Even found a small issue with the Python bindings having their version number be 1.6.2. I have issued an RC 2 to fix this.
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.3-RC2.tar.gz http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal163-RC2.zip On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Howard Butler wrote: > I would like to motion to make the 1.6.3-rc1 official. Please run a quick > test if you have a chance before voting. > > +1 Howard > > > On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Howard Butler wrote: > >> 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
