[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I have prepared a GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 release candidate, posted at:

  http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal160RC1.zip - source as a zip
  http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.0RC1.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
  http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.6.0.tar.gz - test suite
  http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.6.0.zip - test suite

On behalf of the GDAL project, I request everyone interested in a high
quality final release do some quick verification of this candidate release.
Depending on immediate feedback, I will call for a PSC vote promoting this as
a final release on Monday (which would take till Wendesday to complete).

Very detailed release news is available at:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.6.0-News

I hope to prepare binary packages for windows tomorrow as part of OSGeo4W.

I would add that I have also created a 1.6 branch in subversion, and trunk
is now open for GDAL/OGR 1.7 development.  Bug fixes should now be
considered for the 1.6 and 1.5 branches.

Best regards,
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