[Gdal-dev] gdal 1.4.1 beta1

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

Beta1 is available at:

   http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.4.1b1.tar.gz
   http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal141b1.zip

I hope to do a final release on Monday so please let me know if
there is anything missing or badly broken (via Trac).  From the NEWS
file:

GDAL/OGR 1.4.1 - Overview of Changes
====================================

The GDAL 1.4.1 release is a stable release, and contains the following
bug fixes.  There should be no noteworthy changes in interfaces or APIs.


GDAL
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World File Reader:
  - Handle case with blank lines in worldfile gracefully . #1523
  - Support other numeric locales (ie. comma for decimal). #1414

GeoTIFF Driver:
  - Use PHOTOMETRIC creation option properly. #1559
  - Fix writing pixel interleaved files. #1470
  - Fix thread safety issue with inmemory geo parsing. #1500

NetCDF Driver:
  - Correct off-by-half-pixel error in the geotransform. #1506
  - Pre-verify file is NetCDF format before calling nc_open(). #1176

Erdas Imagine (HFA) Driver:
  - Add support for EPT_s32 and EPT_u32 non-runs in UncompressBlock?().  #1000
  - Fix support for EPT_f32 non-runs with 16bit offset values. #1000
  - Avoid attempting to open "AUX" directly. #1493

HDF4 Driver:
  - Fix some problems with geolocation support crashes.

JPEG Driver:
  - Support EXIF directories with no entries. #1523

FAST Driver:
  - Handle various FAST datasets. #1516

MEM Driver:
  - Fix support for memory arrays larger than 4GB. #1503

MrSID Driver:
  - Compute approximate statistics from overview, even if not forced. #1452
  - Fix for decoding some stripped data. #1446


OGR
---

OGR:
  - Fixed handling of XYZM data in WKT without crashing (#1036)

OGRSpatialReference:
  - Fix up handling of feet and numeric units in old ESRI .prj files. #1533
  - Fix ESRI LCC 2SP support. #187

OGR SQL:
  - Allow use of <, >, <= and >= in attribute filters and WHERE. #1557
  - Fix handling of special fields if values are null. #1528
  - Fixed FID special field support. #1468

GML Driver:
  - Support files with a "BOM" marker at the beginning. #

Interlis Driver:
  - Return a clone of internal features to avoid crash if reread. #1535

Mapinfo Driver:
  - Back ported various MITAB 1.6.1 fixes. #1541

PostGIS Driver:
  - Don't disable sequential scanning. #1472
  - Increase CURSOR_PAGE from 1 to 500. #1474
  - Ensure that GetLayerByName(), and OpenTable() fail gracefully for
    non existant tables. #1480

Shapefile Driver:
  - Ensure SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() operations get applied. #1456


Other
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Java:
  - Fix missing import. #1463
  - Make ANT location configurable #1545
  - void functions should not return values #1543

Python:
  - Fix support for complex data in NG bindings. #1518
  - Fix array order compatibility with old bindings. #1542
  - Fix Dataset.ReadAsArray()
  - Fix WriteRaster and ReadRaster. #1481
  - Geometry contructor in old bindings. #1255


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