GDAL/OGR 1.4.5 - Overview of Changes

The GDAL 1.4.5 release is a stable release, and contains the following bug fixes. It is anticipated that GDAL 1.4.5 will be the last release produced from the 1.4 stable branch.

GDAL

• Fix memory leak of saved histograms (#2226)
• Preliminary GMLJP2 axis orientation workaround (#2131)
• Remove spurious printf() in GDALOpen() (#2166)

MRSID Driver:

• Fix windowing problem with large files (#2689)

NITF Driver:

• Improve georeferencing over dateline handling (#2135)

GeoTIFF Driver:

• Fix creation options XML for parsability (#2322)

PAux Driver:

• Permit alterate spelling of AuxiliaryTarget (#2219)

NetCDF Driver:

• Handle very large attributes properly (#2196)

PNM Driver:

• Fix problems identifying PNM files and overflow with corrupt files (#2190)

AAIGRID Driver:

• Fix georeferencing computation in yllcorner case (#1794)

HFA (Imagine) Driver:

• Fix creation of duplicate table nodes in tree (#2043)

OGR

GML Driver:

• Fix potential buffer overflow (#2708)

Postgres/PostGIS Driver:

• Fix buffer overflow (#2303)
• Fix improper reporting of tables with no primary key as having a multi column primary key (#2082)

DGN Driver:

• Fixes with color computation (#2035)

Other

• Fix error code detection when opening large files on Solaris (#2437)
• Serious fixes for Thin Plate Spline warper (#2300, #2301)