[Gdal-dev] GDAL 1.2.3 Formally Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

Ben reminded me I didn't formally announce the 1.2.3 release.  After a couple
small patches from the release candidate I have published a formal 1.2.3
release as of Sunday or so.  Note that 1.2.3 is essentially just a bug fix
release.

GDAL 1.2.3 - Overview of Changes
--------------------------------

GeoTIFF Driver:
     - Fixed many missing compression codecs when built with the internal
       libtiff.
     - Modified driver metadata to only list available compression types.

DODS Driver:
     - Added support for OPeNDAP version after 3.4.x (use of opendap-config).

GRASS Driver:
     - Fixed support for building with grass57.

MrSID Driver:
     - Fixed support for MrSID Encoding SDK.

NITF Driver:
     - Fixed serious bug with non-square output files.


OGR 1.2.3 - Overview of Changes
-------------------------------

OGRSpatialReference:
     - Corrected memory leaks - OSRCleanup() cleans up temporary tables.
     - Fixed build problem with ogrct.cpp on Solaris.

TIGER Driver:
     - Improved generality of support for GDT files.

OGRGeometry:
     - Added getArea() method for rings, polygons and multipolygons.


The 1.2.3 source may be downloaded from:

   http://gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.2.3.tar.gz
   http://gdal.org/dl/gdal123.zip

Best regards,
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