[gdal-announce] GDAL 3.9.0 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 3.9.0. 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 3.9.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

* [RFC 
96](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc96_deferred_plugin_loading.html): 
Deferred C++ plugin loading
* [RFC 
97](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc97_feature_and_fielddefn_sealing.html): 
OGRFeatureDefn, OGRFieldDefn and OGRGeomFieldDefn "sealing"
* [RFC 
98](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc98_build_requirements_gdal_3_9.html): 
Build requirements for GDAL 3.9
* [RFC 
99](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc99_geometry_coordinate_precision.html): 
Geometry coordinate precision
* Add [S104](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/s104.html) (Water Level 
Information for Surface Navigation Product) and
   [S111](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/s111.html) (Surface Currents 
Product) raster read-only drivers (required libhdf5)
* Add raster [GTI](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/gti.html) (GDAL 
Raster Tile Index) driver to support catalogs with huge number of sources.
* Add vector 
[MiraMonVector](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/miramon.html) 
read/creation driver (#9688)
* Deprecated ARG driver has been removed (#7920)
* Bump of shared lib major version

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.9.0 
release can be found at:

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.9.0/NEWS.md

The release can be downloaded from:
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.gz - source as 
.tar.gz
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.gz.md5 - md5sum
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.gz.sig - signature
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.xz - source as 
.tar.xz
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.xz.md5 - md5sum
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.xz.sig - signature
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal390.zip - source as a zip
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal390.zip.md5 - md5sum
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal390.zip.sig - signature
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdalautotest-3.9.0.tar.gz - 
test suite
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal390doc.zip - 
documentation / website

Note to packagers: obviously GCC 14 has just been released. It breaks 
mingw64
builds. Fix in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/9894

Best regards,

Even

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