GDAL/OGR 1.4.4 - Overview of Changes

The GDAL 1.4.4 release is a stable release, and contains the following bug fixes.

GDAL

• Ensure that public memdataset.h and rawdataset.h get installed on win32.

gdalwarp:

• generate dstvalidity mask properly for multiband (#1964)

GeoTIFF Driver:

• update from libtiff 3.9 beta branch.

MrSID Driver:

• Added VC8 (manifest) support (#2011).

GMT Driver:

• We output things in "pixel as area" mode. Make sure right node_offset setting is used to reflect this (#1462).

JP2KAK Driver:

• Backported fix in building configuration of JP2KAK for libtool support to branches/1.4 (Ticket #1460)

OGR

Postgres/PostGIS Driver:

• Replaced Primary Key detection supported by PostgreSQL 8.1+ with bloated but more portable solution (Ticket #1889). Fix ported to branches/1.4.
• Reverting patch for #1704 from branches/1.4 as breaking C++ ABI in GDAL 1.4.3.
• fix up configure backtick quoting for MSYS (#1984)

GML driver:

• Backported fix for GML property truncation issue to the stable branch (Ticket #1844)

Shapefile driver:

• Fix memory leak

Other

CPL:

• use CPL TLS functions for CPLSPrintf() buffers (#1979)

SWIG:

• exit if any submakes fail (#1994)
• Generate old gdal_wrap.c with swig11pl5 so we are sure to not accidentally generate with wrong version of swig screwing it up. (#1954)

OGRSpatialReference:

• added testing for proj.4 scale precision issue (#1970)