[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.8.0beta1 available for testing

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I've prepared a beta1 of GDAL 3.8.0 to get feedback from earlier testers.

Sorry no updated NEWS.md file yet, but I'd in particular be interesting 
by testing of ogr2ogr workflows, since they have underwent significant 
changes in the underlying implementation:

- when the source layer is a layer implementing the ArrowStream API 
(that is  GeoPackage, FlatGeoBuf, Arrow or Parquet), and when no ogr2ogr 
options than -of, -where, -spat, -lco, -dsco, -gt, 
-append/-overwrite/-update are used (and -sql as well for GeoPackage). 
When enabling CPL_DEBUG, you'll see a "OGR2OGR: Using WriteArrowBatch()" 
trace when that new code path is taken. If specifying other options, the 
feature-iteration-based traditional implementation is used

- and/or when the output layer is GeoPackage (new layer), due to the 
revamped much faster spatial index creation.  This enhanced spatial 
index creation is not ogr2ogr specific and is actually available more 
generally for CreateLayer() + CreateFeature() or CreateLayer() + 
WriteArrowBatch() scenarios.

Point of attention would be when in situations with large files and/or 
with low RAM.

The ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-latest, 
ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-full-latest, 
ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-latest Docker images have been 
refreshed with 3.8.0beta1 (ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-small-latest still 
building at time of writing).

(Note: the GDAL master conda builds mentioned at 
https://gdal.org/download.html#gdal-master-conda-builds have been broken 
for a couple weeks and are thus not usable to test beta1 currently. I'm 
investigating)

Source snapshots at:

- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdal-3.8.0beta1.tar.gz

- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdal-3.8.0beta1.tar.xz

- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdal380beta1.zip

Autotest snapshots:

- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdalautotest-3.8.0beta1.tar.gz

- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.8.0/gdalautotest-3.8.0beta1.zip

Even

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