[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 2.0.0 released

[Even Rouault]

There are so many items that I forgot to mention (thanks Jeremy for the 
reminder!) :

   * 64-bit integer fields and feature IDs :
       https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc31_ogr_64

> Hi,
> 
> On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
> announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.0.0.  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://www.gdal.org/
> 
> The 2.0.0 release is a major new feature release with the following
> highlights:
> 
>  * GDAL and OGR driver and dataset unification:
>        http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc46_gdal_ogr_unification
>  * Support for curve geometries:
>        http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc49_curve_geometries
>  * Support for OGR field subtypes (boolean, int16, float32):
>        http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc50_ogr_field_subtype
>  * RasterIO() improvements : resampling and progress callback
>        http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc51_rasterio_resampling_progress
>  * Stricter SQL quoting:
>        http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc52_strict_sql_quoting
>  * OGR not-null constraints and default values:
>        http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc53_ogr_notnull_default
>  * OGR dataset transactions:
>        https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc54_dataset_transactions
>  * Refined SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() semantics:
>       
> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc55_refined_setfeature_deletefeature_se
> mantics * OFTTime/OFTDateTime millisecond accuracy:
>        https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc56_millisecond_precisio
>  * 64bit histogram bucket count:
>        https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc57_histogram_64bit_count
> 
>  * New GDAL drivers:
>     - BPG: read-only driver for Better Portable Graphics format
> (experimental) - GPKG: read/write/update capabilities in the unified
> raster/vector driver http://gdal.org/drv_geopackage_raster.html
>     - KEA: read/write driver for KEA format
>                 http://gdal.org/frmt_kea.html
>     - PLMosaic: read-only driver for Planet Labs Mosaics API
>                 http://gdal.org/frmt_plmosaic.html
>     - ROI_PAC: read/write driver for image formats of JPL's ROI_PAC project
>                 http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#ROI_PAC
>     - VICAR: read-only driver for VICAR format
>                 http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html
> 
>  * New OGR drivers:
>     - Cloudant : read/write driver for Cloudant service
>                 http://gdal.org/drv_cloudant.html
>     - CSW: read-only driver for OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web)
> protocol http://gdal.org/drv_csw.html
>     - JML: read/write driver for OpenJUMP .jml format
>                 http://gdal.org/drv_jml.html
>     - PLScenes: read-only driver for Planet Labs Scenes API
>                 http://gdal.org/drv_plscenes.html
>     - Selaphin: read/write driver for the Selaphin/Seraphin format
>                 http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_selafin.html
> 
>  * Significantly improved drivers: CSV, GPKG, GTiff, JP2OpenJPEG, MapInfo,
> PG, SQLite
> 
>  * Upgrade to EPSG 8.5 database
> 
>  * Fix locale related issues when formatting or reading floating point
> numbers
> 
> More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.0.0
> release can be found at:
> 
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.0.0-News
> 
> The release can be downloaded from:
>   * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200.zip - source as a zip
>   * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.gz - source as
> .tar.gz
>   * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.xz - source as
> .tar.xz
>   * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdalautotest-2.0.0.tar.gz - test
> suite
>   * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200doc.zip - documentation /
> website
> 
> As there have been a few changes to the C++ API, and to a lesser extent to
> the C API, developers are strongly advised to read :
>       https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.0/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even

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