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GDAL 1.4.0 Released

Head to http://www.gdal.org to get a copy. Here’s the note from Frank and relevant news items that describe some of the changes:

The GDAL development team is pleased to announce the release of
GDAL/OGR 1.4.0.  This new release includes many new features
and bug fixes since the 1.3.2 release nine months ago.  These
are described at:

http://www.gdal.org/NEWS.html

The new release source may be downloaded from:

http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.4.0.tar.gz
http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal140.zip

Binaries corresponding to the GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 release can
be found included in the FWTools 1.1.3 release for Windows
and Linux at:

http://www.gdal.org/dl/fwtools/FWTools113.exe (windows)
http://www.gdal.org/dl/fwtools/FWTools-linux-1.1.3.tar.gz (linux)

The GDAL project has also introduced the new gdal-announce
list, hosted by OSGeo.  Those interested in just occasional
notices of GDAL/OGR project progress are encouraged to join
this mailing list.

http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-announce

GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 - General Changes

Perl Bindings:
  • Added doxygen based documentation.
NG Python Bindings:
  • Implemented numpy support.
CSharp Bindings:
  • Now mostly operational.
WinCE Porting:
  • CPL
  • base OGR, OSR and mitab and shape drivers.
  • GDAL, including GeoTIFF, DTED, AAIGrid drivers
  • Added test suite (gdalautotest/cpp)
Mac OSX Port:
  • Added framework support (–with-macosx-framework)

GDAL 1.4.0 - Overview Of Changes

WCS Driver:
  • New
PDS (Planetary Data Set) Driver:
  • New
ISIS (Mars Qubes) Driver:
  • New
HFA (.img) Driver:
  • Support reading ProjectionX PE strings.
  • Support producing .aux files with statistics.
  • Fix serious bugs with u1, u2 and u4 compressed data.
NITF Driver:
  • Added BLOCKA reading support.
  • Added ICORDS=’D’
  • Added jpeg compression support (readonly)
  • Support multiple images as subdatasets.
  • Support CGM data (as metadata)
AIGrid Driver:
  • Use VSI*L API (large files, in memory, etc)
  • Support upper case filenames.
  • Support .clr file above coverage.
HDF4 Driver:
  • Added support for access to geolocation arrays (see RFC 4).
  • External raw raster bands supported.
PCIDSK (.pix) Driver:
  • Support METER/FEET as LOCAL_CS.
  • Fix serious byte swapping error on creation.
BMP Driver:
  • Various fixes, including 16bit combinations, and non-intel byte swapping.
GeoTIFF Driver:
  • Fixed in place update for LZW and Deflated compressed images.
JP2KAK (JPEG2000) Driver:
  • Added support for reading and writing gmljp2 headers.
  • Read xml boxes as metadata.
  • Accelerate YCbCr handling.
JP2MrSID (JPEG2000) Driver:
  • Added support for reading gmljp2 headers.
EHDR (ESRI BIL) Driver:
  • Support 1-7 bit data.
  • Added statistics support.

OGR 1.4.0 - Overview of Changes

OGR SQL:
  • RFC 6: Added support for SQL/attribute filter access to geometry, and
    style strings.
OGRSpatialReference:
  • Support for OGC SRS URNs.
  • Support for +wktext/EXTENSION stuff for preserving PROJ.4 string in WKT.
  • Added Two Point Equidistant projection.
  • Added Krovak projection.
  • Updated support files to EPSG 6.11.
OGRCoordinateTransformation:
  • Support source and destination longitude wrapping control.
OGRFeatureStyle:
  • Various extensions and improvements.
INFORMIX Driver:
  • New
KML Driver:
  • New (write only)
E00 Driver:
  • New (read only)
  • Polygon (PAL) likely not working properly.
Postgres/PostGIS Driver:
  • Updated to support new EWKB results (PostGIS 1.1?)
  • Fixed serious bug with writing SRSes.
  • Added schema support.
GML Driver:
  • Strip namespaces off field names.
  • Handle very large geometries gracefully.
ODBC Driver:
  • Added support for spatial_ref_sys table.
SDE Driver:
  • Added logic to speed things up while actually detecting layer geometry types
PGeo Driver:
  • Added support for MDB Tools ODBC driver on linux/unix.
VRT Driver:
  • Added useSpatialSubquery support.

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