GDAL/OGR 1.7.3

General

• Fix handling of ERMapper spherical coordinate systems (#3787)
• Fix comparison of units of coordinate systems. (#3364)
• C#: Fix GDAL_DMD_ and GDAL_DCAP_ constants (#3601)
• C#: Don't mark class BeforeFieldInit causing CLR4 crash (#3560)
• C#: Use the .NET Framework 2.0 transparency rules (level 1 transparency) for the VC2010 builds (#3559)
• Python: Fix indentation problem with GCP serialize method (#3566)
• Make CPL_INLINE compatible with SunPro 11 and 12 compilers. (#3256, #3650)
• Override EPSG:4179 (Pulkovo 1942(58)) and EPSG:4258 (ETRS89) to add towgs84 transform for Polish CRS (#3579)
• SWIG bindings : initialize return values of GetRasterStatistics?() (#3572)

GDAL / Raster

• HFA (Imagine): Support EPT_s8 BASEDATA values (#3819)
• HFA (Imagine): Capture .ige file in file list (#3811)
• HFA (Imagine): avoid using empty names for layer, if we have one generate a fake name, use for overviews (#3570)
• ECW: Support building against 4.1 ECW SDK (#3676)
• VRT: fix crash in VRT to VRT translation when target file cannot be created; port to VSIF*L API; advertize GDAL_DCAP_VIRTUALIO=YES (#3788)
• VRT: mark vrt as needing a flush when info changes (#3620)
• VRT: Override SetDescription to call SetNeedsFlush (#3589,#3620)
• ENVI: Make SetGeoTransform followed by GetGeoTransform work (#3751
• PCIDSK: fix locking state at CPLThreadMutex creation (#3755)
• HDF5: Fix crash processing large metadata items (#3730)
• GRIB: Fix crash when open fails (#3399)
• GRIB: fix ParseSect4() so that meta->pds2.sect4.numInterval doesn't get initialized if ParseTime() fails (#3555)
• GTIFF: fix problems with jpeg compression (#3633)
• GEORASTER: Improve handling of nodata (#3673)
• RIK: Fix uninitialized pixel value when reading RIK LZW datasets (#3678)
• ENVI: Support "ENVI" as file type (#3671)
• NITF: Allow setting ICORDS=D with CreateCopy() (3660)
• NITF: fix crash when block wider than image (#3551)
• PDS: Support newline continuation marks. (#3624)
• PDS: support file with no RECORD_BYTES, and with IMAGE in <BYTES> (#3548)
• IDRISI: allow color items greater than maximum value (#3605)
• BSB: treat run count overruns as a warning (#3577)
• Rasterlite: fix heap corruption (#3553)
• Fix problems reading OsiExplorer Map files (#3659)
• gdal_rasterize: Fix checking of coordinate systems (#3760)
• gdal_contour: Fix two bugs (#3462)
• gdaldem: fix interpreation of azimuth (#3586)
• Support creating overviews when PAM disabled (#3693)
• warper: make bilinear resampler safer (#3658)
• Avoid being overly sensitive to numeric imprecision when comparing pixel value and nodata value in GDALRasterBand::ComputeStatistics()/ComputeRasterMinMax(), especially for GeoTIFF format where nodata is stored as text (#3573)

OGR / Vector

• SQLite: use MBRIntersects operator instead of MBRWithin (#3810)
• GeoJSON: fix combined spatial and attribute filtering (#3803)
• GeoJSON: fix build problem on linux (#3655)
• VRT: Fix GetExtent on non VGS_Direct layers (#3783)
• CSV: Skip empty lines (#3782)
• Shapefile: create var. width fields as 10 wide to avoid real treatment(#2151)
• Shapefile: Fix conflict between spatial and attribute indexes (#3722)
• Shapefile: Fix crash with corrupt geometry (#3665)
• DXF: Fix crash with large splines (#3733)
• DXF: switch to FME derived DXF trailer and header templates (#3599)
• PGeo: Ensure SetAttributeFilter(NULL) clears filter (#3706)
• PGeo: Add support for multipolygons (#3600)
• GML: Support MultiGeometry properly (#3683)
• GML: avoid crash on invalid GML geometries (#3679)
• PG: handling of Nan & Infinity : remove special case for OFTInteger and OFTIntegerList, fix for OFTRealList in COPY mode (#3667)
• PG: Fix recognition of geometry type when 2 inherited tables with same name exist in 2 different schemas (#3636)
• SDTS: improve safety of polygon formation (#3664)
• S57: implement support for multilinestring geometries (#2147)
• KML: fix stack buffer overflow if pszAltitudeMode is too long (#3561)
• KML: avoid crash when reading degenerated geometries (#3558)
• attribute indexes fixes (#1620)
• Fix memory leak with CopyLayers() using transactions (#3701)