[gdal-announce] GDAL 3.3.0 is released

[Even Rouault]

Idan warned me that there was a typo in the URL to the doc. Here's the 
fixed one:

   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal330doc.zip - 
documentation / website

Le 03/05/2021 à 14:48, Even Rouault a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
> announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.3.0. 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.
>
>    http://gdal.org/
>
> The 3.3.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:
>
> * RFC 77 
> (https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc77_drop_python2_support.html): 
> Drop Python 2 support in favor of Python 3.6 (#3142)
> * RFC 78 
> (https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc78_gdal_utils_package.html): Add 
> a gdal-utils Python package
> * New driver: STACTA (https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/stacta.html): 
> raster driver to read Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets
> * Add /vsiadls/ virtual file system for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
> * Improved drivers: DIMAP, NITF
> * Number of improvements in Python bindings
>  *Add automatic loading of configuration options from a file
> * Add support for enumerated, constraint and glob field domains in 
> MEM, FileGDB/OpenFileGDB and GeoPackage drivers
> * Deprecation:
>   - Disable by default raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000, JPEGLS, 
> MG4LIDAR, FUJIBAS, IDA, INGR, ZMAP and vector driver ARCGEN, 
> ArcObjects, CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, 
> MONGODB, REC, WALK at runtime, unless the 
> GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_{drivername} configuration option is set 
> to YES. Those drivers are planned for removal in GDAL 3.5
>   - Perl bindings are deprecated. Removal planned for GDAL 3.5. Use 
> Geo::GDAL::FFI instead
> * Removal of BNA, AeronavFAA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, 
> XPlane, BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTV1 drivers. 
> Moved to (unsupported) https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers 
> repository.
>
> More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.3.0 
> release can be found at:
>
>   https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.3.0/gdal/NEWS
>
> The release can be downloaded from:
>   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal320.zip - source as a zip
>   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-3.3.0.tar.gz - source 
> as .tar.gz
>   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-3.3.0.tar.xz - source 
> as .tar.xz
>   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-grass-3.3.0.tar.gz - 
> GDAL-GRASS plugin
>   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdalautotest-3.3.0.tar.gz - 
> test suite
>   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal320doc.zip - 
> documentation / website
>
> Best regards,
>
> Even
>
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