= GDAL/OGR 1.4.4 - Overview of Changes =

The GDAL 1.4.4 release is a stable release, and contains the following bug fixes. 

== GDAL ==

 * Ensure that public memdataset.h and rawdataset.h get installed on win32.

gdalwarp:
 * generate dstvalidity mask properly for multiband (#1964) 

GeoTIFF Driver:
 * update from libtiff 3.9 beta branch.

MrSID Driver:
 * Added VC8 (manifest) support (#2011). 

GMT Driver:
 * We output things in "pixel as area" mode. Make sure right node_offset setting is used to reflect this (#1462). 

JP2KAK Driver:
 * Backported fix in building configuration of JP2KAK for libtool support to branches/1.4 (Ticket #1460) 

== OGR == 

Postgres/PostGIS Driver:
 * Replaced Primary Key detection supported by PostgreSQL 8.1+ with bloated but more portable solution (Ticket #1889). Fix ported to branches/1.4. 
 * Reverting patch for #1704 from branches/1.4 as breaking C++ ABI in GDAL 1.4.3. 
 * fix up configure backtick quoting for MSYS (#1984)  

GML driver:
 * Backported fix for GML property truncation issue to the stable branch (Ticket #1844) 

Shapefile driver:
 * Fix memory leak 

== Other ==

CPL:
 * use CPL TLS functions for CPLSPrintf() buffers (#1979) 

SWIG:
 * exit if any submakes fail (#1994) 
 * Generate old gdal_wrap.c with swig11pl5 so we are sure to not accidentally generate with wrong version of swig screwing it up. (#1954) 

OGRSpatialReference:
 * added testing for proj.4 scale precision issue (#1970)