[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.9.0beta1 available for testing

[Even Rouault]

The Docker images are now available:

ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-small-3.9.0beta1
ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-3.9.0beta1
ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-3.9.0beta1
ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-full-3.9.0beta1

Le 22/04/2024 à 14:12, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
> 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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