From even.rouault at spatialys.com  Wed May 10 08:43:40 2023
From: even.rouault at spatialys.com (Even Rouault)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 17:43:40 +0200
Subject: [gdal-announce] GDAL 3.7.0 is released
Message-ID: <db7068b5-2469-235a-3c40-4d707ee5681d@spatialys.com>

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.7.0. 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 3.7.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

* [RFC 87](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc87_signed_int8.html): Add 
GDT_Int8 support
* [RFC 88](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc88_googletest.html): 
switch to GoogleTest framework for C++ tests
* [RFC 
89](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc89_sql_logging_callback.html): 
SQL query logging callback
* [RFC 
90](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc90_read_compressed_data.html): 
Direct access to compressed raster data
* [RFC 91](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc91_dataset_close.html): 
GDALDataset::Close() method
* [RFC 93](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc93_update_feature.html): 
OGRLayer::UpdateFeature() method
* [RFC 
94](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc94_field_precision_width_metadata.html): 
Numeric fields width/precision metadata
* ogrinfo: make it accessible through a new GDALVectorInfo() C API call, 
and a -json switch
* Add read-only raster driver 
[NOAA_B](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/noaa_b.html) to read NOAA 
GEOCON/NADCON5 .b grids
* Add read-only raster driver 
[NSIDCbin](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/nsidcbin.html) for Sea Ice 
Concentrations
* Add read-only vector [GTFS](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/gtfs.html) 
(General Transit Feed Specification) driver
* [TileDB](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/tiledb.html): add read/write 
vector side
* Add support for [SOZip](https://sozip.org) (Seek Optimized ZIP) with 
enhanced /vsizip/ virtual file system and a new sozip utility
* [OpenFileGDB](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/openfilegdb.html): add 
read-only support for raster datasets (.gdb v10)
* PNG: 1.7-2.0x speed-up in whole image decompression with libdeflate on 
Intel/AMD CPUs. Benefits to GPKG, MRF drivers
* [RFC 
69](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc69_cplusplus_formatting.html): 
C++ code reformatting
* Code linting and security fixes
* Remove any traces of Rasdaman driver, now moved to 
OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository (#4808)
* Bump of shared lib major version

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.7.0 
release can be found at:

 ? https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.7.0/NEWS.md

The release can be downloaded from:
 ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdal370.zip - source as a zip
 ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdal-3.7.0.tar.gz - source as 
.tar.gz
 ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdal-3.7.0.tar.xz - source as 
.tar.xz
 ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdalautotest-3.7.0.tar.gz - 
test suite
 ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.7.0/gdal370doc.zip - 
documentation / website

Best regards,

Even

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