GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 - Overview of Changes

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

(TODO: is this correct?) There should be no noteworthy changes in interfaces or APIs.

GDAL

AAIGRID Driver:

• Fix in calculation of yllcorner value. #1794

GeoTIFF Driver:

• Upgraded internal libtiff to libtiff 4.x with a few patches from HEAD
• Fix handling of partial bottom tiles/strips. #1179
• Fix issue with mixed Lambert_Conformal_Conic_1SP and Lambert_Conformal_Conic_2SP. #1315
• Fixed issue with mixed names of WGS72 and WGS84 in libgeotiff code. #1715
• Improved detection of already computed overview levels. #1722
• Fixed memory failures with allocating 64K entry color tables on stack. #1736
• Fix zero value issue in building pixel interleaved GeoTIFF files. #1738

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:

• Fixed building overviews on an Imagine-created HFA file. #1109
• Made reading variations aux.xml files more bulletproof. #1691
• Fixed calculation of min/max statistics for Erdas Imagine datasets. #1702
• Fixed band value rounding issue in palletized Imagine rasters. #1732
• Ensure .ige and .rrd get cleaned up when creating new files. #1784

JPEG Driver:

• Fix in byte swapping logic for small EXIF values. #1786
• Fix issue with creating temporary files. #1795

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

RAW Driver:

• Fix in keyword=value processing logic. #1792

Warper:

• Fixed Cubic Spline and Lanczos interpolators. #1610

OGR

VRT Driver:

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

Other

• Fix expanding of version number in Mac OS X Framework builds. #1879
• Added CPLScanULong function to port library. #1706