[OSGeo-Announce] GDAL/OGR 3.2.0 is released

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

see also: 
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-ogr-3-2-0-is-released/

news item from Even Rouault

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased 
to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.2.0.  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 3.2.0 release is a new feature release with the following 
highlights:

* New GDAL drivers:
    - [ESRIC](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/esric.html): ESRI bundle 
cache
read-only driver (#2663)
    - [HEIF](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/heif.html): read-only driver 
for
HEIF/HEIC file. Requires libheif
    - [OGCAPI](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/ogcapi.html): tiles/maps/
coverage raster/vector experimental driver
    - [TGA](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/tga.html): read/only driver 
to read
TGA image file format
  * New OGR drivers:
    - [LVBAG](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/lvbag.html): read-only 
support
for Dutch LVBAG/Kadaster 2.0 vector format
  * New utilities:
    - [gdal_create](https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_create.htm): to 
create/
initialize a new raster file
  * Other improvements:
    - Multi-threaded overview computation (if GDAL_NUM_THREADS set)
    - COG driver: TILING_SCHEME creation option
    - OpenFileGDB driver: add support for using spatial indexes
    - BAG driver: multiple improvements
    - FITS driver: multiple improvements (MEF and binary table support)
    - NITF driver: support for SNIP TREs
    - OGRFieldDefn: support UNIQUE constraint
    - OGRFieldDefn: support a AlternativeName (alias) property (#2729)
    - Python bindings: move implementation of scripts (except gdal2tiles) 
in
osgeo.utils package to be reusable
    - Faster GTIFF Deflate compression/decompression through libdeflate 
(if
using internal libtiff or libtiff > 4.1.0)
  * Removed functionality:
    - API_PROXY mechanism: likely never used for real usage.
    - Removal of GDAL and OGR ArcSDE drivers

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.2.0
release can be found at:

   https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.2.0/gdal/NEWS

The release can be downloaded from:
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal320.zip - source as a zip
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.gz - source as
.tar.gz
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.xz - source as
.tar.xz
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-grass-3.2.0.tar.gz - 
GDAL-GRASS
plugin
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdalautotest-3.2.0.tar.gz - 
test
suite
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal320doc.zip - documentation 
/
website

Best regards,

Even

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