): do not issue ResetReading() at beginning of iteration, but at end instead, so SetNextByIndex() can be honoured * ArrowStream interface: make TIMEZONE="unknown", "UTC", "(+|:)HH:MM" or any other Arrow supported value as an option of the generic implementation * Add OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch() * ArrowArray: implement fast 'FID IN (...)' / 'FID = ...' attribute filter in generic GetNextArrowArray(), and use it for FlatGeoBuf one too (when it has a spatial index) (#8590) * GetArrowStream(): support a GEOMETRY_METADATA_ENCODING=GEOARROW option (#8605) * GetNextArrowArray() implementations: automatically adjust batch size of list/ string/binary arrays do not saturate their capacity (2 billion elements) * OGRGeometry classes: add addGeometry()/addRing()/addCurve() methods accepting a std::unique_ptr * OGRLineString/Polygon/MultiPolygon/MultiLineString: make it possible to run importFromWkb() on the same object and limiting the number of dynamic memory (re)allocations * organizePolygons: Remove handling of nonpolygonal geometries * OGRGeometryFactory::transformWithOptions() WRAPDATELINE=YES: remove heuristics about points exactly at +/- 180 (#8645) * gml2ogrgeometry: reject empty * OGRGF_DetectArc(): harden tolerance when detecting consecutive arcs to avoid incorrect arc center computation (#8332) * OGR SQL: allow MIN() and MAX() on string fields * SQLite dialect: when the underlying layer has a FID column name, enable the user to use it as an alias of ROWID * SQLite dialect: error out with explicit message on unsupported commands (#8430) * Add OGRFieldDefn::GetTZFlag()/SetTZFlag(), and OGR_TZFLAG_ constants * GDALDataset::ICreateLayer(): now takes a const OGRSpatialReference* instead of a OGRSpatialReference*. Affects out-of-tree drivers (#8493) * OGR Python drivers: support WKB geometries ### OGRSpatialReference * Add OGRCoordinateTransformationOptions::SetOnlyBest() / OCTCoordinateTransformationOptionsSetOnlyBest() (#7753) * OGRProjCT::Transform(): do not emit generic error message if a specific one has already been emitted * SetFromUserInput(): add support for urn:ogc:def:coordinateMetadata (PROJ >= 9.4) * SetFromUserInput(): recognize 'EPSG:XXXX@YYYY' (PROJ >= 9.4) * Add OSRHasPointMotionOperation() (PROJ >= 9.4) * OGR_CT: handle point motion operations (PROJ >= 9.4) ### Utilities * ogrinfo: speed-up string concatenation * ogrinfo: add support for DateTime field domains * ogrinfo: emit distinct error message if the file doesn't exist or can't be opened (#8432) * ogrinfo: output timezone flag * ogr2ogr: calls FlushCache() (#8033) * ogr2ogr: tune usage to allow both -s_coord_epoch and -t_coord_epoch * ogr2ogr: better deal when reprojecting curve geometries to a non-curve geometry type (#8332) * ogr2ogr: use Arrow interface in reading and writing when possible * make -select '' work (or gdal.VectorTranslate(selectFields=[])) ### Vector drivers Arrow/Parquet driver: * emit ARROW:extension:name=ogc.wkb in Feature field metadata, and return it also through GetArrowStream() for Parquet * implement faster spatial filtering with ArrowArray interface * optimize attribute filter on FID column * support/reading nested list/map datatypes as JSON * implement full spatial filtering (not just bbox intersection) * reading and writing: use field TZFlag * implement WriteArrowBatch() specific implementation * support LargeString and LargeBinary for geometry columns (read support only) CSV driver: * reader: change to use separator with the most occurrences (#7831) * and add a SEPARATOR=AUTO/COMMA/SEMICOLON/TAB/SPACE/PIPE open option (#7829) * implement GetFileList() and return .csvt if used (#8165) DGN driver: * CreateFeature(): fix crash on empty geometries (ossfuzz#56771) DXF driver: * Preserve attributes in nested block insertions ESRIJSON driver: * add support for esriFieldTypeSingle and esriFieldTypeDate data types FlatGeoBuf driver: * GetNextArrowArray(): implement full spatial filtering (not just bbox intersection) GeoJSON driver: * add AUTODETECT_JSON_STRINGS layer creation option (#8391) * writer: when writing with limited coordinate precision, run MakeValid() to avoid creating invalid geometries * reading: set field TZFlag * writer: in RFC7946 mode, refine logic to determine if a multipolygon spans over the antimeridian to write correct bbox (qgis/qgis#42827) * writer: use faster file write() primitive and detect write() errors GeoJSONSeq driver: * add AUTODETECT_JSON_STRINGS layer creation option (#8391) * writer: use faster file write() primitive and detect write() errors GeoPackage driver: * use much faster creation of RTree with a in-memory RTree building * speed-up HasMetadataTables() on dataset with many layers * speed-up unique constraint discovery on dataset with many layers * more efficient retrieval of layer extent from RTree content * deal with DateTime fields without milliseconds or seconds, as allowed by GeoPackage 1.4 (#8037) * add a DATETIME_PRECISION layer creation option (#8037) * implement SetNextByIndex() on table layers (by appending 'OFFSET -1 LIMIT index') * make GetArrowStream() honour SetNextByIndex() * add a CRS_WKT_EXTENSION=YES/NO dataset creation option to force addition of definition_12_063 column * add a METADATA_TABLES creation option to control creation of system metadata tables * GetNextArrowArray(): implement full spatial filtering (not just bbox intersection) * GetNextArrowArray(): only do multi-threaded prefetch if more than 1 GB RAM available * make invalid attribute filter to cause error in main thread (so Python binding can emit an exception) * GPKG / SQLite dialect: improve detection of geometry columns when first row is NULL (#8587) * make GetFeatureCount() do full geometry intersection and not just bounding box (#8625) GPX driver: * add a CREATOR dataset creation option HANA driver: * Set sessionVariable:APPLICATION in connection string * Support connections using a user store key (#7946) Memory driver: * add a FID layer creation option to specify the FID column name MVT/MBTiles driver: * take into account tileStats metadata item to decide if a field of type 'number' might be Integer or Integer64 * MVT writer: clamp generated tile x, y coordinates to \[0,(1<= python bindings version (#8029) * fix CoordinateTransform.TransformPoint(sequence of 3 or 4 values) * Use DumpReadable for Feature __repr__ * add a outputGeotransform option to gdal.Translate() * Accept os.PathLike arguments where applicable * make Feature.SetField(field_idx_or_name, binary_values) work * add feature.SetFieldBinary(field_idx_or_name, binary_values) * throw exceptions (when enabled) on gdal_array.OpenArray()/OpenNumPyArray()/ OpenMultiDimensionalNumPyArray() * improve performance of CSLFromPySequence() on large sequences (like > 100,000 strings) * Allow ExecuteSQL context manager to work on empty datasources * make sure that CPL_DEBUG=ON and gdal.UseExceptions() work fine during gdal.VectorTranslate() (and similar) (#8552) # GDAL/OGR 3.7.0 Releases Notes GDAL/OGR 3.7.0 is a feature release. Those notes include changes since GDAL 3.6.0, but not already included in a GDAL 3.6.x bugfix release. ## In a nutshell... * [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 (#3525) * [RFC 89](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc89_sql_logging_callback.html): SQL query logging callback (#6967) * [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 to read NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b grids * Add read-only raster driver NSIDCbin for Sea Ice Concentrations (#7263) * Add read-only vector GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) driver * TileDB: 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: 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 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) ## Backward compatibility issues See [MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.7/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT) ## New installed files * data/gfs.xsd: XML schema for .gfs files (#6655) * data/gml_registry.xsd: new file with XML schema of gml_registry.xml (#6716) * data/ogrinfo_output.schema.json: to validate ogrinfo -json output * data/gdalinfo_output.schema.json: to validate gdalinfo -json output (fixes #6850) * data/grib2_table_4_2_0_21.csv * data/grib2_table_4_2_2_6.csv * bin/sozip ## Build * make BUILD_JAVA/CSHARP/PYTHON_BINDINGS default value dependent on the presence of requirements, and error out if those variables are set but requirements are missing * Python bindings: remove generated files and require SWIG to be present * Fix build with -DOGR_ENABLE_DRIVER_GML=OFF (#6647) * make it possible to build on Linux if linux/fs.h is missing by explicitly setting ACCEPT_MISSING_LINUX_FS_HEADER * Add support for (future) libjpeg-turbo 2.2 with its 8/12 bit dual mode (#6645) * PDF driver with PDFium support must be built against PDFium from https://github.com/rouault/pdfium_build_gdal_3_7 * No longer alias VSILFILE* to FILE* in non-DEBUG builds (#6790) * Add build option for using static Arrow/Parquet build (#7082) * Quote variables for INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES / IMPORTED_LOCATION * Enable OpenCL at build-time, but disable it at runtime by default unless the USE_OPENCL warping option or GDAL_USE_OPENCL config option is set (#7224) * Fix MSVC x64 builds with /arch:AVX2 (#7625) ## New optional dependencies * libarchive for new /vsi7z/ and /vsirar/ virtual file systems ## GDAL 3.7.0 - Overview of Changes ### Port * /vsizip/: add read support for Deflate64 (#7013) * Add read-only /vsi7z/ and /vsirar/ virtual file systems (depends on libarchive) * Make it possible to specify all HTTP related configuration options as path-specific options with VSISetPathSpecificOption() * VSIGSFSHandler::UnlinkBatch(): avoid potential nullptr deref * /vsiaz/: implement UnlinkBatch() * /vsis3/: add CPL_VSIS3_CREATE_DIR_OBJECT configuration option * /vsigs/ allow GDAL_HTTP_HEADERS config option to be used as authentication method if contains at least a line starting with "Authorization:" * /vsihdfs/: fix ReadDir() and EOF flag (#7632) * add a robust CPLParseKeyValueJson() function (#6753) * HTTP: set default User-Agent header to GDAL/x.y.z and add a CPLHTTPSetDefaultUserAgent() function (#6376) * HTTP: CUSTOMREQUEST option overrides POST while send form * /vsicurl/ / CPLHTTPFetch(): add a GDAL_HTTP_NETRC_FILE config option * /vsicurl/ / CPLHTTPFetch(): add options to support SSL client certificates * VSICurlHandle::ReadMultiRange(): avoid potential infinite loop * Add VSIVirtualHandle::AdviseRead() virtual method and implement it in /vsicurl * Add VSICopyFile() * CPLCopyFile(): remap onto VSICopyFile() * Implement CopyFile() for VSIZipFilesystemHandler * Implement GetFileMetadata() for /vsizip/ * CPLDefaultFindFile: Warn if file not found and GDAL_DATA not defined * Add VSIDuplicateFileSystemHandler() (for remote stores identifcal to popular ones, but with different settings). * Make C type VSILFILE an alias of C++ VSIVirtualHandle (and make it a struct for that purpose) (#6643) * Add a CPLGetErrorHandler() function * Add VSIVirtualHandleUniquePtr type, unique pointer of VSIVirtualHandle that calls the Close() method ### Core * ComputeRasterMinMax(), ComputeStatistics(), GetHistogram(): take into account mask band (and not only nodata value) * Modify GDALFlushCache() and GDALDataset::FlushCache() to return CPLErr instead of void * Add GDALDataset::Close() virtual method, call it from GDALClose() and make GDALClose() return a CPLErr * GDALDataset:: add a SetBand() method that takes a GDALRasterBand unique_ptr * RawRasterBand: cache GDAL_ONE_BIG_READ value for RasterIO (#6726) * RawRasterBand: add IsValid() and Create() methods that return a unique_ptr * RawDataset::RasterIO(): add optimization when reading from a BIP dataset to a BIP buffer (#6819) * RAW: fix performance issue when reading files with very small width (#1140) * Raw drivers: check RawRasterBand validity * LoadPythonAPI(): take into account Python 3.12 * NASAKeywordHandler: add a Parse() method and change Ingest() return type to be bool * Add GDALMDArray::GetGridded() / GDALMDArrayGetGridded() * Add GDALMDArray::Resize() / GDALMDArrayResize(). Implement it in MEM, netCDF and Zarr drivers * Support blocks > 2GB in GDALAllValidMaskBand and GDALNoDataValuesMaskBand * GDALVersionInfo("BUILD_INFO"): report CURL_ENABLED=YES and CURL_VERSION=x.y.z * Add CPLSubscribeToSetConfigOption() to subscribe to config option settings * GoogleMapsCompatible tiling scheme: Increase max zoom level from 24 to 30 * JP2 structure dump: fix interpretation of METH field in COLR JP2 box * Enable SSE2/AVX2 optims on 32bit MSVC builds if /arch:AVX2 is defined (#7625) ### Algorithms * Polygonizer: switch implementation to Two-Arm Chains EdgeTracing Algorithm, which is much faster in some cases (#7344) * Prefix ParseAlgorithmAndOptions() public symbol with GDALGrid for proper namespacing, and add #define alias for API compat (but ABI breakage) * Pansharpening: require geotransform on panchromatic and multispectral bands. Remove undocumented and somewhat broken MSShiftX and MSShiftY options * Warper: fix issue with insufficiently large source window, visible with RPC DEM warping (#7491) ### Utilities * gdalwarp: add -srcband (aliased to -b) and -dstband options * gdalwarp: preserve source resolution by default when no reprojection is involved (behavior change), and add '-tr square' to use previous behavior * gdalwarp: better error message when not providing enough values after a switch (#7086) * gdal_rasterize: support @filename for -sql option (#7232) * gdal_rasterize: add -oo switch for open options (#7329) * gdal_grid: add -oo switch for open options (#7329) * gdal_polygonize.py: use transactions to speed-up writing * gdal_polygonize.py: add a -lco option, and fix -o (#7374) * gdalbuildvrt: implement numerically stable averaging of resolution (#7502) * gdal2tiles: use logging module instead of print() for verbose output (#4894) * gdal2tiles: update doctype to html format (#7631) * gdal2tiles: uses GDALTermProgress() for progress bar * gdal_calc: uses GDALTermProgress() for progress bar (#7549) * gdal_fillnodata: fix parsing of -co option * validate_gpkg.py: make it work better on examples from ngageoint repositories * gdal_cp.py: use gdal.CopyFile() * C/C++ command line utilities: take into account GDALClose() error code ### Raster drivers ARG driver: * add support for int64/uint64 COG driver: * relax a bit the tolerance when computing tile number * propagate NUM_THREADS to warping (#7479) * add NBITS creation option (#7361) ERS driver: * support GDA2020 GeoPackage driver: * load/save band statistics in GPKG metadata tables or PAM .aux.xml GRIB driver: * update tables to wmo-im/GRIB2@v30 * g2clib: allow negative longitudes in grid templates Lon/Lat, Rotated, Stretched, Stretched & Rotated, LAEA (#7456) and Mercator * fix GetNoDataValue() on band > 1 when there's a bitmap section (#7649) GTiff driver: * add a JXL_ALPHA_DISTANCE creation option, e.g. to have lossless alpha and lossy RGB. * call VSIVirtualHandle::AdviseRead() in multithreaded read implementation * implement GetCompressionFormats() and ReadCompressedData() * add minimum support for reading CRS from ESRI's .xml side car file (#7187) * use libtiff >= 4.5 reentrant error handlers (when available) (#6659) * make sure that band description in PAM overrides the one coming from GDAL_METADATA tag * Internal libtiff: resync with upstream HFA driver: * add a DISABLEPESTRING=YES creation option to disable use of ArcGIS PE String (#1003) HDF5 driver: * add generic support for HDF-EOS5 grids and swaths (#7117) JP2OpenJPEG driver: * add workaround for dop10 orthophotos wrong colorspace JPEG driver: * add a APPLY_ORIENTATION=YES open option to take into account EXIF_Orientation * advertise JPEG_QUALITY metadata item in IMAGE_STRUCTURE domain * use ReadCompressedData(), implement lossless copy from JPEGXL that has JPEG reconstruction box * add a LOSSLESS_COPY creation option * add support for reading lossless 8-bit JPEG if using libjpeg-turbo >= 2.2 * change behavior to return an error and not just a warning with reading a truncated file * Internal libjpeg: decompressor: initialize Huffman tables to avoid issues with some FileGDB raster JPEGXL driver: * add a ALPHA_DISTANCE creation option, e.g. to have lossless alpha and lossy RGB. * add a APPLY_ORIENTATION=YES open option to take into account EXIF_Orientation * advertise COMPRESSION_REVERSIBILITY=LOSSY when there is a JPEG reconstruction box * add a LOSSLESS_COPY creation option * implement creation from JPEGXL content * fix lossless copy of JPEG with zlib compressed mask band * implement GetCompressionFormats() and ReadCompressedData() MEM driver: * implement GetCoordinateVariables() from coordinates attribute * Adds 'SPATIALREFERENCE' element to the DSN format (#7272) MRF driver: * make it use PNG driver for decompression of 8-bit images netCDF driver: * add a ASSUME_LONGLAT open option (#6195) * add heuristics to detect invalid validity range when scale_factor is present (#7167) * report geolocation array for NASA L2 ocean colour products (#7605) NITF driver: * nitf_spec.xml: add definition for subheader of CSATTB, CEEPHB and CSSFAB DES of GLAS/GFM * add capability of decoding DES data part as XML fields and add descriptors for CSATTB, CEEPHB and CSSFAB DES * add VALIDATE and FAIL_IF_VALIDATION_ERROR open options * fix bug that prevents adding subsequent TREs after a HEX TRE (#6827) OGCAPI driver: * define raster/vector scope of open options * Passed uri to TileMatrixSet::parse * Updated uris of well-known tile matrix sets PCIDSK driver: * support Web Mercator projection (#7647) PDF driver: * skip JP2ECW driver if ECW_ENCODE_KEY required but not found PNG driver: * 1.7-2.0x speed-up in whole image decompression with libdeflate on Intel/AMD CPUs RMF driver: * Add scale, name, frame support. * Add vert CS write support. * Implement GetSuggestedBlockAccessPattern VRT driver: * add 'a_offset', 'a_scale', 'a_srs', 'a_ullr', 'expand', 'exponent', 'gcp', 'if', 'ot', 'outsize', 'ovr', 'scale' options for vrt:// connection string * add BLOCKXSIZE and BLOCKYSIZE creation options * Fix excessive RAM usage when reading a VRT made of single-tiled JPEG2000 files read with the JP2OpenJPEG driver * implement GetCompressionFormats() and ReadCompressedData() * derived band: add a true optional element to discard non contributing sources (#7223) * VRTPansharpened: avoid issue when querying overviews when PAN and MS bands have significant different spatial extent * serialize NODATA/NoDataValue elements with double precision (#7486) * fix warning regarding with OpenShared with vrt://http://example.com/test.jp2 with the JP2OpenJPEG driver WEBP driver: * implement GetCompressionFormats() and ReadCompressedData() ## OGR 3.7.0 - Overview of Changes ### Core * Add OGRLayer::UpdateFeature() and OGR_L_UpdateFeature() (RFC 93). Implement it in Memory, GPKG, MongoDBv3, PG * OGRFeatureDefn: add GetFields() and GetGeomFields() for easier C++ iteration * OGRFieldDefn: add GetComment() / SetComment() methods * OGRFeature/OGRGeometry: add a DumpReadable method that outputs to a string * Add GDAL_DMD_ILLEGAL_FIELD_NAMES, and feel it for OpenFileGDB, FileGDB, PostgreSQL * Add GDAL_DMD_RELATIONSHIP_RELATED_TABLE_TYPES: list of standard related table types recognized by the driver, and feel it for OpenFileGDB, FileGDB and GPKG * Add GDAL_DMD_CREATION_FIELD_DEFN_FLAGS metadata * Add DCAP_FEATURE_STYLES_READ and DCAP_FEATURE_STYLES_WRITE capabilities * Add ALTER_ALTERNATIVE_NAME_FLAG for use changing a field's alternative name when calling OGR_L_AlterFieldDefn * Add ALTER_COMMENT_FLAG for altering field comments via OGR_L_AlterFieldDefn * Add OGRLayer::GetSupportedSRSList() and SetActiveSRS() * OGRToOGCGeomType(): add options to control output * GenSQL: fix SetAttributeFilter() when dialect=OGRSQL and not forwarding the initial where clause to the source layer (#7087) * OGR SQL: do not emit error message when comparing a NULL datetime * OGRFeature::SetField(string argument): for bool, recognize 0/false/off/no as false and 1/true/on/yes as true * Add OGRFeature::GetFieldAsISO8601DateTime() (#7555) * Geometry WKT import: accept nan as a value, for parity with PostGIS and GEOS * GDALDataset::CopyLayer(): copy source layer metadata, unless the COPY_MD=NO option is specified * Add OGRGeometry::UnaryUnion() / OGR_G_UnaryUnion() * SQL SQLite parser: correctly take into account statements like 'SELECT ... FROM json_each(...)' (#7464) * Make OGRGeometry::getSpatialReference() return a const OGRSpatialReference* * Make OGRGeomFieldDefn::GetSpatialRef() return a const OGRSpatialReference* ### OGRSpatialReference * importFromWkt(): take into account COORDINATEMETADATA[] (PROJ >= 9.2) * update hard-coded definition of OGC:CRS84 to include the ID * OSR_Panorama: Add some spatial references (GSK 2011, etc.) * OSR_Panorama: Fix TM zone for projections with negative central meridian * OSR_Panorama: Fix import from invalid data * SetFromUserInput(): skip leading white space (#7170) * Make OGRCoordinateTransformation::GetSourceCS() and GetTargetCS() return a const OGRSpatialReference* (#7377) * OSRImportFromEPSG(): emit warning message about deprecated CRS substitution (#7524) * Allow CPLSetConfigOption('PROJ_DATA', ...) to work by making it call OSRSetPROJSearchPaths() ### Utilities * ogrinfo: make it accessible through a new GDALVectorInfo() C API call * ogrinfo: add a -json switch * ogrinfo: output CRS supported list * ogrinfo: output relationships * ogr2ogr: use SetActiveSRS() when possible when -t_srs is used * ogr2ogr: make conversion from GML2 to GPKG work without explicit -lco FID=some_name_different_than_fid * ogr2ogr: add a -dateTimeTo option to convert datetime between timezones (#5256) * ogr2ogr: Improve performance of -clipsrc and -clipdst (#7197) * ogr2ogr: LoadGeometry(): use UnaryUnion() * ogrmerge.py: add optimization for GPKG -> GPKG non-single layer case (up to 10x faster) ### Vector drivers Arrow driver: * add support for getting/setting field alternative name and comment in gdal:schema extension CSV driver: * recognize pipe separator and .psv extension for read (#6811) * fix GetFeatureCount() to work correctly with spatial and attribute filters * allow reading single column file (#7595) CSW driver: * Add 'title' as query-able property FileGDB driver: * do not set Length/Precision from OGR width/precision for floating-point data types (#7283) * correct ObjectID field to have a Length of 4. FlatGeobuf driver: * decrease memory usage when inserting lots of features * speed-up writing of DateTime/Date values * avoid crash when writing huge geometry * Support reading/writing field comments in field description metadata (#7598) GML driver: * Use geometry in boundedBy element if there are no geometry properties * use srsDimension on top gml:Envelope as the default one (#6986) * GML geometry parsing: don't promote to 3D a 2D * deal with only in boundedBy element * fix reading CityGML Lod2 with xlink:href in gml:Solid as found in German datasets (qgis/QGIS#51647) * add support for getting/setting field comment GMLAS driver: * add BoundingShapeType as a known geometry type GPKG driver: * Implement relationship creation, deletion and update support * add direct read and create support for .gpkg.zip files * SQLite/GPKG: move PRELUDE_STATEMENTS evaluation just after database opening * add a gdal_get_pixel_value() SQL function. * add a SetSRID() SQL function * speed-up writing of DateTime/Date values * allow opening filenames >= 512 characters * do not register non-spatial layers on creation if there are already unregistered non-spatial layers (qgis/qgis#51721) * avoid potential int overflows / crash on huge geometries * make SQL function ogr_layer_Extent() available (#7443) * Map field alternative name with "name" attribute from gpkg_data_columns table * Map field comment with "description" attribute from gpkg_data_columns table * hide implicit relationships from NGA GeoInt and Spatialite system tables * add ST_EnvIntersects() for faster spatial filtering when there is no spatial index * minimum (read) support for non-standard multiple geometry columns per table GPX driver: * add capability to read & write content of element (#7190) LVBAG driver: * fix std::find() test MITAB driver: * add support for LargeInt (Integer64) data type (#7162) NAS driver: * make it trigger only if NAS_GFS_TEMPLATE config option is set (#7529) MongoDBv3 driver: * avoid get_utf8() deprecatation warning with mongocxx 3.7.0 netCDF driver: * add support for getting/setting alternative name and comment OAPIF driver: * Add support for OGC API Features - Part 2 CRS extension (ie ability to work with non WGS 84 CRS) * Add CRS/PREFERRED_CRS open options to control the active CRS * Add a SERVER_FEATURE_AXIS_ORDER open option * Implement GetSupportedSRSList() and SetActiveSRS() OCI driver: * improve round-tripping of EPSG CRS (#7551) OpenFileGDB driver: * Optimise writing of large geometries * allow CreateField() with OBJECTID as the column name (#51435) * make Delete() method to remove the directory (#7216) * remove traces of dealing with field precision (#7283) * correct ObjectID field to have a Length of 4. * take into account SpatialReference.VCSWKID/LatestVCSWKID for compound CRS * relax test to detect broken .spx OGR_VRT: * add support for reading alternative name and comment from VRT XML OSM driver: * add a tags_format=json osmconf.ini setting and TAGS_FORMAT=JSON open option, as an alternative for HSTORE for other_tags/all_tags fields (#7533) Parquet driver: * add support for getting/setting field alternative name and comment in gdal:schema extension PG driver: * Add WKBFromEWKB() for a slightly faster OGRGeometryFromEWKB() * fix TEMPORARY layer creation option * Add SKIP_VIEWS open option to replace PG_SKIP_VIEWS config option * Remove PG_USE_TEXT config option * use standard_conforming_strings=ON * add support for getting/setting/altering field comments (#7587) * truncate table names larger than 63 characters (#7628) PGDump driver: * fix TEMPORARY layer creation option * add GEOM_COLUMN_POSITION layer creation option and allow empty FID= (#7482) * fix escaping of schema and table name (#7497) * add support for setting field comments * truncate table names larger than 63 characters (#7628) Shapefile driver: * writer: do no use SHPRewindObject() for [Multi]Polygon layers, but use the input OGRGeometry structure to deduce the winding order (#5315) * writer: prevent potential overflows on 64-bit platforms on huge geometries * writer: optimize MultiLineString writing SQLite driver: * Implement AddRelationship support * add a gdal_get_pixel_value() SQL function * allow opening filenames >= 512 characters * make SQL function ogr_layer_Extent() available (#7443) * Spatialite: remove support for libspatialite < 4.1.2 WFS driver: * implement GetSupportedSRSList() and SetActiveSRS() ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * add gdal.VectorInfo() * fix GDT_TypeCount value (affects C# and Java bindings) * add gdal.GetNumCPUs() and gdal.GetUsablePhysicalRAM() * add gdal.CopyFile() * fix syntax error that fail with SWIG 4.1 CSHARP bindings: * add SkiaSharp (#6957) * Add missing wrappers for BuildVRT and MultiDimTranslate (#7517) Python bindings: * Emit FutureWarning when exceptions are not explicitly enabled or disabled. Turning on exceptions by default is planned for GDAL 4.0 * Make UseExceptions() on one of gdal/ogr/osr module affect all of them * add gdal/ogr/osr.ExceptionMgr() Context Manager for handling Python exception state (#6637) * add gdal.config_option() and gdal.config_options() context manager * add gdal.quiet_errors() context manage * make ogr.Open() and ogr.OpenShared() work with verbose error when exceptions are enabled * gdal.VectorTranslate: add missing extra options (#6486) * Adapt various utilities for exceptions enabled: gdal_merge.py, ogr_layer_algebra.py, ogr_merge, gdalinfo.py, ogr2ogr.py * __init__.py: more robust handling of PATH (cf rasterio/rasterio#2713) * do not make gdal.PushErrorHandler()/PopErrorHandler() sensitive to the GDAL error context * Make GetArrowStreamAsNumPy() handle large lists, strings and binaries * make Dataset.ExecuteSQL() usable as a context manager to automatically release the layer (#7459) * GetArrowStreamAsNumPy(): optimization to save memory on string fields with huge strings compared to the average size # GDAL/OGR 3.6.0 Release Notes Those notes include changes since GDAL 3.5.0, but not already included in a GDAL 3.5.x bugfix release. ## In a nutshell... * CMake is the only build system available in-tree. autoconf and nmake build systems have been removed * OpenFileGDB: write and update support (v10.x format only), without requiring any external dependency, with same (and actually larger) functional scope as write side of the FileGDB driver * [RFC 86](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc86_column_oriented_api.html): Column-oriented read API for vector layers. Implemented in core, Arrow, Parquet, GPKG and FlatGeoBuf drivers * Add read/write raster [JPEGXL driver](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/jpegxl.html) for standalone JPEG-XL files. Requires libjxl * Add KTX2 and BASISU read/write raster drivers for texture formats. Require (forked) basisu library * Vector layer API: table relationship discovery & creation, Upsert() operation * GeoTIFF: add multi-threaded read capabilities (reqiures NUM_THREADS open option or GDAL_NUM_THREADS configuration option to be set) * Multiple performance improvements in GPKG driver * ogr_layer_algebra.py: promoted to official script (#1581) * Code linting and security fixes * Bump of shared lib major version ## New optional dependencies * libjxl: for JPEGXL driver (it was already a potential dependency in past versions, when using internal libtiff, to get the JXL TIFF codec) * libarrow_dataset: for Parquet driver * [QB3](https://github.com/lucianpls/QB3): for QB3 codec in MRF driver * [basisu](https://github.com/rouault/basis_universal/tree/cmake): required for KTX2 and BASISU drivers ## New installed files * bin/ogr_layer_algebra.py * include/ogr_recordbatch.h ## Removed installed files None ## Backward compatibility issues See [MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.6/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT) ## Build changes Enhancements: * Add version suffix to DLL when compiling for MinGW target * Add a -DBUILD_WITHOUT_64BIT_OFFSET advanced option (#5941) * Add a USE_ALTERNATE_LINKER option * Build iso8211 library conditionally to drivers requiring it Fixes: * Fix build without PNG (#5742) and JPEG (#5741) * Various changes for CHERI-extended architectures such CHERI-RISC-V or Arm Morello with sizeof(void*) == 16 * FindMono.cmake: fix setting 'CSHARP_MONO_INTERPRETER_', to avoid having to run CMake twice * swig/python/CMakeLists.txt: fix SWIG_REGENERATE_PYTHON mode * FindNetCDF.cmake: fix when running on Ubuntu 16.04 regarding erroneous detection of netcdf_mem.h * Remove uses of std::regex (#6358) * honour CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH for Python bindings, but only if it is an absolute path. (#6371) * Python: fix to allow building in ubuntu 18.04 (#6443) * Fixed building position independent static lib * Fix issues when building/installing in directories with spaces, at least on Unix. * fix LIBKML linking on Windows Conda * make sure to register EEDAI driver when built as a plugin * fix Win32 csharp build (#6620) ## Internal libraries * flatbuffers: updated * internal libtiff: resynchroinzation with upstream * internal libpng: use __UINTPTR_TYPE__ for png_ptruint when available ## GDAL 3.6.0 - Overview of Changes ### Port New features: * Add CPLIsASCII() * /vsis3/: Provide credentials mechanism for web identity token on AWS EKS (#4058) * /vsis3/: support source_profile in .aws/config pointing to a profile with a web_identity_token_file (#6320) * /vsistdin/: make size of buffered area configurable (#751) * add VSIIsLocal(), VSISupportsSequentialWrite() and VSISupportsRandomWrite() * Configuration file: add a ignore-env-vars=yes setting (#6326) in a \[general\] leading section * Add a cpl::ThreadSafeQueue<> class Enhancements: * VSIFileFromMemBuffer(): allow anonymous files * CPLCheckForFile(): do not request file size * /vsicurl/: when CPL_CURL_VERBOSE is enabled, log as CPLDebug() message the error message from the server * /vsicurl / CPLHTTPFetch(): add GDAL_HTTP_HEADERS configuration option (#6230) * VSIVirtualHandle: add a PRead() method for thread-safe parallel read and implement it in /vsimem/ and Unix virtual file system * /vsis3/: make CPL_VSIS3_USE_BASE_RMDIR_RECURSIVE a path-specific configuration option * Make GDAL_DISABLE_READDIR_ON_OPEN a path-specific configuration option * Add VSISetPathSpecificOption() / VSIGetPathSpecificOption() / VSIClearPathSpecificOptions(). Deprecate VSISetCredential() / VSIGetCredential() / VSIClearCredentials() * /vsicurl/ and other network file systems: add a DISABLE_READDIR_ON_OPEN=YES/NO VSIFOpenEx2L() option * Add a VSIFilesystemHandler::SupportsRead() method * Add GDAL_HTTP_TCP_KEEPALIVE/GDAL_HTTP_TCP_KEEPIDLE/GDAL_HTTP_TCP_KEEPINTVL configuration options to control TCP keep-alive functionality * Make CPLODBCSession and CPLODBCStatement member variables 'protected' (#6314) Bugfixes: * cpl_config.h: Don't use __stdcall on MinGW * CPL recode: fix issues with iconv library integrated in musl C library * CPLWorkerThreadPool::SubmitJob(): avoid potential deadlock when called from worker thread * /vsicurl/: fix caching of first bytes of the files ### Core New features: * Add a GDALRasterBand::GetSuggestedBlockAccessPattern() method, implement it in GTiff, JPEG, PNG, PDF drivers and use it in GDALCopyWholeRasterGetSwathSize(). * GDALJP2Box/GDALJP2Metadata: add support for reading/writing JUMBF box * Add a GDALDeinterleave() function, to copy values from a pixel-interleave buffer to multiple per-component, and add SSE2/SSSE3 optimizations for a few common scenarios like Byte/UInt16 3/4 components. Use it in GTiff and MEM drivers. * C API change: make GDALComputeRasterMinMax() return CPLErr instead of void (#6300) * Add a GDAL_DMD_MULTIDIM_ARRAY_OPENOPTIONLIST constant Enhancements: * GDALRasterBand::ComputeRasterMinMax(): add optimized implementation for Byte and UInt16 data types (~10 times faster) * Multidim API: significantly enhance performance of reading transposed arrays for netCDF/HDF5 * GDALVersionInfo(): report if it is a debug build in --version output, and report compiler version in BUILD_INFO output * /vsicurl/: cache the result of several collections/URL signing requests to Planetary Computer * GDALCopyWholeRasterGetSwathSize(): aim for a chunk that is at least tall as the maximum of the source and target block heights * GDALGetJPEG2000Structure(): add JP2_BOXES, CODESTREAM_MARKERS, STOP_AT_SOD, ALLOW_GET_FILE_SIZE options * GDALDataset::BuildOverviews/IBuildOverviews(): add a CSLConstList papszOptions parameter * GDALDataset::CreateLayer(): honor GDAL_VALIDATE_CREATION_OPTIONS (#6487) Breaking changes: * Remove use of compatibility wrappers _GetProjectionRef / _GetGCPProjection / _SetProjection / _SetGCPs (#6186) Bugfixes: * EXIFCreate(): fix writing of EXIF_UserComment * GDALPamDataset::TrySaveXML(): do not set error if a subdataset name is set but the .aux.xml doesn't exist (#5790) * GDALOpen(): make recursive opening of dataset more reliable when papszAllowedDrivers is passed * GetHistogram(): Support 64 bit images (#6059) * GetHistogram(): deal with undefined behavior when raster values are at infinity, or with pathological min/max bounds * GDALPamRasterBand::SetOffset()/SetScale(): set the bOffsetSet/bScaleSet even if the value provided is the default offset/scale * GDALDataset/GDALRasterBand::BuildOverviews/IBuildOverviews(): fix const correctness of panOverviewList and panBandList arguments * Overview: tighten GAUSS and MODE to be exactly those names, and not starting with them * Overview building: fix MODE resampling on large datasets (#6587) ### Algorithms Enhancements: * Transformer: add SRC_GEOLOC_ARRAY and DST_GEOLOC_ARRAY transformer options * GDALChecksumImage(): make it return -1 in case of error ### Utilities New features: * gdalinfo: add a STAC section to `gdalinfo -json` output (#6265) * gdal_translate: add a -ovr flag (#1923) * gdal2tiles.py: add WEBP support with --tiledriver option * gdalmdiminfo & gdalmdimtranslate: add -if (input format) flag (#6295) * gdal_grid: add 'radius' parameter to invdist, nearest, averge and metrics algorithm, to set radius1 and radius2 at the same time * gdal_grid: add per-quadrant search capabilities for invdistnn, average, and metrics algorithms * ogr_layer_algebra.py: promoted to official script (#1581) Enhancements: * gdal2tiles.py: short circuit overview tile creation for --resume ahead of processing base tiles * gdal2tiles.py: refactor transparent file check in overview creation * gdalsrsinfo: use wkt2_2019 name instead of wkt2_2018 * gdal_viewshed: use -cc 1.0 as default for non-Earth CRS (#6278) * nearblack: skip erosion when pixel at edge is valid * gdal_grid: produce north-up images * gdal_grid: add validation of algorithm parameters and warn when a unknown parameter is specified * gdal_grid: add a nSizeOfStructure leading structure member in GDALGridXXXXOptions structure, as a way to detect ABI issues when adding new parameters Bugfixes: * gdalwarp: modify 'sum' resampling to preserve total sum * gdalwarp: fix issue with wrong resolution when reprojecting between geographic CRS with source extent slightly off [-180,180] * gdalwarp: fix artifacts around antimeridian for average/mode/min/max/med/q1/q3/sum/rms resampling (#6478) * gdal2tiles.py: remove PIL deprecation warning by replacing ANTIALIAS with LANCZOS * gdal2tiles: allow oversampling in -p raster mode (fixes #6207) * gdal2xyz.py: fix parsing of -b option (#5984) * gdal_rasterize: fix ALL_TOUCHED on polygons whose boundaries coordinates are aligned on pixels (#6414) ### gdal_utils package * standardized return codes (#5561). Return 2 when utilities called without argumen ### Raster drivers ADRG driver: * add SRP pixel spacing value (SRP_PSP) to the dataset metadata COG driver: * add a OVERVIEW_COUNT creation option to control the number of overview levels (#6566) * add DMD_EXTENSIONS metadata item (#6073) * properly set lossy WEBP compression when QUALITY_OVERVIEW < 100 but QUALITY = 100 (#6550) COSAR driver: * handle version 2 files that contain half-foat samples (#6289) ECRGTOC driver: * fix error on RasterIO() when GDAL_FORCE_CACHING=YES is set ECW driver: * strip off boring Kakadu and OpenJPEG COM marker comments ENVI driver: * implement 'default bands' to read/write R,G,B and gray color interpretation (#6339) * implement Get/Set Scale/Offset from ENVI 'data gain values'/'data offset values' (#6444) * use OGRSpatialReference::FindBestMatch() on reading to find a matching known CRS (#6453) GPKG driver: * in CreateCopy() mode for Byte data, save the band count in a IMAGE_STRUCTURE metadata domain to be able to re-open the file with the appropriate number of bands * default to PNG storage for single band dataset (qgis/QGIS#40425) * writer: write fully set tiles as soon as possible to decrease pressure on block cache GTiff driver: * add multi-threaded read capabilities (reqiures NUM_THREADS open option or GDAL_NUM_THREADS configuration option to be set) * JXL codec: support more than 4 bands in INTERLEAVE=PIXEL mode (#5704) * JXL codec: preserve Alpha color interpretation when the Alpha band does not immediately follow color bands (e.g. R,G,B,undefined,Alpha), and fix decoding of such files * add a WEBP_LOSSLESS_OVERVIEW=YES/NO configuration option (#6439) * report a COMPRESSION_REVERSIBILITY=LOSSLESS (possibly)/LOSSY metadata item in IMAGE_STRUCTURE for WEBP and JXL compression * read/write JPEGXL and WEBP compression parameters (for main dataset only) in IMAGE_STRUCTURE metadata domain of GDAL_METADATA tag * avoid potential crash on creation in a disk full situation * fix reading a CompoundCRS of a LocalCS/EngineeringCS, and avoid warnings on writing (#5890) * report codec name (or code) when opening a file with a unhandled code * WEBP: avoid unnecessary temporary buffer creation and copy (most of changes are in libtiff itself) * force INTERLEAVE=PIXEL for internal overviews when using WEBP compression * avoid SetMetadata() to cancel effect of SetGeoTransform() (#6015) * refuse to open files with SampleFormat=IEEEFP and BitsPerSample != 16, 24, 32 or 64 * SRS import: better deal when angular unit of the GEOGCS[] of the PROJCS[] doesn't match the one from the database * SRS export: avoid error when exporting a Projected 3D CRS (#6362) * honour COMPRESS_OVERVIEW and INTERLEAVE_OVERVIEW for internal overviews (#6344) * CreateCopy(): fix marking alpha channels that are not the last one (#6395) HDF5 driver: * multidim: fix crash on 'gdalmdiminfo HDF5:autotest/gdrivers/data/netcdf/alldatatypes.nc' JP2KAK driver: * use kdu_multi_analysis class for tile encoding, instead of very low level kdu_analysis * use kdu_stripe_compressor whenever the required buffer size is < CACHE_MAX / 4, otherwise fallback to kdu_multi_analysis * add (at least build) support for versions down to 7.3 All JPEG2000 drivers: * report a COMPRESSION_REVERSIBILITY=LOSSLESS/LOSSLESS (possibly)/LOSSY metadata item in IMAGE_STRUCTURE domain JP2OpenJPEG driver: * for reversible compression, write a hint in the COM marker if the compression is lossy or not, and use it on reading JPEG-XL driver: * NEW! * The JPEG-XL format is supported for reading, and batch writing (CreateCopy()), but not update in place. The driver supports reading and writing: - georeferencing: encoded as a GeoJP2 UUID box within a JUMBF box. - XMP in the xml:XMP metadata domain - EXIF in the EXIF metadata domain - color profile in the COLOR_PROFILE metadata domain. KEA driver: * add support for 64 bit nodata functions MRF driver: * Add QB3 compression (#5824) netCDF driver: * handle variables of type NC_SHORT with _Unsigned=true as GDT_UInt16 (#6352) * do not report metadata of indexing variables of dimensions not used by the variable of interest (#6367) * fix 2 issues with netCDF 4.9.0 of msys2-mingw64 (#5970) * multidim: workaround crash with using same file in 2 different threads (each thread with its own dataset object) (#6253) * ignore 'missing_value' when it is a non-numeric string * multidim: use 'fill_value' attribute as an alternative for nodata, and add a USE_DEFAULT_FILL_AS_NODATA=YES array open option * allow NETCDF:"/vsicurl_streaming/http[s]://example.com/foo.nc":variable_name (#6610) NITF driver: * do not put PAM metadata in a Subdataset node of .aux.xml file if there's a single dataset (3.4.0 regression) (#5790) * avoid excessive memory allocation on broken files (ossfuzz#52642) ù fix crash when reading all metadata from a file without image segment, and allow creating such file * add support for writing a TRE_OVERFLOW DES * nitf_spec.xml: lower minlength for CSEPHA PDF driver: * avoid PROJ error when reading a CRS with a EPSG code that is actually a ESRI one (#6522) PNG driver: * report cause when unable to create file RMF driver: * backup error state before min-max computation at FlushCache * Ext header size checks improved VRT driver: * optimize speed of statistics and minmax computation when the VRT is a mosaics of non-overlapping simple sources * ComputeStatistics(): for mosaicing case, enable it to be multi-threaded if GDAL_NUM_THREADS is set * take into account open options when sharing sources (#5989) WEBP driver: * report a COMPRESSION_REVERSIBILITY=LOSSLESS/LOSSY metadata item in IMAGE_STRUCTURE ## OGR 3.6.0 - Overview of Changes ### Core New features: * OGRLayer: add Arrow C stream based batch retrieval (RFC 86) * Add OGRLayer::Upsert() operation support (#6199). Implement it in MongoDBv3, ElasticSearch MEM, GPKG drivers * Add OGR_G_ConcaveHull(), using GEOS >= 3.11 GEOSConcaveHull_r(), and map it to SWIG * Add a OGRLayer::AlterGeomFieldDefn() / OGR_L_AlterGeomFieldDefn() to change geometry field definitions. Implement in MEM, Shapefile, GPKG, PG, OpenFileGDB drivers * Add GDALRelationship class for describing a relationship between two tables, and related API for retrieving the relationship names and relationships in a dataset. Implement discovery in FileGDB, OpenFileGDB, PGeo and GPKG drivers, SQLite * Add API for relationship creation/deletion/update. Implement in OpenFileGDB driver * Add OGRLayer::GetGeometryTypes(). This method iterates over features to retrieve their geometry types. This is mostly useful for layers that report a wkbUnknown geometry type. Specialized implementation in GPKG and PG drivers. * Add a GDAL_DMD_ALTER_GEOM_FIELD_DEFN_FLAGS driver metadata item * Add DCAP_CREATE_LAYER for drivers which have support for layer creation * Add DCAP_DELETE_LAYER for drivers which have support for layer deletion * Add DCAP_DELETE_FIELD for drivers which have support for field deletion * Add DCAP_REORDER_FIELDS for drivers which have support for field reordering * Add GDAL_DMD_ALTER_FIELD_DEFN_FLAGS for drivers which describe the flags supported for a driver by the AlterFieldDefn API * Add DCAP_CURVE_GEOMETRIES for drivers which support curved geometries * Add DCAP_MEASURED_GEOMETRIES for drivers which support measured geometries * Add driver capability for DCAP_Z_GEOMETRIES * Add OLCZGeometries (equivalent to OLCMeasuredGeometries for Z support) * Add ODsCZGeometries datasource capability flag * Add driver metadata for DMD_GEOMETRY_FLAGS. Contains a list of (space separated) flags which reflect the geometry handling behavior of a driver. Supported values are currently "EquatesMultiAndSingleLineStringDuringWrite", "EquatesMultiAndSinglePolygonDuringWrite". * Add OGRParseDateTimeYYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ() and OGRParseDateTimeYYYYMMDDTHHMMSSsssZ() * Add GDAL_DMD_SUPPORTED_SQL_DIALECTS driver metadata. Enhancements: * Make isClockwise() available at the OGRCurve level * Export OSRStripVertical() function in C API * OGRSimpleCurve point iterator: make its modification instant on the parent curve (#6215) Bugfixes: * OGRFeature::FillUnsetWithDefault(): do not set driver-specific default values on unset numeric fields * OGR_SM_InitStyleString(): make it work with a @style_name argument (#5555) * Fix loss of split/merge policy when cloning field domains * OGRSQL: fix GetFeature() to return a feature such that GetFeature(fid).GetFID() == fid (#5967) * OGRGeometry::UnionCascaded(): avoid crash with GEOS < 3.11 on empty multipolygon input ### OGRSpatialReference New features: * Add a OGRSpatialReference::FindBestMatch() method Enhancements: * Warping/coordinate transformation performance improvements * OSRGetProjTLSContext(): make it faster on Linux by saving getpid() system call * OGRSpatialReference::SetFromUserInput(): allow using strings like EPSG:3157+4617 where the 'vertical CRS' is actually the geographic CRS, to mean ellipsoidal height, which is supported in recent PROJ versions * Improve OGRCoordinateTransformation::TransformBounds error handling (#6081) * OGRSpatialReference: evaluate OSR_DEFAULT_AXIS_MAPPING_STRATEGY config option at each object construction (#6084) Bugfixes: * Avoid issues with PROJJSON with id in members of datum ensemble * OGRSpatialReference::GetTargetLinearUnits(): fix getting linear units from a CompoundCRS of a LocalCS/EngineeringCS (#5890) ### Utilities New features: * ogr2ogr: add -upsert option Bugfixes: * ogr2ogr: make sure geometry column name is going through laundering when outputting to PG/PGDump (#6261) * ogr2ogr: take into account -limit when -progress is used ### Vector drivers All drivers: * Add some missing DCAP_VECTOR capabilities to drivers Arrow/Parquet drivers: * implement faster SetAttributeFilter() for simpler filters. Things like "col =/!=/>/>=/, , fields in a feature (qgis/QGIS#42660) * OGRMergeGeometryTypesEx(): do not consider different type of MultiGeometries (ie MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon) as being mergeable as GeometryCollections (#6616) GMLAS driver: * be robust to GML schemas being pointed to a location different from http://schemas.ogc.net/ GPKG driver: * Do not list layers referenced in gpkg_contents but that have no corresponding table (qgis/qgis#30670) * Performance improvement in reading features * Performance improvement in reading DateTime fields * Performance improvement: do not request ignored fields * Micro optimizations to improve CreateFeature() speed * Performance improvement: implement background RTree creation in bulk insertion into a new table * Implement a fast ST_Area() method * optimization to remove bbox filtering when the spatial filter is larger than the layer extent * remove code path specific to SQLite < 3.7.8 (PROJ requires SQLite >= 3.11) * avoid integer overflow when trying to insert strings larger > 2 GB * preliminary non-user-visible support for Related Tables Extension * fix issue with ST_MakeValid() when the SQLite driver runs before GPKG on Alpine Linux * Report relationships, through FOREIGN KEY constraints, and Related Tables extension. * properly update gpkg_ogr_contents on INSERT OR REPLACE statements * do not warn about http://ngageoint.github.io/GeoPackage/docs/extensions extensions in read-only mode * Rename layer: take into account QGIS layer_styles extension * add compatibility with GPKG 1.0 gpkg_data_column_constraints table GRIB driver: * fix crash and invalid metadata when processing index .idx file with sub-messages (#6613) HANA driver: * pending batches are not flushed when layer is destroyed * reset prepared statements when creating new field * fix transaction support * execute pending batches from other operations * properly handle special characters in connection string LIBKML driver: * writer: add automatic reprojection to EPSG:4326 (#6495) MITAB driver: * implements writing Text objects for Point geometries with LABEL style string (#6149) ODS driver: * make it possible to open file without .ods extension if prefixed with ODS: (#6375) OpenFileGDB driver: * Add write support * handle Shape_Area/Shape_Length fields on reading * fix use of indexes on strings when the searched value is longer than the max indexed string, or ending with space * Report relationships Parquet driver: * add basic support for reading partitionned datasets * add CREATOR option * do not write statistics for WKB geometry columns * make sure 'geo' metadata is embedded in ARROW:schema so that partitioned reading works fine * implement SetNextByIndex() * make it honour GDAL_NUM_THREADS, and assume min(4, ALL_CPUS) as default value PG driver: * make GEOM_TYPE layer creation option be taken into account by CreateGeomField() (instead of always assuming geometry) PGDump driver: * avoid extraneous harmless spaces in CREATE TABLE statements S57 driver: * resource files: fix missing punctuation (#6000) Selafin driver: * remove likely broken logic in handing /vsigzip/foo.gz filenames SQLite driver: * Report relationships, through FOREIGN KEY constraints * SQLiteVFS: fix semantics of xOpen(SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE) that could cause to wrongly truncate an attached database VFK driver: * add support for UTF-8 (VFK 6.0 switched from ISO-8859-2 to UTF-8) XLSX driver: * make it possible to open file without .xlsx extension if prefixed with XLSX: (#6375) * improve detection to recognize even if no XLSX: prefix or .xlsx extension ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * Add SWIG bindings for OGR_L_AlterGeomFieldDefn() * fix SpatialReference.GetLinearUnitsName() to use OSRGetLinearUnits() to retrieve the name * add SpatialReference.StripVertical() * Create alias versions with/without GDAL_ prefix for c#/java constants * add inverseCT optional parameter to CoordinateOperation.SetOperation(), and add CoordinateOperation.GetInverse() * make Band.ComputeStatistics() kwargs * add options argument to Dataset.BuildOverviews() * fix GDT_TypeCount value (affects C# and Java bindings) Python bindings: * bindings for Arrow Batch functionality * add numpy to extras_require option of setup.py * add an optional can_return_none=True parameter to Band.ComputeRasteMinMax() to make it return None in case of error. Otherwise, return (nan, nan) (#6300) # GDAL/OGR 3.5.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * [RFC 84](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc84_cmake.html): Addition of a CMake build system, which deprecates the existing autoconf/automake and nmake build systems, that will be removed in GDAL 3.6.0. Users are encouraged to adopt the new CMake build system. Documentation of the CMake build system is at https://gdal.org/build_hints.html. * Add GDT_Int64 and GDT_UInt64 data types and handle them in MEM, GTiff, netCDF and Zarr drivers * Add read/write OGR Parquet (Apache Parquet) and 'Arrow' (Apache Arrow IPC File/Feather or stream) drivers. Only in CMake builds * Add OGR HANA database driver. Only in autoconf & cmake builds * Removed drivers: RDA, JPEG2000 (Jasper-based), CharLS, MG4 LIDAR, FujiBAS, IDA, INGR, ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CouchDB, Cloudant, DB2, FME, Geomedia, MDB (Java Jackess based), GTM, Ingres, MongoDB (old one. MongoDBv3 is the one to use now), REC, Walk, GMT raster, DODS raster and vector * GDAL and OGR GRASS drivers moved to https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-grass repository * Tiger: remove deprecated write side of the driver (#4216) * Remove deprecated SWIG Perl bindings * Code linting and security fixes * Bump of shared lib major version ## New optional dependencies * odbc-cpp-wrapper (https://github.com/SAP/odbc-cpp-wrapper): for SAP Hana driver * Apache arrow-cpp (https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/cpp) libraries: for Parquet and Arrow drivers ## New installed files * lib/gdalplugins/drivers.ini: list of (known) drivers in the order they must be registered, for deterministic behavior with plugins * shared/gdal/grib2_*.csv: resource files for GRIB driver ## Removed files * Remove deprecated testepsg utility (#3993) ## Backward compatibility issues See [MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.5/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT) ## Build changes Build(all): * Drop support for non-reentrant external libqhull * support libhdf5 1.13.0 (#5061) * Support latest Poppler versions (requires C++17) * Support tiledb >= 2.7 (requires C++17) * Updates for IJG libjpeg-9e * Require using https://github.com/rouault/pdfium_build_gdal_3_5 for PDF PDFium support * cpl_config.h: remove lots of unused defines, and severely restrict what we export in non-GDAL compilation mode Build(autoconf/automake): * fix detection of OpenEXR >= 3 (#4766) * Add support for PCRE2 (to replace deprecated PCRE) (#4822) * Add support for external libqhull_r (#4040) * add a --with-qhull-pkgname=qhull_r/qhullstatic_r option to select with qhull package to use * generate test_ogrsf by default (but not installed) * change default of RENAME_INTERNAL_LIBTIFF/LIBGEOTIFF/SHAPELIB_SYMBOLS to yes * when building against internal libjpeg, prefix by default libjpeg symbols with gdal_ (#4948) * when building against internal libpng, prefix internal libpng symbols with gdal_ (#5303) * m4/acinclude.m4: fix detection of fseeko/ftello on netBSD * detect xlocale.h to use LC_NUMERIC_MASK on Mac (#5022) * move generated headers to a generated_headers subdirectory to allow in a same git checkout, to continue to do autoconf in-source-tree builds as well as cmake out-of-source-tree build Build(nmake): * nmake.opt: fix wrong variable name in example MSODBCSQL_LIB * nmake.opt: add a HAVE_ATLBASE_H variable that can be set to NO ## Internal libraries * Internal zlib: update to 1.2.12 (#5587) * Internal libtiff: resync with upstream * Internal libgeotiff: resync with upstream * Internal libpng: fix memleak on corrupted file (ossfuzz #44486) * Internal libjson: update to 0.15.0 * Internal libLerc: Prevent LERC out of bounds access (#5598) * Internal libqhull: update to qhull_r 2020.2 (8.0.2) ## GDAL 3.5.0 - Overview of Changes ### Port * CPLRecode(): fix recoding between UTF-8 and CP_ACP/CP_OEMCP on Windows build that have iconv support * CPLRecodeIconv(): avoid potential unsigned integer overflow (ossfuzz#41201) * Fix out of bounds read in CPLRecodeFromWCharIconV() (#5542) * Add VSISetCredential() to set /vsis3, /vsigs, /vsiaz ... credentials for a given file prefix * VSICurl: Print response code for failed range requests * /vsis3/: allow setting AWS_PROFILE to a profile that uses IAM role assumption * IVSIS3LikeFSHandler::CopyFile(): always take into account ret code of CopyObject() * VSISync() onto /vsis3/: allow x-amz- headers to be specified for object creation * /vsis3/: ignore object class DEEP_ARCHIVE in addition to GLACIER, and add CPL_VSIL_CURL_IGNORE_STORAGE_CLASSES to configure which object classes should be ignored * /vsis3/: make sure file properties of /vsis3_streaming/foo are invalidated when /vsis3/foo ones are * /vsis3/ with GDAL_DISABLE_READDIR_ON_OPEN: do not hide when accessing non existing file (#1900) * VSISync(): fix sync'ing from /vsis3/, /vsigs/, /vsiaz/ to local disk, when the source contains implicit directories * /vsiaz/: read credentials from ~/.azure/config as an additional fallback method. Add AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN configuration option and deprecate AZURE_SAS * /vsiaz/: allow authorization through an access token specified with the AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN config option (to be used with AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT) * /vsiaz/: fix handling of BlobEndpoint in connection string, and fix signing of requests to handle a directory part in the endpoint * /vsiaz/: implement container creation/destruction with VSIMkdir()/VSIRmdir() * /vsiaz/: add compatibility with Azurite emulator * /vsiadls/: add missing call to InvalidateParentDirectory() * /vsigs/: Support type=user JSON file for authentication * /vsigs/: fix upload of files > 4 MB in HTTP 1.1 (#5267) * /vsigs/, /vsiaz/, /vsiadls/: allow x-goog- / x-ms-/ headers to be specified for object creation * ZIP support: avoid warnings on MacOS * CPLZLibInflate(): workaround issue with /opt/intel/oneapi/intelpython/latest/lib/libz.so.1 from intel/oneapi-basekit Docker image * /vsizip/: fix Eof() detection on stored (ie not compressed) files inside the zip (#5468) * /vsitar/: fix reading .tar.gz files when the size of the uncompressed .tar file is a multiple of 65536 bytes (#5225) * CPLGetCurrentDir(): use _wgetcwd() on Windows to get a UTF-8 filename * CSLTokenizeString2(): make it work with strings > 2 GB * CPLLoadConfigOptionsFromFile(): add a \[credentials\] section to load VSI credentials * /vsimem/: VSIFTruncateL(): make sure to zeroize beyond the truncated area ### Core * Embedded Python: fixes to load Conda and mingw64 python on Windows * Embedded python: list Python 3.10 * GDALDriver::QuietDelete(): take into account papszAllowedDrivers argument * GDALDataset::MarkSuppressOnClose(): delete auxiliary files (#4791) * GDALPamRasterBand::CloneInfo(): deal correctly with NaN nodata to avoid generating useless .aux.xml file (#4847) * External overviews: automatically turn PLANARCONFIG_CONTIG for WebP overviews * GDALDatasetCopyWholeRaster(): clarify INTERLEAVE option meaning and raises warning if invalid value is specified (#4909) * CreateCopy(): propagate INTERLEAVE from source data (#4911) * Add GDALPamDataset::DeleteGeoTransform() (#4877) * Metadata readers: remove thread-unsafe use of localtime() * Pleiades metadata reader: fix to handle RPC for Pleiades Neo (#5090) * GeoEye metadata reader: avoid potential write stack-buffer overflow on long basename files (#5506) * Overview generation: fix Cubic resampling on boundaries between valid and transparent areas (#5016) * make GDALProxyRasterBand::RefUnderlyingRasterBand() / UnrefUnderlyingRasterBand() const. May affect out-of-tree drivers * Add GDALRasterBand::IsMaskBand() and GetMaskValueRange() virtual methods * Avoid CPLError() on number of drivers when PAM is disabled * RawRasterBand::AccessBlock(): do not early return in case of truncated block ### Algorithms * Geoloc transformer: fix inverse transform to be exact (#5520) * Geoloc transformer: make it usable with arbitrary large geolocation arrays, using temporary GTiff storage (#5520) * gdal_grid: add facility to search points included in search ellipse for GDALDataMetrics (minimum, maximum, range, count, average_distance, average_distance_pts) in the already implemented quadtree data structure (#5530) * Rasterization of polygons: avoid underflow/overflow of output data type * Rasterize: use rounding to integers of floating-point value, and handle +/- inf for floating point rasters * Rasterize: make it possible to burn a Int64 attribute into a Int64 raster in a lossless way * Warp kernel: avoid writing outside allocated buffer if more threads than needed are allocated * warper: better guess output bounds when warping from a rotated pole projection that include poles * transformer: implement DST_METHOD=GEOLOC_ARRAY * avoid using any resampling kernel when doing just a subsetting of the source image (alignment on pixel boundaries) (#5345) * GDALBuildVRT(): in -separate mode, add support for sources such as MEM dataset or non-materialized VRT files ### Utilities * gdalinfo --build: report PROJ version of build and runtime * gdaladdo -clean: remove overviews of mask (#1047) * gdalwarp -crop_to_cutline: relax epsilon to avoid extremely long loop (#4826) * gdalwarp: do not emit "Point outside of projection domain" / "tolerance condition error" (#4934) * gdalwarp: avoid useless use of CHECK_WITH_INVERT_PROJ when computed bounds are at the 'edges' of the geographic domain * gdal_translate/gdalwarp: do not delete DIM_/RPC_ auxiliary XML files on converting a jp2 file to a tif file (#5633) * gdalbuildvrt: change logic to check homogeneous number of bands (#5136) * gdalsrsinfo: emit message when replacement of deprecated CRS occurs, with hint to set OSR_USE_NON_DEPRECATED=NO configuration option to avoid that (#5106) * gdalsrsinfo: return a non-zero exit code when specified SRS fails to load (#5201) * gdalbuildvrt: add a -strict/-non_strict flag, and in strict mode consider non-existing datasets as a failure (#4755) * gdal_pansharpen.py: display usage if not enough filenames provided * gdal_polygonize.py: remove use of Unicode double quote characters * gdal_polygonize.py: make -8 switch work again (#5000) * gdal_sieve.py: fix exception when source dataset has no nodata value (3.4.0 regression) (#4899) * gdal_calc.py: support wildcard for filenames, and use 3D arrays instead of list for multiple filenames per alpha * gdal_calc.py: raise error when overwriting behavior is apparently wished but not specified (#5270) * gdal2tiles: make --no-kml option takes effect (#4940) * gdal2tiles: XML escape input filename (#5032) * gdal2tiles: remove/fix broken links in generated files * gdal2tiles: implement parallel generation of overview tiles (#5052) * gdal2tiles: lower chunksize value to allow parallel processing when generating ~ 100 tiles * gdal2tiles: fix issue with multiprocessing and the gdal2tiles launcher script on Windows and Python >= 3.8 (#4951) * gdal2tiles: support mpi4py multi-node parallelism (#5309) * gdal2tiles: detect write error when creating tiles, and allow outputting to /vsi filesystems (#3382, #5370) * gdal2tiles: do not generate .aux.xml files on overview tiles * bash-completion: fixes and update gdal-bash-completion.sh ### gdal_utils package * Make scripts executable * Add entry points for gdal-utils package (#5281) ### Raster drivers AAIGRID driver: * add support for 'null' as can be generated by D12 software (#5095) BAG driver: * fix 'too many refinement grids' error (#3759) BMP driver: * harden identify checks to avoid misidentification of other datasets (#4713) BYN driver: * remove validation of nTideSys and nPtType fields COG driver: * only create RGB JPEG with mask if 4-band is alpha (#4853) * fix potential generation failure when main imagery has overview and mask none * output exactly square pixels when using -co TILING_SCHEME (#5343) * add a ZOOM_LEVEL creation option (#5532) DIMAP driver: * avoid warning when extracting metadata from unsupported band_id * register metadata on all 6 PNEO bands * validate raster dimensions to avoid further issues (ossfuzz #46762) ECW driver: * fix test failures with ECW 5.5 * do not try to open UInt32 JPEG2000 if the SDK is buggy (#3860) * fix non-nearest upsampling on multi-band datasets (#5288) * Added source read by swath to improve encoder performance ERS driver: * Add support for comments in ERS files (#4835) ESRIC driver: * Fix bundle file name FITS driver: * fix non-conformant use of &v[0] that crashes with clang 14 -O2 GeoRaster driver: * fix build without JPEG GRIB driver: * GRIB2: mode degrib hard-coded tables to .csv files in resource files * GRIB2: merge content from WMO tables at https://github.com/wmo-im/GRIB2 with DEGRIB ones * fix writing negative longitude of natural origin for Transverse Mercator, and fix reading it for TMerc, LCC, ACEA and LAEA * fix thread-safetey of errSprintf() (#4830) * avoid read heap buffer overflow due to inappropriate split-and-swap on dataset with weird georeferencing (#5290, ossfuzz #41260, ossfuzz #41637) * consider longitudes that slightly exceed 360° as 360° for Split&Swap mode (#5496) * degrib: partial resynchroinzation with degrib 2.25 (degrib-20200921) * fix use of uninitialized memory on some datasets (#5290) * multidim: fix crash when a .idx file is present (#5569) GTiff driver: * explicitly enable strip choping to avoid issues with cmake libtiff builds * JXL codec: use non-deprecated methods and update for compatibility with latest state of libjxl * only emit warnings on libgeotiff PROJ errors (#4801) * SRS reading: add warning when CRS definition from geokeys is inconsistent with EPSG, and a GTIFF_SRS_SOURCE=EPSG/GEOKEYS configuration option to alter the SRS (#5399) * avoid warning with >= 5 bands and JPEG compression * LERC overview related improvements (#4848): MAX_Z_ERROR_OVERVIEW, ZLEVEL_OVERVIEW, ZSTD_LEVEL_OVERVIEW configuration options added * propagate SPARSE_OK to overviews (#4932), and add SPARSE_OK_OVERVIEW configuration option. * fix performance issue when reading transfer functions (#4923) * avoid huge memory allocation when generating overviews on large single-band 1-bit tiled files (#4932) * make SetGCPs(), SetGeoTransform(), SetSpatialRef(), SetNoDataValue(), SetMetadata(Item)() write to PAM .aux.xml on read only files (#4877) * add support for reading/writing color table from/into PAM .aux.xml (#4897) * do not warn about buggy Sentinel1 geotiff files use a wrong 4326 code for the ellipsoid * fix DISCARD_LSB with nodata value (#5097) * GTIFWktFromMemBufEx / GTIFMemBufFromSRS: use OSRSetPROJSearchPaths() (#5184). Affects GeoJP2 encoding/decoding * fix exposing WEBP_LOSSLESS option * early checks for PREDICTOR settings, and update internal libtiff to support PREDICTOR=2 for 64-bit samples (rasterio/rasterio#2384) * remove limitation to 32,000 bytes when writing the GDAL metadata tag (#4116) * Create(): better detection of threshold when to switch to BigTIFF for tiled images (#5479) * unset geotransform from non-PAM source if PAM defines GCPs, and PAM is the prioritary source * fix crash when building overviews and computing approx stats (#5580) HDF5 driver: * fix issue when netCDF and/or HDF5 drivers built as plugins with multidim datasets * detect Matlab .mat HDF5-based, or other files with HDF5 superblock at offset 512 HFA driver: * Fix "Pulkovo 1942" datum write to IMG files JP2KAK driver: * add support for reading/writing Int32/UInt32 data types * Add support for Creversible & RATE creation option (#5131) JP2OpenJPEG driver: * add a STRICT=YES/NO open option to allow decoding some broken files (requires OpenJPEG 2.5) JPEG driver: * make sure that max memory usage check is done in all code paths that require it KEA driver: * print error message when opening of kea file fails MRF driver: * Fix padding space logic (#5096) * Add LERC2 padding when encoding * Adjust PNG limits (#5347) * Allow using external libLerc (#5386) MSG driver: * fix/workaround MSVC warnings netCDF driver: * handle 'crs_wkt' attribute * always use WKT when found, without comparing with CF params (#4725) * limit SetFromUserInput() use to non file input * disable filename recoding to ANSI on Windows for netCDF >= 4.8 * add WRITE_GDAL_VERSION and WRITE_GDAL_HISTORY creation option * add a VARIABLES_AS_BANDS=YES/NO open option * allow update mode of raster datasets * implement SetMetadataItem()/SetMetadata() * avoid warnings when CreateCopy() a non-georeferenced dataset, and opening a 1x1 non-georeferenced dataset * add a IGNORE_XY_AXIS_NAME_CHECKS=YES open option (qgis/QGIS#47158) * recognize x/y axis from GMT generated files as geospatial axis (#5291, qgis/QGIS#47158, qgis/QGIS#45704) * read CF attributes giving CRS component names (#5493) NITF driver: * Add ISO-8859-1 decoding for file and image header metadata * avoid PROJ error to be emitted in Create() when ICORDS=N/S (#5563) * CADRG polar zone! CRS definition aligned with ADRG and SRP (#5656) * RPF.toc: skip plausibility check for Overviews and Legends; disable some checks for polar zones (#5654) PCIDSK driver: * fix write heap-buffer-overflow (ossfuzz #41993) PDS4 driver: * write conformant Equirectangular when input raster is a geographic CRS PDF driver: * Named NEATLINE extraction from ISO32000 style Geospatial PDF (#5504) RRASTER driver: * add support for CRS WKT2 (#5473) SAGA driver: * implement SetNoDataValue() (#5147) SENTINEL2 driver: * identify zipped S2 datasets from file content (#5505) TGA driver: * fix reading images with runs crossing scanlines (#5168) TileDB driver: * fix crash when creating array from subdatasets fails * fix handling of relative paths on Windows * avoid warnings about deprecated functions USGSDEM driver: * fix reading datasets with 1025 byte records ending with linefeed (#5007) VICAR driver: * avoid undefined behavior on empty container (ossfuzz #46650) VRT driver: * Add div, polar, exp pixel functions. Improvements in sum, mul, inv (#5298) * pixel function: implements metadata, and replace_nodata and scale builtin functions (#5371) * Warped VRT: detect inconsistent block size between dataset and bands (#4714) * Warped VRT: do not serialize block size at band level, since already serialized at dataset level (#4714) * Warped VRT: advertise INTERLEAVE=PIXEL for faster processing of multiband * Warped VRT: fix issue with blocks without sources and alpha band (#4997) * VRTWarpedDataset::ProcessBlock(): fix issue in the unlikely situation where a block would be > 4 GB * Warped VRT opening: do not open the source dataset with GDAL_OF_SHARED * fix serialization of relativeToVRT=1 when mix of relative and absolute paths for source and VRT (#4983) * GDALAutoCreateWarpedVRTEx(): avoid potential crash in case of error * allow setting VRT description after CreateCopy('', src_ds) * fix serialization of relativeToVRT=1 when mix of relative and absolute paths for source and VRT * ComputeSourceWindow(): round source coordinates when very close (#5343) WMTS driver: * disable clipping with TileMatrixSetLimits by default when using layer extent and add open options to control that behavior (#4461) XYZ driver: * Fix incorrect failure to open ASCII-file due to floating point comparison Zarr driver: * be robust to duplicated array and group names in NCZarr metadata (ossfuzz #40949) * fix nullptr dereference on array with zero-dim and Fortran order (ossfuzz #46717) ## OGR 3.5.0 - Overview of Changes ### Core New features: * Add layer renaming capacity, and implement it in GPKG, PG, FileGDB and Shapefile drivers * Add GDALDataset::GetFieldDomainNames method to retrieve all field domain names which are available for a dataset. Implemented in OpenFileGDB, FileGDB, GPKG drivers * Add GDALDataset::DeleteFieldDomain for deleting an existing field domain. Implemented in MEM driver * Add GDALDataset::UpdateFieldDomain for replaciong the definition of an existing field domain. Implemented in MEM driver * Add driver metadata for GDAL_DCAP_FIELD_DOMAINS and GDAL_DMD_CREATION_FIELD_DOMAIN_TYPES * Add OGR_F_StealGeometryEx to steal more than the 1st geometry of a feature (#5115) * OGRFeature: add fast/unsafe field getters/setters * OGREnvelope: add == and != comparison operators * OGRFeature: add Reset() method Bug fixes: * OGRSimpleCurve::segmentize(): avoid too many memory reallocation (#4826) * OGR SQLite dialect: avoid being confused by an attribute and geometry field of same name * OGRFormatFloat(): handle nan and inf * OGRFeature::Equal(): fix when a Real or RealList field contains NaN * OGRCurvePolygon::checkRing(): make it accept non-closed rings by default (#5488) * OGRCreateFromShapeBin(): do not report M if all NaN coordinates * OGRGeometryFactory::forceTo(): fix dimensionality with empty geometries * Multipoint WKT import: accept MULTIPOINT Z in non-backeted mode, like what PostGIS outputs * OGR_F_SetFieldRaw() / OGRFeature::SetField( const char*, const OGRField *): fix const correctness of OGRField argument ### OGRSpatialReference * OGRSpatialReference::GetName(): workaround a PROJ 8.2.0 bug for BoundCRS * add a OGR_CT_PREFER_OFFICIAL_SRS_DEF config option (fixes https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues/2955) * OGRSpatialReference::importFromEPSG(): document OSR_USE_NON_DEPRECATED=NO configuration option (#5106) * OGRSpatialReference::SetFromUserInput(): make it work with 'IAU:XXXX' and 'IAU:2015:XXXX' (when using PROJ >= 8.2) * OGRSpatialReference::SetFromUserInput(): do not emit error message on unrecognized string when ALLOW_FILE_ACCESS=NO (Toblerity/Fiona#1063) * Add a OSR_DEFAULT_AXIS_MAPPING_STRATEGY configuration option * OGRProjCT: add missing copying of epoch related fields in copy constructor * Add OGRSpatialReference::GetOGCURN() ### Utilities * ogr2ogr: propagate error in final CommitTransaction() to status code of the utility (#5054) * ogr2ogr: make detection of FID layer creation option more robust * ogr2ogr: fix cutting of geometries in projected coordinates intersecting antimeridian, in some configurations * ogr2ogr: avoid (in-memory) copying of source feature to target feature when possible * ogr2ogr: make 'ogr2ogr [-f PostgreSQL] PG:dbname=.... source [srclayer] -lco OVERWRITE=YES' work as if -overwrite was specified (#5640) ### Vector drivers CAD driver: * libopencad: fix crash on corrupted datasets (ossfuzz #45943, ossfuzz #46887, osffuzz #45962) CSV driver: * when the .csvt indicates WKT and in default KEEP_GEOM_COLUMNS=YES mode, prefix the geometry field name with 'geom_' DXF driver: * Do not copy final DXF when MarkSuppressOnClose was called. * Fix long line handling in edge case DWG driver: * Add block attributes to entities layer (#5013) * support AcDbFace reading (#5034) * read block attributes as feature fields (#5055) * add DWG_ALL_ATTRIBUTES to get all attributes (#5103) DWG/DGNv8 driver: * avoid potential crash with ODA 2022 on Linux ElasticSearch driver: * do not try to open reserved .geoip_databases to avoid error message with recent Elastic versions * add a AGGREGATION open option (#4962) * support GetLayerByName() with multiple layers and/or wildcard (#4903) ESRIJSON driver: * fix dimensionality of PolygonZ FileGDB driver: * add support for writing field domains * implement database compaction on 'REPACK' SQL command * workaround a crash involving binary field and CDF datasets * fix crash related to feature of FID 2147483647 FlatGeoBuf driver: * If CRS WKT detected to be non UTF-8, force it to ASCII (#5062) * catch exception on GetFeature() on corrupted index * fix GetFeature() when featuresCount != 0 and indexNodeSize == 0 * in SPATIAL_INDEX=NO mode, write a meaningful featureCount and extent in the header GeoJSON driver: * reader: expose EPSG:4979 as CRS when none is specified and 3D geoms are found * use OGRSpatialReference::GetOGCURN() to handle compound CRS when writing 'crs' member * writer: in RFC7946=YES mode, reproject to EPSG:4979 if source CRS is 3D * report OFSTJSON subfield type for properties we can't map to a native OGR type, and better handling of mixed content in properties (#3882) GMLAS driver: * be robust to leading spaces in element (#5494) GMT driver: * allow writing to /vsistdout/ (#4993) GPKG driver: * fix nullptr dereference on corrupted databases with sqlite >= 3.35 * deal explicitly with CPL_VSIL_USE_TEMP_FILE_FOR_RANDOM_WRITE=YES for /vsi network file systems (#5031) * when adding a 'epoch' column to gpkg_spatial_ref_sys, one must use the 'gpkg_crs_wkt_1_1' extension instead of 'gpkg_crs_wkt' * DeleteField(): use ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN if sqlite >= 3.35.5, and run foreign_key_check only if foreign_keys is ON (fixes qgis/qgis#47012) * AlterFieldDefn(): use ALTER TABLE ... RENAME COLUMN when only renaming is to be done and sqlite >= 3.26.0, and do not run integrity_check in that situation (fixes qgis/qgis#47012) * intercept 'ALTER TABLE table RENAME COLUMN src_name TO dst_name' and 'ALTER TABLE table DROP COLUMN col_name' * add a NOLOCK=YES option to open a file without any lock (for read-only access) (helps fixing qgis/qgis#2399) * add ST_MakeValid() SQL function if not linking against Spatialite or if Spatialite lacks ST_MakeValid() GPSBabel driver: * Allow identifying tcx (gtrnctr) files directly ILI driver: * IMDReader: fix various potential crashes on invalid input MapInfo driver: * allow reading MID/MIF files with lines up to 1 million bytes (#3943) * fix parsing .mid files with newline character in string field (#4789) * .tab writing: correctly detect datum when creating a layer from a WKT2 CRS string (#5217) * Add GSK2011 and PZ90.11 to list of ellipsoids (#5541) * add WindowsBalticRim / CP1257 charset mapping (#5608) MSSQL driver: * fix build warnings on Linux * GetLayerDefn(): fix potential memory leak * DeleteLayer(): fix read after free * fix issue when inserting strings in bulk copy mode on Linux * make GetNextFeature() end bulk copy mode * CreateFeature in bulk copy mode: make it use feature geometry SRID when set * disable bulk mode when a UUID field is found, as this doesn't work currently * do not set field width when reading smallint/int/bigint/float/real columns, and correctly roundtrip smallint/Int16 (#3345) MVT driver: * writing: using MakeValid() when possible on polygon output ODS driver: * avoid huge memory allocations on files abusing repeated cells (ossfuzz #40568) * avoid crashing 'floating-point exception' when evaluating -2147483648 % -1 (ossfuzz #41541) OpenFileGDB driver: * correctly parse raster fields of type == 2 which are inlined binary content (#4881) * do not report extent with NaN values * fix crash related to feature of FID 2147483647 * fix dimensionality of MULTILINESTRING M geometries * add support for reading (non-default) UTF16 encoding for strings OSM driver: * add a railway attributes to lines (#5141) PGeo driver: * Always request numeric column values as numeric types (#4697) PostgreSQL driver: * skip all leading whitespace in SQL statements. (#4787) * error out if non UTF-8 content is transmitted in COPY mode, when client_encoding=UTF8 (#4751) * propagate errors in deferred EndCopy() call in CommitTransaction() (#5054) * make ogr2ogr -lco GEOM_TYPE=geography work when the source layer has a named geometry column, and also reject creating geography columns with a SRS != EPSG:4326 (#5069) * support other geographic SRS than EPSG:4326 for geographic type (#5075) S57 driver: * enable recoding to UTF-8 by default (RECODE_BY_DSSI=YES open option) (#4751) * handle more than 255 updates to a feature (#5461) * only apply an update if update.UPDT == 1 + previous.UPDT, or update.EDTN == 0 (#5461) Selafin driver: * fix time step count when none dataset in the file Shapefile driver: * better deal with ETRS89 based CRS with TOWGS84\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0\] * writer: avoid considering rings slightly overlapping as inner-outer rings of others (#5315) * fix perf issue when writing multilinestring with lots of parts (#5321) * consider rings at non-constant Z as outer rings (#5315) * fix unlikely nullptr dereference (#5635) SOSI driver: * avoid segfault on invalid geometries (#5502) SQLite driver: * add a STRICT=YES layer creation option to create tables as SQLite >= 3.37 STRICT tables * workaround MacOS system SQLite non-default settings that cause issues with WAL and AlterFieldDefn() when patching CREATE TABLE DDL * deal explicitly with CPL_VSIL_USE_TEMP_FILE_FOR_RANDOM_WRITE=YES for /vsi network file systems (#5031) * DeleteField(): use ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN if sqlite >= 3.35.5, and run foreign_key_check only if foreign_keys is ON (refs qgis/qgis#47012) * AlterFieldDefn(): use ALTER TABLE ... RENAME COLUMN when only renaming is to be done and sqlite >= 3.26.0 * fix crash when doing select load_extension('libgdal.so') from a statically linked sqlite3 console application * add a OGR_SQLITE_LOAD_EXTENSIONS configuration option * fix VirtualShape support with spatialite 5.0.1 or older and sqlite 3.38.0 TopoJSON driver: * fix duplicate 'id' field, and other potential issues when reading fields (3.4.0 regression) VFK driver: * avoid crash when a SQLite3 statement fails WFS driver: * if COUNT is present in WFS >= 2, use it as the page size ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * add missing CPLES_SQLI constant (#4878) * add gdal.DataTypeUnion() * Geometry.ExportToWkb()/ExportToIsoWkb(): use Intel order by default to avoid useless byte swapping * use OGR_G_CreateFromWkbEx() in ogr.CreateGeometryFromWkb() to be able to handle > 2 GB WKB C# Bindings: * Re-target C# bindings apps to netcoreapp2.2 (#4792) * Switch default platform target to AnyCPU #1368 Python bindings: * for Windows and Python >= 3.8, automatically add the first path with (lib)gdal*.dll with os.add_dll_directory() * Change GetFieldAsBinary to use VSIMalloc. (#4774) * add xmp=True/False argument to gdal.Translate() * fix/workaround setuptools 60.0 and Debian --install-layout * replace unsafe use of tempfile.mktemp() by mkstemp() * utilities-as-lib: propagate warnings to custom error handler when UseExceptions is on (#5136) * remove all traces of distutils * make sure GetUseExceptions() doesn't clear the error state (#5374) * make feature.GetField() returns a bool for a (type=OFTInteger, subtype=OFSTBool) field # GDAL/OGR 3.4.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * [RFC 81](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc81_coordinate_epoch.html): Support for coordinate epochs in geospatial formats. Implemented in FlatGeoBuf, GeoPackage, MEM, VRT * New GDAL drivers: - [Zarr](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/zarr.html): read/write support for ZarrV2 (and experimental V3), using 2D classic raster API or multidimensional API: - [STACIT](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/stacit.html): Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items as virtual mosaics * Other improvements: - number of enhancements in file system operations of /vsigs/ - NITF: additions to comply with NITF Version 2.1 Commercial Dataset Requirements Document (NCDRD) - ODBC and PGeo: multiple fixes and improvements - SAFE (Sentinel1): multiple improvements related to SLC/calibration (change subdataset naming) - multidimensional API: caching, and other improvements * Code linting and security fixes * Bump of shared lib major version * MDB driver (Java based) mark as deprecated. Planned for removal for GDAL 3.5. ODBC driver is the preferred solution (with up-to-date MDBTools library on non-Windows platforms) * Writing side of Tiger driver deprecated and will be removed in GDAL 3.5 * Remainder: DODS, JPEG2000(Jasper), JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, FUJIBAS, IDA, INGR and vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, REC, WALK are planned for removal in GDAL 3.5. As well as Perl bindings ## New optional dependencies * libjxl (master) when using internal libtiff for JPEG-XL support in TIFF * liblz4, libblosc: recommended for Zarr driver (as well as existing libzstd, liblzma) * libbrunsli for JPEG-XL support in MRF driver (as well as existing libzstd) ## New installed files * include/cpl_compressor.h ## Removed installed files * no longer build testepsg utility by default, which has been superseded by gdalsrsinfo for many years. It will be finally removed in GDAL 3.5 ## Backward compatibility issues See [MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.4/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT) ## Build changes Build(General): * Changes to build against Xerces-c 4.0dev Build(Unix): * configure file no longer in git. autogen.sh must be run * configure: fix explicit disabling of geos/sfcgal (#3782) * configure.ac: also check netcdf presence by using static linking * fix lack of compilation of nasakeywordhandler.o with some old/non-gnu versions of grep (#3836) * configure.ac: Add compatibility with autoconf 2.71. Set 2.69 as minimum version * #include local files with quotes, and for Unix build, use -iquote instead of -I (#4091) * Use pkg-config for libdap when dap-config is not available. ## GDAL 3.4.0 - Overview of Changes ### Port * Add cpl_compressor.h API * Add VSIAbortPendingUploads() to abort pending multipart uploads on /vsis3/ and /vsigs/ * /vsiaz/: avoid appending same chunk several times * /vsigs/: switch to using S3-style multipart upload API, which is now supported * /vsigs/: enable parallel multipart upload * /vsigs/: add support for reading/writing ACLs through GetFileMetadata/SetFileMetadata with the ACL domain * /vsigs/: implement UnlinkBatch() (efficient implementation only works with OAuth2 authentication) * /vsigs/: implement RmdirRecursive() (efficient implementation only works with OAuth2 authentication) * /vsigs/: add support for GS_USER_PROJECT config option to specify the project ID to bill for requester pays access * /vsigs/: add support for GS_NO_SIGN_REQUEST=YES * /vsigs/: implement SetFileMetadata(filename, metadata, 'HEADERS') * /vsiswift/: Fix openstack swift endpoint detection, add application_credential authentication support (#3960) * /vsiswift/: properly cache stat() results * VSISwiftFSHandler::Stat(): fix potential nullptr dereference (ossfuzz #37906) * /vsis3/ , /vsiaz/: properly set mode field into file property cache * /vsicurl/: fix to be able to read /vsis3/zarr-demo/store/spam * /vsicurl/: make it work without explicit CPL_VSIL_CURL_USE_HEAD=FALSE with .earthdata.nasa.gov/ URLs (#4641) * /vsicurl/: fix crash with curl 7.79.0 to get file size when retrieving headers only * /vsizip/: fix memory leak in error code path (ossfuzz #29715) * /vsitar/: support prefixed filename of ustar .tar archives (#4625) * /vsitar/ etc: avoid potential long processing time on invalid filenames in archive (ossfuzz #30312, ossfuzz #39129) * IVSIS3LikeFSHandler::Sync(): add missing lock * VSIS3FSHandler::GetOptions(): fix non-XML conformity * cpl_odbc.cpp: fix segfault in debug message due to nullptr dereference * CPLODBCSession::ConnectToMsAccess(): try various DSN template combinations because the combo odbcinst 2.3.7 from Ubuntu 20.04 + self compiled mdbtools-0.9.3 doesn't like double quoting of DBQ * MDBTools driver installation: do not error out if /etc/odbcinst.ini contains an entry for Access, and also add /usr/lib64/odbc as a path to please Fedora * Add CPLJSONObject::DeleteNoSplitName() * CPLJSONDocument::Load(): increase max document size to 100 MB * CPLJSONDocument::LoadMemory(): fix parsing 'true' and 'false' * Add CPLQuadTreeRemove() * VSIGetMemFileBuffer(): delay destroying VSIMemFile on bUnlinkAndSeize (#4158) * Fix VSIMemHandle::Read(buffer,nSize=0,nCount=1) to return 0 * minixml parser: fix performance issue on very large processing instructions. (ossfuzz #37113) * VSIOpenDir(): add a PREFIX option to select only filenames starting with the specified prefix * Unix file system: implement OpenDir() with a NAME_AND_TYPE_ONLY option * VSIReadDirRecursive(): use VSIOpenDir() / VSIGetNextDirEntry() * VSIStatExL(): add a VSI_STAT_CACHE_ONLY flag to avoid attempting any network access * CPLCreateUserFaultMapping(): better error message when userfaultfd system call fails due to permission issue * userfaultfd: make it work with kernel >= 5.11 without special OS settings * CPL logging mechanism: fix writing non-ASCII UTF-8 filenames on Windows (#4492) * VSI cache: fix crash when a Read() to the underlying file fails (#4559) ### Core * Add a GDAL_DCAP_COORDINATE_EPOCH driver capability set by drivers which support storing/retrieving coordinate epoch * fixed issue with GDALLoadRPBFile failing when RPB file does not contain errBias or errRand fields * CPLKeywordParser / IMD parser: accept .IMD files with non-properly quoted values (#4037) * NASAKeywordHandler: fix performance issues (ossfuzz #39092) * IMD writer: properly quote values that have spaces (#4037) * ComputeStatistics(): tiny speed improvements for SSE2 Byte/UInt16 cases * Overview generation: use per band mask with nodatavalue and average (#3913) * GMLJP2v2 writing: fix axis order issue for gml:Envelope (#3866) * Overview/rasterio: fix RMS on large Float32 values * Overview/rasterio: RMS resampling: add AVX2 implementation for Float and UInt16 * Overview building: fix crash possibility if user interrupting multi-threaded computation * GDALDriver::DefaultCreateCopy(): preserve coordinate epoch * PAM: support coordinate epoch as a SRS.coordinateEpoch attribute (RFC 81) * GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO(): fixed progress calculation * GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO(): fix when an overview is selected and non-integer window coordinates are involved (fix issue with GeoRaster driver. #4665) * GetIndexColorTranslationTo(): fix non-exact color matching when palettes don't have the same number of entries (#4156) * Block cache: fix potential infinite loop in case of high concurrency and multi-threaded writing (#3848) * GDALDataset::GetFileList(): avoid cyclic calls on odd/corrupted datasets (ossfuzz #37460) * GDALOpenInfo(): fix issue when passing a directory on netBSD and potentially other BSDs * DumpJPK2CodeStream(): dump COC, QCD and QCC segments, and add HTJ2K specificities * GDALGetJPEG2000Structure(): limit default number of lines in output to avoid excessive memory and processing time (ossfuzz #14547) * GDALMDReaderPleiades::LoadRPCXmlFile(): fix nullptr dereference on non-conformant file (ossfuzz #38998) * GDALDataset::FlushCache() and GDALRasterBand::FlushCache(): add a bool bAtClosing argument (fixes #4652) * Make GDALRasterBand::TryGetLockedBlockRef() public ### Multidimensional API * Add GDALMDArray::IsRegularlySpaced() and GDALMDArray::GuessGeoTransform() * Add GDALMDArray::GetResampled() to get a resampled / reprojected view * Add a GDALMDArray::GetCoordinateVariables() method * Add a GDALMDArray::Cache() method to cache an array/view into a .gmac side car file * Add GDALMDArray::IsCacheable() so that drivers can disable attempts at opening cache file on main dataset * API: add JSON as a possible subtype of (string) extended data type * GDALRasterBand::AsMDArray(): fix data axis to SRS Axis mapping in the return of GetSpatialRef() * GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset(): fix RasterIO() when buffer data type is not native data type * Add GDALPamMDArray and GDALPamMultiDim classes to be able to serialize/deserialize metadata (SRS for now) from GDALMDArray * Add GDALExtendedDataTypeCreateStringEx() and map it to SWIG ### Algorithms * Warper: Eliminate thread lock timeouts on Windows (#3631) * Warper: prevent potential int overflows for > 2 GB work buffers * Warper: force SAMPLE_GRID=YES when target output includes one pole (#4064) * Warper: OpenCL: remove extra double quote character in resampling kernel (#4404) * Warper: avoid selecting Float64 working data type with a Float32 raster and a nodata value compatible of it (#4469) * geolocation transformer: use GDALFillNodata() to fill holes in the backmap * GDALSuggestedWarpOutput2(): better guess of bounds when transforming with a geolocation array * gdalgeoloc: fix if the backmap would be larger than 2 Giga pixels * gdalgeoloc: backmap generation: prevent averaging that would lead to unexpected results * gdalgeoloc: improve backmap hole filling * Polygonize: fix self intersection polygon when raster image contains complex holes (#1158, #3319) * Deprecate GDALOpenVerticalShiftGrid() and GDALApplyVerticalShiftGrid() that are no longer needed. Will be removed in GDAL 4.0 ### Utilities * gdalinfo: report coordinate epoch (RFC 81) * gdalinfo: avoid displaying thousands of filename in /vsizip/ if open fails * gdal_translate: add -a_coord_epoch switch (RFC 81) * gdalwarp: allow vertical shift when using EPSG codes (#4566) * gdalwarp: preserve coordinate epoch in output SRS (RFC 81) * gdalwarp: add a -s_coord_epoch/_t_coord_epoch switches (RFC 81) * Fix gdalwarp / exporting to WKT when a projection that isn't supported in WKT1 is involved (#4133) * gdalwarp: allow reprojecting a rater with geotransform = (0,1,0,0,0,-1) (#4147) * gdalwarp: slightly change default behavior of unified src band masking when a pixel is evaluate to the nodata value on all bands (#4253) * gdal_contour: fix bad coordinate order when outputting from raster with geographic CRS to KML driver (#3757) * gdal_viewshed: fix incorrect calculation if target height is specified (#4381) * gdal_viewshed: Fix incorrect progress reporting (#4390) * gdal_viewshed: change default value of -cc (curvature coefficient) to 0.85714, standard value for atmospheric refraction (#4415) * gdal_polygonize.py: fix output driver guessing * gdal_fillnodata.py: copy pixel data after metadata * gdal_fillnodata.py: fix -si option (#4192) * gdal_fillnodata.py: remove broken -nomask option. It has likely never worked, and was equivalent to the default mode * gdal_sieve.py: preserve NoData value when output to a new file * gdal2tiles: fix tile grid origin of openlayers with -p geodetic --tmscompatible --xyx as arguments * gdal2tiles: avoid potential race when creating directories (#4691) * gdal_pansharpen.py: display usage if not enough filenames provided * gdalmdiminfo: add dimension_size and block_size in output * gdalmdimtranslate: add -oo switch to specify open option of source dataset ### gdal_utils package * Various linting and improvements in gdal_utils package * Create ogrmerge(), gdalproximity(), gdal_sieve(), rgb2pct(), pct2rgb(), gdal_fillnodata(), gdal_polygonize() functions * fix GetOutputDriversFor for ext == 'nc' (#4498) ### Raster drivers AIGRID driver: * avoid integer overflow (ossfuzz #31766) * fix crash when accessing twice to a broken tile (#4316) BAG driver: * ignore pixel at nodata value when updating min/max attributes (#4057) BMP driver: * harden identify checks to avoid misidentification of other datasets (#4713) CEOS2 driver: * Add ASF Compatibility (#4026) COG driver: * Default to LZW compression (#4574) * Add LZMA to compressions list * don't crash if GDALCreateGenImgProjTransformer2() fails * Fix error messages when creating JPEG compressed COGs from RGBA DIMAP driver: * expose virtual overviews (#4400) * fix integer overflows (ossfuzz #39027, #39795) * fix potential performance issue in SetMetadataFromXML() (ossfuzz #39183) * avoid excessive memory allocation / almost infinite loop on corrupted dataset (ossfuzz #39324) ECW driver: * Enable reading ECW files from virtual file systems for ECW SDK 3.3 EEDAI driver: * Point at highvolume EE API endpoint by default EIR driver: * avoid excessive memory allocation on small files (ossfuzz #9408) ENVI driver: * Open(): use .hdr as an additional extension in priority over a replacement one (#4317) * use newer Get/SetSpatialRef API to avoid performance issue (ossfuzz #38295) ENVISAT driver: * avoid potential buffer overflow (CID 1074533) ERS driver: * avoid long open delay on bogus datasets that reference themselves (ossfuzz #36701) * Fix off-by-one error when reading ERS header EXR driver: * fix build against OpenEXR 3.0.1 (#3770) GeoRaster driver: * Fix the Oracle DB connection when user and pwd are empty, while Oracle wallet is used. (#3768) * Set the SRID value for the extent when flushing the metadata to the database. (#4106) * fix issue when user name is not provided in connection string (#4460) * Add owner checking in the query (#4565) GRIB driver: * use sidecar .idx file and lazy initialization (#3799) * implement transparent [0,360] to [-180,180] translation, in reading and writing (#4524, #3799) * add/fill a few GRIB1 ECMWF table to read a ERA5 product (#3874) * turn debug messages about unknown GRIB1 table as warnings * fix stack read buffer overflow (ossfuzz #38610) * fix wrong check related to memory allocation limit (ossfuzz #38894) * fix potential crashes on big GRIB1 files on low-memory condition (ossfuzz #38971) * multidim: catch potential exception in case of out-of-memory situation GTiff driver: * add support for coordinate epoch with a new CoordinateEpochGeoKey=5120 GeoKey (RFC 81) * Enable JPEG-in-TIFF for 12 bit samples (for internal libtiff), whatever libjpeg is used for 8 bit sample support * Add support for JPEG-XL codec when using internal libtiff, through libjxl master (#4573) * fix overviews with NaN nodata value * when reading NoData value of Float32 dataset, cast it to float to avoid overprecision (#3791) * Fix SetDefaultRAT() (#3783) * signedbyte: do not write 0 values for tiles/strips entirely at a negative nodata value (#3984) * Set color interpretation on overview bands (#3939) * SRS reading: ignore vertical information when one of the tag has a value in the private user range (#4197) * write georeferencing info to PAM .aux.xml when using PROFILE=BASELINE * do not try to export a DerivedGeographic CRS to GeoTIFF, but fallback to PAM * fix corruption in TIFF directory chaining when altering nodata value after IFD crystallization (#3746) * Update internal libtiff to latest upstream * limit error message count, mainly with Fax3 decoder, to avoid performance issues (ossfuzz #38317) HDF5 driver: * multidim: fix crash when extracting a field from a compound HDF5 data type * fix issue when netCDF and/or HDF5 drivers built as plugins with multidim datasets HFA driver: * enable to read GCPs from PAM .aux.xml (#4591) Idrisi driver: * Add support of Cylindrical Equal Area (#3750) JP2KAK driver: * fix Unix build with Kakadu 8.2 (#4306) * accept files with .jhc extension (HTJ2K codestreams) * report Corder metadata item in IMAGE_STRUCTURE domain instead of default domain JP2OpenJPEG driver: * add a TLM=YES creation option to write Tile-part Length Marker (requires openjpeg >= 2.5) JPEG driver: * fix wrong detection of bit ordering (msb instead of lsb) of mask band (#4351) KMLSuperOverlay driver: * Allow reading kml documents with a GroundOverlay element directly inside a Document element (#4124) MEM driver: * Open(): add support for the 'GEOTRANSFORM' options * multidim: faster copying when data type conversion is involved * multidim: add MEMAbstractMDArray::SetWritable, IsModified and SetModified methods MRF driver: * add JPEG-XL (brunsli) support (#3945) * add ZStd compression (#4177) MSG driver: * fix race condition in satellite number lookup (#4153) NetCDF driver: * expose Sentinel5 verbose metadata in json:ISO_METADATA/ESA_METADATA/EOP_METADATA/QA_STATISTICS/GRANULE_DESCRIPTION/ALGORITHM_SETTINGS metadata domains * use new PROJ method 'rotated pole netCDF CF convention' * add write support for rotated pole method * be more restrictive on axis to decide if to advertise a geotransform. * fix wrong offsetting by -360 of longitude values when huge nodata value found at beginning or end of line * fix reading MODIS_ARRAY.nc file that has non CF-compliant way of expressing axis and CRS (#4075) * support more possibilities for content of 'crs' attribute in some opendatacube datasets * accept degree_north/degree_east (degree singular) as acceptable unit for latitude/longitude axis (#4439) * accept "degrees_E"/"degrees_N" as valid axis names (#4581) * Accept HDF5 files if HDF5 driver is not available and libnetcdf has support for them * properly deal with Polar Stereographic in reading and writing (#4144) * parse correctly valid_range/valid_min/valid_max attributes when they are of non-integer type (#4443) * no longer do filename recoding with netCDF >= 4.8 on Windows * multidim: make opening /vsimem/ file work when netCDF MEM API is available (avoids using userfaultfd) * multidim: make /vsi access work with netcdf >= 4.7 * multidim: avoid crash when getting data type of a char variable with 2 dimensions. * multim: GetBlockSize(): fix heap buffer write overflow on 2D char variables (ossfuzz #39258) * multidim: fix use of coordinates attribute to find the indexing variable of a dimension NITF driver: * add PROFILE=NPJE_VISUALLY_LOSSLESS/NPJE_NUMERICALLY_LOSSLESS with JP2OpenJPEG driver, to comply with STDI-0006 NITF Version 2.1 Commercial Dataset Requirements Document (NCDRD) * fix writing of COMRAT field in JPEG/JPEG2000 mode, when there are FILE TREs * expose ISUBCAT for each band (if non-empty) (#4028) * add capability to add several images in a file * extend nitf_spec.xml to contain DES subheader user-data fields definitions for CSATTA DES, CSSHPA DES, CSSHPB DES and XML_DATA_CONTENT * Slightly modify xml:DES output, such that field names no longer have the NITF_ prefix PCIDSK driver: * fix retrieval of RPC metadata (3.3 regression) (#4118) * avoid big memory allocation and processing time (ossfuzz #37912) * avoid long processing time by limiting the number of bands (ossfuzz #38885) PDF driver: * update PDFium dependency to pdfium/4627. Requires use of https://github.com/rouault/pdfium_build_gdal_3_4 PDFium fork * avoid potential nullptr dereference on corrupted datasets (ossfuzz #28635) * Poppler backend: limit CPU time when reading extremely corrupted file. (ossfuzz #37384) PDS4 driver: * update template to CART_1G00_1950 version * add support for reading PositiveWest longitudes, MapRotation and Oblique Cylindrical * add write support for Oblique Cylindrical * fix opening of some .xml files with large number of tags * accept optional element in template. * fixes for compatibility with sp:Spectral_Characteristics in template. * projection writing: honor LONGITUDE_DIRECTION=Positive West by negating longitudes in projection parameters PNG driver: * disable Neon optimizations for internal libpng as we don't include the needed source file (fix build issue) PostgisRaster driver: * support for libpq services (#3820) * do not append generated application_name in subdataset names RMF driver: * Fix delta compression with non-initialized elevation min-max (#4399) SAFE driver: * multiple improvements related to SLC/calibration (change subdataset naming) SRTMHGT driver: * support .hgts files from NASADEM SHHP. Also support auxiliary files with .err, .img, .num, .img.num and .swb extensions from other NASADEM products (#4239) TileDB driver: * fix crash when creating array from subdatasets fails * fix handling of relative paths on Windows TGA driver: * fix heap buffer overflow (ossfuzz #35520) VICAR driver: * add read/write support for GeoTIFF encoding of CRS and geotransform VRT driver: * Support named arguments to C++ derived band pixel functions (#4049) * Add interpolate_linear pixel function * use source floating point coordinates when valid (#4098) * make SourceProperties element no longer needed on reading for deferred opening of sources * avoid potential very deep call stack if SourceFilename contains empty string (ossfuzz #37530) * Add a per-thread mechanism to count call depth and use it in VRT driver to avoid infinite recursive calls on corrupted datasets (ossfuzz #37717) * GDALDatasetPool: avoid potential crash during destruction (#4318) * VRT pixelfunc: make it work with buffers larger than 2 giga pixels * fix issue with sources with nodata and OverviewList resampling='average' that triggers a 'recursion error' message * GDALAutoCreateWarpedVRTEx(): do not set padfSrcNoDataReal/padfDstNoDataReal if already set in passed-in options (rasterio/rasterio#2233) * avoid recursion issue on ComputeStatistics()/.ComputeRasterMinMax()/GetHistogram() with implicit overviews and approximation enabled (#4661) WCS driver: * fix issue with negative coordinates (#4550) WebP driver: * Support 'exact' option to preserve the RGB values under transparent areas. WMS driver: * Add an option to disable the cache (#4097) * use correct default bbox according to the SRS (#4094) WMTS driver: * Add an option to disable the cache (#4097) * do not take into account a TileMatrixSetLink that points to a non-existing TileMatrixSet ZMap driver: * undeprecate it since we got feedback it is still useful (#4086) ## OGR 3.4.0 - Overview of Changes ### Core * Add support for reporting hiearchical organization of vector layers, and implement it in FileGDB/OpenFileGDB drivers. (Trac #5752) * Add GDALGroup::GetVectorLayerNames() and OpenVectorLayer(), and corresponding C and SWIG API * Geometry::MakeValid(): add option to select the GEOS 3.10 'structure' method * Support multiline geometry WKT input * OGRGeometryFactory::createFromGeoJson(): Support importing GeoJSON fragments in non-null terminated strings (#3870) * OGR SQL: fix wrong evaluation of attribute filter when a OR with >= 3 clauses is nested inside in another OR (#3919) * OGR SQL: Support ISO-8601 literal dates with IN operator (#3978) * OGRFeature::GetFieldAsSerializedJSon(): fix nullptr dereference on empty string list (#3831) * Add OGRGetGEOSVersion() and map it to SWIG (#4079) * Add GDAL_DCAP_MULTIPLE_VECTOR_LAYERS capability (#4135) * Add virtual method GDALDataset::IsLayerPrivate ### OGRSpatialReference * Improve OGRProjCT::Clone() and export OGRCoordinateTransformation::Clone() to C API (#3809) * Export OCTGetSourceCS(), OCTGetTargetCS() and OCTGetInverse() to C API (#3857) * Add OGRSpatialReference::IsDynamic() to check if a CRS is a dynamic one * Add OGRSpatialReference::SetCoordinateEpoch()/GetCoordinateEpoch() * Coordinate transformation: take into account SRS coordinate epoch if the coordinate tuple has no time value * Fix crash in AutoIdentifyEPSG/GetEPSGGeogCS() on some WKTs (#3915) * Fix wrong quoting for WKT spatial CS type * Add DERIVEDPROJCRS to WKT keywords for OGRSpatialReference::SetFromUserInput * Support GetLinearUnits for ellipsoidal and spherical coordinate systems that have a height axis (#4030) * AutoIdentifyEPSG(): do not add AUTHORITY node if the axis order of the geographic CRS contradicts the one from EPSG (#4038) * OGR_CT: fix transformation between CRS that only differ by axis order (related to #4038) * OGR_CT: when a WKT def contradicts its AUTHORITY node, use the WKT def (relates to #4038) * OGR_CT: deal with bogus NaN coordinates as output of PROJ (#4224) * OGR_CT with OGR_CT_OP_SELECTION=BEST_ACCURACY: fix for non-Greenwich prime meridian * OGR_CT: take into account PROJ_NETWORK=ON in OGR_CT_OP_SELECTION=BEST_ACCURACY/FIRST_MATCHING modes * OGRSpatialRef::SetFromUserInput(): add options to disallow file and network access, and use it various drivers (ossfuzz #35453) * importFromCRSURL() / importFromWMSAUTO() / importFromURN(): avoid excessive memory allocation and processing time on invalid input (ossfuzz #37922 and #38134) * OGRSpatialReference::GetAxesCount(): fix on CompoundCRS of BoundCRS * fix retrieving projection parameters from WKT1 name on a Projected 3D CRS (OSGeo/PROJ#2846) * Fix EPSGTreatsAsLatLong with compoundCRS (#4505) * OSRProjTLSCache: avoid use of exceptions (#4531) * exportToWkt(): use WKT2 for DerivedProjectedCRS (#3927) * Add OSRSetPROJEnableNetwork() / OSRGetPROJEnableNetwork(), and expose them to SWIG * Adds OCTTransformBounds to the C and SWIG API to transform a bounding box (#4630) ### Utilities * ogrinfo: report hiearchical organization of layers * ogrinfo: report SRS coordinate epoch (RFC 81) * ogrinfo: Report private layers with a "[private]" suffix * ogr2ogr: add a -a_coord_epoch/-s_coord_epoch/_t_coord_epoch switches (RFC 81) * ogr2ogr: fix quadratic performance if many source field names are identical (ossfuzz #37768) ### Vector drivers Multiple drivers: * geomedia, walk: Check sql tables for required tables before trying to query them when trying to open a .mdb dataset CSV driver: * improve concatenation performance of multi-line records (ossfuzz #37528) * OGREditableLayer (affects CSV driver): fix quadratic performance when creating field (ossfuzz #37768) * limit to 2000 fields in opening by default. (ossfuzz #39095) DGN driver: * avoid potential buffer overflow (CID 1074498) * replace undefined behavior 1 << 31 by 1U << 31. Not sure of the consequences DXF driver: * Improved handling of very long lines of text in DXF file (#3909) * Correctly handle hidden (invisible) INSERTs DWG driver: * Make Closed AcDb2dPolyline and AcDb3dPolyline to Closed OGRLineString (#4264) ESRIJSON driver: * make 'ESRIJSON:http://' connection string scroll results FlatGeoBuf driver: * add support for coordinate epoch (RFC 81) * fix memory leaks when reading invalid geometries (ossfuzz #37752, #37834, #38166) * set minimum alignment to 8 bytes FileGDB driver: * report hiearchical organization of layers * Fix reading of field domains when data source is wrapped in OGRDataSourceWithTransaction * Ensure tables which are present in the catalog but not listed in GDB_Items can be read by the driver (#4463) * faster CreateLayer() w.r.t SRS identification * Implement Identify method GeoJSON driver: * writer: emit error msg when geometry type is not supported in GeoJSON (#4006) * recognize URL of likely OAPIF items response page (#4601) GML driver: * reading: fix reading compound curves with gml:ArcByCenterPoint and in a projected CRS in northing/easting axis order (#4155) * writer: use GML 3.2 as the new default version (instead of GML 2) * read/write srsName as a XML comment in .xsd * store geometry element name as geometry column name when reading without .gfs/.xsd (#4386) * avoid read heap-buffer-overflow (ossfuzz #35363) * avoid performance issue on too nested structure (ossfuzz #21737) * fix warning when reading .gfs file with a polyhedral surface * expose field names in a more consistent orders when some feature lacks some fields (qgis/QGIS#45139) GMLAS driver: * avoid uncaught exception when opening corrupted .xsd * use our own network accessor to honour GDAL_HTTP_TIMEOUT (ossfuzz #37356) * fix potential crash on XMLString::transcode() failure (ossfuzz #37459) * fix potential crash in ProcessSWEDataArray() (ossfuzz #37474) * improve performance of field name truncation (ossfuzz #37836) * fix likely quadratic performance in LaunderFieldNames() (ossfuzz #39797) * error out on huge mem allocation / processing time in Xerces (ossfuzz #38073) * fix performance issue (ossfuzz #38707) GPKG driver: * add support for coordinate epoch (RFC 81) * accept CreateField with a column with the fid column name and type=real, width=20, precision=0 (qgis/qgis#25795) * fix wrong gpkg_metadata_reference_column_name_update trigger (qgis/qgis#42768) * fix for compatibility with SQLite 3.36.0 and views (#4015) * add error message when prepare fails * capitalize cartesian as Cartesian for SRS of id -1 'Undefined Cartesian coordinate reference system' (#4468) GPX driver: * avoid potential integer overflow on writing (ossfuzz #30937) ILI driver: * Fix non contiguous curves for COORD/ARC sequences (#3755) KML driver: * add read support for non-conformant MultiPolygon/MultiLineString/MultiPoint elements (#4031) LIBKML driver: * add read support for non-conformant MultiPolygon/MultiLineString/MultiPoint elements (#4031) LVBAG driver: * add field definition for "gerelateerdewoonplaats" (#4161) * add Field verkorteNaam to OpenbareRuimte FT (#4286) Memory driver: * add support for coordinate epoch (RFC 81) MITAB driver: * Fix mapping of mapinfo symbol numbers to corresponding OGR symbol IDs (#3826) MongoDB3 driver: * fix deprecation warnings with mongocxx >= 3.6 MVT driver: * use 'number' instead of wrong 'numeric' when generating metadata tilestats (#4160) * reader: be tolerant to broken points generated by Mapserver OCI driver: * Don't try to create new layer with TRUNCATE option (#4027) ODBC driver: * Fix incorrect ODBC type mapping for a number of SQL types * Optimise testing if mdb is a PGeo/Walk/Geomedia database * Add support for LIST_ALL_TABLES open option * Update driver metadata * Move MDB Tools access driver installation to CPLODBCDriverInstaller, and ensure driver installation is attempted when trying to open an MDB file using the ODBC driver * Add identify support * Add GetLayerByName override which can retrieve private layers by name * Implement IsLayerPrivate support ODS driver: * limit maximum number of fields to 2000 by default (ossfuzz #7969) OGR_GMT driver: * fix performance issue. (ossfuzz #38158) OpenFileGDB driver: * report hiearchical organization of layers * fix reading of raster fields * Add a "LIST_ALL_TABLES" open option * Support detection of private layers * Correctly list non-spatial, non-private tables which are not present in the GDB_Items table (#4463) PDS4 vector: * add a LINE_ENDING=CRLF/LF layer creation option for DELIMITED and CHARACTER tables * fix quadratic performance when creating fields (ossfuzz #37768) * avoid warning about wrong field subtype when parsing ASCII_Boolean * fix issue with layer names with non alphanum characters or leading digit PG driver: * support postgresql:// connection strings (#4570) PGeo driver: * add search path for libmdbodbc on Ubuntu 20.04 * use SELECT COUNT(*) for GetFeatureCount() with mdbtools only if it appears to be working (#4103) * Make identification of system tables case insensitive * Add more internal tables to block list * Always promote polygon or line layers to multi-type geometries (#4255) * Correctly reflect whether layers have m values in the layer types * Correctly return failure when getting extent for non-spatial pgeo select layer * Correctly set no geometry type for pgeo select queries with no shape column * Add support for field domains (#4291) * Add support for retrieving layer definition and metadata with special "GetLayerDefinition table_name" and "GetLayerMetadata table_name" SQL queries * Add LIST_ALL_TABLES open option * Implement IsLayerPrivate() * Add GetLayerByName override which can retrieve private layers by name (#4361) * Add identify method (#4357) PGDump driver: * fix performance issue on huge number of columns (ossfuzz #38262) * set limit to number of created fields to 1600, consistently with PostgreSQL PLScenes driver: * add PSScene and SkySatVideo item types to conf, and update other item types * raster side: make it work with Sentinel2L1C and Landsat8L1G Shapefile driver: * fix wrong SRS when reading a WGS 84 SRS with a TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0] (#3958) * Communicate why the file size cannot be reached when appending features (#4140) SQLite/Spatialite driver: * fix crash when calling GetMetadataItem() with domain==nullptr (qgis/qgis#43224) * fix for compatibility with SQLite 3.36.0 and views (#4015) * Implement IsLayerPrivate() * support reading tables WITHOUT ROWID (#3884) * Add missing SQL datatypes Tiger driver: * tag writing side as deprecated and for removal in 3.5 (#4215) VRT driver: * add support for coordinate epoch (RFC 81) * Fix spatial filter for geometry column names with space * fix performance issue (ossfuzz #38629) WasP driver: * fix likely wrong condition in line merging (spotted by cppcheck) WFS driver: XLS driver: * Set OLCStringsAsUTF8 capability to TRUE ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * add VSI_STAT_SET_ERROR_FLAG constant * Map CPLSetThreadLocalConfigOption() and CPLGetThreadLocalConfigOption() Python bindings: * add MDArray.GetNoDataValueAsString() / SetNoDataValueString() * change gdal.EscapeString() to return a bytearray() when input is bytes(), to make it compatible with backslash escaping of non-ASCII content * fix GDALPythonObjectFromCStr() to return a bytes() object rather than a corrupted unicode string when invalid UTF-8 sequences are found * make GDALAttribute.Write() accept a dictionary for JSON attributes, and make GDALAttribute.Read() return a dictionary for a JSON attribute * fix resampleAlg=gdal.GRA_Sum/Med/Min/Max/Q1/Q3 in gdal.Warp() * Fix inversion between GRA_ and GRIORA_ enums in gdal.Warp()/Translate()/BuildVRT() * fix bilinear, cubic, cubicspline resampling for gdal.BuildVRT() * make GetMetadata(None) work * fix MDArray.ReadAsArray() with CInt16/CInt32 data type * fix memleak in gdal|ogr|osr.DontUseExceptions() * fix crash when reading null strings with MDArray.Read() * catch potential exception thrown by SWIG_AsCharPtrAndSize() * Build windows python wrappers with -threads argument * Python >= 3.8 on Windows: automatically add path with [lib]gdal*.dll with os.add_dll_directory() * Python >= 3.8 import: fix exception when PATH has nonexistent paths on Windows (#3898) * fix behavior of SetMetadata() when a value is of type bytes (#4292) * no longer use distutils (deprecated since python 3.10) when setuptools is available (#4334) * remove call to __del__() in Geometry.Destroy(), which no longer exists in SWIG 4 # GDAL/OGR 3.3.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * RFC 77 (https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc77_drop_python2_support.html): Drop Python 2 support in favor of Python 3.6 (#3142) * RFC 78 (https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc78_gdal_utils_package.html): Add a gdal-utils Python package * New driver: - STACTA: raster driver to read Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets * Add /vsiadls/ virtual file system for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 * Improved drivers: DIMAP, NITF * Number of improvements in Python bindings * Add automatic loading of configuration options from a file * Add support for enumerated, constraint and glob field domains in MEM, FileGDB/OpenFileGDB and GeoPackage drivers * Deprecation: - Disable by default raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000(Jasper), JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, FUJIBAS, IDA, INGR, ZMAP and vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, REC, WALK at runtime, unless the GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_{drivername} configuration option is set to YES. Those drivers are planned for removal in GDAL 3.5 - Perl bindings are deprecated. Removal planned for GDAL 3.5. Use Geo::GDAL::FFI instead * Removal of BNA, AeronavFAA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, XPlane, BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTV1 drivers. Moved to (unsupported) https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository. * Continued code linting (cppcheck, CoverityScan, etc.) * Bump of shared lib major version ## Backward compatibility issues See MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt ## GDAL/OGR 3.3.0 - General Changes General: * fix build with recent gcc/clang Build(Unix): * Support CharLS 2.1 on Debian as well. (#3083) * disable LERC on big-endian hosts, as it is not big-endian ready * gdal-config (non installed): add -I/gnm in CFLAGS * fix compilation failure with gcc < 5 in Elasticsearch driver * configure: Also save LDFLAGS when checking compatibility. * configure: Ensure --with-geos/sfcgal fail if unavailable. * configure: check presence of linux/fs.h for Linux builds * configure: Fix gdal compilation when using proj-8.0.0 and libtiff with static jpeg support * GDALmake.opt.in: in non-libtool LD_SHARED builds, do not link applications against libgdal dependencies, but only against libgdal itself Build(Windows): * add missing makefile.vc for heif ## GDAL 3.3.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * GOA2GetRefreshToken(): avoid nullptr dereference in some cases * /vsicurl/: for debug messages, use the debug key of derived filesystem, such as 'S3' instead of 'VSICURL' * /vsicurl/: fix issue when trying to read past end of file. * /vsicurl/: use less restrictive check for S3-like signed URLs to be usable by OpenIO (#3703) * /vsicurl/: fix handling of X-Amz-Expires type of signed URLs (#3703) * VSICurlStreamingClearCache(): fix cache clearing for /vsiaz_streaming/ * /vsimem/, /vsisubfile/: fix memleak if destroying the C++ handle with delete instead of using VSIFCloseL() (ossfuzz #28422 #28446) * /vsiaz/: fetch credentials from Azure Active Directory when run from a Azure VM when AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT is set. * /vsiaz/: add SAS query string in HTTP Get Range requests. * /vsiaz/: implement GetFileMetadata() / SetFileMetadata() * /vsiaz/: fix Stat('/vsiaz/container') when shared access signature is enabled * /vsis3/, /vsiaz/, /vsigs/: set Content-Type from filename extension for a few select file types * /vsis3/ sync: improve upload performance by setting the default number of threads and increase the chunk size * VSICachedFile::Read(): avoid division by zero if nSize ## 0 (#3331) * Make creation of global hCOAMutex thread-safer on Windows (#3399) * Add VSIFOpenEx2L() to be able to specify headers such as Content-Type or Content-Encoding at file creation time * CPLHTTP: Allow to set GSSAPI credential delegation type with GSSAPI_DELEGATION option / GDAL_GSSAPI_DELEGATION config. option * CPLHTTPGetNewRetryDelay(): match 'Operation timed out' curl error * CPLDebug: in CPL_TIMESTAMP mode, display also elapsed time since first trace * Use _stricmp / _strnicmp for Windows EQUAL / EQUALN() macros Core: * Add automatic loading of configuration options from a file (located in {sysconfdir}/gdal/gdalrc or $(USERPROFILE)/.gdal/gdalrc) * RasterIO: massive speed-up of nearest-neighbour downsampling when the downsampling factor is a integer value * RasterIO: speed-up average downsampling when the downsampling factor is 2 and with Byte/UInt16/Float32 data type * GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO(): make it take into account floating-point window coordinates, as GDALRasterBand::IRasterIO() generic case does (#3101) * GDALOpenEx(): supports OVERVIEW_LEVEL=NONE to indicate overviews shouldn't be exposed * GDALCopyWholeRasterGetSwathSize(): take into account COMPRESSION IMAGE_STRUCTURE metadata item at dataset level (helps for DIMAP) * cpl_userfaultfd.cpp: enable to disable it at runtime with CPL_ENABLE_USERFAULTFD=NO * Python embedding: fix symbol conflicts with python library (#3215) * Python embedding: fix loading in QGIS/Windows (or any process with more than 100 modules) * Python embedding: make it work on Ubuntu 20.04 when python-is-python3 package that symlinks python to python3 is installed * GDALUnrolledCopy_GByte: improve base SSE2 implementation so that specialized SSSE3 is no longer needer * RPC: add parameters ERR_BIAS and ERR_RAND (#3484) Multidim API: * CreateCopy() multidim: allow to provide array-level creation options by prefixing them with "ARRAY:" * [Set/Get][Offset/Scale](): extend to get/set storage data type. Add 'Ex' suffixed C API functions for that * GDALMDArrayUnscaled: implement Write() to be able to get from unscaled values to raw values * GDALMDArrayUnscaled::IWrite(): speed optimization when writing to netCDF 4 * GDALGroup::CopyFrom(): add ARRAY:AUTOSCALE=YES and ARRAY:AUTOSCALE_DATA_TYPE=Byte/UInt16/Int16/UInt32/Int32 creation options * CreateCopy(): allow IF(NAME={name}) to be a full qualified name * GDALExtendedDataType::Create(): do not allow creating compound data type with no component Algorithms: * Add RMS (Quadratic Mean) subsampling to RasterIO, overviews and warp kernel (#3210) * Warping: improve performance related to PROJ usage for warping of small rasters * Warper ComputeSourceWindow(): avoid potential integer overflow with a ill-behaved transformer/inverse projection * Warper: fix assertion/crash in debug mode in GWKCheckAndComputeSrcOffsets() in some circumstances * Pansharpening: fix wrong band assignment when input multispectral bands not in order 1,2,... and NoData set as PansharpeningOptions and not present in input bands * internal_libqhull/poly.c: avoid int overflow on 32bit * Fix failure in overview generation for certain raster sizes and overview factor, on raster with color table in particular (#3336) * GDALSuggestedWarpOutput2(): avoid potential crash if an approximate transformer is provided Utilities: * gdalinfo: add -approx_stats in synopsis (#3296) * gdal_translate -tr: make non-nearest resampling honour the specified resolution to avoid potential sub-pixel misalignment when the spatial extent, resolution and dimensions in pixels don't perfectly match * gdal_translate: preserve source block size when not subsetting, and preserve as well COMPRESSION IMAGE_STRUCTURE metadata item * gdal_translate / gdalwarp: do not copy CACHE_PATH metadata item from WMS driver * gdalwarp: make -of COG work with multiple input sources when BigTIFF temporary output is needed (#3212) * gdalwarp: preserve scale/offset settings of source bands to output (#3232) * gdalwarp: address (one situation of) geometry invalidity when reprojecting the cutline to the source image * gdal_create: add a -if option to specify a prototype input file * gdal_rasterize: make -i work again (#3124) * gdaldem TRI: add a -alg Riley option to use the Riley 1999 formula, for terrestrial use cases (#3320), and make it the new default * gdal2tiles: Allow automatic max zoom when min zoom is specified * gdal2tiles: change from cdn.leafletjs.com to unpkg.com for leaflet .css and .js (#3084) * gdal2tiles: take into account --xyz in leafleft output (#3359) * gdal_calc: multiple improvements (nodata, multiple inputs in the same alpha, checks, extent with union/intersection logic, color table, ...) * gdal_edit: Correctly handle the error of parameter '-scale' with no number given * gdal_ls.py: display file mode when available * gdal2xyz.py: various improvements (nodata, band selection, etc.) * pct2rgb.py and rgb2pct.py: added support for an input pct_filename * gdalattachpct.py: new utility from attachpct.py sample * validate_gpkg.py: various improvements * add gdallocationinfo.py sample script Resource files: * tms_MapML_CBMTILE.json: fix it to use correct resolution / scaleDenominator. Unfortunately this makes it non-usable by gdal2tiles, but still by the COG driver Multi driver changes: * gdal2tiles/COG/MBTiles/GeoPackage: adjustments for EPSG:3857 output (due to PROJ 8 changes) BAG driver: * fix inversion of width and height in XML metadata (#3605) BLX driver: * fix potential free of uninitialized variable in case memory allocation would fail BYN driver: * relax checks in header bytes to allow products with some unset/invalid fields we don't use COG driver: * allow customising overview compression type (#3453) DAAS driver: * fix pixel retrieval of dataset with UInt16 data type and one mask band (#3061), and also use pixelType from bands[] instead of deprecated top-level one DIMAP driver: * add support for VHR 2020 Multispectral Full Spectrum products * add support for multiple components / subdatasets * set source block size to DIMAP VRT band (helps for performance with JP2KAK) ECW driver: * fix build with original ECW SDK 5.4 (#2776) ENVI, Ehdr, and other "raw" drivers: * lower memory requirements for BIP interleave, and improve efficiency (#3213) FIT driver: * reject negative value PAGESIZE creation option (ossfuzz #26596) FITS driver: * apply vertical mirroring on reading/writing * add support for creation and update of binary tables * display more informative error message when opening raster dataset in vector mode, or vice-verca * avoid stack smash overflow with 32 bit Linux builds in GetRawBinaryLayout() * set physical filename when opening subdataset GRIB driver: * fix reading subfields reusing the bitmap of a previous one (#3099) * degrib: avoid erroneous unit conversion when section 4 has vertical values coordinates (#3158) * degrib: add surface type 150 = Generalized Vertical Height Coordinate (#3158) * Update MRMS Local Table to v12 (#3328) * fix writing of ComplexPacking with nodata values and a single valid value (#3352) GTiff driver: * Internal libtiff resync with libtiff 4.3.0. Includes: - tif_lerc.c: fix encoding of datasets with NaN values (#3055) - TIFFStartStrip(): avoid potential crash in WebP codec when using scanline access on corrupted files (ossfuzz #26650) * Export JPEG compression tags to metadata * Report PREDICTOR in IMAGE_STRUCTURE dataset metadata domain (when it is set) * avoid setting compoundCRS name to 'unknown' when the GTCitationGeoKey is absent * better parse VerticalCitationGeoKey that is in the form 'VCS Name = foo|...' * rely on libtiff for LERC codec instead of internal libtiff-only codec previously * avoid GetSpatialRef() to return non-NULL on dataset with GCPs (#3642) HDF5 driver: * fix reading files whose HDF5 signature is not at offset 0 (#3188) HFA driver: * fix reading SRS with NAD83 favors, like 'NAD83(CORS96)' JP2KAK driver: * JP2KAKCreateCopy(): add validation of BLOCKXSIZE/BLOCKYSIZE to avoid Coverity warning about division by zero (CID 1086659, 1086660) JPEG driver: * add support for reading FLIR (infrared) metadata and thermal image * read XMP tag from EXIF and expose its content in xml:XMP metadata domain * CreateCopy(): add a warning when writing a non-CMYK 4-band dataset, and improve doc * switch internal libjpeg internal memory allocator to default (malloc/free) (#3601) LercLib (third_party): * fix portability issue on non-Intel platforms MRF driver: * Restore raw Lerc1 detection (#3109) * Support LERC1 compression improvements with non-finite values (#3335) netCDF driver: * fix reading netCDF4/HDF5 files whose HDF5 signature is not at offset 0 (#3188) * accept relative variations in X/longitude and Y/latitude spacing of up to 0.2% for float variables or 0.05% for double. Add a GDAL_NETCDF_IGNORE_EQUALLY_SPACED_XY_CHECK config option to ignore those checks if needed (#3244, #3663) * open /vsimem/ files without requiring Linux userfaultfd mechanism * Set scope for raster/vector-only options in driver metadata * multidim: add a GROUP_BY=SAME_DIMENSION option to GetGroupNames() * change the 'No UNIDATA NC_GLOBAL:Conventions attribute' from a warning to a debug message NITF driver: * Add support for SNIP TREs: CSRLSB, CSWRPB, RSMAPB, RSMDCB, RSMECB, SECURA and SNSPSB * Add xml:DES metadata domain and DES creation option (#3153) * Add support for ISO8859-1 fields in NITF TREs NWT_GRD driver: * fix portability issue on non-Intel platforms OGCAPI driver: * add missing Windows build support * fixes to handle links without type, in the coverage code path (Rasdaman use case) * fix when coverage uses a compoundCRS with a time component (#3665) PCIDSK driver: * resynchronization of PCIDSK SDK with the internal repository maintained by PCI * make GetMetadataItem() returns the same const char* for a given key (while SetMetadata/SetMetadataItem is not called) PDS4 driver: * update value of for TIFF/BigTIFF to what is expected by PDS4 IM (#3362) RMF driver: * Better support for sparse files. Fill null tiles with NoData value. * Fix portability issues on non-Intel platforms TileDB driver: * Add support for array versioning (#3293) * do not try to identify /vsis3/ files ending with .tif * add /vsigs/ support VRT driver: * add a true element of to allow compositing of overlapping sources (#1148) * AddBand() support BLOCKXSIZE and BLOCKYSIZE options; serialize/deserialize block size as attributes of VRTRasterBand element * VRTPansharpenedDataset: fix crash when the spectral bands have no nodata value, but we have one declared in PansharpeningOptions, and when the VRTPansharpenedDataset exposes overviews (#3189) * close sources at dataset closing (#3253) WCS driver: * fix memory leak in error code path (ossfuzz #28345) WMS driver: * tWMS: improves usability with NASA GIBS services (#3463) * properly deal with northing,easting ordered CRS in WMS 1.3.0 when using connection string being a GetMap URL request (#3191) * add option to specify HTTP Accept header * Use noDataValue on empty blocks (#3375) * Let pass expected NoDataValue to MRF for reading data (#3388) * Update default values for VirtualEarth minidriver WMTS driver: * Map CURLE_FILE_COULDNT_READ_FILE to 404 (#2941) XYZ driver: * support reading datasets organized by columns, such as the ones of https://www.opengeodata.nrw.de/produkte/geobasis/hm/dgm1_xyz/dgm1_xyz ## OGR 3.3.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * Add UUID string field subtype * OGRFeature::GetFieldAsString() and GeoJSON output: do not output Float32 with excessive precision * IsPolarToWGS84(): make detection of polar projections more specific * OGR SQL: fix potential crash or incorrect result on multi column ORDER BY (#3249) * Expose prepared geometry API to C and in SWIG bindings * OGRGeometry::ExportToJson(): takes into account CRS and axis order to swap * OGRShapeCreateCompoundCurve(): fix memory leak in error code path. (ossfuzz #28923) * Add OGR_G_Normalize() and bind it to SWIG (#3506) * OGRPoint: make it empty when x or y is NaN (refs #3542) * Avoid SWIG generating exception on OGRGeometry::IsValid (#3578) * OGRGeometry::exportToWkt(): rebustify implementation against out-of-memory, and make it slightly more efficient for some huge geometries * OGRSimpleCurve: fix copy constructor / assignment operator of empty Z/M geometries in some cases * OGRGeometry: make sure that the return type of clone() for all classes is their own type * OGRGeometry: make getGeometryRef() in subclasses return a better type * OGRGeometry: Handle WKB > 2 GB. Add OGR_G_WkbSizeEx() and OGR_G_CreateFromWkbEx() * Add OGRSimpleCurve::removePoint() OGRSpatialReference: * Fix exportToWkt() after morphToESRI() on Geographic/Projected 3D CRS. * GetEPSGGeogCS(): make it use database lookups if needed (and avoid misidentification of 'NAD83(CORS96)' for example * exportToWKT(): add a ALLOW_ELLIPSOIDAL_HEIGHT_AS_VERTICAL_CRS=YES option to allow export of Geographic/Projected 3D CRS in WKT1_GDAL as CompoundCRS with a VerticalCRS being an ellipsoidal height (for LAS 1.4) * Add OGRCoordinateTransformation::TransformWithErrorCodes() and OCTTransform4DWithErrorCodes() to get PROJ (>= 8) error codes * Add OCTCoordinateTransformationOptionsSetDesiredAccuracy() and OCTCoordinateTransformationOptionsSetBallparkAllowed(), and map them to SWIG * GetEPSGGeogCS(): fix when projected CRS can't be exported to WKT2 * SetFromUserInput() allow https:// when loading CRS from opengis.net (#3548) * Add Get/Set for PROJ auxiliary database filenames (#3590) * Delegate to PROJ (>= 8.1) import from OGC URN and URL (OSGeo/PROJ#2656) Utilities: * ogrinfo: report field domain type and add '-fielddomain name' switch * ogr2ogr: add -emptyStrAsNull option * ogr2ogr: add propagation of field domains * ogr2ogr: add a -resolveDomains switch AmigoCloud driver: * Fix date/datetime field type handling. * Fix json encoder to handle nested strings. (#3483) * Fix SQL delete (#3512) CAD driver: * fixes for big endian hosts DGN driver: * avoid assert() in case of very low memory condition (ossfuzz #27006) DGN and DGNv8 driver: * Support for reading User Data Linkage data (#3089) DXF driver: * Skip hatch polyline segments with one vertex Elasticsearch driver: * support WKT geo_shape encoding, and make GetExtent() use server-side query for geo_shape if ES >= 7.8 and XPack is installed * fix GetFeatureCount() when SetAttributeFilter() is a ElasticSearch JSON filter * add open options for timeouts and maximum number of features FlatGeobuf driver: * add editable capabilities * fix crash when writing a geometry collection with an empty polygon (ossfuzz #29291) * fix crash in GetFileList() on a dataset opened in update mode * fix crash when writing features larger than 32 KB GeoPackage driver: * Add support for GeoPackage 1.3 (creation still defaults to 1.2) * Fix handling of invalid SRS ID (#3286) * always write milliseconds in a DATETIME field for strict compliance with the spec (#3423) * no longer create triggers on gpkg_metadata and gpkg_metadata_reference * Take into account OGR_CURRENT_DATE config option in gpkg_metadata_reference table (fixes #3537) * Remove creation support for data_type='aspatial' legacy tables * fix update of gpkg_metadata_reference when renaming or dropping a column, and this table references it GeoJSON driver: * writer: avoid invalid .0 suffix to be added to numeric values like 1eXX (#3172) * writer: avoid CPLDebug() messages when writing BBOX in RFC7946 mode * reader: accept files starting with {"bbox":...,"features":[... (#1537) * reader: fix opening of file containing a Feature object and starting with a large properties (fixes #3280) GML driver: * fix layer extent with wrong axis order in some cases (#3091) * recognize AIXM ElevatedSurface to be able to proper axis swapping (#3091) * GML geometry parsing: handle km unit for radius of arcs (#3118) * fix nullptr dereference on invalid GML (ossfuzz #28040) LVBAG driver: * Update to the new XSD schema (#3324) * Minor fixes (#3467, #3462) * Convert MultiPolygon to Polygon (#3581) MapInfo driver: * Support for font and custom symbols (#3081) * Explicitly set pen cap and join params for pen tools NAS driver: * don't skip prescan, if NAS_GFS_TEMPLATE is given, but still don't write .gfs NGW driver: * Add extensions support. * Add alternative field name support. OAPIF driver: * report url of STAC asset items ODBC driver: * Remove text trimming behavior PGeo driver: * don't silently ignore rows with NULLs for Memo fields PostGIS driver: * on reading, instantiate SRS from EPSG when possible instead of srtext to avoid axis order issues, and strip TOWGS84 on known datum (#3174) * when detecting srid from table contents, ignore null geometries. Shapefile driver: * writer: do not write coordinates with non-finite values (#3542) SQLite driver: * recognize col decltype 'INTEGER_OR_TEXT' as a string * better detection of view column types SXF driver: * fix reading on big-endian architectures WFS driver: * fix CreateFeature() for WFS 2 (#3323). And for WFS 2, make CreateFeature() and SetFeature() use GML 3 XLSX driver: * fix read cells with inline formatting (#3729) ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * avoid nullptr deref if providing some NULL arguments to gdal.Debug() and gdal.GOA2xxxxx() methods * fix return type of Dataset.SetSpatialRef() * fix expansion of ODsCRandomLayerWrite constant * add missing GRA_Sum constant (#3724) CSharp bindings: * Replace ToInt32 calls with ToInt64 to prevent an ArithmeticException when executing against large images in a 64-bit context. * Sign csharp assemblies as part of the netcore build process, verify signature during tests (#1368) (#3332) * fix 'make' target on Linux/Mac Java bindings: * Add CoordinateTransformation.TransformPointWithErrorCode() Python bindings: * Add Dataset.WriteArray() * Make Dataset.ReadRaster() and ReadAsArray() accept floating-point coordinates (#3101) * Make methods such as WriteRaster() accept a bytearray object * Return bytearray object as return of ReadRaster(), ReadBlock(), VSIFReadL(), MDArray.Read(), ... * Add a band_list optional argument to Dataset.ReadAsArray() * Make methods such as WriteRaster() accept any memoryview compatible of PyBUF_SIMPLE * Make ogr.GetFieldAsBinary(), geom.ExportTo[Iso]Wkb() return a bytearray instead of a bytes object * Make ReadRaster() and ReadBlock() accept an existing buf_obj buffer * Make ReadAsArray(buf_obj = ar) fail if ar.flags.writable is False * Make WriteRaster() accept a numpy array (when used without the buf_ overriders) * Allow list or array types as input of MDArray.Write() for 1D arrays * Prepare all samples scripts for reuse * Add osgeo_utils.auxiliary submodules for auxiliary functions. * [epsg_tr|esri2wkt|gcps2vec|gcps2wld|gdal_auth|gdalchksum|gdalident|gdalimport|mkgraticule].py - move undocumented untested utils to the `samples` subfolder where they belong * Implement correct behavior for copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy() on a Geometry object (#3278) * Add CoordinateTransformation.TransformPointWithErrorCode() * Remove deprecated NumPy aliases for standard types. * Better validation of Band.ReadAsArray() input shape (#3466) * Dictionary typemap: accept key/value not being strings * Add batch_creator.py, a Windows batch file creator * Fix 'make generate' target on Unix builds (#3696) # GDAL/OGR 3.2.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * New GDAL drivers: - ESRIC: ESRI bundle cache read-only driver (#2663) - HEIF: read-only driver for HEIF/HEIC file. Requires libheif - OGCAPI: tiles/maps/coverage raster/vector experimental driver - TGA: read/only driver to read TGA image file format * New OGR drivers: - LVBAG: read-only support for Dutch LVBAG/Kadaster 2.0 vector format * New utilities: - gdal_create: to create/initialize a new raster file * Other improvements: - Multi-threaded overview computation (if GDAL_NUM_THREADS set) - COG driver: TILING_SCHEME creation option - OpenFileGDB driver: add support for using spatial indexes - BAG driver: multiple improvements - FITS driver: multiple improvements (MEF and binary table support) - NITF driver: support for SNIP TREs - OGRFieldDefn: support UNIQUE constraint - OGRFieldDefn: support a AlternativeName (alias) property (#2729) - Python bindings: move implementation of scripts (except gdal2tiles) in osgeo.utils package to be reusable - Faster GTIFF Deflate compression/decompression through libdeflate (if using internal libtiff or libtiff > 4.1.0) * Removed functionality: - Python bindings: old-style "import gdal" is no longer available. Use "from osgeo import gdal" instead - API_PROXY mechanism: likely never used for real usage. - Removal of GDAL and OGR ArcSDE drivers ## Backward compatibility issues See MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt ## New installed files * data/tms_NZTM2000.json * data/tms_LINZAntarticaMapTileGrid.json * data/tms_MapML_APSTILE.json * data/tms_MapML_CBMTILE.json * data/template_tiles.mapml ## GDAL/OGR 3.2.0 - General Changes General: * fix building against Jasper 2.0.19 and 2.0.21 * Add optional libdeflate dependency for faster Deflate compression/decompression Build(Unix): * GNUmakefile: split long line to avoid 32K character limitation on MSYS2 * configure: Configure proj dependencies before proj (#2512) * configure. add $with_proj_extra_lib_for_test n LIBS when detecting PROJ when no path is specified (#2672) * configure: fix CharLS 2.1 detection on case insensitive filesystems (#2710) * configure: fix --with-hdf4 and --disable-all-optional-drivers (#2740) * GNUmakefile: make 'all' target an alias of the default one to avoid potential double build of OGR objects (fixes #2777) * configure: add ODA lib requirements to compile GDAL with ODA 2021 (#2812) * configure: fix detection of minor version number of Poppler with the new YY.MM.X numbering scheme (#2823) * configure: fix detection of Spatialite 5 build against PROJ >= 6 (#2826) * configure: fix detection of libtiff and libjpeg on mingw (fixes #2881) * configure: fix linking order for Informix libraries * configure: support CharLS 2.1 on Debian as well. (#3083) * configure: disable LERC on big-endian hosts, as it is not big-endian ready * fix compilation issue of gdallinearsystem.cpp on Slackware 14.2 (#2883) * Update scripts/gdal-bash-completion.sh Build(Windows): * nmake.opt: mention shell32.lib in PROJ_LIBRARY * nmake.opt: Add a PYEXEC var to specify the python executable when building GDAL/bindings on Windows. * nmake.opt: add hint about adding ole32.lib to PROJ_LIBRARY for PROJ 7.1 when static linking (#2743) * only expand CPL_DLL to__declspec(dllexport) when building GDAL (shared configuration) (#2664) * add missing Windows build support for EXR driver * generate_vcxproj.bat: add vs2019 compatibility (#2676) * fix build in AVC driver in VSIL_STRICT_ENFORCE mode ## GDAL 3.2.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * cpl_json.h: change the Type and PrettyFormat 'enum' to 'enum class', so that Double doesn't conflict with a C enum from OGDI include files * cpl_json.h: add an iterator on array items, and fix const correctness of LoadUrl() method * Add logging capabilities for /vsicurl, /vsis3 and the like. Add VSINetworkStatsGetAsSerializedJSON() and VSINetworkStatsReset(), CPL_VSIL_NETWORK_STATS_ENABLED and CPL_VSIL_SHOW_NETWORK_STATS config options * /vsis3/ and other cloud file system: allow random-write access (for GTiff creation in particular) through temporary local file when CPL_VSIL_USE_TEMP_FILE_FOR_RANDOM_WRITE config option is set to YES * /vsis3/: recognize AWS_PROFILE in addition to obsolete AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE (#2470) * /vsis3/: use IMDSv2 protocol to retrieve IAM role and credentials * /vsis3/: add CPL_VSIS3_USE_BASE_RMDIR_RECURSIVE=YES for some S3-like APIs do not support DeleteObjects * /vsis3/: additional retry on failures on write operations * VSIS3FSHandler::SetFileMetadata(): fix memleak * Improved AWS EC2 detection on Windows * /vsicurl/: defer reading of CPL_VSIL_CURL_CHUNK_SIZE and CPL_VSIL_CURL_CACHE_SIZE config options until a /vsicurl/ access (or other network filesystem) is done * /vsiaz/: do not consider directory absence as an error situation for Rmdir() * /vsiaz/: fix OpenDir()/NextDirEntry() that returned S_IFDIR for regular files * /vsiaz/: update to latest version of API (2019-12-12) * /vsiaz/: add a AZURE_NO_SIGN_REQUEST=YES config option for unsigned public buckets and AZURE_SAS to provided Shared Access Signature. Both to be used with AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT (#2766) * /vsiaz/: ReadDir(): fix caching of file properties with space in the name * VSISync(): implement chunking of large files for /vsiaz/ upload when CHUNK_SIZE and NUM_THREADS are set * VSISync(): split large files on download/upload for /vsis3/ and /vsiaz/ (#2786) * VSISync(): add a SYNC_STRATEGY=OVERWRITE to always overwrite target file * RmdirRecursive(): use OpenDir() in recursive mode to have more efficient directory deletion on /vsiaz/ for example * /vsimem/: fix normalization of slashes in filenames to avoid potential infinite loop in VSIDirGeneric::NextDirEntry() * VSI plugin: add caching option (#2901) * VSI plugin: add callback to explicitly list sibling files (#2980) * CPLWorkerThreadPool: add capability to create several job queues * CPLStrtodDelim(): recognize '1.#SNAN' as a NaN value * CPLAtoGIntBigEx(): use strtoll() when available since POSIX doesn't guarantee atoll() will return ERANGE (and libmusl for example does not return it) * CPLIsFilenameRelative(): treat "scheme://.." filenames as absolute * Add GDAL_CURL_CA_BUNDLE environment variable (#3025) * CPLHTTPFetch: fix reading FORM_FILE_PATH on Windows (#2971) * Add CPLHTTP[Push|Pop]FetchCallback() and CPLHTTPSetFetchCallback() callback mechanisms to replace curl implementation (to be used by QGIS) * VSI_CACHE: do not trust unreliable file size from underlying layer as in fixes #3006 * CPLMultiPerformWait(): use curl_multi_poll() for curl >= 7.66 Core: * Overview building: add multi-threading of resampling computations when GDAL_NUM_THREADS config option is set * add a TileMatrixSet class to parse OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set 17-083r2 JSON encoded definitions, and add NZTM2000 and LINZAntarticaMapTileGrid definitions * Add GDALAutoCreateWarpedVRTEx function to GDAL API to accept extra options for transformer (#2565) * add a global thread pool mechanism * GDALDataset::IRasterIO(): Fixes wrong IO of subpixel shifted window (#2057) * GDALDriver::QuietDelete(): partially revert 3.1 commit f60392c8 * gdal_priv.h: export EXIFExtractMetadata() for plugin uses * DumpJPK2CodeStream(): fix reported offset of EOC marker when PSOT = 0 (#2724) * Overview generation: fix progress percentage when using USE_RRD=YES (#2722) * reader_geo_eye.cpp and reader_pleiades.cpp: avoid potential issue with overuse of per-thread CPLPath static buffers * GDALDataset::IRasterIO(): make it try overviews when non-nearest resampling is done before doing RasterIOResampled() on full resolution dataset * Workaround issue with UTF-8 precomposed vs decomposed encodings on MacOS filesystems that affect sidecar file discovery (#2903) * GDALBuildVRT(): add support for sources such as MEM dataset or non-materialized VRT files * GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO(): make it take into account floating-point window coordinates, as GDALRasterBand::IRasterIO() generic case does (#3101) Multidim API: * GetMask(): use underlying parent data type as much as possible, instead of double, to avoid potential performance issues * GetMask(): optimize when we know the mask is always at 1, and when output buffer is contiguous Byte * Add GDALGroupOpenMDArrayFromFullname() and GDALGroupOpenGroupFromFullname(), and exose them to SWIG (#2790) * Add GDALGroup::ResolveMDArray() and map it to C and SWIG * Add GDALMDArrayGetStatistics(), GDALMDArrayComputeStatistics() and GDALDatasetClearStatistics() * Make sliced and transpose arrays access the attributes of their source array * add GDALMDArrayAdviseRead() and implement it in netCDF driver for DAP datasets Algorithms: * Warper/transformer: avoid error about invalid latitude when warping a dataset in Geographic CRS whose north/south lat is > 90deg (#2535) * Warper: use gcore global thread pool when doing multithreaded operations * Warper: fix average resampling that lead to very wrong results in some circumstances (#2665) (3.1.0 regression) * Warper: ComputeSourceWindow(): modify extra source pixel computation in anti-meridian warping situations * Warper: fix computation of kernel resampling width when wrapping across the antimeridian * Warper: emit error message instead of assertion if cutline is not a (multi)polygon (#3037) * RPC transformer: Add RPC_DEM_SRS option to override SRS of RPC_DEM. (#2680) * TPS transformer: fix handling of duplicated GCPs (fixes #2917) * Polygonize: make sure not to use dummy geotransform Utilities: * gdalinfo, gdal_translate, gdalwarp: add a -if switch to be able to specify input driver(s) (#2641) * gdalinfo: json output: report nan/inf values as a string instead of invalid JSON * gdalinfo: json output: do not escape forward slash * gdal_translate (and GTiff driver): copy XMP metadata unless -noxmp is specified (#3050) * gdal_viewshed: adjust computation of observer position (#2599) * gdaldem: ignore 'nv' entry in color file if there is no nodata value in input file * gdalwarp: fix crash if warping a dataset without source or target CRS when -ct is specified (#2675) * gdalwarp: improve logic for selecting input overview when target bounds and resolution are specified * gdalwarp: better guess of target resolution when target extent is specified (#2754) * gdalbuildvrt: for easier understanding, and replicate gdal_translate -of VRT behavior, clamp xSize/ySize of SrcRect/DstRect if outside raster dimensions. Not a fix per se * gdalbuildvrt: add support for automatically declaring virtual overviews in very restricted situations * gdalbuildvrt: fix -srcnodata / -vrtnodata handling in -separate mode (#2978) * gdal_grid: Addition of -tr option (#2839) * gdal_contour: major speed up in polygon mode (#2908) * gdal2tiles: make general cmd line switches like --formats work without exception (#2522) * gdal2tiles: fix issue in nativezoom computation with --profile=raster on a raster whose size is below the tile size * gdal2tiles: fix --xyz with -p raster, fix KML generation with --xyz (#2463) and update OpenLayers export to OpenLayers 6.3.1 * gdal2tiles: add -w mapml output, and possibilities to use custom tiling scheme / profile * gdal2tiles.py: fix generation of tiles at high zoom levels when input is small (#2896) * gdal2tiles.py: make sure configuration options specified with --config are passed to worker processes (#2950) * gdal2tiles.py: fix --profile=raster on a non-georeferenced image (#2998) * gdal2tiles: change from cdn.leafletjs.com to unpkg.com for leaflet .css and .js (#3084) * gdal_merge.py: fix rounding of source coordinates, when they are very close to an integer, which would otherwise result in a one-pixel shift * gdal_calc: support multiple calc arguments to produce a multiband file (#3003) * gdal_calc.py: raise exception in case of I/O error. Fixes QGIS #36867 * gdal_sieve.py: do not write geotransform to the target if the source doesn't have one (#2830) * gdalcompare.py - export def find_diff(golden_file, new_file, check_sds=False) into a function for reuse * gdalcompare.py: fix floor division in Python 3 * validate_cloud_optimized_geotiff.py: update to support SPARSE_OK=YES files Multi driver changes: * Driver metadata: fix XML errors in option declarations and add testing (#2656) * JPEG2000 drivers: extent signature for JPEG2000 codestream to avoid false positive detections. LERC: * Fixed a bug in Lerc2 decoder (https://github.com/Esri/lerc/pull/129) * Fixed a bug in Lerc1 decoder (https://github.com/Esri/lerc/pull/121) AAIGrid: * mention dataset name in errors (#3051) BAG driver: * add support for reading georeferenced metadata * remove support for interpolated resampled raster * add support for COUNT VALUE_POPULATION strategy * support reading other single resolution layers on the root node * add support for Create()/warp operation * add support for reading the tracking list (with OGR API) * fix reporting of vertical CRS * fix missing nodes at right and top edges of supergrids in resampling mode (#2737) * allow it to be used in multidimensional mode through the generic HDF5 driver * fix for big endian arch * avoid crash on non-standard dataset COG driver: * add support for using custom TILING_SCHEME using OGC 17-083r2 JSON encoded definitions * add ZOOM_LEVEL_STRATEGY creation option * add WARP_RESAMPLING and OVERVIEW_RESAMPLING to override general RESAMPLING option (#2671) * write information about tiling scheme in a TILING_SCHEME metadata domain * add a SPARSE_OK=YES option to create sparse files * TIFF/COG: report content of the header ghost area in metadata * skip reprojection when source dataset matches reprojection specifications * fix rounding issue when computing overview dimensions * fix crash if passing an invalid (warp) resampling * fix crash when source dataset is non-Byte/non-UInt16 with a color table (fixes #2946) DIMAP driver: * fix loading when R1C1 tile is not present (#2999) DTED driver: * add support for EGM08 for dted metadata "E08" (#3047) E00grid driver: * avoid recursive call in _GetNextSourceChar(). Fixes ossfuzz#25161 ECW driver: * fix related to network files with SDK >= 5.5 (#2652) ENVI driver: * write nodata value in 'data ignore value' header field * add support for writing south-up / rotation=180 datasets FIT driver: * reject negative value PAGESIZE creation option (ossfuzz#26596) FITS driver: * add support for reading multiple-extension FITS files through subdatasets * add support for reading binary tables * initialize default geotransform * do not emit error if no georeferencing is found GPKG driver: * perf improvement: when inserting more than 100 features in a transaction in an existing layer, switch to a deferred insertion strategy for spatial index entries * on reading of gridded coverage data with PNG tiles, select -FLT_MAX as the nodata value (#2857) * add support for using custom TILING_SCHEME using OGC 17-083r2 JSON encoded definitions * increase limitation of number of tables to 10000, and make it configurable through OGR_TABLE_LIMIT config option as for vector tables * more robust and simple logic to build overviews and compute overview factor (#2858) * make ST_Transform() fallback to EPSG code when no SRS with the given srs_id can be found in gpkg_spatial_ref_sys * CreateSpatialIndex(): slight optimization by bumping batches to 500K features * make SELECT DisableSpatialIndex(...) run faster * fix when writing a tile with uniform negative values or values > 65535 (when nodata is set) in PNG tiles (#3044) * fix GDAL 3.0 regression regarding some update scenarios (#2325) GRASS driver: * simplified to GRASS GIS 7+ only (#2945) * fix reading GRASS groups (#2876) GRIB driver: * correctly report PDS template number for messages with subgrids (#3004) * avoid rejecting valid product due to security check * fix retrieval of nodata value for GRIB1 products (GDAL 3.1 regression, #2962) * fix reading subfields reusing the bitmap of a previous one (GDAL 3.1 regression, #3099) * Degrib g2clib: rename symbols of our internal modified copy (#2775) GTiff driver: * add read support for overviews/masks referenced through TIFFTAG_SUBIFD (#1690) * add WEBP_LEVEL_OVERVIEW config option to set WebP compression level on overviews * fix wrong direction for half-pixel shift with GCPs and PixelIsPoint convention * for Geodetic TIFF grids (GTG), report the 'grid_name' metadata item in the subdataset description * fix reading/writing GEO_METADATA TIFF tag on big-endian * fix importing WGS_1984_Web_Mercator / ESRI:102113 (#2560) * use gcore global thread pool when doing multithreaded operations * allow multi-threaded JPEG compression. This can help a bit * fix potential crash when generating degenerate 1x1 overviews * in CreateCopy() mode, avoid closing and re-opening the file handle * add earlier check to bail out when attempting JPEG compression with paletted image * LERC codec: do not write TIFFTAG_LERC_PARAMETERS several times as it cause spurious directory rewrites, and breaks for example COG creation * LERC codec: fix encoding of datasets with NaN values (#3055) * SRS reader: interpret infinite value in GeogInvFlatteningGeoKey as 0 (fixes PROJ #2317) * support hidden SHIFT_ORIGIN_IN_MINUS_180_PLUS_180=YES open option used by GDALOpenVerticalShiftGrid() * Internal libtiff: updated to latest upstream master version * Internal libgeotiff: updated to latest upstream master version HDF4 driver: * do not report SDS when there are EOS_SWATH or EOS_GRID in it. Add LIST_SDS open option * multidim: fix issue when reading transposed array, and duplicate attribute names (#2848) HDF5 driver: * add support for new 'CSK 2nd generation' (CSG) (#2930) * multidim: fixes for big endian host * multidim: fix performance issue when reading from sliced array HFA driver: * do not report TOWGS84 when reading SRS with WGS84, NAD27 or NAD83 datums (unless OSR_STRIP_TOWGS84 config option is set to NO) (fixes QGIS #36837) ISCE driver: * avoid crashing division by zero on corrupted datasets. Fixes ossfuzz#24252 ISIS3 driver: * make sure that in-line label size is at least 65536 bytes (#2741) JP2KAK driver: * add ORGtparts creation option JP2OpenJPEG driver: * add support for generating files with PLT marker segments (OpenJPEG > 2.3.1) * add support to enable multi-threaded encoded (OpenJPEG > 2.3.1) * writer: acquire input data in background thread * fix reading overviews on Sentinel2 PVI files (343x343 size, with 8x8 tiles) (#2984) LCP driver: * add extension checking in Identify() (#2641) MRF driver: * add support for interleaved LERC (#2846) * LERC V1 support for NaN and other bug fixes (#2891) * missing data return on initial caching of nodata tiles (#2913) * Fixes for Create() (#2923) NetCDF driver: * GrowDim(): fix issue with non-ASCII filename on Windows * fix setting offset and scale in CreateCopy() * allow a NETCDF:http://example.com/my.nc DAP dataset to be opened * multidim: fix performance issue when reading from sliced array * multidim: optimize reading into a data type 'larger' than the native one * multidim: identify the indexing variable of a dimension through the 'coordinates' attribute of other variables (#2805) * multidim: add CHECKSUM and FILTER creation options. Make SetRawNoDataValue() use nc_def_var_fill() * multidim: fix retrieval of missing_attribute, etc... when reading mask NITF driver: * add support for various TREs for Spectral NITF Implementation Profile (SNIP): MATESA, GRDPSB, BANDSB, ACCHZB, ACCVTB, MSTGTA, PIATGB, PIXQLA, PIXMTA, CSEXRB, ILLUMB, CSRLSB, CSWRPB * Add nested variable support in xml:TRE PAux driver: * avoid ingesting large binary unrelated files (found when investigating #2722) PCRaster driver: * fix Create() mode by propagating eAccess = GA_Update (#2948) PDF driver: * update to pdfium/4272 with https://github.com/rouault/pdfium_build_gdal_3_2 PDS driver: * take into account FIRST_STANDARD_PARALLEL for Mercator projection (#2490) RMF driver: * Better support for sparse files. Fill null tiles with NoData value. RS2 driver: * remove support for CharLS compression since it is removed from upstream librasterlite2 SAFE driver: * deal correctly with WV swaths (#2843) TileDB driver: * support for pixel interleave and single formats (#2703) TSX driver: * fix issue with reading dataset in .zip file on Windows (#2814) VICAR driver: * fix for Basic compression and non-Byte type on big endian host * avoid potential null-dereference on corrupted dataset. Fixes ossfuzz#24254 VRT driver: * Add support for explicit virtual overviews. Can be built with gdaladdo --config VRT_VIRTUAL_OVERVIEW YES (#2955) * VRTDataset::IRasterIO(): allow source overviews to be used when non-nearest resampling is used, and the VRT bands don't expose overviews (#2911) * fix VRTRasterBand nodata handling when creating implicit overviews (#2920) * round src/dst coordinates to integer within 1e-3 margin * prevent potential infinite recursion in VRTDataset::IRasterIO() WMS driver: * Add a GDAL_MAX_CONNECTIONS config option * WMS cache: add a in XML configuration (#2966) WMTS driver: * Add support for DataType tag in service description XML (#2794) ## OGR 3.2.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * Add unique constraints to OGRFieldDefn in core, GML, PG, PGDump, GPKG, SQLite and VRT drivers (#2622) * Add support for field AlternativeName to OGRFieldDefn, read alias in openfilegdb driver (#2729) * Add GDALDataset::AbortSQL (#2953) * OGRFeature::GetFieldAsString(): remove 80 character limitation when formatting string/integer/real lists (#2661) * Add OGRLayerUniquePtr and OGRExpatUniquePtr aliases (#2635) * OGRSQL: take into account second part of arithmetic expression to correctly infer result type. * OGRSQL: support constructs 'A AND B AND C ... AND N' with many successive AND ((#2989) * OGRSQL: Fixed buffer overflow in BuildParseInfo for SQL query when joining multiple tables that each have implicit FID columns. * ogr_geometry.h: export OGRWktOptions class (#2576) * ogr_swq.h: type nOperation as swq_op OGRSpatialReference: * Make GetAuthorityCode('PROJCS') work on a WKT1 COMPD_CS with a VERT_DATUM type = 2002 (Ellipsoid height) * Make OSRGetPROJSearchPaths() return the value set by OSRSetPROJSearchPaths() * exportToProj4(): make it add +geoidgrids= when possible (needs PROJ 7.2) * Add OSRDemoteTo2D() and expose it to SWIG * fix GetUTMZone() to work on 3D projected CRS * exportToWkt(): accept FORMAT=WKT2_2019 (alias of WKT2_2018) * fixes to avoid crashes with datum ensemble objects (needs PROJ 7.2) * Avoid warnings in GetProjTLSContextHolder() when PROJ resource path is not already set (PROJ #2242) * ogr_proj_p.cpp: make sure init() is called in OSRPJContextHolder() constructor to avoid potential use of default NULL PROJ context (#2691) * fix issue with PROJ context and OSRCleanup() (#2744) * Fix exportToWkt() after morphToESRI() on Geographic/Projected 3D CRS. But only works with PROJ 7.2 Utilities: * ogrinfo: report field unique constraint * ogrinfo: report field alternative name * ogrinfo: report SUBDATASETS domain * ogrinfo/ogr2ogr: fix issues with -sql @filename where SQL comments are not at start of line (#2811) * ogr2ogr: bump default value of -gt to 100 000 Multi driver changes: * Avoid copy&paste implementations of GetNextFeature() relying on GetNextRawFeature() through OGRGetNextFeatureThroughRaw class * make sure GetNextFeature() always return nullptr after the first time it did (ie no implicit ResetReading()) in GPKG, SQLite, PCIDSK, MSSQLSpatial and MySQL driver * better support for layers with field names differing by case in OGR SQL, SQL SQLite and VRT CSV driver: * do not try to read .csvt if CSV filename has no extension (#3006) DXF driver: * Propagate PaperSpace field from INSERTs to subfeatures * Fix wrong transformer composition for ASM entities * do not rely on tail recursion and avoid potential big stack calls when eliminated 999 comment lines. Fixes ossfuzz#22668 Elasticsearch driver: * make OVERWRITE_INDEX=YES work properly by re-creating the index afterwards ESRIJSON driver: * fix GetFeatureCount() and GetExtent() FileGDB/OpenFileGDB drivers: * qualify DateTime values with UTC timezone when true is present in layer metadata (#2719) FileGDB driver: * generate layer definition XML with HasSpatialIndex=true to better reflect reality. * add support for reading and writing field alternative names * simplify spatial filtering, and apply full intersection in GetFeatureCount() instead of BBOX one, so as to be similar to OpenFileGDB FlatGeoBuf driver: * Metadata extensions (#2929) * fix illegal use of std::vector (#2773) * make GetExtent() work on feature write (#2874) GeoJSON driver: * fix opening of file starting with {"coordinates" (#2720) * fix opening of file starting with {"geometry":{"coordinates" (#2787) * RFC7946 writer: fix processing of geometry that covers the whole world (#2833) * writer: use JSON_C_TO_STRING_NOSLASHESCAPE when available to avoid escaping forward slash, and very partial resync of internal libjson-c to get it GML driver: * add a WRITE_GFS=AUTO/YES/NO open option (#2982) * writer: correctly format OFTDate and OFTDateTime fields (#2897) * hugefileresolver: add missing xmlns:xlink to make Xerces parser happy * fix typo in VFR GFS files BonitovaneDilRizeniId -> BonitovanyDilRizeniId (#2685) * when encountering XML issue, defer emission of error message until we return a NULL feature, so as to avoid to confuse ogr2ogr (#2730) * XSD parser: recognized unsignedLong data type * avoid 'Destination buffer too small' error to be emitted on /vsicurl_streaming/ URLs with filters coming from the WFS driver * fix layer extent with wrong axis order in some cases (#3091) * recognize AIXM ElevatedSurface to be able to proper axis swapping (#3091) GMLAS driver: * avoid running out of file descriptors in case of big number of layers * fix so as to get same unique ids on big-endian arch GPKG driver: * add a PRELUDE_STATEMENTS open option that can be used for example to attach other databases * add a DATETIME_FORMAT=WITH_TZ/UTC dataset creation option (defaults to WITH_TZ) to specify how to deal with non-UTC datetime values (#2898) * hide view "geometry_columns" * fix wrong RTree _update3 trigger on existing files (QGIS #36935) GRASS driver: * simplified to GRASS GIS 7+ only (#2945) GTM driver: * on write, do not consider TZFlag=1 (localtime) as a timezone value (refs #2696) * on write, take into correctly timezone value to convert to UTC (refs #2696) LIBKML driver: * do not advertise RandomWrite capability (unless on a update layer, when datasource is created with UPDATE_TARGETHREF creation option) (fixes QGIS 39087) MDB driver: * fix warning when parsing 'false' boolean value MITAB driver: * fix reading and writing of Transverse Mercator projections based on KKJ * .tab: fix writing empty/null Time fields (#2612) * fix reading and writing of non-metre linear units * Support for font and custom symbols in mitab (#3081) MVT driver: * fix 'random' failures in test_ogr_mvt_point_polygon_clip() by sorting sub-directory names, and also revise logic to attribute FID when reading directories (#2566) * writing: fix crashes in multi-threading mode (#2764) NAS driver: * add support for new GID7 updates * also filter for wfs:member (as in GID7) * do not try to write a .gfs file when NAS_GFS_TEMPLATE is specified netCDF driver: * simple geometries: fix for big-endian OAPIF driver: * avoid re-adding user query parameters if they are found in URLs returned by the API (#2873) * do not list raster or coverage collections * support opening of a collection when its URL is non-standard such as in MOAW workflows * fix memory leak when reading schema from .xsd ODBC driver: * Allow mdb files to be opened with the generic ODBC driver on non-windows platforms * Fix w.r.t fallback to alternative Access ODBC driver name * Fix DSN string construction for Windows Access ODBC driver, template candidate preference order (#2878) * Correctly handle datetime fields provided by the mdbtools ODBC driver * Read MS Access databases with ACCDB and STYLE extensions (#2880) OCI driver: * fix server 12.2 version detection ODS driver: * do not create files with Zip64 extension, to avoid compatibility issue with LibreOffice Calc * avoid potential deep call stack in formula evaluation. Fixes ossfuzz#22237 OpenFileGDB driver: * add support for reading .spx spatial index file * more reliable .gdbtable header reading OSM driver: * remove limitation to 10000 nodes per way (#849) * Replace hard-coded tag filter with variable * Optionally disable early tag filtering * Don't filter out explicit attributes (#2603) PDF driver: * write correctly attribute object dictionary when there is no field to write, and read back correctly broken files we generated before (#2624) PDS4 driver: * fix potential double free if RenameFileTo() fails PGeo driver: * Quote DBQ value in PGEO driver template to avoid issues opening MDB paths with spaces * Fixes to automatic ODBC driver installation (#2838) * Read non-spatial tables (#2889) PG driver: * Make ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL work when using PG:service= syntax (actually a workaround in GDALDriver::Create()) * take into potential generated columns (PostgreSQL >= 12) to avoid issuing INSERT, UPDATE or COPY statements with them * PG (and PostgisRaster driver): set the application name in PostgreSQL connections (#2658) * apply standard libpq parsing rules for connection parameters for our custom connection parameters (schemas, active_schemas, tables) (#2824) PGDump driver: * change default value of POSTGIS_VERSION layer creation option to 2.2 SEGY driver: * avoid opening FITS files Shapefile driver: * do not claim to support DateTime data type * when several candidate SRS are found with confidence >= 90%, take the one from EPSG (contributes to fixes QGIS #32255) * SHPRestoreSHX: fix for (64 bit) big endian S57 driver: * apply update to DSID_EDTN field (#2498) * report attributes tagged as list in S57 dictionaries as StringList fields. Add a LIST_AS_STRINGLIST open option that can be set to OFF to restore GDAL < 3.2 behavior (#2660) SXF driver: * fixes for big-endian SQLite/Spatialite driver: * add a PRELUDE_STATEMENTS open option that can be used for example to attach other databases WFS driver: * avoid /vsicurl_streaming/ URL to be truncated in case of big filter (but the server might reject it) XLSX driver: * do not create files with Zip64 extension, to avoid compatibility issue with LibreOffice Calc * fix numeric precision issue when reading datetime that could lead to an error of 1 second (#2683) ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * OGRDriver.CopyDataSource(): check that source dataset is not NULL * validate range of resample_alg algorithm (#2591) * expose CPLSetCurrentErrorHandlerCatchDebug() as gdal.SetCurrentErrorHandlerCatchDebug() CSharp bindings: * Add build support for .NET core (#1368) * SWIG 4.0 compatibility (#2802) * Adding typemaps C# for wrapper_GDALWarpDestDS and wrapper_GDALWarpDestName (#2621) * Expose Dataset.GetSpatialRef() (#2620) * Expose OSR.GetCRSInfoListFromDatabase (#1665) * Fixed implementation of Utf8BytesToString (#2649) Java bindings: * update minimum source/target Java version to 7 to please JDK 11 (#2594) * make 'install' target copy maven artifacts (gdal-X.Y.Z.jar) to /usr/share/java Perl bindings: Python bindings: * Move implementation of scripts in osgeo.utils package to be reusable * Fix Python2 install to be synchronous and report all errors (#2515) * add a colorSelection='nearest_color_entry'/'exact_color_entry' argument to gdal.DEMProcessing() * accept string as value for gdal.Translate() metadataOptions and creationOptions argument when providing single option (#2709) * gdal.Info(): make options=['-json'] work properly * remove use of deprecated PyObject_AsReadBuffer() function * makefile.vc: remove '-modern -new_repr' on python target for SWIG 4 compatibility * add GDALMDArray.shape attribute and GDALMDArray.ReadAsMaskedArray() method * make Dataset.ReadRaster() and Dataset.ReadAsArray() accept floating-point coordinates (#3101) # GDAL/OGR 3.1.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * Implement RFC 75: support for multidimensional arrays in MEM, VRT, netCDF, HDF4, HDF5 and GRIB drivers. Read/write for MEM and netCDF. Read/only for others. Add gdalmdiminfo and gdalmdimtranslate utilities. * Implement RFC76: add capability of writing vector drivers in Python * New GDAL drivers: - COG: write-only, for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF - EXR: read/write driver, relying on OpenEXR library - ISG: read-only, for geoid models of the International Service for the Geoid - RDB: read-only, for RIEGL Database .mpx RDB 2 files (#1538) (needs proprietary SDK) * New OGR drivers: - FlatGeoBuf: read-support and creation (#1742) - MapML: read/write driver for experimental web spec * Improved drivers: - OAPIF driver (renamed from WFS3): updated to OGC API - Features 1.0 core spec - GTiff: improve performance of internal overview creation - GTiff: GeoTIFF 1.1 support - Shapefile driver: add read/creation/update support for .shz and .shp.zip - netCDF vector: read/write support for CF-1.8 Encoded Geometries (#1287) - VICAR: multiple improvements and write support (#1855) - DDS: add read support * Other improvements: - gdalwarp: accept output drivers with only CreateCopy() capabilities - gdal_viewshed: new utility for viewshed algorithm * Remove GFT driver now that the online service no longer exists (#2050) * New Sphinx-based documentation * Multiple security related fixes (ossfuzz) * Continued code linting (cppcheck, CoverityScan, etc.) * Compatibility with GDAL 3.0: - C and C++ API: backward compatible changes - C ABI: backward compatible changes - C++ ABI: modified - Functional changes: see MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT ## GDAL/OGR 3.1.0 - General Changes Build(Unix): * use pkg-config for libxml2 detection (#2173) * fix detection of libpq in a non-standard place (#1542) * do not use absolute path in linking command. Helps Mac OS and cygwin builds (#2075) * Enable Bash completions and control installation * GDALmake.opt.in: silence datarootdir warning * Doc: allow user full control over installation directory * fix JVM detection for HDFS support on MacOS (#2313) * Remove #define HOST_FILLORDER from cpl_config.h (#2345) * Added search for proj library in lib64 directory. * configure: strip -L/usr/lib and similar from netCDF, MySQL, GEOS and SFCGAL lib path (#2395) * configure: remove useless -lproj from --with-spatialite detection Build(Windows): * parametrize number of CPUs for parallel builds with CPU_COUNT variable (#1922) * add HDF5_H5_IS_DLL variable to switch the scenario when HDF5 is built as a DLL (#1931) * add POSTFIX that defaults to _d for GDAL .dll, .lib and .pdb for DEBUG builds (#1901) * Fix issues with thread_local and C++ objects that don't work well with DLL on Windows All: * Support Poppler 0.82, 0.83, 0.85 ## GDAL 3.1.0 - Overview of Changes ## Algorithms * Warper: add sum resampling method (#1437) * Average resampling (warp and overview/translate): use weighted average for border source pixels * GDALReprojectImage(): properly take into account source/target alpha bands * GDALCreateReprojectionTransformerEx(): do not emit error if reverse transformation fails, and fix crash when trying to use null reverse transformation * Warper: fix GDAL 2.3 regression in a situation with source nodata value, multiple bands and nearest resampling where the logic to detect which source pixels are nodata was inverted (#1656) * GWKAverageOrModeThread(): reject invalid source pixels for average/q1/q3/mode/min/max resampling (#2365) * Multithreaded warper: make sure a transformer object is used by the thread which created it (#1989). This workarounds a PROJ bug also fixed per https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/1726 * Contour: fix SegmentMerger list iterator skipping and out of bounds error (#1670) * Contour: fix (over) precision issue when comparing pixel value to NoData on Float32 rasters (#1987) * Contour: add sanity checks for interval based contouring, in case the dataset contains extreme values regarding the settings, which would lead to a lot of memory allocations / too large computation time * TPS warper: enhance precision without armadillo support (#1809) * RPC warper: fix issue when source image has a geotransform (#2460) * GDALRasterizeGeometries(): fix potential integer overflow / memory allocation failure, depending on GDAL_CACHEMAX and raster dimensions (#2261) * Rasterize: speed optimization for geometry collections (#2369) * GDALContourGenerate(): propagate raster acquisition error (#2410) ## Port * /vsitar/: support >100 character file names (#1559) * /vsitar/: accept space as end of field terminator * /vsigz/: fix seeking within .gz/.tgz files larger than 2 GB (#2315) * /vsicurl (and derived filesystems): fix concurrency issue with multithreaded reads (#1244) * /vsicurl/: avoid downloading one extra block when the end offset is just at a chunk boundary * /vsicurl/: fix CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS with query string (#1614) * /vsicurl/: allow 'Connection timed out' CURL errors as candidate for HTTP retry * /vsicurl/: GetFileSize(): when HEAD request does not return Content-Length header, retry with GET * /vsis3/: for a long living file handle, refresh credentials coming from EC2/AIM (#1593) * /vsis3/: invalidate cached non-existing file is AWS_ config options are changed in the meantime (#2294) * /vsis3/ /vsigs/ /vsiaz/: implement Rename() first doing a copy of the original file and then deleting it * /vsis3/ and similar: add a NUM_THREADS option to Sync() for parallelized copy * AWS: Fix error in loading ~/.aws/config file (#2203) * VSISync(): when copying from /vsis3/ to /vsis3/ (or /vsigs/->/vsigs/, /vsiaz/->/vsiaz/), use CopyObject() method to use server side copy * VSISync(): make file copying from /vsis3/ actually use /vsis3_streaming/ to reduce number of GET requests * VSISync(): add a CHUNK_SIZE option to Sync() to split large objects and get parallelization of their download and upload * Add VSIUnlinkBatch() for batch deletion of files, and add optimized /vsis3/ implementation * Add efficient VSIRmdirRecursive() implementation for /vsis3/ * Add VSIGetFileMetadata()/VSISetFileMetadata() and implement them to get/set HTTP headers, and AWS S3 object tagging * /vsis3/ and other network filesystems: avoid useless network requests when we already got a directory listing (#2429) * /vsiswift/: V3 authentication method, handling auth token expiration * /vsimem/: make Rename() error if destination file is not in /vsimem/ * /vsizip/ writing: in ZIP64 mode, also advertise 45 as the version in the central directory (avoids a warning from 'zip' utility) * Add CPLCanRecode function and use it in MITAB, Shape and SXF drivers to decide when to advertise UTF-8 capability * CPLConfigOptionSetter: only reset thread-locale value, not global one * CPLJSONObject::GetType(): return Long when the value doesn't fit on a int32 * CPLJSON: distinguish Null type from Unknown/invalid type * CPLEscapeString(): escape double-quote for CPLES_URL * Add a CPLCondTimedWait() * cpl_safemaths.hpp: safe + and * for GUInt64 * Add CPLJSonStreamingWriter class * Add cpl_error_internal.h with logic with error accumulator * Add VSIOverwriteFile() * Add CPLLaunderForFilename() * cpl_error.h: add a CPLDebugOnly() macro that expands to CPLDebug() only for DEBUG builds * QuietDelete: support expliciting the drivers to use ## Core * Block cache: fix corruption on multithreaded write on datasets (#2011) * GDALInvGeoTransform(): make it work with scale and rotation/skew coefficients of small absolute value (#1615) * GDALCopyWholeRasterGetSwathSize(): fix potential int overflows for big values of GDAL_SWATH_SIZE or GDAL_CACHEMAX * PAMRasterBand: add presence flag for Offset and SetScale so that GetOffset()/GetScale() properly reports if they are defined in PAM * GDALDefaultOverviews::BuildOverviews(): fix typo in detection of 1x1 overview (#1730) * Fix precision loss at GDALResampleChunkC32R with complex data * Fix precision loss at GDALComputeBandStats with complex data * Proxy pool: Load band block sizes if not provided at creation. Fixes floating point exception on copy overviews from PRF dataset to destination dataset. * GTiff and PAM: allow serializing WKT2 for SRS using non-WKT1 compatible projections such as Vertical Perspective (#1856) * RasterIO(): fix non-neareset resampling over nodata blocks (#1941) * Overview dataset (-oo OVERVIEW_LEVEL): expose mask if the source dataset has a mask with overviews * GDALUnrolledCopy: fix SSE2-only implementation (when SSSE3 is not available, on older AMD CPUs) * PAM: support reading GCPs from ESRI GeodataXform in .aux.xml files * Make it possible to call BuildOverviews() on a dataset returned by GDALBuildVRT() * GDALDataset::SetProjection(): re-allow the use of PROJ4 strings (#2034) ## Utilities * GDALInfo(): fix axis order issue in long,lat corner coordinates, in particular when reading from a .aux.xml with a ProjectedCRS (#2195) * gdal_translate: Make 'gdal_translate foo.tif foo.tif.ovr -outsize 50% 50% -of GTiff' work * gdal_translate: clamp/round source nodata value when not compatible of the target data type. Was already done when using -a_nodata, but not with implicit copy (#2105) * gdalwarp: accept output drivers with only CreateCopy() capabilities * gdalwarp: adjust nodata values, passed with -srcnodata/-dstnodata, and close to FLT_MAX to exactly it (#1724) * gdalwarp: fix wrong axis order when using source/target CRS being a geographic3D CRS such as EPSG:4979, and with vertical shift grid application (#1561, GDAL 3.0 regression) * gdal_contour: remove explicit width/precision=12/3 of the elev field (#1487) * gdal_contour: turn on quiet mode if output dataset is standard output (refs #2057) * gdaldem: avoid potential integer overflow in color-relief mode (#2354) * gdal_calc.py: fixed NaN-streaking in output images when the --allBands option is given to tiled images * gdal_polygonize.py: fix outputting to geojson without explicit -f switch (#1533) * gdalcompare.py: take into account mask bands * gdal_retile.py: add resume option (#1703) * gdallocationinfo: emit verbose error when dataset cannot be opened (#1684) * gdallocationinfo and gdaltransform: print a hint when values are expected from the command line and stdin is an interactive terminal (refs #1684) * Python utilities: fix GetOutputDriverFor() when multiple drivers found (#1719) * gdal2tiles.py: add remaining resample methods * gdal2tiles.py: add option for setting the tile size (#2097) * gdal2tiles.py: add --xyz option to generate tiles in the OSM Slippy Map standard (#2098) * gdal2tiles.py: show warning when running against non-Byte input (#1956) * gdal2tiles.py: update cache calculation (#2020) * gdal2tiles.py: check that min zoom <= max zoom (#2161) * gdal2tiles.py: ignore nodata values that are not in the range of the band data type * gdal2tiles.py: fix hang when --s_srs specified but image lacks georeferencing * gdal_translate / gdalwarp / ogrct: allow dealing with non-WKT1 representable SRS (#1856) * gdal_edit.py: add a -units switch * gdal_edit.py: add -a_ulurll switch * gdal_fillnodata.py/GDALFillNodata: fix crash when smooth_iterations is used, and with some progress functions such as the one used by Python (#1184) * Python scripts and samples: use python3 for shebang (#2168) ## Sample scripts * Add tile_extent_from_raster.py: sample script to generate the extent of each raster tile in a overview as a vector layer * Add gdal_remove_towgs84.py script ## GDAL drivers Multiple drivers: * GTiff, GPKG, MBTiles, PostgisRaster drivers: share lock of overview dataset with parent dataset (#1488) * HDF5 and netCDF: fix crash when reading attributes of type string of variable length with NULL values * CTable2/LOSLAS/NTv1/NTv2: document in metadata that positive longitude shift values are towards west * Revise raster drivers GDAL_DMD_HELPTOPIC * JP2KAK and JP2OPENJPEG: fix to read images whose origin is not (0,0) * Strip TOWGS84 when datum is known, in GTiff, Spatialite and GPKG drivers BAG driver: * modify way georeferencing is read (particularly pixel sizes and origin) (#1728) * Backward compatibility for metadata reading for BAG < 1.5 (#2428) BSB driver: * Report PLY coordinates as a WKT POLYGON in a BSB_CUTLINE metadata item BYN driver: * fix nodata value for Int32 encoded products DAAS driver: * accept 4-band RGBA PNG response even when a single band is requested DIMAP driver: * don't look inside Dataset_Components if Raster_Data is present * avoid reparsing xml if already a product dimap * ignore missing strip xml file DDS driver: * add read support DTED driver: * Add DTED_APPLY_PIXEL_IS_POINT environment switch (#2384) * emit a CE_Failure instead of a CE_Warning in case of checksum verification failure (#2410) * support E96 as well as MSL for COMPD_CS (#2422) EEDA driver: * fix startTime / endTime comparisons that were incomplete in #1506 FITS driver: * fix memory leaks ENVI driver: * add read support for reading GCPs (#1528), and fix off-by-one offset on line,pixel on reading GCP * fix potential use of invalid pointer on some unusual std::string implementations (#1527) * preserve 'byte order' on update (#1796) GPKG driver: * support opening subdataset of /vsicurl/ files (#2153) GTiff driver: * improve performance of internal overview creation (#1442) * in COPY_SRC_OVERVIEWS=YES, interleave mask with imagery, and add leader/trailer to strile * optimize read of cloud-optimized geotiffs * do not generate a TIFFTAG_GDAL_METADATA with color interpretation information for JPEG YCbCr compression * make -co NUM_THREADS produce reproducible output * make overview blocksize defaults to same as full-resolution * move deferred tile/strip offset/bytecount loading to libtiff * make WEBP_LEVEL to be honored in Create() mode (fixes #1594) * PushMetadataToPam(): early exit when PAM is disabled, to avoid error messages * remove support for libtiff 3.X * set a LAYOUT=COG metadata item in the IMAGE_STRUCTURE metadata domain of the dataset when the hidden feature declarations typical of a COG file are found * fix memory leak with -co APPEND_SUBDATASET=YES * fix error message for NBITS != 16 and Float32 * add explicit error message when trying to create a too big tiled TIFF file (refs #1786) * ensure GDAL PROJ context is used for all libgeotiff functions (requires internal libgeotiff / libgeotiff 1.6) * make sure that GetMetadataDomainList() doesn't return EXIF when there's no EXIF metadata * GTIFGetOGISDefn: avoid querying UOM length info when it is KvUserDefined to avoid an error to be emitted * on CRS reading, avoid unsetting of EPSG code when ProjLinearUnitsGeoKey = Linear_Foot_US_Survey and the CRS also uses that unit (#2290) * do not write in GeoTIFF keys non-standard projections * do not write TOWGS84 that come from EPSG codes, unless GTIFF_WRITE_TOWGS84=YES is explicitly set * GTiff writing: workaround PROJ 6.3.0 bug when writing a EPSG:4937 ETRS89 Geog3D CRS * GTiff writing: do not write by default EPSG:3857/WebMercator as a ESRI PE string. Fixes 3.0 regression * avoid crash on single-component file with Whitepoint and PrimaryChromaticities tags * libtiff: BigTIFF creation: write TileByteCounts/StripByteCounts tag with SHORT or LONG when possible * Internal libgeotiff: set UOMLength from GeogLinearUnits (for geocentric CRS) (#1596) * Internal libgeotiff: upgrade to libgeotiff 1.6.0dev to support OGC GeoTIFF 1.1 * Internal libtiff: resync with internal libtiff (post 4.1.0) GRIB driver: * do not do erroneous K->C unit conversion for derived forecasts whose content is not a temperature, but a derived quantity, such as spread * avoid erroneous K->C conversion for Dew point depression * update GRIB tables to degrib 2.24 * add missing entries in MeteoAtmoChem table * add more values from Table 4.5 in Surface type table * add support for template 4.48 Optical Properties of Aerosol * add support for rotated lat-lon grids * avoid quadratic performance on GRIB2 datasets using subgrids within a single GRIB message (#2288) GXF driver: * avoid closing the file pointer before being sure this is a GXF driver, otherwise this can prevent the opening of some raw format files (#1521) HDF4 driver: * fix retrieval of non-string swath and grid attributes * fix GR support for non-Byte rasters * remove broken attribute reading * fixes related to color table HDF5 driver: * avoid error report of the HDF5 library when _FillValue attribute is missing * Make GH5_FetchAttribute(CPLString) more robust and able to cope with variable-length string * type detection: only detect complex data type if the component names start with r/R and i/I (refinement of #359) * add a way to open datasets split over several files using the 'family' driver * fix reading single dimension dataset (#2180) HFA driver: * fix writing of compressed file when a RLE run count is in the [0x4000,0x8000[ range or [0x400000, 0x800000[ (#2150) IGNFHeightASCIIGrid driver: * fix to read RASPM2018.mnt grid IRIS driver: * make identification more restrictive to avoid false-positive identification of raw binary formats such as ENVI (#1961) ISIS3 driver: * extract band name from BandBin group, and wavelength/bandwidth (#1853) * preserve label in PAM .aux.xml when copying to other formats (#1854) * add support for PointPerspective projection (#1856) * add support for Oblique Cylindrical projection (#1856) JP2ECW driver: * add support for ECWJP2 SDK 5.5 JP2OpenJPEG driver: * Fix multi-threading race condition (#1847) * fix reading overviews, when tiled API is used, and the dimensions of the full resolution image are not a multiple of 2^numresolutions (#1860) * fix to return the proper number of bytes read when we read more than 2 GB at once (fixes https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1151) JP2KAK driver: * fix issue with multi-threaded reads * NMAKE: Allow users to tweak/append extras to KAKINC (#1584) JPEG driver: * fix further calls to RasterIO after reading full image at full resolution (#1947) * tune sanity check for multiple-scan (QGIS #35957) * in case of multiscan image and implicit overviews, limit memory consumption KEA driver: * return error when deleting metadata item rather than crashing (#1681) * Backport thread safety fixes and nullptr tests from standalone driver (#2372) LOSLAS driver: * add support for .geo geoid models MEM driver: * Set access mode to the one required in Open() MRF driver: * fix relative file name detection * relax TIFF tile format rules on read * Accept any known projection encoding * use PNG library for swapping * fixes caching MRF issue MrSID driver: * add MRSID_PLATFORM to frmts/mrsid/nmake.opt netCDF driver: * improve performance when reading chunked netCDF 4 bottom-up files (read-only) * correctly parse grid_mapping attribute in expanded form * allow "radian" value for the X/Y axis units * very partial workaround for an issue in libnetcdf 4.6.3 and 4.7.0 with unlimited dimensions (refs https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1442) * NCDFIsUserDefinedType(): make it work for types in subgroups * Disregard valid range if min > max (#1811) * for byte (signed/unsigned) variables, do not report a nodata value if there's no explicit _FillValue/missing_value as recommended by the netCDF specs. And for other data types use nc_inq_var_fill() to get the default value * do not report nodata if NOFILL is set * fix bottom-up identification with negative scale_factor for y axis (#1383) * fix issue when opening /vsicurl/http[s]://example.com/foo.nc filenames (#2412) * Fix support of WKT1_GDAL with netCDF rotated pole formulation NGW driver: * Add support for additional raster types and QGIS styles. * Add more server side attribute filters. NITF driver: * skip bad UDID data (#1578) NTv2 driver: * add support for the Canadian NAD83(CRSR)v7 / NAD83v70VG.gvb velocity grid OZI driver: * fix axis order issue with georeferencing (3.0 regression) PDF driver: * update to use newer versions of pdfium PDS3 driver: * report the label in a json:PDS metadata domain * fix support of Oblique Cylindrical (#1856) * ix opening of datasets with BSQ organization (or single band), where one band is larger than 2 GB (2.3 regression) * nasakeywordhandler: fixes to be able to read some labels with metadata items whose value is a list on several lines * add a GDAL_TRY_PDS3_WITH_VICAR configuration option that can be set to YES so that PDS3 datasets that contain a VICAR label are opened by the VICAR driver PDS4 driver: * update CART schema to 1D00_1933 and PDS to 1C00 (#1851) * fix reading side of Mercator and Orthographic * add a CREATE_LABEL_ONLY=YES creation option, and create a
element (#1832) * add write support for LAEA projection PNG driver: * Update internal libpng to 1.6.37 PNM driver: * emit warning if creating file with non-standard extension RasterLite2 driver: * fix build against latest librasterlite2, and require it RMF driver: * Add support for PZ-90.11 and GSK-2011 coordinate systems * Read vertical datum info * Add translation vertical CS ID to dataset's spatial reference RS2 driver: * add half-pixel shift to reported GCP line and column numbers (#1666) Sentinel2 driver: * Add support for exposing Level-2A AOT, WVP, SCL, CLD, SNW data in SAFE_COMPACT format (#2404) TileDB driver: * add capability to define co-registered attributes per band * set row-major reads and removed adviseread (#1479) * added support for raster band metadata * TILEDB_LIBS added for windows build * partial updates to existing arrays * support reading tiles in update mode (#2185) * use array metadata to store xml (#2103) * redirect vsis3 calls to tiledb s3 direct calls * Flush cache in block order for global writes (#2391) TSX driver: * add PAZ support USGSDEM driver: * fix reading FEMA generated Lidar datasets whose header is 918 bytes large VICAR driver: * Support FORMAT=HALF, DOUB and COMP * Support big-endian order for integer & floating point values * Support VAX floating-point order * Support BIP and BIL organizations * Ignore binary label records (NBL), and properly skip binary prefixes (NBB) * fix reading of EOL labels with non BSQ organizations, and possible confusion with LBLSIZE of EOL overwriting the main one * improvements in label reading, and report label in a json:VICAR metadata domain * read binary prefixes as OGR layer * add read support for BASIC and BASIC2 compression methods * add write support * remove obsolete END-OF-DATASET_LABEL, CONVERSION_DETAILS and PIXEL-SHIFT-BUG metadata items that dates back to 1.X era VRT driver: * add 'vrt://{gdal_dataset}?bands=num1,...,numN' syntax as a convenient way of creating a on-the-fly VRT with a subset of bands * VRT warp: do not fail if a block has no corresponding source pixels (#1985) * VRT Python: also probe libpython3.Xm.so.1.0 (#1660) * VRT Python: add Python 3.8 compatibility * avoid erroneous pixel request do be done with KernelFilteredSource * VRTRawRasterBand: add GetVirtualMemAuto interface to enable mmap io * fix requesting a downsampling version of the mask band of a source that has masks and overviews * VRT pansharpening: fix crash when NoData is set and input multispectral bands are separate files (#2328) * fix IGetDataCoverageStatus() that can cause issue for the use case of https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2020-April/051889.html * gdalvrt.xsd: add 'dataAxisToSRSAxisMapping' attribute for GCPList element (#2378) WCS driver: * pass user-supplied progress function to curl HTTP request when using DirectRasterIO WMS driver: * IReadBlock(): limit number of tiles downloaded at once * Use curl_multi_wait instead of socket API (#1789) * AGS: Remove unused parameters from url ## OGR 3.1.0 - Overview of Changes ## Core * Support API-level precision/round for geometry WKT (#1797) * OGR SQL: make LIKE behave in a case sensitive way from now * OGR SQL: support constructs 'A OR B OR C ... OR N' with many successive OR * SQL SQLite: do not propagate 'IS / IS NOT value' constructs to OGR SQL * SQL SQLite: add support for ST_MakeValid() using OGRGeometry::MakeValid() if not exposed by Spatialite already * Rename swq.h->ogr_swq.h and install it, mark SQL query parse API with CPL_UNSTABLE_API macro (#1925) * SQLite dialect: fix issue when using JOIN on a layer without fast filter count capability * OGRSimpleCurve::getPoints() with XYZM: fix wrong stride used for M array * OGRSimpleCurve: fix reversePoints() and addSubLineString() to take into account M dimension * Add OGR_G_CreateGeometryFromEsriJson() and map it to SWIG * OGRLinearRing::isPointOnRingBoundary(): fix incomplete test that could falsely return true if the point was aligned with a segment, but not between the nodes. Impact correct reconstruction of holes in shapefile driver * OGRGeometryFactory::ForceTo(): fix crash when forcing a MultiPolygon Z/M/ZM to a CompoundCurve (#2120) * OGRGeometryFactory::forceToMultiLineString(): fix for a GeometryCollection of LineStringZ/M/ZM (#1873) * OGRGeometryRebuildCurves(): only try to reconstruct curved geometry if one of the input geometries has really a non-linear portion * curveFromLineString(): make sure to exactly close the compound curve if the input curve is itself closed * GDALDataset::CopyLayer(): fix crash when using DST_SRSWKT option. And also set SetAxisMappingStrategy(OAMS_TRADITIONAL_GIS_ORDER) * Add OGR_G_RemoveLowerDimensionSubGeoms() ## OGRSpatialReference * Revise how SRS methods deal with TOWGS84. Add OSR_ADD_TOWGS84_ON_IMPORT_FROM_EPSG, OSR_ADD_TOWGS84_ON_EXPORT_TO_PROJ4 and OSR_ADD_TOWGS84_ON_EXPORT_TO_WKT1 configuration options. See https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/cc02dc4397c7ec43ec4c4b842e5faabe16c54904 for details * SetFromUserInput(): add capability to import PROJJSON * add ExportToPROJJSON() (PROJ >= 6.2) * GetAxis(): make it work with a compound CRS (#1604) * Coordinate transformation: fix invalid output with some input coordinates in EPSG:4326 to EPSG:3857 transformation (3.0 regression) * Coordinate transformation: Coordinate transformation: add a OGR_CT_OP_SELECTION=PROJ/BEST_ACCURACY/FIRST_MATCHING config option. Defaults to PROJ for PROJ >= 6.3 * importFromWkt(): emit a CPLError() in case of import failure (#1623) * Add OSRGetAxesCount() to C API and SWIG bindings * Add OSRPromoteTo3D() and map it to SWIG (PROJ >= 7) (#1852) * importFromESRI(): acept COMPD_CS (#1881) * add an internal cache for importFromEPSG() and importFromWkt(). Helps performance for MapServer PROJ6 migration * Add support for Vertical Perspective projection (#1856) * Add a OSRGetPROJSearchPaths() function and a SWIG osr.GetPROJVersionMicro() * Fix use-after-free issue when destroying a OGRSpatialReference object in a thread when another thread has created it but has been destroy in-between * Coordinate transformation: make it work with hacky WKT1 rotated pole from netCDF driver * Add OGR_GeomTransformer_XXXX API that wraps OGRGeometryFactory::transformWithOptions() and expose it to SWIG (fixes #1911) * Fix PROJ usage across fork() calls (#2221) * OGRCoordinateTransformation: correctly deal when transforming CRS that includes +lon_wrap= or similar qualifiers * Add OSRIsDerivedGeographic() * EPSGTreatsAsNorthingEasting(): fix it to properly deal with Polar projected CRS with northing,easting order ## Utilities * ogrinfo: add a -nogeomtype switch * ogrinfo: fix to output WKT2 SRS by default. Was done correctly for several geometry column, but not single one * ogr2ogr: emit better error message when using -f VRT * ogr2ogr: improve performance of -explodecollections on collections with big number of parts * ogr2ogr: avoid non-relevant warning 'Input datasource uses random layer reading, but output datasource does not support random layer writing' when converting one single layer * ogr2ogr: allow to combine -nlt CONVERT_TO_LINEAR and -nlt PROMOTE_TO_MULTI (#2338) * ogr2ogr: add a -makevalid switch (requires GEOS 3.8 or later) and expose it in Python as makeValid=True options of gdal.VectorTranslate() ## OGR drivers Multiple drivers: * GML/WFS: add support for Date, Time and DateTime fields * GeoJSONSeq & TopoJSON: avoid false positive detection and errors on unrelated http[s]:// filenames AmigoCloud driver: * Modify amigocloud URL endpoint. AVCE00 driver: * fix alternance from sequential to per-FID reading CAD driver: * Fix read ellipse and arc (#1886) DXF driver: * Re-add some header and trailer elements that caused compatibility issues with recent Autocad versions (#1213) * Generate correct HATCH boundary elliptical arc segments for certain start/end angles * Skip "Embedded Object" sections in 2018 version DXFs * Specify maximum gap between interpolated curve points, configurable with OGR_ARC_MAX_GAP * do not error out if trying to create a OGR_STYLE field * fix handling of SPLINE whose first knot is at a very very close to zero negative (#1969) * do not discard Z value when reading a HATCH (#2349) * write (100, AcDbEntity) before (8, layer_name) (#2348) * Correct handling of "off" and "frozen" layers in blocks (#1028) DWG driver: * add support for ODA 2021.2 (Windows builds) ElasticSearch driver: * rename driver to Elasticsearch (s lowercase for search) * update geometry type name for Points * Enable support for Elasticsearch 7 (#1246) * Set 'application/json' in RunRequest() with POST (#1628) * GeoJSON type field should be mapped as text in ES>=5 * add FORWARD_HTTP_HEADERS_FROM_ENV open option to pass HTTP headers down to the ES server * translate constructs like CAST(field_name AS CHARACTER[(size)]) = 'foo' to ES query language ESRIJson driver: * attempt identification of SRS from database entries (#2007) * do not require a 'geometry' member to be present in a feature GeoJSON driver: * on writing, format OFTDate and OFTDateTime as ISO 8601 strings rather than OGR traditional formatting * add a DATE_AS_STRING open option that can be set to YES to disable autodetection of date/time/datetime * Advertise UTF-8 encoding of strings (#2151). * report 3D layer geometry types (#1495) * fix recognizing some documents with members sorted alphabetically (#1537) * avoid SetFeature() to repeat first feature when looping over features (#1687) * use VSIOverwriteFile() to fix update of file on Windows (fixes https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/28580) * Transform MAX_OBJECT_SIZE to runtime environment option - OGR_GEOJSON_MAX_OBJ_SIZE * on reading of a file that use crs.name = urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84, report EPSG:4326 as we used to do in GDAL 2 (#2035) * in writing mode, implement GetExtent() (#2269) * Add ID_GENERATE option for generating missing feature ids (#2406) GeoJSONSeq driver: * make Open() return successfully only if at least one feature is detected GML driver: * support reading standalone geometry (#2386) * fix axis order issue when decoding AIXM ElevationPoint (#2356) * fix axis order issue with gml:CircleByCenterPoint and gml:ArcByCenterPoint (# 2356) * fix handling of angles with ArcByCenterPoint and urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326, and compound curves made of a sequence of straight lines and ArcByCenterPoint in a (#2356) GPKG driver: * change default value of OGR_GPKG_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECK to NO, so as to avoid issues in downstream software * insert more accurate spatial extent in gpkg_contents * on layer creation, check if the SRS is consistent with its advertise AUTHORITY/ID, and if not do not use official EPSG entries (#1857) * allow parsing datetime serialized as OGR strings, and emit warnings when unrecognized content is found (#2183) * when writing a layer of geometry wkbUnknown, make sure to set gpkg_geometry_columns.z/m to 2 when there are geometries with Z/M values (#2360) KML driver: * set OAMS_TRADITIONAL_GIS_ORDER for SRS returned on returned layers LIBKML driver: * make it accept /vsigzip/foo.kml.gz files (#1743) MITAB driver: * Add friendly layer name (description) support. * Fix creation of long field names in local encoding (#1617) * don't left truncate numeric values in the .dat when the field formatting is incompatible, but error out (#1636) * Add custom datum/spheroid parameters export * Update WindowsLatin2 definition (#1571) * identify correctly GDA2020 datum * do not set (by default) TOWGS84 when reading a known Datum * cleanup management of update flag (#2170) MSSQLSpatial driver: * Fix handling empty geometries (#1674) * Fix handling mixed geometries (#1678) * avoid GetExtent() to mess with GetNextFeature() statement, so that ogrinfo -al works properly MVT driver: * make CONF option accept a filename as well * reduce memory usage when processing big geometries (#1673) MySQL driver: * Add SRID to geometry when creating layer table (#1015) * use INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ST_GEOMETRY_COLUMNS to get SRSId NAS driver: * disable generation of .gfs file in read-only file systems (or intended to be), similarly to GML driver netCDF driver: * add read/write support for CF-1.8 Encoded Geometries * add support for vector products Sentinel3 SRAL MWR Level 2 NGW driver: * Fix dataset access mode * Add support for layers geometry types with Z OAPIF driver (previously WFS3): * updated to OGC API - Features 1.0 core spec (#1878) * correctly handle user query string parameters in connection URL (#1710) * add persistent curl session for better performance * add capability to use a XML Schema to build the layer field definition and geometry type * add capability to use JSON schema * add support for rel=queryables and cql-text * add a IGNORE_SCHEMA=YES/NO open option * implement filter-lang=json-filter-expr * avoid issues with double slash when building a /collections URL OSM driver: * make error message hopefully clearer and more complete (#2100) PDF driver: * fix reading polygon with holes and Bezier curves (#1932) * add a GDAL_PDF_LAUNDER_LAYER_NAMES configuration option * fix reading strings with escape sequences PostgreSQL driver: * add support for PostgreSQL 12 (#1692) * add support for PG:service=xxx syntax and SERVICE open option (#2373) * support PostGIS schema installed in non-public schema (#2400) * do not attempt to create VARCHAR(n) columns with n >= 10485760 (#1508) * be more restrictive when deducing non-nullability of columns in SQL result layers (#1734) Shape driver: * add read/creation/update support for .shz and .shp.zip * identify a EPSG code if the confidence is >= 90 (https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues/1799) * better deal with empty .shp+.shx and SHAPE_RESTORE_SHX (#1525) * launder layer name to get Windows compatible filename * try to better deal with polygons with parts touching on an edge (which is illegal simple features) (#1787) * fix crash when creating a layer with a wkbNone geometry type but a SRS (3.0 regression) * include fseek() optimization of https://github.com/OSGeo/shapelib/pull/3 * expose .dbf and .cpg source encodings in the SHAPEFILE metadata domain * correctly update layer extent when first feature is a point at (0,0) (#2269) S57 driver: * s57objectclasses.csv: add missing TXTDSC attribute for DRYDOC class (#1723) * s57objectclasses.csv: add wtwdis and unlocd for distance marks from IENC (#2123) * s57objectclasses.csv: add PICREP attribute to LNDMRK object class * Added handling of ISDT when using updates (#895) * Added creation of additional field "ATTF" when missing while updating (#2249) SOSI driver: * Append values from duplicate fields when setting new appendFieldsMap open option (#1794) SQLITE driver: * fix crash in loading sqlite extensions on iOS (#1820) * fix conversion of geometry collections (and derived types) in geometry collections as Spatialite geometries, by flattening the structure * cleanup management of update flag (#2162) * GetSpatialiteGeometryHeader(): fix bug regarding detection of empty geometries SXF driver: * Add open options with RSC file name * Use SXF_LAYER_FULLNAME from dataset open options * Use SXF_SET_VERTCS from dataset open options * Add OGRSXFLayer::CanRecode and check it for OLCStringsAsUTF8 capability * Add driver identify function (#1607) VFK driver: * use a faster implementation of VFKDataBlockSQLite::LoadGeometryPolygon() VRT driver: * set OAMS_TRADITIONAL_GIS_ORDER for LayerSRS (#1975) WaSP driver: * on creation, make sure the layer geometry type set on the feature definition is wkbLineString25D WFS driver: * Support FlatGeobuf as WFS outputformat (#2135) * skip silently GeoServer EPSG:404000 dummy CRS XLSX driver: * add support for .xlsm extension ## SWIG Language Bindings All: * add osr.SetPROJSearchPath(path) that can be used since setting PROJ_LIB from C# does no work (#1647) Python bindings: * add 'add' option to gdal.Rasterize * add hint&workaround for ImportError on Windows Python >= 3.8 * add compatibility with SWIG 4.0 (#1702) * build modules in parallel * honour gdal.UseExceptions() in numpy related methods (gdalnumeric module) (#1515) * update to SWIG 3.0.12 to have better error message (#1677) * make the feature iterator on the layer call ResetReading() * Removed calls to deprecated imp module (#2264) * Add numpy as extras_require dependency (#2158) * emit exception is osr.SpatialReference(wkt) fails, even if in non-UseExceptions() mode, to avoid later cryptic exception (#2303) * NUMPYDataset::Open() / gdal_array.OpenArray(): honour writable flag of the numpy array to decide update status of GDAL dataset * fix invalid check for Dataset.ReadAsArray(buf_obj=some_array, interleave='pixel') scenario # GDAL/OGR 3.0.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * Implement RFC 73: Integration of PROJ6 for WKT2, late binding capabilities, time-support and unified CRS database. PROJ >= 6 is now a build requirement https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc73_proj6_wkt2_srsbarn * New GDAL drivers: - DAAS: read driver for Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service - TileDB: read/write driver for https://www.tiledb.io (#1402) * New OGR drivers: - MongoDBv3: read/write driver using libmongocxx v3.4.0 client (for MongoDB >= 4.0) * Improved drivers: - FITS: read/write support for scale, offset and CRS - netCDF: read support for groups - PDF: add a COMPOSITION_FILE creation option to generate a complex document - PDS4: subdataset creation support, read/write table/vector support * Support for minimal builds on Unix (#1250) * Add a docker/ directory with Dockerfile for different configurations * Continued code linting ## New installed files * Resource file: pdfcomposition.xsd ## Removed installed files * Removal of resource files related to EPSG and ESRI CRS databases: compdcs.csv, coordinate_axis.csv, datum_shift.csv, ellipsoid.csv, esri_epsg.wkt, esri_extra.wkt, esri_Wisconsin_extra.wkt, gcs.csv, gcs.override.csv, gdal_datum.csv, geoccs.csv, pcs.csv, pcs.override.csv, prime_meridian.csv, projop_wparm.csv, unit_of_measure.csv, vertcs.csv, vertcs.override.csv ## Backward compatibility issues See MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt ## GDAL/OGR 3.0.0 - General Changes Build(Unix): * Allow internal drivers to be disabled (#1250) * Fix build with OpenBSD which doesn't support RLIMIT_AS (#1163) * Fix MacOS build failures due to json-c * Poppler: require pkg-config * PostgreSQL: Switch from pg_config to pkg-config (#1418) * fix build --without-lerc (#1224) * fix netcdf_mem.h detection in netcdf 4.6.2 (#1328) * Fix build --with-curl --without-threads (#1386) Build(Windows): * nmake.opt: remove unicode character at line starting with '# 4275' that apparently cause build issues with some MSVC versions (#1169) All: * PROJ >= 6.0 is a required external dependency * libgeotiff >= 1.5 should be used for builds with external libgeotiff * Poppler: drop support for Poppler older than 0.23.0 * Poppler: add support for 0.72.0, 0.73.0, 0.75.0, 0.76.0 ## GDAL 3.0.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * Add capability to define external VSI virtual file systems from C API (#1289) * MiniXML: Fix wrong node order when calling CPLAddXMLAttributeAndValue() after CPLCreateXMLElementAndValue() * /vsicurl/: ReadMultiRange(): use default implementation if there is a single range (#1206) * /vsicurl/: ignore proxy CONNECT response headers (#1211) * /vsicurl/: automatically detect signed URLs where host ends with a port number; also detect signed URLs as created with the AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 method (#1456) * /vsizip/: Add config option to create zip64 extra fields by default (#1267) * /vsis3/, /vsigs/, /vsiaz/: add HTTP retry logic in writing code paths * Fix data race in VSIFileManager::Get * cpl_zipOpenNewFileInZip3: fix memory leak in error code path. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13103. * VSIGZipWriteHandleMT: avoid potential deadlock in case of error * Fix assertion in CPLGetValueType when testing non-ASCII chars * /vsihdfs/: fix Read() when more than one hdfsRead call is needed (#1349) * Fix potential buffer overflow in CPLODBCSession::Failed (#1390) * /vsitar/: handle .tar file header with space padding instead of 0 for file size (#1396) Core: * Support blocks larger than 2 billion pixels/bytes * Make CPLHaveRuntimeSSSE3() and CPLHaveRuntimeAVX() use GCC constructor functions * Move RawDataset base class to gcore/ (#1268) * RasterBand/Dataset::RasterIO(): enforce access mode on write * PAM: preserve existing metadata when setting new one (#1430) * RawDataset: use generic RasterIO() implementation when non-nearest resampling is asked (#1301) * DumpJPK2CodeStream(): dump PLT and POC markers Algorithms: * RPC transformer: test success code of GDALRPCTransform() in GDALCreateRPCTransformer() * RPC transformer: add a RPC_FOOTPRINT transformer option to provide a polygon in long/lat space where the RPC is valid, and also make gdalwarp use GDALSuggestedWarpOutput2() to restrict the bounding box of the output dataset * GDALFillNodata(): fix wrong comparison in QUAD_CHECK() macro: nNoDataVal is only assigned to target_y values (#1228) * GDALFillNodata(): reinitialize panLastY array to nNoDataVal before bottom to top pass (#1228) * GDALFillNodata(): do an extra iteration to reach the maximum search distance in all quadrants (#1228) * GDALRasterizeLayersBuf():support any GDAL data type for buffer,and pixel and line spaceing arguments * GDALResampleChunk32R_Mode: performance improvement * Rasterize with MERGE_ALG=ADD: avoid burning several times intermediate points of linestrings (#1307) * rasterize: fix crash when working buffer is larger than 2GB (#1338) Utilities: * gdal_translate: add "-nogcp" option (#1469) * gdal_contour: remove explicit width/precision=12/3 of the elev field (#1487) * gdaldem hillshade: add -igor option (#1330) * gdalwarp -crop_to_cutline: do not round computed target extent to be aligned on the grid of the source raster if -tr is set (restore partially pre 2.4 behavior) (#1173) * gdalwarp: assume -tap when using -crop_to_cutline, -tr and -wo CUTLINE_ALL_TOUCHED=TRUE, so as to avoid issues with polygons smaller than 1x1 pixels (#1360) * gdal2tiles: give local tile layer and basemap layers same min/max zoom levels as generated tile cache * gdal2tiles: fix breakage of openlayers.html getURL() javascript function, introduced in GDAL 2.3.3 / 2.4.0 (#1127) * gdal2tiles: prevent accidental copy of full GeoTIFF into temporary .vrt file gdal2tiles: Refactor and fix multiprocessing completion handling * gdal_fillnodata.py: preserve color interpretation and table * gdal_fillnodata.py: do not set geotransform if source doesn't have one * gdalsrsinfo: do not silence errors when calling SetFromUserInput() * gdal_retile: Use nodata value from origin dataset * gdal_edit.py: allow setting band-specific scale and offset values (#1444) * validate_cloud_optimized_geotiff.py: check if file is only greater than 512px (#1403) * validate_cloud_optimized_geotiff.py: report headers size Multidriver fixes: * GTiff, GPKG, MBTiles, PostgisRaster drivers: ensure that main dataset and overviews share the same lock, so as to avoid crashing concurrent access (#1488) ADRG driver: * modified to ensure that there is no confliction between ADRG and SRP when opening a .gen file (#953) AIGRID / AVCBin: * fix filename case adjustment that failed on /vsi filesystems (#1385) BAG driver: * fix potential nullptr deref on corrupted file COSAR driver: * avoid out-of-bound write on corrupted dataset. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12360. EEDA driver: * report 'path' metadata in 'path' field GPKG driver: * allow negative srs_id values in gpkg_spatial_ref_sys * reduce memory requirements for cached tiles GTiff diver: * supports tiles/strips larger than 2GB * add APPEND_SUBDATASET=YES capability to create subdataset / new TIFF page to an existing file * only report scale/offset deduced from ModelTiepointTag and ModelPixelScaleTag if the SRS has a vertical component (and thus currently if GTIFF_REPORT_COMPD_CS is set) (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/20493) * TIFF Lerc: properly initialize state after Create() so that BuildOverviews() succeed (#1257) * emit merged consecutive multi-range reads (#1297) * add warnings when using unsupported combination of internal mask+external overview, and fix COPY_SRC_OVERVIEWS=YES so that it does not copy ALL_VALID masks (#1455) * do not generate a TIFFTAG_GDAL_METADATA with color interpretation information for JPEG YCbCr compression * Internal libtiff and libgeotiff: resync with upstream FITS driver: * new functions for Scale Offset and FITS World Coordinate System read and write (#1298) GeoRaster driver: * Fix memory leaks HDF5 driver: * support reading blocks larger than 2GB * fix handling of attributes of type SCHAR, UCHAR, USHORT and UINT (https://github.com/mapbox/rasterio/issues/1663) * detect nodata from netCDF _FillValue (#1451) * add more strict checks for accepting datasets for GCP, and handle nodata in GCP too (#1451) IGNFHeightAsciiGrid driver: * add support for RAF18.mnt JPEG driver: * fix GDAL 2.3.0 performance regression when decoding JPEG (or GPKG using JPEG) images (#1324) KEA driver: * add support for /vsi file systems KMLSuperOverlay driver: * report color table of single overlay datasets, and also handle some variation in the KML structure (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/20173) MRF driver: * sparse index and internal resampling fixes * fix integer overflow. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13974 MrSID driver: * fix potential crash when a zoom level cannot be opened netCDF driver: * implement support for NetCDF-4 groups on reading (#1180) * support complex data types (#1218) * fix crash when opening a dataset with an attribute of length 0 (#1303) * fix IWriteBlock() to support non-scanline blocks, and use the chunk size * better deal with datasets indexed with unusual order for x/y dimensions * avoid inappropriate shift by -360 when attribute axis=X is set (#1440) NGW driver: * Add CreateCopy function NITF driver: * avoid harmless floating point division by zero. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12844. PCIDSK driver: * avoid uint overflow and too big memory allocation attempt. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12893 PDF driver: * Add a COMPOSITION_FILE creation option to generate a complex document * And a gdal_create_pdf.py sample script * Fix selection of Poppler PDF layers with duplicate names (#1477) * avoid division by zero when generating from vector content whose bounding box is almost a horizontal or vertical line. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13408 PDS3: * fix decoding of band interleaved images (such as for CRISM HSP) (#1239) * add support for ENCODING_TYPE=DCT_DECOMPRESSED (#1457) PDS4 driver: * add subdataset creation support, and getting/setting the band unit * update template and code to PDS v1B00 schema versions VRT driver: * Python pixel functions: add shared object name for python 3.7 * VRT: in case of no SourceProperties, do not use global shared datasets, but only shared to the owning VRTDataset, to avoid potential reference cycles and annoying related issues. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13476. WCS driver: * avoid potential out-of-bound access WMS driver: * use proper JSon parsing for ESRI MapServer document (#1416) * Add url parameters escaping to ArcGIS Server minidriver * avoid warning when a wms cache doesn't exist XPM driver: * fix read heap buffer overflow on corrupted image. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13455. XYZ driver: * add creation options DECIMAL_PRECISION and SIGNIFICANT_DIGITS like with AAIGrid * fix regression regarding header lines that are not X,Y,Z (#1472) ## OGR 3.0.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * Add OGR_G_MakeValid() (requires GEOS 3.8) * change prototye of OGRFeature::SetField( int iField, int nBytes, GByte *pabyData ) to ( ... , const void* pabyData), and same for OGR_F_SetFieldBinary(). * Polyhedral surface: fix importFromWKT to properly fix Z/M flag * OGRBuildPolygonFromLines: avoid generating effectively duplicate points * OGRBuildPolygonFromEdges(): improve performance. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13798 * OGRGeometryFactory::transformWithOptions(): if WRAPDATELINE=YES, test that the geometry SRS is geographic * OGRGeometryFactory::GetCurveParameters(): fix assertion when coordinates are very near 0 * Expat XML parsing: add OGR_EXPAT_UNLIMITED_MEM_ALLOC=YES config option to workaround failure for very specific cases * OGRLineString::segmentize(): fix issues when segment length is divisible by maxlength (#1341) * OGR SQL: limit recursion in swq_expr_node::Check(). Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13540 * OGRGeometry / SFCGAL: fix dead code, memory leaks and potential nullptr deref. OGRSpatialReference: * Deep rework due to RFC 73 integration * SRS_WKT_WGS84 macro replaced by SRS_WKT_WGS84_LAT_LONG * Add OSRSetPROJSearchPaths(), OSRExportToWktEx(), OSRGetName(), OSRIsSameEx(), OSRGetCRSInfoListFromDatabase(), OSRGetAreaOfUse(),OSRGetAxisMappingStrategy(), OSRSetAxisMappingStrategy(), OSRGetDataAxisToSRSAxisMapping() * Add OCTNewCoordinateTransformationOptions(), OCTCoordinateTransformationOptionsSetOperation(), OCTCoordinateTransformationOptionsSetAreaOfInterest(), OCTDestroyCoordinateTransformationOptions(), OCTNewCoordinateTransformationEx(), OCTTransform4D() * Remove OSRFixupOrdering(), OSRFixup(), OSRStripCTParms(), OCTProj4Normalize(), OCTCleanupProjMutex(), OPTGetProjectionMethods(), OPTGetParameterList(), OPTGetParameterInfo() Utilities: * ogrinfo: report TITLE metadata in summary layer listing * ogr2ogr: for drivers supporting ODsCCreateGeomFieldAfterCreateLayer, do not create geometry column if -nlt none * ogrmerge.py: add shared='1' to speed-up -single mode with many layers CARTO driver: * Overwrite tables in single transactions * Improve documentation and warnings around CARTODBFY (#1445) CSW driver: * fix crash when geometry parsing fails (#1248) DODS driver: * fixes related to memory leaks and null pointer dereferences DXF driver: * support RGB true color values * fix the coloring of ByBlock entities inserted via a ByLayer INSERT * fix double-free issue in case of writing error. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13516. FileGDB/OpenFileGDB drivers: * be robust when winding order of outer ring is incorrect (#1369) Elasticsearch driver: * Fixed index comparison bug when a index have at least one mapping * Fix _mapping url for Elasticsearch 7 compatibility GeoJSON driver: * speed-up random reading with GetFeature() by storing a map FID->(start,size) to retrieve performance similar to GDAL 2.2 or before (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/21085) * report 3D layer geometry types (#1495) GeoJSONSeq driver: * be more robust to invalid objects, and fixes performance issue on corrupted files. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13770. GML driver: * write SRSName element in .gfs when parsing a GML file with srsName only on top-level boundedBy element (#1210) * Add "FeatureType" to list of suffixes recognized by XSD parser (#1313) * GML/WFS: add minimum support for 'hexBinary' type (as string) (#1375) GMLAS driver: * avoid null pointer dereference on some schemas * do not use space as separator for schema filename in XSD open option (#1452) GMT driver: * use file extension based detection to accept files without header (#1461) MongoDB driver: * fix related to filters in GetFeature() MITAB driver: * Add encode/decode feature labels to/from UTF-8 encoding while MIF file read/write (#1151) * .tab: fix deleting a feature without geometry (#1232) * adapt dynamically default projection bounds to false_easting/false_northing values (#1316) * avoid potential assertion or stack buffer overflow on corrupted .ind files. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=11999 * prevent potential infinite recursion on broken indexes. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12739. * TAB_CSLLoad(): fix performance issue. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13588 * avoid long processing on corrupted .mif files. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13152 MSSQLSpatial driver: * Add support for curve geometries (#1299) * Add option to expose the FID column as a feature attribute (#1227) * Adding improved extent queries * Fix extent calculation for geography type, take care of invalid geometries NGW driver: * Fix get children API. Add authorization support to create dataset options * Add support for feature extensions in OGRFeature native data * Add feature query via chunks, attribute and spatial filter support * Add resource type and parent identifier to metadata * Fix batch update features * Add JSON_DEPTH open option * Add check forbidden field names, check duplicate field names. OCI driver: * Add MULTI_LOAD to open options (#1233) * Fix memory leaks ODS driver: * allow opening tables with empty cells with huge values of columns-repeated attribute at end of line (#1243) * avoid potential null pointer dereference when writing to corrupted filename. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12976. OGDI driver: * switch incorrect order for east/west bounds of spatial filter PDS4 driver: * add read/write support for tables (vector support) PGDump driver: * in WRITE_EWKT_GEOM=YES non-default mode, export geometries to ISO WKT so as to be able to export XYZM (#1327) * Fix emitted SQL when UNLOGGED=ON PLScenes driver: * update plscenesconf.json with SkySatCollect and add missing fields for PSOrthoTile SDTS driver: * error out if too many errors are raised to avoid timeout in oss-fuzz. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13819. Selafin driver: * avoid null pointer dereference on corrupted files. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=12356. Shapefile driver: * DeleteLayer(): make it delete .cpg, .sbn, .sbx, .qpj and other sidecar files (#1405) * speed-up creation of lots of fields with name collisions. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13065 SQLite driver: * set sqlite3_busy_timeout, handle SQLITE_BUSY during tile read (#1370) * close database before freeing the spatialite context. Fix crashes on dataset closing, with VirtualShape and recent spatialite versions * Spatialite: fix update of geometry_columns_statistics when extent goes to infinity (#1438) S57 driver: * avoid long procession on corrupted datasets. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=13238 SXF driver: * Fix wrong EPSG codes range (#1278) * Fix memory leaks in SetVertCS() VFK driver: * fix curved geometries being ignored (#1351) WFS3 driver: * handle paging with missing type for rel:next, and better deal with user:pwd in URL * use 'id' attribute of collection items, if 'name' not available ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * add Geometry::MakeValid() Python bindings: * fix Dataset.ReadAsRaster() on CInt16 data type (#82) * adding overviewLevel option to WarpOptions * add noGCP options to gdal.Translate() # GDAL/OGR 2.4.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * New GDAL drivers: - BYN: read/write support for Natural Resources Canada's Geoid binary format - EEDAI: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API - IGNFHeightASCIIGrid: read-only driver to read IGN-France height correction ASCII grids - NGW: NextGIS Web read-only driver - NTv1: read-only driver for NTv1 datum shift grids * New OGR drivers: - EEDA: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API - GeoJSONSeq: read/creation support of new-line or record-separator separated GeoJSON features (#378) - NGW: NextGIS Web read-write driver * Improved drivers: - BAG: add read support for variable-resolution grids, and write support for single-resolution grids - GTiff driver: add Lerc and WebP codecs - PostgisRaster: add support for out-db rasters - RMF - MSSQLSpatial * RFC 72: Make GDAL Python autotest suite use pytest framework * Add /vsihdfs/ virtual file system handler for Hadoop File System (via libhdfs) * Add /vsiwebhdfs/ read-write virtual file system for Web Hadoop File System REST API * gdal_contour rewriting: speed optimizations and capability to compute polygon isosurfaces. * Remove PHP and Ruby bindings. * Continued code linting in C++, Python scripts, Shell scripts and autotest ## Backward compatibility issues * The value of COMPRESSION_ZSTD used for ZStd-in-TIFF compression has been changed. ZStd-compressed TIFF files produced by GDAL 2.3.0 will not be readable ## GDAL/OGR 2.4.0 - General Changes Build(Unix): * configure: error out when --enable-pdf-plugin is used with --with-libtool since frmts/pdf/GNUmakefile isn't ready for that (#556) * Fix compilation in C++17 mode with older ogdi headers * Fix the datadir in gdal.pc. * re-install cpl_vsi_error.h * update GRASS drivers to support GRASS 7.4.0 (#639, #633) * configure: use CXXFLAGS when CXX is used (#693) * GNUmakfile: fix dependency of install target (#707) * configure: fix 12 bit JPEG-in-TIFF support (#716) * configure: Remove additional '$' in front of '${CXX}' to fix ECW5 detection * configure: use ogdi.pc if available * Set minimum pkg-config version to 0.21 * fix potential link errors when using internal libgif and internal libpng but headers of those libraries are available in the system in different versions than our internal ones (#938) Build(Windows): * nmake.opt: allow install into paths with spaces * MBTiles driver: fix issue in Makefile * Fix HDF4 Plugin build for Visual C++ (#624) * NMAKE: copy gdal pdb to $(LIBDIR) in libinstall target * NMAKE: Enable friendlier static library builds to allow an external `DLLBUILD = 0` * nmake.opt: allow DEBUG=0 to be set (#703) * Do not include DllMain() in static library builds * add support for JPEGLS driver All: * Add support for Poppler 0.64, 0.69, 0.71 * avoid compilation error when compiling GMT's gmtdigitize.c that defines _XOPEN_SOURCE to empty (#590) * Fix build against PDFium (#612) * Add support for MySQL 8.0 ## GDAL 2.4.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * Add multi-threaded compression to /vsigzip/ and /vsizip/ * /vsizip/: create ZIP64 when needed * /vsizip/: encode filename in Unicode when needed also in local file header * /vsigzip/: allow seeking to beginning of file, despite decompression error * /vsicurl/: extend retry logic to HTTP 500 and HTTP 400 with RequestTimeout, emit a CE_Warning if code != 400 and != 404 * /vsicurl/: fix parsing of HTML file listing that got broken in GDAL 2.3.0 * /vsicurl/ and derived: implement a LRU cache for file properties (instead of ever growing cache) * /vsicurl/ and derived: implement a LRU cache for directory content listing * /vsicurl/: make GetCurlMultiHandleFor() more thread-safe * HTTP: added curl cookiefile and cookiejar variables (fixes #1000) * /vsioss/: fix support of filenames with spaces * /vsizip/: output explicit error message when encountering a unsupported file compression method * /vsis3/: fix VSIStatL() on a directory (#603) * /vsis3/: take into account AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI for ECS instances (#673) * /vsis3/: honour CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS configuration option (#995) * /vsis3/: ignores files with GLACIER storage class in directory listing, unless CPL_VSIL_CURL_IGNORE_GLACIER_STORAGE=NO * /vsiaz/: support BlobEndpoint element in AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING such as found in Azurite (#957) * Add a VSICurlPartialClearCache(const char* filenameprefix) function to partially clear the /vsicurl/ and related caches; and bind it to SWIG * Add VSISync() to synchronize source and target files/directories * /vsitar/: support headers with fields using star base-256 coding (#675) * Add VSIOpenDir/VSIGetNextDirEntry/VSICloseDir and provide efficient recursive implementation for /vsis3/, /vsigs/, /vsioss/ and /vsiaz/ * Detect Amazon EC2 instances that use the newer hypervisor. Deprecates CPL_AWS_CHECK_HYPERVISOR_UUID and replaces with CPL_AWS_AUTODETECT_EC2 * CPLString class: rework visibility of exported symbols for Visual Studio (rework of #321) (#636) * CPLGetPhysicalRAM(): take into account cgroup limitation (Docker use case), and rlimit (#640) * CPLGetNumCPUs(): take into account cgroup limitation. * ODBC: Improve Fetch() error handling. * ODBC: get multiple ODBC error messages. * ODBC: Fetch wide-char strings on UNIX (#839) * Fix buffer overflow in GDALDefaultCSVFilename with GDAL_NO_HARDCODED_FIND (#683) * VSIZipFilesystemHandler::Open: Fix leaks of poVirtualHandle (#699) * Fix date-time formatting for /vsigs/, /vsiaz/ and /vsioss/ protocols with non-C locales * CPLQuadTreeGetAdvisedMaxDepth(): avoid int overflow. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9248 * CPLJSonStreamingParser: make it error on invalid array constructs (#970) * Add a GDAL_HTTPS_PROXY configuration option to selectively setup proxy for https only connections (#972) * Add template class CPLAutoClose (#952) * Make VSIToCPLError() handle the generic VSIE_AWSError (#1007) * Propagate error handler user data correctly (#1098) * CPLOpenSSLCleanup(): reset callbacks to nullptr to avoid potential segfault Core: * SetStatistics(): write a STATISTICS_APPROXIMATE=YES metadata item if bApproxOK=true, and take it into account in GetStatistics() (trac #4857, trac #4576) * Add percentage of valid pixels to metadata when computing raster band statistics (#698) * Overview creation: avoid creating too many levels, and fix related heap buffer overflow (#557,#561) * Overview: fix wrong computation of source pixel indices for AVERAGE and pixel-interleave bands * Lanczos rasterio/overview/warp: do not compute target pixel if there are too many missing source pixels, to avoid weird visual effects depending on if valid source pixels match positive or negative kernel weights * Overview / RasterIO resampling: do not use nodata value as a valid output value * RawRasterBand: only accept VSILFILE* * Add alpha mask flag for alpha band in Uint16 One band dataset (#742) * GetMaskBand(): do not use a GDALNoDataMaskBand when nodata value is out of range (#754) * Pleiades metadata reader: Add more strict check (#431) * Statistics/minmax computation: on a float32 raster, be more tolerant when the nodata is slightly larger than +/- FLOAT_MAX * GDALNoDataMaskBand: improve performance in downsampling cases * GDALDestroy(): no longer call it automatically on GCC/CLang (non-MSVC) builds * GDALGetJPEG2000Structure(): avoid excessive memory allocation. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8268 * Implement GDALAllValidMaskBand::ComputeStatistics(). Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9309 * PAMDataset: avoid illegal down_cast to GDALPamRasterBand. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9358 * GDALOpenEx(): improve anti recursion detection. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9391 * GDALResampleChunk32R_Convolution: avoid invalid left shift. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9477 * Gauss resampling: fix potential read heap buffer overflow in corner cases. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9783 * GDALDefaultOverviews::OverviewScan(): avoid potential infinite recursion. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=10153 * GDALPamRasterBand::CloneInfo(): do not clone empty RAT Algorithms: * OpenCL wrapper: fix memory leak * Warper: add complex nodata handling in average/min/max modes * TPS solver: improve numerical stability, for non Armadillo builds, for points not centered on (0,0) * GCP polynomial interpolation: fix bug where worst_oultier always assumed polynomial order 2 * GCP polynomial interpolation: fix bug where remove_ouliers used the parameters of the reverse transformation * GDALGridLinear(): speed-up search of triangle for points outside of the triangulation * gdal_grid linear: avoid artifacts with degenerate triangles (#638) * GDALPansharpenOperation::Initialize(): validate value of GDAL_NUM_THREADS (CID 1393944) * GDALFillNodata(): add NODATA option * GDALDEMProcessing(): fix null pointer dereference if psOptionsIn == nullptr (#931) Utilities: * gdal_translate: make -stats option work with -co COPY_SRC_OVERVIEWS=YES (#792) * gdal_translate: fix RPC correction when using -srcwin with negative offsets (#827) * gdalwarp: automatically enable SKIP_NOSOURCE=YES when it is safe to do so * gdalwarp: make -crop_to_cutline stick to source pixel boundaries when no raster reprojection is involved, to avoid unnecessary resampling or resolution change * gdalwarp -r average: better deal with south-up oriented datasets (#778) * gdalwarp: improve robustness of computation of source raster window for a given target raster window (#862) * gdalwarp: allow to create bottom-up grid with -te xmin ymax ymin ymin * gdalwarp: fix crash when warping on an existing dataset with less bands as needed * gdal_contour: speed optimizations and capability to compute polygon isosurfaces. * gdal_contour: add amin and amax parameter for gdal_contour to be used with option -p * gdal_contour: avoid out-of-memory situation (#594) * gdal_contour: fix GDAL 2.3 regression with fixed interval contouring that resulted in discontinuities in contour lines (#889) * gdal_merge.py: deal with NaN values * gdal_retile.py: fix rounding issues when computing source and target regions (#670) * gdal_calc.py: add --optfile switch * gdal2tiles: fix wrong computation of min zoom level in some cases (#730) * gdal2tiles: add -x option for skipping transparent tile generation * gdal2tiles: fix performance issue by caching source dataset; GDALAutoCreateWarpedVRT() * gdal2tiles: fix issue with out-of-range nodata values (#770) * gdal2tiles: restore GDAL < 2.3 behavior when output directory is not explicitly specified (#795) * gdal2tiles: fix --force-kml (#809) * gdal_edit.py: add -setstats to set "fake" statistics (#819) * gdal_edit.py: add -unsetrpc option to gdal_edit.py, and fix GTiff driver to be able to clear RPC * gdal_grid: fix -clipsrc from a vector datasource (broken at least since GDAL 2.1) * gdalenhance: avoid potential nullptr dereference (CID 1394096) * make sure that --config is early evaluated for config options such as CPL_VSIL_CURL_CHUNK_SIZE that are read early Multi driver changes: * HFA and KEA: better support for writing RATs (trac #4903) * Fix creation of large enough datasets with drivers EHdr, ENVI and ISCE that failed due to inappropriate check on file size whereas the file wasn't filled yet (#705, 2.3.0 regression) BAG driver: * avoid warnings when reading georeferencing * get datetime * safer retrieval of variable extents * add read support for variable-resolution grids, and write support for single-resolution grids E00GRID driver: * correctly parse projection sections that have lines with tildes (#894) EHdr driver: * only write .stx if bApproxOK=false (#514) ENVI driver: * support reading truncated datasets (#915) ERS driver: * fix quadratic performance in parsing .ers header. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8404 * avoid excessive memory allocation. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8497 * avoid potential stack overflow. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8614 * prevent infinite recursion. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8744 * avoid potential bad cast. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8745 FIT driver: * avoid excessive block size on creation. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8292 * error out in CreateCopy() on failed I/O on source dataset. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8338 GeoRaster driver: * Fix the issue by freeing the temporary lobs created by readCLob() and writeCLOB(). GPKG driver: * fix memleak if I/O error occurs on write * retrieve original raster file when using gdal_translate -co APPEND_SUBDATASET=YES with other gdal_translate switches * copy source metadata when using TILING_SCHEME * properly delete gridded coverage raster layers GRIB driver: * replace DataSource and derived classes with VSILFILE directly for > 4GB file support on Windows * turn printf() warning as CPLDebug() messages * read and write missing data values correctly for complex packing when original data is integer (#1063) * g2clib: avoid int overflow. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8194 * g2clib: avoid potential out of bound access (CID 1393528) * degrib: fix floating point division by zero. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9407. * degrib: avoid potential floating point division by zero. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=10291 * add UNIT[] node to SRS on reading, so that is valid GTiff driver: * Add TIFF Lerc codec (in GTiff driver itself) * Add TIFF WebP codec (in libtiff) * save XMP on field TIFFTAG_XMLPACKET (#767) * fix retrieving mask band of overview band when the mask is external. Fixes -co COPY_SRC_OVERVIEWS=YES of such datasets (#754) * improve progress report in CreateCopy() when there is a mask (#935) * improve performance reading multi-band 1-bit data. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=7840. * internal libtiff: updated to libtiff 4.0.10 * internal libgeotiff: resync with upstream. * workaround bug in currently released libgeotiff versions, where when rewriting a ASCII key with a string value longer than the original value (#641) * allow the use of PREDICTOR with ZSTD compression * avoid various memory corruptions in case of some corrupted file. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8488 * load PAM if not already done when GetDefaultRAT() is called * fix missing #ifdef causing compilation failure due to missing bTryCopy (#946) HDF4 driver: * quote swath and field names if needed (if they contain spaces, column, quotes) in HDF4_EOS subdataset names HDF5 driver: * add VSI functionality (#786) * fix reading variable names with single character (#622) * fix HDF5 object leak (thus preventing file closing) on datasets with variable length attributes (#933) HFA driver: * fix floating point division by zero. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9201 * fix division by zero. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=10190 HTTP driver: * do not immediately delete a file used by the JP2OpenJPEG driver ILWIS driver: * Fix performance issue on creation with big number of bands. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9062 IRIS driver: * add UNIT[] node to SRS on reading, so that is valid * avoid infinite loop. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8256 and 8439 ISCE driver: * do not try to stat() mainfile.xml if mainfile does not exist ISIS3 driver: FITS driver: * allow reading/writing beyond 2 billion pixels limit JP2OpenJPEG driver: * allow YCC for non-Byte datasets; and allow 4-band MCT with openjpeg >= 2.2 * add CODEBLOCK_STYLE creation option for OpenJPEG >= 2.3 * add support for generating and using external overviews JPEG driver: * slightly improve performance of whole RGB image loading with pixel-interleaved buffer * Internal libjpeg: Avoid integer overflow on corrupted image in decode_mcu_DC_first() (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9447) JPEGLS driver: * Add support for CharLS 2 (#632) MRF driver: * Add TestBlock(), skip empty areas when building overviews * Fix detection of Lerc2 data * Resync with upstream LercLib and put it in third_party/LercLib NetCDF driver: * add VSI functionality on Linux (#786) * add support for longitude values wrapping at 180deg of longitude (#1114) * avoid use of uninitialized variable when reading blocks in creation mode NGSGEOID driver: * report a CRS that conforms to the official publications for GEOID2012 and USGG2012 datasets (#1103) NITF driver: * avoid excessive processing time on corrupted files. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8972 * avoid heap-buffer-overflow for VQ compression. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9467 PCIDSK driver: * add back support for creating external overviews, removed years ago when switching to the new PCIDSK SDK (#887) PCRaster driver: * libcsf: avoid potential out of bound access (CID 1074445) PDF driver: * Remove forced use of libstdc++ for macOS when building plugin (#888) PDS driver: * deal with detached labels whose line spacing is not a multiple of record size (#955) * add support for reading CRISM images * add support for ^QUBE = number for multi-band images PDS4 driver: * fix georeferencing reading/writing to use pixel corner convention (#735) * add UNIT[] node to SRS on reading, so that is valid PostgisRaster driver: * add support for out-db rasters (Trac #3234) * use ST_BandFileSize of PostGIS 2.5 when available for outdb_resolution=client_side_if_possible * improve performance of line by line reading; add performance hints section in the doc * fix CreateCopy() when PostGIS is not in public schema * add quoting of identifiers PRF driver: * Fix Photomod x-dem files georeference RasterLite2 driver: * fail on Create() that is not supported RDA driver: * enable support for DG RDA Image Reference string RMF driver: * Add support JPEG compressed RMF datasets (#691) * Add optional projection import/export from EPSG code (#701) * Create compressed datasets: LZW, DEM, JPEG (#732) * Cache decoded tile to improve performance of interleaved access * Parallelize data compression, add internal tile write-cache, add compressed overviews support (#748) * Fix 4-bit dataset reading * Expose NBITS to metadata RS2 driver: * avoid potential memleak (CID 1393537, CID 1393534, CID 1074387) SENTINEL2 driver: * Add support of S2x_MSIL2A files (#1069) SGI driver: * writer: avoid out-of-bound buffer access. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8889 SIGDEM driver: * be more robust against excessive memory allocation attempt * avoid floating point division by zero. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=11220 SDTS driver: * avoid long processing time on corrupted dataset. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=11219 SRP driver: * ASRP/USRP: allow opening files padded with 0x5E / ^ character without emitting error (#838) USGSDEM driver: * fix reading of Benicia.dem and Novato.dem (trac #4901, #583) * optimize I/O access a bit * avoid potential out-of-bounds access (CID 1393532) * avoid int overflow. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9475 VRT driver: * GDALCreateWarpedVRT(): automatically set GCI_AlphaBand on the alpha band * data/gdalvrt.xsd: add GDALRasterAttributeTable (#818) * VRTComplexSource: make sure that min and max values in case of exponential resampling are properly computed * ComputeStatistics(): optimize when nodata is set on a single SimpleSource * Fix issue when opening VRT with large number of bands (#1048) * deal with serialized nodata value that is slightly outside Float32 validity range (#1071) * fix source window computation that caused sub-pixel shift with non-nearest resampling * fix potential int overflow on invalid VRT WCS driver: * Parse envelopes with time periods. Improve error reporting. Fix one SUBDATASETS metadata thing. More metadata from Capabilities to metadata. Print some URLs in debug mode. Unique subset params in URLs. Add time domain interval to metadata. * GeoServer does not like primary subsets to have postfixes. Fix service dirty issue. Add GeoServer TimeDomain coverage metadata. Do not put service parameter into subdataset name and use generic coverage parameter * deal with GDALPamDataset::GetMetadata returning nullptr. (#648) WMTS driver: * avoid issue with reprojection of layer extent into TileMatrixSet SRS * fix issue with inappropriate zoom level being selected causing integer overflow in raster dimension computation * fix potential off-by-one pixel when compositing the underlying WMS/TMS source into the final raster ## OGR 2.4.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * Add JSON field subtype for String fields * OGR SQL: avoid int overflow on -(-9223372036854775808) evaluation. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8717 * OGR SQL: evaluation modulo operator on floating point values as a floating point modulo. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8761. * OGR SQL: swq_expr_node::Evaluate(): avoid too deep recursion. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8836 * OGRLineString::TransferMembersAndDestroy(): fix crashing issue with M component. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8773. * OGRGeometry::exportToGEOS(): fix potential out-of-bounds write on some GeometryCollection with TIN/PolyhedralSurface (#688) * OGRGeometryFactory::organizePolygons(): improve performance for polygons with many consecutive identical nodes. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9618 * Fix IsValid() for a TRIANGLE with GEOS, but without SFCGAL * morphToESRI(): fix a heap user-after-free. * OGRFeature::SetField( int iField, const char * const * papszValues ): avoid potential invalid access to pauFields[iField].StringList.paList * SQLite dialect: fix when ROWID is used in WHERE clause and the source layer has a real FID column name * GML geometry parser: recognize MultiGeometry.geometryMembers syntax (refs https://issues.qgis.org/issues/19571) * OGRGetXMLDateTime(): Interpret TZFlag correctly (#996) * OGRFeatureStyle: Restore font field at OGRStyleSymbol OGRSpatialReference: * importFromEPSG(): append ' (deprecated)' at end of deprecated GCS and GEOCCS (#646) * ogr_opt.cpp: fix wrong values and add missing values in papszProjectionDefinitions[] * importFromProj4/exportToProj4: fix typo in the PROJ method name of InternalMapOfTheWorldPolyconic which is imw_p * Krovak: explicit that alpha and Pseudo_standard_parallel_1 are hardcoded in PROJ * SetNormProjParm(): avoid division by zero. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=10588 * FindMatches(): if the input SRS has a EPSG code, check that its definition and the EPSG one actually matches (#990) Utilities: * ogr2ogr: reject -append, -select options together * ogr2ogr: speed-up in case of big number of field name clashes. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8960 * ogr2ogr: make -clipsrc work when output dataset has no geometry field (#943) * ogrlineref: fix tolerance for not geographic spatial reference * ogrmerge.py: avoid exception in error code path of GetOutputDriverFor() * ogrmerge.py: fix issue with non-ASCII characters (fixes #1067) Multi driver changes: * KML/LIBKML: robustify for out-of-memory conditions (fixes https://issues.qgis.org/issues/19989) * XLSX / ODS: avoid harmless warning in some cases when guessing column data types AVCE00 driver: * avoid perforance issues on huge lines. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8284 * fix performance issue on reading PRJ section. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9061 BNA driver: * refuse to open existing file in update mode, since it causes later crashes when attempting to add new features (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/18563) * avoid long processing. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8754 * more efficient building of polygons. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=10951 CAD driver: * Fix read objects map. Upgrade version of libopencad to 0.3.4. (#677) * Fix wrong OGRCircularString construction from CADCircle. (#736) * avoid integer overflow. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8385 * Fix buffer overflow on skip read. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9107 Carto driver: * Use new /sql/copy-from end point for writing (#715) * fix ICreateFeatureCopy() with unset fields CSV driver: * in writing, use WKT instead of actual geometry column name if GEOMETRY=AS_WKT mode is used without CREATE_CSVT=YES (fixes #660) * writer: limit to 10000 fields to avoid performance issues. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9336 (8449 as well) * avoid endless loop when iterating and updating features (#919) DXF driver: * add PaperSpace field (Trac #7121) * allow attributes with spaces in the tag * Correctly handle non-uniformly-weighted spline HATCH boundaries (#1011) * avoid null pointer dereference when DXF_MAX_BSPLINE_CONTROL_POINTS is hit. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8254. * Fix reporting of wrong line numbers in errors (fixes #726) * Don't crash when spline control point limit is reached * fix memory leak in case of attempt to write GeometryCollection of unsupported type EDIGEO driver: * reading multipolygons (trac #6955, #711) ElasticSearch driver: * add compatibility with ES v6.0 * add a USERPWD open option * add lazy loading of layers * add a LAYER open option * skip xpack indices, and do not emit 503 error when listing unauthorized layers * add a INDEX_DEFINITION layer creation option *allow several geometry fields of type GEO_POINT to be created ESRIJson driver: * parse documents that lack 'geometryType' member (#914) GeoJSON driver: * fix type deduction when there is a Feature.id of type string and Feature.properties.id of type int. The later has precedence over the former (arbitrary decision) (#669) * properly flush the file in SyncToDisk() in append situations (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/18596) * parse '{"type": "GeometryCollection", "geometries": []}' as empty geometrycollection * increase max memory allowed to parse a single feature (#807) * remove topojson from extensions recognized by the driver * add partial support for field names differing by case (#1057) * RFC7946 writer: clip and offset geometries outside [-180,180] (#1068) * no longer write NaN/Infinity values by default (#1109) GeoRSS driver: * avoid excessive processing time. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9263 GML driver: * avoid fetching SRS from http * fix potential memory leak in case of duplicated name of geometry fields in .gfs * improve performance for large number of attributes. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9038. GPKG driver: * add read/write support for JSON field subtype * speed up GetExtent() on huge tables with rtree. Refs https://issues.qgis.org/issues/18402 * take into ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT to invalidate cached feature count * make sure to not invalidate POSIX advisory locks * remove useless check that encoding is UTF-8 (#793) * fix typo in gpkg_metadata_reference_column_name_update trigger definition * optimize table renaming by avoiding to drop the spatial index, but just renaming it IDF driver: * use a temporary SQLite database (when driver available) for files larger than 100 MB * add support for Z coordinate (#964) LIBKML driver: * add support for reading several schemas for the same layer (#826) * make edition of existing file work (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/18631) * implement OGRLIBKMLLayer::SyncToDisk() to fix https://issues.qgis.org/issues/18631 * workaround weird issue with OSGeo4W and newline characters in element (fixes https://issues.qgis.org/issues/19215) MITAB driver: * fix potential use of uninitialized memory * improve performance of adding many fields in a .tab. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8559 * fix geometry corruption when editing some datasets (#817) * fix writing .tab when field name has invalid characters in it (#924) * Expose font family to feature style symbol ID MSSQLSpatial driver: * Add support for MSODBCSQL (#1136) * Fix layer-schema separation problem (#586) * Fix bulk copy for multiple layers (#619) * Accept datetime values (#841) * Don't truncate string values on Unix (#843) * Create 3D features (#852) * enforce read-only/update mode for CreateFeature/SetFeature/DeleteFeature * fix retrieval of geometry column on Linux for SQL result layers * Use only valid SRIDs; Create features preserving SRID (#860) * Fix geometry parser with M values (#1051) * Assign new ID following an INSERT (#1052) * Adding configuration option MSSQLSPATIAL_ALWAYS_OUTPUT_FID (#1101) MVT driver: * writer: do not ignore Z/M/ZM geometries * writer: make it possible to output to /vsizip/output.zip out-of-the-box * disable check on 'extent' field in identifiation method, which rejected tiles with extent > 16384 * avoid recursion on opening. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=10226 MySQL: * add support for MySQL 8.0 NAS driver: * speed-up in case of huge number of attributes. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=7977 OCI driver: * Ensure table Dims and GTYPE are retrieved for the correct table (#629) OGR_GMT driver: * avoid performance issue when opening layer with big number of fields. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8259. OGR_PDS driver: * avoid int overflow. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9136 OpenFileGDB driver: * Catch a NaN in FileGDBDoubleDateToOGRDate to prevent undefined behavior. (#740) * fix potential crash on corrupted datasets. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=11313 OSM driver: * allow parsing files with up to 10 000 nodes per way (#849) * avoid array overflow with ways with many tags. Relates to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9618 PCIDSK driver: * defer writing of segment header to improve performance when creating huge number of fields. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8191 * fix performance issue when inserting in layer with huge number of fields. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8335. PDF driver: * fix the parser of drawing instructions that had issues with array objects PG driver: * add SPATIAL_INDEX=SPGIST/BRIN layer creation options (and PGDump as well) (#892) * add read/write support for JSON field subtype PGDump driver: PLScenes driver: * fix /vsicurl/ raster download * fix scene activation * add ground_control field in layer definition Shapefile driver: * avoid being dependent on correctness of file size field in .shp * fix corruption when deleting a field from a .dbf without records (#863) * Add CP1251 codepage name synonym (ANSI 1251) for DBF files. S57 driver: * add S57_AALL, S57_NALL, S57_COMF, S57_SOMF creation options (#810) SOSI driver: * fix memory leaks / null pointer dereference SQLite/Spatialite driver: * avoid SetFeature() to reset the iterator (#964) * Spatialite: read table name in its original case (#1060) * do not run spatial index creation in rollback code VFK driver: * create index on ID column only for selected (geometry-related) layers (#498) * create db indices after inserting data (#498) * create indices before resolving geometry * new open option - include filename field (#564) * speed up sequential feature access * fix leak of unfinalized statement (#634) * fix file check on Windows with large files (#637) * fix big int overflow, force text attributes (PODIL_CITATEL/PODIL_JMENOVATEL) to avoid int64 overflow (#672) * fix missing geometry for SBPG layer (#710) * missing fields in update mode gfs (#734) VRT driver: * revise logic for handling the element (or when it is omitted) (#941) WFS driver: * avoid potential bad cast. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9800 WFS3 driver: * update to current version (May 2018) of the API draft (#626) * add USERPWD open option XLSX driver: * avoid stack buffer overflow is creating too many fields. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8198 * avoid timeout. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8225 * fix null pointer dereference. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=8286 ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * use a dedicated VSILFILE class to avoid type mismatch (#601) * reload drivers if GDAL_SKIP/OGR_SKIP is defined with --config in gdal/ogr.GeneralCmdLineProcessor() * Add VSIFFlushL() * Add VSIErrorReset() CSharp bindings: * GDALCreateCopy.cs sample code: Correct misspelling in info message (#647) * SWIG 2.x and 3.x compatibility (#824) Java bindings: * update to Java 1.6 requirement to please 'ant maven' target * Fix JNI library bundling. Perl bindings: * fix make dependencies (#43) Python bindings: * Python logging improvements: add gdal.ConfigurePythonLogging() function (#1017) * added support for band / pixel interleave for numpy array * fixed NULL check on python's swig VSIFReadL (#572) * fix dataset[slice] access (#574) * added support for reading vsi data as memorybuffer and writing buffers via VSIFWriteL * setup.py: add more prominent warning when numpy is not available (#822) * for utilities as library functions, when gdal.UseExceptions() is enabled, do not emit Python exceptions when the operation is reported as successful * update import path * avoid crash in ReadRaster() under low memory condition (#1026) # GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 Release Notes Note: due to the change of SCM during the development, #XXXX still refers to Trac tickets. GitHub tickets are explicitly indicated with github #XXXX ## In a nutshell... * New GDAL drivers: - PDS4: read/write - RDA: DigitalGlobe Raster Data Access (read-only) * New OGR drivers: - MVT: add read/write driver for Mapbox Vector Tile standalone files or tilesets - ESRIJson and TopoJSON: read-only, split from existing code of the GeoJSON driver - WFS3: *experimental* read-only driver * RFC 68: Make C++11 a build requirement https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc68_cplusplus11 * RFC 70: Guess output format from extension of output filename, if no explicit format passed to C++ or Python utilities https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc70_output_format_guess * RFC 71: Move to GitHub for source code repository and issue tracker. https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc71_github_migration * Significantly improved drivers: - MBTiles (vector tiles support) - DXF - GRIB (GRIB2 write support) - WCS (support WCS 2.0) * Improvements in network-based /vsi handlers: /vsicurl, /vsis3, /vsigs. Add: - /vsiaz for Microsoft Azure Blobs - /vsioss for Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service - /vsiswift/ for OpenStack Swift object storage * Command line utilities: use Unicode main on Windows to avoid issues with non-ASCII characters (#7065) * Update to EPSG v9.2 (#7125) * Update data/esri_extra.wkt and add data/esri_epsg.wkt, taken from https://github.com/Esri/projection-engine-db-doc (Apache v2 license) (#2163) * Add support for PROJ.5 new API (requires proj 5.0.1 or later). PROJ 4.X is still supported. * More than 1000 fixes for issues/vulnerabilities found by OSS-Fuzz * Remove raster OGDI driver (vector OGDI driver still there) (#7087) ## New installed files * data/pds4_template.xml * data/esri_epsg.wkt ## Backward compatibility issues See MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT ## GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 - Build changes Build(Unix): * refresh config.{guess,sub} from latest upstream; upgrade to libtool 2.4.6 files * add a --with-rename-internal-shapelib-symbols option that defaults to yes if --with-hide-internal-symbols is set; and make -with-rename-internal-libtiff/libgeotiff-symbols also defaults to yes when --with-hide-internal-symbols is set * add a --with-charls switch (enabled by default) to compile that JPEGLS driver * make --without-static-proj and --with-fgdb an error when filegdb (>= 1.5) embeds proj.4 symbols * add --with-zstd switch (for GTiff ZStd compressino with internal libtiff) * add support for ECW SDK 5.4, by detecting if we must link against the newabi or oldabi link * fix detection of 64bit file API with clang 5 (#6912) * GNUmakefile: add a static-lib and install-static-lib targets * use .exe extension when building with mingw64* toolchains (#6919) * Pass --silent to libtool in compile (C and C++), link, install and clean modes. * Limit number of installed cpl*.h files installed to a fixed list. * configure / m4/acinclude.m4: replace use of CCFLAGS by plain CFLAGS (github #529) * configure / m4/acinclude.m4: require 'long long' type (github #530) Build(Windows): * always build the PDF driver, even when none of poppler/podofo/pdfium are available, in which case it is write-only (#6938) * add new targets bindings, bindings_install and bindings_clean that depend on the new BINDINGS option in nmake.opt (#6948) * for Kakadu, add capability to build as a plugin, and make it possibly to link only against the Kakadu .lib/.dll instead of incorporating some of its .obj (#6940) * nmake.opt: Ensure PDB is included in release DLL if WITH_PDB requested (#7055) * nmake.opt: use /MDd for OPTFLAGS for DEBUG=1 builds (#7059) * nmake.opt: avoid some settings to be defined unconditionally (#5286) * nmake.opt: add configuration to enable openssl (which is needed for thread-safe curl use) Build(All): * fix compilation error with Crypto++ 7.0.0 (github #541) Developer corner: * Add scripts/setdevenv.sh to setup env variables needed for running GDAL without installing it ## GDAL 2.3.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * Add CPLJSONDocument/Object/Array - C++ thin wrapper around json-c library. (github #282) * /vsicurl/: fix occasional inappropriate failures in Read() with some combinations of initial offset, file size and read request size (#6901) * /vsicurl/: add a CPL_VSIL_CURL_NON_CACHED configuration option, so as to be able to specify filenames whose content must not be cached after dataset closing * /vsicurl/: honour GDAL_HTTP_MAX_RETRY and GDAL_HTTP_RETRY_DELAY config options. Add extended filename syntax to pass options use_head, max_retry, retry_delay and list_dir. * /vsicurl/: enable redirection optimization on signed URLs of Google Cloud Storage. Helps for the PLScenes driver (fixes #7067) * /vsicurl/ and derived filesystems: redirect ReadDir() to ReadDirEx() (#7045) * /vsicurl/ and related file systems: add compatibility with HTTP/2 (requires recent enough curl, built against nghttp2). Can be controlled with the GDAL_HTTP_VERSION=1.0/1.1/2/2TLS * /vsicurl/: fix 2.2 regression regarding retrieval of file size of FTP file (#7088) * /vsicurl/: when stat'ing a file, fallback from HEAD to GET if the server issues a 405 error * Add a VSICurlClearCache() function (bound to SWIG as gdal.VSICurlClearCache()) to be able to clear /vsicurl/ related caches (#6937) * CPLHTTPSetOptions(): use SearchPathA() for curl-ca-bundle.crt on Windows. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1538 * CPLHTTPFetch() / vsicurl: add retry on HTTP 429, and add exponential backoff logic for retry delay * CPLHTTPFetch(): when openssl is enabled, and used by libcurl, use openssl thread safety mechanism to avoid potential crashes in multithreading scenarios * CPLHTTPFetch(): add a SSL_VERIFYSTATUS option / GDAL_HTTP_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS configuration option to check OCSP stapling * CPLHTTPFetch(): add a USE_CAPI_STORE option / GDAL_HTTP_USE_CAPI_STORE configuration option to use certificates from the Windows certificate store * Ignore SIGPIPE that may arose during curl operations (mostly when using OpenSSL for TLS) * Add CPLHTTPMultiFetch() and CPLMultiPerformWait() * /vsis3/: support reading credentials from ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.aws/config or IAM role on EC2 instances * /vsis3/: properly handle cases where a directory contains a file and subdir of same names; implement Mkdir() and Rmdir() * /vsis3/: fix Seek(Tell(), SEEK_SET) fails if current position is not 0 (#7062) * /vsis3/: properly handle 307 TemporaryRedirection (#7116) * /vsis3/: fix support of bucket names with dot in them (#7154) * /vsis3/: make multipart upload work with Minio * /vsigs/: add new authentication methods using OAuth2 refresh token or service account or Google Compute Engine VM authentication, or using ~/.boto file * /vsigs/: add write, Unlink(), Mkdir() and Rmdir() support * /vsigs/: allow authentication to be done with the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS configuration option pointing to a JSon file containing OAuth2 service account credentials * /vsis3/ and /vsigs/: take into account user provided x-amz- / x-goog- HTTP headers with GDAL_HTTP_HEADER_FILE * Fix CPLReadDirRecursive() to behave properly on /vsis3/ buckets that have foo (file) and foo/ (sub-directory) entries (#7136) * /vsis3/: add a AWS_NO_SIGN_REQUEST=YES configuration option to disable request signing (#7205) * /vsis3, /vsigs, /vsioss, /vsiaz: fix support of non-ASCII characters in keys (#7143) * Add VSIGetActualURL(), typically to expand /vsis3/ paths to full URLs, and bind it to SWIG as gdal.GetActualURL() * Add VSIGetSignedURL() * Add VSIGetFileSystemsPrefixes() and VSIGetFileSystemOptions() * CPLFormFilename() / CPLProjectRelativeFilename(): add /vsis3 and similar file systems to the list of filesystems requiring unix separator (github #281) ù Make CPLFormFilename() properly work with http[s:]// filenames * Add a CPLGetErrorCounter() function that can be used to test if new errors have been emitted * Add cpl_safemaths.hpp to detect integer overflows (#6229) * /vsigzip/: avoid trying to write a .gz.properties file on a /vsicurl/ file (#7016) * CPLStrtod(): parse string like '-1.#IND0000000' as NaN instead of -1 (seen when looking at refs #7031, but does not fix it) * Fix CPLCopyTree() that doesn't properly on MSVC 2015 (and possibly other platforms) (#7070) * /vsimem/: to improve Posix compliance, do not make Seek() after end of file error out in read-only mode * cpl_config.h.vc: define HAVE_LONG_LONG 1; cpl_port.h remove MSVC specific logic for int64 (github #264) * /vsisparse/: make Read() detect end of file * GDALVersionInfo("BUILD_INFO"): report if GEOS is available * Add VSIMkdirRecursive() and VSIRmdirRecursive() * Add CPLGetHomeDir() * CPLSetErrorHandler(): avoid later crashes when passing a null callback (github #298) * CPLHTTPParseMultipartMime(): make it format the pasMimePart[].papszHeaders in a standard key=value format without EOL * CPLString: avoid std::string symbols to be exported with Visual Studio (#7254) * I/O on Android: add support for 64-bit file operations if API level >= 24 (Android 7.0 or later) (github #339) Core: * add GDALDataTypeIsFloating, GDALDataTypeIsSigned, GDALDataTypeUnionWithValue, GDALFindDataType, GDALFindDataTypeForValue (github #215). Add GDALDataTypeIsInteger() * Cleanup ARE_REAL_EQUAL() and GDALIsValueInRange() (#6945, #6946) * Various SSE2/AVX2 optimizations for GDALCopyWords() * GDALGCPsToGeoTransform(): add GDAL_GCPS_TO_GEOTRANSFORM_APPROX_OK=YES and GDAL_GCPS_TO_GEOTRANSFORM_APPROX_THRESHOLD=threshold_in_pixel configuration option (#6995) * RawDataset::IRasterIO(): don't assume all bands are RawRasterBand * GDALOpenInfo: make number of bytes read at opening configurable with GDAL_INGESTED_BYTES_AT_OPEN * GDALCopyWholeRasterGetSwathSize(): try to use at least 10 MB for swath size * GDALDatasetCopyWholeRaster(), GDALRasterBandCopyWholeRaster(), GDALCreateCopy(): always call AdviseRead() on the full extent of the source dataset (#7082) * make DefaultCreateCopy() copy RAT * Generate gcore/gdal_version.h from git date and sha for a dev version (Unix builds only) * Add GDALDataset::Open() * Add C++ iterators for layers, bands and features in GDALDataset * External .ovr: make sure that ExtraSamples tag is written * Overview creation: avoid creating too many levels, and fix related heap buffer overflow (github #557) * SetStatistics(): write a STATISTICS_APPROXIMATE=YES metadata item if bApproxOK=true, and take it into account in GetStatistics() (#4857,#4576) Algorithms: * Contour: make sure no 3D geometry is created unless -3d switch is defined (#336) * Warper: revise/improver how working data type is inferred from other parameters * Warper: when operating on single-band, skip target pixels whose source center pixel is nodata (2.2 regression, #7001) * Warper: avoid blocking when number of rows is 1 and NUM_THREADS > 1 (#7041). Also limit the number of threads so that each one processes at least 65536 pixels * Warper: use AdviseRead() when source chunks are sufficiently compact (#7082) * Warper: fix rounding error in scale factor computation (github #273) * Warper: use panSrcBands[0] in the single band case (regression fix, github #295) * Warper: add very special case to handle situation where input raster edge touches dateline, but proj.4 transformation involves a discontinuity (#7243) * Geoloc transformer: fix systematic pixel shift (github #244) * RPC transformer: set output coordinates to HUGE_VAL when failure occurs, so that a following coordinate transformation can detect the error too (#7090) * RPC transformer: return NULL at instantiation if the specified RPC_DEM file cannot be opened * Export GDALRegisterTransformDeserializer() and GDALUnregisterTransformDeserializer() (#5392) * GDALRasterize(): avoid hang in some cases with all_touched option (#5580) * Optimize GDALResampleConvolutionVertical() and GDALPansharpenOperation::WeightedBroveyPositiveWeightsInternal() for SSE2 / AVX * Overview / resampling: speed-up bicubic upsampling for SSE2 * GDALGrid() with linear algorithm: avoid assertions/segmentation fault when GDALTriangulationFindFacetDirected() fails (#7101) * GDALComputeProximity(): fix int32 overflow when computing distances on large input datasets (#7102) * GDALAllRegister(): make sure that all drivers that need to look for sidecar files are put at the end Utilities: * GDAL and OGR C++ and Python utilities: accept -f or -of to specify output format * --optfile: re-parse inlined content with GDALGeneralCmdLineProcessor(), in particular to support --config key value in option file * gdalsrsinfo: for consistency with other output, do not quote the proj.4 string output * gdal_rasterize: fix segfault when rasterizing onto a raster with RPC (#6922) * gdal_rasterize: add a -to option to specify transformer options * gdal_rasterize / GDALRasterizeGeometries(): optimize rasterization for large number of small geometries (#5716) * gdal_rasterize: fix crash in some situations with ALL_TOUCHED option (#7176) * gdaladdo: support not specifying explicitly overview factors, and add -minsize option * gdal_translate: add -a_scale / -a_offset (#7093) * gdal_translate: add -colorinterp / -colorinterp_X options * DefaultCreateCopy()/gdal_translate: do not destroy target file in case of failed copy wen using -co APPEND_SUBDATASET=YES (#7019) * gdal_translate: make -b mask[,xx] use the appropriate band data type (#7028) * gdal_translate property copy RAT (or not-copy RAT when -norat is specified) * gdalwarp: make -crop_to_cutline works when RPC transform is involved * gdalwarp: for RPC warping add a few extra source pixels by default * gdalwarp: -crop_to_cutline: reduce number of iterations to find the appropriate densification (#7119) * gdalwarp: do not set implicitly nodata on destination dataset when -dstalpha is specified (#7075) * gdalwarp: display errors (such as invalid open options) on successful opening of destination dataset * gdalwarp: fix "-dstnodata inf" (#7097) * gdalwarp: fix when several input datasets with different SRS are specified, and no explicit target SRS is provided (#7170) * gdalwarp: make sure to try to redefine the destination nodata value from the source nodata even if the newly created dataset has already set a default nodata value (#7245) * gdalwarp: improve progress meter when using multiple source files. For GDALWarp() function, make sure that the progress goes monotonically from 0 to 1. (#352) * gdal2tiles.py: fix GDAL 2.2 regression where tilemapresource.xml was no longer generated (#6966) * gdal2tiles: add --processes=intval option to parallelize processing (#4379) * gdalinfo --format / ogrinfo --format: report extra metada items in a 'Other metadata items:' section (#7007) * gdalinfo: make sure to display geodetic coordinates always in degree (and not potentially in another unit such as grad) (#4198) * gdalinfo: report 'Mask Flags: PER_DATASET NODATA' when NODATA_VALUES metadata item is specified * gdal_edit.py: add a -colorinterp_X red|green|blue|alpha|gray|undefined option to change band color interpretation * gdal_contour: return with non-0 code if field creation or contour generation failed (#7147) * gdal_retile.py: fix failure if the filename contains % (percent) symbol (#7186) * gdalbuildvrt: make warnings about heterogeneous projection/band characteristics more explicit (#6829) * gdalbuildvrt: add support for band scale and offset (#3221) * gdal_fillnodata.py, gdal_pansharpen.py, gdal_polygonize.py, gdal_proximity.py, gdal_sieve.py, rgb2pct.py: avoid potential problem on Windows in verbose mode (github #458) Sample Python scripts: * Add gdal_mkdir.py, gdal_rm.py and gdal_rmdir.py samples scripts * gdalcopyproj.py: fix use of GCP related API (github #255) * ogr2vrt.py: automatically set relativeToVRT=1 for input and output filenames givn in relative form in the same directory Multi driver changes: * tag (and do needed changes) CALS, FUJIBAS, PAUX, SGI, RS2, GXF, TERRAGEN, Rasterlite, CPG, MSGN, Leveller as supporting GDAL_DCAP_VIRTUALIO AIGRID: * fix handling on raw 32-bit AIG blocks (#6886) BT driver: * make GetNoDataValue()/SetNoDataValue() use PAM DIMAP driver: * do not report dummy geotransform (see https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2018-January/048014.html) DTED driver: * Support VerticalCS for DTED and SRTM drivers when REPORT_COMPD_CS config option is set (github #237) ECW driver: * fix Windows compilation against old ECW SDK and VS < 2015 (#6943) * make AdviseRead() to store its call parameters, and only do the actual work in RunDeferredAdviseRead() if TryWinRasterIO() determines that the IRasterIO() parameters are compatible of the AdviseRead() ones (#7082) * data/ecw_cs.wkt: fix PRIMEM of MONTROME (#2340) EHdr driver: * support reading/writing .clr as/from RAT (#3253) * only write .stx if bApproxOK=false (github #514) ENVI driver: * support 'major frame offsets' keyword (#7114) ERS driver: add extension metadata (github #320) GeoPackage driver: * update from 'tiled gridded extension' to now OGC approved 'tiled gridded coverage data extension' (OGC 17-066r1) (#7159) * avoid corruption of gpkg_tile_matrix when building overviews, down to a level where they are smaller than the tile size (#6932) * fix opening subdatasets with absolute filenames on Windows (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/16997) * fix possible assertion / corruption when creating a raster GeoPackage (#7022) * properly handle non-0 nodata value in edge tiles, especially with TILING_SCHEME creation option * do not write empty tiles for Float32 data type * speed-up statistics retrieval on non-Byte datasets (#7096) * make DELLAYER:rastertable / DROP TABLE rastertable delete the table and all references to it (#7013) * create single tiled TIFF tiles if they are not bigger than 512x512 pixels * avoid multi-threading issues when creating TIFF tiles with GDAL_NUM_THREADS defined. * fix overview creation with big overview factors on some datasets GeoRaster driver: * handle memory allocation failures (#6884) * add support for GCP (#6973) GTiff driver: * add support for ZSTD compression/decompression (requires internal libtiff, or libtiff HEAD) * when IRasterIO() realizes that several blocks are going to be needed, use MultiRangeRead() interface for /vsicurl/ related file systems to get data in parallel * change default value of BIGTIFF_OVERVIEW to be IF_SAFER (github #231) * make sure that -co PHOTOMETRIC=RGB overrides the color interpretation of the first 3 bands of the source datasets (#7064) * allow modifying color interpretation on existing file opened in update mode * Internal libtiff: resync with upstream HEAD (post 4.0.9) * Internal libgeotiff: resync with upstream HEAD: use ProjScaleAtCenterGeoKey for CT_Mercator if ProjScaleAtNatOriginGeoKey is not set (github #296) * fix compilation without BIGTIFF_SUPPORT (#6890) * fix reading subsampled JPEG-in-TIFF when block height = 8 (#6988) * when reading a COMPD_CS (and GTIFF_REPORT_COMPD_CS=YES), set the name from the GTCitationGeoKey (#7011) * on reading use GeogTOWGS84GeoKey to override the defaults TOWGS84 values coming from EPSG code (#7144) * when writing SRS, do not drop EXTENSION PROJ4 node if the projection is unknown (#7104) * make it accept to write SetGeoTransform([0,1,0,0,0,1]) as a ModelTransformationTag, and remove particular cases with the [0,1,0,0,0,1] geotransform (#1683) * warn when SetNoDataValue() is called on different bands with different values (#2083) * add a GTIFF_HONOUR_NEGATIVE_SCALEY=YES config option that can be set to honour negative ScaleY value in GeoPixelScale tag according to the GeoTIFF specification (#4977) * read/write Z dimension for ModelTiepointTag and ModelPixelScaleTag and translate it into/from band scale and offset, when there's a SRS with a vertical component (#7093) * fix reading PCSCitationGeoKey (#7199) * add support for reading and writing TIFF_RSID and GEO_METADATA GeoTIFF DGIWG tags * use consistently multiplication/division by 257 when converting between GDAL [0,255] range to TIFF [0,65535] range for color map values (#2213) * don't write colorinterp when writing a file with a color table * copy georeferencing info to PAM if the profile is not GeoTIFF GRIB driver: * add GRIB2 write support * update to degrib 2.14 and g2clib 1.6.0 * add support for GRIB2 template 4.32 (github #249) * add support for GRIB2 template '4.32 Simulate (synthetic) Satellite Product' * add support for GRIB2 template 4.40 (Analysis or forecast at a horizontal level or in a horizontal layer at a point in time for atmospheric chemical constituents) * update table 4.2-0-7 current (github #274) * add support for GRIB1 products with non-zero NV (number of vertical coordinate parameters) field in GDS (NV is just ignored) (#7104) * add support for Rotated pole LatLong projections (#7104) * adjust the longitude range to be close to [-180,180] when possible for products whose left origin is close to 180deg. Can be controlled with the GRIB_ADJUST_LONGITUDE_RANGE=YES/NO config option, that defaults to YES (#7103) * advertise .grb2 and .grib2 extensions in metadata * expose product discipline of GRIB2 products in GRIB_DISCIPLINE (#5108) * add a GRIB_PDS_TEMPLATE_ASSEMBLED_VALUES metadata items which expose a slightly higher view of GRIB_PDS_TEMPLATE_NUMBERS * speed-up GetNoData() implementation of GRIB2 files by avoiding decompressing the data * GRIB2: add support for Transverse Mercator, Albers Equal Area, Lambert Azimuthal projections, fixes in Mercator and Polar Stereographic support, adjustment for GS80 and WGS84 datums * correctly read Mercator as Mercator_2SP when stdparallel1 != 0 * GRIB2: add support for Grid point data - IEEE Floating Point Data template 5.4 encoding * GRIB2: report Section 1 / Identification section as GRIB_IDS metadata item * fix decimal_scale_factor != 0 handling with nbits = 0 for simple packing and JP2K compression/decompression, and PNG compression. * GRIB2: don't error out on a unhandled template in Section 4 * remove TDLPack support GSAG driver: * fix reading issue that could cause a spurious 0 value to be read and shift all following values (#6992) GTX driver: * do not emit error when opening with GDAL_PAM_ENABLED=NO (#6996) GRC driver: * Fix handling of alpha values in GRC color table (#6905) * Handle case of 0-len GRC class names (#6907) HDF5 driver: * Added CInt16, CInt32, CFloat32, CFloat64 support (github #359) * HDF5 driver as a plugin: register the BAG driver as well (#5802) HF2 driver: * creation: copy source information (including nodata) into PAM if needed (#6885) * fix reading tiles that are 1-pixel wide (2.1 regression, #6949) HFA driver: * add GDAL_HFA_OVR_BLOCKSIZE configuration option to control HFA overviews block size (github #292) HTTP driver: * do not open the underlying dataset with GDAL_OF_SHARED, to avoid later assertion ISIS3 driver: * make sure that -co USE_SRC_HISTORY=NO -co ADD_GDAL_HISTORY=NO results in remove of History section (#6968) * fix logic to initialize underlying GeoTIFF file in IWriteBlock(), and implement Fill() (#7040) JP2ECW driver: * add NBITS creation option, and automatically select codestream output for .j2k extension JP2KAK driver: * add support fr Kakadu 7.A (#7048) * fix lossless compression with NBITS != 8 for Byte and NBITS != 16 for UInt16 * use tile dimensions as block size up to 2048x2048 (#6941) * make write side honour .j2k extension to generate only codestream JP2OpenJPEG driver: * add support for OpenJPEG 2.2 (#7002) and 2.3 (#7074). Drop support for openjpeg 2.0 * fix performance issues with small images with very small tile size, such as some Sentinel2 quicklooks (#7012) * emit warning if GMLJP2v2 explicitly requested but georeferencing implemented * allow YCC for non-Byte datasets; and allow 4-band MCT with openjpeg >= 2.2 JPEG driver: * Add compatibility with libjpeg-turbo 1.5.2 that honours max_memory_to_use * add capability to write EXIF and GPS tags in a EXIF segment * Internal libjpeg: provide implementation of tmpfile() that works better on Windows (#1795) * avoid mis-identification of some SRTMHGT files as JPEG JPEG2000 driver: * add NBITS creation option, and automatically select codestream output for .j2k extension KEA driver: * add some additional metadata items (STATISTICS_HISTOBINVALUES and STATISTICS_HISTONUMBINS) (#6892) L1B driver: * support reading NOAA18 datasets (#7115) MBTiles driver: * add read/write support for Mapbox vector tiles * support opening and creating datasets with tiles whose dimension is not 256 (#7233) * default to opening as RGBA (#6119) MEM driver: * Avoid Create(foo.tif) / CreateCopy(foo.tif) on the MEM or Memory drivers to delete a 'real' foo.tif file * add RAT support MRF driver: * Add Zen chunk support * Open option to ignore decompression errors and missing data files * delay data file creation when NOCOPY is set * Identify MRF metadata passed as filename * Initialize PAM better on CopyCreate, enable external mask. * Fix for coordinates when opening single overview level * Use input mask if available to filter input data when creating JPEG compressed files. * Add open option to select Z-slice, also Z-slice selection in the metadata file MrSID driver: * add support for LTI_COLORSPACE_GRAYSCALEA and LTI_COLORSPACE_GRAYSCALEA_PM color spaces NetCDF driver: * avoid vector vs raster variable confusion that prevents reading Sentinel3 datasets, and avoid invalid geolocation array to be reported (#6974) * fix raster read as nodata with Byte datatype, (valid_range={0,255} or _Unsigned = True) and negative _FillValue (#7069) * be more tolerant on the formatting of standard parallel (space separated instead of {x,y,...} syntax), and accept up to 2/1000 error on spacing to consider a regular grid, to be able to read files provided by the national weather institute of Netherlands (KNMI) (#7086) * on creation, attach grid_mapping attribute to all bands * netCDF: support UTF-8 filenames on Windows (#7065) * add support for reading files in rotated pole projection (#4285) * behave correctly when an extra dimension of a variable has a corresponding 1D variable of different names (#7165) * netCDF: fix bad interaction of SetNoDataValue() and SetGeoTransform()/SetProjection() for NC4/NC4C modes (#7245) NITF driver: * add support for NITF CCINFA TRE (github #232) * data/nitf_spec.xml: fix location of PIAPRD TRE (github #234) * make sure that BLOCKA_ or TRE=BLOCKA= creation option override source NITF metadata; add a USE_SRC_NITF_METADATA=YES/NO creation option; make sure that gdal_translate doesn't preserve source BLOCKA when georeferencing is modified * fix swapped lines and samples in IMRFCA (github #289) * allow to read single-block JPEG2000 compressed images with one dimension > 8192 pixels (fixes #407) PCIDSK driver: * sort overviews (#7100) PCRaster driver: * fix fseek/ftell for large files on Windows (#322) PDF driver: * add support for Poppler 0.58 (#7033) * round to upper integer when computing a DPI such that page size remains within limits accepted by Acrobat (#7083) * do not emit 'Cannot find GPTS object' on VP.Measure objects whose Subtype != GEO PDS driver: * map STEREOGRAPHIC with fabs(lat)=90 to Polar_Stereographic (#6893) PLMosaic driver: * update to use the new Basemaps and Mosaics API * take into account BBOX for XYZ tiles PNM driver: * add .pgm and .ppm extensions in metadata RMF driver: * add RMF native overviews support (github #266) * fix raster garbage values while reading sparse RMF files (github #267) * add native overview build (github #275) * fix NoData value update (github #312) * fix elevation units write and update (github #314) RRASTER driver: * add support for reading creator and created metadata items, band names and color table / RAT * add update and create/createcopy support SAGA driver: * add support for .sg-grd-z files (github #228) Sentinel2 driver: * make sure that the True Color Image subdatset really uses the R,G,B bands and not the R,R,R (#7251) * add support for direct opening of .zip files of new safe_compact L1C products (#7085) SNODAS driver: * accept header lines up to 1024 characters (github #506) SRTMHGT driver: * set appropriate description when opening a .hgt.zip file * recognizes the .hgt.gz extension (#7016) * add support for reading .SRTMSWBD.raw.zip files (GRASS #3246) USGSDEM driver: * properly handle southern hemisphere UTM projections (#344) VICAR driver: * optimize nodata handling, and map STEREOGRAPHIC with fabs(lat)=90 to Polar_Stereographic (#6893) VRT driver: * add option for separable kernel (github #216) * warn if band attribute of VRTRasterBand is not the one expected * implement FlushCache() * fix use of VRTs that point to the same source in multi-threaded scenarios (#6939) * Warped VRT: correctly take into account cutline for implicit overviews; also avoid serializing a duplicate CUTLINE warping options in warped .vrt (#6954) * Warped VRT: fix implicit overview when output geotransform is not the same as the transformer dst geotransform (#6972) * fix IGetDataCoverageStatus() in the case of non-simple sources, which unbreaks gdalenhance -equalize (#6987) * re-apply shared='0' on sources if existing in original VRT when rewriting it due to invalidation * avoid error being emitted when opening a VRTRawRasterBand in a .zip files (#7056) * implement VRTDataset::AdviseRead() (in the particular case of a single source) (#7082) * allow to incorporate a warped VRT as CDATA in the SourceFileName field of a regular VRT * VRTDerivedRasterBand: fix detection of Python runtime already loaded when more than 100 modules are linked. Fixes QGIS3 use case (#7213) * add RAT support * for consistency, make sure that VRT intermediate datatype demotion is done, e.g that a VRT band of type Byte, with a source of type Float32, requested as Float32 buffer involves Float32 -> Byte -> Float32 conversions * VRTDataset::AddBand(): honour 'PixelFunctionLanguage' option (github #501) WCS driver: * add support for WCS 2.0 * add caching * add various open options WMS driver: * ArcGIS miniserver: use latestWkid and wkt metadata (#6112) * avoid AdviseRead() to download too many tiles at once (#7082) * recognize /ImageServer?f=json ESRI endpoints * Add support for maximum size and expiration time and unique per dataset name for WMS cache XYZ driver: * fix 2.2.0 regression where the driver hangs on some dataset with missing samples (#6934) * support non numeric characters when there is an header line (#7261) ## OGR 2.3.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * OGRLayer::FilterGeom(): make sure a feature with a null or empty geometry never matches a spatial filter (#7123) * OGRSimpleCurve::get_LinearArea(): return 0 on a non-closed linestring (#6894) * OGRFeature::SetField: Improve the setting for OFTInteger fields from a double. * OGR_G_TransformTo(): emit error message when source geometry has no SRS * OGR API SPY: various fixes * OGRCurve::get_isClosed(): do not take into account M component (#7017) * OGRLineString::setPoint() and addPoint() with a OGRPoint* argument. properly takes into account ZM, Z and M dimensions (#7017) * OGRMultiSurface: refuse to add a triangle to it. (github #357) * OGRPolyhedralSurface: importFromWkt(): remove support for invalid constructs, that contrary to comments are not supported by PostGIS * Fix OGR[Curve]Polygon::Intersects(OGRPoint*) to return true when point is on polygon boundary (#7091) * Emit an explicit error message for OGRGeometry::IsValid(), IsSimple(), IsRing() when GEOS is not available * Make OGRGeometry::assignSpatialReference() a virtual method, and make implementation recursively assign the SR to child geometries (#7126) * Expose OGRGeometry::swapXY() as OGR_G_SwapXY() in C API (#7025) * importFromWkt(): fix import of GEOMETRYCOLLECTION ending with POINT EMPTY or LINESTRING EMPTY (#7128, 2.1 regression) * OGRSQL: avoid silent cast so that int64->int overflow is better signaled * OGRSQL: accept using the real FID column name (in addition to the special 'FID' alias) (#7050) * Add GDAL_DCAP_NONSPATIAL capability to ODS, REC, XLS and XLSX drivers * Add GDAL_DCAP_FEATURE_STYLES capability to CAD, DGN, DWG, DXF, EDIGEO, JML, KML, lIBLML, MITAB, OpenAIR and VRT drivers * Add DMD_CREATIONFIELDDATASUBTYPES metadata type (github #278) * OGRParseDate(): only accept seconds up to 60 included for leap seconds (#6525) * Fix OGRPolygon::IsPointOnSurface() broken with polygons with holes * OGRFormatDouble(): add a OGR_WKT_ROUND config option that can be set to FALSE to disable the heuristics that remove trailing 00000x / 99999x patterns (#7188) * Add C++ iterators for feature in layer and field values in features. * Add C++ iterators for "sub-parts" of geometry classes * Const-correctness fixes in signatures of methods of OGRFeatureDefn, OGRFeature, OGRFieldDefn and OGRGeomFieldDefn classes. * Fix constness of OGR_G_CreateFromWkb(), OGR_G_CreateFromFgf(), OGR_G_ImportFromWkb() and related C++ methods * Fix const correctness of OGRGeometry::importFromWkt() and OGRGeometryFactory::createFromWkt(), and add compatibility wrappers OGRSpatialReference: * Update to EPSG v9.2 (#7125) * Update data/esri_extra.wkt and add data/esri_epsg.wkt, taken from https://github.com/Esri/projection-engine-db-doc (Apache v2 license) (#2163) * Add support for PROJ.5 new API (requires proj 5.0.1 or later) * Add a OSRFindMatches() function to look for equivalent SRS in the EPSG database, map it to SWIG Python. Enhance gdalsrsinfo to use it * Add OGRSpatialReference::convertToOtherProjection() (bound to C as OSRConvertToOtherProjection() and to SWIG) to transform between different equivalent projections (currently Merc_1SP <--> Merc_2SP and LCC_1SP <--> LCC_2SP) (#3292) * Fix OGRSpatialReference::IsSame() to return FALSE when comparing EPSG:3857 (web_mercator) and EPSG:3395 (WGS84 Mercator) (#7029) * importFromProj4(): implement import of Hotine Oblique Mercator Two Points Natural Origin, and fix OGRSpatialReference::Validate() for that formulation (#7042) * morphFromESRI(): fix remapping from DATUM = D_S_JTSK + PRIMEM = Ferro to OGC DATUM System_Jednotne_Trigonometricke_Site_Katastralni_Ferro * Add alternate simpler signature for OGRGeometryFactory::createFromWkt() * Add importFromWkt(const char**) Utilities: * ogrmerge.py: fix '-single -o out.shp in.shp' case (#6888) * ogrmerge.py: allow using wildchar '*' in source names and use glob.glob to expand it * ogrmerge.py: correctly guess vrt format * ogrmerge.py: error when outputting to a existing vrt if -overwrite_ds is not specified * ogrmerge.py: use ogr.wkbUnknown to fix -nlt GEOMETRY * ogr2ogr: fix crash when using -f PDF -a_srs (#6920) * ogr2ogr: make -f GMT work again (#6993) * ogr2ogr: make it fail if GetNextFeature() returned NULL with an error * ogr2ogr: honour -select when using -addfiels * ogr2ogr: preserve source geometry field name for output drivers that support GEOMETRY_NAME layer creation option (such as GPKG) * ogr2ogr: add support for circularstring, compoundcurve, curvepolygon, multicurve and multisurface in SetZ() * GDALVectorTranslate(): fix converting from Memory to Memory datasources (#7217) * gnmmanage: fix crash on shape files with linestring and multilinestring geometries mixing * ogrtindex: fix crash when using -f SQLITE -t_srs XXXX (#7053) * ogrinfo: always open in read-only mode, unless -sql without -ro is specified * ogrinfo/ogr2ogr with -sql @filename: remove lines starting with '--' (github #459) Multi driver changes: * port/tag ILI, NAS, DGN, NTF, SDTS, OGR_GMT, Geoconcept, AVCE00, AVCBin to VirtualIO API Amigocloud driver: * Fixed data field types (github #246) * Output list of datasets if dataset id is not provided. * Implemented waiting for job to complete on the server. This will improve write to AmigoCloud reliability. * Add HTTP user agent (github #263) * add OVERWRITE open option (github #268) AVCE00 driver: * Make sure AVCE00 opens .e00 files and not AVCBIN one AVCBin driver: * fix 2.1 regression regarding attributes fetching (#6950) Carto driver: * fix append mode by retrieving the sequence name for the primary key (#7203) * fix insertion with ogr2ogr -preserve_fid (#7216) * fix missing features when iterating over a SQL result layer with pagination (#6880) CSV driver: * add a STRING_QUOTING=IF_NEEDED/IF_AMBIGUOUS/ALWAYS layer creation option, that defaults to IF_AMBIGUOUS (quote strings that look like numbers) * temporarily disable spatial and attribute filter when rewriting CSV file (#7123) * fix autodetection of types when a Real value is followed by a Integer64 one (#343) DGNv8 driver: * add support for building against static library (#7155) DXF driver: * Support LEADER and MULTILEADER entities (#7111, #7169) * Support HELIX and TRACE entities * Support spline hatch boundaries * Support MLINE entity * Support rows/columns within INSERT * Add support for block attributes (ATTRIB entities) (#7139) * Support text styles (#7151) * Support cylinders (CIRCLE entities with thickness) * set dx and dy to DXF LABEL style string on TEXT and MTEXT objects (github #225) * fix reading of hatches with boundaries that contain elliptical arcs (#6971) * fix reading files where INSERT is the last entity and DXF_MERGE_BLOCK_GEOMETRIES is false (#7006) * fix ordering of vertices in a SOLID entity (#7089) * only apply certain escaping rules to the text of the MTEXT object (#7047) * Handle all known MTEXT escapes; allow user to turn off text unescaping (fixes #7122) * do not apply the OCS transformation for MTEXT (#7049) * do not output dx and dy in MTEXT style strings (#7105) * apply DXF codepage encoding while decoding ExtendedEntity field (#5626) * allow user to set the tolerance used when joining parts of a hatch boundary with a DXF_HATCH_TOLERANCE config option, and default to 1e-7 of the extent of the geometry (#7005) * refactor out block insertion to its own function, and transform insertion point of an INSERT entity into OCS (#7077) * on write side, force 'defpoints' layer to be non-displayed (#7078) * entities on layer 0 within a block should inherit the style of the layer the INSERT is on. Do that for entities with a PEN style string for now. (#7099) * OCS fixes for HATCH and INSERT entities (#7098) * defer inlining of blocks until actually required (#7106) * Read DIMSTYLEs and block record handles * Handle linetype scales (#7129) * Improved support for DIMENSION entities (#7120) * handle ByBlock colors (#7130) * Fix parsing of complex linetypes (#7134) * Correct color for ByBlock text features; respect hidden objects (#5592, #7099, #7121) * Make ACAdjustText also transform text width and offset (#7151) * Honor block base points (#5592) * Use BRUSH style tool instead of PEN when reading polygonal SOLIDs and leader arrowheads; add PEN style string to 3DFACE * Specify ground units for TEXT dx and dy style values; interpret dx and dy in the writer * Fix bug in text style property retrieval; handle text color in DIMENSION fallback renderer * Write text styles and HATCH elevations; fix output of invalid extent values (#7183) * Allow access to unused entity group codes with RawCodeValues field (github #226) * Reduce the size of header.dxf and trailer.dxf (tested with AutoCAD, QCAD Teigha, QCAD dxflib, FME) * Make the writer aware of linetype scaling * Don't force elevation to zero in smooth polylines (#7200) * Always output all edges in polyface mesh, and add styling (#7219) * Remove incorrect OCS transformation from MLINE entities * Introduce 3D extensible mode to allow translation of 3D entities ESRIJson driver: * "New": extracted from code previously in GeoJSON driver * avoid endless looping on servers that don't support resultOffset (#6895) * use 'latestWkid' in priority over 'wkid' when reading 'spatialReference' (github #218) * recognize documents that lack geometry fields (#7071) * do not attempt paging requests on a non-HTTP resource * recognize documents starting with a very long fieldAliases list (#7107) FileGDB driver: * remove erroneous ODsCCreateGeomFieldAfterCreateLayer capability declaration (github #247) * add LAYER_ALIAS layer creation option (#7109) * FileGDB / OpenFileGDB: attempt to recover EPSG code using FindMatches() * FileGDB / OpenFileGDB: linearize Bezier curves with a more reasonable number of points GeoJSON driver: * Add support for json-c v0.13 (github #277) * support loading (true) GeoJSON files of arbitrary size (#6540) * in update mode, support appending features, in some cases, without ingesting features of existing file into memory * writer: accept writing ZM or M geometry by dropping the M component (#6935) * fix 2.2 regression regarding lack of setting the FeatureCollection CRS on feature geometries (fixes https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/449#issuecomment-319369945) * make sure that -lco WRITE_NAME=NO works even if the native data has a 'name' attribute * ignore 'properties' member of features whose value is null or empty array * fix writing of id with RFC7946=YES (#7194) * add ID_FIELD and ID_TYPE layer creation options GeoPackage driver: * default to version 1.2 (#7244) * speed-up loading of databases with hundreds of layers * make driver robust to difference of cases between table_name in gpkg_contents/gpkg_geometry_columns and name in sqlite_master (#6916) * fix feature count after SetFeature() with sqlite < 3.7.8 (#6953) * do not error out if extent in gpkg_contents is present but invalid (#6976) * avoid GetFeature() to hold a statement, that can cause database locking issues (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17034) * emit warning when feature geometries are not assignable to layer geometry type * remove UNIQUE keyword for PRIMARY KEY of gpkg_metadata (doesn't hurt, but just to align with the examples of DDL in the GeoPackage spec) * fix logic to detect FID on SQL result layer when several FID fields are selected (#7026) * fix handling of spatial views * do not try to update extent on gpkg_contents after GetExtent() on a empty layer of a datasource opened in read-only mode * when inserting a SRS with a non-EPSG code, then avoid using srs_id that could be later assigned to a EPSG code * when deleting a layer, delete from gpkg_metadata metadata records that are only referenced by the table we are about to drop * fix incorrect rtree___update3 trigger statement (https://github.com/opengeospatial/geopackage/issues/414) * fix definition of extensions * only create metadata table if needed, and register it as extension * declare gpkg_crs_wkt extension when using GPKG_ADD_DEFINITION_12_063=YES config option, and do not emit warning when finding it declared GeoRSS driver: * fix detection of field type (#7108) GML driver: * CreateGeometryFromGML(): accept gml:Arc with odd number of points > 3, even if they are invalid * decode gml:Solid as PolyhedralSurface (#6978) * JPGIS FGD v4: fix logic so that coordinate order reported is long/lat (github #241) * a GML_FEATURE_COLLECTION=YES/NO dataset creation option * fix FORCE_SRS_DETECTION=YES effect on feature count and SRS reporting on gml files with .gfs (#7046) * do not try to open some kml files (#7061) * do not report gml:name / gml:description of features as layer metadata GMLAS driver: * get the srsName when set on the srsName of the gml:pos of a gml:Point (#6962) * CityGML related fixes: better take into account .xsd whose namespace prefix is not in the document, fix discovery of substitution elements, handle gYear data type (#6975) * properly interpret SolidPropertyType (#6978) * handle GML geometries in elements that are a substitutionGroup of an element (#6990) * make sure to try namespaces that are indirectly imported (helps in the case of parsing the result of a WFS GetFeature request) * take into account gYearMonth XML data type (https://github.com/BRGM/gml_application_schema_toolbox/issues/46) * implement resolution of internal xlink:href='#....' references (https://github.com/BRGM/gml_application_schema_toolbox/issues/31) * Recognize gml:Envelope as a Polygon geometry (https://github.com/BRGM/gml_application_schema_toolbox/issues/56#issuecomment-381967784) GMT: * fix creation of several layers IDB driver: * optimize spatial query using spatial index and st_intersects function (#6984) * close connection at dataset closing (#7024) ILI driver: * declare OLCCreateField and OLCSequentialWrite capabilities Ingres driver: JML driver: * add support for reading and write SRS from gml:Box element (#7215) KML driver: * KML / LIBKML: read documents with an explicit kml prefix (#6981) * KML/LIBKML: make sure layer names are unique (QGIS github#5415) LIBKML driver: * fix reading placemarks in toplevel container, when it has subfolders (#7221) * improve open performance on huge number of layers MDB driver: * fix multi-thread support (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/16039) MITAB driver: * support for additional datums (#5676) * add support for Reseau_National_Belge_1972 / EPSG:31370 on writing (#6903) * add support for SWEREF99 datum (#7256) * fix EPSG datum code for NTF Paris * support units as code instead of string when reading a coordsys string from a .mif (#3590) * add read/write support between MapInfo text encodings and UTF-8. Add ENCODING layer/dataset creation option (github #227) * do not emit error if the .ind file is missing, just a debug message (#7094) * accept creating files with LCC_1SP SRS (#3292) * support 'CREATE INDEX ON layer_name USING field_name' (if called after field creation and before first feature insertion) * avoid reporting invalid extent on empty .mif * report aspatial .tab as wkbNone geometry type * export BRUSH(fc:#.....) with mapinfo brush pattern 2 (solid fill) mongoDB driver: * compilation fix on Windows MSSQLSpatial driver: * Fix issues on x64 (#6930) * Implement EXTRACT_SCHEMA_FROM_LAYER_NAME layer creation option. * properly format DELETE statement with schema (#7039) MySQL: * fix compilation issue with MariaDB 10.1.23 (#6899) and MariaDB 10.2 (#7079) * make sure geometry column name is properly set (GDAL 2.0 regression, github #397) NAS driver: * [NAS/GML] try reversing non contiguous curves * Allow usage of a GFS template file for type assignment and mapping of element paths to attributes and remove arbitrary hacks that used to avoid attribute name conflicts: * New option: NAS_GFS_TEMPLATE: specify gfs template * New option: NAS_NO_RELATION_LAYER: skip unused alkis_beziehungen (also makes progress available) * Multiple geometries per layer * NAS_INDICATOR updated to "NAS-Operationen;AAA-Fachschema;aaa.xsd;aaa-suite" * use single geometry column name from input (like GMLAS) * accept unqualified attribute name in wfs:Update NTF driver: * fix regression introduced by fix for https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=2166 causing some valid records to be skipped (#7204) NULL driver: * Generalize OGR NULL development driver as a GDAL raster+vector one; enable to compile it --with-null OCI driver: * initialize in multi-threaded compatible mode (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17311) * support for extended max_string_size (#7168) ODBC driver: * deal with table names that require double quoting (#7242) ODS driver: * add read/write support for Boolean sub datatype OSM driver: * performance improvements * increase string buffer for osm XML files (#6964) * OGR_SQL/OSM: avoid OSM driver warning about attribute filter not being taken into account when issuing a 'select * from X limit Y' request on a OSM datasource OpenFileGDB driver: * properly read GeneralPolygon with M component whose all values are set to NaN (#7017) PDF driver: * make OGR_PDF_READ_NON_STRUCTURED=YES configuration option work with documents without layers (#6359) * Improvements to text and dash pattern support in writer (#7185) PDS driver: * fix reading 8-byte IEEE_REAL fields (github #570) PG driver: * do not be confused by a 'geometry' table in a non-PostGIS enabled database (#6896) * PG/PGDump: make sure serial sequence is updated at layer closing/end-of-copy if we inserted features with fixed ids (#7032) PLScenes driver: * remove support for V0 and V1 API. Only Data V1 is kept (#6933) * add SkySatScene SEGY driver: *report more attributes from Segy Standard Trace Header (github #315) Shapefile driver: * Fix GetFeatureCount() to properly take into account spatial filter when attribute filter also in effect (#7123) * use VSIStatL() in Create() to properly work with /vsimem/ directories (#6991) * fix regression affecting GDAL 2.1.3 or later, 2.2.0 and 2.2.1, when editing the last shape of a file and growing it, and then appending a new shape, which resulted in corruption of both shapes (#7031) * hide shapelib symbols on Unix * improvements auto-identification of EPSG codes from input SRS, using OSRFindMatches() * Improve guidance on use of SHAPE_RESTORE_SHX in SHPOpenLL() (#7246) SQLite/Spatialite driver: * SQLite/GPKG: report SQLITE_HAS_COLUMN_METADATA=YES as driver metadata item when it is available (#7007) * escape integer primary key column name on table creation (#7007) * don't invalidate statistics when running a PRAGMA (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17424) * SQLite dialect: avoid erroring out if source layer has a OGR_STYLE field * SQLite dialect: support SQLite 3.21, and LIKE, <>, IS NOT, IS NOT NULL, IS NULL and IS operators (fixes #7149) * SQLite/GPKG: avoid parsing of OGR_SQLITE_JOURNAL to stop on JOURNAL_MODE keyword VFK driver: * fix collecting linestrings for sbp layer * collect geometries also for zvb layer * Improve VFK parser logic (github #365) * add option to suppress geometry (github #371) VRT driver: * increase maximum size limit to 10 MB (instead of 1MB), and add config option to be able to force loading if above that XLS driver: * workaround opening filenames with incompatible character set on Windows (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/9301) XLSX driver: * avoid 'ogr2ogr -f XLSX out.xlsx in.shp -preserve_fid' to overwrite the first record. Note however that FID preservation itself doesn't really work with XLSX (#6994) * fix non working detection of Date/Time fields in some documents (#7073) * fix opening of documents with x: namespace in xl/workbook.xml (#7110) * fix misdetection of field type if first cell blank (github #291) * fix updating multi layer document where existing layers where dropped (#7225) * add read/write support for Boolean sub datatype * on writing, use %.16g formatting for floating point numbers (#7230) ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * Expose gdal.VSIFEofL() * Expose gdal.GRA_Max, GRA_Min, GRA_Med, GRA_Q1 and GRA_Q3 (#7153) * Expose Geometry.SwapXY() * Expose Geometry.RemoveGeometry() * Expose SpatialReference.SetMercator2SP() * Expose Band.AdviseRead() and Dataset.AdviseRead() CSharp bindings: Java bindings: * create single JNI shared library (gdalalljni.so/dll) (github #286) Perl bindings: * Keep parent geometry alive if an object is created from a child geometry. Experimental methods Features and Geometries. Catch an error in storing a geometry into a feature. Prefer GeometryCount over GetGeometryCount and Geometry over GetGeometryRef. * Set INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR and INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR according to what is in GDALmake.opt if INSTALL_BASE is set. (#6142) * ignore no data cells in ClassCounts and Reclassify for real valued rasters. * support for number line (or decision tree) classifiers also for integer bands. * Set error handler separately in all modules (required by Strawberry Perl build). Python bindings: * add scripts to python module (#342) * make sure that errors in Open() related functions, that do not prevent dataset opening in C/C++, do not either prevent it in Python (#7094) * avoid hang when calling gdal/ogr.UseExceptions()/DontUseExceptions() in wrong order (#6891) * accept callback = 0 since SWIG generates it as the default argument of BandRasterIONumPy(). (github #219) * fix 2.2.0 regression preventing use of callback function in Band.ComputeStatistics() (#6927) * fix reference count issue on gdal.VSIStatL() when it returns None, that can cause Python crashes if None refcount drops to zero * avoid potential cross-heap issue on Windows with numpy (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/466) * fix potential alignment issues when reading double values with ReadRaster() or ReadBlock() * fix issue with PyInstaller (#7044) * add a addAlpha option to gdal.DEMProcessing() * fix for include files when building .cpp files (github #258) * make gdal.Transform() return None in case of an error (instead of an invalid Transformer object) * emit exceptions if VSI_RETVAL methods (such as gdal.Rename()) fail and gdal.UseExceptions() is enabled * add addFields and forceNullable options to gdal.VectorTranslate() * for command line utilities as functions, serialize number of floating-point arguments with higher precision * Fix python 3.x package installation in custom prefixes (#6671) * lots of PEP8-related fixes in scripts and autotest * add NULL checks after PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() in case the unicode cannot be translated to UTF-8 and workaround SWIG bug to avoid crashes with Python 3. (github #356) * make sure gdal.VectorTranslate() and gdal.Grid() open their source dataset with a vector driver (github #449) * make 'for field_val in feature' work (github #451) # GDAL/OGR 2.2.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * New GDAL/raster drivers: - DERIVED driver: read-support. Expose subdatasets in a a new metadata domain, called DERIVED_SUBDATASETS - JP2Lura driver: read/create support for JPEG-2000 images using Luratech JP2 Library - PRF: add read-only support for PHOTOMOD PRF file format driver (github #173) - RRASTER driver: read-support .grd/.gri files handled by the R 'raster' package (#6249) * New OGR/vector drivers: - CAD driver: read support for DWG R2000 files (GSoC 2016 project) - DGNv8 driver: read-write support for DGN 8.0 format (using Teigha ODA libraries) - GMLAS driver: read-write support. XML/GML driver driven by Application Schemas. * New utility script: ogrmerge.py to merge several vector datasets into a single one * New /vsigs/ and /vsigs_streaming/ virtual file systems to read Google Cloud Storage non-public files * Significantly improved drivers: - NWT_GRD: write support (#6533) - FileGDB/OpenFileGDB: add support to read curve geometries (#5890) - VRT derived band: add the capability to define pixel functions in Python - Add read support for RasterLite2 coverages in SQLite driver - GPKG: implement tiled gridded elevation data extension - ISIS3: add write support and improve read support * RFC 63: Add GDALRasterBand::GetDataCoverageStatus() and implement it in GTiff and VRT drivers https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc63_sparse_datasets_improvements * RFC 64: Triangle, Polyhedral surface and TIN https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc64_triangle_polyhedralsurface_tin ==> this RFC introduces potential backward incompatible behavior. Consult MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt * RFC 66: OGR random layer read/write capabilities https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc66_randomlayerreadwrite * RFC 67: add null field state for OGR features, in addition to unset fields https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc67_nullfieldvalues ==> this RFC introduces potential backward incompatible behavior. Consult MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt * Upgrade to EPSG database v9.0 (#6772) * Python bindings: Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) released before entering GDAL native code (for all, in GDAL module and a few ones in ogr like ogr.Open()) * Continued major efforts on sanitization of code base * Remove bridge and vb6 bindings (#6640) * GNM built by default ## Installed files * Removed: data/s57attributes_aml.csv data/s57attributes_iw.csv data/s57objectclasses_aml.csv data/s57objectclasses_iw.csv * Added plscenesconf.json, gmlasconf.xsd ## Backward compatibility issues See MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT ## GDAL/OGR 2.2.0 - General Changes Build(Unix): * improve detection of packaged libfyba (SOSI) --with-sosi, as in Ubuntu 16.04 (#6488) * Sort files in static library to make the build reproducible (#6520) * fix libqhull include path when it is /usr/local/include/libqhull (#6522) * FileGDB: compilation fix on Linux in C++11 mode * configure: make pdfium detection not fail if there are just warnings. And make configure fail if --with-pdfium was required but failed (#6653) * Make ./configure --with-xerces fail if not found * Don't install script documentation in INST_BIN (github #157) * configure: auto-detect webp without requiring explicit --with-webp * configure: use pkg-config for HDF5 detection so that works out of the box on recent Ubuntu * auto-detect JDK 8 on Ubuntu * MDB: allow libjvm.so to be dlopen'd with --with-jvm-lib=dlopen (Unix only, github #177) * configure: delete temporary directories on the mac * configure: make sure --with-macosx-framework is correctly defined * configure: error out if --with-ld-shared is specified (#6769) * configure: remove bashism. * configure: fix --without-mrf (#6811) * configure: take into account CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS in a few more cases (cryptopp, podofo, libdap) * Vagrant: all lxc and Hyper-V provider support; use vagrant-cachier for package caching * configure: update DWG support to work with Teigha libraries * Internal libgeotiff: hide symbols in --with-hide-internal-symbols mode * Shape: do not export Shapelib symbols for builds --with-hide-internal-symbols (#6860) Build(Windows): * Try to avoid confusion between libqhull io.h and mingw own io.h (#6590) * update script to generate most recent Visual C++ project files (#6635) * fix broken and missing dependencies in makefile.vc * add a way to use an external zlib (github #171) * Rename makegdal_gen.bat to generate_vcxproj.bat * generate_vcxproj.bat: Set correct value of PlatformToolset property based on specified Visual C++ version. Add NMAKE command line parameters: MSVC_VER based on specified Visual C++ version, DEBUG=1 WITH_PDB=1 to Debug build configuration. * generate_vcxproj.bat: generate project for autotest/cpp (Ticket #6815) * Add WIN64=1 to NMAKE command line options. * Add HDF4_INCLUDE option (#6805) * Add MSVC compiler option /MP to build with parallel processes. * Add ZLIB_LIB missing from EXTERNAL_LIBS Build(all): * make Xerces 3.1 the minimal version * drop support for PostgreSQL client library older than 7.4, or non security maintained releases older than 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13, 7.3.15 ## GDAL 2.2.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * Export VSICreateCachedFile() as CPL_DLL so as to enable building JP2KAK as a plugin * Added possibility to find GDAL_DATA path using INST_DATA definition without execution GDALAllRegister if GDAL_DATA placed in version named directory on Linux (#6543) * Unix filesystem: make error message about failed open to report the filename (#6545) * File finder: Remove hardcoded find location (/usr/local/share/gdal) (#6543) * Win32 filesystem handler: make Truncate() turn on sparse files when doing file extension * Add VSIFGetRangeStatusL() and VSISupportsSparseFiles() * GDAL_NO_HARDCODED_FIND compilation option (#6543,#6531) to block file open calls (for sandboxed systems) * Add VSIMallocAligned(), VSIMallocAlignedAuto() and VSIFreeAligned() APIs * /vsizip / /vsitar: support alternate syntax /vsitar/{/path/to/the/archive}/path/inside/the/tar/file so as not to be dependent on file extension and enable chaining * Optimize opening of /vsitar/my.tar.gz/my_single_file * /vsizip/ : support creating non-ASCII filenames inside a ZIP (#6631) * VSI Unix file system: fix behavior in a+ mode that made MRF caching not work on Mac and other BSD systems * Fix deadlock at CPLWorkerThreadPool destruction (#6646) * Windows: honour GDAL_FILENAME_IS_UTF8 setting to call LoadLibraryW() (#6650) * CPLFormFilename(): always use / path separator for /vsimem, even on Windows * /vsimem/: add trick to limit the file size, so as to be able to test how drivers handle write errors * /vsimem/: fix potential crash when closing -different- handles pointing to the same file from different threads (#6683) * CPLHTTPFetch(): add MAX_FILE_SIZE option * CPLHTTPFetch(): add a CAINFO option to set the path to the CA bundle file. As a fallback also honour the CURL_CA_BUNDLE and SSL_CERT_FILE environment variables used by the curl binary, which makes this setting also available for /vsicurl/, /vsicurl_streaming/, /vsis3/ and /vsis3_streaming/ file systems (#6732) * CPLHTTPFetch(): don't disable peer certificate verification when doing https (#6734) * CPLHTTPFetch(): cleanly deal with multiple headers passed with HEADERS and separated with newlines * CPLHTTPFetch(): add a CONNECTTIMEOUT option * CPLHTTPFetch(): add a GDAL_HTTP_HEADER_FILE / HEADER_FILE option. * CPLHTTPSetOptions(): make redirection of POST requests to still be POST requests after redirection (#6849) * /vsicurl/: take CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS into account even if GDAL_DISABLE_READDIR_ON_OPEN is defined (#6681) * /vsicurl/: get modification time if available from GET or HEAD results * /vsis3/: add a AWS_REQUEST_PAYER=requester configuration option (github #186) * CPLParseXMLString(): do not reset error state * Windows: fix GetFreeDiskSpace() * Fix GetDiskFreeSpace() on 32bit Linux to avoid 32bit overflow when free disk space is above 4 GB (#6750) * Fix CPLPrintUIntBig() to really print a unsigned value and not a signed one * Add CPL_HAS_GINT64, GINT64_MIN/MAX, GUINT64_MAX macros (#6747) * Add CPLGetConfigOptions(), CPLSetConfigOptions(), CPLGetThreadLocalConfigOptions() and CPLSetThreadLocalConfigOptions() to help improving compatibility between osgeo.gdal python bindings and rasterio (related to https://github.com/mapbox/rasterio/pull/969) * MiniXML serializer: fix potential buffer overflow. Core: * Proxy dataset: add consistency checks in (the unlikely) case the proxy and underlying dataset/bands would not share compatible characteristics * GDALPamDataset::TryLoadXML(): do not reset error context when parsing .aux.xml * PAM/VRT: only take into account elements when deserializing a * GDALCopyWords(): add fast copy path when src data type == dst data type == Int16 or UInt16 * GetVirtualMemAuto(): allow USE_DEFAULT_IMPLEMENTATION=NO to prevent the default implementation from being used * Nodata comparison: fix test when nodata is FLT_MIN or DBL_MIN (#6578) * GetHistogram() / ComputeRasterMinMax() / ComputeStatistics(): better deal with precision issues of nodata comparison on Float32 data type * Fast implementation of GDALRasterBand::ComputeStatistics() for GDT_Byte and GDT_UInt16 (including use of SSE2/AVX2) * Driver manage: If INST_DATA is not requested, do not check the GDAL_DATA variable. * Make sure that GDALSetCacheMax() initialize the raster block mutex (#6611) * External overview: fix incorrect overview building when generating from greater overview factors to lower ones, in compressed and single-band case (#6617) * Speed-up SSE2 implementation of GDALCopy4Words from float to byte/uint16/int16 * Add SSE2 and SSSE3 implementations of GDALCopyWords from Byte with 2,3 or 4 byte stride to packed byte * GDALCopyWords(): SSE2-accelerated Byte->Int32 and Byte->Float32 packed conversions * Fix GDALRasterBand::IRasterIO() on a VRT dataset that has resampled sources, on requests such as nXSize == nBufXSize but nXSize != dfXSize * GDALRasterBand::IRasterIO(): add small epsilon to floating-point srcX and srcY to avoid some numeric precision issues when rounding. * Add GDALRasterBand::GetActualBlockSize() (#1233) * Fix potential deadlock in multithreaded writing scenarios (#6661) * Fix thread-unsafe behavior when using GetLockedBlock()/MarkDirty()/DropLock() lower level interfaces (#6665) * Fix multi-threading issues in read/write scenarios (#6684) * Resampled RasterIO(): so as to get consistent results, use band datatype as intermediate type if it is different from the buffer type * Add GDALIdentifyDriverEx() function (github #152) * GDALOpenInfo: add a papszAllowedDrivers member and fill it in GDALOpenEx() * GDALDefaultOverviews::BuildOverviews(): improve progress report * Average and mode overview/rasterio resampling: correct source pixel computation due to numerical precision issues when downsampling by an integral factor, and also in oversampling use cases (github #156) * Overview building: add experimental GDAL_OVR_PROPAGATE_NODATA config option that can be set to YES so that a nodata value in source samples will cause the target pixel to be zeroed. Only implemented for AVERAGE resampling right now * GDALValidateOptions(): fix check of min/max values * GMLJP2 v2: update to 2.0.1 corrigendum and add capability to set gml:RectifiedGrid/gmlcov:rangeType content. Set SRSNAME_FORMAT=OGC_URL by default when converting to GML. Add gml:boundedBy in gmljp2:GMLJP2RectifiedGridCoverage * GMLJP2 v2: ensure KML root node id unicity when converting annotations on the fly. When generating GML features, make sure that PREFIX and TARGET_NAMESPACE are unique when specifying several documents. Algorithms: * RPC transformer: speed-up DEM extraction by requesting and caching a larger buffer, instead of doing many queries of just a few pixels that can be costly with VRT for example * GDALDeserializeRPCTransformer(): for consistency, use the same default value as in GDALCreateRPCTransformer() if is missing (so use 0.1 instead of 0.25 as before) * TPS solver: when Armadillo fails sometimes, fallback to old method * GDALCreateGenImgProjTransformer2(): add SRC_APPROX_ERROR_IN_SRS_UNIT, SRC_APPROX_ERROR_IN_PIXEL, DST_APPROX_ERROR_IN_SRS_UNIT, DST_APPROX_ERROR_IN_PIXEL, REPROJECTION_APPROX_ERROR_IN_SRC_SRS_UNIT and REPROJECTION_APPROX_ERROR_IN_DST_SRS_UNIT transformer options, so as to be able to have approximate sub-transformers * Fix GDAL_CG_Create() to call GDALContourGenerator::Init() (#6491) * GDALContourGenerate(): handle the case where the nodata value is NaN (#6519) * GDALGridCreate(): fix hang in multi-threaded case when pfnProgress is NULL or GDALDummyProgress (#6552) * GDAL contour: fix incorrect oriented contour lines in some rare cases (#6563) * Warper: multiple performance improvements for cubic interpolation and uint16 data type * Warper: add SRC_ALPHA_MAX and DST_ALPHA_MAX warp options to control the maximum value of the alpha channel. Set now to 65535 for UInt16 (and 32767 for Int16), or to 2^NBITS-1. 255 used for other cases as before * Warper: avoid undefined behavior when doing floating point to int conversion, that may trigger exception with some compilers (LLVM 8) (#6753) * OpenCL warper: update cubicConvolution to use same formula as CPU case (#6664) * OpenCL warper: fix compliance to the spec. Fix issues with NVidia opencl (#6624, #6669) * OpenCL warper: use GPU based over CPU based implementation when possible, use non-Intel OpenCL implementation when possible. Add BLACKLISTED_OPENCL_VENDOR and PREFERRED_OPENCL_VENDOR to customize choice of implementation Utilities: * gdalinfo -json: fix order of points in wgs84Extent.coordinates (github #166) * gdalwarp: do not densify cutlines by default when CUTLINE_BLEND_DIST is used (#6507) * gdalwarp: when -to RPC_DEM is specified, make -et default to 0 as documented (#6608) * gdalwarp: improve detection of source alpha band and auto-setting of target alpha band. Automatically set PHOTOMETRIC=RGB on target GeoTIFF when input colors are RGB * gdalwarp: add a -nosrcalpha option to wrap the alpha band as a regular band and not as the alpha band * gdalwarp: avoid cutline densification when no transform at all is involved (related to #6648) * gdalwarp: fix failure with cutline on a layer of touching polygons (#6694) * gdalwarp: allow to set UNIFIED_SRC_NODATA=NO to override the default that set it to YES * gdalwarp: fix -to SRC_METHOD=NO_GEOTRANSFORM -to DST_METHOD=NO_GEOTRANSFORM mode (#6721) * gdalwarp: add support for shifting the values of input DEM when source and/or target SRS references a proj.4 vertical datum shift grid * gdalwarp: fix crash when -multi and -to RPC_DEM are used together (#6869) * gdal_translate: when using -projwin with default nearest neighbour resampling, align on integer source pixels (#6610) * gdal_translate & gdalwarp: lower the default value of GDAL_MAX_DATASET_POOL_SIZE to 100 on MacOSX (#6604) * gdal_translate: avoid useless directory scanning on GeoTIFF files * gdal_translate: make "-a_nodata inf -ot Float32" work without warning * gdal_translate: set nodata value on vrtsource on scale / unscale / expand cases (github #199) * GDALTranslate(): make it possible to create a anonymous target VRT from a (anonymous) memory source * gdaldem: speed-up computations for src type = Byte/Int16/UInt16 and particularly for hillshade * gdaldem hillshade: add a -multidirectional option * GDALDEMProcessing() API: fix -alt support (#6847) * gdal_polygonize.py: explicitly set output layer geometry type to be polygon (#6530) * gdal_polygonize.py: add support for -b mask[,band_number] option to polygonize a mask band * gdal_rasterize: make sure -3d, -burn and -a are exclusive * gdal_rasterize: fix segfaults when rasterizing into an ungeoreferenced raster, or when doing 'gdal_rasterize my.shp my.tif' with a non existing my.tif (#6738) * gdal_rasterize: fix crash when rasterizing empty polygon (#6844) * gdal_grid: add a smoothing parameter to invdistnn algorithm (github #196) * gdal_retile.py: add a -overlap switch * gdal2tiles.py: do not crash on empty tiles generation (#6057) * gdal2tiles.py: handle requested tile at too low zoom to get any data (#6795) * gdal2tiles: fix handling of UTF-8 filenames (#6794) * gdal2xyz: use %d formatting for Int32/UInt32 data types (#6644) * gdal_edit.py: add -scale and -offset switches (#6833) * gdaltindex: emit warning in -src_srs_format WKT when WKT is too large * gdalbuildvrt: add a -oo switch to specify dataset open options Python samples: * add validate_cloud_optimized_geotiff.py * add validate_gpkg.py Multi-driver: * Add GEOREF_SOURCES open option / GDAL_GEOREF_SOURCES config. option to all JPEG2000 drivers and GTiff to control which sources of georeferencing can be used and their respective priority AIGRID driver: * fix 2.1.0 regression when reading statistics (.sta) file with only 3 values, and fix <2.1 behavior to read them in LSB order (#6633) AAIGRID driver: * auto-detect Float64 when the nodata value is not representable in the Float32 range ADRG driver: * handle north and south polar zones (ZNA 9 and 18) (#6783) ASRP driver: * fix georeferencing of polar arc zone images (#6560) BPG driver: * declare GDALRegister_BPG as C exported for building as a plugin (#6693) DIMAP driver: * DIMAP: for DIMAP 2, read RPC from RPC_xxxxx.XML file (#6539) * DIMAP/Pleiades metadata reader: take into tiling to properly shift RPC (#6293) * add support for tiled DIMAP 2 datasets (#6293) DODS driver: * fix crash on URL that are not DODS servers (#6718) DTED driver: * correctly create files at latitudes -80, -75, -70 and -50 (#6859) ECW driver: * Add option ECW_ALWAYS_UPWARD=TRUE/FALSE to work around issues with "Downward" oriented images (#6516). ENVI driver: * on closing, pad image file with trailing nul bytes if needed (#6662) * add read/write support for rotated geotransform (#1778) GeoRaster driver: * fix report of rotation (#6593) * support for JP2-F compression (#6861) * support direct loading of JPEG-F when blocking=no (#6861) * default blocking increased from 256x256 to 512x512 (#6861) GPKG driver: * implement tiled gridded elevation data extension * add VERSION creation option * check if transaction COMMIT is successful (#6667) * fix crash on overview building on big overview factor (#6668) * fix crash when opening an empty raster with USE_TILE_EXTENT=YES * fix gpkg_zoom_other registration GTiff driver: * support SPARSE_OK=YES in CreateCopy() mode (and in update mode with the SPARSE_OK=YES open option), by actively detecting blocks filled with 0/nodata about to be written * When writing missing blocks (i.e. non SPARSE case), use the nodata value when defined. Otherwise fallback to 0 as before. * in FillEmptyTiles() (i.e. in the TIFF non-sparse mode), avoid writing zeroes to file so as to speed up file creation when filesystem supports ... sparse files * add write support for half-precision floating point (Float32 with NBITS=16) * handle storing (and reading) band color interpretation in GDAL internal metadata when it doesn't match the capabilities of the TIFF format, such as B,G,R ordering (#6651) * Fix RasterIO() reported when downsampling a RGBA JPEG compressed TIFF file (#6943) * Switch search order in GTIFGetOGISDefn() - Look for gdal_datum.csv before datum.csv (#6531) * optimize IWriteBlock() to avoid reloading tile/strip from disk in multiband contig/pixel-interleave layouts when all blocks are dirty * fix race between empty block filling logic and background compression threads when using Create() interface and NUM_THREADS creation option (#6582) * use VSIFTruncateL() to do file extension * optimize reading and writing of 1-bit rasters * fix detection of blocks larger than 2GB on opening on 32-bit builds * fix saving and loading band description (#6592) * avoid reading external metadata file that could be related to the target filename when using Create() or CreateCopy() (#6594) * do not generate erroneous ExtraSamples tag when translating from a RGB UInt16, without explicit PHOTOMETRIC=RGB (#6647) * do not set a PCSCitationGeoKey = 'LUnits = ...' as the PROJCS citation on reading * fix creating an image with the Create() interface with BLOCKYSIZE > image height (#6743) * fix so that GDAL_DISABLE_READDIR_ON_OPEN = NO / EMPTY_DIR is properly honoured and doesn't cause a useless directory listing * make setting GCPs when geotransform is already set work (with warning about unsetting the geotransform), and vice-versa) (#6751) * correctly detect error return of TIFFReadRGBATile() and TIFFReadRGBAStrip() * in the YCBCR RGBA interface case, only expose RGB bands, as the alpha is always 255 * don't check free disk space when outputting to /vsistdout/ (#6768) * make GetUnitType() use VERT_CS unit as a fallback (#6675) * in COPY_SRC_OVERVIEWS=YES mode, set nodata value on overview bands * read GCPs in ESRI .aux.xml * explicitly write YCbCrSubsampling tag, so as to avoid (latest version of) libtiff to try reading the first strip to guess it. Helps performance for cloud optimized geotiffs * map D_North_American_1927 datum citation name to OGC North_American_Datum_1927 so that datum is properly recognized (#6863) * Internal libtiff. Resync with CVS (post 4.0.7) * Internal libtiff: fix 1.11 regression that prevents from reading one-strip files that have no StripByteCounts tag (#6490) GRASS driver: * plugin configure: add support for GRASS 7.2 (#6785) * plugin makefile: do not clone datum tables and drivers (#2953) * use Rast_get_window/Rast_set_window for GRASS 7 (#6853) GRIB driver: * Add (minimalistic) support for template 4.15 needed to read Wide Area Forecast System (WAFS) products (#5768) * **Partial** resynchronization with degrib-2.0.3, mostly to get updated tables (related to #5768) * adds MRMS grib2 decoder table (http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/mrms/operational/tables.php) (github #160) * enable PNG decoding on Unix (#5661, github #160) * remove explicitly JPEG2000 decompression through Jasper and use generic GDAL code so that other drivers can be triggered * fix a few crashes on malformed files GTX driver: * add a SHIFT_ORIGIN_IN_MINUS_180_PLUS_180 open option HDF4 driver: * Fixed erroneous type casting in HDF4Dataset::AnyTypeToDouble() that breaks reading georeferencing and other metadata HDF5 driver: * correct number of GCPs to avoid dummy trailing (0,0)->(0,0,0) and remove +180 offset applied to GCP longitude. Add instead a heuristics to determine if the product is crossing the antimeridian, and a HDF5_SHIFT_GCPX_BY_180 config option to be able to override the heuristics (#6666) HFA driver: * fix reading and writing of TOWGS84 parameters (github #132) * export overview type from HFA files to GDAL metadata as OVERVIEWS_ALGORITHM (github #135) * make .ige initialization use VSIFTruncateL() to be faster on Windows * add support for TMSO and HOM Variant A projections (#6615) * Add elevation units read from HFA files metadata (github #169) * set binning type properly according to layerType being thematic or not (#6854) Idrisi driver: * use geotransform of source dataset even if it doesn't have a SRS (#6727) * make Create() zero-initialize the .rst file (#6873) ILWIS driver: * avoid IniFile::Load() to set the bChanged flag, so as to avoid a rewrite of files when just opening datasets ISCE driver: * fix computation of line offset for multi-band BIP files, and warn if detecting a wrong file produced by GDAL 2.1.0 (#6556) * fix misbehaviour on big endian hosts * add support for reading and writing georeferencing (#6630, #6634) * make parsing of properties case insensitive (#6637) ISIS3 driver: * add write support * add mask band support on read * get label in json:ISIS3 metadata domain JPEGLS driver: JP2ECW driver: * fix crash when translating a Float64 raster (at least with SDK 3.3) JP2KAK driver: * add support for Kakadu v7.9. v7.8 should not be used. It has a bug fixed in v7.9 * catch exceptions in jp2_out.write_header() JP2OpenJPEG driver: * add a USE_TILE_AS_BLOCK=YES open option that can help with whole image conversion * prevent endless looping in openjpeg in case of short write * for single-line organized images, such as found in some GRIB2 JPEG2000 images, use a Wx1 block size to avoid huge performance issues (#6719) * ignore warnings related to empty tag-trees. JPIPKAK driver: * fix random crashes JPIP in multi-tread environment (#6809) KEA driver: * Add support for Get/SetLinearBinning (#6855) KMLSuperOverlay driver: * recognize simple document made of GroundOverlay (#6712) * Add FORMAT=AUTO option. Uses PNG for semi-transparent areas, else JPG. (#4745) LAN driver: * remove wrong byte-swapping for big-endian hosts MAP driver: * change logic to detect image file when its path is not absolute MBTiles driver: * on opening if detecting 3 bands, expose 4 bands since there might be transparent border tiles (#6836) * fix setting of minzoom when computing overviews out of order * do not open .mbtiles that contain vector tiles, which are not supported by the driver MEM driver: * disable R/W mutex for tiny performance increase in resampled RasterIO * add support for overviews * add support for mask bands MRF driver: * bug fix in PNG and JPEG codecs * Fixing a problem with setting NoData for MRFs generated with Create * fix plugin building (#6498) * rename CS variable so as to avoid build failure on Solaris 11 (#6559) * Allow MRF to write the data file directly to an S3 bucket. * Allow relative paths when MRF is open via the metadata string. * Add support for spacing (unused space) between tiles. Defaults to none. * Read a single LERC block as an MRF file. MSG driver: * fix incorrect georeference calculation for msg datasets (github #129) NetCDF driver: * add support for reading SRS from srid attribute when it exists and has content like urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::XXXX (#6613) * fix crash on datasets with 1D variable with 0 record (#6645) * fix erroneous detection of a non-longitude X axis as a longitude axis that caused a shift of 360m on the georeferencing (#6759) * read/write US_survey_foot unit for linear units of projection * apply 'add_offset' and 'scale_factor' on x and y variables when present, such as in files produced by NOAA from the new GOES-16 (GOES-R) satellite (github #200) * add a HONOUR_VALID_RANGE=YES/NO open option to control whether pixel values outside of the validity range should be set to the nodata value (#6857) * fix crash on int64/uint64 dimensions and variables, and add support for them (#6870) NITF driver: * add support for writing JPEG2000 compressed images with JP2OpenJPEG driver * fix writing with JP2KAK driver (emit codestream only instead of JP2 format) * fix setting of NBPR/NBPC/NPPBH/NPPBV fields for JPEG2000 (fixes #4322); in JP2ECW case, make sure that the default PROFILE=NPJE implies 1024 block size at the NITF level * implement creation of RPC00B TRE for RPC metadata in CreateCopy() mode * add support for reading&writing _rpc.txt files * nitf_spec.xml: Add support for MTIRPB TRE in NITF image segment. Also makes minor change to BLOCKA to include default values (github #127) * nitf_spec.xml: add IMASDA and IMRFCA TREs * GetFileList(): Small optimization to avoid useless file probing. NWT_GRD: * detect short writes OpenJPEG driver: * support direct extracting of GeoRaster JP2-F BLOB (#6861) PCIDSK driver: * handle Exceptions returned from destructor and check access rights in setters (github #183) PDF driver: * implement loading/saving of metadata from/into PAM (#6600) * implement reading from/writing to PAM for geotransform and projection (#6603) * prevent crashes on dataset reopening in case of short write PLScenes driver: * add a METADATA open option PostgisRaster driver: * fix potential crash when one tile has a lower number of bands than the max of the table (#6267) R driver: * fix out-of-memory (oom) with corrupt R file Raw drivers: * prevent crashes on dataset closing in case of short write RMF driver: * fix wrong counter decrement that caused compressed RMF to be incorrectly decompressed (github #153) * fix load/store inversion of cm and dm units in MTW files (github #162) * fix reading nodata for non-double data type (github #174) ROIPAC driver: * add support for reading/writing .flg files (#6504) * fix computation of line offset for multi-band BIP files, and warn if detecting a wrong file produced by GDAL >= 2.0.0 (#6591) * fix for big endian hosts RS2 driver: * add support for reading RPC from product.xml SAFE driver: * fix handling of SLC Products by providing access to measurements as subdatasets (#6514) Sentinel2 driver: * add support for new "Safe Compact" encoding of L1C products (fixes #6745) SQLite driver: * Add read support for RasterLite2 coverages in SQLite driver SRTMHGT driver: * open directly .hgt.zip files * accept filenames like NXXEYYY.SRTMGL1.hgt (#6614) * handle files for latitude >= 50 (#6840) VRT driver: * add default pixel functions: real, imag, complex, mod, phase, conj, etc... for complex data types (github #141) * avoid useless floating point values in SrcRect / DstRect (#6568) * avoid buffer initialization in RasterIO() when possible (replace ancient and likely broken concept of bEqualAreas) * make CheckCompatibleForDatasetIO() return FALSE on VRTDerivedRasterBands (#6599) * VRT warp: fix issue with partial blocks at the right/bottom and dest nodata values that are different per band (#6581) * fix performance issue when nodata set at band level and non-nearest resampling used (#6628) * VRTComplexSource: do temp computations on double to avoid precision issues when band data type is Int32/UInt32/CInt32/Float64/CFloat64 (#6642) * VRT derived band: add the capability to define pixel functions in Python * CreateCopy(): detect short writes * Fix linking error on VRTComplexSource::RasterIOInternal() (#6748) * avoid recursion in xml:VRT metadata (#6767) * prevent 'Destination buffer too small' error when calling GetMetadata('xml:VRT') on a in-memory VRT copied from a VRT * fix 2.1 regression that can cause crash in VRTSimpleSource::GetFileList() (#6802) WMS driver: * Added support for open options to WMS minidrivers * Refactored the multi-http code to make it possible to do range requests. * Added a minidriver_mrf, which reads from remote MRFs using range requests. * Made the minidriver_arcgis work with an ImageService, not only MapService. * Added static cache of server response. * Allow tiledWMS to work in off-line mode by including the server response in the .wms file itself. * honour GDAL_HTTP_USERAGENT config option when it is set and is missing (#6825) * WMS/WMTS: better deal with tiles with different band count (grayscale, gray+alpha, palette, rgb, rgba) (github #208) * Make HTTPS options apply to tWMS minidriver init, better HTTP error reporting WMTS driver: * do not take into account WGS84BoundingBox/BoundingBox that would be the result of the densified reprojection of the bbox of the most precise tile matrix * add TILEMATRIX / ZOOM_LEVEL open options * accept tiles of small dimensions (github #210) XYZ driver: ## OGR 2.2.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * Layer algebra: Add KEEP_LOWER_DIMENSION_GEOMETRIES=YES/NO option to Intersection, Union and Identity. Default is yes, but it is set to no unless result layer is of geom type unknown. If set to no, result features which would have lower dim geoms are skipped if operating on two layers with same geom dim. * Fix crash/corrupted values when running importFromWkb() on POLYGON M/POLYGON ZM geometries (#6562) * Add OGR_WKT_PRECISION config option that defaults to 15 to select the number of decimals when outputting to WKT * Make OGRFeature::SetField(string) accept JSon serialized arrays for the String/Integer/Integer64/RealList types; add reciprocal OGRFeature::GetFieldAsSerializedJSon() for those types * OGRGeometryFactory::transformWithOptions(): better deal with reprojection from polar projection to WGS84, and projections crossing the antimeridian to WGS84, by splitting geometries prior to reprojection (#6705) * LinearRing transformTo(): force last point to be identical to first one in case it is not. * GML geometry parsing: avoid 'Cannot add a compound curve inside a compound curve' error (#6777) * OGR SQL: fix IN filtering on MapInfo indexed columns (#6798) * OGR SQL: add support for LIMIT and OFFSET keywords * OGR SQL: add comparisons on date / datetime (#6810) * OGR SQL: increase efficiency of DISTINCT operator * OGREnvelope: change initialization to fix issue when getting MULTIPOINT(0 0,1 1) envelope (#6841) * OGRParse: fix parsing logic to avoid false positive detection of string as datetime (#6867) OGRSpatialReference: * Upgrade to EPSG database v9.0 (#6772) * OGRCT: upgrade LIBNAME of mingw and cygwin to libproj-9.dll and cygproj-9.dll to be up-to-date with proj 4.9.X (recommended method is using ./configure --with-static-proj4 instead) (#6501) * importFromESRI(): fix import of multi line MERCATOR SRS (#6523) * morphToESRI(): correctly compute standard_parallel_1 of Mercator(2SP) projection from scale factor of Mercator(1SP) (#6456, #4861) * exportToProj4(): recognize explicit OSR_USE_ETMERC=NO to avoid using etmerc with proj >= 4.9.3 * importFromProj4(): do not set a AUTHORITY node for strings like '+init=epsg:XXXX +some_param=val' * importFromProj4(): be robust with missing proj.4 epsg dictionary when importing '+init=epsg:xxxx +other_parm=value' * AutoIdentifyEPSG(): add identification of EPSG:3995 (Arctic Polar Stereographic on WGS84) and EPSG:3031 (Antarctic Polar Stereographic on WGS84) * OGRCoordinateTransformation: avoid potential bugs in proj.4 on NaN input * importFromEPSG(): take into account DX,DY,DZ,RX,RY,RZ,DS columns in pcs.csv to add per-PCS TOWGS84 overrides (geotiff #52) * Coordinate transformation: prevent unnecessary coordinate transformations (github #184, #185) Utilities: * ogr2ogr: do not return error on ogr2ogr --utility_version * ogr2ogr: keep -append and -overwrite when -update follows * ogr2ogr: fix heuristics to detect likely absence of '-f' (#6561) * ogr2ogr: do not emit a warning when updating/overwriting a destination dataset that is not a Shapefile and if -f is not specified (#6561) * ogr2ogr: make overwriting of lots of PG tables less prone to PostgreSQL 'out of shared memory' errors, by committing transactions after each table recreation * ogr2ogr: prevent 'ogr2ogr same.shp same.shp' (#1465) * ogr2ogr: add a -limit option to limit the number of features read per layer * GDALVectorTranslate(): imply update mode if access mode not explicitly specified and hDstDS != NULL (#6612) * ogrlineref: Fix crash if no new layer name provided * ogrtindex: add -src_srs_name, -src_srs_format and -t_srs option to allow indexing files that have different projections Multidriver: * PGeo/FileGDB/OpenFileGDB: OGRCreateFromShapeBin(): do not error out on empty lines/polygons * GPKG/SQLite/PG/FileGDB/MEM: properly set/reset field subtype with AlterFieldDefn() (#6689) * DXF, GeoJSON, GML, KML, LIBKML, ODS, Shape, XLSX: report operating system error if file creation fails (#2253) AmigoCloud driver: * add option to receive an AmigoCloud API key in the connection string, fix page size (github #137) Carto: * renamed from CartoDB * fix CartoDB'fication() by removing manual creation of the_geom_webmercator mercator, and also attach created sequence to table.cartodb_id (#6565) CSV driver: * add read/write support for String/Integer/Integer64/RealList types as serialized JSon arrays DGN driver: * avoid crash with -ftrapv on 250K_NF44NE_Area_V7.dgn (relates to #6806) * use coordinate delta encoding from the attribute records array (6806) DXF driver: * sanitize layer name on export to avoid forbidden characters * reader: convert GeometryCollection to MultiPoint, MultiLineString or MultiPolygon when possible (QGIS #10485) * add font of TEXT and MTEXT to OGR style string (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/198) DWG driver: * compilation fixes with Teigha 4.2.2 ElasticSearch driver: * add support for ElasticSearch 5.0 and fix 2.X support (#6724) * implement translation from SQL to E.S. query language FileGDB driver: * add support to read curve geometries (#5890) * support opening '.' directory GeoJSON driver: * writer: add a RFC7946=YES creation option (#6705) * read and write 'name' and 'description' members at FeatureCollection level * fix field type detection when first value of a field is null (#6517) * improve/fix field type promotion * fix wrong behavior when there's a 'id' at Feature level and 'id' or 'ID' field in properties (#6538) * in case top level id is a negative integer, put the value in a 'id' attribute (#6538) * ESRI Json reader: support multilinestring from esriGeometryPolyline * ESRI Json reader: do not set field width of 2147483647 (#6529) * ESRI Json reader: support reading M and ZM geometries * Add CPL_json_object_object_get() and use it, to avoid deprecation warnings on json_object_object_get() * TopoJSON reader: sanitize invalid polygons (such as found in the 'TopoJSON' layer of http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/raw/4090846/us.json) * writer: fix segfaults on NULL geometry with -lco WRITE_BBOX=YES (#6698) * writer: fix crash if NATIVE_MEDIA_TYPE creation option is specified alone * Add support of TopoJSON without 'transform' element (github #192) * don't set SRS if 'crs' set to null (github #206) GML driver: * remove hack for CityGML regarding forcing srsDimension to 3 if not specified. Instead add a GML_SRS_DIMENSION_IF_MISSING config option that can be set to 3 if needed (#6597) * consider srsName with URL like 'http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/' as following EPSG axis order. Add SWAP_COORDINATES=YES/NO/AUTO (and GML_SWAP_COORDINATES configuration option) to override all auto guessing (#6678) * add a SRSNAME_FORMAT=SHORT/OGC_URN/OGC_URL dataset creation option * OGR_G_ExportToGMLEx(): add a COORD_SWAP option * Writer: make ogr:FeatureCollection be a substitutionGroup of AbstractFeature for GML 3.2 output, so as to be compatible of GMLJP2 v2 * GML and NAS: improve error reporting (mention feature id and gml_id) when parsing fails because of geometry decoding error * GML and NAS: add GML_SKIP_CORRUPTED_FEATURES and NAS_SKIP_CORRUPTED_FEATURES configuration options to avoid stopping reading a layer because of a corrupted geometry * Add support for Japanese GML FGD v4.1 format (github #204) GPKG driver: * list all tables/views by default (useful for non spatial tables not registered as aspatial). Add ASPATIAL_VARIANT layer creation option to select the way how to create a non-spatial table as aspatial. * Create non-spatial tables by default conforming to GPKG v1.2 'attributes' * use OGR_CURRENT_DATE config option if defined as the value of the 'last_change' of column of 'gpkg_contents' so as to be able to have binary identical output * update last_change column when content of raster or vector tables has changed * do not emit error when running ExecuteSQL() with a spatial filter on an empty layer (#6639) * update schema to reflect CURRENT_TIMESTAMP -> 'now' changes (github #155) * better table and column quoting. * Robustify layer deletion (make it accessible through DROP TABLE xxx and DELLAYER:xxx syntax) and renaming * implement DeleteField(), AlterFieldDefn(), ReorderFields() * make GetExtent() save extent if not already cached * add special SQL 'RECOMPUTE EXTENT ON layer_name' to force recomputation of extent * check identifier unicity on layer creation * add possibility to disable foreign key check by setting OGR_GPKG_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECK=NO config option * add HasSpatialIndex(tblname,geomcolname) SQL function * don't show Spatialite vgpkg_ virtual tables (#6707) * SQLite/GPKG: add explicit error message when trying to open a read-only WAL-enabled database (#6776) * SQLite/GPKG: make sure when closing a WAL-enabled database opened in read-only mode to reopen it in read-write mode so that the -wal and -shm files are removed (#6776) * make GetFeature() works on non conformant tables that have no integer primary key field (#6799), and be robust to non standard column types * remove triggers related to metadata tables that cause issues and have been removed by latest revisions of the spec. * declare feature id column of features tables and tile pyramid user data tables as NOT NULL (#6807) * add a gpkg_ogr_contents table to store feature count. * speed-up GetFeatureCount() with only a spatial filter set * improve column recognition for SQL result layer * add/override ST_Transform() and SridFromAuthCRS() from Spatialite to make them work with gpkg_spatial_ref_sys * add ImportFromEPSG() * make ST_Min/MaxX/Y(), ST_SRID(), ST_GeometryType() and ST_IsEmpty() work with Spatialite geometries * improve performance of spatial index creation and use on multi-gigabyte databases * better support of spatial views, by adding a special behavior if a column is named OGC_FID * avoid potential denial of services by adding LIMIT clauses * slightly more efficient implementation of GetExtent() if extent in gpkg_contents is empty * create a dummy 'ogr_empty_table' features table in case we have no 'features' or 'tiles' table, so as to be conformant with Req 17 of the GeoPackage specification * add DEFAULT '' to metadata column of gpkg_metadata table * accept opening a .gpkg without vector content and without gpkg_geometry_columns table in vector mode if we also open in update mode; remove capability of opening a .gpkg without vector content but with gpkg_geometry_columns table in vector mode if we only open in read-only mode; fix creation of a vector layer in a database if it initially lacks a gpkg_geometry_columns table * fix appending a raster to a vector database without pre-existing raster support tables * add minimalistic support for definition_12_063 column in gpkg_spatial_ref_sys, so that insertion of new SRS doesn't fail * use GEOMETRYCOLLECTION instead of GEOMCOLLECTION for SQL and gpkg_geometry_columns.geometry_type_name * do not warn if gpkg_metadata extension declared GPX driver: * ignore wpt/rtept/trkpt with empty content for lat or long ILI driver: * ILI1: fix crash in JoinSurfaceLayer() when the multicurve of the feature of the poSurfaceLineLayer layer is empty (#6688) * ILI1: make polygon reconstruction in Surface layers robust to curves not in natural order (#6728) * ILI2: assign FID to features (#6839) * ILI2: fix crashing bug in Create() if model file not specified KML driver: * add a DOCUMENT_ID datasource creation option to set the id of the root node LIBKML driver: * fix crash when reading or elements (#6518) * add a DOCUMENT_ID datasource creation option to set the id of the root node * emit style related errors as warnings to make datasets openable by SWIG bindings (#6850) MITAB driver: * limit (width, precision) of numeric fields on creation to (20,16) for compatibility with MapInfo (#6392) * add support for oblique stereographic (#6598) * Adds the authority code for Irish national grid (Ireland_1965) (github #149) * fix spelling for Euref_89 and add EPSG code (#6816) MSSQLSpatial driver: * Fix bulk insert with table names containing spaces (#6527) * Build optional mssql plugin with SQL Native Client support for MSSQL Bulk Copy * Fix MSSQL select layer to recognize geometry column with sqlncli (#6641) MySQL driver: * fix spatial filtering on recent mysql by adding a SRID in the rectangle geometry * do not force NOT NULL constraint on geometry field if no spatial index is used NAS driver: * support multiple 'anlass' in updates NWT_GRD: * add write support (#6533) OCI driver: * Add options for faster feature loading (#6606) * add WORKSPACE open option * correctly handle OFTInteger64 case in loader layer (bug found by cppcheck multiCondition) * support for long identifiers (up to 128 long) when running of 12.2 or + (#6866) * OCILOB VSIL driver: new driver to streams in and out of Oracle BLOB as a GDAL large virtual file system (#6861) ODS driver: * fix FID filtering (#6788) OGDI driver: * make GetNextRawFeature() report an error when it is not end of layer * better error reporting when the layer list cannot be established * catch non-fatal OGDI errors emitted by OGDI 3.2.0 if OGDI_STOP_ON_ERROR environment variable is set to NO, and emit them as CPLError()s * display OGDI error message if opening fails OpenFileGDB driver: * do not error out on geometries that have a declared M array but that is missing (#6528) * add support to read curve geometries (#5890) * transcode UTF-16 strings found in column names, alias, etc... to UTF-8 (instead of using only their ASCII byte) (#6544) * do not emit an error on a empty table whose declaration has M settings (#6564) * support opening '.' directory * improve detection of some form of TINs from MULTIPATCH, and for MultiPatch layers, try to select a better geometry type for those layers (#5888) * fix bug when field description offset is beyond 4GB (#6830) OSM driver: * fix 'too many tags in relation' error when parsing .osm files * allow key=value entries in closed_ways_are_polygons= configuration (#6476) * allow OSM_SQLITE_CACHE config option to be greater than 2047 PG driver: * fix insertion of binary/bytea content in non-copy mode (#6566) * fix errors caused by missing geometry_columns/spatial_ref_sys tables in non PostGIS databases, that prevent reading more than 500 features (QGIS #10904) * avoid errors with field default expressions like 'foo'::text (#6872) PLScenes driver: * add HTTP retry logic (#6655) * V0 API: workaround limitations on filtering on image_statistics.image_quality (#6657) * add support for Data V1 API S57 driver: * Fix ogr2ogr -f S57 (#6549) * fix crashes if the s57objectclasses.csv resource file contains invalid lines * remove data/s57attributes_aml.csv data/s57attributes_iw.csv data/s57objectclasses_aml.csv data/s57objectclasses_iw.csv and move their content into main s57attributes.csv and s57objectclasses.csv files (#6673) * Update s57 attributes and object classes according to s-57 reference (github #202) * add POSACC and QUAPOS fields for geometric primitive layers (github #205) SDE driver: * rename driver to OGR_SDE. Fix build (#6714) SEGY driver: * Accept SEGY files with ASCII headers that have nul terminated strings (#6674) Shapefile driver: * auto-repack by default at dataset closing and FlushCache()/SyncToDisk() time. Controlled by AUTO_REPACK open and layer creation options (that default to YES) * generate .dbf end-of-file 0x1A character by default. Add DBF_EOF_CHAR layer creation options / open options to control that behavior * writing: use strerrno() for better error messages (QGIS #13468) * change REPACK implementation on Windows to be robust to remaining file descriptors opened on the .shp/.shx/.dbf (#6672, QGIS #15570) * Fix issue in DBFCloneEmpty() one a one field DBF not yet written to disk * add call to AutoIdentifyEPSG() when reading a .prj * support reading .dbf with substantial padding after last field definition. * when rewriting the geometry of the last record in the .shp, do it at the file offset it previously used (#6787) SOSI driver: * make registration of driver work again (2.1.0 regression) (#6500) * update to latest version of https://github.com/kartverket/gdal. Make SOSI driver support more geometry types (including curved geometries) plus provides some improvements on attribute-type mapping. Fix some memory errors/leaks. Disable by default non working creation code (#6503) SQLite/Spatialite driver: * do not emit error when running ExecuteSQL() with a spatial filter on an empty layer (#6639) * add read/write support for String/Integer/Integer64/RealList types as serialized JSon arrays * Spatialite: avoid crash when creating layer with geom_type = wkbCurve (fixes #6660) * Spatialite: do not report some BLOB columns as geometry columns of tables/views (when found before the geometry column(s)) (#6695, #6659) * fix update of features with multiple geometry columns (#6696) * speed-up dataset closing when creating a database with many spatial layers * Spatialite: avoid spatial views to cause layers 'layer_name(geometry_name)' to be publicly listed (#6740) * Spatialite: speed-up creation of database with INIT_WITH_EPSG=NO that is slow without transaction (not sure why as the table is empty...) * use AUTOINCREMENT for feature id column * allow OGR_SQLITE_CACHE to be set to > 2047 (MB) without overflowing * SQLite/GPKG: use SQLITE_OPEN_NOMUTEX flag to open databases. * GPKG/SQLite: fix ExecuteSQL() to work with a statement with 2 SELECT and ORDER BY clause (#6832) * SQLite/GPKG: change default page_size to 4096 bytes. * Update layer statistics for Spatialite 4 DB (#6838) * Remove traces of support of SQLite < 3.6.0 * SQLite dialect: properly quote column names when needed (github #214) VFK driver: * allow reading multiple VFK files into single DB support amendment VFK files * recreate DB in the case that it's outdated (VFK DB created by previous versions of GDAL) * allow reading DB as valid datasource (#6509) * new tables in backend SQLite database (geometry_columns/spatial_ref_sys) to enable reading DB datasource by SQLite driver * new configuration option OGR_VFK_DB_READ to enable reading backend database by VFK driver VRT driver: * add support for 'm' attribute in PointFromColumns mode (#6505) WFS driver: * invalidate underlying layer when SetIgnoredFields() is called (QGIS #15112) * don't crash on empty declaration (#6586) * fix potential nullptr dereference on dataset without layer (github #179) XLSX driver: * only list worksheets (and no charts) as layers (#6680) ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * map osr.GetTargetLinearUnits() (#6627) * allow wkbCurve/wkbSurface as valid values for the geom type of GeomFieldDefn object * map GDALIdentifyDriverEx() Java bindings: * Fix SWIG Java bindings for GNM (#6434) * Fix crash on GetDefaultHistogram() if the C++ method returns an error (#6812) Perl bindings: * return value always from GetGeomFieldIndex (#6506) * the Warp method requires a list of datasets (#6521) * when 'use bigint' is in effect, int var is a ref. * Separate the module building in the CPAN distribution and in the GDAL source tree. The CPAN distribution will be developed at https://github.com/ajolma * Fix the Extension method in Driver per RFC 46 * The Inv method of GeoTransform did not return a new object. Allow a single point in Apply method of GeoTransform. * Test for existence of PDL and require it if available. * allow decimation/replication in Piddle i/o. * support resampling in ReadTile. * Polygonize: Require explicit 8 for Connectedness to set 8-connectedness and allow 8CONNECTED as an option. * use Safefree to free memory allocated in Perl (#6796) Python bindings: * release the GIL before entering GDAL native code (for all, in GDAL module and a few ones in ogr like ogr.Open()) * add outputType option to gdal.Rasterize() * fix build issues when CXX is defined in the environment * gdal.VectorTranslate(): add spatSRS option * when enabling ogr.UseExceptions(), use the GDAL error message in the exception text (if available), when the exception is linked to an error value in the OGRErr return code * gdal.VectorTranslate(): accept a single string as value of the layers option (instead of iterating over each of its characters) * Regenerate Python bindings with SWIG 3.0.8 to avoid issue with Python 3.5. Add backward compatibility in Band.ComputeStatistics() to accept 0/1 as input instead of the expected bool value (#6749) * fix gdal.DEMProcessingOptions(zeroForFlat=True) (#6775) * fix 'import osgeo.gdal_array' with python3 and SWIG 3.0.10 (#6801) * allow gdal.FileFromMemBuffer() to use buffer > 2GB (#6828) * accept unicode strings as field name argument in Feature (like SetField, GetField, etc...) and FeatureDefn methods # GDAL/OGR 2.1.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * New GDAL/raster drivers: - CALS: read/write driver for CALS Type I rasters - DB2 driver: read/write support for DB2 database (Windows only) - ISCE: read/write driver (#5991) - MRF: read/write driver (#6342) - SAFE: read driver for ESA SENTINEL-1 SAR products (#6054) - SENTINEL2: read driver for ESA SENTINEL-2 L1B/LC1/L2A products - WMTS: read driver for OGC WMTS services * New OGR/vector drivers: - AmigoCloud: read/write support for AmigoCloud mapping platform - DB2 driver: read/write support for DB2 database (Windows only) - MongoDB: read/write driver - netCDF: read/write driver - VDV: read/write VDV-451/VDV-452 driver, with specialization for the Austrian official open government street graph format * Significantly improved drivers: - CSV: new options, editing capabilities of existing file - ElasticSearch: read support and support writing any geometry type - GeoJSON: editing capabilities of existing file, "native data" (RFC 60) support - MBTiles: add raster write support. fixes in open support - PDF: add PDFium library as a possible back-end. - PLScenes: add support for V1 API - VRT: on-the-fly pan-sharpening - GTiff: multi-threaded compression for some compression methods * Port library: add /vsis3/, /vsis3_streaming/, /vsicrypt/ virtual file systems * RFC 26: Add hash-set band block cache implementation for very larger rasters (WMS, WMTS, ...) http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc26_blockcache * RFC 48: Geographical networks support (GNM) https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc48_geographical_networks_support * RFC 58: Add DeleteNoDataValue(): https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc58_removing_dataset_nodata_value * RFC 59.1: Make GDAL/OGR utilities available as library functions: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc59.1_utilities_as_a_library For gdalinfo, gdal_translate, gdalwarp, ogr2ogr, gdaldem, nearblack, gdalgrid, gdal_rasterize, gdalbuildvrt Available in C, Python, Perl and Java bindings. * RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc60_improved_roundtripping_in_ogr Implemented in GeoJSON driver * RFC 61: Support for measured geometries. https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc61_support_for_measured_geometries Implemented in Shapefile, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, PGDump, MEM, SQLite, GeoPackage, FileGDB, OpenFileGDB, CSV, VRT * Upgrade to EPSG database v8.8 * General sanitization pass to clean-up code, fix a lot of compiler warnings, as well as issues pointed by static code analyzers, such as Coverity Scan (credits to Kurt Schwehr for tackling a large part of them) or CLang Static Analyzer. * Fixes in a number of drivers to be more robust against corrupted files (most found with American Fuzzy Lop): RIK, INGR, Northwood, HF2, CEOS, GTiff, GXF, BMP, NITF, HFA, VRT, FIT, CEOS2, NWT_GRD/NWT_GRC, MITAB, RPFTOC, DBF/Shape, XYZ, VFK, DXF, NAS, GSAG, GS7BG, OpenFileGDB, RMF, AIGRID, OpenAIR, EHDR, ISO8211, FAST, USGSDEM, DGN, SGI, OpenJPEG, PCRaster, BSB, ADRG, SRP, JPEG, Leveller, VICAR, PCIDSK, XPM as well as in portability library (CPL), algorithms and raster core. * Driver removed: - Google Maps Engine (GME) (#6261) ## New installed files * gdal_pansharpen.py * data/vdv452.xml * data/vdv452.xsd * data/netcdf_config.xsd * /path/where/bash-completion/scripts/are/installed/gdal-bash-completion.sh ## Backward compatibility issues See MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT ## GDAL/OGR 2.1.0 - General Changes Build(Unix): * Allow plugin for HDF4, HDF5, GeoRaster, FileGDB, OCI and PG * Add a --with-gnm option to enable GNM * Add --enable-lto switch to turn on link time optimization (GCC >= 5) * Add --with-spatialite=dlopen --with-spatialite-soname=libspatialite.so[.X] syntax to allow linking against spatialite through dlopen() mechanism (#6386) * Add a lot of warning options when available in the compiler. * Change detection test of podofo to work with podofo 0.9.3 * Fix gdalserver compilation with recent GNU libc (such as in Arch Linux) (#6073) * Add pkg-config support for libkml fork (#6077) * Update config.sub and config.guess to their latest upstream versions so as to be able to detect new architectures (android, ppcle64, etc..) (#6101) * Fix python package installation in custom prefixes (#4563) * configure: check that CXX is really a working compiler (#4436) * Build support for Kakadu 7.7 * thinplatespline.cpp: avoid using optimized version of VizGeorefSpline2DBase_func4() with ICC versions that fail on it (#6350) * Add bash completion for GDAL/OGR utilities and scripts (#6381) * Add support for ODBC autodetection with mingw64 (#6000) * Remove macos 9 and older support (#6133). * Remove dist_docs, burnpath and pszUpdableINST_DATA in gcore/gdaldrivermanager.cpp as they are have not been used for a while (#6140). * Removed --without-ogr configure flag (#6117). Always build with OGR. Build(Windows): * Add support for Visual Studio 2015 (a.k.a MSVC_VER=1900 or VC 14) * Add KAKFLAGS to nmake.opt with KDU_{MAJOR,MINOR,PATCH}_VERSION define-s. * nmake.opt: make it less error prone to define SETARGV when paths include spaces (#6032) * nmake.opt: add CL.EXE compiler option /FC to display full path of source code file in diagnostics * Remove WinCE support (#6133) * nmake.opt: add /I flag to the INSTALL command so that xcopy will be smart enough to create a directory when copying files and avoid prompting for user input (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/95) * Enable mssql spatial blugin build, use BCP as the default option for the sqlncli enabled builds * Add support to find MrSID 9.5 dll * Fix Windows build with recent MySQL versions and Visual Studio 2015 (#6457) Build(all): * Compatibility with C++11 and C++14 * Optional crypto++ dependency for /vsicrypt/ support * Optional mongocxx dependency for MongoDB support Other: * Disable copy constructor and assignment operators in classes OGRFieldDefn, OGRGeomFieldDefn, OGRFeature, GDALMultiDomainMetadata, GDALDefaultOverviews, GDALOpenInfoGDALDataset, GDALRasterBlock, GDALRasterBand and GDALDriver (#6100) ## GDAL 2.1.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * Add /vsicrypt/ virtual file system for reading/creating/update encrypted files on the fly, with random access capabilities * Add /vsis3/ and /vsis3_streaming/ virtual file systems to read/write objects from AWS S3 buckets * /vsizip/: avoid returning the previous file list of an already opened .zip if it has changed afterwards (#6005) * /vsizip/: use CP437 on Windows when ICONV support is available (#6410) * /vsimem/: implement append mode (#6049) * /vsistdin/: fix caching of first 1MB / VRT driver: read XML content from /vsistdin/ in a streaming compatible way (#6061) * /vsistdout/: flush when closing the handle (#6149) * Add VSIReadDirEx() with a limit on the number of files before giving up and corresponding VSIFilesystemHandler::ReadDirEx() virtual function * cpl_vsil_cache: rework to be able to work on very large files on 32bit systems * Add CPLThreadLocaleC class to use thread-specific locale settings (when available) * VSIWin32Handle::Flush(): add VSI_FLUSH config option that can be set to TRUE to force FlushFileBuffers(). (hack related to #5556) * Fix VSIL append mode in Windows (#6065) * Make CPLCreateMutexEx() support CPL_MUTEX_REGULAR; and fix CPL_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE to avoid continuing in code path for creation of recursive mutex * Add CPLWorkerThreadPool API * Add CPLGetThreadLocalConfigOption() * Fix CPL_LSBINT16PTR() and CPL_LSBINT32PTR() to work with non-byte pointer (#6090) * CPLRecodeStub(): add special case for CP437 -> UTF-8 when input is only printable ASCII * CPLHTTPFetch(): add LOW_SPEED_TIME and LOW_SPEED_LIMIT options * CPLGetValueType(): improve heuristics to avoid detecting some WKB strings as real numbers (#6128) * Add CPL_SHA256* and CPL_HMAC_SHA256 functions * Make CPLVirtualMemFileMapNew() work on all systems having mmap(), and thus GeoTIFF GTIFF_VIRTUAL_MEM_IO optimization too * Add VSI_MALLOC_VERBOSE() and similar macros to output an error message in case of failed alloc * CPLParseXMLString(): limit depth of elements to 10000 * Win32 file management: handle files whose total file path length is greater than 255 characters in Open() and Stat() * Make CPLFormFilename(absolute_path, "..", NULL) truncate when possible * Add VSIGetDiskFreeSpace() * Implement CPLIsInf() for Solaris 11 * Add a CPL_FINAL macro that expands to C++11 final keyword when C++11 is enabled, and use it in a few places * Avoid CPLEscapeString (CPLES_URL) encoding some characters unnecessarily (#5526) * Add CPLTestBool(), CPLTestBoolean(), CPLFetchBool() * Fix CPLGetValueType() to recognize D1 as a string and not a real number (#6305) * CPLFormFilename(): use '/' directory separator on Windows on /vsicurl_streaming/ files (#6310) * Add hack enabled by -DDEBUG_BOOL to detect implicit int->bool conversions that dislike MSVC (#6325) * Add hack to '#define NULL nullptr' when NULL_AS_NULLPTR is defined. Must be used together with -std=c++11 -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant with GCC to detect misuses of NULL/nullptr (#6327) * Add VSIError mechanism to store errors related to filesystem calls, and use it for /vsis3/. Add new CPLE_ error numbers. (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/98) * Fix CPLsscanf() to be conformant regarding how space/tab/... separators are handled, so as to fix OGR GMT to be able to read coordinates separated by tabulations (#6453) Core: * Change default value of GDAL_CACHEMAX to 5% of usable physical RAM * Allow open options name to be prefixed by @ to be silently ignored when not existing in driver options (RFC 60) * Honour NBITS metadata item when doing RasterIO() with non-nearest resampling (#6024) * GDALClientServer: pass open options to INSTR_Open call * Improve performance of GDALCopyWords() float->byte/int16/uint16 by using SSE2 * Decorate prototypes of RasterIO() related operations with CPL_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT * Avoid deadlock when writing 2 datasets in 2 threads (#6163) * Remove obsolete symbols __pure_virtual(), GDALCreateProjDef(), GDALReprojectToLongLat(), GDALReprojectFromLongLat() and GDALDestroyProjDef() * Remove obsolete non-template-based implementation of GDALCopyWords(). We don't support anymore such compilers * GDALJP2Box::ReadBoxData(): do not abort if memory allocation fails * Add GDALAdjustValueToDataType() in C API, and use it in GDALTranslate() and GDALWarp() * GDALDefaultOverviews::CreateMaskBand(): fix logic error related to writing per-band mask * Block cache: fix excessive memory consumption when dealing with datasets with different block sizes (#6226) * EXIFExtractMetadata(): fix potential 1-byte write buffer stack overflow * MDReader: do no attempt reading side-car files on /vsisubfile/ (#6241) * GDALCheckBandCount(): allow by default a maximum number of bands to 65536 * GDALOpenInfo: add StealSiblingFiles() and AreSiblingFilesLoaded() methods * GDALOpenInfo::GetSiblingFiles(): give up after GDAL_READDIR_LIMIT_ON_OPEN (default=1000) files in the directory * GDALDefaultOverviews: add TransferSiblingFiles() method * GDALDriver::DefaultCreateCopy(): fix logic related to propagation of NBITS / PIXELTYPE metadata items as creation options * Reorder driver registration a bit so that formats with efficient identification are probed first * Add GDALIdentifyEnum (GDAL_IDENTIFY_UNKNOWN, GDAL_IDENTIFY_FALSE or GDAL_IDENTIFY_TRUE) for return values of Identify() * GDALLoadRPCFile(): load .rpc files from Ikonos products that have extra end-of-line character (#6341) * Export GDALRegenerateOverviewsMultiBand() symbol, but mostly for plugins (#6342) * Add GDAL_NO_AUTOLOAD to compile out the body of AutoLoadDriver (#6380) * Avoid ComputeStatistics(), GetHistogram() and ComputeRasterMinMax() to use only the first column of blocks in approximation mode for a raster whose shape of blocks is a square (#6378) * Add GDALGetDataTypeSizeBits() and GDALGetDataTypeSizeBytes(). * GDALReadOziMapFile(): fix reading Ozi external files from virtual file systems (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/114) * Add CPLSetCurrentErrorHandlerCatchDebug() to enable custom error handlers not to intercept debug messages Algorithms: * RPC transformer: provide SSE2 accelerated transformer * RPC: fix off-by-half pixel computation of (pixel, line), and in bilinear and bicubic RPC DEM interpolation; fix off-by-one pixel registration for Pleiades RPC (#5993) * RPC: make RPCInverseTransformPoint() check convergence has been reached (#6162) * RPC DEM: optimize when DEM is in NAD83 or any other geodetic CS that transform as a no-op to WGS 84 * RPC DEM: take into account vertical datum of the DEM when present to convert DEM elevations to ellipsoidal heights (#6084) * RPC DEM: do fallback cubic -> bilinear and bilinear -> near on DEM edges * RPC DEM: improve inverse transformer to validate error threshold and improve convergence (#6162, #6377) * RPC: fix issues with dateline (#6472) * TPS solver: discard duplicated GCP to avoid avoidable error, warning when 2 GCPs have same (pixel,line) but different (X,Y) or the reverse * Warper: rework multithreaded computations to use a thread pool rather than forking threads each time * Warper: avoid really excessive processing time for some warping with target areas completely off the source raster (especially when involving RPC) (#6182) * Warper: CreateKernelMask(): fix potential 32 bit integer overflow when using warp memory value > 2GB (#6448) * gdal_grid: add linear interpolation algorithm * gdal_grid: add invdistnn algorithm, variation on the existing inverse distance weighting algorithm with quadtree to search for points only in the neighborhood (#6038) * gdal_grid: fix crash in optimized mode with GCC 4.4 on 64bit (#5987) * gdal_grid: compile gdalgrid AVX optimization for Windows when supported by compiler * Add GDALTriangulationXXXX() API through libqhull * Sieve filter: fix crash on nodata polygons (#6096) * Sieve filter: improvement to walk through the biggest neighbour chain until we find a polygon larger than the threshold (#6296) * GDALFPolygonize(): factor implementation with integer case * GDALComputeMedianCutPCT(): fix to make it work with rasters with more than 2 billion pixels (#6146) * Overview: Make average and gauss methods aware of transparent color table entries (#6371) Utilities: * gdalinfo: workaround bug in proj <= 4.9.1 on datasets with a SRS with a vertical shift grid (#6083) * gdal_translate: detect more reliably if specified bands are not in default order * gdal_translate: fix -a_nodata with negative values on rasters that have PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE; fix preserving PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE with VRT * gdal_translate: fix random behavior when -scale is used without source bounds (#6455) * gdal_rasterize: do on-the-fly reprojection of input vector onto output raster * gdal_rasterize: rasterize: always create output with 1/2 cell buffer of input geometry envelope (#6058) * gdal_rasterize: add the -dialect option * gdal_rasterize: accept NaN as a valid value for -init / -burn (#6467) * gdalwarp: add -doo option to specify open options of (existing) output dataset * gdalwarp: if RPC_DEM warping option is specified, use exact transformer by default (#5993) * gdalwarp: make it honour nodata value of existing dataset (if -dstNoData isn't explicitly specified) * gdalwarp: do not propagate STATISTICS_ of second or following source datasets * gdalwarp: do not emit warning when using -cutline with a SRS and the source raster has RPC or GEOLOCATION * gdalwarp: check that the cutline is valid after transformation/reprojection * gdalwarp: better deal when dealing with a mix of RGB and RGBA datasets as input * gdalwarp: fix -srcnodata to not put garbage values as target dstnodata (#6315) * gdalwarp: densify cutline to avoid invalid geometry after reprojection to source raster, especially in the RPC case (#6375) * gdalserver: add a -nofork mode (Unix only for now), so that multiple clients can connect to the same dataset. Useful for safe 'concurrent' updates * add gdal_pansharpen.py script * gdal2tiles.py: fix error on a raster with less than 3 bands that resulted in a 'IndexError: list index out of range' * gdal2tiles.py: Change EPSG:3785 / EPSG:900913 into EPSG:3857 (#5622) * gdal2tiles.py: add Leaflet template (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/71) * gdal2tiles.py: add -q switch for quiet mode * gdaldem: correctly deal with NaN as nodata value (#6066) * gdaldem color-relief: deal with the case of repeated entries with the same value and the input raster has pixels that match that value exactly (#6422) * gdaladdo: emit error message if passed an invalid dataset name (#6240) * gdaladdo: do not silence warnings when opening in update mode, if the open is successful * gdalbuildvrt: fix potential crash when using -b switch (#6095) * gdalbuildvrt: accept nan as value for -srcnodata and -vrtnodata * gdalbuildvrt: return non zero return code if the flush of the VRT to disk failed * gdal_merge.py: takes again into account -n flag (#6067) * gdalbuildvrt / gdal_translate / VRT: use floating point values for source and destination offsets and sizes (#6127) * gdalmove.py: fix to run with GDAL 2.0 gdal.InvGeoTransform() signature * gdal_calc.py: Add * from gdalnumeric to gdal_calc.py eval namespace again, to fix 2.0 regression that made for example 'log10(A)' to no longer work (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/121) Python samples: * gdalpythonserver.py: update to protocol 3 AAIGRID: * when writing with floating-point values, ensure at least one value has a decimal point to avoid issues with some readers (#6060) BMP driver: * BMP: avoid too big color table allocation in case of wrong iClrUsed value BLX driver: * converted to support VirtualIO ECRG driver: * change subdataset definition to make sure that they only consist of frames of same scale (#6043) * fix base34 decoding and Windows filename handling (#6271) ECW driver: * use wide char Open API on Windows when GDAL_FILENAME_IS_UTF8=YES (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/70) * fix reading of ECW in /vsi file systems (with SDK >= 4) (#6482) GeoRaster driver: * fix deflate read error depending on endianness (#6252) GIF driver: * libgif: partial resync with giflib master (but keep ABI of 4.1.6) * fix crash when CreateCopy a source with one color in the color table GMT driver: * validate raster dimensions on opening, and acquire mutex in dataset destructor GPKG driver: * write support: fix various issues in update scenarios when interacting with the GDAL block cache that could result in lost/corrupted band data to be written in tiles (#6309) * write support: fix potential use of freed sqlite temporary DB handle when generating overviews with partial tiles (#6335) * write support: fix potential crash in scenarios when block cache is full (#6365) * write support: fix inversion of row/column in one of the SQL request involved in partial tiles management (#6339) * fix generation of files with 1-band paletted input dataset. Also improve the logic to retrieve color palette when forcing BAND_COUNT=1 on opening (#6450) GTiff driver: * add NUM_THREADS creation and open options to enable multi-threaded compression * fix GTiffDataset::IsBlockAvailable() wrong behavior when compiling against internal libtiff, when a BigTIFF file has a TileByteCounts with LONG/4-byte counts and not LONG8 (#6001) * Correctly take into account overridden linear units for a geotiff with a EPSG PCS code (#6210, #4954) * make VirtualMemIO() work with non native endianness * improve VirtualMemIO() performance in tiled Contig read to single band copy * improve single band tiled VirtualMemIO reading * improve DirectIO() to work on tiled uncompressed geotiff, for non-resampling and nearest resampling cases. Also improve performance of resampling cases on un-tiled files * fix DirectIO() mode with complex types and inverted endianness (#6198) * optimize writing of 12-bit values * implement lazy loading of .aux.xml and .tfw/.wld * Internal libtiff: update to CVS HEAD post libtiff 4.0.6 * make SetColorInterpretation(GCI_AlphaBand) work on a 5 band or more GeoTIFF (#6102) * automatically set PHOTOMETRIC=RGB if manually assigning color interpretation Red,Green,Blue to band 1,2,3 before directory crystallization (#6272) * add GEOTIFF_KEYS_FLAVOR=ESRI_PE creation option to write EPSG:3857 in a ESRI compatible way (#5924) * call XTIFFInitialize() in LibgeotiffOneTimeInit() as the former isn't thread-safe, so better call it from the later which is thread-safe (#6163) * fix reading and writing angular units different from degree (namely arc-second, arc-minute, grad, gon and radian) (#6171) * do not use VirtualMemIO optimization on compressed /vsimem/ files (#6195) * correctly set GTRasterTypeGeoKey=RasterPixelIsPoint if AREA_OR_POINT=Point but there is no SRS set (#6225) * improve a bit error detection when writing * check free space before writing (only for big, non sparse, uncompressed) * do not read large 'one row' JBIG compressed files with the scanline API (#6264) * Fix SetMetadata() to properly clear existing PAM metadata (complement to #5807) * prevent potential out of bounds read/write to TIFFTAG_EXTRASAMPLES (#6282) * do not use first directory as potential mask, to avoid assertion in GTiffDataset::SetDirectory() (#6287) * reject files with strips/tiles/scanlines bigger than 2 GB to avoid 32 bit integer overflow. Also in case of files with Contig PlanarConfiguration do not make reading one block for band 2 OK when reading for band 1 issued an error (#6288) * GTIFFWriteDirectory(): avoid memory leak of codec related memory (#2055) * Make ALPHA=NO in CreateCopy() cancel alpha color interpretation even if present in source raster * fix problem with implicit overviews of JPEG-compressed files (#6308) * fix compilation problem with internal libtiff if DEFER_STRILE_LOAD isn't defined (which is not the default configuration) (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/90) * use more appropriate error message when 4GB threshold is reached with external overviews, and try to make doc of BIGTIFF=IF_NEEDED/IF_SAFER clearer (#6353) HDF4 driver: * Skip quotation mark when parsing HDF-EOS metadata. HDF5 driver: * add Komsat Mission ID to possible value for HDF5 SAR product (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/103) HF2 driver: * fix reading side of the driver to work on architectures where char is unsigned, like PPC or ARM (#6082) HFA driver: * when reading projection, preserve EPSG code if AutoIdentifyEPSG() identified the SRS, even if a PE string is present (#6079) * keep TOWGS84 even when using ESRI PE string (#6158) * fix crashes on corrupted files (#6208, #6286) INGR driver: * check that RLE decoding produced the expected number of bytes and error out otherwise; test that 'random' line seeking actually works JPEGLS driver: * fix build error (#6430) JP2ECW driver: * honour psExtraArg->eResampleAlg when upsampling (#6022) JP2KAK driver: * honour psExtraArg->eResampleAlg when upsampling (#6022) * try rounded dimensions to decide if the data is being requested exactly at a sub-resolution * support v7.7 on Unix (additional changes potentially needed on Windows) JP2OpenJPEG driver: * Safer multi-threaded use JPEG driver: * add USE_INTERNAL_OVERVIEWS open option (default to TRUE as in recent versions, can be set to FALSE to hide internal overviews KMLSuperOverlay driver: * fix 2.0 regression with some RasterIO() requests involving resampling (#6311) * recognize datasets that have a intermediate that forms a structure (#6343) LCP driver: * fix wrong use of endianness macros to fix behavior on big-endian hots Leveller driver: * update to v9 read support (#5632,) MBTiles driver: * add raster write support * fix so that datasets whose lowest min zoom level is 16 or above are recognized * be robust to invalid 'bounds' at dataset opening (#6458) MEM driver: * avoid 32 bit overflows NetCDF driver: * add support for reading NC4 unsigned short attributes and variables (#6337) * read correctly nodata values in [128,255] range for (unsigned) Byte data type (#6175) * implement Get/SetUnitType() using the standard units attribute (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/96) * optimize IReadBlock() and CheckData() handling of partial blocks in the x axis by re-using the GDAL block buffer instead of allocating a new temporary buffer for each block (#5950) * full read/write support for new NetCDF4 types NC_UBYTE, NC_USHORT, NC_UINT and NC_STRING for variables (except for NC_STRING) and attributes (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/99) * add support for the geostationary projection (#6030) * fix one byte heap write overflow in NCDFTokenizeArray() (#6231) * fix potential buffer overflows with uses of nc_inq_varname(), nc_inq_attname() and nc_get_att_text() (#6227) * validate that gridmapping:GeoTransform has 6 values (#6244) * fix wrong use of deallocator when writing a GEOLOCATION array, and other issues * limit number of bands reported to 32768 by default * validate raster dimensions * validate content of NC_GLOBAL#GDAL variable (#6245) NGSGEOID driver: * make it work on > 2GB file NITF driver: * data/nitf_spec.xml: Add CSCCGA, MENSRB, SENSRB, STREOB, ENGRDA, EXPLTB and PATCHB TREs (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/81, #6285, https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/86) * fix parser to properly deal with variable length items not in first nesting level Northwoord driver: * fix computation of intermediate color table values on non-Intel platforms (#6091) NTv2 driver: * support reading/writing/appending to files with big-endian order (cf https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/issues/345) OpenJPEG driver: * do not expose block dimensions larger than dataset dimensions to avoid wasting memory (#6233) PCIDSK driver: * Remove the old driver (#6172) PDF driver: * add PDFium library as a possible back-end. Initial support contributed by Klokan Technologies GmbH (http://www.maptiler.com/) * workaround a bug of PoDoFo 0.9.0 by avoiding loading of vector content in raster-only mode (doesn't prevent the crash if reading the vector layers) (#6069) * make OGC BP registration work with media box where bottom_y is negative and top_y = 0 (in non rotated case) * make OGC BP registration work with media box where min_x != 0 (in non-rotated case) * correctly take into account non-meter linear units with OGC BP encoding, and add support for US FOOT (#6292) PDS driver: * change default values of PDS_SampleProjOffset_Shift and PDS_LineProjOffset_Shift to 0.5 (#5941) * fix nodata value for UInt16 to be 0 (#6064) * accept 'ODL_VERSION_ID = ODL3' in header (#6279) PGChip driver: * driver removed from sources PLScenes driver: * PLScenes V0: avoid opening raster to generate dummy .aux.xml PNG driver: * Support writing 1, 2 or 4 bit single band * Add NBITS creation option * fix XML of creation option list * Update internal libpng to 1.2.56 PostgisRaster driver: * avoid Identify() to recognize OGR PostgreSQL connection strings with schemas option and cause loud 'QuietDelete' (#6034) Raw drivers: * better support for direct read of more than 2GB in single gulp (untested though) RIK driver: * fix Identify() method to recognize again non-RIK3 RIK datasets (#6078) RMF driver: * implement GetNoDataValue() * add read/write access to new RMF format for files larger than 4 Gb (version=0x201) (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11) ROIPAC driver: * Support offset and scale band (#6189) VICAR driver: * change PDS_SampleProjOffset_Shift and PDS_LineProjOffset_Shift default values to 0.5 (#5941) * fix loss of precision in scale and offset VRT driver: * expose implicit 'virtual' overviews for VRT whose bands are made of a single SimpleSource/ComplexSource * gdalvrt.xsd: Add capitalized versions of true and false (#6014) * GetSingleSimpleSource(): check there's a single source (#6025) * honour VRTRasterBand NBITS metadata with SimpleSource and ComplexSource * properly take into account nodata value declared at VRT band level when doing resampling with non-nearest * honour relativeToVRT when using AddBand() to add a VRTRawRasterBand (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/67) * VRT warp: fix crash with implicit overviews and destination alpha band (#6081) * make GetDefaultHistogram() on a sourced raster band save the result in the VRT (#6088) * serialize NODATA and NoDataValue items with %.16g, e.g. so as to be able to hold large int32 nodata values (#6151) * VRTSourcedRasterBand: make ComputeRasterMinMax() and ComputeStatistics() forward bApproxOK to overview band (useful for implicit overviews) * make CreateCopy() preserve NBITS metadata item * avoid loading sibling file list if not available * VRT raw: don't truncate last figure of ImageOffset if there are left space padding (#6290) * VRTWarpedDataset::SetMetadataItem(): fix crash when calling with name=SrcOvrLevel and value=NULL (#6397) * Warped VRT: fix deadlock in situation where warped VRT datasets are read in multiple threads and the block cache reaches saturation. Also add a GDAL_ENABLE_READ_WRITE_MUTEX config option that can be set to NO to disable the read/write mutex mechanism in cases where it would deadlock (#6400) WMS driver: * add a IIP (Internet Imaging Protocol) minidriver * limit number of zoom levels for ArcGIS MapServer JSon (#6186) * determine a resolution that will not result in a number that is larger than the maximum size of an integer. Any value that exceeds the maximum size of an integer will raise an invalid dataset dimensions error. (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/89) XYZ driver: * be more robust to not exactly equal X and Y spacing (#6461) ## OGR 2.1.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * Add OGREditableLayer class to add editing capabilities to drivers with none or limited editing capabilities * OGRGeometry: add DelaunayTriangulation() method (GEOS >= 3.4) * OGRGeometry and derived classes: implement copy constructor and assignment operator (#5990) * OGRGeometry: Fix result of Equals on POINT EMPTY with POINT(0 0) * OGRFeature SetField(): more type conversions allowed, particularly with array types * OGRFeature::SetGeometry()/SetGeometryDirectly(): make it work when passed geometry is the currently installed geometry (#6312) * OGR SQL: do not silently skip NULL values in the first records when evaluating a SELECT DISTINCT (#6020) * OGR SQL: correctly sort NULL values in first positions (#6155) * OGR SQL: fix CAST(x AS bigint) to return an evaluated int64 node, and not int32 (#6479) * OGR SQL: handle 'fid' as Integer64 in where clause, and allow CAST(fid AS bigint) in selected columns (#6484) * Add OGRUpdateFieldType() * Decorate a few functions/methods of the OGR layer API with CPL_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT * WKT export: use 15 significant figures, instead of 15 figures after decimal point (#6145) * WKT export: do not append .0 after non-finite values (#6319) * Fix typo in definition of name of OGR_FD_ReorderFieldDefns (final s was missing) * OGRLayer::SetIgnoredFields(): properly reset state of non first geometry fields (#6283) * Make OGRLayer::SetSpatialFilter(GetSpatialFilter()) work with non empty spatial filter (#6284) * OGRLayerDecorator: add missing CreateGeomField() * OGRLayer::Erase(): do not discard input geometries that have no intersection with method layer (#6322) * OGRLayer::Erase(): Speedup = ~70% * Add OGRPreparedGeometryContains() * Use prepared geometry intersects as pretest in layer Intersection, Union, and Identity methods if requested. Use prepared geometry containment as pretest in layer Intersection method if requested. * Bail out from layer algebra methods if GEOS calls fail and not SKIP_FAILURES. * OGR_G_SetPoints(): error out if padfX or padfY == NULL, do not change coordinate dimension to 3D when pabyZ == NULL, fix optimization on linestring to call setPoints() only if the strides are the ones of a double, not 0 as incorrectly done before (#6344) * OGRParseDate(): more strict validation to reject invalid dates (#6452) OGRSpatialReference: * Upgrade to EPSG database v8.8 * Add support for SCH (Spherical Cross-track Height) projection * Optimize reprojection typically between WGS84 based SRS and WebMercator * Correctly transform Mercator_2SP and _1SP to ESRI Mercator, and back from ESRI Mercator to Mercator_2SP (#4861) * No longer enforce C locale if running against latest proj that is locale safe (4.9.2 or later) * EPSGGetPCSInfo(): use pcs.override.csv in priority over pcs.csv to read projection name, UOM, UOMAngle, GeogCS, etc... (#6026) * morphToESRI(): use GCS_WGS_1972 as GCS name for EPSG:4322 (#6027) * morphToESRI(): use Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere projection for EPSG:3857. morphFromESRI(): map Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere to EPSG:3857 (#5924) * Align hard-coded WKT of well known GCS definitions of WGS84, WGS72, NAD27 and NAD83 with the WKT of their EPSG def (#6080) * morphFromESRI(): special case with PROJCS name 'WGS_84_Pseudo_Mercator' (#6134) * OSR C API: fix declarations of OSRSetAxes() and OSRSetWagner(), and add missing OSRSetHOMAC(), OSRSetMercator2SP() and OSRSetTPED() (#6183) * Recognize EPSG 9835 method (Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area (Ellipsoidal)), needed for EPSG:6933 PCS for example * importFromProj4/exportToProj4(): rework linear unit conversion between WKT name/values and proj4 unit name, and extend its scope in WKT to proj4 conversions * OSR ESRI .prj: add support for reading custom ellipsoid in Parameters line * on import of +proj=geos, if +sweep=x is used then store it as a proj4 extension node (#6030) Utilities: * ogrinfo / ogr2ogr: implement @filename syntax for -sql and -where * ogr2ogr: prevent the -gt setting from overriding transaction group size of 1 set by skipfailures earlier (#2409) * ogr2ogr: warn if -zfield field does not exist in source layer * ogr2ogr -skip: rollback dataset transaction in case of failure (#6328) * ogr2ogr: fix -append with a source dataset with a mix of existing and non existing layers in the target datasource (#6345) * ogr2ogr: imply quiet mode if /vsistdout/ is used as destination filename * ogr2ogr: make -dim and -nlt support measure geometry types CartoDB: * fix GetNextFeature() on a newly create table (#6109) * defer 'CartoDBfycation' at layer closing * optimize feature insertion with multiple rows INSERT CSV driver: * add editing capabilities of existing files * add X_POSSIBLE_NAMES, Y_POSSIBLE_NAMES, Z_POSSIBLE_NAMES, GEOM_POSSIBLE_NAMES and KEEP_GEOM_COLUMNS open options * add HEADERS open option to force OGR to handle numeric column names. (PR #63) * add EMPTY_STRING_AS_NULL=YES/NO open option * implement compatibility enhancements for GeoCSV specification (#5989) * fix detection of TAB delimiter in allCountries.csv when the first line has a comma (#6086) * fix issues with leading single quote, and missing first line after ResetReading(), when parsing allCountries.txt (#6087) * speed-up GetFeatureCount() on allCountries.txt * on CreateDataSource() with a .csv name, do not try to open other existing .csv files in the directory * make CreateGeomField() returns OGRERR_NONE in case of success instead of OGRERR_FAILURE (#6280) * avoid adding trailing comma in header line when writing 'WKT,a_single_field' DGN driver: * add partial 3D transformation support for cell headers DXF driver: * detect files without .dxf extension (#5994) * fix handling of ELLIPSE with Z extrusion axis = -1 (#5705) * take into account full definition of spline entity (degree, control points, weights and knots) when stroking splines (#6436) * better handling of various object coordinate systems found in dxf files for point, line, polyline, spline and ellipse entities. Add anchor position to text styles. Remove polygon/polyface mesh parsing from polyline entity (#6459) ElasticSearch driver: * use get /_stats instead of /_status for ElasticSearch 2.0 compatibility (#6346) FileGDB driver: * make CreateFeature() honour user set FID, and implement more fine grained transaction for Linux/Unix * give a hint of using FileGDB SDK 1.4 is FileGDB compression is used GeoJSON driver: * Add editing capabilities of existing files * Add ARRAY_AS_STRING=YES open option * Use '%.17g' formatting by default for floating-point numbers and add SIGNIFICANT_FIGURES layer creation option (#6291) * add a json_ex_get_object_by_path() function * fix crash on null / non-json object features (#6166) * serialize string values that are valid JSon dictionary or array as it (ie do not quote them) * make sure there's enough space to write the FeatureCollection bbox (#6262). Also avoid duplicating FeatureCollection bbox if source has one (trunk only) * Export POINT EMPTY as having a null geometry, instead as of being POINT(0 0) (#6349) * Do not 'promote' a null field to OFTString type if it had another type before (#6351) GME driver: * Driver removed. Maps Engine being shut down at the end of January 2016. GML driver: * VFR: add new attribute DatumVzniku (v1.6) * VFR: fix ST_UVOH type handling * VFR: fix ZpusobyOchrany attributes (data types and names) * VFR: fix CisloDomovni attributes (Integer->IntegerList) * VFR: fix TEA attributes of StavebniObjekty * add NAMESPACE_DECL=YES option to OGR_G_ExportToGMLEx() to add xmlns:gml=http://www.opengis.net/gml or http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2 declaration; Also accept GML2 or GML32 as valid valiues for FORMAT option (#6214) * serialize in .gfs file the name of the geometry element when it is 'geometry' since this is a particular case (#6247) * fix logic error in BuildJointClassFromScannedSchema() (#6302) GPKG driver: * make it accept files with non standard extension if they still have the correct application_id (#6396); also accept the .gpkx extension that may be used for extended geopackages * emit warning when generating a database without .gpkg/.gpkx extension (#6396) * as GPKG 1.1 uses a different application_id, emit a more specific warning if the application id starts with GPxx (but is not GP10). Add GPKG_WARN_UNRECOGNIZED_APPLICATION_ID config option to avoid the warning * correct scope of gpkg_geom_XXXXX extensions to be read-write, and allow reading geometry types CURVE or SURFACE * avoid trying to insert a gpkg_geom_XXXX extension if already done (#6402) * writer: implement strategy to flush partial_tiles temporary database when it becomes too big (#6462) * writer: when writing to GoogleMapsCompatible tiling scheme, better deal with source rasters in EPSG:4326 with latitude = +/-90 (#6463) * fix generation of files with 1-band paletted input dataset. Also improve the logic to retrieve color palette when forcing BAND_COUNT=1 on opening (#6450) GPX driver: * fix crash when parsing a 'time' extension element at route/track level (2.0 regression, #6237) ILI driver: * ILI1: Support for Surface polygon rings spread over multiple geometry records * ILI1: add string TID support (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/91) * Fix crash with models using types derived from INTERLIS * Fix memory leaks (#6178) JML driver: * remove arbitrary limitation preventing from reading geometries with larger than 10 MB (#6338) KML driver: * fix crash on KML files without content but with nested folders (#6486) LIBKML driver: * for documents without folder, use document name when available as name of layer (#6409) Memory driver: * add support for sparse feature IDs * add ADVERTIZE_UTF8 layer creation option MITAB driver: * Add support for block sizes other than 512 bytes in .map files, for MapInfo 15.2 compatibility (#6298) * write correct datum id for EPSG:3857 * read MID files with TAB delimiter and empty first field (#5405) * use projection code 29 when exporting non-Polar Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (#5220) * fix crashes when parsing invalid MIF geometries (#6273) MSSQLSpatial driver: * Implement MSSQL bulk insert (#4792) * do not treat a primary key that is not of integer type as the FID (#6235) NTF driver: * fix potential buffer overflows when reading too short lines (#6277) ODBC driver: * remove limitations to 500 columns ODS driver: * fix loss of precision in formula computation OpenFileGDB driver: * do not emit warning if SDC/CDF table detected and that FileGDB driver is present * fix min/max on columns without indices (#6150) * build correct geometry for a multi-part wkbMultiLineStringZ (#6332) * add support for reading SHPT_GENERALPOINT (#6478) OSM driver: * correct fields ids for the (non frequently used) Node message * do not override 'our' osm_id (the node, way or relation id) with a tag named 'osm_id' (#6347) * properly deal with polygons in other_relations geometrycollection (#6475) PG driver: * Add PRELUDE_STATEMENTS and CLOSING_STATEMENTS open option to be for example able to specify options, like statement_timeout, with pg_bouncer * Fix 2.0 regression when overwriting several existing PostGIS layers with ogr2ogr (#6018) * Update PG, PGDump and CartoDB drivers to correctly export POINT EMPTY for PostGIS 2.2 * avoid resetting error potentially emitted by ExecuteSQL() (#6194) * sanitize management of quoting for FID column at layer creation * fix to get SRID on result layer with PostGIS 2.2 * in copy mode (the default on layer creation), do not truncate the concatenated string list to the field width (#6356) * make such that GEOMETRY_NAME layer creation option is honoured in ogr2ogr when the source geometry field has a not-null constraint (#6366) * read and set DESCRIPTION metadata item from/into pg_description system table; add DESCRIPTION layer creation option * support int2[] and numeric[] types, better map float4[] type * remove code that was intended to handled binary cursors as it cannot be triggered * fix append of several layers in PG_USE_COPY mode and within transaction (ogr2ogr -append use case) (#6411) PGDump driver: * fix issue with case of ogc_fid field in case the FID layer creation option is not set by user or by ogr2ogr (related to #6232) * in copy mode (the default on layer creation), do not truncate the concatenated string list to the field width (#6356) * make such that GEOMETRY_NAME layer creation option is honoured in ogr2ogr when the source geometry field has a not-null constraint (#6366) * set DESCRIPTION metadata item from/into pg_description system table; add DESCRIPTION layer creation option Shapefile driver: * accept opening standalone .dbf files whose header length is not a multiple of 32 bytes (#6035) * fix REPACK crash on shapefile without .dbf (#6274) * add capability to restore/build a missing .shx file when defining SHAPE_RESTORE_SHX to TRUE (#5035) * avoid CreateLayer() to error out when passed wkbUnknown | wkb25D (#6473) SQLite/Spatialite driver: * support file:xxx URI syntax (derived from patch by joker99, #6150) * fix heuristics in OGRSQLiteSelectLayer::GetExtent() to not be used when there's a sub SELECT (#6062) * fix crash on GetLayerByName('non_existing_table(geom_column)') (#6103) * fix OGRSQLiteSelectLayerCommonBehaviour::GetBaseLayer() to no longer 'eat' consecutive characters in layer name (#6107) * Spatialite: turn debug messages warning about update not being supported because of missing or too old spatialite version as errors, and return NULL to the caller (#6199) * fix memleak in OGRSQLiteTableLayer destructor when updating geometry_columns_time * VFS: increase mxPathname to 2048 by default, and provide OGR_SQLITE_VFS_MAXPATHNAME config option to be able to configure that higher if that would be needed. Useful when dealing with very long names like /vsicurl/.... with AWS S3 security tokens * VFS: do not probe -wal files on /vsicurl/ SXF driver: * fix wrong use of endianness macros to fix behavior on big-endian hots * add recoding from CP1251 for TEXT attribute that is now decoded * fix various issues (#6357) VRT driver: * implement CloseDependentDatasets() * fix editing with 'direct' geometry mode which could cause attribute column to be empty (#6289) * fix crash with a OGRVRTWarpedLayer using a source layer that would have non geometry column (unlikely to happen currently as this would require explicit disabling it, but more likey with following commit that createe VRT non-spatial layer implicitly when the source is non-spatial, linked to #6336) * avoid creating an implicit wkbUnknown geometry field when the source has no geometry column and there's no XML elements related to geometry fields (#6336) XLSX driver: * fix reading sheets with more than > 26 columns and 'holes' (#6363) XPlane driver: * extend ICAO identifiers to 5 digits (#6003) ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * add a options parameter to gdal.ReprojectImage() to pass warp options * Change ReadRaster and WriteRaster to use GIntBig and the *IOEx-methods * prevent NULL file pointer from being passed to VSIF*L functions * make gdal.Rename() accept Unicode strings * add SpatialReference.GetAxisName() and SpatialReference.GetAxisOrientation() (#6441) * add SpatialReference.GetAngularUnitsName() (#6445) Java bindings: * Fix typemap for input parameter of type GIntBig (fixes GetFeature(long), DeleteFeature(long), etc...) (#6464) * Bump minimal java version to 1.5 in case SWIG generates anotations (#6433, patch by Bas Couwenberg) * GNUmakefile: add -f in rm commands * GNUmakefile: add support for all hardening buildflags Perl bindings: * Fix #6050: string formatting in croak. * Perl Makefile.PL: add support for all hardening buildflags (#5998) * use strict and warnings in overridden constructors. * add $VERSION to ogr_perl.i (OGR.pm), which is required by pause.perl.org. * Add some basic module info for CPAN. * Bugfix for Geo::OGR::Feature->new(). * Add many utility level algorithms as methods to various classes. * New class for XML stuff * New Makefile.PL, which can download and build GDAL. This allows automatic testing of the CPAN module. * Wrap VSIStdoutSetRedirection and allow creating datasets via an object, which can write and close. * Geo::OGR::Driver and Geo::OGR::DataSource are now Perl wrappers for respective GDAL classes. * Add to the error stack also errors from the bindings * Fix sending utf8 from Perl to GDAL. Should also remove some "uninitialized value" warnings. * ReadTile and WriteTile methods for Dataset, ReadTile accepts now tile size and scaling algorithm. * Improved Parent - Child management. * Improved support for 64bit ints. * Measures support in Geometry class. * Many new tests Python bindings: * make Feature.ExportToJson() output boolean value for a boolean field * support floating point coordinates for the source windows of Band.ReadRaster() and Band.ReadAsArray() * fix build with SWIG 3.0.6 (#6045) * make gdal.OpenEx() throw a Python exception in case of failed open when exceptions are enables with gdal.UseExceptions() (#6075) * Disable opening a NumPy dataset with a filename returned by gdal_array.GetArrayFilename(() unless GDAL_ARRAY_OPEN_BY_FILENAME is set to TRUE * disable the warning about using deprecated wkb25DBit constant as it uses a trick that prevents the bindings from being used by py2exe / pyinstaller (#6364) # GDAL/OGR 2.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * New GDAL drivers: - BPG: read-only driver for Better Portable Graphics format (experimental, no build support) - GPKG: read/write/update capabilities in the unified raster/vector driver - KEA: read/write driver for KEA format - PLMosaic: read-only driver for Planet Labs Mosaics API - ROI_PAC: read/write driver for image formats of JPL's ROI_PAC project (#5776) - VICAR: read-only driver for VICAR format * New OGR drivers: - Cloudant: read/write driver for Cloudant service - CSW: read-only driver for OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) protocol - JML: read/write driver for OpenJUMP .jml format - PLScenes: read-only driver for Planet Labs Scenes API - Selaphin: read/write driver for the Selaphin/Seraphin format (#5442) * Significantly improved drivers: CSV, GPKG, GTiff, JP2OpenJPEG, MapInfo file, PG, SQLite * RFC 31: OGR 64bit Integer Fields and FIDs (trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc31_ogr_64) In OGR core, OGR SQL, Shapefile, PG, PGDump, GeoJSON, CSV, GPKG, SQLite, MySQL, OCI, MEM, VRT, JML, GML, WFS, CartoDB, XLSX, ODS, MSSQLSpatial, OSM, LIBKML, MITAB * RFC 46: GDAL/OGR unification ( http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc46_gdal_ogr_unification) - GDAL and OGR PDF drivers are unified into a single one - GDAL and OGR PCIDSK drivers are unified into a single one * RFC 49: Add support for curve geometries (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc49_curve_geometries) In OGR core, and GML, NAS, PostgreSQL, PGDUMP, GPKG, SQLite, VFK, VRT, Interlis drivers * RFC 50: Add support for OGR field subtypes (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc50_ogr_field_subtype) In OGR core, OGR SQL, swig bindings, CSV, FileGDB, GeoJSON, GML, GPKG, OpenFileGDB, PG, PGDump, SQLite, VRT * RFC 51: RasterIO() improvements : resampling and progress callback (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc51_rasterio_resampling_progress) * RFC 52: Stricter SQL quoting (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc52_strict_sql_quoting) * RFC 53: OGR not-null constraints and default values (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc53_ogr_notnull_default) In OGR core, OGR SQL, PG, PGDump, CartoDB, GPKG, SQLite, MySQL, OCI, VRT, GML, WFS, FileGDB, OpenFileGDB and MSSQLSpatial * RFC 54: Dataset transactions (https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc54_dataset_transactions) In PG, GPKG, SQLite, FileGDB and MSSQLSpatial * RFC 55: refined SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() semantics. In GPKG, Shape, MySQL, OCI, SQLite, FileGDB, PG, CartoDB, MITAB and MSSQL * RFC 56: OFTTime/OFTDateTime millisecond accuracy ( https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc56_millisecond_precision ) * RFC 57: 64bit histogram bucket count ( https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc57_histogram_64bit_count ) * Upgrade to EPSG v8.5 database * Fix locale related issues when formatting or reading floating point numbers (#5731) ## New installed files * data/gdalvrt.xsd: XML schema of the GDAL VRT format ## Backward compatibility issues See MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT ## GDAL/OGR 2.0 - General Changes Build(Unix): * Fix for cpl_recode_iconv.cpp compilation error on freebsd 10 (#5452) * Fix pthread detection for Android * Fix in Armadillo detection test (#5455) * Fix detection of OCI by changing linking order to please modern GCC (#5550) * Fix test to accept MariaDB 10.X as valid MySQL (#5722) * Make sure $(GDAL_INCLUDE) is first to avoid being confused by GDAL headers of a previous version elsewhere in the include path (#5664) * Always use stat rather than stat64 for Mac OSX in AC_UNIX_STDIO_64. (#5780, #5414). * Add support for ECW SDK 5.1 (#5390) * Do not enable Python bindings if PYTHON env variable is set without --with-python being explicitly specified (#5956) Build(Windows): * PDF: fix compilation issue with Visual Studio 2012 (#5744) * PDF: Add support to compile the pdf driver as plugin (#5813) * Add support for MrSID 9.1 SDK (#5814) * when building netCDF, HDF4, HDF5 as plugins, call registration of 'sub-drivers' GMT, HDF4Image and HDF5Image (#5802) Build(all): * Ruby bindings: disable autoconf and makefile support (#5880) * Fix compilation errors with json-c 0.12 (#5449) * Fix compilation error in alg/gdalgrid.cpp when AVX is available, but not SSE (#5566) ## GDAL 2.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * Introduce a more generic lock API (recursive mutex, adaptive mutex, spinlock) * Add types for CPLMutex, CPLCond and CPLJoinableThread (only enforced in -DDEBUG mode) * Add CPLGetPhysicalRAM() and CPLGetUsablePhysicalRAM() * CPLSpawn() on Windows: quote arguments with spaces in them (#5469) * /vsigzip/: avoid infinite loop when reading broken .gml.gz file (#5486) * /vsizip/ : fix bug that caused premature end of file condition with some read patterns (#5530) * /vsizip/ on >4GB zips: accept .zip declare 0 disks (#5615) * /vsitar/: remove useless validation test that prevents from opening valid .tar files (#5864) * /vsistdout/: add VSIStdoutSetRedirection() for compatibility with MapServer FCGI (https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/4858) * /vsimem/: update st_mtime and return it with Stat() * /vsimem/: in update mode, when seeking after end of file, only extend it if a write is done * /vsimem/: Make Rename() on a directory also rename filenames under that directory (#5934) * /vsicurl/: manage redirection from public URLs to redirected AWS S3 signed urls, with management of the expiration. Enabled by default. Can be disabled if CPL_VSIL_CURL_USE_S3_REDIRECT=NO (#6439) * /vsicurl/: avoid reading after end-of-file and fix failure when reading more than 16MB in a single time (#5786) * /vsicurl/: by default do not use HEAD request when detecting a AWS S3 signed URL * Allow CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS to be set to special value {noext} * VSIWin32Handle::Flush(): no-op implementation is sufficient to offer same guarantee as POSIX fflush() (#5556) * Unix VSIL: reset eof in all cases in Seek() * Windows plugins: complementary fix to #5211 to avoid error dialog box when there are dependency problems (#5525) * Fix VSIReadDirRecursive() recursing on the parent or current directory (#5535) * cpl_error: obfuscate password * HTTP: set CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL if available (#5568) * Add COOKIE option to CPLHTTPFetch() (#5824) * CPLHTTPFetch(): add retry logic in case of 502, 503 and 504 errors with the GDAL_HTTP_MAX_RETRY (default: 0)and GDAL_HTTP_RETRY_DELAY (default: 30 s) config options (#5920) * Fix stack corruption upon thread termination with CPLSetThreadLocalConfigOption on Windows 32 bit (#5590) * cpl_csv: Stop probing for csv/horiz_cs.csv. (#5698) * vsipreload: implement clearerr() and readdir64() (#5742) * CPLsetlocale(): return a string that is thread-locale storage to avoid potential race in CPLLocaleC::CPLLocaleC() (#5747) * CPLHexToBinary(): faster implementation (#5812) * CPLAcquireMutex(): improve performance on Windows (#5986) Core: * Add imagery (satellite or aerial) metadata support (Alos, DigitalGlobe, Eros, GeoEye, OrbView, Landsat, Pleiades, Resurs-DK1, Spot/Formosat). * Reduce lock contention on the global cache mutex and make it possible to use spin lock instead with GDAL_RB_LOCK_TYPE=SPIN * Block cache: make block cache manager safe with respect to writing dirty blocks (#5983) * EXIF reader: fix memleak in error code path * EXIF reader: add missing validation for some data types (#3078) * Fix crash in GDALPamRasterBand::SerializeToXML() when saving an empty RAT (#5451) * ComputeStatistics(): use Welford algorithm to avoid numerical precision issues when computing standard deviation (#5483) * Fix crashing issue with TLS finalization on Unix (#5509) * GDALJP2Metadata::CreateGMLJP2(): use EPSGTreatsAsLatLong() and EPSGTreatsAsNorthingEasting() to determine if axis swapping is needed (#2131) * GDALJP2AbstractDataset: implement GetFileList() to report .wld/.j2w if used * GMLJP2: be robust when parsing GMLJP2 content that has nul character instead of \n (#5760) * GMLJP2: add missing rangeParameters element to validate against GMLJP2 schema (#5707) * GMLJP2: write non null bounding box at root of FeatureCollection (#5697) * GMLJP2: SRS export as GML: output XML definition of a SRS as a GML 3.1.1 compliant Dictionary (#5697) * GMLJP2: when setting GDAL_JP2K_ALT_OFFSETVECTOR_ORDER=TRUE write it as a XML comment so that we can interpret the OffsetVector elements correctly on reading * GMLJP2: when parsing a GMLJP2 box, accept srsName found on gml:RectifiedGrid if not found on origin.Point, so as to be compatible with the example of DGIWG_Profile_of_JPEG2000_for_Georeferenced_Imagery.pdf (#5697) * GMLJP2: add compatibility with GMLJP2 v2.0 where SRS is expressed as CRS URL * GMLJP2: on reading, don't do axis inversation if there's an explicit axisName requesting easting, northing order (#5960); also strip axis order in reported SRS * JP2Boxes: add null terminated byte to GDAL XML, XML or XMP boxes * Add GDALGetJPEG2000Structure() (#5697) * GDALMultiDomainMetadata::XMLInit(): when importing XML metadata, erase the existing document to replace it with the new one * Metadata: fix correct sorting of StringList / metadata (#5540, #5557) * Make GetMaskBand() work with GDT_UInt16 alpha bands (#5692) * Fix 32bit overflow in GDALRasterBand::IRasterIO() and GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() (#5713) * RasterIO: small optimization in generic RasterIO() implementation to avoid loading partial tiles at right and/or bottom edges of the raster when they are going to be completely written * Fix crash when calling GetTiledVirtualMem() on non-Linux platform (#5728) * Add GDAL_OF_INTERNAL flag to avoid dataset to be registered in the global list of open datasets * GDALDriver::CreateCopy(): accept _INTERNAL_DATASET=YES as creation option, so as to avoid the returned dataset to be registered in the global list of open datasets * Implement GDALColorTable::IsSame() * GDALPamDataset: do not serialize dataset metadata unless it has been set through GDALDataset::SetMetadata() or GDALDataset::SetMetadataItem() * GDALLoadTabFile: add TAB_APPROX_GEOTRANSFORM=YES/NO configuration option to decide if an approximate geotransform is OK (#5809) * Optimize copy efficiency from tiled JPEG2000 images * Avoid fetching remote non-existing resources for sidecar files, when using /vsicurl/ with a URL that takes arguments (#5923) * Use GDALCanFileAcceptSidecarFile() in GDALMDReaderManager::GetReader() Algorithms: * RPC transformer: fix near interpolation in RPC DEM (#5553) * RPC transformer: take into account nodata in RPC DEM (#5680) * RPC transformer: add RPC_DEM_MISSING_VALUE transformer option to avoid failure when there's no DEM at the transformed point (#5730) * RPC transformer: in DEM mode, implement optimization, in specific conditions (input points at same longitude, DEM in EPSG:4326) to extract several elevations at a time * TPS transformer: fix crash if the forward or backward transform cannot be computed (#5588) * OpenCL warper: remove unused variable in bilinear resampling that can cause compilation error (#5518) * OpenCL wrapper: fix code compilation with NVIDIA OpenCL (#5772) * Overview: Fix and speed-up cubic resampling in overview computation to take into account scaling factor (#5685) * Overview: ignore alpha=0 values when compute an average overview of an alpha band; and also avoid memory errors when calling GetMaskBand()/GetMaskFlags() after overview computation if GetMaskXXX() has been called before (#5640) * Overview: avoid crash when computing overview with a X dimension much smaller than Y dimension (#5794) * GDALRegenerateOverviewsMultiBand(): fix stride calculation error with certain raster dimensions (#5653) * Warper: numerous speed optimizations (SSE2 specific code, more fast code paths, ...) * Warper: fix Cubic and Bilinear resampling to work correctly with downsizing (#3740) * Warper: fix and optimize CubicSpline * Warper: regardless of the warping memory limit, add heuristics to determine if we must split the target window in case the 'fill ratio' of the source dataset is too low (#3120) * Warper: accept warping options METHOD=NO_GEOTRANSFORM and DST_METHOD=NO_GEOTRANSFORM to run gdalwarp on ungeoreferenced images * Warper: fix GDALSuggestedWarpOutput() wrong extent in some circumstances (e.g. dataset of big dimension with world coordinates) (#5693) * Warper: fix integer overflow when reprojecting into an area with (part of) bounds completely outside of the source projection (#5789) * Warper: add min,max,med,q1 and q3 resampling algorithms (#5868) * Warper: add a SRC_COORD_PRECISION warping option to help getting more reproducible output when -wm parameter changes (#5925) * Warper: fix failure in GDALSuggestedWarpOut2() when top-left and bottom-right corners transform to the same point (#5980) * GDALReprojectImage(): takes into account nodata values set on destination dataset * Median cut and dithering: optimizations and enhancements to deal with 8-bit precision (only if using internal interface for now) * rasterfill: add option to specify driver to use for temporary files * Polygonize: speed optimization: do not try to build the polygon for pixels that are masked by the mask band (i.e. alpha, nodata, etc...). Can considerably speed-up processing when the nodata outline forms a very complex polygon Utilities: * gdalinfo: display extra metadata domains attached to band, and refactor code a bit (#5542) * gdalinfo: add -oo option per RFC 46 * gdalinfo: add -json switch (partial implementation of RFC 44) * gdaladdo: add -oo option per RFC 46 * gdaladdo: add warning when subsampling factor 1 specified * gdal_translate: add -oo option per RFC 46 * gdal_translate: add -r and -tr options per RFC 51 * gdal_translate: add a -projwin_srs option to be able to express -projwin coordinates in another SRS than the one of the dataset * gdal_translate: support -'outsize avalue 0' or '-outsize 0 avalue' to preserve aspect ratio * gdal_translate: avoid preserving statistics when changing data type in situations where clamping can occur * gdal_translate: adjust RPC metadata (pixel/line offset/scale) when subsetting/rescaling, instead of just discarding it * gdal_translate: don't recopy band units if rescaling or unscaling is involved (#3085) * gdal_translate: increase GDAL_MAX_DATASET_POOL_SIZE default value to 450. (#5828) * gdal_translate: preserve NBITS image structure metadata when possible * gdalwarp: add -oo option per RFC 46 * gdalwarp: add -te_srs option to specify -te in a SRS which isn't the target SRS * gdalwarp: add a -ovr option to select which overview level to use, and default to AUTO. Also add a generic OVERVIEW_LEVEL=level open option, and make it available in standard VRT (#5688) * gdalwarp: initialize destination dataset to no_data value when automatically propagating source nodata (#5675) * gdalwarp: only apply INIT_DEST when processing the first input dataset (#5387) * gdalwarp: increase GDAL_MAX_DATASET_POOL_SIZE default value to 450. (#5828) * gdalwarp: do not preserve NODATA_VALUES metadata item in output dataset if adding an alpha channel with -dstalpha * gdalwarp: fix '-dstnodata none' to avoid read of uninitialized values (#5915) * gdalwarp: make -crop_to_cutline densify cutline in source SRS before reprojecting it to target SRS (#5951) * gdaldem: avoid too large files to be produced when using -co COMPRESS=xxxx -co TILED=YES (#5678) * gdallocationinfo: add -oo option * gdaltransform: add a -output_xy flag to restrict output coordinates to 'x y' only * gdal_grid: use nodata= parameter in the algorithm string to determine the nodata value to set on the band (#5605) * gdal_grid: fix crash in optimized mode with GCC 4.4 on 64bit (#5987) * gdalbuildvrt: add a -r option to specify the resampling algorithm * gdal_edit.py: add -unsetstats option (and fix -a_nodata to run on all bands, ant not just first one) * gdal_edit.py: add -stats and -approx_stats flags (patch by mwtoews, #5805) * gdal_edit.py: change -mo add metadata to existing one; add new option -unsetmd to clean existing metadata * gdal_edit.py: add -oo to specify open options * gdal_retile.py: fix to make it work with input images of different resolutions (#5749) * gdal_retile.py: implement progress bar (#5750) * gdal_merge.py: add timing information in verbose output * gdal_merge.py: take into account alpha band to avoid writing zones of source images that are fully transparent (#3669) * gdal2tiles.py: fix inverted long/lat in BoundingBox and Origin elements of tilemapresource.xml (#5336) * pct2rgb.py: make it work with color tables with less than 256 entries (#5555) * gdal_fillnodata.py: FillNodata: copy no data value to destination band when creating a dataset (if available) (#4625) * gdal_proximity.py: add a -use_input_nodata flag * gdalcompare.py: add options to suppress selected comparisons * gdalcompare.py: takes into account differences in overview bands * gdalcompare.py: compute difference on float to avoid integer underflow * epsg_tr.py: change to make it possible to export GEOCCS and COMPD_CS to proj.4 epsg and PostGIS spatial_ref_sys.sql files Python samples: * Added swig/python/samples/jpeg_in_tiff_extract.py * Added dump_jp2.py * Added validate_jp2.py * Added build_jp2.py * Added gcps2ogr.py * tolatlong.py: report error when operating on a non-georeferenced dataset AAIGRID: * Fix formatting string (#5731) BAG driver: * change nodata value for uncertainty band to 1e6 (#5482) BMP driver: * back out r17065 change that inferred georeferencing based on the resolution information in the BMP header (#3578) DIMAP driver: * DIMAP 2: handle the case where the Raster_Data element is in main file (#5018, #4826) * DIMAP 2: fix to extract geodetic SRS (#5018, #4826) * DIMAP 2: fix to extract geotransform from JPEG2000 file if not available in XML (#5018, #4826) DDS driver: * Add ETC1 compression format support * Header correction for worldwind client ECW driver: * correctly assign color interpretation to bands if order is unusual ENVI driver: * avoid generating potentially corrupted .hdr files when opening in update mode; Write 'Arbitrary' instead of 'Unknown' as the projection name for an undefined SRS (#5467) * when writing, consider that LOCAL_CS SRS is like ungeoreferenced (#5467) ERS driver: * reset RasterInfo.RegistrationCellX/Y if setting a new geotransform on an updated .ers file (#5493) * fix SetProjection() (#5840) GeoRaster driver: * fix Oracle SRID authority (#5607) * fix user-defined SRID issue (#5881) * new SRID search (#5911) GIF driver: * add compatibility with giflib 5.1 (#5519) * fix crash on images without color table (#5792) * fix reading of interlaced images with giflib >= 5.0 * validate the size of the graphic control extension block (#5793) * implement GetFileList() to report worldfile GRASS driver: * GRASS 7.0.0 support (#5852) GRIB driver: * avoid divide by zero while setting geotransform on 1xn or nx1 grib file (#5532) * allow writing PDS template numbers to all bands (#5144) GTiff driver: New capabilities: * for JPEG-in-TIFF, use JPEG capabilities to decompress fast overview levels 2,4 and 8, to generate 'hidden' overviews used by RasterIO() * add DISCARD_LSB creation option (lossy compression) to be best used with PREDICTOR=2 and LZW/DEFLATE compression * when GTIFF_DIRECT_IO=YES is enabled, performance improvements in GTiffRasterBand::DirectIO() with Byte dataset and Byte buffer * implement dataset DirectIO() * add GTIFF_VIRTUAL_MEM_IO=YES/NO/IF_ENOUGH_RAM configuration option so that RasterIO() can rely on memory-mapped file I/O (when possible and supported by the OS) * support reading and created streamable files * for JPEG-compressed TIFF, avoid quantization tables to be emitted in each strip/tile and use optimized Huffman coding by default * avoid SetNoDataValue() to immediately 'crystallize' the IFD * allow unsetting TIFFTAG_SOFTWARE, TIFFTAG_DOCUMENTNAME, etc... by removing them from metadata list or passing None as a value of SetMetadataItem() (#5619) * allow lossless copying of CMYK JPEG into JPEG-in-TIFF * set alpha on target by default when translating from Grey+Alpha * Internal overviews: for near, average, gauss and cubic, and pixel interleaving, make sure to use the same code path for compressed vs uncompressed overviews (#5701) * add RPCTXT=YES creation option to write sidecar _RPC.TXT file * internal libtiff updated to upstream libtiff 4.0.4beta * internal libgeotiff updated to upstream libgeotiff SVN head * speed optimization on write (at least in Vagrant) (#5914) * use importFromEPSG() when ProjectedCSTypeGeoKey is available (#5926) * on reading better deal with a few ESRI formulations of WebMercator (#5924) Fixes: * when overriding metadata in update mode, make sure to clear it from PAM file (#5807) * fix handling of Mercator_2SP (#5791) * avoid TIFF directory to be written (at end of file) when creating a JPEG-in-TIFF file * for a paletted TIFF with nodata, set the alpha component of the color entry that matches the nodata value to 0, so as gdal_translate -expand rgba works properly * fix to make band SetMetadata(NULL) clear band metadata (#5628) * fix error message when requesting a non existing directory * check data type with PHOTOMETRIC=PALETTE * be robust to out-of-memory conditions with SplitBand and SplitBitmapBand * avoid using optimized JPEG --> JPEG-in-TIFF path if INTERLEAVE=BAND is specified with a 3-band JPEG * to make Python bindings happy, avoid emitting CE_Failure errors due to libtiff errors when we still manage to open the file (#5616) * avoid crash when reading GeoTIFF keys if the stored key type isn't the one expected * make sure to call libgeotiff gtSetCSVFilenameHook() method when linking against external libgeotiff * avoid/limit DoS with huge number of directories * clean spurious spaces when reading values from _RPC.TXT * serialize RPC in PAM .aux.xml file if using PROFILE != GDALGeoTIFF and RPB = NO * fix clearing of GCPs (#5945) * avoid generated corrupted right-most and bottom-most tiles for 12-bit JPEG-compressed (#5971) * make sure to use scanline write API when writing single-band single-strip 1-bit datasets GRASS driver: * fix compilation issues against GRASS 7 HDF4 driver: * Add configuration support to be able to open more files simultaneously * Add class suffix to the parameter name when parsing HDF-EOS objects. * Fix AnyTypeToDouble() to use proper type (int instead of long) to work with DFNT_INT32/DFNT_UINT32 on 64-bit Linux (#5965) * MODIS: Set more correct values for PIXEL_/LINE_ OFFSET/STEP by comparing longitude and latitude subdatasets dimensions with main subdataset dimensions HDF5 driver: * avoid opening BAG files in the case HDF5 and BAG are plugins, and HDF5 is registered before BAG HFA driver: * fix recognition of Hotine Mercator Azimuth Center in Imagine format (and Swisstopo GeoTIFF) (#5551) * fix various hangs on invalid files * read projection even when it does not contain datum information (#4659) HTTP driver/wrapper: * make it work with vector files too * fix handling of non VSI*L file on Windows IRIS driver: * add support for the SHEAR data type (#5549) JPEG2000 driver: * do expansion of 1-bit alpha channel to 8-bit by default. Can be controlled with the 1BIT_ALPHA_PROMOTION open option (default to YES) * add GMLJP2 creation option * add GMLJP2V2_DEF creation option to create a GMLJP2 v2 box * Add capability of reading GMLJP2 v2 embedded feature collections and annotations * Add read/write support for RPC in GeoJP2 box (#5948) JP2ECW driver: * add metadata about JPEG2000 codestream and boxes (#5408) * Add 1BIT_ALPHA_PROMOTION open option (default to YES) to control expansion of 1-bit alpha channel to 8-bit * correctly assign color interpretation to bands if order is unusual * add WRITE_METADATA and MAIN_MD_DOMAIN_ONLY creation options to write GDAL metadata, JP2 XML boxes or XMP box * add GMLJP2V2_DEF creation option to create a GMLJP2 v2 box * Add capability of reading GMLJP2 v2 embedded feature collections and annotations * Add read/write support for RPC in GeoJP2 box (#5948) JP2KAK driver: * Compatibility with Kakadu v7.5 (#4575, #5344) * Handle Kakadu version 7 allocator.finalize (#4575) * fix bug in vsil_target::end_rewrite() that prevented TLM index to be generated (#5585) * Add FLUSH in creation option XML (#5646) * Do expansion of 1-bit alpha channel to 8-bit by default. Can be controlled with the 1BIT_ALPHA_PROMOTION open option (default to YES) * add GMLJP2V2_DEF creation option to create a GMLJP2 v2 box * Add capability of reading GMLJP2 v2 embedded feature collections and annotations * Add read/write support for RPC in GeoJP2 box (#5948) JP2OpenJPEG driver: * Support writing arbitrary number of bands. (#5697) * Generate cdef box when transparency is needed. Add NBITS, 1BIT_ALPHA and ALPHA creation options (#5697) * add INSPIRE_TG (for conformance with Inspire Technical Guidelines on Orthoimagery), PROFILE, JPX and GEOBOXES_AFTER_JP2C creation option (#5697) * add GMLJP2V2_DEF creation option to create a GMLJP2 v2 box * Add capability of reading GMLJP2 v2 embedded feature collections and annotations * add PRECINCTS creation option (#5697) * allow several quality values to be specified with QUALITY creation option. Add TILEPARTS, CODEBLOCK_WIDTH and CODEBLOCK_HEIGHT options (#5697) * support reading&writing datasets with unusual order of band color interpretation (#5697) * add WRITE_METADATA and MAIN_MD_DOMAIN_ONLY creation options to write GDAL metadata, JP2 XML boxes or XMP box (#5697) * add support for reading/writing/updating IPR box (from/into xml:IPR metadata domain) (#5697) * add YCC creation option to do RGB->YCC MCT, and turn it ON by default (#5634) * add USE_SRC_CODESTREAM=YES experimental creation option, to reuse the codestream of the source dataset unmodified * support reading & writing images with a color table (#5697) * support update mode for editing metadata and georeferencing (#5697) * add compatibility with OpenJPEG 2.1 (#5579) * fix warning when reading a single tile image whose dimensions are not a multiple of 1024 (#5480) * Add 1BIT_ALPHA_PROMOTION open option (default to YES) to control expansion of 1-bit alpha channel to 8-bit * Add read/write support for RPC in GeoJP2 box (#5948) * limit number of file descriptors opened JPEG driver: * use EXIF overviews if available * add EXIF_THUMBNAIL creation option to generate an EXIF thumbnail * use optimized Huffman coding to reduce file size * add support for reading and writing COMMENT * optimize whole image reading with dataset IRasterIO() * report non-fatal libjpeg errors as CE_Warning (or CE_Failure if GDAL_ERROR_ON_LIBJPEG_WARNING = TRUE) (#5667) * in compressor, increase default val of max_memory_to_use to 500MB JPIPKAK driver: * avoid symbol collision with kdu_cpl_error_message from JP2KAK driver * reset the bNeedReinitialize flag after a timeout (#3626) KMLSuperOverlay driver: * fix truncated raster on 32 bit builds (#5683) * make Identify() more restrictive to avoid false positives L1B driver: * add support for little-endian LRPT datasets (#5645) * expose band mask when there are missing scanlines (#5645) * expose WGS-84 or GRS-80 datum if read from header record (#5645) MAP driver: * retrieve the image filename in a case insensitive way (#5593) MBTiles driver: * better detection of 4 bands dataset and take into account alpha component of color table in RasterIO() (#5439) * avoid wrong detection of 3 bands when finding paletted PNG in /vsicurl mode (#5439) * fix dimension computation when opening a single tile dataset * better computation of extent from min/max of tile coordinates, for a single zoom level * use standard EPSG:3857 origin to fix a ~8m shift (#5785) MEM driver: * implement optimized versions of raster band and dataset IRasterIO() MSG driver: * fix compilation problem (#5479) * fix memory leaks (#5541) NetCDF driver: * Force block size to 1 scanline for bottom-up datasets if nBlockYSize != 1 (#5291) * Fix computation of inverse flattening (#5858) * In case the netCDF driver is registered before the GMT driver, avoid opening GMT files * Fix crash on opening a NOAA dataset (#5962) NGSGEOID driver: * make Identify() more restrictive NITF driver: * deal correctly with JPEG2000 NITF datasets that have a color table inboth Image Subheader and JP2 boxes, and for drivers that don't do color table expension * HISTOA TRE: put definition of TRE in conformance with STDI-0002 (App L page 14) and STDI-0006 (Page 57) (#5572) OGDI driver: * Remove OGDIDataset::GetInternalHandle (#5779). OZI driver: * remove .map header detection from Identify() since this is actually handled by the MAP driver PCIDSK driver: * close dataset in case of exception in PCIDSK2Dataset::LLOpen() (#5729) PCRaster driver: * Align libcsf code with PCRaster raster format code (#5843) * Implement Create() (#5844) * Improve handling of no-data value (#5953) PDF driver: * add compatibility with Poppler 0.31.0 * in the OGC Best practice case, switch rotational terms of the geotransform matrix (gt[2] and gt[4]) * in the OGC Best practice case, handle rotations of 90 and 270 degrees. * advertise LAYERS metadata domain * deal with OHA- datum (Old Hawaiian) * fix compilation problem with Podofo on Windows (patch by keosak, #5469) * add sanity check on page count PDS driver: * Added support for SPECTRAL_QUBE objects used e.g. by THEMIS instrument of Mars Odyssey spacecraft. PNG driver: * add creation options to write metadata in TEXT/iTXt chunks * optimize whole image reading with dataset IRasterIO() * Internal libpng: update to 1.2.52 PostgisRaster driver: * Fix read of metadata for tables with multiple raster cols (#5529) Rasterlite driver: * accept space in filename RPFTOC driver: * add tweak for weird relative directory names in the A.TOC file (#5979) VRT driver: * add handling of a shared='0' attribute on to open sources in non-shared mode, and VRT_SHARED_SOURCE config option that can be set to 0 in case the shared attribute isn't there (#5992) * VRT warp: make selection of source overview work (#5688) * VRT warp: expose as many overviews in warped dataset as there are in source dataset, and make warped VRT honour -ovr parameter of gdalwarp (#5688) * make sure nodata value set on VRT raster band is taken into account in statistics computation (#5463) * fix ComputeStatistics() on VRT that are a sub-window of source dataset (#5468) * VRT raw: fix corrupted serialization on Windows (#5531) * implement heuristics to determine if GetMinimum()/GetMaximum() should use the implementation of their sources of not. Can be overridden by setting VRT_MIN_MAX_FROM_SOURCES = YES/NO (#5444) * VRT warp: avoid to warp truncated blocks at right/bottom edges, so that scale computation is correct * fix RasterIO() to be able to fill buffers larger than 2GB (#5700) * fix performance problem when serializing into XML a big number of sources * do not output empty node on VRTDataset and VRTRasterBand elements * fix rounding of output window size on VRTSimpleSource (#5874) * add trick to make relativeToVRT works for a VRT-in-VRT * add more checks to CheckCompatibleForDatasetIO() to avoid issues with overview bands (#5954) * preserves relative links on reserialization of existing VRT (#5985) USGSDEM driver: * take into account horizontal unit = ft in the UTM case (#5819) TIL driver: * fix half pixel shift in geo registration (#5961) WEBP driver: * Lazy uncompressed buffer allocation and optimize band-interleaved IRasterIO() for whole image reading WMS driver: * Add support for ArcGIS server REST API * fix to make GDAL_DEFAULT_WMS_CACHE_PATH configuration option work as expected (#4540) * move the WMS layer name encoding to be done before the sub datasets URLs are created. XYZ driver: * fix back line seeking with datasets that have not the same number of values per lines (#5488) * deal with lines that have missing values (but still regularly spaced) ## OGR 2.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * OGRPolygon::importFromWkt(): fix memleak when importing broken 2.5D polygon * Fix OGRFeature::SetGeometryDirectly() and SetGeomFieldDirectly() to free the passed geometry even if the method fails (#5623) * OGR SQL: Add hstore_get_value(hstore, key) function * OGR SQL: sanitize how we deal with field names expressed as table_name.field_name and "fieldname.with_point_inside". By default, use standard quoting rules, and be tolerant when there's no ambiguity * OGR SQL: support arbitrary boolean expression on ON clause of a JOIN * OGR SQL: accept AS keyword in 'FROM table_name AS alias' clause * OGR SQL: don't consider backslash-doublequote as an escape sequence when inside a single-quoted string literal * Add OGR_API_SPY mechanism (http://www.gdal.org/ograpispy_8h.html) * Make OGRParseDate() recognize ISO 8601 format * ogr_core.h: only ignore -Wfloat-equal for IsInit() and not for the rest of the file and files that include it (#5299) * OGR layer algebra: properly initialize field maps to avoid Valgrind warnings in OGRLayer::Update() (#5778) * Make OGR_F_SetFieldBinary() set OFTString fields, mostly for testing purposes * OGR_G_CreateGeometryFromJson(): attach a WGS84 SRS to the returned geometry if the json object has no 'crs' member (#5922) OGRSpatialReference: * Upgrade to EPSG v8.5 database * Proj.4 import: for HOM, make sure +no_off/no_uoff is preserved, and change default value of gamma parameter to be the same as alpha (#5511) * Proj.4 export: export Aitoff, Winkel I, Winkel II, Winkel-Tripel, Craster, Loximuthal, Quartic Authalic * Adding support for Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere without AUTHORITY SECTIONS (#3962) * Add QSC (Quadrilateralized_Spherical_Cube) projection, compatible with PROJ 4.9 * Various fixes to put EXTENSION node before AUTHORITY and make it pass Validate() (#5724) * importFromEPSG()/exportToProj4(): avoid precision loss in TOWGS84 parameters, e.g. on Amersfoort / RD EPSG:4289 (https://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/260) * Add OSRCalcInvFlattening() and OSRCalcSemiMinorFromInvFlattening(), and use them in various places (#5858) * Remove deprecated variant of OGRSpatialReference::importFromOzi() (#5932) Utilities: * ogrinfo: add -oo option per RFC 46 * ogrinfo: display dataset and layer metadata. Add -nomdd, -listmdd, -mdd all|domain options, like in gdalinfo. OGR VRT: add dataset and layer metadata support * ogrinfo: add -nocount and -noextent options * ogr2ogr: add -oo and -doo options per RFC 46 * ogr2ogr: add -spat_srs option * ogr2ogr: turn string value to one element list if destination field is stringlist * ogr2ogr: fix problem with SRS when copying layers with multiple geometry columns with different SRS (#5546) * ogr2ogr: add special case for -update and GPKG and input=output * ogr2ogr: when copying a layer that has a source integer/integer64 field with same name as target FID column, avoid creating it into target layer and use its content as the FID value (#5845) * ogr2ogr: in non-append mode, if target layer has a FID creation option, reuse source FID name and source FIDs, unless -unsetFid is specified (#5845) * ogr2ogr: copy source dataset and layer metadata, unless disabled by -nomd. Additional dataset metadata can be set with -mo KEY=VALUE * ogr2ogr: add -ds_transaction to force dataset transactions, mainly for FileGDB driver * ogr2ogr: fix crash with -clipdst when a reprojection fails before (#5973) * ogrlineref: fix project if reper lies on first point or last point of line * ogr_layer_algebra.py: for Update, Clip and Erase, only creates attribute of input layer by default (#5976) Other: * OGR WCTS removed from tree Cross driver changes: * MSSQLSpatial and GPKG: use standardized 'GEOMETRY_NAME' option name. Add GEOMETRY_NAME to SQLite (#5816) * FileGDB and MySQL: use standardized 'FID' option name. SQLite: add a FID layer creation option (#5816) * SQLite, GPKG, PG, PGDump: in a newly created table, allow to create a integer field with same name of FID column (#5845) BNA driver: * fix segfault when calling GetNextFeature() on a write-only layer CartoDB: * add CARTODBFY layer creation option * launder layer and column names by default (#5904) * enable by default batch insertion of features in update mode * on a newly created layer, send new features created by CreateFeature() by chunks of a maximum size of 15 MB (configurable through CARTODB_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE). * implement deferred field creation * support boolean type * register tables with cdb_cartodbfytable() * fix creation of features with Date/DateTime/Time values * fix for multi-user account, and optimization for SQL layers * implement TestCapability() and CreateDataSource() similarly to PostgreSQL, i.e. redirect to Open() in update mode * accept a user column to have the same name of the FID (cartodb_id) * do automatic polygon->multipolygon promotion at creation time * in authenticated mode, retrieve all column information, including spatial info, default value and primary key in one single statement * use integer primary key of tables, when available, to scroll faster among features instead of using OFFSET/LIMIT (#5906) CSV driver: * add optional field type detection with AUTODETECT_TYPE=YES open option * add QUOTED_FIELDS_AS_STRING open option that default to NO. So by default, if AUTODETECT_TYPE=YES, the content of quoted fields will be tested for real, integer,... data types * fix to avoid truncation of WKT geometries to 8000 characters (#5508) * fix segfault when reading allCountries.txt of geonames.org (#5668) * accept space as separator as input/output, and add MERGE_SEPARATOR=YES/NO open option DXF driver: * improve TestCapability(ODsCCreateLayer) FileGDB driver: * add layer creation option to set CONFIGURATION_KEYWORD * avoid error message when failing to import SRS from WKID code (might be an ESRI code for example) * do not reject features with null geometry * use LatestWKID when available (#5638) * avoid emitting error when opening a FileGDB v9, so that OpenFileGDB can be tried to open it, in the case FileGDB is a plugin (#5674) * fix CreateFeature() to work when a esriFieldTypeGlobalID field is not set * report width of string fields (#5806) * add compatibility with FileGDB SDK v1.4 * enable bulk load on newly created layers GeoJSON driver: * implement Date/Time/DateTime field type detection * expose a 'id' object, of type string, directly on Feature object (not in its properties) as a field * add FLATTEN_NESTED_ATTRIBUTES and NESTED_ATTRIBUTE_SEPARATOR open options * TopoJSON: establish layer schema from objects properties (#5870) * implement automatic scrolling through result sets of ArcGIS GeoServices Feature Service (#5943) * accept and skip UTF-8 BOM (#5630) * ESRIJson: parse correctly rings of esriGeometryPolygon objects to build correct Polygon or MultiPolygon (#5538) * avoid truncation of real numbers on reading (#5882) * internal libjson-c: Fix to read floating point numbers in non C locale (#5461) * improve TestCapability(ODsCCreateLayer) * make string comparison for authority name case insensitive so as to recognize lowercase 'epsg' (#4995) * support reading Feature without geometry field GeoRSS driver: * fix to parse ATOM feed documents with atom: namespace (#5871) GME driver: * Added fixes discovered while using v.in.ogr and v.out.ogr in GRASS GML driver: * add XSD=filename open option * add FORCE_SRS_DETECTION, INVERT_AXIS_ORDER_IF_LAT_LONG, CONSIDER_EPSG_AS_URN, READ_MODE, EXPOSE_GML_ID, EXPOSE_FID, DOWNLOAD_SCHEMA and REGISTRY open options * Fix bug that prevented multiple instances of the reader with Xerces backend (#5571) * parse correctly GML geometries whose srsDimension attribute is on top-level geometry element and not on posList (#5606) * add datasource option SRSDIMENSION_LOC=GEOMETRY to be able to write srsDimension attribute on top level geometry element, default on posList unchanged (#5066) * add support for reading layers resulting from a WFS 2.0 join query * read/write top and as DESCRIPTION and NAME metadata items. Also add GML_ID, DESCRIPTION and NAME creation options * support to reader response to CSW GetRecords queries * Fix incorrect geometry cast when reading GML topogeometries (#5715) * VFR: fix ST_Z type (changes) -- list all layers * VFR: include also non-spatial (removed) features (ZaniklePrvky) in type ST_Z (changes) * VFR: use String when 32-bit integer was not wide enough * VFR: add support for UVOH file type * VFR: add missing support for OriginalniHraniceOmpv geometry * VFR: update GFS files to RFC31 (OGR 64bit Integer Fields and FIDs) * update RUIAN GFS files: add missing GMLFeatureClasses to OB type (SpravniObvody, Mop, Momc) * add support for parsing .xsd with a of polygonProperty and multiPolygonProperty * remove wrong case insensitive comparison related to gml_registry.xml use * various fixes to better deal with ArcByCenterPoint() as found in FAA AIXML files * make Expat parser accept trailing nul characters * correctly record path to attribute in case of attribute located on a nested element when .gfs is created with GML_ATTRIBUTES_TO_OGR_FIELDS=YES * fix GML_ATTRIBUTES_TO_OGR_FIELDS=YES to work correctly with xlink:href too (#5970 * make GML_EXPOSE_GML_ID to be honoured on WFS documents GPKG driver: * add support for non-spatial layers via the gdal_aspatial extension (#5521) * add support for creating spatial index * add layer metadata read/write support * implement ST_GeometryType(), GPKG_IsAsisgnable() and ST_SRID() to be compatible with Geometry Type Triggers and SRS ID Triggers Extensions * on creation, use GEOMCOLLECTION (instead of GEOMETRYCOLLECTION) (#5937) * make SELECT expressions passed to ExecuteSQL() be evaluated by SQLite * make it possible to use spatialite 4.2.0 SQL functions * add a 'INDIRECT_SQLITE' dialect that goes through the VirtualOGR mechanism (e.g. for compat with older Spatialite) * allow table names with dash character (#5472) * emit warning when required extensions are not implemented * disable PRAGRAM integrity_check by default, since it can be expensive on big files * read-only support for tables without integer primary key * fix Date and DateTime support * implement TEXT(maxwidth) type in read and creation * implement deferred table creation * fix reporting of geometry type for 2.5D (previous behavior had the effect to turn to wkbUnknown) * put correct value (1) in gpkg_geometry_columns for 2.5D tables (#5481) * fix component geometry type of 3D MultiGeometries (#5629) * fix GetExtent() crash on layers without extent set in gpkg_contents (#5471) * avoid leak when a table has more than one FID column * accept spatial tables whose geometry field is declared as BLOB * recognize both GeomCollection and GeometryCollection as possible values, until GeoPackage SWG clears what is the official value * escape all column names in SQL (#5520) * accept geometries with Spatialite format, that can be returned with issuing a SQL request using spatialite functions * enable Spatialite 4.3 'amphibious' mode to avoid explicit cast to Spatialite geometries GPSBabel driver: * automatically open .igc files, implement Identify() and add open options * advertise creation option GTM driver: * declare OLCCreateField and OLCSequentialWrite capabilities IDRISI driver: * fix support for multi-ring polygons (#5544) ILI driver: * Use Ili1TransferElement written by ili2c 4.5.5 and newer * Fix crash in polygon geometry reading * Fix reading SURFACE polygons with multiple rings * Fix reading tables with polygon type * Support curve geometries for ILI1 and ILI2. * Add a MODEL open option ISIS3 driver: * fix to recognize IsisCube.Mapping.LatitudeType = Planetocentric (#5717) KML driver: * fix segfault when calling GetNextFeature() on a write-only layer LIBKML driver: * add support for reading gx:MultiTrack * rework libkml singleton factory management (#5775) MITAB driver: * add support for append/update/delete operations on .tab files (#5652) * add support for CreateField() on non empty file, AlterFieldDefn() and DeleteField() for .TAB (#5652) * implement SyncToDisk() for TAB layers (#5652) * convert to use of VSI*L FILE API (#5558) * don't write field width for integer fields in .mif, which is incompatible with MapInfo (#3853) * report OLCCreateField for .mif files (#5477) * fix opening .mif file without .mid file (#5570) * swap StdParallel1 and stdParallel2 if necessary on LCC projections (https://github.com/mapgears/mitab/issues/1) * take into account scale/bounds to properly round coordinates (https://github.com/mapgears/mitab/issues/2) * add MITAB_BOUNDS_FILE configuration option to specify a file with projection bounds (https://github.com/mapgears/mitab/issues/3) * add BOUNDS layer creation option (#5642) * refactor import/export of MIF coordsys to use the TAB code; take into account MITAB_BOUNDS_FILE to add Bounds to the CoordSys string * close polygon rings when reading Region from MIF file (#5614) * fix segfault in CreateFeature() if passing an invalid OGR feature style string (#1209) MSSQLSpatial driver: * Implement SPATIAL_INDEX layer creation option for MSSQL (#5563) * Implement support for WKB geometry upload (#5682) * Fix schema handling in MSSQL driver (#5401) * Fix spatial geometry field handling (#5474) * Bind string fields to unicode string columns in the database (#5239) * Fix recognizing image columns as geometry columns for the select layers. (#5498) * Fix issue when creating non-spatial table (#5696) * Fix to read metadata if the tables are specified in the connection string (#5796) * Fix crash if the tablename is specified in the connection string (#5826) * Include geometry column name in Update statement (#5930) * Implement FID layer creation option (#5816) * Fix issue when removing an MSSQL spatial layer MySQL: * thread-safe initialization of mysql client library (#5528) NAS driver: * implement wfs:update (adds new context 'update' and fields "endet" and "anlass" to "delete" layer). * also assign xlink:href attributes as layer attribute (not only in "alkis_beziehungen" layer; #5372) * fix filtering on OGR_GEOMETRY special field * make chevrons configurable by NAS_INDICATOR OCI driver: * add a ADD_LAYER_GTYPE=YES/NO layer creation option that defaults to YES to enforce a layer geometry type and is used to retrieve the layer geometry type when listing layers (#3754) * Fix FID (multi_load=off, OGRNullFID) - start with 1 (not -1) (#5454) * use VARCHAR2 instead of VARCHAR for unsupported types * Fix "ORA-00972: identifier is too long" error (#5466) * Fix memory leaks (#5599) * Fix creation of date and datetime fields (#5600) * initialize member variable to avoid UpdateLayerExtents() to be called randomly on non spatial tables (#5376) * avoid spatial index to be created each time SyncToDisk() is called * fix memory leak in DeleteLayer(const char*) * fix reading of 2D geometries that were always turned as 3D * in layers returned by ExecuteSQL(), only expose geometry column if there's one * force NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS to ". " (#5709) ODBC driver: * try alternate DSN template for 64bit ODBC * make ODBC driver honour PGEO_DRIVER_TEMPLATE config. option (and also MDB_DRIVER_TEMPLATE in case PGEO_DRIVER_TEMPLATE isn't defined) (#5594) ODS driver: * fix export of OFTDate fields that were exported as string OpenAir driver: * tweak detection logic to read beyond first 10KB bytes when needed (#5975) OpenFileGDB driver: * add compatibility with .gdbtable files bigger than 4 GB (#5615) * support opening files with ConfigurationKeyword=MAX_FILE_SIZE_4GB or MAX_FILE_SIZE_256TB (#5615) * fix occasional write-after-end-of-buffer (#5464) * avoid error message when failing to import SRS from WKID code (might be an ESRI code for example) * fix spatial filter with GeneralPolygon shapes (#5591) * fix for reading GDB with string fields with a default value length > 127 (#5636) * better handling of certain definitions of raster columns * use LatestWKID when available (#5638) * increase accepted size for field description zone up to 10 MB (#5660) * fix ResetReading() on SQL layer with ORDER BY on indexed column (#5669) * add support for non spatial GDB v9 tables (#5673) * improve error reporting when file exists but cannot be opened due to permission problem (#5838) * report width of string fields (#5806) * try to deal more gracefully with inconsistent nValidRecordCount vs nTotalRecordCount values (#5842) * report 25D layer geometry type on FileGDB v9 tables when relevant * optimize sequential reading of sparse layers * avoid warning when opening a00000004.gdbtable * disable feature count optimization with IS NOT NULL on an index column OSM driver: * add mechanism to compute fields from other fields/tags with SQL expressions. Apply it for z_order on lines layer * fix random crash, particularly on MacOSX (#5465) * add CONFIG_FILE, USE_CUSTOM_INDEXING, COMPRESS_NODES, MAX_TMPFILE_SIZE and INTERLEAVED_READING open options PG driver: * use COPY mode by default (unless PG_USE_COPY is set to NO) when inserting features in a newly create table (#5460) * add UNLOGGED=YES/NO layer creation option to create unlogged tables (improved version of patch by Javier Santana, #4708) * implement deferred loading of table list, to optimize ExecuteSQL() (#5450) * implement optimization for spatial table listing for PostGIS 2.x * implement deferred creation of tables to capture all attribute and geometry column creations into a single CREATE TABLE statement (#5547) * change "No field definitions found" from fatal error to debug * when creating a table and filling it, avoid re-reading the table definition from PG system tables (#5495) * better handling of SRS authority name different than EPSG (authority code must still be integral) * fix crash when writing a StringList with 0 element (#5655) * emit errors instead of debug messages when postgres issues an error (#5679) * fix to make ExecuteSQL('CREATE DATABASE foo') work * fix regression that prevented to retrieve more than 500 features from a connection with tables= parameter and on a SQL result layer (#5837) * PG/PGDump: fix truncation of fields to work with multi-byte UTF-8 characters (#5854) PGDump driver: * switch to DROP_TABLE=IF_EXISTS by default (#5627) * fix crash when writing a StringList with 0 element (#5655) PGeo driver: * try alternate DSN template for 64bit ODBC REC driver: Shapefile driver: * add SPATIAL_INDEX layer creation option (#5562) * support .prj files with UTF-8 BOM * fill 'date of last update' header with current time instead of dummy date, and add a DBF_DATE_LAST_UPDATE layer creation option to override this with a fixed date (#3919) * fix reading of shapefiles whose .shx is non conformant (#5608) * fix writing values up to 2^53 in OFTReal fields with 0 decimal places (#5625) * delete implicit FID field as soon as we CreateField a real one * GetExtent(): don't trust extent in header if it contains Not-A-Number values (#5702) * make REPACK compact .shp if SetFeature() is called and changes one geometry size (#5706) * add check not to cut unicode character while cut the string lengnt for field max length during SetFeature * avoid reading whole .shx at open time for /vsicurl/ * add SHAPE_REWIND_ON_WRITE configuration option that can be set to NO to disable correction of ring winding order on write. Useful when dealing with MultiPolygon that are MultiPatch objects in fact (#5888) * Make ENCODING layer creation option proprietary over SHAPE_ENCODING config. option SOSI driver: * remove error noise (#5710) S57 driver: * various compliance fixes in ISO8211 and S57 writer (#5798) * make it possible to set LNAM_REFS=OFF as advertized in the doc SQLite/Spatialite driver: * SQLite/Spatialite: add support for multiple geometry column tables, accordingly with RFC 41 (#5494) * SQLite SQL dialect: Add hstore_get_value(hstore, key) function * remove 'T' suffix when formatting the content of a Date field (#5672) * optimize CreateFeature() when fields can be null or not null from one feature to another one * Spatialite: improve insertion performance by disabling triggers and doing the job ourselves * Fix segmentation fault when executing OGR2SQLITE_Register() when compiling against sqlite 3.8.7 (#5725) * make GetFIDColumn() work when run as first method call (#5781) * emit warning when reading text values in a integer/real field (possible since SQLite has no strong typing) * support reading date/datetime from Julian day floating point representation * SQLite dialect: fix insertion in geometry_columns of table names that are not in upper-case (#6483) SUA driver: * tweak detection logic to read beyond first 10KB bytes when needed (#5975) SXF driver: * Fix SXF file version check (#5456) * Fix wrong Miller Cylindrical projection string * Fix encoding issues (#5647) * Fix extract z value to OGRGeometry * Fix case sensitivity of RSC file VFK driver: * recode also header values * process DKATUZE from header properly * handle also duplicated records * check attribute 'parametry_spojeni' * speed-up GetFeatureCount() * fix reading properties. Escape characters for SQL * change SRS from EPSG 2065 to 5514 * fix reading SBP datablock (fix mismatch when reading from file and db) VRT driver: * do not propagate ignoring of x and y cols of a PointFromColumns to the source layer (#5777) * add an optional 'name' attribute on FID element, so as to be able to force the report of a FID column name even if it is not exposed as a regular field (related to #5845) * handle optional value to specify open options * do not enable passthrough filtering if redefining (#6480) Tiger driver: * Fix potential buffer underflow when providing /vsistdin/ to Tiger driver (#5567) WAsP driver: * added options and changed output precision to match WAsP Map Editor * improve TestCapability(ODsCCreateLayer) WFS driver: * automatically enable paging if WFS 2.0 capabilities report paging support * evaluate SELECT with JOIN on server-side for a Join-capable WFS 2.0 server * add a TRUST_CAPABILITIES_BOUNDS open option, that can be set to YES to trust layer bounds declared in GetCapabilities response, for faster GetExtent() runtime (#4041) * add INVERT_AXIS_ORDER_IF_LAT_LONG, CONSIDER_EPSG_AS_URN and EXPOSE_GML_ID open options * add capability to use spatial functions ST_xxxxx() as server-side filters * add dataset and layer metadata * allow SELECT with several ORDER BY columns * report name of geometry column * Add COOKIE option (#5824) * when parsing a layer schema without geometry from the GML .xsd, do not expose a geometry field at the WFS layer level (#5834) XLSX driver: * fix column numbering when there are more than 26 columns (#5774) XPlane driver: * add support for Taxi Location 1300 record found in V1000 ## SWIG Language Bindings All bindings: * bind GDALGetBandDataset() as Band.GetDataset() * add Feature.GetFieldAsBinary() Java bindings: * Pass eRWFlag to allow both reading or writing. Write was broken in DatasetRasterIO(). * updates to generate maven artifacts Perl bindings: * The breaking changes are described in more detail in swig/perl/Changes-in-the-API-in-2.0. * More comprehensive use of strings as constants (such as capabilities); they are also taken from bindings, which added new ones, and not hard-coded. * New classes (e.g., VSIF, GeoTransform, GeomFieldDefn) and new methods (e.g., constant lists, Dataset::SpatialReference). * Much improved documentation and switch to Doxygen::Filter::Perl. * New test codes. * Errors are confessed with stack trace and often caught earlier with better messages. * Use of attributes is deprecated and methods have been added to replace them. * Multiple geometry fields have necessitated some changes in schema and field related methods. * More support for named parameters (i.e., hashes as arguments). * NoDataValue: set max float if undef is given. * Unit: set '' if undef is given. * Also other changes that will also remove some "use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warnings. * Automatic handling of SQL result layers. * Fix issue with index attribute for field meta data (schema) (#5662) * Warn if attempt to create non-integer column for colors. * Remove prefix GCP from GCP swig made attributes. Python bindings: * add optional buf_xsize, buf_ysize and buf_type parameters to Dataset.ReadAsArray() and Dataset.LoadFile(), and use dataset RasterIO for better efficiency * avoid generating Python exception when PyString_FromStringAndSize() fails and GDAL errors as Python exceptions are disabled * Band.ReadRaster() and Dataset.ReadRaster(): clear the buffer in case there are holes in it due to odd spacings specified by the user * Fix hang of Python in case of repeated call to gdal/ogr.UseExceptions() and CE_Warning emitted (#5704) * for Python 2, accept unicode string as argument of Feature.SetField(idx_or_name, value) (#4608) * for Python 2, accept Unicode strings to be passed as key and/or value of the dictionary passed to SetMetadata() (#5833) * fix processing error of ogr_python.i with SWIG 3 (#5795) * NUMPY driver: avoid returning CE_None in GetGeoTransform() when there's no geotransform set (#5801) * Make GetFieldAsBinary() work with OFTString fields * For Python3 compat, make Feature.GetField() use GetFieldAsBinary() if GetFieldAsString() fails (#5811) # GDAL/OGR 1.11.0 Release Notes ## In a nutshell... * New GDAL drivers: - KRO: read/write support for KRO KOKOR Raw format * New OGR drivers: - CartoDB : read/write support - GME (Google Map Engine) : read/write support - GPKG (GeoPackage): read-write support (vector part of the spec.) - OpenFileGDB: read-only support (no external dependency) - SXF driver: read-only support - WALK : read-only support - WasP : read-write support * Significantly improved drivers: GML, LIBKML * RFC 40: enhanced RAT support (#5129) * RFC 41: multiple geometry fields support * RFC 42: OGR Layer laundered field lookup * RFC 43: add GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList() (#5275) * RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mapping * Upgrade to EPSG 8.2 database ## New installed files * bin/ogrlineref * lib/pkgconfig/gdal.pc * gdalcompare.py * data/gml_registry.xml * data/inspire_cp_CadastralParcel.gfs * data/inspire_cp_BasicPropertyUnit.gfs * data/inspire_cp_CadastralBoundary.gfs * data/inspire_cp_CadastralZoning.gfs * data/ruian_vf_ob_v1.gfs * data/ruian_vf_st_v1.gfs * data/ogrvrt.xsd ## Backward compatibility issues ## GDAL/OGR 1.11.0 - General Changes Build(Unix): * add Unix configure support for SOSI * remove pointers to old ver of ingres library files * add --with-libjson-c configure option to build against external libjson-c (>= 0.11) (#4676) * compilation fixes for iOS (#5197, #5198) * update to autoconf 2.69 * add pkg-config gdal.pc (#3470) * configure for FileGDB: add explicit linking to libfgdbunixrtl (requires FileGDB SDK >= 1.2) (#5215); also try .dylib extension (#5221) * fix so that Java installs are found on the MAC to enable the MDB driver (#5267) * fix compilation with recent MySQL versions (5.6 for example) (#5284) * support --with-jp2mrsid with standalone Kakadu with MRSID v8 or later * Fix parallel build in Python bindings (#5346) * PCIDSK: don't link against libjpeg if configured --without-jpeg * Update configure script to pick up ECW JP2 SDK 5.1 (#5390) * add a 'make install' target for the Java bindings (#5424) * add Vagrant configuration Build(Windows): * add option to generate VC project for x64 on makegdal_gen.bat * nmake.opt: add WITH_PDB=1 option to optionally generate .pdb file on Release builds (#5420) * add support for building the OGR SOSI driver as a plugin (#3638) * add support for building the HDF4 driver as plugin (#5294) * add support for MrSID v9 * Remove makegdalXX.bat generated files ## GDAL 1.11.0 - Overview of Changes Port: * vsisubfile: fix Eof() behavior to be POSIX compliant, so that the shapefile reader can read the last feature when using /vsitar (#5093) * vsicache: fix for 32bit binaries when file size is over 2GB (#5170) * vsicache: add optional nChunkSize and nCacheSize parameters to VSICreateCachedFile() * vsicurl: add CPL_VSIL_CURL_USE_HEAD config option to disable use of CURL HEAD for other services like mapbox (likely lame python http implementations) * vsitar: avoid infinite loop in case of invalid .tar structure * vsizip: fix path separator in CPLFormFilename * vsizip: allow additional extensions listed in CPL_VSIL_ZIP_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS config option. * vsizip: improve UTF-8 support of filenames inside ZIP file (#5361) * vsizip: fix ZIP64 support * vsigzip: reset EOF flag when doing a Seek() to be POSIX compliant * curl: add .netrc support * Windows CPLGetSymbol(): avoid dialog boxes to pop up when a DLL or one of its dependencies does not exist (#5211) * Add CPLOPrintf() and CPLOvPrintf() functions for easy CPLString formatting * CPLBase64DecodeInPlace() : fix to be robust to malformed base64 strings * CPLQuadTree: add CPLQuadTreeInsertWithBounds() where the pfnGetBounds is not needed. * CPLQuadTree: fix potential infinite recursion when inserting several points with identical coordinates in the mode with limited bucket size * Protect concurrent calls to setlocale() by a mutex (#5366) Core: * RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mapping * GDALRasterBand::GetHistogram(): ignore nodata values (#4750, #5289) * allow auto loading of drivers to be disabled via config option * PAM .aux.xml and VRT: serialize Z component of a GCP as 'Z' attribute, for consistency, instead of GCPZ that could not be read back previously. In reading code, try reading 'Z' and if not found try 'GCPZ' (#5326) * JPEG2000: Add GDALGeorefPamDataset and GDALJP2AbstractDataset classes and use them in JP2KAK, JP2ECW, JP2OpenJPEG, JPEG2000 and MrSID drivers so that PAM georeferencing consistently overrides internal georeferencing * GDALDataset::IRasterIO(): don't use BlockBasedRasterIO() when INTERLEAVE=PIXEL if the request band count is just 1 * CopyWholeRaster(): make default GDAL_SWATH_SIZE to 1/4 of GDAL_CACHEMAX instead of hard-coded value of 10 MB * don't report empty RAT on GDALGetDefaultRAT() (#5232) * modify GDALGCPsToGeotransform() to do the regression in normalized coordinates to make the math more stable. * expose new GDALComposeGeoTransforms() function. * GDALDefaultOverviews::HaveMaskFile(): avoid fetching .ovr file * JPEG2000: Fix reading georeferencing from some JPEG2000 files with duplicated GeoTIFF JP2Box (#5249) * Cleanup raster block mutex (#5296) * Driver registration: move JPEG2000 (Jasper based) after MrSID JPEG2000 support Algorithms: * warper: fix regression with lanczos resampling when yradius > xradius (#5058) * warper: Make GDALCreateGenImgProjTransformer2() and GDALCreateGenImgProjTransformer3() fail when the creation of the reprojection transformer fails * warper: Fix warping when input pixel size is too close to 0 (#5190) * warper: revise formula of cubic resampling kernel, and a few optimizations (#5209) * warper: added DST_METHOD and support for GCP and TPS dest * warper: add support for DST_METHOD=RPC * warper: fix mode and near resampling corner computation (#5311) * warper: GDALGenImgProjTransform(): don't set panSuccess[i] to 1 in the middle of the function, if an intermediate transform before has set the flag to 0 * warper: fix cutline blending (#5343) * warper: Average/mode kernels: make them less sensitive to numerical precision issues (#5350) * warper: Average/mode kernels: avoid 'holes' when the source coordinates are in a reversed order from the target coordinates (#5433) * warper: provide prototypes and work around strict compiler requirements on some opencl platforms (#5400) * RPC: fix for computation of adfGTFromLL (#5395) * TPS: optimization for GCC x86_64 that make computation about twice faster with huge number of GCPs * TPS: when using Armadillo to solve the coefficients, use solve(A,B) instead of inv(A)xB to faster resolution * TPS: compute direct and inverse transformations in parallel when warping option NUM_THREADS or GDAL_NUM_THREADS config. options are set to > 1 * Geoloc: fix wrong bilinear interpolation in GDALGeoLocTransform() (#5305) * Geoloc: fail transformation of coordinates that is located on a nodata place of the geoloc array * rasterize: preliminary support for MERGE_ALG=ADD for heatmaps * gdal_grid: Add AVX optimized version of GDALGridInverseDistanceToAPower2NoSmoothingNoSearch * fill_nodata: GDALFillNodata(): Fix use of uninitialized memory and integer overflows (#4010, #5203) * rpc: Fix out-of-bounds read in RPC dem cubic interpolation Utilities: * gdalinfo: add -listmdd and -mdd all options (#5275) * gdal_translate: add a -exponent option to be used with -scale * gdal_translate: fix output file naming scheme in gdal_translate -sds (#5119) * gdal_translate: fix logic in detection non-gray color table level (#5245) * gdal_translate: add a -norat option * gdal_translate: don't add 0.1 when -scale is used with a dstmin equal to dstmax (useful to generate a raster with uniform color, i.e. scaleRatio = 0) * gdal_translate: use floor() to compute image coordinates from world coordinates when specifying -projwin (useful when extracting from left or top of upper-left corner, which generate negative image coordinates) (#5367) * gdaltindex: remove annoying warning 'Warning 1: Field location of width 255 truncated to 254' (#5121) * gdaltindex: add -src_srs_name and -src_srs_format to go with MapServer RFC100; add also a -f and -lyr_name options to be able to create a non-shapefile tileindex * gdalwarp: Fix segfault where metadata values were not being nullchecked properly during conflict resolution (#5069) * gdalwarp: honor -s_srs when using cutline (#5081) * gdalwarp: copy nodata values from source to dest if -dstnodata is not given ; add option to not set dest nodata with -dstnodata None (#5087) * gdalwarp: do not return a non-zero exit status for warnings * gdalwarp: prevent from copying statistics metadata (#5319) * gdal_rasterize: set the progress bar to 100% even when there's nothing to do * gdal_grid: add support for different types of geometries (#5341) * gdal_grid: add -z_increase and -z_multiply options * gdaldem: check that value of -z, -s, -az and -alt is numeric * gdalbuildvrt: validate values of -srcnodata and -vrtnodata arguments * gdal2tiles.py: Corrected OpenLayers code to reflect fix to geodetic resolution factor * gdal2tiles.py: add --tmscompatible flag so as to produce 2 tiles at zoom level 0 in geodetic profile * rgb2pct.py: Use python tempfile logic to avoid permissions issues with cwd (#5079) * gdal_edit.py: add a -ro option for drivers refusing to use the dataset in update-mode. * gdal_calc.py: add --allBands options (#5388) * Add vsipreload.cpp that can be compiled as a shared library that can be LD_PRELOAD'ed as an overload of libc to enable VSI Virtual FILE API to be used with binaries using regular libc for I/O * Add the wcs_virtds_params.py sample utility to be able to set the MapServer WCS virtual dataset parameters from a tileindex with rasters of mixed SRS (linked to MapServer RFC100) * gdalcompare.py: move to scripts * gdalcompare.py: ensure image dimensions match * gdal_ls.py: Fix issue with UTF-8 characters Multi driver changes: * JPEG2000 drivers: take into account PixelIsPoint in GeoJP2 boxes, and expose AREA_OR_POINT=Point (#5437) * JP2KAK, JP2ECW, JP2OpenJPEG, JPEG2000 CreateCopy(): take into account AREA_OR_POINT=Point if present to write GeoJP2 box (#5437) AAIGRID: * revert DECIMAL_PRECISION and add SIGNIFICANT_DIGITS to CreateCopy() (#3732) AIGRID: * Turn off errors that can be triggered if the info has no VAT table related with this coverage (#3031) BAG driver: * Recognise falseNorthing=10000000 as UTM South (#5152) DIMAP driver: * fix memleak in error-code path DTED driver: * Speed optimization to be more friendly with CPU cache in GDAL_DTED_SINGLE_BLOCK=YES mode ECW driver: * fix crash in GDALDeregister_ECW() with ECW SDK 5 called from GDALDestroy() (#5214) * fix issue with ECW_CLEVER optimization when nPixelSpace != sizeof eBufDataType (#5262) Envisat driver: * implement more reliable way of extracting GCPs from Meris tie-points (#5423) * add DEM corrections of TP-ADS products when present (#5423) * workaround dateline discontinuity in GCPs so they can be used with GDAL warping transformers (#5423) ERS driver: * fix wrong interpretation of RegistrationCellX/RegistrationCellY (#2612, #3056, #5075) GeoRaster driver: * fix RPC support (#4038) * fix read error when reading from pyramids (#5076) * make regular table and secure file a default for RDT (#5127) * fix error when reading NBIT pyramid levels (#5199) * show the VAT as RAT (#5200) * fix reading and writing of statistics metadata (#5237) * add generate pyramid create options (#5288) * fix incorrect geotransform interpretation when there is no SRS (#5323) GRASS driver: * fix compilation issues for GRASS 7 GRIB driver: * display temperature unit as deg Celsius in metadata (#3606) GTiff driver: * when compiling against internal libtiff, in read-only mode, optimization to avoid fetching the whole Strip/TileCounts and Strip/TileOffsets arrays * add validation of source overview characteristics with COPY_SRC_OVERVIEWS (#5059) * convert invalid TIFFTAG_RESOLUTIONUNIT=0 to 1(Unknown) (#5069) * fix potential issues in gt_citation.cpp / CheckUTM() * upgrade internal libtiff to latest CVS * implement reading and writing of ICC profiles (#5246) * make SetColorInterpretation() round-trip with GetColorInterpretation(); read color interpretation from PAM if it exists (overrides internal tiff color interpretation); set TIFFTAG_PHOTOMETRIC=PHOTOMETRIC_RGB if calling SetColorInterpretation() with R,G,B and no explicit PHOTOMETRIC creation option defined * gt_wkt_srs.cpp: fix compilation with external libgeotiff. The file is dependent of quite a few CPL stuff, don't try to pretend otherwise * implement GetVirtualMemAuto() for some formulations of TIFF files (RFC 45) * fix reading a single-strip TIFF file where the single strip is bigger than 2GB (32bit builds only) (#5403) * look for .tab file before .wld/.tfw GTX driver: * Add nodata support (#4660) HDF4 driver: * Skip "SceneLineNumber" table if present in the list of geolocation fields of ASTER L1A dataset. HDF5 driver: * add support for ODIM H5 georeferencing method (#5032) * set SRS GEOGCS in all cases (reverts r25801 and closes #4160) * support HDF5 NATIVE_SCHAR type, subdatsets without PAM (#5088) * release all opened handles so the file is closed at dataset closing (#5103) * better deal with dimensions of CSK-L1A HDF5 subdatasets (#4227) * avoid segmentation fault when H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims() returns negative value (#5291) HFA driver: * add minimally tested support for u2 and u4 data in basedata * use direct binning for thematic layers and real instead of integer for values (#5066) * add a HFA_COMPRESS_OVR config option to select whether to create compressed overviews (#4866) * fix rewriting of statistics in existing HFA file where base data value is 8-bit (#5175) * implement re-writing existing histogram in HFA file, after raster editing (#5176) * avoid segfaults when creating a Imagine dataset with an invalid WKT (#5258) * expose color columns in RAT as Integer with values in range [0-255] instead of Real with values [0-1] (#5362) * report histogram column as GFU_PixelCount instead of GFU_Generic (#5359) * ensure histogram column written as float for HFA when using RAT API (#5382) Idrisi driver: * Improve coordinate system handling and min/max statistics (#4980) IRIS driver: * add height information on bands; rename dataset metadata item CAPPI_HEIGHT --> CAPPI_BOTTOM_HEIGHT (#5104) * IRIS: add support for two bytes data (#5431) JP2ECW driver: * fix problem with JP2 write with SDK v5 * fix issue with ECW_CLEVER optimization when nPixelSpace != sizeof eBufDataType (#5262) * avoid writing dummy GeoJP2 box when source dataset has no georeferencing (#5306) JP2KAK driver: * preliminary support for Kakadu V7.x * fix creation of unsigned int16 with reversible compression (#4050) * on Windows, use VSI cache for I/O by default, instead Kakadu own I/O layer * remove extension from 12bit to 16bit (#5328) JP2OpenJPEG driver: * avoid 'Empty SOT marker detected: Psot=12.' warning to be repeated several times * add support for encoding GCPs in a GeoJP2 box (#5279) * avoid writing dummy GeoJP2 box when source dataset has no georeferencing (#5306) JPEG driver: * add autodetection of bitmasks that are msb ordered (#5102) * avoid memory leak when GDALOpen'ing() a JPEG through a http:// URL, and make it possible to access its overviews * return YCbCrK raw data for YCbCrK JPEG in GDAL_JPEG_TO_RGB = NO mode (instead of CMYK as before) (#5097) * implement reading and writing of ICC profiles (#5246) * internal libjpeg: apply patch for CVE-2013-6629 * allow fallback to PAM to read GCPs * give priority to PAM GeoTransform if it exists and other source of geotransform (.wld, .tab) also exists (#5352) KMLSuperOverlay driver: * recognize an alternate structure for raster KMZ file made of a single doc.kml and tiles whose name pattern is kml_image_L{level}_{j}_{i}.{png|jpg} * fix horrible speed performance in Open() (#5094) * fix crash at dataset closing and inability to read some big PNG tiles (#5154) * fix to generate files validating against OGC KML 2.2 schema * put Style into conformity with ATC 7 * remove Region in root KML (ATC 41) * add NAME and DESCRIPTION creation options; read them back as metadata * add ALTITUDE and ALTITUDEMODE creation options * directly write into .kmz file (instead of in temporary location) * correctly write directories entry in .kmz file * add progress callback L1B driver: * report correct values for GCP (#2403) * report more GCPS than before * implement geolocation array * add fetching of record metadata in .csv file * add subdatasets with solar zenith angles, cloud coverage * recognize NOAA-9/14 datasets whose dataset name in TBM header is encoded in EBCDIC and not in ASCII (#2848) * support opening a few NOAA <= 9 datasets that have no dataset name in the TBM header LCP driver: * better handling of projections (#3255) * add CreateCopy() (#5172) MBTiles driver: * add write support * avoid failure when there's no tile at the center of the maximum zoom level (#5278) * add capability to open /vsicurl/https:// signed AWS S3 URLs MEM driver: * Create(): use calloc() instead of malloc()+memset() for faster creation of huge in-memory datasets NetCDF driver: * fix to read netcdf-4 files with UBYTE data (#5053) * fix reading large netcdf-4 files with chunking and DEFLATE compression * fix netcdf chunking when creating file with > 2 dims ; add CHUNKING creation option (#5082 ) * fix duplicate nodata metadata when using CreateCopy() (#5084) * fix copying large metadata in netcdf driver (#5113) * fix netcdf geotransform detection (#5114) * fix netcdf driver irregular grids management (#5118 and #4513) * only call nc_close on a valid netcdf id when closing dataset * try and identify .grd (and .nc3) files in netcdf-4 format (#5291), so they are identified before the hdf5 driver NITF driver: * fix to support reading horizontal and/or vertical mono-block uncompressed images, even when the number of columns is <= 8192 (#3263) * update NITF Series list with new entries from MIL-STD-2411_1_CHG-3.pdf (#5353) * allow JP2KAK to be used as the JPEG2000 compression engine in the CreateCopy() case (#5386) PDF driver: * Avoid reporting a Poppler error as a GDAL error on some newer USGS GeoPDF files (#5201) * PDF writing: automatically adjust DPI in case the page dimension exceeds the 14400 maximum value (in user units) allowed by Acrobat (#5412) PDS driver: * Parse correctly MISSING_CONSTANT = 16#FF7FFFFB# as a IEEE754 single precision float expressed in hexadecimal; add support for ENCODING_TYPE = ZIP (data file compressed in a ZIP); recognize IMAGE_MAP_PROJECTION as an object included in UNCOMPRESSED_FILE object (#3939) PNG driver: * Implement reading and writing of ICC profiles (#5246) PostgisRaster driver: * Speed-up dataset opening (#5046). * Multi-tile multi-band caching added. * Smarter use of the information advertized in raster_columns view. * Avoid full table scan in situations without PKID/GIST indices. * Use of quadtree. Rasdaman driver: * caching of tiles for datasets with more than one band (#5298) * connections are now kept for a whole session (#5298) * fixing connection-string regex (#5298) * fixing possible memory leaks (#5298) Rasterlite driver: * fix resolution check typo in rasterlite driver Raw drivers: * implement GetVirtualMemAuto() (RFC 45) * IRasterIO(): add special behavior to avoid going to block based IO when the dataset has INTERLEAVE=PIXEL and is eligible to direct I/O access pattern * allow direct I/O access even if a small proportion of scanlines are loaded (improve QGIS use case where the overview display will load sparse scanlines, which would prevent direct I/O at full resolution afterwards) * fix optimized RasterIO() when doing sub-sampling with non standard buffer pixel offset (#5438) RMF driver: * fix decompression of 24-bit RMF DEM (#5268) RPFTOC driver: * fix potential crash on some datasets when selecting the color palette (#5345) SAGA driver: * add read/write support for .prj files (#5316) SRP driver: * read TRANSH01.THF file to establish subdatasets (#5297) VRT driver: * Implement non-linear scaling with a power function (addition of Exponent, SrcMin, SrcMax, DstMin, DstMax sub-elements in ) * Preserve 64bit integer image offsets (#5086) * Make sure that VRTSourcedRasterBand::AddMaskBandSource() takes into account specified window (#5120) * Make GDALAutoCreateWarpedVRT() return NULL when GDALSuggestedWarpOutput() fails * VRTDataset::IRasterIO(): use source DatasetRasterIO even if band count is 1 * VRTWarped: avoid setting up relative paths for things that aren't file-like * make relativeToVRT=1 work with NITF_IM:, NETCDF:, HDF5:, RASTERLITE: WCS driver: * ensure C locale is enforced before parsing floating point values WMS driver: * accept 'WMS:http://server/?SRS=EPSG:XXXX' syntax to select the preferred SRS in which to fetch layers * CPLHTTPFetchMulti(): avoid doing a timeout-only select when there are no file descriptor to wait on (can happen when doing a file:// URL) * allow cache location to be specified with GDAL_DEFAULT_WMS_CACHE_PATH configuration option if not provided in the XML (#4540) * Update to be able to understand slight changes in formatting of JSon output of ArcGIS mapserver protocol XYZ driver: * accept datasets that have missing values at beginning and/or end of lines, such as MNT250_L93_FRANCE.XYZ * fix detection when there are only integral values with comma field separator * reopen with 'rb' flags for Windows happyness ## OGR 1.11.0 - Overview of Changes Core: * GEOS support: require GEOS >= 3.1.0 and use the _r API of GEOS to avoid issues with the global GEOS error handlers * exportToWkb(): ISO WKB generation with wkbVariant option (#5330) * geocoding: when getting several answers from server for a query, report geometries on second, third, etc.. feature, and not only first one (#5057) * allow auto loading of drivers to be disabled via config option * remove obsolete OGRGeometryFactory::getGEOSGeometryFactory() * OGRGeometryFactory::organizePolygons() in DEFAULT method: fix a case with 2 outer rings that are touching by the first point of the smallest one * OGRGeometryFactory::organizePolygons(): optimization in ONLY_CCW case * OGRGeometryFactory::organizePolygons(): Add an experimental mode : CCW_INNER_JUST_AFTER_CW_OUTER * OGRLineString::segmentize() : do not set 0 as z for interpolated points, but the z from the previous point * OGRLineString::setNumPoints(): add an optional argument to avoid zeroing the arrays * Add OGRLineString::setZ() * Add OGRLineString::Project() and OGRLineString::getSubline() * OGRPolygon: add stealExteriorRing() and stealInteriorRing(int iRing) * OGRLinearRing::isClockwise(): optimizations and make it work in a degenerated case when a vertex is used several times in the vertex list (#5342) * OGRLinearRing::isPointOnRingBoundary() : optimizations and take into account bTestEnvelope * Add OGR_G_SetPointCount and OGR_G_SetPoints functions to API C (#5357) * OGREnvelope3D::Contains(): fix incorrect test * Layer algebra: fix handling of method field mapping to output fields when output fields are precreated (#5089) * Layer algebra: when an error condition is skipped, call CPLErrorReset() (#5269) * OGRLayer::GetFeature(): make sure that the behavior is not influenced by attribute or spatial filters in the generic implementation; upgrade OGDI, PG, MySQL, MSSQLSpatial, OCI, SDE, PGeo, ODBC, WALK, IDB, SQLite and Ingres driver (#5309) * introduce OGRLayer::FindFieldIndex() / OGR_L_FindFieldIndex() to lookup potentially laundered field names (RFC 42) * OGR SQL: upgrade to support RFC 41 (multiple geometry fields) * OGR SQL: more stricter checks * OGR SQL: make parsing error report a useful hint where the syntax error occurred * OGR SQL: fix thread-safety of swq_op_registrar::GetOperator() (#5196) * OGR SQL: support not explicitly specifying AS keyword for aliasing a column spec * OGR SQL: don't call CONCAT(a_column ...) or SUBSTR(a_column ...) as a_column * OGR SQL: validate that arguments of MAX, MIN, AVG, SUM, COUNT are columns and not any expression since this is not supported * OGR SQL: make AVG field definition a OFTReal * OGR SQL: implement MIN(), MAX() and AVG() on a date (#5333) * OGR SQL: fix SELECT * on a layer with a field that has a dot character (#5379) * SQL SQLITE dialect: Make it available to all OGR drivers that have a specialized ExecuteSQL() implementation OGRSpatialReference: * Upgrade to EPSG 8.2 database * identify LCC_2SP instead of LCC_1SP if lat_0==lat_1 and lat_2 is present (#5191) * add a variety of linear units to proj4 parsing (#5370) * Fix crash in CleanupESRIDatumMappingTable() if it is called twice (#5090) * fix order of AXIS and UNIT nodes in a VERT_CS node (#5105) * ecw_cs.wkt: add missing TOWGS84[-168,-60,320,0,0,0,0] to NTF datum (#5145) * fix OGRSpatialReference::importFromProj4() to work with non-C locale (#5147) * morph central_latitude to latitude_of_origin in morphFromESRI() (#3191) * OGRProj4CT: avoid using proj when the 2 projections are actually identical (#5188) * add sanity checks in OGR_SRSNode::importFromWkt() (#5193) * VERT_CS: when importing from proj.4 put AXIS node after UNIT; COMPD_CS: when importing from EPSG:x+y, set a more meaningful name for the COMPD_CS node * OGRSpatialReference::Validate() : in addition to hand-validation, use WKT grammar from OGC 01-009 CT * preserve authority when importing +init=auth_name:auth_code (e.g. +init=IGNF:LAMB93) Utilities: * ogrlineref: new utility to deal with linear geometries. * ogrinfo: upgrade to support RFC 41 (multiple geometry fields) * ogr2ogr: upgrade to support RFC 41 (multiple geometry fields) * ogr2ogr: bump default value for -gt from 200 to 20000 (#5391) * ogr2ogr: add -addfields option to add new fields found in a source layer into an existing layer ; add -unsetFieldWidth option to unset field with and precision; add -dim layer_dim option to force the coordinate dimension of geometries to match the one of the layer geometry type * ogr2ogr: Check that -t_srs is also specified when -s_srs is specified * ogr2ogr: add an explicit error message to report FID of feature that couldn't be inserted when CreateFeature() fails * ogr2ogr: make relaxed lookup optional and add a switch -relaxedFieldNameMatch to allow it (RFC 42) * ogr2ogr: make sure that the progress bar reaches 100% when converting OSM * ogr2ogr: make sure that target dataset is properly closed when a CreateFeature() fails (so that truncated shapefiles have their header file properly updated) * ogr_dispatch.py: Sample Python script to dispatch features into layers according to the value of some fields or the geometry type * ogrinfo.py: sync with ogrinfo (RFC 41) * ogr2ogr.py: port -nlt PROMOTE_TO_MULTI option from ogr2ogr.cpp (#5139) CSV driver: * avoid erroneously reset of file content when opening in update mode a file without header (#5161) * upgrade to support RFC 41 in read/write (multiple geometry fields) * allow backslash doublequote to load (#5318) DGN driver: * DGN writing: added polygon inner ring (holes) writing and MSLink writing (#5381) DXF driver: * fix writing of 25D linestring where z is not constant (#5210) * fix writing of POLYLINE objects (#5217, #5210) * accept reading files starting with a TABLES section (#5307) * support reading 3DFACE and SOLID (#5380) entities * fix an error when processing clockwise circle arc (#5182) * avoid building an invalid polygon when edges cannot be reassembled: turn it into a multilinestring * use CPLAtof() instead of atof() to avoid issues with locales * fix linear approximation of circular and elliptic arc in HATCH boundaries (#5182) DWG driver: * add support for reading AcDb3dPolyline (#5260) * fix linear approximation of circular and elliptic arc in HATCH boundaries (#5182) FileGDB driver: * implement IgnoreFields API to speed-up a bit the conversion of a sub-set of fields when there's a huge amount of them (e.g. Tiger database). * when writing of an attribute, use size in bytes (#5192) * implement ref counting of the FileGDB SDK API' Geodatabase* object to avoid issues on Linux 64bit with interleaved opening and closing of databases (#4270) * honour update flag to determine which operations are allowed or not * add a driver global mutex to protect all calls as the FileGDB API SDK is not thread-safe at all * add a COLUMN_TYPES layer creation option to override default column types; support reading/writing XML column types * optimize GetFeatureCount() and GetExtent() when there are filters set * set the default width for string fields to 65536. The width can be configured with the FGDB_STRING_WIDTH configuration option * fix creation and writing of Binary fields; enable reading * add a CREATE_MULTIPATCH creation option FME driver: * fix Linux compilation GeoJSON driver: * recognize alternate formats such as the ones of https://code.google.com/p/election-maps/ * add read support for TopoJSON * upgrade internal libjson-c to json-c 0.11 (#4676) * report integer values that are int64 as strings * add 3d support to esri geojson reader (#5219) * be less strict on looking for esri field type tag (#5219) * fix sometimes incorrect result (significant digit lost...) when using -lco COORDINATE_PRECISION=0 * fix handling of huge coordinates when writing (#5377) GeoRSS driver: * advertise OLCCreateField capability GFT driver: * switch http to https for the oauth2 link to improve security GML driver: * add support for multiple geometry columns (RFC 41) * add support for reading Finnish National Land Survey Topographic data (MTK GML) * add support for support Finnish NLS cadastral data and Inspire cadastral data. * add support for Czech RUIAN VFR format * add data/gml_registry.xml file to associate feature types with schemas. * extend .gfs syntax to be able to fetch OGR fields from XML attributes. * extend .gfs syntax to support multiple geometry columns, and define a geometry property name * autodiscover all XML attributes as OGR fields when creating .gfs file if GML_ATTRIBUTES_TO_OGR_FIELDS is set to YES (#5418) * allow the in .gfs to have several components that give the full XML path * fix writing of .xsd file to avoid fid/gml_id being written as regular fields (#5142) * fix writing of global srsName attribute on the global boundedBy.Envelope when all layers have same SRS (#5143) * support for writing .gml/.xsd with fields of type StringList, RealList, IntegerList and support for parsing such .xsd files * when writing .xsd for a datasource that has fields of type StringList, RealList or IntegerList, advertise SF-1 profile in the .XSD schema * recognize xsd:boolean in XSD parsing and map it to String (#5384) * add STRIP_PREFIX and WRITE_FEATURE_BOUNDED_BY dataset creation option to help minimizing the size of GML files * don't write top in GML files with multiple layers of different SRS * fix segfault when reading a GML file with huge coordinates (#5148) * avoid opening our own .xsd files as valid datasources (#5149) * make driver thread-safe with Xerces * open successfully GML datasources with 0 layers (#249, #5205) * fix tweaking of DescribeFeatureType requests * support reading WFS 2.0 GetFeature documents with wfs:FeatureCollection as a wfs:member of the top wfs:FeatureCollection * fix for crash on certain xlink:href with GML_SKIP_RESOLVE_ELEMS=NONE (#5417) * GML geometry: fix duplicated points in GML_FACE_HOLE_NEGATIVE=YES mode (TopoSurface) (#5230) * GML geometry: accept CompositeSurface as a child of surfaceMembers (#5369) * GML geometry: join multilinestrings to linestrings in rings * GML geometry: correctly deal with MultiSurface of Surface of PolygonPatch where a PolygonPatch has only interior ring(s) and no exterior ring (#5421) * GML geometry: accept formulations of 'MULTIPOINT EMPTY, MULTILINESTRING EMPTY, MULTIPOLYGON EMPTY and GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY that are valid GML 3 (and accepted by PostGIS) * GML geometry: make use of cs, ts and decimal attributes of (deprecated) gml:coordinates element * GML geometry: accept XML header and comments GPX driver: * advertise OLCCreateField capability ILI driver: * add support for multiple geometry columns (RFC 41) * use IlisMeta model reader/writer instead of IOM * add layers for surface and area geometries KML driver: * output KML that validates the ogckml22.xsd schema by placing elements under the level (#5068) * in writing mode, avoid defining an extending schema for the name and description fields (related to #5208) LIBKML driver: * various checks, fixes and improvements related to OGC KML 2.2 Abstract Test Suite * add support for reading as a LINESTRING (#5095) * add support for writing and reading * add support for writing atom:author, atom:link, phonenumber, Region, ScreenOverlay, 3D model, StyleMap * add support for reading and generating Camera object * add layer creation options to generate a LookAt element at layer level * if UPDATE_TARGETHREF dataset creation option is defined, a NetworkLinkControl/Update document will be created * add dataset creation options to generate a NetworkLinkControl element * add dataset and layer creation options LISTSTYLE_ICON_HREF and LISTSTYLE_TYPE * add support for writing a NetworkLink * add support for creating PhotoOverlay objects * add support for creating BalloonStyle elements * offer LIBKML_USE_SIMPLEFIELD configuration option can be set to NO to use Data element instead of SimpleField * add layer creation option FOLDER to optionally write layers as Folder instead of Document * add dataset and layer creation options NAME, VISIBILITY, OPEN, SNIPPET and DESCRIPTION * workaround bugs in pretty serializers * when writing a .kmz file, put layers .kml docs into a layers/ subdirectory * fix mem leaks, and use after free in kml2FeatureDef() (#5240) * create document with default namespace set to http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2 * when writing, consider empty strings as unset (useful when converting from CSV) * don't write empty