GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 - Overview of Changes

THE GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 RELEASE HAS BEEN RETRACTED DUE TO AN ABI INCOMPATABILITY WITH 1.4.0,1.4.1 and 1.4.2. A REPLACEMENT 1.4.4 RELEASE WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON, IN THE MEANTIME USE 1.4.2.

The GDAL 1.4.3 release is a stable release, and contains the following bug fixes.

GDAL

• Fix handling of gmljp2 files with srsName only on Envelope. #1906
• Fix handling of urn:x-ogc (use importFromURN() method). #1906
• Add GMLJP2OVERRIDE configuration option mechanism to set custom GMLJP2 from a file. #1906
• Improved internalize memory allocation failure report, release lock on failure. #1914

AAIGRID Driver:

• Fix in calculation of yllcorner value. #1794

ECW Driver:

• Fix memory leak in ECWDataset::IRasterIO() function. #1922

GeoTIFF Driver:

• Fix issue with mixed Lambert_Conformal_Conic_1SP and Lambert_Conformal_Conic_2SP. #1315
• Fix handling of partial bottom tiles/strips. #1179
• Fix issue with mixed names of WGS72 and WGS84 in libgeotiff code. #1715
• Improved detection of already computed overview levels. #1722
• Fix memory failures with allocating 64K entry color tables on stack. #1736
• Fix zero value issue in building pixel interleaved GeoTIFF files. #1738
• Fix memory issue with big color table arrays on stack. #1759
• Prevent GDAL 1.4.3 from building with libtiff 4.x. #1920

GIF Driver:

• Fix compilation issues on Red Hat EL 5 (64-bit). #1700

HDF Driver:

• Fixed heap corruption while reading some files. #1701

HFA Driver:

• Fix building overviews on an Imagine-created HFA file. #1109
• Made reading variations aux.xml files more bulletproof. #1691
• Fix calculation of min/max statistics for Erdas Imagine datasets. #1702
• Fix band value rounding issue in palletized Imagine rasters. #1732
• Ensure .ige and .rrd get cleaned up when creating new files. #1784
• Added missing bytes swapping when opening spill files. #1841
• Fix issue with looping HFAEntries. #1907

JPEG Driver:

• Fix in byte swapping logic for small EXIF values. #1786
• Fix issue with creating temporary files. #1795
• Bulletproof handling of corrupted EXIF data. #1904

NITF Driver:

• Fix handling corrupted location table for some uncertain images. #1313
• Fix handling corrupted RPF header. #1714
• Fix bounding box for CADRG files crossing meridian 180°. #1750

PCRaster Driver:

• Replaced assert() macro with CPLAssert(). #1830

RAW Driver:

• Fix in keyword=value processing logic. #1792

Warper:

• Fixed Cubic Spline and Lanczos interpolators. #1610
• Fix in geolocation support. #1919

Utilities:

• Fix in segmentation fault issue in scanline burning algorithm. #1936

OGR

• Fix handling wkbLinearRing geometry in OGR_G_GetArea. #1755

CSV Driver:

• Added support of new data types: date, time, datetime. #1761

ISO8211 Driver:

• Improved handling multi-byte character strings. #1526

ESRI Shapefile Driver:

• Fix memory allocation during building of spatial index tree of high depth. #1594, #1790
• Updated documentation. #1942

Generic Driver:

• Fix opening of .ind file in read-only mode. #1620

GML Driver:

• Fix truncation of attribute values. #1844

KML Driver:

• Fix anti-clockwise order of polygon coordinates. #1704

MapInfo Driver:

• Improved multi-thread safety. #1883

MySQL Driver:

• Fix creation issue of features with 3D geometry. #1848

ODBC Driver:

• Fix error message when corrupted WKT data detected. #1901

PostgreSQL Driver:

• Fix Primary Key detection logic. #1889
• Fix data truncation issue for character type fields. #1902

VRT Driver:

• Fix copying of virtual dataset with empty filename. #1749

Other

• Added CPLScanULong function to port library. #1706

Building:

• Fix Windows CE port compilation issues. #1634
• Fix expanding of version number in Mac OS X Framework builds. #1879

OGRSpatialReference:

• Fix wrong method call in OSRSetBonne() function. #1695
• Fix handling EPSG authority code in ESRI format. #1697
• Fix segmentation fault when exporting empty SRS to PROJ.4 definition. #1718
• Added direct translation for GDA94 and ED50 when importing ESRI SRS. #1729
• Avoid applying the prime meridian offset in PROJ.4 import. #1940

SWIG

• Fix Python typemap for getting length from string. #1712