Fresh GDAL
The GDAL project has historically been very branch-averse, and this has meant that all releases were a combination of new features and bug fixes. Another immediate benefit to the GDAL project of the move to subversion
is that branching and tagging is simple… it’s just another copy, and it’s allowed us to maintain a “stable” branch and selectively backport bug fixes. MapServer has followed this release pattern for quite a while, and I’m sure GDAL users will appreciate not having the ground shift underneath them just for a bug fix.
For more details on the release, read Frank’s release message http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2007-April/012533.html