[gdal-announce] GDAL 2.2.0 is released

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.2.0.  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 2.2.0 release is a major new feature release with the following 
highlights:

* New GDAL/raster drivers:
 - DERIVED driver: read-support. Expose subdatasets in a a new metadata domain, called 
DERIVED_SUBDATASETS
 - JP2Lura driver: read/create support for JPEG-2000 images using Luratech JP2 Library
 - PRF: add read-only support for PHOTOMOD PRF file format driver (github #173)
 - RRASTER driver: read-support .grd/.gri files handled by the R 'raster' package (#6249)
* New OGR/vector drivers:
 - CAD driver: read support for DWG R2000 files (GSoC 2016 project)
 - DGNv8 driver: read-write support for DGN 8.0 format (using Teigha ODA libraries)
 - GMLAS driver: read-write support. XML/GML driver driven by Application Schemas.
* New utility script: ogrmerge.py to merge several vector datasets into a single one
* New /vsigs/ and /vsigs_streaming/ virtual file systems to read Google Cloud Storage non-
public files
* Significantly improved drivers:
 - NWT_GRD: write support (#6533)
 - FileGDB/OpenFileGDB: add support to read curve geometries (#5890)
 - VRT derived band: add the capability to define pixel functions in Python
 - Add read support for RasterLite2 coverages in SQLite driver
 - GPKG: implement tiled gridded elevation data extension
 - ISIS3: add write support and improve read support

* RFC 63: Add GDALRasterBand::GetDataCoverageStatus() and implement it in GTiff and 
VRT drivers
        https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc63_sparse_datasets_improvements
* RFC 64: Triangle, Polyhedral surface and TIN
        https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc64_triangle_polyhedralsurface_tin
    ==> this RFC introduces potential backward incompatible behaviour.
        Consult MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt
* RFC 66: OGR random layer read/write capabilities
        https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc66_randomlayerreadwrite
* RFC 67: add null field state for OGR features, in addition to unset fields
        https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc67_nullfieldvalues
    ==> this RFC introduces potential backward incompatible behaviour.
        Consult MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt
* Upgrade to EPSG database v9.0 (#6772)
* Python bindings: Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) released before entering GDAL native code 
(for all, in GDAL module and a few ones in ogr like ogr.Open())
* Continued major efforts on sanitization of code base
* Remove bridge and vb6 bindings (#6640)
* GNM built by default

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.2.0
release can be found at:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.2.0-News

The release can be downloaded from:
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal220.zip - source as a zip
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal-2.2.0.tar.gz - source as 
.tar.gz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal-2.2.0.tar.xz - source as 
.tar.xz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal-grass-2.2.0.tar.gz - GDAL-GRASS plugin
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdalautotest-2.2.0.tar.gz - test 
suite
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.0/gdal220doc.zip - documentation / 
website

The migration guide can be found at  :
      https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.2/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

Best regards,

Even

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