[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 2.1.0 released

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.1.0.  GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial
data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and
web services.  It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety
of command line tools.

   http://www.gdal.org/

The 2.1.0 release is a major new feature release with the following 
highlights:

*  RFC 26: Add hash-set band block cache implementation for very larger 
rasters (WMS, WMTS, ...) 
        http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc26_blockcache
*  RFC 48: Geographical networks support (GNM) 
        ​https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc48_geographical_networks_support
*  RFC 58: Add DeleteNoDataValue?(): 
        ​https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc58_removing_dataset_nodata_value
*  RFC 59.1: Make GDAL/OGR utilities available as library functions: 
        ​https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc59.1_utilities_as_a_library
    For gdalinfo, gdal_translate, gdalwarp, ogr2ogr, gdaldem, nearblack, 
gdalgrid, gdal_rasterize, gdalbuildvrt Available in C, Python, Perl and Java 
bindings.
*  RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR 
        ​https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc60_improved_roundtripping_in_ogr
    Implemented in GeoJSON driver
*  RFC 61: Support for measured geometries. 
    ​https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc61_support_for_measured_geometries
    Implemented in Shapefile, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, PGDump, MEM, SQLite, 
GeoPackage, FileGDB, OpenFileGDB, CSV, VRT

*  New GDAL/raster drivers:
    ​CALS: read/write driver for CALS Type I rasters
    ​DB2: read/write support for DB2 database (Windows only)
    ​ISCE: read/write driver (#5991)
    ​MRF: read/write driver for Meta Raster Format (#6342)
    ​SAFE: read driver for ESA SENTINEL-1 SAR products (#6054)
    ​SENTINEL2: read driver for ESA SENTINEL-2 L1B/LC1/L2A products
    ​WMTS: read driver for OGC WMTS services 
*  New OGR/vector drivers:
     ​AmigoCloud: read/write support for AmigoCloud? mapping platform
     ​DB2: read/write support for DB2 database (Windows only)
     ​MongoDB: read/write driver
     ​netCDF: read/write driver
     ​VDV: read/write VDV-451/VDV-452 driver, with specialization for the 
            Austrian official open government street graph format 
* Significantly improved drivers:
     ​CSV: new options, editing capabilities of existing file
     ​ElasticSearch: read support and support writing any geometry type
     ​GeoJSON: editing capabilities of existing file, "native data" (RFC 60) 
support
     ​MBTiles: add raster write support. fixes in open support
     ​PDF: add PDFium library as a possible back-end.
     ​PLScenes: add support for V1 API
     ​VRT: on-the-fly pan-sharpening
     ​GTiff: multi-threaded compression for some compression methods 
* Port library: add ​/vsis3/, ​/vsis3_streaming/, ​/vsicrypt/ virtual file 
systems

* Upgrade to EPSG database v8.8
* General sanitization pass to clean-up code, fix a lot of compiler warnings, 
as well as issues pointed by static code analyzers.
* Fixes in a number of drivers to be more robust against corrupted files (most 
found with American Fuzzy Lop)

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.1.0
release can be found at:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.0-News

The release can be downloaded from:
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal210.zip - source as a zip
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal-2.1.0.tar.gz - source as 
.tar.gz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal-2.1.0.tar.xz - source as 
.tar.xz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdalautotest-2.1.0.tar.gz - test 
suite
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal210doc.zip - documentation / 
website

The migration guide can be found at  :
      https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.1/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

Best regards,

Even

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