All, The GDAL team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL 1.6.3 RC1.
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.3-RC1.tar.gz http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal163-RC1.zip The following issues were addressed in this release: General: * r13533 (ogr postgis plugin) have been added to the stable branch only <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3125/> * GRIB detection not thread safe <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3209/> GDAL: * GDALRasterizeLayers() and GDALRasterizeGeometries() segfault when passed invalid band numbers <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3146/> * Patch for HDF5 block size recognition <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2270/> * Gdal doesn't calculate stats correctly if it is negative number <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2511/> * ERS file pointing to an ECW file is not opening when a full path name is not specified <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2907/> * Keyword causing format unrecognized (PDS) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2956/> * Add support for large NITF files <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2989/> * do not remove leading spaces after TRE=xxxx= metadata when writing them <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3088/> * [PATCH] TSX COSAR driver and 'pixel validity mask' <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3112/> * GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() does not use overviews <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3124/> * SIGBUS when reading A.TOC on Solaris <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3130/> * Cleanup of drivers when using ECW data is very expensive <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3134/> * When PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE, band.GetStatistics returns wrong values <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3151/> * HFA doesn't support reading COMPRESSED + SIGNEDBYTE <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3152/> * undefined reference to ... error with gdalbuildvrt.cpp <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3167/> * variation on label to image pointer (PDS) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3177/> * GDALGridCreate with NULL progress callback function <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3189/> * ERS driver fails with ERSs containing relative paths to non-ERStorage rasters <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3196/> * Wrong type casting in GDALGrid data metrics functions <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3207/> * HDF5 driver crashes with stackoverflow on this HDF5 image <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3218/> Utilities: * Python utililities should support command-line wildcards <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2783/> * gdalbuildvrt -resolution lowest/highest does not work correcty for y pixel size <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3198/> * [PATCH] Part of the reprojected image is missing from GDAL 1.6.0 along 180E/180W longitude <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3206/> OGR: * OGRLayer::GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn() just return empty strings from Python bindings <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2694/> * GML read failure for GDAL 1.6+ <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2948/> * GML reading problems with Xerces 3.x <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3156/> * OGRLayer::GetFeatureCount returns a wrong value for SOUNDG layer <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3163/> * XPlane driver causes fatal memory allocation in ogrinfo/ogr2ogr <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3164/> Configuration: * libtool: /bin/sh: arg list too long (powerpc-ibm-aix5.3) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3080/> * Error when building the gdal 1.6.2 for Linux <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3149/> Python: * Add __version__ to python bindings <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3137/> * ReadRaster() crashes when GDAL is built with MinGW <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3173/> OGR Spatial References: * EPSG:3785 does not support spherical mercator hack <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3136/> * Add 2 NZ coordinate system definition to mitab driver <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3187/> _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
