[gdal-dev] Advanced 3.6.1 release and retraction of 3.6.0 ?

[Daniel Morissette]

+1 for 3.6.1 with this fix.

Daniel


On 2022-12-13 10:18, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/51188 has been brought to my 
> attention. The issue is that the new background building of the RTree of 
> GeoPackage files introduced in 3.6.0 didn't work well with committing 
> transactions in between, which is easily triggered by ogr2ogr. All 
> features were inserted but with default settings ~ 10% of them lacked an 
> entry in the spatial index, which can be enough to break interactive 
> display and workflows relying on spatial filtering. When using ogr2ogr, 
> I believe the issue can only be seen when creating layers with more than 
> 100 000 features, since that's the default value for the interval at 
> which transactions are committed.
> 
> I've a fix ready in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/6911. The fix 
> itself is a simple two-liner: 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/6911/commits/3f5f6225fe82e0c2e0241e4f66bfb861cdf4fe9d
> 
> Given the status of GeoPackage being the default format for QGIS, I 
> believe this is a severe enough issue to warrant an advanced 3.6.1 
> release, and an official retraction of 3.6.0.
> 
> Thoughts ?
> 
> Even
> 

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