<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:'monospace';font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;font-style:normal"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Hi,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.2.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">of command line tools.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> <a href="http://www.gdal.org/" target="_blank">http://www.gdal.org/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">The 2.2.0 release is a major new feature release with the following </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">highlights:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* New GDAL/raster drivers:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - DERIVED driver: read-support. Expose subdatasets in a a new metadata domain, called DERIVED_SUBDATASETS</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - JP2Lura driver: read/create support for JPEG-2000 images using Luratech JP2 Library</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - PRF: add read-only support for PHOTOMOD PRF file format driver (github #173)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - RRASTER driver: read-support .grd/.gri files handled by the R 'raster' package (#6249)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* New OGR/vector drivers:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - CAD driver: read support for DWG R2000 files (GSoC 2016 project)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - DGNv8 driver: read-write support for DGN 8.0 format (using Teigha ODA libraries)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - GMLAS driver: read-write support. XML/GML driver driven by Application Schemas.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* New utility script: ogrmerge.py to merge several vector datasets into a single one</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* New /vsigs/ and /vsigs_streaming/ virtual file systems to read Google Cloud Storage non-public files</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* Significantly improved drivers:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - NWT_GRD: write support (#6533)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - FileGDB/OpenFileGDB: add support to read curve geometries (#5890)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - VRT derived band: add the capability to define pixel functions in Python</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - Add read support for RasterLite2 coverages in SQLite driver</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - GPKG: implement tiled gridded elevation data extension</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> - ISIS3: add write support and improve read support</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* RFC 63: Add GDALRasterBand::<wbr>GetDataCoverageStatus() and implement it in GTiff and VRT drivers</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc63_sparse_datasets_improvements" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/<wbr>wiki/rfc63_sparse_datasets_<wbr>improvements</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* RFC 64: Triangle, Polyhedral surface and TIN</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc64_triangle_polyhedralsurface_tin" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/<wbr>wiki/rfc64_triangle_<wbr>polyhedralsurface_tin</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> ==> this RFC introduces potential backward incompatible behaviour.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> Consult MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* RFC 66: OGR random layer read/write capabilities</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc66_randomlayerreadwrite" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/<wbr>wiki/rfc66_<wbr>randomlayerreadwrite</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* RFC 67: add null field state for OGR features, in addition to unset fields</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc67_nullfieldvalues" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/<wbr>wiki/rfc67_nullfieldvalues</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> ==> this RFC introduces potential backward incompatible behaviour.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> Consult MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* Upgrade to EPSG database v9.0 (#6772)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* Python bindings: Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) released before entering GDAL native code (for all, in GDAL module and a few ones in ogr like ogr.Open())</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* Continued major efforts on sanitization of code base</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* Remove bridge and vb6 bindings (#6640)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">* GNM built by default</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.2.0</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">release can be found at:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.2.0-News" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/<wbr>wiki/Release/2.2.0-News</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">The release can be downloaded from:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal220.zip" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/<wbr>gdal/2.2.0/gdal220.zip</a> - source as a zip</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal-2.2.0.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/<wbr>gdal/2.2.0/gdal-2.2.0.tar.gz</a> - source as </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">.tar.gz</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal-2.2.0.tar.xz" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/<wbr>gdal/2.2.0/gdal-2.2.0.tar.xz</a> - source as </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">.tar.xz</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal-grass-2.2.0.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/<wbr>gdal/2.2.0/gdal-grass-2.2.0.<wbr>tar.gz</a> - GDAL-GRASS plugin</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdalautotest-2.2.0.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/<wbr>gdal/2.2.0/gdalautotest-2.2.0.<wbr>tar.gz</a> - test </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">suite</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal220doc.zip" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/<wbr>gdal/2.2.0/gdal220doc.zip</a> - documentation / </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">website</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">The migration guide can be found at :</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> <a href="https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.2/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT" target="_blank">https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/<wbr>branches/2.2/gdal/MIGRATION_<wbr>GUIDE.TXT</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Best regards,</p>
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