<div dir="ltr"><i>Published at <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-5-0-is-released/">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-5-0-is-released/</a><br>News item by Even Rouault</i><div><i><br></i><br>On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to<br>announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.5.0. 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 3.5.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:<br><br>* [RFC 84](<a href="https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc84_cmake.html">https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc84_cmake.html</a>):<br>   Addition of a CMake build system, which deprecates the existing<br>   autoconf/automake and nmake build systems, that will be removed<br>   in GDAL 3.6.0. Users are encouraged to adopt the new CMake build system.<br>   Documentation of the CMake build system is at<br>   <a href="https://gdal.org/build_hints.html">https://gdal.org/build_hints.html</a>.<br>* Add GDT_Int64 and GDT_UInt64 data types and handle them in MEM, GTiff,<br>netCDF and Zarr drivers<br>* Add read/write [OGR<br>Parquet](<a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/parquet.html">https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/parquet.html</a>) (Apache Parquet)<br>and [Arrow](<a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/arrow.html">https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/arrow.html</a>) (Apache Arrow<br>IPC File/Feather or stream) drivers. Only in CMake builds<br>* Add OGR [HANA](<a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/hana.html">https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/hana.html</a>) database<br>driver. Only in autoconf & cmake builds<br>* Removed drivers: RDA, JPEG2000 (Jasper-based), CharLS, MG4 LIDAR,<br>FujiBAS, IDA, INGR, ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CouchDB, Cloudant, DB2, FME,<br>Geomedia, MDB (Java Jackess based), GTM, Ingres, MongoDB (old one.<br>MongoDBv3 is the one to use now), REC, Walk, GMT raster, DODS raster and<br>vector<br>* GDAL and OGR GRASS drivers moved to<br><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-grass">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-grass</a> repository<br>* Tiger: remove deprecated write side of the driver (#4216)<br>* Remove deprecated SWIG Perl bindings<br><br>More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.5.0<br>release can be found at:<br><br>   <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.5.0/NEWS.md">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.5.0/NEWS.md</a><br><br>The release can be downloaded from:<br>   * <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdal350.zip">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdal350.zip</a> - source as a zip<br>   * <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdal-3.5.0.tar.gz">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdal-3.5.0.tar.gz</a> - source as<br>.tar.gz<br>   * <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdal-3.5.0.tar.xz">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdal-3.5.0.tar.xz</a> - source as<br>.tar.xz<br>   * <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdalautotest-3.5.0.tar.gz">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdalautotest-3.5.0.tar.gz</a> -<br>test suite<br>   * <a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdal350doc.zip">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.5.0/gdal350doc.zip</a> -<br>documentation / website<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Even<br><br>--<br><a href="http://www.spatialys.com">http://www.spatialys.com</a><br>My software is free, but my time generally not.</div></div>