GDAL 1.6.2

7/31/2009

• ​http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal162.zip - source as a zip
• ​http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.2.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz

The following issues have been addressed in this maintenance release of GDAL:

General:

• OGR expression parser causes access violations with large expressions (#2996)
• OGR cannot open/handle .DBF files > 2 GB (#3011)
• crash in cpl_vsil_win32.cpp when compiling as x64 under Windows (#3035)
• create index sql execute problem (#3044)
• GTiffDataset::FlushCache() cause crashes when used just after dataset creation (#3067)
• GDALDefaultOverviews::BuildOverviews() causes out-of-bounds writes for a 1x1 dataset (#3069)
• gdaladdo crashes on a 16-bit dataset when external overviews are requested to have JPEG compression (#3070)
• Corrupt EXIF info can cause stack buffer overflow in JPEG driver (#3078)

GDAL:

• GenBin driver problems (#2730)
• Additional dependency to libgdal.so added during linking in gdal/apps (#2970)
• This NITF Can not be opened (endless loop) with recent GDAL (#3001)
• This NITF Can not be opened (endless loop) with recent GDAL (#3002)
• PPM Driver 16bit Support Byte Order Decision Questionable (#3012)
• GDAL changes projection parameter values (#3017)
• bad reading of AAIGRID dataset whose last line doesn't have a linebreak character (#3022)
• HDF5 Subdataset Issue (#3024)
• jp2kak driver can't display this unsigned 16 bit J2K image (#3027)
• NITF PRJPSB TRE handling wrong for Transverse Mercator (#3029)
• gdaladdo not producing correct overviews for greyscale+alpha image (#3033)
• GDALLoadRPB/IMDFile fails with path (#3047)
• Setting stats and histogram to JP2 compressed NITF corrupts the aux.xml (#3051)
• poBand->SetMetadataItem( "source_0", szFilterSourceXML, "vrt_sources" ) not supported as expected (#3052)
• gdaladdo fails with JPEG YCBCR when interleaving is not specified to be pixel (#3064)
• georaster - NLS problem with XML metadata (#3066)
• gdalwarp can crash when reprojecting into an irrelevant SRS (#3079)

OGR:

• Relax KML driver about xmlns (#3004)
• KML driver painfully slow when reading huge geometries (#3005)
• PG driver does not recognize 'real' data type (#3006)
• X-Plane reader: Bezier curves in Pavement and APTLinefeature not curved (#3030)

OGR Spatial References:

• Mercator with scale=1 at non-equatoral latitude handled improperly. (#3026)
• Hotine Oblique Mercator translation to PROJ.4 format looses scale factor. (#3032)
• Equidistant Conic ESRI Morphing Broken (#3086)

Python:

• OGRFeature.SetField segfault (#3000)

.NET:

• C# Osr.GetProjectionMethodParameterList / OPTGetParameterList Access Violation (#3018)
• [PATCH - C#] Dataset.ReadRaster()/WriteRaster() doesn't work on multi-band datasets (#3073)