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

Open Tickets

• 1.7.0 milestone page
• open 1.7.0 milestone tickets
• all open tickets

Objectives

• Frank: New generation PCIDSK driver in place. (done)
• Frank: New DXF read/write driver in place. (done)
• Frank/?: Support for opening files using UTF-8 filenames.
• Frank/?: Add VIRTUALIO metadata on all drivers that currently support virtual io (VSI*L api for all file io).
• Jorge: Postgres WKT Raster Driver in good working condition.
• Frank: Remove the gdal/pymod old generation python bindings.
• Add additional pending tasks here.

Timeline

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