[gdal-announce] GDAL 3.4.0 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 3.4.0. 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 3.4.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

* [RFC 81](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc81_coordinate_epoch.html):
   Support for coordinate epochs in geospatial formats.
   Implemented in FlatGeoBuf, GeoPackage, MEM, VRT
* New GDAL drivers:
   - [Zarr](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/zarr.html):
     read/write support for ZarrV2 (and experimental V3), using 2D 
classic raster
     API or multidimensional API:
   - [STACIT](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/stacit.html):
     Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items as virtual mosaics
* Other improvements:
   - number of enhancements in file system operations of /vsigs/
   - NITF: additions to comply with NITF Version 2.1 Commercial Dataset
     Requirements Document (NCDRD)
   - ODBC and PGeo: multiple fixes and improvements
   - SAFE (Sentinel1): multiple improvements related to SLC/calibration 
(change
     subdataset naming)
   - multidimensional API: caching, and other improvements
* Code linting and security fixes
* MDB driver (Java based) mark as deprecated. Planned for removal for 
GDAL 3.5.
   ODBC driver is the preferred solution (with up-to-date MDBTools 
library on
   non-Windows platforms)
* Writing side of Tiger driver deprecated and will be removed in GDAL 3.5
* Remainder: DODS, JPEG2000(Jasper), JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, FUJIBAS, IDA, 
INGR and
   vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, 
GEOMEDIA,
   GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, REC, WALK are planned for removal in GDAL 3.5. 
As well
   as Perl bindings

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.4.0 
release can be found at:

   https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.4.0/gdal/NEWS.md

The release can be downloaded from:
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.4.0/gdal340.zip - source as a zip
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.4.0/gdal-3.4.0.tar.gz - source as 
.tar.gz
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.4.0/gdal-3.4.0.tar.xz - source as 
.tar.xz
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.4.0/gdal-grass-3.4.0.tar.gz - 
GDAL-GRASS plugin
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.4.0/gdalautotest-3.4.0.tar.gz - 
test suite
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.4.0/gdal340doc.zip - 
documentation / website

Best regards,

Even

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