[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.8.1RC3 is available & motion to approve it

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

well, another annoying 3.8.0 regression related to ogr2ogr GPKG -> 
Shapefile when field names are longer than 10 characters (ah 
Shapefile!!!) popped up today, so here's a RC3 (crossing fingers it's 
the good one):

   https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.1/gdal-3.8.1rc3.tar.xz
   https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.1/gdal-3.8.1rc3.tar.gz
   https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.1/gdal381rc3.zip

A snapshot of the gdalautotest suite is also available:

https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.1/gdalautotest-3.8.1rc3.tar.gz
   https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.1/gdalautotest-3.8.1rc3.zip

The changes since RC2 are:

* CMake: make GDAL_USE_LIBKML and GDAL_USE_OPENJPEG honor 
GDAL_USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS
* Detect failure in installation of the Python bindings
* Fix installation issue with Python 3.12 on Debian
* GDALOverviewDataset::IRasterIO(): use parent dataset when possible for 
more
   efficiency
* gdal_footprint: fix wrong taking into account of alpha band (#8834)
* gdal_footprint: fix taking into account of individual bands that have 
nodata
* COG: for JPEG compression, convert single band+alpha as single band 
JPEG + 1-bit mask band
* GTIFF SRS reader: include VertCRS name from EPSG in CompoundCRS name 
if there's no citation geokey
* ogr2ogr: fix GPKG -> Shapefile when field names are truncated (#8849, 
3.8.0 regression)
* CSV writer: do not quote integer fields by default (only if 
STRING_QUOTING=ALWAYS is specified)
* GPX: make detection of extensions element more robust (#8827)
* Shapefile: recognize '      0' as a null date, fix writing an invalid 
"0000/00/00" date
* Python bindings: add a combineBands option to gdal.Footprint()


Withdrawing previous motion and:

==> Motion: adopt 3.8.1 RC3 as final 3.8.1 release

Starting with my +1,

Even

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