GDAL/OGR 1.11.1 Release Notes

The 1.11.1 release is a bug fix release.

Build

• Fix compilation errors with json-c 0.12 (#5449)
• configure: fix for cpl_recode_iconv.cpp compilation error on freebsd 10 (#5452)
• Fix compilation error in alg/gdalgrid.cpp when AVX is available, but not SSE (#5566)
• Fix wrong include order in ingr and nitf subdirs w.r.t internal libtiff (#5644)
• Add CPL_UNUSED for gcc >= 4 (#5414)

Port

• CPLSpawn() on Windows: quote arguments with spaces in them (#5469)
• /vsigzip/: avoid infinite loop when reading broken .gml.gz file (#5486)
• /vsizip/: fix bug that caused premature end of file condition with some read patterns (#5530)
• /vsizip/: on >4GB zips: accept .zip declare 0 disks (#5615)
• Fix stack corruption upon thread termination with CPLSetThreadLocalConfigOption on Windows 32 bit (#5590, reported by cleo)
• cpl_http.cpp: truly set CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL if available (#5568)

GDAL Core

• EXIF reader: add missing validation for some data types (#3078)
• Fix segfault in GDALPamRasterBand::SerializeToXML() when saving an empty RAT (#5451)
• Windows plugin: complementary fix to #5211 to avoid error dialog box when there are dependency problems (#5525)
• RPC transformer with DEM: fix near interpolation (patch by liminlu0314, #5553)
• OpenCL warper: remove unused variable in bilinear resampling that can cause compilation error (#5518)
• GDALCreateTPSTransformer(): fix crash if the forward or backward transform cannot be computed (#5588)
• Overview: ignore alpha=0 values when compute an average overview of an alpha band; and also avoid memory errors when calling GetMaskBand()/GetMaskFlags() after overview computation if GetMaskXXX() has been called before (#5640)

Utilities

• gdal2tiles.py: fix inverted long/lat in BoundingBox and Origin elements of tilemapresource.xml (#5336)
• pct2rgb.py: make it work (again) with color tables with less than 256 entries (#5555)

GDAL drivers

BAG driver:

• change nodata value for uncertainty band to 1e6; and do not expose wrong values of minimum and maximum of uncertainty band (#5482)

DIMAP driver:

• DIMAP 2: handle the case where the Raster_Data element is in main file; fix to extract geodetic SRS; fix to extract geotransform from JPEG2000 file if not available in XML (#5018, #4826)

ENVI driver:

• avoid generating potentially corrupted .hdr files when opening in update mode; Write 'Arbitrary' instead of 'Unknown' as the projection name for an undefined SRS; when writing, consider that LOCAL_CS SRS is like ungeoreferenced (#5467)

ERS driver:

• reset RasterInfo.RegistrationCellX/Y if setting a new geotransform on an updated .ers file (#5493)

MBTILES driver:

• better detection of 4 bands dataset (if sample tile is a paletted PNG with transparency) (#5439)
• take into account alpha component of color table in RasterIO() (#5439)
• avoid wrong detection of 3 bands when finding paletted PNG in /vsicurl mode (#5439)

GIF driver:

• add compatibility with giflib 5.1 (#5519)

GeoRaster driver:

• fix Oracle SRID authority (#5607)

GRIB driver:

• avoid divide by zero while setting geotransform on 1xn or nx1 grib file (#5532)

GTiff driver:

• Internal libtiff: fix segfault on invalid JPEG-in-TIFF (​http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2471)
• allow unsetting TIFFTAG_SOFTWARE, TIFFTAG_DOCUMENTNAME, etc... by removing them from metadata list or passing None as a value of SetMetadataItem() (#5619)
• fix to make band.SetMetadata({}) clear band metadata (#5628)

HFA driver:

• fix recognition of Hotine Mercator Azimuth Center in Imagine format (and Swisstopo GeoTIFF) (#5551)

JP2KAK driver:

• fix bug in vsil_target::end_rewrite() that prevented TLM index to be generated (#5585)

JPIPKAK driver:

• avoid symbol collision with kdu_cpl_error_message from JP2KAK driver (#4865)

MSG driver:

• fix compilation problem (#5479)

NITF driver:

• HISTOA TRE: put definition of TRE in conformance with STDI-0002 (App L page 14) and STDI-0006 (Page 57) (#5572)

OpenJPEG driver:

• fix warning when reading a single tile image whose dimensions are not a multiple of 1024 (#5480)

OZI Map driver:

• retrieve the image filename in a case insensitive way (#5593)

PDF driver:

• fix compilation problem with Podofo on Windows (#5469)

PostGISRaster driver:

• Fix read of metadata for tables with multiple raster cols (#5529)

VRT driver:

• make sure nodata value set on VRT raster band is taken into account in statistics computation (#5463)
• fix ComputeStatistics() on VRT that are a sub-window of source dataset (#5468)
• VRT raw: fix corrupted serialization on Windows (#5531)
• Implement heuristics to determine if GetMinimum()/GetMaximum() should use the implementation of their sources of not. Can be overriden by setting VRT_MIN_MAX_FROM_SOURCES = YES/NO (#5444)

WMS driver:

• fix to make GDAL_DEFAULT_WMS_CACHE_PATH configuration option work as expected (#4540)

XYZ driver:

• fix back line seeking with datasets that have not the same number of values per lines (#5488)
• report correct values of min/max for GDT_Float32 bands (#5492)

OGR core

• Fix OGRFeature::SetGeometryDirectly() and SetGeomFieldDirectly() to free the passed geometry even if the method fails (#5623)
• OGRLayerDecorator: remove return statements from void methods (#5618)
• OSR proj.4 import: for HOM, make sure +no_off/no_uoff is preserved, and change default value of gamma parameter to be the same as alpha (#5511)

OGR utilities

• ogr2ogr: fix problem with SRS when copying layers with multiple geometry columns with different SRS (#5546)
• ogr2ogr: turn string value to one element list if destination field is stringlist

OGR drivers

CSV driver:

• fix to avoid truncation of WKT geometries to 8000 characters (#5508)

FileGDB:

• use LatestWKID when available, and turn importFromEPSG() errors into warning (#5638)

GeoJSON driver:

• accept and skip UTF-8 BOM (#5630)

GME driver:

• Merged SetSpatialFilter fix

GML driver:

• fix bug that prevented multiple instanciation of the reader with Xerces backend (#5571)
• update GFS files for RUIAN (#5610)

GPKG driver:

• fix crash on ogr2ogr -f GPKG with non-spatial layer (#5445)
• fix GetExtent() crash on layers without extent set in gpkg_contents (#5471)
• put correct value (1) in gpkg_geometry_columns for 2.5D tables (#5481)
• fix component geometry type of GPKG 3D MultiGeometries (#5629)

IDRISI driver:

• fix support for multi-ring polygons (#5544)

VFK driver:

• change default DB filename

MapInfo File driver:

• MIF: Remove duplicate OLCSequentialWrite test and report OLCCreateField (#5477)
• MIF: don't write field width for integer fields in .mif, which is incompatible with MapInfo (#3853)
• MIF: close polygon rings when reading Region from MIF file (#5614)

MSSQL driver:

• Fix schema handling (#5401)
• Fix spatial geometry field handling (#5474)

MySQL driver:

• thread-safe initialization of mysql client library (#5528)

NAS driver:

• implement wfs:update (adds new context 'update' and fields "endet" and "anlass" to "delete" layer).
• also assign xlink:href attributes as layer attribute, not only in "alkis_beziehungen" layer; (#5372)

OCI driver:

• fix memory leaks (#5599)
• fix creation of DATE fields (#5600)
• fix creation of columns whose name length is longer than 30 characters (#5466)

OpenFileGDB driver:

• fix occasionnal write-after-end-of-buffer (#5464)
• fix spatial filter with GeneralPolygon shapes (#5591)
• add compatibility with .gdbtable files bigger than 4 GB (#5615)
• remove not really justified check in .gdbtablx that prevents legit GDB to be read (#5635)
• fix for reading GDB with string fields with a default value length > 127 (#5636)
• support opening files with ConfigurationKeyword=MAX_FILE_SIZE_4GB or MAX_FILE_SIZE_256TB (#5615)
• use LatestWKID when available, and turn importFromEPSG() errors into warning (#5638)
• increase accepted size for field description zone up to 10 MB (#5660)

OSM driver:

• fix random crash, particularly on MacOSX (#5465)

PG driver:

• fix crash when writing a StringList with 0 element (#5655, derived from patch by rtorre)

PGDump driver:

• fix crash when writing a StringList with 0 element (#5655, derived from patch by rtorre)

Shapefile driver:

• fix writing values up to 2^{53 in OFTReal fields with 0 decimal places (#5625)}

TIGER driver:

• Fix potential buffer underflow when providing /vsistdin/ to Tiger driver (#5567)

VFK driver:

• recode also header values (#5631)
• process DKATUZE from header properly (#5633)

SWIG Language Bindings

Java bindings:

• Pass eRWFlag to allow both reading or writing (#5506). Write was broken in DatasetRasterIO().

Perl bindings:

• Fix schema corruption when 'Index' is a field (#5662)