GDAL/OGR 1.11.5 Release Notes

The 1.11.5 release is a bug fix release.

Build

• Windows: update mrsid driver build to find MrSID 9.5 dll

Port

• Export VSICreateCachedFile() as CPL_DLL so as to enable building JP2KAK as a plugin (​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/126)

GDAL algorithms

• GDALWarpOperation::CreateKernelMask(): fix potential 32 bit integer overflow when using warp memory value > 2GB (#6448)

GDAL Core

• GDALLoadRPCFile(): load .rpc files from Ikonos products that have extra end-of-line character (#6341)

Utilities

• gdal_translate: fix random behaviour when -scale is used without source bounds (#6455)
• gdalbuildvrt: accept nan as value for -srcnodata and -vrtnodata (#6495)

GDAL drivers

GTiff driver:

• Internal libtiff: fix 1.11 regression that prevents from reading one-strip files that have no StripByteCounts tag (#6490)

netCDF driver:

• do not crash on NC4 unsigned short attributes (#6337)

PostgisRaster driver:

• fix potential crash when one tile has a lower number of bands than the max of the table (fixes #6267)

OGRSpatialReference

• importFromESRI(): fix import of multi line MERCATOR SRS (#6523)

OGR drivers

Driver removed:

• Google Maps Engine (GME) (#6261)

GeoJSON driver:

• do not 'promote' a null field to OFTString type if it had another type before (#6351)
• ESRI Json reader: do not set field width of 2147483647 (#6529)

GPKG driver:

• fix crash on layers with curve geometries (#6558)

KML driver:

• fix crash on KML files without content but with nested folders (#6486)

LIBKML driver:

• fix crash when reading <gx:TimeStamp> or <gx:TimeSpan> elements (#6518)

MITAB driver:

• limit (width, precision) of numeric fields on creation to (20,16) for compatibility with MapInfo (#6392)

OpenFileGDB driver:

• transcode UTF-16 strings found in column names, alias, etc... to UTF-8 (instead of using only their ASCII byte) (#6544)

OSM driver:

• do not override 'our' osm_id (the node, way or relation id) with a tag named 'osm_id' (#6347)

PG/PGDump drivers:

• in copy mode (the default on layer creation), do not truncate the concatenated string list to the field width (#6356)

SQLite driver:

• fix crash on Unix systems with SQLite >= 3.10.0 when xCurrentTimeInt function is called (#6360)

VFK driver:

• recreate DB automatically when it's outdated (#6511)

WFS driver:

• invalidate underlying layer when SetIgnoredFields() is called (QGIS #15112)

XLSX driver:

• fix reading sheets with more than > 26 columns and 'holes' (#6363)