The December GDAL Maintainers Meeting was canceled due to landing on a holiday and reports have been compiled for this month's Minutes.
# Project News * [GeoCzech](https://geoczech.org/) has renewed as a Bronze sponsor for 2026. Thanks again GeoCzech for your continued support of the GDAL Sponsorship Program! * The [2025 GDAL User Survey](https://gdal.org/survey/) is still active for a few days! Visit https://gdal.org/survey/ and tell the project how you use it, where you get help, what it should do in the future, and how/if it should use LLMs going forward. If you (optionally) give us your email, we'll even enter you to win a GDAL t-shirt! * Support GDAL with a new t-shirt! Visit https://gdal.org/tshirt/ to purchase. Change your country preference on the bottom of the page. Profits from swag sales go directly to the GDAL Sponsorship Program via NumFOCUS! # Maintenance activities update ## Alessandro * PR review activity * https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/13498 GDAL CLI: reproject - segfault on --bbox with indentical corners * https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/13527 gdal_contour behavior change between 3.9.3 and 3.12.0 when generating contour interval lines. ## Dan * finished up `gdal vector sort` (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/13351) * organized/added missing options in the docs for new CLI (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/13535) * fixed crash in `gdal vector check-coverage` (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/13521) * allowed `gdal raster create` to be used in a pipeline, useful for making vector grids (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/13554) ## Even * 45+ tickets triaging/fixing, enhancements, pull request reviews, or other work items * GDAL 3.12.1 release * EPSG v12.044, v12.045, v12.046 updates in PROJ (still mostly ETRS89 related) * `gdal raster calc`: allow to specify input files as nested pipelines * `gdal vector filter`: add --update-extent * GeoJSON and GeoJSONSeq: minify output (might impact downstream that would do byte comparison in their tests) * `gdal vector buffer`: automatically set output geometry field type to Polygon or MultiPolygon * GPKG and SQLite SQL dialect: add ST_Hilbert() * gdal vector check-coverage/clean-coverage/simplify-coverage/sort: add progress report * a few libtiff security/crashing bug fixes * Arrow/Parquet/generic arrow: support Timestamp With Offset extension field * gdal CLI: remove static registration of top-level algorithm that caused issues with (at least some) static builds (MXE Windows builds for R) # Next Meeting The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 01/22/2026 at 13:00 UTC. Project contributors of any kind are welcome to attend and should contact Howard Butler [email protected] for an invite. # Online Version https://gist.github.com/hobu/cf6e0cc6db31b03bea277af6f2f905c7 # Financial Support * Buy a t-shirt https://gdal.org/tshirt/ * Make an individual or corporate donation online https://numfocus.org/donate-to-gdal * Organize a contribution to the GDAL Sponsorship Program https://gdal.org/en/latest/sponsors/index.html#sponsorship-program _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
