lundi 2 mai 2016

GDAL/OGR 2.1.0 released

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.1.0.  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.

The 2.1.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights:
  • New GDAL/raster drivers:
    • CALS: read/write driver for CALS Type I rasters
    • DB2: read/write support for DB2 database (Windows only)
    • ISCE: read/write driver
    • MRF: read/write driver for Meta Raster Format
    • SAFE: read driver for ESA SENTINEL-1 SAR products
    • SENTINEL2: read driver for ESA SENTINEL-2 L1B/LC1/L2A products
    • WMTS: read driver for OGC WMTS services
  • New OGR/vector drivers:
    • AmigoCloud: read/write support for AmigoCloud mapping platform
    • DB2: read/write support for DB2 database (Windows only)
    • MongoDB: read/write driver
    • netCDF: read/write driver
    • VDV: read/write VDV-451/VDV-452 driver, with specialization for the Austrian official open government street graph format
  • Significantly improved drivers:
    • CSV: new options, editing capabilities of existing file
    • ElasticSearch: read support and support writing any geometry type
    • GeoJSON: editing capabilities of existing file, "native data" (RFC 60) support
    • MBTiles: add raster write support. fixes in open support
    • PDF: add PDFium library as a possible back-end.
    • PLScenes: add support for V1 API
    • VRT: on-the-fly pan-sharpening
    • GTiff: multi-threaded compression for some compression methods
  • Port library: add /vsis3/, /vsis3_streaming/, /vsicrypt/ virtual file systems
  • Upgrade to EPSG database v8.8 
  • General sanitization pass to clean-up code, fix a lot of compiler warnings, as well as issues pointed by static code analyzers.
  • Fixes in a number of drivers to be more robust against corrupted files . 
You can also find more complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.1.0.

The release can be downloaded from:
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal210.zip - source as a zip
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal-2.1.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal-2.1.0.tar.xz - source as .tar.xz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal-grass-2.1.0.tar.gz - source of GDAL GRASS plugin
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdalautotest-2.1.0.tar.gz - test suite
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal210doc.zip - documentation/website



As there have been a few changes that affect the behaviour of the library, developers are strongly advised to read the migration guide.