[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.9.0beta1 available for testing

[Robert Hewlett]

Any advice on how to become a tester such as testing on prefered OS and
setup?

I have access to a proxmox server but I usually stick to LINUX OSes.

Or is at easy as following the notes here:
https://gdal.org/development/dev_environment.html

Ubuntu 22.x is the goto right now.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Rob


On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 5:12 AM Even Rouault via gdal-dev <
gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've prepared a beta1 of GDAL 3.9.0 to get feedback from early testers.
>
> The NEWS file is here:
>
>    https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.9.0beta1/NEWS.md
>
> For packagers,
> https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc96_deferred_plugin_loading.html may
> make it more attractive to build some drivers that typically have heavy
> dependencies as plugins, installable in separate packages, due to the
> load time penalty having being improved. It is let to the appreciation
> of packagers to decide which drivers are worth building as plugins
> installable in a separate package.
> You may also pass CMake options
> ([GDAL/OGR]_DRIVER_<driver_name>_PLUGIN_INSTALLATION_MESSAGE=xxx) so
> user get a hint of which package they need to install when GDAL detects
> that a file may be opened by a plugin which is not available on the file
> system but known to have been built as a plugin. Cf
>
> https://gdal.org/development/building_from_source.html#deferred-loaded-plugins
> for more details.
>
> For end-users, the following utilities have been updated to use a new
> argument parsing framework: gdaladdo, gdalinfo, gdal_translate,
> gdalwarp, gdal_grid, gdal_viewshed, gdalbuildvrt, nearblack, ogrinfo,
> ogr2ogr, sozip.
> This helps detecting errors such as specifying twice an argument that
> should be specified once (where generally the last instance was the one
> used). While we have tried to retain backwards compatibility for nominal
> use cases, obviously if you have scripts that accidentally specify an
> argument several times whereas it should be specified at most once, they
> will have to be corrected.
>
> Docker images with 3.9.0beta1 are currently cooking.
>
> master is now marked as 3.10.0dev, and the release/3.9 branch has been
> created. All bugfixes for 3.9 should be backported into it.
>
> Source snapshots at:
>
> - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0beta1.tar.gz
> - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0beta1.tar.xz
> - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal380beta1.zip
>
> Autotest snapshots:
>
> - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdalautotest-3.9.0beta1.tar.gz
> - https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdalautotest-3.9.0beta1.zip
>
> Even
>
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>
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