[pdal] PDAL 1.2 Released

[Aashish Chaudhary]

This is great Howard! Congratulations to the PDAL team.

- Aashish

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

> All,
>
> http://www.pdal.io/download.html
>
> It is my pleasure to announce the release of PDAL 1.2.0.  A maintenance
> branch, 1.2-maintenance, is now available to track bug fixes on the
> release. Ongoing development will continue on the master branch.
>
> Thank you for your bug reports, pull requests, testing, and code
> contributions.
>
> Howard
>
> Changes of Note:
>
> - The GEOS library is now required to build PDAL.  In earlier versions it
> was
>   an optional component.
> - Boost is no longer a required component.  Unless you are building plugins
>   that require boost (notably PCL and Geowave), you no longer will need
>   boost installed on your system to build or run PDAL.
> - PDAL now builds on Microsoft Visual Studio 2015.
> - The PipelineReader class has been removed and its functionality has been
>   merged into PipelineManager.
> - Plugin libraries now support Linux versioning.
> - Naming changes have been made to allow packaging with the Debian release.
> - filters.height now uses the dimension 'HeightAboveGround' instead of a
>   dimension named 'Height' to be compatible with the
> filters.heightaboveground.
> - Option names no longer contain lowercase characters.
> - PDAL now works with GDAL version 1.9 and later.
> - Stages created with the StageFactory are now owned by the factory.
> - filters.dartthrowing has been renamed filters.dartsample
> - 'pipeline-serialization' now produces JSON output instead of XML.
>
> Enhancements:
>
> - Pipelines may now be specified using a JSON syntax.  XML syntax is still
>   supported but users should switch to JSON when possible as the XML
> support
>   will be removed in a future version.
> - PDAL now can be built into a Docker container.
> - Many stages now support "streaming," which allows control of the number
>   of points stored in memory during processing.  See
>   Stage::execute(StreamPointTable&) for more information.
> - A basic text reader has been added.
> - Added support for the dimension 'ClassFlags' in readers.las.
> - The derivative writer can now produce output for multiple primitive types
>   with a single execution.
> - 'pdal info' now provides bounding box output instead of a more refined
>   boundary when the hexbin plugin isn't found.
> - Added 'pdal density' to provide a command-line interface to the
>   filters.hexbin density calcuations.
> - The icebridge reader can now load an associated metadata file.  The
> reader
>   also now marks the associated coordinate system as WGS84.
> - The stats filter now emits bounding box information in native and WGS84
>   projections.
> - PDAL command-line programs now (generally) check their argument lists for
>   correctness and report syntax errors.
> - 'pdal info' now provides spatial reference attributes in addition to
>   the actual well-known text.
> - Geometry can now be specified as GeoJSON as well as well-known-text in
>   most contexts.  Geometry optionally provides Z-dimension output.
> - Stage and plugin creation is now thread-safe (NOTE: Most of PDAL is
>   NOT thread-safe, so tread carefully).
> - Many, many documentation enhancements.
>
> Fixes:
>
> - A bug in generating PCIDs when with multiple simultaneous PDAL executions
>   to the same Postgres database has been fixed.
> - Fixed a bug in generated SQL delete statements when certain table names
>   were used in the writers.postgres driver.
> - Properly escape quotes when generating JSON output.
> - Fix an off-by-one error when writing data with the derivative writer that
>   could lead to a crash.
> - Fixed a depedency error during builds that could lead to a failure to
>   properly load Python extensions on Linux.
> - Fixed a bug where passing certain options to 'pdal info' could be handled
>   in ambiguous ways.
> - Fixed bugs in the reading of raster data using readers.gdal.
> - Fixed population of the AIMIDB and ACFTB attributes in writers.nitf.
> - Corrected the parsing of some dimension names in filters.colorization.
> - Fixed a potential truncation in the GlobalEncoding dimension of
> readers.las.
>
> See more in GitHub
> https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/issues?q=milestone%3A1.2+is%3Aclosed
>
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