=== GDAL 1.6.1 RC1 === 05/09/2009 * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal161-RC1.zip - source as a zip * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.1-RC1.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz The following issues have been addressed in this maintenance release of GDAL: GDAL: * SetColorTable() not supported for existing TIFF files (#2421) * IReadBlock failure in gdaladdo (#2486) * Opening large GIF files causes GDALOpen() to hang. (#2542) * VRTSourcedRasterBand fails if there are no sources (#2728) * Set projection to an existing HFA dataset as a PE string (#2731) * [PATCH - libtiff] JPEG compression in TIF doesn't work (#2748) * GRIB driver asserts (crashes) on opening this dataset (#2751) * georaster: In Oracle 10g generateSpatialExtent() in PL/SQL accept only one parameter (#2754) * gdalwarp to geotiff 1 bit mangles image (#2759) * gdalwarp to geotiff - TFW=YES ignored (#2760) * GDALOpenShared may crashes if dataset description is not the dataset filename (#2797) * A number of drivers implementation of Create() and CreateCopy() don't handle properly nBands == 0 (#2799) * bsb kap noaa (#2817) * gdalwarp with compression corrupts output (#2820) * BMP driver may crash when reading corrupted files (#2827) * JDEM driver leaks and may crash on corrupted dataset (#2828) * GXF driver doesn't validate raster dimensions (#2829) * GFF driver doesn't support big endian host (#2832) * GDALDatasetPool::~GDALDatasetPool() asserts when an underlying file cannot be opened (#2837) * Unable to delete colormap from HFA (#2842) * Overview is AUX (#2854) * AIGRID driver cannot read RAT on Windows (#2865) * Projection Warning only printed for debug mode (ISIS 2/3, PDS) (#2873) * Crash when serializing VRTDerivedRasterBand without pixel func defined (#2877) * GRIB driver crashes with large datasets (#2887) * Closing a dataset opened with GDALOpenShared in another thread causes later corruption (#2897) * ERS shows 8 bit signed integer datasets as unsigned integer. (#2902) * Overviews cannot be built for CIT or COT (#2904) * ERS file pointing to an ECW file is not opening when a full path name is not specified (#2906) * ERS file pointing to an ECW file is not opening when a full path name is not specified (#2908) * Reposition all NITF image and annotation segments relative to the base (0) segment (#2912) * Building RRD overviews using AVERAGE_BIT2GRAYSCALE results in wrong value (#2914) * GeoRaster: NBIT need swapping (#2917) * GeoRaster: Some combinations of Interleaving and bands per blocks fail (#2923) * GeoRaster: Error compressing (DEFLATE) incomplete blocks (#2924) * Memory overwrite while zooming an ECW image (#2934) * Georaster - Pyramid Levels mismatch (#2946) * Keyword causing format unrecognized (PDS) (#2956) * 11 bit JPEG2000 compressed NITIF shows as 8 bit (#2964) * GeoRaster: Non georeferenced images wrongly reported (#2967) Algorithms: * NODATA missing in blank area when warping vrt file with expanded RGB into vrt (#2724) * Cutline with blend gives wrong results inside cut polygon (#2735) * Cutline with blend don't blend correctly for some pixel rows (#2740) * typo in name GDAL_CG_Create in contour.cpp (#2795) * Lanczos and CubicSpline resampler buffer error on 2x2 images (#2960) Utilities: * gdalwarp cblend option does not work (#2733) * Python utililities should support command-line wildcards (#2783) * gdal_contour: -3d option doesn't work just after -fl option (#2793) * gdal_contour segfaults if wrong band number is specified (#2794) * gdal_vrtmerge.py -separate doesn't work (#2836) * gdalwarp ignores cutline when -tr specified (#2847) * gdalwarp cutline off source problems (#2853) * multi-part cutlines not supported (#2984) * Make gdalbuildvrt compiled by default for GDAL 1.6.1 (#2987) OGR: * Postgresql field count wrong (#962) * SDE connection failed message non descriptive (#1444) * KML Driver - Placemark with Multigeometry Polygons fails (#1853) * KML: Encoding issue and mixed container (#2181) * Handle "link" and "name" srs members for GeoJSON (#2665) * Issues related to wildcard expansion in SQL result layer (#2788) * Generic SQL doesn't support feature styles (#2808) * OCI varchar2(4000) (#2876) * OGR support GML 3.1.1 level 0 (#2932) * postgres driver failes to create geometry index if layer name starts with a number (#2945) * GML read failure for GDAL 1.6+ (#2948) * OGR GPX driver creates duplicate field names in shapefile (#2966) * OGRGMLLayer::GetFeatureCount() returns -1 if there's a .XSD file available (#2969) * BNA inner ring contains only duplication of first point (#2985) General: * Add cast to (unsigned char) in all isspace() calls (#1681) * Wrong name for SRS_PT_LAMBERT_CONFORMAL_CONIC_2SP_BELGIUM (#2763) * gdal_contour segfaults when no output specified (#2789) * GDAL gcore not robust enough to invalid raster block dimensions (#2822) * HDF4: Mixing Windows driver with subdataset ID (#2823) * GTiffRasterBand::IReadBlock() is terrible slow for big number of bands and pixel interleaving (#2838) * GDAL ECW driver requires to define _WIN32_WINNT=0x0500 with MSVC2008 (#2850) * Memory leak in GeoJSON driver for spatial reference of geometry of feature (#2863) * BSBDataset::open() function may consider a non-BSB file as a BSB file (#2881) * out of bound access in geoconcept.c (#2918) * ScanJPEGBlocks() finds too many "Start of Image" markers (#2927) * OGR VRT driver may crash when there are missing elements in the XML definition (#2952) Documentation: * gdalwarp man page not generated in GDAL 1.6.0 (#2742) * some bogus part in gdal_contour manual (#2790) Spatial References: * KML: Documents with multiple geometry types are not supported (#1803) * PROJCS with AXIS considered invalid (#2739) * .dbf files; inconsistencies with date formats (#2746) * IsSame results in false positive for LOCAL_CS (#2849) Configuration : * OGR_ENABLED not properly defined in win32 builds (#2784) * mysql compile error with GCC 4.3.2: error: macro "min" passed 3 arguments, but takes just 2 (#2972) SWIG (all bindings): * Need to expose ImportFromMICoordSys/ExportToMICoordSys to the SWIG interface (#2722) * Invalid inheritance in SWIG definition of GDALColorTableShadow and GDALRasterAttributeTableShadow (#2874) * swig 1.3.39 breaks nearly all swig bindings (java, python, ruby) (#2954) .NET: * C# Vista 64-bit OSGeo.OGR.Datasource.CreateLayer freezing (#2173) * Support MSVC2008 builds with the csharp interface (#2862) * Problems to compile swigged GDAL for C# on 64 bit machine (#2928) * Change the dll mapping rules to support the recent MONO versions (#2961) Python: * Python callbacks only support functions, not any callable (#2743) * Broken python bindings for TransformCoordinates method of osr.CoordinateTransformation (#2764) * GetFieldAsDate call in python bindings should be GetFieldAsDateTime (#2765) * GetFieldAsStringList c# and Python wraper (#2839) * python typemaps for OBJECT_LIST_INPUT(GDALRasterBandShadow) is broken (#2872)