=== GDAL/OGR 1.6.3 ===

27/11/2009

General:
 * r13533 (ogr postgis plugin) have been added to the stable branch only (#3125)
 * GRIB detection not thread safe (#3209)

GDAL:
 * GDALRasterizeLayers() and GDALRasterizeGeometries() segfault when passed
   invalid band numbers (#3146)
 * Patch for HDF5 block size recognition (#2270)
 * Gdal doesn't calculate stats correctly if it is negative number (#2511)
 * ERS file pointing to an ECW file is not opening when a full path name is
   not specified (#2907)
 * Keyword causing format unrecognized (PDS) (#2956)
 * Add support for large NITF files (#2989)
 * do not remove leading spaces after TRE=xxxx= metadata when writing them (#3088)
 * [PATCH] TSX COSAR driver and 'pixel validity mask' (#3112)
 * GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() does not use overviews (#3124)
 * SIGBUS when reading A.TOC on Solaris (#3130)
 * Cleanup of drivers when using ECW data is very expensive (#3134)
 * When PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE, band.GetStatistics returns wrong values (#3151)
 * HFA doesn't support reading COMPRESSED + SIGNEDBYTE (#3152)
 * undefined reference to ... error with gdalbuildvrt.cpp (#3167)
 * variation on label to image pointer (PDS) (#3177)
 * GDALGridCreate with NULL progress callback function (#3189)
 * ERS driver fails with ERSs containing relative paths to non-ERStorage rasters (#3196)
 * Wrong type casting in GDALGrid data metrics functions (#3207)
 * HDF5 driver crashes with stackoverflow on this HDF5 image (#3218)

Utilities:
 * Python utililities should support command-line wildcards (#2783)
 * gdalbuildvrt -resolution lowest/highest does not work correcty for y pixel size (#3198)
 * [PATCH] Part of the reprojected image is missing from GDAL 1.6.0 along 180E/180W longitude (#3206)

OGR:
 * OGRLayer::GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn() just return empty strings from Python bindings (#2694)
 * GML read failure for GDAL 1.6+ (#2948)
 * GML reading problems with Xerces 3.x (#3156)
 * OGRLayer::GetFeatureCount returns a wrong value for SOUNDG layer (#3163)
 * XPlane driver causes fatal memory allocation in ogrinfo/ogr2ogr (#3164)

Configuration:
 * libtool: /bin/sh: arg list too long (powerpc-ibm-aix5.3) (#3080)
 * Error when building the gdal 1.6.2 for Linux (#3149)

Python:
 * Add __version__ to python bindings (#3137)
 * ReadRaster() crashes when GDAL is built with MinGW (#3173)

OGR Spatial References:
 * EPSG:3785 does not support spherical mercator hack (#3136)
 * Add 2 NZ coordinate system definition to mitab driver (#3187)