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

[Even Rouault]

Motion passed with +1 from PSC members JukkaR, HowardB, JavierJS, SeanG 
and me.

Le 28/11/2023 à 16:32, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
> 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 * CSV writer: do not quote integer fields by default (only if 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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