[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.11.0 "Eganville" is released

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased 
to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.11.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial 
data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and 
web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety 
of command line tools.

http://gdal.org/

The 3.11.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

* [RFC 
104](https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc104_gdal_cli.html): 
<b>Adding a "gdal" front-end command line interface</b>.
   - See the [list of 
commands](https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/index.html#gdal-application)
   - Includes new "gdal raster calc" and "gdal raster resclassify" 
utilities.
   - "gdal raster tile", C++ port of gdal2tiles, runs faster (3x to 6x 
in some cases)
   - Includes "gdal vsi list/copy/delete/move/sync" (ports of Python 
sample scripts)
   - Includes "gdal driver {driver_name}" for driver-specific commands.
   - Includes smart Bash autocompletion
   - Includes C, C++, Python API
* Add [GDALG](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/vector/gdalg.html) 
(GDAL Streamed Algorithm Format) driver: reading of on-the-fly / 
streamed vector dataset replaying compatible "gdal" command lines (kind 
of VRT).

Other topics

* [RFC 
100](https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc100_float16_support.html): 
Support float16 type
* [RFC 
102](https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc102_embedded_resources.html): 
Embedding resource files into libgdal
* [RFC 
103](https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc103_schema_open_option.html): 
Add a OGR_SCHEMA open option to selected OGR drivers
* [RFC 
105](https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc105_safe_path_manipulation_functions.html): 
Add and use safe path manipulation functions
* [RFC 
106](https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc106_update_metadata.html): 
Metadata items to reflect driver update capabilities
* [RFC 
107](https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc107_igetextent_isetspatialfilter.html): 
Add OGRLayer::IGetExtent() and OGRLayer::ISetSpatialFilter()
* Add read-only [OGR 
ADBC](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/vector/adbc.html) (Arrow 
Database Connectivity) driver, in particular
   with support for DuckDB or Parquet datasets (if libduckdb also installed)
* Add 
[LIBERTIFF](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/libertiff.html) 
driver: native thread-safe read-only GeoTIFF reader
* Add read-only 
[RCM](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/rcm.html) (Radarsat 
Constellation Mission) raster driver
* Add read-only AIVector (Artificial intelligence powered vector) driver
* VRT Pixel Functions: Add function to evaluate arbitrary expression 
(#11209)
* Substantially improved drivers: 
[ZARR](https://gdal.org/en/latest/drivers/raster/zarr.html), with 
support for Kerchunk JSON and Parquet reference stores
* GeoPackage: change default version to GeoPackage 1.4 on creation (#7870)
* [RFC 
108](https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc108_driver_removal_3_11.html):
   - Removed raster drivers: BLX, BT, CTable2, ELAS, FIT, GSAG (Golden 
Software ASCII grid),  GSBG (Golden Software 6.0 binary grid), JP2Lura, 
OZI OZF2/OZFX3,  Rasterlite (v1), R object data store (.rda), RDB, SDTS, 
SGI, XPM, DIPex
   - Removed vector drivers: Geoconcept Export, OGDI (VPF/VMAP support), 
SDTS, SVG, Tiger, UK. NTF
   - Removed write support in following drivers: Interlis 1, Interlis 2, 
ADRG,  PAux, MFF, MFF2/HKV, LAN, NTv2, BYN, USGSDEM, ISIS2
* Removed OpenCL warper
* OGR "Memory" driver deprecated, and aliased to the "MEM" driver. Its 
functionality is merged into the "MEM" driver that has raster, vector
   and multidimensional support.
* Various code linting, static code analyzer fixes, etc.
* Bump of shared lib major version

New optional dependencies:

* [muparser](https://github.com/beltoforion/muparser) is *strongly* 
recommended to be added as a build and runtime dependency, to provide 
nominal support for C++ VRT expressions.
* [exprtk](https://github.com/ArashPartow/exprtk) may be added as a 
build dependency (this is a header-only library) to provide support for 
advanced C++ VRT expressions. Note that it causes an increase in libgdal 
size of about 8 MB. exprtk support is recommended to be an addition to 
muparser support, not as a replacement.

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.11.0 
release can be found at:

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.11.0/NEWS.md

Please also consult the migration guide when updating from prior releases:

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.11.0/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

The release can be downloaded from:
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal-3.11.0.tar.gz - source 
as .tar.gz
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal-3.11.0.tar.gz.md5 - md5sum
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal-3.11.0.tar.gz.sig - 
signature
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal-3.11.0.tar.xz - source 
as .tar.xz
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal-3.11.0.tar.xz.md5 - md5sum
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal-3.11.0.tar.xz.sig - 
signature
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal3110.zip - source as a zip
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal3110.zip.md5 - md5sum
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal3110.zip.sig - signature
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdalautotest-3.11.0.tar.gz - 
test suite
   * https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.11.0/gdal3110doc.zip - 
documentation / website

Docker images are currently cooking and should be ready in one day or so.

Best regards,

Even

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