[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.8.1RC3 is available & motion to approve it

[Howard Butler]

+1 Howard

> On Nov 28, 2023, at 9:57 AM, Rahkonen Jukka via gdal-dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> -Jukka-
> 
> -----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
> Lähettäjä: gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> Puolesta Even Rouault via gdal-dev
> Lähetetty: tiistai 28. marraskuuta 2023 17.33
> Vastaanottaja: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Aihe: [gdal-dev] GDAL 3.8.1RC3 is available & motion to approve it
> 
> Hi,
> 
> well, another annoying 3.8.0 regression related to ogr2ogr GPKG -> Shapefile when field names are longer than 10 characters (ah
> Shapefile!!!) popped up today, so here's a RC3 (crossing fingers it's the good one):
> ...
> A snapshot of the gdalautotest suite is also available:
> ...
> The changes since RC2 are:
> 
> * CMake: make GDAL_USE_LIBKML and GDAL_USE_OPENJPEG honor GDAL_USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS
> * Detect failure in installation of the Python bindings
> * Fix installation issue with Python 3.12 on Debian
> * GDALOverviewDataset::IRasterIO(): use parent dataset when possible for more
>   efficiency
> * gdal_footprint: fix wrong taking into account of alpha band (#8834)
> * gdal_footprint: fix taking into account of individual bands that have nodata
> * COG: for JPEG compression, convert single band+alpha as single band JPEG + 1-bit mask band
> * GTIFF SRS reader: include VertCRS name from EPSG in CompoundCRS name if there's no citation geokey
> * ogr2ogr: fix GPKG -> Shapefile when field names are truncated (#8849,
> 3.8.0 regression)
> * CSV writer: do not quote integer fields by default (only if STRING_QUOTING=ALWAYS is specified)
> * GPX: make detection of extensions element more robust (#8827)
> * Shapefile: recognize '      0' as a null date, fix writing an invalid "0000/00/00" date
> * Python bindings: add a combineBands option to gdal.Footprint()
> 
> 
> Withdrawing previous motion and:
> 
> ==> Motion: adopt 3.8.1 RC3 as final 3.8.1 release
> 
> Starting with my +1,
> 
> Even
> 
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