[gdal-dev] Motion: Promote GDAL 1.6.3-RC1 to 1.6.3

[Howard Butler]

I would like to motion to make the 1.6.3-rc1 official.  Please run a quick test if you have a chance before voting.

+1 Howard


On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Howard Butler wrote:

> All,
> 
> The GDAL team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL 1.6.3 RC1.
> 
> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.3-RC1.tar.gz
> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal163-RC1.zip
> 
> The following issues were addressed in this release:
> 
> General:
> * r13533 (ogr postgis plugin) have been added to the stable branch only <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3125/>
> * GRIB detection not thread safe <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3209/>
> 
> GDAL:
> * GDALRasterizeLayers() and GDALRasterizeGeometries() segfault when passed invalid band numbers <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3146/>
> * Patch for HDF5 block size recognition <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2270/>
> * Gdal doesn't calculate stats correctly if it is negative number <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2511/>
> * ERS file pointing to an ECW file is not opening when a full path name is not specified <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2907/>
> * Keyword causing format unrecognized (PDS) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2956/>
> * Add support for large NITF files <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2989/>
> * do not remove leading spaces after TRE=xxxx= metadata when writing them <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3088/>
> * [PATCH] TSX COSAR driver and 'pixel validity mask' <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3112/>
> * GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() does not use overviews <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3124/>
> * SIGBUS when reading A.TOC on Solaris <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3130/>
> * Cleanup of drivers when using ECW data  is very expensive <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3134/>
> * When PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE, band.GetStatistics returns wrong values <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3151/>
> * HFA doesn't support reading COMPRESSED + SIGNEDBYTE <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3152/>
> * undefined reference to ... error with gdalbuildvrt.cpp <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3167/>
> * variation on label to image pointer (PDS) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3177/>
> * GDALGridCreate with NULL progress callback function <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3189/>
> * ERS driver fails with ERSs containing relative paths to non-ERStorage rasters <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3196/>
> * Wrong type casting in GDALGrid data metrics functions <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3207/>
> * HDF5 driver crashes with stackoverflow on this HDF5 image <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3218/>
> 
> Utilities:
> * Python utililities should support command-line wildcards <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2783/>
> * gdalbuildvrt -resolution lowest/highest does not work correcty for y pixel size <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3198/>
> * [PATCH] Part of the reprojected image is missing from GDAL 1.6.0 along 180E/180W longitude <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3206/>
> 
> OGR:
> * OGRLayer::GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn() just return empty strings from Python bindings <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2694/>
> * GML read failure for GDAL 1.6+ <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2948/>
> * GML reading problems with Xerces 3.x <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3156/>
> * OGRLayer::GetFeatureCount returns a wrong value for SOUNDG layer <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3163/>
> * XPlane driver causes fatal memory allocation in ogrinfo/ogr2ogr <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3164/>
> 
> Configuration:
> * libtool: /bin/sh: arg list too long (powerpc-ibm-aix5.3) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3080/>
> * Error when building the gdal 1.6.2 for Linux <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3149/>
> 
> Python:
> * Add __version__ to python bindings <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3137/>
> * ReadRaster() crashes when GDAL is built with MinGW <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3173/>
> 
> OGR Spatial References:
> * EPSG:3785 does not support spherical mercator hack <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3136/>
> * Add 2 NZ coordinate system definition to mitab driver <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3187/>
> 
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