[Gdal-dev] GDAL 1.4.0Beta2 Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I have cut a beta2 release tonight.  This includes a few bug fixes and
improvements since beta1.  It also includes a NEWS file update since 1.3.2.
The beta2 can be fetched from:

   http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.4.0beta2.tar.gz
   http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal140beta2.zip

I'll try and prepare an FWTools release corresponding to it tomorrow.

The NEWS for 1.4.0 looks like this:

GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 - General Changes
--------------------------------

Perl Bindings:
  - Added doxygen based documentation.

NG Python Bindings:
  - Implemented numpy support.

CSharp Bindings:
  - Now mostly operational.

WinCE Porting:
  - CPL
  - base OGR, OSR and mitab and shape drivers.
  - GDAL, including GeoTIFF, DTED, AAIGrid drivers
  - Added test suite (gdalautotest/cpp)

Mac OSX Port:
  - Added framework support (--with-macosx-framework)



GDAL 1.4.0 - Overview Of Changes
--------------------------------

WCS Driver:
  - New

PDS (Planetary Data Set) Driver:
  - New

ISIS (Mars Qubes) Driver:
  - New

HFA (.img) Driver:
  - Support reading ProjectionX PE strings.
  - Support producing .aux files with statistics.
  - Fix serious bugs with u1, u2 and u4 compressed data.

NITF Driver:
  - Added BLOCKA reading support.
  - Added ICORDS='D'
  - Added jpeg compression support (readonly)
  - Support multiple images as subdatasets.
  - Support CGM data (as metadata)

AIGrid Driver:
  - Use VSI*L API (large files, in memory, etc)
  - Support upper case filenames.
  - Support .clr file above coverage.

HDF4 Driver:
  - Added support for access to geolocation arrays (see RFC 4).
  - External raw raster bands supported.

PCIDSK (.pix) Driver:
  - Support METER/FEET as LOCAL_CS.
  - Fix serious byte swapping error on creation.

BMP Driver:
  - Various fixes, including 16bit combinations, and non-intel byte swapping.

GeoTIFF Driver:
  - Fixed in place update for LZW and Deflated compressed images.

JP2KAK (JPEG2000) Driver:
  - Added support for reading and writing gmljp2 headers.
  - Read xml boxes as metadata.
  - Accelerate YCbCr handling.

JP2MrSID (JPEG2000) Driver:
  - Added support for reading gmljp2 headers.

EHDR (ESRI BIL) Driver:
  - Support 1-7 bit data.
  - Added statistics support.


OGR 1.4.0 - Overview of Changes
-------------------------------

OGR SQL:
  - RFC 6: Added support for SQL/attribute filter access to geometry, and
    style strings.

OGRSpatialReference:
  - Support for OGC SRS URNs.
  - Support for +wktext/EXTENSION stuff for preserving PROJ.4 string in WKT.
  - Added Two Point Equidistant projection.
  - Added Krovak projection.
  - Updated support files to EPSG 6.11.

OGRCoordinateTransformation:
  - Support source and destination longitude wrapping control.

OGRFeatureStyle:
  - Various extensions and improvements.

INFORMIX Driver:
  - New

KML Driver:
  - New (write only)

E00 Driver:
  - New (read only)
  - Polygon (PAL) likely not working properly.

Postgres/PostGIS Driver:
  - Updated to support new EWKB results (PostGIS 1.1?)
  - Fixed serious bug with writing SRSes.
  - Added schema support.

GML Driver:
  - Strip namespaces off field names.
  - Handle very large geometries gracefully.

ODBC Driver:
  - Added support for spatial_ref_sys table.

SDE Driver:
  - Added logic to speed things up while actually detecting layer geometry types

PGeo Driver:
  - Added support for MDB Tools ODBC driver on linux/unix.

VRT Driver:
  - Added useSpatialSubquery support.

Best regards,
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