[Gdal-dev] Re: GDAL 1.2.2 Released

[Carlos A. Rueda]

Great! and congrats also for the new site.

Thanks for the good work.

carlos

ps. I have an observation, however: it's not compiling for me..
to be concrete it fails while entering directory frmts/airsar/,
which I notice it's empty.



Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I have cut a GDAL 1.2.2 release, and this is also my "coming out" with the
> new gdal.org domain.
> 
> Currently gdal.org is hosted on a kind of crappy web server where I 
> can't even
> run scripts to update the web site.  This means that the web site is
> updated manually (aka - not so frequently) and email, bugzilla, cvs and ftp
> services containue to be hosted by others (DMSolutions via maptools.org
> and ImageLinks and IDS for the remotesensing.org services).  But the 
> www.gdal.org
> web/download service has cheap bandwidth so I am a bit less of a drain 
> on everyone
> else.
> 
> I encourage you to grab release downloads from
> 
>   http://www.gdal.org/dl
> 
> though daily snapshots are still only available from:
> 
>   http://gdal.maptools/org/dl/daily
> 
> The NEWS file can be read at:
> 
>   http://www.gdal.org/NEWS.html
> 
> The following are new for 1.2.2:
> 
> GDAL 1.2.2 - Overview of Changes
> --------------------------------
> 
> GRASS Driver:
>     - Add Radim's version of the driver submitted by Radim.  This version
>       uses GRASS 5.7 libraries directly instead of using libgrass.
> 
> DODS Driver:
>     - Added support for spatial_ref, FlipX and FlipY .das info.
> 
> CPG Driver:
>     - added new driver for Convair Polarmetric format.
> 
> HDF Driver:
>     - Significant bugs fixed.
> 
> USGS DEM Driver:
>     - Support writing UTM projected files.
> 
> PNG Driver:
>     - Upgraded to libpng 1.2.6.
> 
> MrSID Driver:
>     - Substantial performance improvements.
>     - Support for DSDK 4.x
>     - Support JPEG2000 files via MrSID SDK.
> 
> NITF Driver:
>     - Support JPEG2000 compressed files (with Kakadu support)
> 
> ESRI BIL:
>     - Support .clr color files.
> 
> VRT Driver:
>     - Added support for describing raw files with VRTRawRasterBand.
>     - Added support for virtual warped files with VRTWarpedRasterBand.
> 
> GeoTIFF Driver:
>     - Fix support for 16bit image color tables.
>     - Write ExtraSamples tag for files with more samples than expected
>       in photometric interpretation.
>     - External overviews now built for read-only files.
> 
> Erdas Imagine Driver:
>     - Fixed support for compressed floating point layers.
>     - Various other fixes for compatible with newer Imagine versions.
>     - improved metadata handling.
> 
> gdal_merge.py:
>     - sets projection on output file.
> 
> 
> OGR 1.2.2 - Overview of Changes
> -------------------------------
> 
> SQLite Driver:
>     - New read/write driver implemented for SQLite databases.
> 
> CSV Driver:
>     - New read/write driver implemented for comma seperated value files.
> 
> S-57 Driver:
>     - Substantial performance improvements.
> 
> ODBC Driver:
>     - Arbitrary length field values now supported.
> 
> GEOS:
>     - Integration a series of methods utilizing GEOS when available.  Note
>       that Intersect() is still just an envelope comparison.
> 
> OGRSpatialReference:
>     - Fixed Swiss Oblique Mercator support.
> 
> A new OpenEV_FW 1.8.2 synced with GDAL 1.2.2 should following within a few
> hours.
> 
> Best regards,