[gdal-dev] Compatibility of GDAL binaries and GDAL jar files

[Dirk Stenger]

All,

I am using GDAL with an Java application and have a couple of questions 
regarding the compatibility of releases of the GDAL binaries and the 
GDAL jar files provided via Maven Central Repository [1].

The GDAL jar files provided via Maven Central Repository never contain a 
bug fix version (e.g. 3.5.0, 3.6.0, 3.7.0). The GDAL binaries, however, 
use bug fix versions (e.g. 3.6.4).
How do I match the versions? Should I, for example, use GDAL jar 3.6.0 
with GDAL binary 3.6.4? What is the release policy of the versions in 
Maven Central Repository, is there always a new jar release whenever 
there is a GDAL release of a minor version?

Is there any compatibility scheme/matrix for using the GDAL jar file 
with GDAL binaries?
For example, can minor versions be combined (e.g. using GDAL jar 3.0.0 
with GDAL binary 3.6.4) or should there always be exact version matching?
If different versions can be combined, is there any documentation about 
the logic of matching?

Kind regards,
Dirk

[1] https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.gdal/gdal/3.7.0