From warmerdam at pobox.com  Wed Jan 13 08:35:31 2010
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:35:31 -0500
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] Release of QGIS 1.4.0 'Enceladus'
Message-ID: <4B4DF653.4080500@pobox.com>

The QGIS team is pleased to announce the the QGIS 1.4.0 release. The areas of 
improvements (details and screenshots on the site): "New Symbology 
Infrastructure, Field Calculator, Print Composer, User interface improvements, 
Render caching, Custom SVG search paths, Specify CRS when creating new 
shapefile, Customizable attribute forms".

Details at on the visual release announcement:

  http://blog.qgis.org/node/142




From warmerdam at pobox.com  Sat Jan 30 11:22:08 2010
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:22:08 -0500
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 Released
Message-ID: <4B6486E0.2070702@pobox.com>

The GDAL/OGR Project is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.7.0.
This is the first major new release since the 1.6.0 release approximately
one year ago, though there have been a number of 1.6.x bug fixes releases
during that period.  The 1.7.0 release brings many new features, including
a number of new raster and vector drivers as well as many improvements to
existing drivers, and limited extentions to the GDAL API.

  * New Raster Drivers: BAG, EPSILON, Northwood/VerticalMapper, R, Rasterlite,
    SAGA GIS Binary, SRP (USRP/ASRP), EarthWatch .TIL, WKT Raster
  * GDAL PCIDSK driver using the new PCIDSK SDK by default
  * New Vector drivers : DXF, GeoRSS, GTM, PCIDSK and VFK
  * New utilities: gdaldem, gdalbuildvrt now compiled by default
  * Add support for Python 3.X. Compatibility with Python 2.X preserved
  * Remove old-generation Python bindings.
  * Significantly improved raster drivers: GeoRaster, GeoTIFF, HFA,
    JPEG2000 JasPer, JPEG2000 Kakadu, NITF
  * Significantly improved vector drivers: CSV, KML, SQLite/SpataiLite, VRT

Full release news is available at:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.7.0-News

The source code, documentation and test suite can be downloaded from:

Source:
   http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.7.0.tar.gz
   http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal170.zip

Documentation:
   http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal170doc.zip

Test Suite:
   http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.7.0.tar.gz
   http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.7.0.zip

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