[gdal-announce] GDAL/OGR 3.2.0 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 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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