GDAL/OGR 2.2.4 Release Notes

The 2.2.4 release is a bug fix release.

Build

• configure: add support for ECW SDK 5.4, by detecting if we must link against the newabi or oldabi link

Port

• CPLSetErrorHandler(): avoid later crashes when passing a null callback (​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/298)

GDAL utilities

• gdalinfo: make sure to display geodetic coordinates always in degree (and not potentially in another unit such as grad) (#4198)
• gdalinfo / VRT: fix crash with implicit overviews on per-dataset mask band (​https://github.com/mapbox/rasterio/issues/1266#issuecomment-367233149)
• gdalwarp: fix when several input datasets with different SRS are specified, and no explicit target SRS is provided (#7170)
• gdal_rasterize: fix crash in some situations with ALL_TOUCHED option (#7176)

GDAL algorithms

• Warping: use panSrcBands[0] in the single band case (regression fix, ​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/295)

GDAL drivers

AirSAR driver:

• fix computation of imaginary part in C23 case (#7222)

EHdr driver:

• fix read heap buffer overflow with nbits < 8. Fixes ​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=6724. Credit to OSS Fuzz

GTiff driver:

• use consistently multiplication/division by 257 when converting between GDAL [0,255] range to TIFF [0,65535] range for color map values (#2213)

netCDF driver:

• behave correctly when an extra dimension of a variable has a corresponding 1D variable of different names (#7165)

NITF driver:

• fix swapped lines and samples in IMRFCA (​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/289)

PCRaster driver:

• fix fseek/ftell for large files on Windows (#7255)

RRASTER driver:

• fix wrong declaration of PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE for datatype=INT1S
• fix reading empty nodatavalue keyword

Sentinel2 driver:

• make sure that the True Color Image subdatset really uses the R,G,B bands and not the R,R,R (#7251)

VRT driver:

• VRTDerivedRasterBand: fix detection of Python runtime already loaded when more than 100 modules are linked. Fixes QGIS3 use case (#7213)

OGR core

• Fixed memory leak in OGRPolygon::PointOnSurface method (​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/269)
• OGRCT: make sure to free the proj4 context after freeing the projection objects, to avoid crashes

OGR utilities

• ogr2ogr: honour -select when using -addfiels; fix converting from Memory to Memory datasources (#7217)

OGR drivers

Carto driver:

• fix append mode by retrieving the sequence name for the primary key (#7203)
• fix insertion with ogr2ogr -preserve_fid (#7216)
• fix missing features when iterating over a SQL result layer with pagination (#6880)

GeoJSON driver:

• fix writing of id with RFC7946=YES (#7194)
• Add support for json-c v0.13 (#7195)

GPKG driver:

• fix incorrect rtree_<t>_<c>_update3 trigger statement, as found in ​https://github.com/opengeospatial/geopackage/issues/414

LIBKML driver:

• workaround Windows specific issue with libkml (at least the version used by OSGeo4W at time of writing), where tabulations as coordinate separators aren't properly handled (#7231)
• workaround Windows specific issue if the content of <coordinates> is non-empty and does not contain any digit (#7232)

MITAB driver:

• fix crash on reading TAB views (#7171)
• add support for SWEREF99 datum (#7256)

NAS driver:

• also accept unqualified attribute name in wfs:Update
• fix memory leak and potential assertion. Fixes ​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=2661. Credit to OSS Fuzz

NTF driver:

• fix regression introduced by fix for ​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=2166 causing some valid records to be skipped (#7204)

Shapefile driver:

• fix write heap buffer overflow when provided with empty string filename. Fixes ​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=6992. Credit to OSS Fuzz
• fix potential read heap buffer overflow in single-point polygon in SHPRewindObject(). Fixes ​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=6993. Credit to OSS Fuzz

ODBC driver:

• deal with table names that require double quoting (#7242)

XLSX driver:

• fix updating multi layer document where existing layers where dropped (#7225)
• on writing, use %.16g formatting for floating point numbers (#7230)

GNM

• avoid potential issue with CPL circular buffers (can happen if there are extra drivers that use CPLGet....() functions)

SWIG bindings

• Fix potential null pointer dereference in Python/Perl Dataset.WriteRaster() and Perl Dataset.ReadRaster() when buffer type is not specified and there is a single band
• Python bindings: add addFields and forceNullable options to gdal.VectorTranslate() (#7217)
• Python bindings: fix build when CC variable is made of serveral words