GDAL/OGR 1.9.2 Release Notes

The 1.9.2 release is a bug fix release.

Core

• Fix infinite GDALOpen recursion with some VRTs (#4835)
• Avoid destroying existing overviews (.aux/.rrd) (#4831)
• Support recognising NaN better in !CPLStrtod() (#4799)
• Fix windows declaration for !CPLGetErrorHandlerUserData() (#4755)
• Fix compilation with Gentoo modified zlib 1.2.6 (#4723)
• Look for libgeotiff headers in /usr/include/libgeotiff too (#4706)
• Improve warning handling in !CPLClearRecodeStubWarningFlags() (#4650)
• Fix Solaris compilation bug (#4705)
• !MorphFromESRI(): compare SPHEROID/PRIMEM parms, not names (#4673)

gdalwarp:

• Do not drop chunks to process because of transform errors (#4795)
• geolocation transformer: ignore incoming pabSuccess values (#4794)

gdaldem:

• fix color relief output via CreateCopy (#4764)

gdal_rasterize:

• Fix crash with -i and no features (#4744)

Perl Bindings:

• Fix Geo::OGR::Geometry::Points method (#4833)

Java Bindings:

• Fix gdalconst.DMD_ and DCAP_ constants (#4828)
• Fix SWIG 2.0.6 compilation problem (#4669)

GDAL 1.9.2

KMLSuperOverlay Driver:

• Fix bad placing of tiles with large raster regions (#4834)

BAG Driver:

• Fix serious problems with tiled images (#4548)

HDF4 Driver:

• Avoid using tile API for non-tile sized chunks (#4672)

GeoPDF Driver:

• Support Poppler 0.20 (#4668)

VRT Driver:

• Fix integer overflow filling buffer larger than 2GB (#4815)

GeoTIFF (GTiff) Driver:

• avoid crash on improperly formatted metadata (#4816)
• Fix factor_b/factor_c problem when initiatlizing from EPSG CSV (#4689)
• Avoid applying GEOGCS units to projected srs (#4677)

NITF Driver:

• Do not attempt to return large DESDATA as escaped text (#4803)
• Add code "TF" in NITF series table (#4776)

RPFTOC Driver:

• Relax SanityCheckOK() to avoid rejecting valid CIB datasets (#4791)

ECW Driver:

• Improve picking (one pixel reads) on large datasets (#4790)

NetCDF Driver:

• Fix "km" support (#4769)
• fix use of freed memory in !NCDFAddGDALHistory() (#4709)
• fetch SRS before metadata (#4691)

BT Driver:

• Fix support for 2G+ files (#4765)

RMF Driver:

• Fix zone number detection (#4766)

Rasterlite Driver:

• Fix problem with creating internal overviews affecting other tables (#4737)

GIF Driver:

• Add giflib 5.0 compatability (#4675)
• Add giflib 4.2.0 support (#4675)

DTED Driver:

• update partial cell indicator (#4687)

GRIB Driver:

• Avoid caching more than 100MB (#4682)

OGR 1.9.2

Shapefile Driver:

• Fix memory leak when ignoring geometry (#4749)
• Fix /vsizip EOF handling affecting zipped shapefiles (#4748)
• Fix handling of 8859xx in .cpg file (#4743)
• Remove assert if SetFeature() called with in valid FID (#4727)
• Try to support recoding of field names (#4650)
• !OGRDataSource::CopyLayer(): take field renaming into account (#4667)

SQLLite Driver:

• return empty layer when select returns zero rows (#4684)

FileGDB Driver:

• Add FGDB_BULK_LOAD configuration option for faster bulk loading (#4420)
• Fixes for tolerance and scale parameters in SRS (#4455)
• Use ESRI SRS DB to find WKT definition (#4455)

DXF Driver:

• Take extrusion direction into account (#4842)
• Write HATCH in compatible way + misc improvements (#4680)
• Ignore spline frame control points for VERTEX of POLYLINE (#4683)

GML Driver:

• Use Xerces parser for files encoded in ISO-8859-1n (#4829)
• fix MultiLineString typo in GML3 .XSD file (#4674)

MSSQL Driver:

• Fix MSSQL Spatial / 3D issue (#4626, #4806)
• Fix multipoint geometry handling (#4781)

ODBC Driver:

• Make SetAttributeFilter(NULL) work (#4821)

SDE Driver:

• Add support for CLOB and NLOB data types (#4801)

JSON Driver:

• parse double values in locale insensitive way (#4814)

CSV Driver:

• Allow creating a new .csv file in messed up case, support single column CSV files (#4824)
• Fix export of real values in non-C locale (#4761)

WFS Driver:

• Fix problem with double quoted !WFSLayerMetadata (#4796)

Geomedia Driver:

• fix loading of boundary geometries that are 2.5D or multiring (#4734)

MITAB Driver:

• Fix double free on Create failure (#4730)

ArcInfo Binary Coverage (AVCBin Driver:

• Fix VAT read past EOF problem (#3031)

Postgres/PostGIS Driver:

• optimize SRID fetching on PostGIS 2.0 using ST_SRID() (#4699, #4700)