[OSGeo-Announce] GDAL 3.3.0 is released

[Victoria Rautenbach]

*News item by: Even RouaultPublished at
https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-3-0-is-released/
<https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-3-0-is-released/> *


On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.3.0. 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://gdal.org/

The 3.3.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

* RFC 77
(https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc77_drop_python2_support.html): Drop
Python 2 support in favor of Python 3.6 (#3142)
* RFC 78
(https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc78_gdal_utils_package.html): Add a
gdal-utils Python package
* New driver: STACTA (https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/stacta.html):
raster driver to read Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets
* Add /vsiadls/ virtual file system for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
* Improved drivers: DIMAP, NITF
* Number of improvements in Python bindings
*Add automatic loading of configuration options from a file
* Add support for enumerated, constraint and glob field domains in MEM,
FileGDB/OpenFileGDB and GeoPackage drivers
* Deprecation:
- Disable by default raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000, JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR,
FUJIBAS, IDA, INGR, ZMAP and vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT,
COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, REC, WALK at
runtime, unless the GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_{drivername}
configuration option is set to YES. Those drivers are planned for
removal in GDAL 3.5
- Perl bindings are deprecated. Removal planned for GDAL 3.5. Use
Geo::GDAL::FFI instead
* Removal of BNA, AeronavFAA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, XPlane,
BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTV1 drivers. Moved to
(unsupported) https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository.

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.3.0
release can be found at:

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.3.0/gdal/NEWS

The release can be downloaded from:
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal320.zip - source as a zip
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-3.3.0.tar.gz - source as
.tar.gz
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-3.3.0.tar.xz - source as
.tar.xz
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal-grass-3.3.0.tar.gz -
GDAL-GRASS plugin
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdalautotest-3.3.0.tar.gz - test
suite
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.3.0/gdal330doc.zip - documentation /
website

It's been an exciting time in GDAL, as our sustainable GDAL initiative
has attracted a number of major sponsors, which should bring more energy
to the project in future releases.

Best regards,

Even

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