Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of Release/1.6.0-News

Timestamp:

Nov 13, 2008, 1:33:59 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Even Rouault

Comment:

Updated with changes done between r15679 to r15729

Release/1.6.0-News

@@ -1 +1 @@
 = GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 = 
 
-'''These are preliminary release notes, the 1.6.0 release has not yet occured.'''  (Made from SVN log from r13414 to r15679)
+'''These are preliminary release notes, the 1.6.0 release has not yet occured.'''  (Made from SVN log from r13414 to r15729)
 
 == GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 - General Changes ==
@@ -24 +24 @@
  * Add VS Makefile for GDAL and OGR DODS drivers (#2383)
 
+Build (All)
+ * Remove support for "Panorama" GIS SDK (#2669)
+
 Port:
- * Added VSIMalloc2() and VSIMalloc3() API and use them in GDAL drivers (RFC-19)
+ * RFC 19: Added VSIMalloc2() and VSIMalloc3() API and use them in GDAL drivers
+ * RFC 23: Added implementation of recode API
  * Added infrastructure to detect bad arguments to printf-like functions
  * Added CPLHashSet data structure
  * Added quad tree implementation derived from shapelib & mapserv
  * Added support for reading on-the-fly .gz files and .zip files (#1369)
- * Added implementation of recode API (RFC23)
  * Added CSLFindName()
  * Added two new flags to CSLTokenizeString2() function: CSLT_STRIPLEADSPACES and CSLT_STRIPENDSPACES to strip leading and ending spaces from the token.
@@ -52 +55 @@
 
 Core :
+ * RFC 22 : Added RPC and IMD support
  * Added support for computing statistics for datasets with arbitrary overviews in GDALRasterBand::ComputeStatistics()
  * Added Gaussian resampling in overview building (#2137)
  * Added Mode resampling in overview building (#2347)
+ * Allow fast NONE overview generation (#2677)
  * Added in GDALRasterBand::GetRasterSampleOverview() and ComputeRasterMinMax() (#2148)
  * Preliminary gmljp2 specific changes to address axis orientation (#2131)
- * Added RPC and IMD support (RFC 22)
  * Added GDALProxyDataset and GDALProxyRasterBand abstract classes to be able to make proxy datasets and raster bands
  * Added a proxy dataset class, GDALProxyPoolDataset, that differ at the maximum the opening of the underlying dataset and keep the number of simultaneous opened underlying datasets under a limit (similar to what is done in the RPFTOC driver)
@@ -80 +84 @@
  * gdalnodatamaskband: add case for uint16 and uint32 as uint32 - fixes neg. nodata values for these
  * Add a special case for dealing with RasterIO expansion on writes (#773)
- * Add GDALValidateCreationOptions() checks in GDALDriver::Create() and GDALDriver::CreateCopy()
+ * Add GDALValidateCreationOptions() checks in GDALDriver::Create() and GDALDriver::CreateCopy(). Can be disabled with GDAL_VALIDATE_CREATION_OPTIONS=NO
  * Optimization of GDALCopyWords for transfer from buffer of packed bytes to buffer of bytes with interleaving (#2536)
  * Use BlockBasedRasterIO in GDALDataset::IRasterIO for pixel-interleaved datasets when source and destination have the same size (#2536)
@@ -139 +143 @@
  * gdal2tiles.py: New version of GDAL2Tiles (SoC 2008 - GDAL2Tiles Improvements)
  * gdal_retile.py: Some minor enhancement optionally storing the  georeferencing data of created tiles in a csv file
+ * gdal_vrtmerge.py: add support for NODATA
  * gdalinfo: Don't show RAT if -nomdd is used.
  * gdalinfo: Display checksums on overviews when -checksum is specified
@@ -186 +191 @@
  * Fix use of static CPL buffers
  * Implement GetFileList() and support for opening directory for DIMAP format
+ * Add metadata at the raster band level by reading the Spectral_Band_Info tag
 
 DODS driver:
@@ -301 +307 @@
  * Remove useless and dangerous redefinition of sincos in HDF-EOS (#2494)
  * Added compatibility definitions for HDF 4.2 library (#2609)
+ * Read HDF raster images containing in HDF-EOS datasets (#2656)
 
 HDF5 driver:
@@ -310 +317 @@
  * Fix BASEDATA count value (preceding pointer) at 1 (#2144)
  * Incorporate generalization of EPT_f32 reduced precision handling (#1000)
- * add missing creation options, fix doc to refer to COMPRESSED instead of COMPRESS (#2167)
+ * Add missing creation options, fix doc to refer to COMPRESSED instead of COMPRESS (#2167)
  * remove static buffer to improve thread-safety
  * Read invalid blocks as nodata value if available.  Create new files with all blocks marked invalid.  Support writing to invalid blocks as long as there is already a pointer to valid data.  (#2427)
@@ -316 +323 @@
  * Attempt to preserve PROJCS name in sMapInfo.proName, and to capture it as the PROJCS name when reading.  This will hopefully preserve symbolic names like NAD_1983_StatePlane_Ohio_South_FIPS_3402_Feet instead of replacing them with something generic like "Lambert_Conformal_Conic" (#2422).
  * avoid reducing array sizes if writing them in random order (#2427)
- * Manually destroy bands in HFADataset destructor so that there is no chance
-they will end up trying to write out cached information after the 
-file has been closed.  Loosely related to (#2524).
- * error out gracefully and early on attempts to write to readonly file (#2524)
- * open the dependent file(s) with same permissions as master (#2425)
+ * Prevent writing out cached information after the file has been closed.  Loosely related to (#2524).
+ * Error out gracefully and early on attempts to write to readonly file (#2524)
+ * Open the dependent file(s) with same permissions as master (#2425)
  * Fix crash in HFACompress::compressBlock when compressing random data with m_nDataTypeNumBits >= 16 (#2525)
  * Fix reading of a non-initialized compressed HFA file (#2523)
  * Add FORCETOPESTRING, and ensure ProjectionX applied to all bands (#2243)
+ * Added support for unique values color tables (#2419)
 
 HTTP driver:
@@ -393 +399 @@
  * Fix accidentally too large memory allocation (#2591)
  * Do not report char variables as subdataset (#2599)
+ * Fix LAEA projection (#2584)
 
 NITF driver:
@@ -445 +452 @@
  * Fixed error checking code returned by color table read function.
  * Added support fo reading big endian variant of the RSW files.
+ * Report units and dataset statistics (#2670)
 
 RPFTOC driver:
@@ -541 +549 @@
   * Make OGRLayer::FilterGeometry more restrictive in the geometries it selects (#2454)
   * OGRStyleVector class and related stuff has been removed (#2070).
+
   * Fixed OGR SQL to properly escape single quotes in string literals (Ticket #2220).
   * Prevent an OGR driver from being registered several times (#2544)
@@ -576 +585 @@
 
 CSV driver:
+ * Add support for writing the geometry of features through the new GEOMETRY layer creation option
  * Allow to define field width via .csvt text file (bug #2142)
  * Handle more gracefully CSV files with an empty column title (#2538)
@@ -601 +611 @@
  * Remove noisy CPL_DEBUG message when GPX driver built without Expat and when the input file doesn't look like GPX (#2394)
  * Prevent GPX and KML drivers to read too much of a non GPX/KML file (#2395)
+ * GPX writer: Remove leading spaces for a numeric field (#2638)
 
 GML driver:
@@ -669 +680 @@
  * Add SPATIAL_INDEX creation option to create GIST index. Turned ON by default (#959)
  * Add support for listing and correctly fetching geometry type of inherited spatial tables (#2558)
+ * Add support for Postgis tables with multiple geometry columns (#1476)
  * Fixes to Postgres binary cursor mode and improvement/fixes to data types handling (#2312)
  * Implement efficient GetFeatureCount, SetSpatialFilter and GetExtent for OGRPGResultLayer
@@ -700 +712 @@
 
 SHAPE driver:
+ * CreateField() now works on populated layers (#2672)
  * Cleanup to remove unused old classification code for multipolygons (#2174)
  * Fix error class in VSI_SHP_Error (#2177)
  * Fix crash with polygon with nParts == 0
  * Change SHAPE driver to return a NULL geometry instead of an empty OGRMultiPoint, OGRMultiLineString and OGRMultiPolygon (bug #2217)
- * Fix crashes on corrupted geometries (#2218)
+ * Fix crashes on corrupted geometries (#2218 and #2610)
  * Fix crash when dealing with unhandled field types in shape driver, in DEBUG mode (#2309)
  * Add case for wkbMultiLineString and 25D in OGRShapeLayer::CreateFeature