From: Frank W. <war...@po...> - 2004-11-08 22:17:46
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Folks, GDAL 1.2.4 has been officially released. http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.2.4.tar.gz http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal124.zip The NEWS is below, but I wanted to highlight a copy things: 1) There were some very serious bugs in the OGR VRT driver which resulted in crashes in some common scenarios where it is used as a front to an ODBC database in MapServer. Please update as soon as possible if you are using OGR VRT datasources. 2) Libtiff is under active revision lately, and I believe there may have been some signficant bugs in 1.2.3 with building overviews. Consider upgrading to 1.2.4 if you might be doing this (even for non-GeoTIFF formats since the overviews are stored as TIFFs). Enjoy! GDAL 1.2.4 - Overview of Changes -------------------------------- gdalwarp: - Fixed some issues with only partially transformable regions. - Added Alpha mask generation support (-dstalpha switch). HFA/Imagine Driver: - bug fix in histogram handling. - improved support for large colormaps. Envi Driver: - Capture category names and colormaps when reading. SAR CEOS Driver: - Added support for PALSAR/ALOS Polarmetric Datasets. RadarSat 2 Driver: - New. Reads RadarSat 2 Polarmetric datasets with a "product.xml" and imagery in TIFF files. OGDI Driver: - Important bug fix for downsampled access. GeoTIFF Driver: - Lots of libtiff upgrades, including some quite serious bug fixes. - Added better support for 16bit colormaps. - Write projection information even if we don't have a geotransform or GCPs. - Improved alpha support. - Generate graceful error message for BigTIFF files. DODS Driver: - Almost completely reimplemented. Uses chunk-by-chunk access. Supports reading several bands from seperate objects. Some new limitations too. NetCDF Driver: - Seperated out a GMT NetCDF driver and a more generic but partially broken NetCDF driver (Radim). JP2KAK Driver: - Added alpha support, including greyscale+alpha. AirSAR Driver: - New, reads AirSAR Polarmetric Radar format. OGR 1.2.4 - Overview of Changes ------------------------------- epsg_tr.py: - Added escaping rules when generating PostGIS output. tigerpoly.py: - Discard dangles and degenerate rings. VRT Driver: - Fixed serious error in handling cleanup of VRT datasources, was often causing a crash. SQLLite Driver: - Fixed substantial memory leaks. MySQL Driver: - New readonly non-spatial MySQL driver implemented. MITAB Driver: - Updated from upstream, several fixes. TIGER/Line Driver: - Fixed serious bug with handling "full" records at end of .RT2 file. OCI/Oracle Driver: - Added OCI_FID environment support to control FID selection. OGRGeometry: - Added Centroid() implementation (from GEOS?) -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, war...@po... light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent |