GDAL/OGR 1.5.1

• #1769 (PNG): Improved handling of corrupt PNG files.
• #2104 (RS2): Support 8bit Radarsat 2 datasets.
• #1672: Ignore NaN when computing raster min/max
• #2111 (gdaltindex): Fix cross heap problem on win32.
• #2107 (AAIGRID): consider nodata when establishing pixel type.
• #2115 (GTifF): Fix writing 1 bit TIFF files.
• #1929: Improved LDFLAGS support on Unix builds.
• #2116 (ADRG): Various improvements to ADRG driver.
• #2118 (ECW): Fix NULL pointer crash in ECWDataset::Open()
• #2119 (Terragen): overflow in implicit constant conversion
• #2120 (OCI): Correct memory leaks in Oracle driver.
• #2122 (SWIG): Correct handling of null progress func in C#
• #2121 (gdalenhance): Various fixes.
• #2125 (GMT): Fix quoting problems in GMT output.
• #2134 (Geoconcept): Improve coordinate system support, various fixes.
• #2132 (Golden Surfer 7): Fix georeferencing problems.
• #2172 (Golden Surfer 7): Fix bigendian GS7 support.
• #2160 (SRS): PROJ.4 translation of OSGB36 datum broken
• #1217 (Shape): Polygon with 4 nested rings not broken up properly
• #1794 (AAIGRID): yllcorner georeferencing bug
• #2166 (HDF5): Remove debugging printf.
• #2131 (GMLJP2): GMLJP2 Honours EPSG Preferred Geographic Axis Ordering
• #2167 (HFA): Add missing HFA creation options to driver metadata.
• #2170 (GMLJP2): Fix GMLJP2 memory leaks.
• #2176 (ISIS3): Support # comments in ISIS3 Labels.
• #2177 (Shape): Shapelib errors should not be fatal.
• #2179: Fix ILWIS building with gcc 4.3
• #2158: GDALOpen() slow on directories with many files.
• #2182 (SWIG): GNUmakefile should use configured python interpreter for build
• #2185 (SWIG): NULL passed to Driver.CreateCopy() causes crash.
• #2184 (MySQL): TestCapability("CreateField") corrected.
• #2183 (GTiff): Better handling of ENVI created GeoTIFF files coordinate sys.
• #2187 (Python): fix layer getitem bug
• #2189 (GTiff): Writing YCbCr JPEG Compressed TIFFs fixed.
• #2190 (PNM): Fix false PNM file recognition.
• #2196 (NetCDF): Fix crash on large attributes.
• #2201 (Interlis): Fix crash on Interlis 1 files
• #2144 (HFA): Fix Xform generation for rotated/skewed geotransforms.
• #2178 (BT, ): Fix off-by-half-pixel issues for pixel as point formats.
• #2216: Improve VC++ built libs/includes to be MingW usable.
• #2215 (GML): Improve GML geometry detection / case sensitivity.
• #2219 (PAux): Handle improved spelling of AuxiliaryTarget.
• #2222 (Python): Add GetSubDatasets() method.
• #2225 (HDF4): Improved NRL projected products georeferencing support.
• #2227 (ENVI): Fix ENVI State Plane Handling
• #2231: Fix GDALReprojectImage() error handling for null dest srs.
• #2229 (VRT): Fix OGR VRT driver thread safety issue (shared opens).
• #2240 (VRT): Fix error handling for 2GCP VRT Warped datasset.
• #2224 (GSAG): Various golden surfer ascii fixes.
• #2202 (OCI): Support Oracle databases without spatial types.
• #2245 (AAIGRID): Fix crash when .prj not created.
• #2242 (gdalwarp): Fix cross-heap crash bug.
• #2249 (NITF): Fix problem with paletted images (new in 1.5)
• #2255 (JP2KAK): Fix /vsimem file IO for JP2KAK driver.
• #2257 (GTiff): BigTIFF not enabled by default with internal libtiff on win32.
• #2199: Support IO using buffers larger than 2GB.
• #2259: Try to always set driver on OGRDataSources.
• #2258: --with-ogpython=<path to python> no longer works
• #2268 (INGR): Fix alignment crash on Sparc.
• #2274 (NDF): Fix crash with non-local NDF 2 files.
• #1863 (gdalwarp): Fix quiet mode.
• #2263 (gdal_translate): Fix cross heap VRTDataset "new" crash.
• #2218 (Shape): Improve error recover with corrupt shapefiles.
• #2005 (GTiff): Fix problems with TIFFs with many blocks.