<div dir="ltr"><i>News item by: Even Rouault<br><br>Published at <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-3-0-is-released/">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-3-0-is-released/</a> </i><div><br></div><div><br>On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to<br>announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.3.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data<br>access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web<br>services.<br>It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line<br>tools.<br><br><a href="http://gdal.org/">http://gdal.org/</a><br><br>The 3.3.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:<br><br>* RFC 77<br>(<a href="https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc77_drop_python2_support.html">https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc77_drop_python2_support.html</a>): Drop<br>Python 2 support in favor of Python 3.6 (#3142)<br>* RFC 78<br>(<a href="https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc78_gdal_utils_package.html">https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc78_gdal_utils_package.html</a>): Add a<br>gdal-utils Python package<br>* New driver: STACTA (<a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/stacta.html">https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/stacta.html</a>):<br>raster driver to read Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets<br>* Add /vsiadls/ virtual file system for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2<br>* Improved drivers: DIMAP, NITF<br>* Number of improvements in Python bindings<br>*Add automatic loading of configuration options from a file<br>* Add support for enumerated, constraint and glob field domains in MEM,<br>FileGDB/OpenFileGDB and GeoPackage drivers<br>* Deprecation:<br>- Disable by default raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000, JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR,<br>FUJIBAS, IDA, INGR, ZMAP and vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT,<br>COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, REC, WALK at<br>runtime, unless the GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_{drivername}<br>configuration option is set to YES. Those drivers are planned for<br>removal in GDAL 3.5<br>- Perl bindings are deprecated. Removal planned for GDAL 3.5. Use<br>Geo::GDAL::FFI instead<br>* Removal of BNA, AeronavFAA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, XPlane,<br>BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTV1 drivers. Moved to<br>(unsupported) <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers</a> repository.<br><br>More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.3.0<br>release can be found at:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.3.0/gdal/NEWS">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.3.0/gdal/NEWS</a><br><br>The release can be downloaded from:<br>* <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal320.zip">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal320.zip</a> - source as a zip<br>* <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-3.3.0.tar.gz">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-3.3.0.tar.gz</a> - source as<br>.tar.gz<br>* <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-3.3.0.tar.xz">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-3.3.0.tar.xz</a> - source as<br>.tar.xz<br>* <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-grass-3.3.0.tar.gz">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-grass-3.3.0.tar.gz</a> -<br>GDAL-GRASS plugin<br>* <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdalautotest-3.3.0.tar.gz">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdalautotest-3.3.0.tar.gz</a> - test<br>suite<br>* <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal330doc.zip">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal330doc.zip</a> - documentation /<br>website<br><br>It's been an exciting time in GDAL, as our sustainable GDAL initiative<br>has attracted a number of major sponsors, which should bring more energy<br>to the project in future releases.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Even<br><br>--<br><a href="http://www.spatialys.com">http://www.spatialys.com</a></div></div>