[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.12.0 "Chicoutimi" beta1 is available for testing

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I've prepared a beta1 of GDAL 3.12.0 "Chicoutimi" to get feedback from 
early testers,
for the following next 2 weeks before the release candidate.

The NEWS file is here:

   https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.12.0beta1/NEWS.md

and the gist at the end of this email ([1])

Please file tickets at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues for issues 
you'd find
(or pull requests to fix them)

Note that the release process has been largely automated with a Github 
Action,
thanks to the work of Ogi Moore during the Riga community sprint. Huge 
thanks to him!
This both reduces manual work for the release manager and also increases the
security of the release process.

I have *not* branched off yet master for release/3.13, so be careful with
material that goes into master until that's done.

Source snapshots at:

- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal-3.12.0beta1.tar.gz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal-3.12.0beta1.tar.gz.md5
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal-3.12.0beta1.tar.gz.sig
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal-3.12.0beta1.tar.xz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal-3.12.0beta1.tar.xz.md5
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal-3.12.0beta1.tar.xz.sig
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal3120beta1.zip
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal3120beta1.zip.md5
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdal3120beta1.zip.sig

Autotest snapshots:

- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.12.0/gdalautotest-3.12.0beta1.zip

The GPG signing key used by the github action is a new one. You'll find
in [2] the corresponding public key.

Docker images are available (also automatically produced by the Github 
Action):
- ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-small-3.12.0beta1
- ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:alpine-normal-3.12.0beta1
- ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-small-3.12.0beta1
- ghcr.io/osgeo/gdal:ubuntu-full-3.12.0beta1

(note that -latest images of master are also now automatically refreshed
on a daily basis by a nightly job)

Even

[1] In a nutshell...

* New 'gdal' command line interface capabilities:
   - Add 'gdal raster as-features' (#12970)
   - Add 'gdal raster blend' (port of hsv_merge.py + regular alpha blending)
   - Add 'gdal raster compare' (port of gdalcompare.py) (#12757)
   - Add 'gdal raster neighbors' (#12768)
   - Add 'gdal raster nodata-to-alpha' (#12524)
   - Add 'gdal raster pansharpen' (port of gdal_pansharpen.py)
   - Add 'gdal raster proximity' (#12350)
   - Add 'gdal raster rgb-to-palette' (port of rgb2pct.py)
   - Add 'gdal raster update'
   - Add 'gdal raster zonal-stats'
   - Add 'gdal vector check-coverage'
   - Add 'gdal vector check-geometry'
   - Add 'gdal vector clean-coverage'
   - Add 'gdal vector index' (port of ogrtindex)
   - Add 'gdal vector layer-algebra' (port of ogr_layer_algebra.py)
   - Add 'gdal vector make-point'
   - Add 'gdal vector partition'
   - gdal vector pipeline: add limit step
   - Add 'gdal vector set-field-type'
   - Add 'gdal vector simplify-coverage'
   - Add 'gdal mdim mosaic' (#13208)
   - Add 'gdal dataset' port of 'gdal manage'
   - Make 'gdal pipeline' support mixed raster/vector pipelines
   - Pipeline: add support for nested pipeline (#12874)
   - Pipeline: add support for a 'tee' step (#12874)
   - Move 'gdal vector geom XXXX' utilities directly under 'gdal vector'
   - Rename 'gdal vector geom set-type' as 'gdal vector set-geom-type'
   - gdal raster reproject: add a -j/--num-threads option and default to 
ALL_CPUS
   - Make 'gdal raster fill-nodata/proximity/sieve/viewshed' pipeline-able
   - gdal raster mosaic/stack: allow it to be the first step of a raster 
pipeline
   - gdal pipeline: allow to run an existing pipeline and override/add 
parameters
   - Improved Bash completion
   - Many other improvements to existing utilities (see below)

* VRT pixel functions: Add mean, median, geometric_mean, harmonic_mean, mode
    (#12418), and handle NoData values
* Add C/C++/Python API for [raster band 
algebra](https://gdal.org/en/latest/user/band_algebra.html):
   arithmetic operators, comparison operators, AsType(),
   gdal::abs()/sqrt()/log10()/log()/min()/max()/mean()/IfThenElse() 
functions
* Add MiraMon raster driver: read-only support (#12293)
* ADBC driver: support for ADBC BigQuery driver (requires BigQuery ADBC 
driver)
* JSONFG driver: add read/write support for curve and measured geometries;
   update to 0.3.0 spec
* Parquet: add update support using OGREditableLayer mechanism
* Add C++ public header files for raster functionality
* Security: avoid potential path traversal in several drivers
* Various code linting, static code analyzer fixes, etc.
* Significant automation of the release process
* Add Docker attestation (#13066)
* Bump of shared lib major version


[2] $ gpg --armor --export 7B130E955B44D87CCE2765F0DBD81FF52EC2A42A

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