<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The PDAL team is pleased to announce the release of PDAL 1.7.1. We had made a 1.7.0 tarball yesterday, but some issues were quickly found and resolved, which necessitated another number.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Full details about the release can be found at <a href="https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/releases/tag/1.7.1" class="">https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/releases/tag/1.7.1</a> Download the source code at <a href="https://www.pdal.io/download.html" class="">https://www.pdal.io/download.html</a> OSGeo4W64 build will be available shortly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Howard</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Release Highlights</div><div class="">---------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Improvements to PDAL's drivers means applications should start up significantly faster</div><div class="">* Operations run in streaming mode when possible (info, translate, pipeline)</div><div class="">* Documentation refactored to be easier to find things. See Brad's article about many of the PDAL team at the OSGeo Bonn Sprint on Medium at <a href="https://medium.com/@chambbj/pdal-at-the-osgeo-code-sprint-cf0a56eee59d" class="">https://medium.com/@chambbj/pdal-at-the-osgeo-code-sprint-cf0a56eee59d</a></div><div class="">* LAS 1.0-1.3 can now support extra bytes if forced </div><div class="">* The Python and Java extensions are now in their own repositories.</div><div class="">* readers.numpy can be used to read Numpy .npy save files as point clouds</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>