[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.10.0 release candidate is available

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I have prepared a GDAL/OGR 3.10.0 release candidate.

I'll call for a vote promoting it later this week if no serious problems are
reported before.

NEWS at:

   https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.10.0RC1/NEWS.md

Pick up an archive among the following ones (by ascending size):

   https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.10.0/gdal-3.10.0rc1.tar.xz
   https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.10.0/gdal-3.10.0rc1.tar.gz
   https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.10.0/gdal3100rc1.zip

A snapshot of the gdalautotest suite is also available :

https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.10.0/gdalautotest-3.10.0rc1.tar.gz
https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.10.0/gdalautotest-3.10.0rc1.zip

A snapshot of the documentation is at:

   https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.10.0/gdal3100doc.zip

There are no major changes, impacting packaging or integration, since 
beta1, but
functional bugfixes and enhancements:
* Warper: fix shifted/aliased result with Lanczos resampling when XSCALE 
< 1 or
   YSCALE < 1 (#11042)
* Warper: optimize speed of Lanczos resampling in Byte case without any
   masking/alpha
* gdalbuildvrt: add a -co switch (#11062)
* DIMAP driver: use the new color interpretations for the NIR, RedEdge
   and DeepBlue/Coastal bands
* tif_jxl: writer: propagate DISTANCE/QUALITY setting to extra channel
* GTiff: fix memory leak when trying to open COG in update mode
* JP2Lura driver: fix Identify() method
* JP2Lura driver: planned for removal in GDAL 3.11
* JPEGXL driver: writer: propagate DISTANCE/QUALITY setting to extra 
channel (#11095)
* JPEGXL driver: writer: allow a minimum DISTANCE of 0.01, max of 25 and 
revise QUALITY to
   DISTANCE formula (#11095)
* Zarr V2 creation: fix bug when creating dataset with partial blocks 
and need
    to re-read them in the writing process when compression is involved 
(#11016)
* Zarr: Create(): remove created files / directories if an error occurs 
(#11023)
* Arrow reading: generic code path (as used by GeoJSON): fix mis-handling of
   timezones
* ogr_core.h: suppress warning when building with -Wpedantic for C < 23 
(#2322)
* Add OSRGetAuthorityListFromDatabase() to get the list of CRS 
authorities used
   in the PROJ database.
* ogr2ogr: fix -explodecollections on empty geometries (#11
* Add (minimum) support for libarrow 18.0.0
* FileGDB/OpenFileGDB drivers: upldate list of reserved keywords (#11094)
* GML: add a GML_DOWNLOAD_SCHEMA config option matching the 
DOWNLOAD_SCHEMA open
   option (and deprecate undocumented GML_DOWNLOAD_WFS_SCHEMA)
* GPKG driver: prevent from creating field with same name, or with the 
name of
   the geometry field
* GPKG driver: CreateField(): check we are not reaching the max number 
of fields
* SQLite/GPKG: turn on SQLite 'PRAGMA secure_delete=1' by default
* OCI driver: use TIMESTAMP(3) and tweak NLS_TIME[STAMP][_TZ]_FORMAT to 
accept
   milliseconds (#11057)
* PDF driver: reader: fixes to handle recursive resources, /OC property 
attached
   to a XObject and an empty UTF-16 layer name (#11034)
* SWIG bindings: fix memleak in gdal.GetConfigOptions()
* Python bindings: __init__.py: remove calls to warnings.simplefilter() 
(#11140)
* Python bindings: fix compatibility issue with SWIG 4.3.0 and 
PYTHONWARNINGS=error

Best regards,

Even

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