[gdal-dev] shapelib 1.6.0RC1 available

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

it has been more than 3 years since shapelib v1.5.0 has been released. 
Here's a v1.6.0 release candidate:

- http://download.osgeo.org/shapelib/shapelib-1.6.0rc1.tar.gz

- http://download.osgeo.org/shapelib/shapelib-1.6.0rc1.zip

Changes:

  * shapefil.h: add SHAPELIB_VERSION_MAJOR/MINOR/MICRO, 
SHAPELIB_VERSION_NUMBER, and SHAPELIB_AT_LEAST macros
  * Compiler warning fixes and various code cleanups
  * SAHooks: add a void *pvUserData member. ABI change
  * SAHooks.FOpen and FClose callbacks: add a void *pvUserData 
parameter. API and ABI change
  * SAHooks.FWrite: make first parameter a const void*. API change
  * Do not distribute default COPYING and INSTALL
  * Use standard integer data types
  * Changes to allow building with cmake -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON
  * Polygon writing: avoid considering rings slightly overlapping as 
inner-outer rings of others (refs OSGeo/gdal#5315)
  * Polygon writing: consider rings at non-constant Z as outer rings 
(fixes OSGeo/gdal#5315)
    As noted in code comments, this is an approximation of more complicated
    tests we'd likely have to do, that would take into account real
    co-planar testing, to allow detecting inner rings of outer rings in an
    oblique plane.
  * shpopen.c: Communicate why the file size cannot be reached when 
appending features (OSGeo/gdal#4140)
    Clearly state why the file size cannot be reached. This is important 
in order
    to correctly inform the user and prevent him/her from looking for 
other reasons.
    Related to https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/44202
  * SHPWriteObject(): prevent potential overflows on 64-bit platforms on 
huge geometries
  * SHPRestoreSHX: update SHX content length even if error occurred
  * In creation, uses w+b file opening mode instead of wb followed by r+b,
    to support network file systems having sequential write only and when
    using CPL_VSIL_USE_TEMP_FILE_FOR_RANDOM_WRITE=YES (fixes 
OSGeo/gdal#7801)
  * Fix adding features in a .dbf without columns (fixes qgis/qgis#51247)
  * Have matching SOVERSION for CMake and autotools
  * Code reformatting
  * Enable csv2shp build with MSVC
  * Build contributed utilities via CMake
  * fix mis-matching CMake arguments
  * Use the the standard BUILD_TESTING CMake variable
  * Remove double free() in contrib/shpsrt, issue #39
  * SHPRestoreSHX: fix for (64 bit) big endian
  * Add config-style support for find_package(shapefile)
  * Prevent no-op FSeeks writing dbf & shp records for network 
filesystem performance

Note that there's a small API and ABI breakage (hence a SONAME bump) in 
custom file callbacks, but I don't believe those API are widely used, so 
disruption should be modest hopefully.

Even

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