GDAL/OGR 1.11.3 Release Notes

The 1.11.3 release is a bug fix release.

Build (Unix)

• Support custom buildflags in GRASS plugin (#5850)
• GRASS 7.0.0 support (#5852)
• fix detection of ECW SDK 5.1 on Mac (#5867, #5390)
• Add support for Poppler >= 0.31.0 (#6118)

Port

• /vsitar/: remove useless validation test that prevents from opening valid .tar files (#5864)

Algorithms

• gdal_grid: fix crash in optimized mode with GCC 4.4 on 64bit (#5987)
• Fix failure in GDALSuggestedWarpOut2() when computing output image size in case the top-left and bottom-right corners tranform to the same point (#5980)
• Rasterize: add check to avoid burning negative x values (#5641)

GDAL core

• GMLJP2 reader: add compatibility with OGC CRS URL as found in GMLJP2v2 (#5940)
• GMLJP2: on reading, don't do axis inversation if there's an explicit axisName requesting easting, northing order (#5960)
• GMLJP2: add missing rangeParameters element to validate against GMLJP2 schema (#5707)

Utilities

• gdalbuildvrt: fix potential crash when using -b switch (#6095)
• gdalserver: fix compilation with recent GNU libc (such as in Arch Linux) (#6073)
• gdalwarp: emit error message if file specified with -cutline cannot be opened (#5921)
• gdalwarp: fix 1.11.2 regression when invoking several times gdalwarp with several input files on the same target file, and when the input files have a nodata setting: only the last input file was warped onto the target dataset (#5909)
• ogr2ogr: fix crash with -clipdst when a reprojection fails before (#5973)
• ogr_layer_algebra.py: for Update, Clip and Erase, only creates attribute of input layer by default (#5976)

GDAL drivers

ECRG driver:

• change subdataset definition to make sure that they only consist of frames of same scale (#6043)

ERS driver:

• fix SetProjection() (#5840)

GeoRaster driver:

• New SRID search (#5911)
• Fix user-defined SRID issue (#5881)

GTiff driver:

• fix GTiffDataset::IsBlockAvailable() wrong behaviour when compiling against internal libtiff, when a BigTIFF file has a TileByteCounts with LONG/4-byte counts and not LONG8 (#6001)
• avoid generated corrupted right-most and bottom-most tiles for 12-bit JPEG-compressed (#5971)
• on reading attach PROJ4 extension node for Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere / WebMercator (#5924)

HDF4 driver:

• fix AnyTypeToDouble() to use proper type (int instead of long) to work with DFNT_INT32/DFNT_UINT32 on 64-bit Linux (#5965)

HF2 driver:

• fix reading side of the driver to work on architectures where char is unsigned, like PPC or ARM (#6082)

NetCDF driver:

• fix crash on opening a NOAA dataset (#5962)
• fix computation of inverse flattening (#5858)

Northwoord driver:

• Fix computation of intermediate color table values on non-Intel platforms (#6091)
• NWT_GRD: don't advertize scale/offset as they are transparently applied in IReadBlock() (#5839).

RPFTOC driver:

• add tweak for weird relative directory names in the A.TOC file (#5979)

TIL driver:

• fix half pixel shift in geo registration (#5961)

VRT driver:

• add more checks to CheckCompatibleForDatasetIO() to avoid issues with overview bands (#5954)
• fix rounding of output window size on VRTSimpleSource (#5874)

OGRSpatialReference

• morphFromESRI(): map Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere to EPSG:3857 (#5924)

OGR drivers

EDIGEO driver:

• backport conversion of atof() to CPLAtof() to avoid truncation of floating point numbers including coordinates on a non C locale (#6070)

GML driver:

• accept choice between gml:polygonProperty and gml:multiPolygonProperty (#5977)
• fix GML_ATTRIBUTES_TO_OGR_FIELDS=YES to work correctly with xlink:href too (#5970); and also backport a trunk fix for writing the correctly path to attributes in nested elements
• VFR: add support for OriginalniHraniceOmpv (#5853)

GeoJSON driver:

• avoid truncation of real numbers on reading (#5882)
• TopoJSON: fix segfault when reading ​https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mbostock/topojson/master/test/topojson/properties-id-computed.json (#5919)
• GeoJSON writer: make string comparison for authority name case insensitive so as to recognize lowercase 'epsg' (#4995)

GPKG driver:

• on reading, recognize GEOMCOLLECTION to be compatible of GDAL 2.0. Still writing GEOMETRYCOLLECTION in 1.11 branch (#5937)
• escape column names on reading/insert/update (#5879)

MSSQLSpatial driver:

• Add support for creating features with default values (#5957)

OpenFileGDB driver:

• fix 1.11.2 regression with FileGDB v9 where the presence of a non spatial table can cause other layers not to be listed (#5875)

PG/PGDump drivers:

• fix truncation of fields to work with multi-byte UTF-8 characters (#5854)

Shape driver:

• SHPReadOGRFeature() should free the passed psShape when not NULL and if the DBF record is deleted, so as to avoid later reads to faild (linked to #5974)

SQLite driver:

• Fix issue with consecutive identical characters in layer name with ExecuteSQL() (#6107)

SWIG Language Bindings

Perl bindings:

• Fix creation of Field Definition object (#6099)

Python bindings:

• Fix build with SWIG 3.0.6 (#6045)