GDAL/OGR 1.6.3

27/11/2009

General:

• r13533 (ogr postgis plugin) have been added to the stable branch only (#3125)
• GRIB detection not thread safe (#3209)

GDAL:

• GDALRasterizeLayers() and GDALRasterizeGeometries() segfault when passed invalid band numbers (#3146)
• Patch for HDF5 block size recognition (#2270)
• Gdal doesn't calculate stats correctly if it is negative number (#2511)
• ERS file pointing to an ECW file is not opening when a full path name is not specified (#2907)
• Keyword causing format unrecognized (PDS) (#2956)
• Add support for large NITF files (#2989)
• do not remove leading spaces after TRE=xxxx= metadata when writing them (#3088)
• [PATCH] TSX COSAR driver and 'pixel validity mask' (#3112)
• GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() does not use overviews (#3124)
• SIGBUS when reading A.TOC on Solaris (#3130)
• Cleanup of drivers when using ECW data is very expensive (#3134)
• When PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE, band.GetStatistics returns wrong values (#3151)
• HFA doesn't support reading COMPRESSED + SIGNEDBYTE (#3152)
• undefined reference to ... error with gdalbuildvrt.cpp (#3167)
• variation on label to image pointer (PDS) (#3177)
• GDALGridCreate with NULL progress callback function (#3189)
• ERS driver fails with ERSs containing relative paths to non-ERStorage rasters (#3196)
• Wrong type casting in GDALGrid data metrics functions (#3207)
• HDF5 driver crashes with stackoverflow on this HDF5 image (#3218)

Utilities:

• Python utililities should support command-line wildcards (#2783)
• gdalbuildvrt -resolution lowest/highest does not work correcty for y pixel size (#3198)
• [PATCH] Part of the reprojected image is missing from GDAL 1.6.0 along 180E/180W longitude (#3206)

OGR:

• OGRLayer::GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn() just return empty strings from Python bindings (#2694)
• GML read failure for GDAL 1.6+ (#2948)
• GML reading problems with Xerces 3.x (#3156)
• OGRLayer::GetFeatureCount returns a wrong value for SOUNDG layer (#3163)
• XPlane driver causes fatal memory allocation in ogrinfo/ogr2ogr (#3164)

Configuration:

• libtool: /bin/sh: arg list too long (powerpc-ibm-aix5.3) (#3080)
• Error when building the gdal 1.6.2 for Linux (#3149)

Python:

• Add version to python bindings (#3137)
• ReadRaster() crashes when GDAL is built with MinGW (#3173)

OGR Spatial References:

• EPSG:3785 does not support spherical mercator hack (#3136)
• Add 2 NZ coordinate system definition to mitab driver (#3187)