Working notes regarding the GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 release in December 2009.

= Open Tickets =

 * [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/milestone/1.7.0 1.7.0 milestone page]
 * [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=1.7.0 open 1.7.0 milestone tickets]

= Objectives =

 * FrankWarmerdam: New generation PCIDSK driver in place. 
 * FrankWarmerdam: New DXF read/write driver in place.
 * FrankWarmerdam/?: Support for opening files using UTF-8 filenames. 
 * Add additional pending tasks here.

= Timeline = 

 * Beta1 - December 8th
 * RC1 - December 15th
 * Final release - no later than December 31st