Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Release/2.3.0-News

Timestamp:

May 4, 2018, 9:09:24 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

Even Rouault

Comment:

Update with RC1

Release/2.3.0-News

@@ -1 @@
-= GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 *PRELIMINARY* Release Notes (to 1121758f74589f8850193a5baced7ab1335a4b39) =
+= GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 Release Notes =
 
 Note: due to the change of SCM during the development, #XXXX still refers to
@@ -44 +44 @@
 See MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT
 
-== GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 - General Changes ==
+== GDAL/OGR 2.3.0 - Build changes ==
 
 Build(Unix):
@@ -58 +58 @@
  * Pass --silent to libtool in compile (C and C++), link, install and clean modes.
  * Limit number of installed cpl*.h files installed to a fixed list.
+ * configure / m4/acinclude.m4: replace use of CCFLAGS by plain CFLAGS (github #529)
+ * configure / m4/acinclude.m4: require 'long long' type (github #530)
 
 Build(Windows):
@@ -67 +69 @@
  * nmake.opt: avoid some settings to be defined unconditionally (#5286)
  * nmake.opt: add configuration to enable openssl (which is needed for thread-safe curl use)
+
+Build(All):
+ * fix compilation error with Crypto++ 7.0.0 (github #541)
 
 Developer corner:
@@ -139 +144 @@
  * Add C++ iterators for layers, bands and features in GDALDataset
  * External .ovr: make sure that ExtraSamples tag is written
+ * Overview creation: avoid creating too many levels, and fix related heap buffer overflow (github #557)
+ * SetStatistics(): write a STATISTICS_APPROXIMATE=YES metadata item if bApproxOK=true, and take it into account in GetStatistics() (#4857,#4576)
 
 Algorithms:
@@ -222 +229 @@
 EHdr driver:
  * support reading/writing .clr as/from RAT (#3253)
+ * only write .stx if bApproxOK=false (github #514)
 
 ENVI driver:
@@ -240 +248 @@
  * create single tiled TIFF tiles if they are not bigger than 512x512 pixels
  * avoid multi-threading issues when creating TIFF tiles with GDAL_NUM_THREADS defined.
+ * fix overview creation with big overview factors on some datasets
 
 GeoRaster driver:
@@ -331 +340 @@
  * fix performance issues with small images with very small tile size, such as some Sentinel2 quicklooks (#7012)
  * emit warning if GMLJP2v2 explicitly requested but georeferencing implemented
+ * allow YCC for non-Byte datasets; and allow 4-band MCT with openjpeg >= 2.2
 
 JPEG driver:
@@ -425 +435 @@
  * make sure that the True Color Image subdatset really uses the R,G,B bands and not the R,R,R (#7251)
  * add support for direct opening of .zip files of new safe_compact L1C products (#7085)
+
+SNODAS driver:
+ * accept header lines up to 1024 characters (github #506)
 
 SRTMHGT driver:
@@ -452 +465 @@
  * add RAT support
  * for consistency, make sure that VRT intermediate datatype demotion is done, e.g that a VRT band of type Byte, with a source of type Float32, requested as Float32 buffer involves Float32 -> Byte -> Float32 conversions
+ * VRTDataset::AddBand(): honour 'PixelFunctionLanguage' option (github #501)
 
 WCS driver:
@@ -516 +530 @@
  * ogrmerge.py: correctly guess vrt format
  * ogrmerge.py: error when outputting to a existing vrt if -overwrite_ds is not specified
+ * ogrmerge.py: use ogr.wkbUnknown to fix -nlt GEOMETRY
  * ogr2ogr: fix crash when using -f PDF -a_srs (#6920)
  * ogr2ogr: make -f GMT work again (#6993)
@@ -526 +541 @@
  * ogrtindex: fix crash when using -f SQLITE -t_srs XXXX (#7053)
  * ogrinfo: always open in read-only mode, unless -sql without -ro is specified
+ * ogrinfo/ogr2ogr with -sql @filename: remove lines starting with '--' (github #459)
 
 Multi driver changes:
@@ -582 +598 @@
  * Read DIMSTYLEs and block record handles
  * Handle linetype scales (#7129)
- * mproved support for DIMENSION entities (#7120)
+ * Improved support for DIMENSION entities (#7120)
  * handle ByBlock colors (#7130)
  * Fix parsing of complex linetypes (#7134)
@@ -704 +720 @@
  * avoid reporting invalid extent on empty .mif
  * report aspatial .tab as wkbNone geometry type
+ * export BRUSH(fc:#.....) with mapinfo brush pattern 2 (solid fill)
 
 mongoDB driver:
@@ -754 +771 @@
  * make OGR_PDF_READ_NON_STRUCTURED=YES configuration option work with documents without layers (#6359)
  * Improvements to text and dash pattern support in writer (#7185)
+
+PDS driver:
+ * fix reading 8-byte IEEE_REAL fields (github #570)
 
 PG driver: