<div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><a href="https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-13-0-iowa-city-is-released/">https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-13-0-iowa-city-is-released/</a></div><p>Hi,</p>
<p>On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.13.0 “Iowa City”.</p>
<p>GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and 
vector file formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings 
for several languages, and a variety of command line tools.</p>
<p><a href="http://gdal.org/" class="gmail-uri">http://gdal.org/</a></p>
<p>The 3.13.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:</p>
<ul><li>New <code>gdal</code> command line interface capabilities:
<ul><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_combine.html">gdal vector combine</a> (#13895)</li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_concave_hull.html">gdal vector concave-hull</a></li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_convex_hull.html">gdal vector convex-hull</a></li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_create.html">gdal vector create</a> (#14210)</li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_dissolve.html">gdal vector dissolve</a> (#13985)</li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_export_schema.html">gdal vector export-schema</a> (#14156)</li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_update.html">gdal vector update</a></li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_rename_layer.html">gdal vector rename-layer</a> (#14132)</li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_sort.html">gdal vector sort</a> (#13351)</li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_dataset_check.html">gdal dataset check</a></li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_driver_cog_validate.html">gdal driver cog validate</a> (uses validate_cloud_optimized_geotiff.py underneath)</li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_driver_gpkg_validate.html">gdal driver gpkg validate</a> (uses validate_gpkg.py underneath)</li><li>gdal pipeline: add an <a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_external.html">external</a> step to run an external command</li></ul>
</li><li>Zarr: various improvements in Zarr V3 support (sharding), support 
for multiscales, spatial and proj extensions for EOPF Visualization 
products.</li><li>COG driver: implement GDALDriver::Create() for random write creation</li><li>Add <a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/e57.html">E57</a> read-only raster driver to read 2D images from ASTM E2807 (E57) files</li><li>Add <a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/cphd.html">SAR Compensated Phase History Data (CPHD)</a> multi-dimensional read-only driver (#14310)</li><li>MiraMonRaster: add creation support (#13960)</li><li><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/jp2grok.html">JP2GROK</a>: read/write driver for JPEG-2000 using Grok JPEG 2000 toolkit (the toolkit is AGPL v3 licensed)</li><li>S102/S104/S111 driver: add write support</li><li>NITF driver: add support for <a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/nitf.html#cadrg-compressed-arc-digitized-raster-graphics-write-support">CADRG writing</a></li><li>Add support for INTERLIS 2.4</li><li>Make cloud users aware of commercial cloud providers that don’t 
sponsor the project and whose cloud storage protocol may be removed in 
the future (#14313)</li><li>Revert removal of OGR Tiger and UK. NTF drivers (but still to be considered as living on borrowed time)</li><li>Bump of shared lib major version</li></ul>
<p>More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.13.0 release can be found at:</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.13.0/NEWS.md" class="gmail-uri">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.13.0/NEWS.md</a></p>
<p>Please also consult the migration guide when updating from prior releases:</p>
<p><a href="https://gdal.org/en/latest/user/migration_guide.html#from-gdal-3-12-to-gdal-3-13" class="gmail-uri">https://gdal.org/en/latest/user/migration_guide.html#from-gdal-3-12-to-gdal-3-13</a></p>
<p>The release can be downloaded from:</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz</a> – source as .tar.gz</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz.md5" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz.md5</a> – md5sum</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz.sig" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz.sig</a> – signature</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz</a> – source as .tar.xz</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz.md5" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz.md5</a> – md5sum</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz.sig" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz.sig</a> – signature</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip</a> – source as a zip</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip.md5" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip.md5</a> – md5sum</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip.sig" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip.sig</a> – signature</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdalautotest-3.13.0.zip" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdalautotest-3.13.0.zip</a> – test suite</li><li><a href="https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130doc.zip" class="gmail-uri">https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130doc.zip</a> – documentation / website</li></ul>
<p>Docker images are available:</p>
<ul><li><a href="http://ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-full-3.13.0">ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-full-3.13.0</a></li><li><a href="http://ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-3.13.0">ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-3.13.0</a></li><li><a href="http://ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-3.13.0">ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-3.13.0</a></li><li><a href="http://ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-small-3.13.0">ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-small-3.13.0</a></li></ul>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>Even</p></div>