<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">Dear all,</span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14px">
<p>We are pleased to announce that OTB version 7.0.0 is out !</p>
<p>Ready to use binary packages are available on the <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/packages/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">package page</a> of the website:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>OTB-7.0.0-Win32.zip</code> for Windows 32 bits</li>
<li><code>OTB-7.0.0-Win64.zip</code> for Windows 64 bits</li>
<li><code>OTB-7.0.0-Linux64.run</code> for Linux</li>
<li><code>OTB-7.0.0-Darwin64.run</code> for Mac OS X</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also checkout the release branch with git:</p>
<pre><code>git <span>clone</span> <a href="https://gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org/orfeotoolbox/otb.git" target="_blank">https://gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org/orfeotoolbox/otb.git</a> OTB -b release-7.0
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<p>This version brings a lot of changes, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Documentation:
<ul>
<li>The Cookbook has been <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook-7.0/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">refactored</a> !</li>
<li>The Software guide has been removed, most of its content has been migrated to the Cookbook.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>New applications:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/Applications/app_ZonalStatistics.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ZonalStatistics</a> : Object based statistics computation</li>
<li><a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/Applications/app_TrainVectorRegression.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">TrainVectorRegression</a>, <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/Applications/app_TrainImagesRegression.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">TrainImagesRegression</a>, <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/Applications/app_VectorRegression.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">VectorRegression</a> and <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/Applications/app_ImageRegression.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ImageRegression</a> : Refactoring of the regression framework, based on the classification framework.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/Applications/app_LocalRxDetection.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">LocalRxDetection</a> and <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/Applications/app_EndmemberNumberEstimation.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">EndmemberNumberEstimation</a>: Hyperspectral image processing.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Other changes includes:
<ul>
<li>The minimum CMake version required to compile OTB is now <code>3.10.2</code> .</li>
<li>The Mosaic Remote Module has been moved inside the OTB.</li>
<li>The Python wrapper support logging.</li>
<li>Python 2 is not supported by the wrapper anymore</li>
<li>The Java wrapper has been removed.</li>
<li>Support for GDAL 3.X has been added, support for GDAL 1.X has been removed.</li>
<li>Support for OpenCV 4 has been added.</li>
<li>OTB has a <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/blog/page/3/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">new continuous integration system</a>.</li>
<li>New SAR sensor Model : CosmoSkymed</li>
<li>A generic <a href="https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/CookBook/C++/FunctorImageFilter.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><code>functorImageFilter</code></a> has been added.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>You can have a look at the <a href="https://gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org/orfeotoolbox/otb/blob/release-7.0/RELEASE_NOTES.txt" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Release Notes</a> for the complete list of features & bug fixes of this version.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who helped during the release process !</p>
<p>The OTB team</p></div></div></div>