GDAL/OGR 1.4.1 - Overview of Changes

The GDAL 1.4.1 release is a stable release, and contains the following bug fixes. There should be no noteworthy changes in interfaces or APIs.

GDAL

World File Reader:

• Handle case with blank lines in worldfile gracefully . #1523
• Support other numeric locales (ie. comma for decimal). #1414

GeoTIFF Driver:

• Use PHOTOMETRIC creation option properly. #1559
• Fix writing pixel interleaved files. #1470
• Fix thread safety issue with inmemory geo parsing. #1500

NetCDF Driver:

• Correct off-by-half-pixel error in the geotransform. #1506
• Pre-verify file is NetCDF format before calling nc_open(). #1176

Erdas Imagine (HFA) Driver:

• Add support for EPT_s32 and EPT_u32 non-runs in UncompressBlock?(). #1000
• Fix support for EPT_f32 non-runs with 16bit offset values. #1000
• Avoid attempting to open "AUX" directly. #1493

HDF4 Driver:

• Fix some problems with geolocation support crashes.

JPEG Driver:

• Support EXIF directories with no entries. #1523

FAST Driver:

• Handle various FAST datasets. #1516

MEM Driver:

• Fix support for memory arrays larger than 4GB. #1503

MrSID Driver:

• Compute approximate statistics from overview, even if not forced. #1452
• Fix for decoding some stripped data. #1446

AAIGrid Driver:

• Handling case-mixed file names. #1524

VRT Driver:

• Fixed reprojection in AutoCreateWarpedVRT() #1469

OGR

OGR:

• Fixed handling of XYZM data in WKT without crashing. #1036

OGRSpatialReference:

• Fix up handling of feet and numeric units in old ESRI .prj files. #1533
• Fix ESRI LCC 2SP support. #187

OGR SQL:

• Allow use of <, >, <= and >= in attribute filters and WHERE. #1557
• Fix handling of special fields if values are null. #1528
• Fixed FID special field support. #1468

GML Driver:

• Support files with a "BOM" marker at the beginning. #1534

Interlis Driver:

• Return a clone of internal features to avoid crash if reread. #1535

Mapinfo Driver:

• Back ported various MITAB 1.6.1 fixes. #1541

PostGIS Driver:

• Don't disable sequential scanning. #1472
• Increase CURSOR_PAGE from 1 to 500. #1474
• Ensure that GetLayerByName(), and OpenTable() fail gracefully for non existant tables. #1480
• Improved result set cleaning. #1514
• Fixed detecting 4-dimension coordinates in input EWKB streams. #1323

Shapefile Driver:

• Ensure SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() operations get applied. #1456
• Handling case-mixed file names. #1524

Other

Java:

• Fix missing import. #1463
• Make ANT location configurable #1545
• void functions should not return values #1543

Python:

• Fix support for complex data in NG bindings. #1518
• Fix array order compatibility with old bindings. #1542
• Fix Dataset.ReadAsArray()
• Fix WriteRaster and ReadRaster. #1481
• Geometry contructor in old bindings. #1255