[gdal-dev] Motion: Promote GDAL 1.6.3-RC2 to 1.6.3

[Howard Butler]

After three days and +1's from Daniel, Frank, Even, myself, and Tamas, I declare the motion passed.  I will make the announcement shortly.

Howard

On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Tested it and all looks good.
> 
> +1 to promote GDAL 1.6.3-RC2 to 1.6.3
> 
> Daniel
> 
> Howard Butler wrote:
>> Even found a small issue with the Python bindings having their version number be 1.6.2.  I have issued an RC 2 to fix this.
>> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.3-RC2.tar.gz
>> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal163-RC2.zip
>> On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
>>> I would like to motion to make the 1.6.3-rc1 official.  Please run a quick test if you have a chance before voting.
>>> 
>>> +1 Howard
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
>>> 
>>>> All,
>>>> 
>>>> The GDAL team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL 1.6.3 RC1.
>>>> 
>>>> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.3-RC1.tar.gz
>>>> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal163-RC1.zip
>>>> 
>>>> The following issues were addressed in this release:
>>>> 
>>>> General:
>>>> * r13533 (ogr postgis plugin) have been added to the stable branch only <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3125/>
>>>> * GRIB detection not thread safe <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3209/>
>>>> 
>>>> GDAL:
>>>> * GDALRasterizeLayers() and GDALRasterizeGeometries() segfault when passed invalid band numbers <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3146/>
>>>> * Patch for HDF5 block size recognition <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2270/>
>>>> * Gdal doesn't calculate stats correctly if it is negative number <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2511/>
>>>> * ERS file pointing to an ECW file is not opening when a full path name is not specified <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2907/>
>>>> * Keyword causing format unrecognized (PDS) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2956/>
>>>> * Add support for large NITF files <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2989/>
>>>> * do not remove leading spaces after TRE=xxxx= metadata when writing them <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3088/>
>>>> * [PATCH] TSX COSAR driver and 'pixel validity mask' <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3112/>
>>>> * GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() does not use overviews <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3124/>
>>>> * SIGBUS when reading A.TOC on Solaris <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3130/>
>>>> * Cleanup of drivers when using ECW data  is very expensive <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3134/>
>>>> * When PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE, band.GetStatistics returns wrong values <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3151/>
>>>> * HFA doesn't support reading COMPRESSED + SIGNEDBYTE <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3152/>
>>>> * undefined reference to ... error with gdalbuildvrt.cpp <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3167/>
>>>> * variation on label to image pointer (PDS) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3177/>
>>>> * GDALGridCreate with NULL progress callback function <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3189/>
>>>> * ERS driver fails with ERSs containing relative paths to non-ERStorage rasters <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3196/>
>>>> * Wrong type casting in GDALGrid data metrics functions <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3207/>
>>>> * HDF5 driver crashes with stackoverflow on this HDF5 image <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3218/>
>>>> 
>>>> Utilities:
>>>> * Python utililities should support command-line wildcards <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2783/>
>>>> * gdalbuildvrt -resolution lowest/highest does not work correcty for y pixel size <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3198/>
>>>> * [PATCH] Part of the reprojected image is missing from GDAL 1.6.0 along 180E/180W longitude <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3206/>
>>>> 
>>>> OGR:
>>>> * OGRLayer::GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn() just return empty strings from Python bindings <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2694/>
>>>> * GML read failure for GDAL 1.6+ <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2948/>
>>>> * GML reading problems with Xerces 3.x <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3156/>
>>>> * OGRLayer::GetFeatureCount returns a wrong value for SOUNDG layer <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3163/>
>>>> * XPlane driver causes fatal memory allocation in ogrinfo/ogr2ogr <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3164/>
>>>> 
>>>> Configuration:
>>>> * libtool: /bin/sh: arg list too long (powerpc-ibm-aix5.3) <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3080/>
>>>> * Error when building the gdal 1.6.2 for Linux <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3149/>
>>>> 
>>>> Python:
>>>> * Add __version__ to python bindings <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3137/>
>>>> * ReadRaster() crashes when GDAL is built with MinGW <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3173/>
>>>> 
>>>> OGR Spatial References:
>>>> * EPSG:3785 does not support spherical mercator hack <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3136/>
>>>> * Add 2 NZ coordinate system definition to mitab driver <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3187/>
>>>> 
>>>> 
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