[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 2.0.0 released

Hi, On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.0.0. 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://www.gdal.org/ The 2.0.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights: * GDAL and OGR driver and dataset unification: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc46_gdal_ogr_unification * Support for curve geometries: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc49_curve_geometries * Support for OGR field subtypes (boolean, int16, float32): http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc50_ogr_field_subtype * RasterIO() improvements : resampling and progress callback http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc51_rasterio_resampling_progress * Stricter SQL quoting: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc52_strict_sql_quoting * OGR not-null constraints and default values: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc53_ogr_notnull_default * OGR dataset transactions: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc54_dataset_transactions * Refined SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() semantics: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc55_refined_setfeature_deletefeature_semantics * OFTTime/OFTDateTime millisecond accuracy: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc56_millisecond_precisio * 64bit histogram bucket count: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc57_histogram_64bit_count * New GDAL drivers: - BPG: read-only driver for Better Portable Graphics format (experimental) - GPKG: read/write/update capabilities in the unified raster/vector driver http://gdal.org/drv_geopackage_raster.html - KEA: read/write driver for KEA format http://gdal.org/frmt_kea.html - PLMosaic: read-only driver for Planet Labs Mosaics API http://gdal.org/frmt_plmosaic.html - ROI_PAC: read/write driver for image formats of JPL's ROI_PAC project http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#ROI_PAC - VICAR: read-only driver for VICAR format http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html * New OGR drivers: - Cloudant : read/write driver for Cloudant service http://gdal.org/drv_cloudant.html - CSW: read-only driver for OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) protocol http://gdal.org/drv_csw.html - JML: read/write driver for OpenJUMP .jml format http://gdal.org/drv_jml.html - PLScenes: read-only driver for Planet Labs Scenes API http://gdal.org/drv_plscenes.html - Selaphin: read/write driver for the Selaphin/Seraphin format http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_selafin.html * Significantly improved drivers: CSV, GPKG, GTiff, JP2OpenJPEG, MapInfo, PG, SQLite * Upgrade to EPSG 8.5 database * Fix locale related issues when formatting or reading floating point numbers More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.0.0 release can be found at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.0.0-News The release can be downloaded from: * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200.zip - source as a zip * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.xz - source as .tar.xz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdalautotest-2.0.0.tar.gz - test suite * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200doc.zip - documentation / website As there have been a few changes to the C++ API, and to a lesser extent to the C API, developers are strongly advised to read : https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.0/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT Best regards, Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com