[gdal-announce] GDAL 2.3.0 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 2.3.0.  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://www.gdal.org/

The 2.3.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

 * New GDAL drivers:
   - PDS4: read/write
   - RDA: DigitalGlobe Raster Data Access (read-only)
 * New OGR drivers:
   - MVT: add read/write driver for Mapbox Vector Tile standalone files or tilesets
   - ESRIJson and TopoJSON: read-only, splitted from existing code of the GeoJSON driver
   - WFS3: *experimental* read-only driver
 * RFC 68: Make C++11 a build requirement
    https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc68_cplusplus11
 * RFC 70: Guess output format from extension of output filename,
    if no explicit format passed to C++ or Python utilities
    https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc70_output_format_guess
 * RFC 71: Move to GitHub for source code repository and issue tracker.
    https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc71_github_migration
 * Significantly improved drivers:
    - MBTiles (vector tiles support)
    - DXF
    - GRIB (GRIB2 write support)
    - WCS (support WCS 2.0)
 * Improvements in network-based /vsi handlers: /vsicurl, /vsis3, /vsigs. Add:
     - /vsiaz for Microsoft Azure Blobs
     - /vsioss for Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service
     - /vsiswift/ for OpenStack Swift object storage
 * Command line utilities: use Unicode main on Windows to avoid issues with non-ASCII characters (#7065)
 * Update to EPSG v9.2 (#7125)
 * Update data/esri_extra.wkt and add data/esri_epsg.wkt,
    taken from https://github.com/Esri/projection-engine-db-doc (Apache v2 license) (#2163)
 * Add support for PROJ.5 new API (requires proj 5.0.1 or later)
 * More than 1000 fixes for issues/vulnerabilities found by OSS-Fuzz
 * Remove raster OGDI driver (vector OGDI driver still there) (#7087)

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.3.0
release can be found at:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.3.0-News

The release can be downloaded from:
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.3.0/gdal230.zip - source as a zip
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.3.0/gdal-2.3.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.3.0/gdal-2.3.0.tar.xz - source as .tar.xz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.3.0/gdal-grass-2.3.0.tar.gz - GDAL-GRASS plugin
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.3.0/gdalautotest-2.3.0.tar.gz - test suite
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.3.0/gdal230doc.zip - documentation / website

The migration guide can be found at  :
      https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/2.3/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

Best regards,

Even

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