[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.8.0 is released

[Scott]

Yee haw! Thanks guys for all your hard work!


On 11/13/23 09:48, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
> announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.8.0. 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://gdal.org/
> 
> The 3.8.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:
> 
> * Add [JSONFG](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/jsonfg.html) read/write 
> vector driver for OGC Features and Geometries JSON.
> * Add [PMTiles](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/pmtiles.html) read/write 
> vector driver for PMTiles v3 datasets containing MVT PBF tiles
> * Add [S102](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/s102.html) raster read-only 
> driver for S-102 bathymetric products (depends on libhdf5)
> * Add [gdal_footprint](https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_footprint.html) 
> utility: compute the footprint of a raster file, taking into account 
> nodata/mask band, and generating polygons/multipolygons corresponding to 
> areas where pixels are valid (#6264)
> * Python bindings: various enhancements to reduce the number of 
> "gotchas" related to inter-object ownership relationships, and a few 
> syntaxic sugar enhancements
> * Arrow interface: improve spatial and attribute filtering on read side; 
> add write side with OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch()
> * GeoPackage: much faster spatial index creation (~ 3-4 times faster)
> * ARG driver deprecated: will be removed in 3.9.0
> * Bump of shared lib major version
> 
> More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.8.0 
> release can be found at:
> 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.8.0/NEWS.md
> 
> The release can be downloaded from:
>    * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdal380.zip - source as a zip
>    * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdal-3.8.0.tar.gz - source as 
> .tar.gz
>    * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdal-3.8.0.tar.xz - source as 
> .tar.xz
>    * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdalautotest-3.8.0.tar.gz - 
> test suite
>    * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdal380doc.zip - 
> documentation / website
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even
>