From even.rouault at spatialys.com Fri May 8 04:18:11 2026 From: even.rouault at spatialys.com (Even Rouault) Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 13:18:11 +0200 Subject: [gdal-announce] GDAL 3.13.0 "Iowa City" is released Message-ID: <12fe4782-cde4-44ef-b670-c9a3e6569769@spatialys.com> Hi, On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.13.0 "Iowa City". 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 3.13.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights: * New 'gdal' command line interface capabilities: ? - [gdal vector combine](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_combine.html) (#13895) ? - [gdal vector concave-hull](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_concave_hull.html) ? - [gdal vector convex-hull](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_convex_hull.html) ? - [gdal vector create](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_create.html) (#14210) ? - [gdal vector dissolve](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_dissolve.html) (#13985) ? - [gdal vector export-schema](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_export_schema.html) (#14156) ? - [gdal vector update](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_update.html) ? - [gdal vector rename-layer](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_rename_layer.html) (#14132) ? - [gdal vector sort](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_vector_sort.html) (#13351) ? - [gdal dataset check](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_dataset_check.html) ? - [gdal driver cog validate](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_driver_cog_validate.html) (uses validate_cloud_optimized_geotiff.py ? ? underneath) ? - [gdal driver gpkg validate](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_driver_gpkg_validate.html) (uses validate_gpkg.py underneath) ? - gdal pipeline: add a [external](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdal_external.html) step to run an external command * Zarr: various improvements in Zarr V3 support (sharding), support for ? multiscales, spatial and proj extensions for EOPF Visualization products. * COG driver: implement GDALDriver::Create() for random write creation * Add [E57](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/e57.html) read-only raster driver to read 2D images from ASTM E2807 (E57) files * Add [SAR Compensated Phase History Data (CPHD)](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/cphd.html) multi-dimensional read-only ? driver (#14310) * MiraMonRaster: add creation support (#13960) * [JP2GROK](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/jp2grok.html): read/write driver for JPEG-2000 using Grok JPEG 2000 toolkit ? (the toolkit is AGPL v3 licensed) * S102/S104/S111 driver: add write support * NITF driver: add support for [CADRG writing](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/nitf.html#cadrg-compressed-arc-digitized-raster-graphics-write-support) * Add support for INTERLIS 2.4 * Make cloud users aware of commercial cloud providers that don't sponsor the ? project and whose cloud storage protocol may be removed in the future (#14313) * Revert removal of OGR Tiger and UK. NTF drivers (but still to be considered ? as living on borrowed time) * Bump of shared lib major version More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.13.0 release can be found at: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.13.0/NEWS.md Please also consult the migration guide when updating from prior releases: https://gdal.org/en/latest/user/migration_guide.html#from-gdal-3-12-to-gdal-3-13 The release can be downloaded from: ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz.md5 - md5sum ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.gz.sig - signature ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz - source as .tar.xz ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz.md5 - md5sum ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal-3.13.0.tar.xz.sig - signature ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip - source as a zip ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip.md5 - md5sum ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130.zip.sig - signature ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdalautotest-3.13.0.zip - test suite ? * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.13.0/gdal3130doc.zip - documentation / website Docker images are available: ? * ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-full-3.13.0 ? * ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-3.13.0 ? * ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-3.13.0 ? * ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-small-3.13.0 Best regards, Even -- http://www.spatialys.com My software is free, but my time generally not.