Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Release/1.7.0-News

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+= GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 =
+
+Some of the bugfixes mentioned below might also have gone into 1.6.X maintenance releases.
+
+== In a nutshell... ==
+
+ * New GDAL drivers : BAG, EPSILON, Northwood/VerticalMapper, R, Rasterlite, SAGA GIS Binary, SRP (USRP/ASRP), EarthWatch .TIL, WKT Raster
+ * GDAL PCIDSK driver using the new PCIDSK SDK by default
+ * New OGR drivers : DXF, GeoRSS, GTM, PCIDSK and VFK
+ * New utility : gdaldem, gdalbuildvrt now compiled by default
+ * Add support for Python 3.X. Compatibility with Python 2.X preserved (#3265)
+ * Remove old-generation Python bindings.
+ * Significantly improved GDAL drivers: GeoRaster, GeoTIFF, HFA, JPEG2000 Jasper, JPEG2000 Kakadu, NITF
+ * Significantly improved OGR drivers: CSV, KML, SQLite (SpatiaLite support), VRT
+ * WARNING: incompatibility between MrSID GeoDSDK and libgeotiff 1.3.0 or internal libgeotiff on some platforms (see #3309)
+
+== GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 - General Changes ==
+
+Build (All) :
+ * Add gdalbuildvrt to the list of utilities built by default (#2747)
+ * Improve Mingw compatibility (#2649)
+ * Add Expat read support for GML driver when Xerces is unavailable (#2999)
+ * Fix GML and ILI reading problems with Xerces 3.x (#3156)
+ * Add 8/12bit JPEG-in-TIFF support
+ * Fix trunk compilation against libdap 3.9.X (#3105)
+ 
+Build (Windows) :
+ * Check for CURL_LIB instead of CURL_DIR
+ * ensure OGR_ENABLED gets defined if INCLUDE_OGR_FRMTS set (#2784)
+ * Change quoting in VCDIR and SETARGV to avoid likely problems.
+ * added dll and target-lib targets
+ * fix _findfirst handle type for win64 (#3035)
+ * Add support to compile OGR-postgis as a plugin (#3125)
+ * Trap failures in subdirectories and stop build
+
+Build (Unix) :
+ * Use proper object file names when building prerequsites lists (#1878)
+ * Updated man page generation
+ * Add new ./configure test to check that the GCC 4.1 built-in functions for atomic memory access are really available
+ * Handle external libz (#2942)
+ * Add support for 64bit file i/o on BSD systems, through fseeko/ftello
+ * Add support for linking against libspatialite to benefit from spatial functions in SQL queries (#2666)
+ * Fix support for --with-threads configure option on BSDs (tested on DragonFlyBSD 2.2.1)
+ * Add support for autodetection of ogdi 3.2 in ./configure (#3007)
+ * Remove additional dependency to libgdal.so added during linking in gdal/apps (#2970)
+ * Improved ax_oracle_oci.m4 macro to handle libnnzXX for Oracle 10 and 11.
+ * support using the Oracle Instant Client SDK
+ * Make --with-ingres work with newer versions (#3126)
+ * Search for alternative HDF4 flavor in HDF4 testing macro. Alternative HDF4
+   (libmfhdfalt/libdfalt) build is NetCDF-compatible and used in Debian.
+ * Support MacOSX "fat" binary building
+
+Port :
+ * Provide API and implementation for thread and SMP safe atomic increments (#2648)
+ * Add /vsisubfile virtual file driver
+ * Added gzip write implementation
+ * VSI ZIP : Allow natural chaining of VSI drivers without requiring double slash
+ * Add a shortcut when looking for .csv files that are already open
+ * Add CPLSetThreadLocalConfigOption()
+ * Add CPLIsUTF8() and CPLForceToASCII(); Use them in GML, KML, GPX and GeoRSS drivers (#2971)
+ * Add CPLStrlcpy() and CPLStrlcat(), clones of BSD strlcpy() and strlcat() functions
+ * Add CPLStrnlen()
+ * Add CSLLoad2() and CPLReadLine2L() with max number of lines and chars per line allowed
+ * cplkeywordparser.cpp: Support parsing IMD files with values of the form list of lists
+ * odbc: Fixed the null terminators for columns of length (x*511)+1, where x>1. (#2727)
+ * unix VSIF*L : reworked to avoid unnecessary seeks which can be expensive
+ * added HTTPAUTH and USERPWD options for http fetch (#3091)
+ 
+== GDAL 1.7.0 - Overview of Changes ==
+
+Algorithms:
+ * cutline : optimize by clipping cutline to region of interest (#2736)
+ * cutline : avoid scanline to scanline blending problems (#2740)
+ * rasterfill : substantially reworked
+ * rasterfill : deprecate bConicSearch option - unused
+ * rasterize : optimized
+ * rasterize : Added GDALRasterizeLayersBuf() function to rasterize geometries directly
+               into the supplied raster array.
+ * rasterize : Add ALL_TOUCHED rasterize option (#2840)
+ * rasterize : Added 3D support for rasterizing points and lines. (#3202)
+ * rasterize : correct case of vertical/horizontal lines on raster right/bottom edge (#3268)
+ * Added GDALCreateGenImgProjTransformer3() function 
+ * warp: Reduce destination file size, especially when it has compression (#1688)
+ * warp: Fix crash when reprojecting to irrelevant SRS (#3079)
+ * warp: avoid using the destination nodata value for integer datatypes (#3142)
+ * warp: fix panDstValid generation, and avoid using it improperly (#3222)
+ * warp: Restore support of reprojection of a lat-long image crossing 180E/180W longitude (#3206)
+ * contour: Fix name of GDAL_CG_Create in contour.cpp (#2795)
+ * contour: Generate contours with correct orientation (#3129)
+ * gdalgeoloc: Improve geoloc backmap interpolation (#2501)
+ * overview: added support for cubic convolution overviews
+ * gdal_grid: 3 new metrics: data point count, average distance between data points
+              and a grid node, average distance between data points.
+ * gdal_grid: Properly cast the poOptions parameter in data metrics computation functions. (#3207)
+
+Core : 
+ * Added mechanism to clear overviews if zero overviews requested. Implemented by GTiff and HFA drivers (#2915)
+ * Support for overviews in subdatasets
+ * Support for overviews in proxydb directory (#2432)
+ * SetColorTable(NULL) is permitted and means delete (#2421)
+ * Preserve NBITS and SIGNEDBYTE in CreateCopy() for supporting drivers (#2902)
+ * GDALCopyWords() : performance optimizations
+ * Add GDALCheckDatasetDimensions() and GDALCheckBandCount()
+ * Add GDALGetColorInterpretationByName()
+ * Use tiff .ovr for overviews if .aux is just metadata (#2854)
+ * Add missing argument in function declaration for GDALRATTranslateToColorTable()
+ * Do not use colortable for bit2grayscale overviews (#2914)
+ * Support world files with blank lines (ESRI Merge)
+ * Add worldfiles in GetFileList() (ESRI Merge)
+ * Fix rpb/imd loading with a path (#3047)
+ * Add support for using overviews in GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() (#3124)
+ * Take into account SIGNEDBYTE for GetStatistics() & GetHistogram() (#3151)
+ * Add GDALReadOziMapFile() and GDALLoadOziMapFile() to read projection
+   and georeferencing information from OziExplorer .MAP files.
+ * Added declarations for GDALLoadTabFile() and GDALReadTabFile()
+ * Add missing case for CInt16 and CInt32 in GDALNoDataMaskBand and GDALNoDataValuesMaskBand
+  
+Utilities :
+ * gdaldem: new for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 (#2640)
+ * gdalinfo:
+    - add -norat switch
+    - do not report RPC or GEOLOCATION metadata with -nomd
+    - Use pretty wkt to display GCP projection
+ * gdalwarp:
+    - fix cutline blend distance setting (#2733)
+    - in -te case, adjust the resolution after computing the image dimensions
+    - improved cutline support (#2733, #2847, #2884, #2984)
+    - avoid overwriting an existing destination file that cannot be opened in update mode with a new GTiff file
+    - better heuristics to guess output extent when projection from lat/long world
+      extent to other world global projections (#2305)
+ * gdaltindex:
+    - Avoid unnecessary error message in gdaltindex when creating a new shapefile (#2779)
+    - Rewritten to use OGR API instead of ShapeLib API, so as to produce .prj files more easily (#982)
+ * gdal_contour:
+    - make -3d option work even after -fl option (#2793)
+    - Call GDALGetProjectionRef() on the dataset, not the raster band (#3062)
+ * gdalbuildvrt:
+    - Add -separate, -allow_projection_difference, -te, -tr, -q, -addalpha options
+    - Add -srcnodata and -vrtnodata options (#3254)
+    - Add -hidenodata option (#3327)
+    - Avoid accidental overwriting of a non VRT dataset due to revered filename order
+    - Fix -resolution lowest/highest (#3198)
+ * gdaladdo: add -clean option (#2915)
+ * gdaladdo: add -q option
+ * gdal_grid: Add support for spatial filtering with -clipsrc option
+ * gdal_translate: support translation of a dataset with subdatasets if the parent has bands
+ * gdal_translate: Add 'gray' as a value of -expand rgb option
+ * gdal_translate: Add -unscale commandline option
+ * gdal_merge.py: Add progress report
+ * gdal_vrtmerge.py: Fix -separate case (#2836)
+ * gdal_vrtmerge.py: Write the <SourceProperties> element (#1985)
+ * gdal_retile.py: add lanczos resampling (#2859)
+ * gdal_fillnodata.py: ensure dstfile support works by copying source (#2866)
+ * GDAL2Tiles: --srcnodata support + fixed KML rendering for -p raster
+ * rgb2pct.py: Added ability to use a preexisting color table from a file (#2958)
+ * pct2rgb.py and rgb2pct.py : Copy the GCPs and their projection to the target dataset.
+ * classify.py: Fix order of args to numpy.ones() and numpy.zeros() (#3089)
+ * hsv_merge.py: New sample script to greyscale as intensity into an RGB image,
+                 for instance to apply hillshading to a dem colour relief.
+ * support filename globbing for various Python scripts (#2783)
+ * --formats will add 'v' in report on drivers that support virtual io
+ * all utilities and scripts : consistently advertize -q as the official quiet
+                               option, but accept both -q and -quiet (#3820)
+
+Changes in various drivers :
+ * Implement support for overviews on subdatasets for HDF4, HDF5, NetCDF, NITF, XPM, TERRAGEN, PCIDSK (#2719)
+ * Add support for 64bit offsets in /vsisubfile, JPEG and JP2ECW drivers
+ * External overviews support added to some drivers (JDEM, ...)
+ * Avoid incorrect GEOGCS AXIS settings (#2713)
+ * Use GDALCheckDatasetDimensions() and GDALCheckBandCount() in various drivers
+ * Many memory leak fixes (HDF5, HKV, Leveler, MFF, NITF, RMF, JPEG2000, WCS ... drivers)
+ * Many fixes to improve robustness against corrupt data in many drivers
+ * Error out when trying to open a read-only dataset in update mode (#3147)
+ * Ensure that the same JPEG2000 driver that has been used with CreateCopy() is used to re-open it (#1596)
+
+ADRG driver:
+ * Support PSP != 100 (#3193)
+ 
+AIG driver:
+ * Differ opening of the RAT only when GetDefaultRat() is called.
+   Will improve performances and make less likely the error message of #3031
+
+AAIGRID driver:
+ * Fix bad reading of AAIGRID dataset whose last line doesn't have a linebreak character (#3022)
+ * Make the ArcInfo ASCII driver more Mac-compatible. (#3212)
+
+BAG driver :
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+ 
+BLX driver:
+ * Implement progress callback in CreateCopy() (#2830)
+
+BMP driver:
+ * Modify GetGeoTransform() to return geotransform based on the resolution
+   information in the BMP header if nothing else is available (ESRI merge).
+ * use pam functions properly for geotransform when not using world file
+ 
+BSB driver:
+ * Fix several issues with BSB files reading (#2782)
+ * Handle properly more than 256 GCPs (#2777)
+ * Add logic to chip GCPs around to avoid split over dateline problems (#2809)
+ * Add logic to reproject GCPs into Mercator for mercator projected images. 
+ 
+DTED driver:
+ * Re-enable DTED driver to recognize files not starting by a UHL record (#2951)
+
+ECW driver:
+ * Enable the JP2ECW driver to open JP2 files with the VSILAPI
+ * Fix build with MSVC2008  (#2850)
+ * Fix memory overwrite while zooming an ECW image (#2934)
+ * Speed-up de-registeration of the driver that can take up to 3 seconds (#3134)
+
+EHDR driver:
+ * Add color table update.  Add limited support for floating point
+   files (.flt) (ESRI Merge)
+ * added support for SIGNEDBYTE pixels (#2717)
+ * Restructure stats handling so pam capture works right when stx write fails
+ * improve a bit .clr reading (#3253)
+ 
+ENVI driver:
+ * Move RPC info into the RPC domain (#3063)
+ * Converted to using VSI Large File API (#3274)
+ * re-enabled complex support (#3174)
+
+EPSILON driver:
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+ * Mainly used coupled with Rasterlite
+ 
+ERS driver:
+ * Added PIXELTYPE support to report/create SIGNEDBYTE (#2902)
+ * Give precidence to PAM SRS, and even check for .aux file.  (ESRI Merge)
+
+FAST driver:
+ * Support 7 bands (#3307)
+ 
+Fujibas driver:
+ * Fix to work on big-endian hosts
+
+GenBin driver:
+ * Implemented custom class for 1bit (U1) files (#2730)
+ * Fix inverse flattening computation (#2755).
+ * Added U2 and U4 support
+ * Look for LSB, assuming MSB if not found (#2730)
+
+GeoRaster driver:
+ * Fix compression problems
+ * Add MaskBand support
+ * Support UNICODE metadata
+ * Support cross database schema/user access
+ * add COORDLOCATOR create option
+
+GeoTIFF driver :
+ * Add 8/12bit jpeg in tiff support
+ * Add support for creating external BigTIFF overview files,
+   with BIGTIFF_OVERVIEW configuration option. (#2785)
+ * Add support for deleting a color table (#2421)
+ * Add logic for Imagine citation parsing
+ * Add logic for encoding and reading ESRI PE string from citation.
+ * Add support for reading and writing vertical datum info from geotiff
+ * Changes to units handling.  (#2755)
+ * Optimize opening speed by defering fetching the coordinate system till GetProjectionRef (#2957)
+ * Optimize GTiffRasterBand::IReadBlock() for multi-band interleaved case.
+ * Avoid uncesserary re-writting the TIFF directory (#3021)
+ * Use official value for inverse flattening of the WGS84 ellipsoid (#2787)
+ * Add metadata domain for XML documents (#2786)
+ * Make GTiff driver friendly with files with huge number of bands and pixel interleaving (#2838)
+ * Avoid precaching other bands if block cache size is not big enough to accomodate them (#2838)
+ * Internal libtiff (4.0.0beta5) and libgeotiff (1.3.0beta) upgraded
+ * use the SetCitationToSRS call for the PCSCitationGeoKey in a similar fashion to the GTCitationGeoKey (#2933)
+ * NBITS set for GTiffOddBits.  YCbCr JPEG added as a compression type.
+   generate MINISWHITE IMAGESTRUCTURE metadata item.  Set missing blocks 
+   to the nodata value if there is one.  (ESRI Merge)
+ * Support GeoTIFF with only ProjectedCSTypeGeoKey defined (#3019)
+ * External overviews: try to preserve the bit depth of the original image
+ * Allow reading and creation of big all-in-one-strip 8bit TIFF (#3094)
+ * Handle projection methods for Google Mercator special case (#3217)
+
+GFF driver :
+ * Fix support for big endian host (#2832)
+ * Add pam, and overview support.  Switch to VSI*L API to support virtualio (#3014)
+
+GIF driver :
+ * Introduced a BIGGIF driver to handle GIF files without using the 
+   slurp into memory approach. (#2542)
+ * CreateCopy() reports now progress
+ * Replace internal libungif by giflib-4.1.6 (#1825)
+ * Read projection and georeferencing from OziExplorer .MAP file if possible.
+
+GRASS driver:
+ * Add support for GRASS 7.0 GDAL and OGR plugins (#2953)
+ * Use GRASS_GISBASE for GDAL GRASS driver instead of hard-coded path (#2721)
+
+GRIB driver:
+ * only scan for PDS templates in GRIB2 files (#2858)
+ * Avoid dumping GribLen debug message if built with -DDEBUG.
+ * Remove verbosity from GRIB driver (#2887)
+ * Make GRIB detection thread safe (#3209)
+ * Check that bands have the same dimensions (#3246)
+
+GS7BG driver:
+  * Recognize version 2 datasets (#3123)
+ 
+HDF4 driver :
+ * Allow HDF4 subdataset name to include Windows letter drive (#2823)
+
+HDF5 driver :
+ * subdatsets need to be numbered from 1 not 0 (#2462)
+ * Block size recognition. (#2270)
+ * Fix initial value for nGCPCount in HDF5ImageDataset (#2774)
+ * Fixes to type classification, and to avoid listing subdatsets for unsupported pixel data types (#2941)
+ * Mark PAM for not saving .aux.xml files at this level.  Directly open 
+   subdatasets in HDF5Dataset::Open() if there is only one subdataset. 
+ 
+HFA driver:
+ * Support reading and evaluating 3rd order xforms (#2716)
+ * Various improvements to SRS support, particularly to preserve PE
+   compatability.  (#2755) 
+ * Added HFAEntry::RemoveAndDestroy() method to remove nodes from tree (#2421)
+ * Added support for deleting color tables (#2421)
+ * Add a scaled progress monitor for HFADataset::IBuildOverviews()
+ * Fix HFA u2 compression/decompression (ESRI merge)
+ * Add support for reading compressed s8 HFA (#3152)
+ * Defer opening overviews till they are first requested (#3155)
+ * Support multiple excluded values (#3252)
+ * added a variety of additional coordinate system based types missing in some files (#3262)
+ * Various fixes (#2421, #2842, #2755, #3082, #2730)
+
+Idrisi driver:
+ * Writing text file in CRLF format (#3199)
+ * forward porting esri changes + other changes
+ * provide default values on Create() (#3243)
+
+INGR driver:
+ * Fix INGR driver that was failing on big endian hosts (#2898)
+ * Fix RLE support (#3106)
+ * Added overview building (#2904)
+
+JPEG driver:
+ * Enable the JPEG driver to read and create 12bit JPEG images when JPEG12_ENABLED=yes
+ * Internal libjpeg: additional changes to ensure operation with IPP enabled apps (#2606,#2845)
+ * JPEG read optimizations : differ extraction of EXIF metadata and internal maskband
+ 
+JPEG2000 (JasPer) Driver:
+ * Allow proper reading of JP2 images where dimensions are not multiple of 256 (#2399)
+ * Add a virtual I/O interface to able to read from/write to JPEG2000-NITF files
+ * Do not deregister jas_image_clearfmts() to avoid failure when gdal_translat'ing from JP2 streams
+ * Add proper reading of YCbCr images as RGB
+ * fix decoding of bit depth for BPCC and PCLR boxes
+ 
+JP2KAK (Kakadu) Driver :
+ * Fix band selection from ycbcr to rgb converted images in DirectRasterIO (#2732)
+ * Support jpc vsisubfile streams
+ * add handling of reversibly compressed data with 9 to 16 bits precision (#2964)
+ * Modify transfer_bytes() buf32 case to offset/scale based on precision. (#2964)
+   Fixed _WriteTile() lossless 16bit case to avoid improper 32K offset.
+   Added support for NBITS image structure metadata, and creation option.
+ * Added logic to limit tiles to 64K due to jpeg2000 limitation. (ESRI Merge)
+ * Fix offseting of 16U buf32 data (#3027)
+ * Support 16u/16s imagery through DirectRasterIO interface (#3049)
+ * Support external overviews as an override to internal overviews
+ * Rework jp2kak support to use natural kakadu builds (Windows build)
+ * ensure external overviews get used if available (#3276)
+ * add preliminary multi-threading read support via DirectRasterIO()
+
+
+LAN driver:
+ * Give preference to PAM coordinate system since built-in info is very 
+  limited.  Fallback to PAM geotransform if internal missing. (ESRI Merge)
+
+LCP driver:
+ * Add projection file support (#3255)
+  
+MEM driver:
+ * Allow creating bands of more than 2GB each if size_t is large enough.
+ * Added GetInternalHandle() implementation to fetch band memory buffer
+
+MrSID driver:
+ * Implement faster resampling for 1:1 case
+ * Improve stream implementation so it works for jp2 with v7
+ * Make the JP2MrSID driver accept .ntf extension to allow reading jpeg2000
+   datastream in NITF files
+ * Avoid reporting large metadata objects.  Add MG version to metadata.
+
+NetCDF driver:
+ * Fix handling of pixel validity mask (#3112)
+ * correct a problem with 5+ dimensional data access (#2583)
+ * fix y flip detection in common case (#2654)
+ * add support for subdataset names with Windows full path names, like NETCDF:D:\...
+ 
+NITF driver:
+ * Add support for reading & creating large (>4GB) NITF files.
+ * Add support for NITF/JPEG2000 overviews (JP2KAK)
+ * Add support for reading & creating 12bit JPEG compressed NITF files when JPEG12_ENABLED=yes
+ * Add support for creating a NITF file with many bands and big TRE content
+ * Add support for creating several uncompressed images in a NITF file (#2989)
+ * Add support for creating M3 (masked multi-block JPEG compressed) images
+ * Add support for unpacking a wider variety of pixel depths. 
+ * Add support for overriding IGEOLO with GEOLOB TRE precision georef (#3180)
+ * Add support for for CFloat32 reading & writing (#2526)
+ * Add support for reading and writing NITF file with large single block (#3263)
+ * Allow Jasper driver to be used for NITF IC=C8 (JPEG2000) CreateCopy() if JP2ECW is not available
+ * Allow JP2MrSID driver to be used for reading JPEG2000 datastreams in NITF
+ * Avoid issues when reading M3 single block images
+ * Fix CreateCopy() of multi block JPEG-NITF
+ * Various bugfixes (#2940, #2912, #3029, #3088)
+ * Support NITF file with a color table and JPEG2000 data content (#3110)
+
+NWT_GRC / NWG_GRD drivers (Northwood/VerticalMapper) :
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+ 
+OGDI driver:
+ * improve finding of PROJ.4 include files for OGDI (#1242)
+
+PCIDSK driver (old driver):
+ * Added worldfile reading. Added PAM fallback for geotransform.
+ * Added support for default overviews (ie. .ovr or .rrd).  (ESRI Merge)
+ * fail somewhat gracefully on compressed images
+ 
+PCIDSK driver (new driver):
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0, using the PCIDSK SDK
+ 
+PDS driver:
+ * Transfer various keywords to metadata
+ * Made keyword handler more in complaint with ODL (#2956)
+ * Support detached files with an offset (#3177)
+ * Support .LBL labelled compressed files
+
+PNG driver :
+ * Upgrade internal libpng to 1.2.35
+ * Only write a world file if the source datasource has a geotransform
+ * Allow writing a nodata value of 0 as the transparent color value (#3208)
+ 
+R driver:
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+ 
+Rasterlite driver
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+
+RIK driver:
+ * Improved error checking
+ 
+SAGA GIS Binary driver:
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+
+SDE driver :
+ * Fix exporting ArcSDE raster results in a displaced image (#2063)
+ 
+SRP driver (ASRP/USRP):
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+ 
+SRTM driver :
+ * Set GDALMD_AOP_POINT metadataitem (#1884)
+ 
+TIL driver (EarthWatch .TIL) driver:
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+
+VRT driver :
+ * Honour the INIT_DEST warp option (#2724)
+ * Improve performance of LUTs in VRTComplexSource from O(n) to O(log2(n)) (#3003)
+ * Implement (advertized in doc) support for SetMetadataItem( "source_0", szFilterSourceXML, "vrt_sources" ) on a VRTSourcedRasterBand (#3052)
+ * Implement GetFileList() to list the source files
+ * Fix wrong initialization of destination buffer in VRTSourcedRasterBand::IRasterIO() in case of not standard pixel/line spacing. (#2867)
+
+WCS driver:
+ * do not try to parse HTML content, which is returned by some provider when the server doesn't exist
+ * added HttpAuth and UserPwd options for authentication (#3091)
+ 
+WKT Raster driver:
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+
+WMS driver:
+ * Support TMS/formatted URLs in WMS minidriver (#2878)
+ * Be tolerant if we have required 3 bands and got 4, or the other way round
+ * Declare a user agent string
+
+== OGR 1.7.0 - Overview of Changes ==
+
+Utilities:
+ * ogrinfo: Preserve order of source layers specified on ogrinfo command line,
+            and use GetLayerByName() which enables to read some hidden layers
+            like public.<table> layers from a PG database (#2922, #2026)
+ * ogr2ogr:
+    - Add -clipsrc and -clipdst option to clip geometries to the specified extents
+    - Add -fieldTypeToString option to conveniently cast any fields of given type to fields of type string (#2968)
+    - Add -progress option for ogr2ogr to displaying progress (#2998)
+    - Add -wrapdateline option to ogr2ogr to deal with geometries that cross 180 degree longitude (#3158)
+    - Add -dialect flag to specify SQL dialect
+    - Preserve order of source layers specified on command line (#2922)
+    - -overwrite and -append now automatically imply -update (#3048)
+    - Support converting to a format after field name "laundering" (#3247)
+  * ogrtindex:
+    - Skip layers whose schema does not match instead of terminating (#3141)
+    - Add a -accept_different_schemas option for non-MapServer use cases (#3141)
+    - Set SRS to tileindex when one is found in the tiles
+  * ogr2vrt.py : new script that will create a VRT corresponding to a
+    source datasource (sample script for the moment, not promoted officially)
+ 
+Core :
+ * Improved OGR feature style (#2875, #2808)
+ * Considerable speed-up of ExportToWkt() for very large geometries
+ * Added new OGR_GEOM_AREA special field (#2949)
+ * ensure forceToMultiLineString() works for MultiPolygons (#2735)
+ * Various fixes in OGR SQL engine (r16116, #2996, #2788, #3143, #3144)
+ * Add OGREnvelope::Intersect()
+ * Add OGR_G_ApproximateArcAngles() for ellipses
+ * Fix crash on Ubuntu 8.10 in GetFieldAsString() because of (too) strict guard logic (#2896)
+ * add field type max so we can iterate through all possible values
+ * Avoid making a 2D5 geometry from a 2D only linestring when reprojecting
+
+OGRSpatialReference :
+ * Upgrade EPSG derived files to EPSG 7.1
+ * Added support to operate on COMPD_CS coordinate systems
+ * Added support for importing spatial reference definitions from the OziExplorer .MAP files.
+ * Introduce static methods to destroy OGRSpatialReference and OGRCoordinateTransformation objects
+ * Expose more of the axis orientation API to C
+ * Add missing Eckert 1, 2, 3 and 5 projections
+ * Fix typos in proj4 conversion for Wagner projections
+ * hack in EXTENSION nodes for google mercators (#3136)
+ * Validates PROJCS with AXIS definitions (#2739)
+ * Added support for urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC::CRS:84 (and CRS:83, CRS:27) per WMS spec.
+ * Wide variety of improvements to preserve PE strings through a morphFromESRI()
+   and morphToESRI() process (#2755)
+ * Fix inversion of dictionnary filename and GEOGCS/PROJCS name in OGRSpatialReference::exportToERM() (#2819)
+ * Fix SpatialReference::IsSame() for LOCAL_CS case (#2849)
+ * Fix bug in ImportFromXML that prevented from retrieving projection method
+ * Accept both href and xlink:href in OGC XML
+ * improve us foot translation handling (#2901)
+ * OGRSpatialReference::importFromUrl() : add a default 10 second timeout to avoid waiting forever when remote server is stalled
+ * ensure we can translate mercator1sp with non-zero origin to proj4 (#3026)
+ * ensure scalefactor preserved in somerc translation (#3032)
+ * SRS_ESRI: attempt to correct equidistant cylindrical parameter morph (#3036)
+ * SRS_ESRI: improve plate_carree parameter morphing (#3036)
+ * SRS_PCI : Fix PCI projection string handling for UTM
+ * esri_extra.wkt: correct equidistant conic definitions (#3086)
+ * SRS_PANORAMA : Added support for British National Grid and Pulkovo 1995 datums.
+ * Improve recognition of WKT text strings when translating into proj4 hard-coded datum names, in particular nzgd49
+   (also add ggrs87, carthage, hermannskogel, ire65); Fix ellipsoid parameters for modified airy (#3104)
+ * OSRGetEllipsoidInfo() available for various OGR SRS modules
+ * added support for OGC:CRS84 and similar srses from wms/wcs spec in SetFromUserInput (#3090)
+ 
+BNA driver :
+ * Fix output of BNA driver with polygons with inner ring (#2985)
+ * Proper CRLF output on Windows (#3256)
+ 
+CSV driver :
+ * Add support for reading and writing CSV files with semicolon or tabulation
+   as the field separator (#2925, #2136)
+ * Add automatic treatment of WKT column as geometry
+ * Add 'CREATE_CSVT' layer creation option
+
+DXF driver :
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+ 
+Geoconcept driver:
+ * Fix 'private Class and SubClass headers are inverted' (#2919)
+ * Fix error in writing 2.5D/3D export file (#2921)
+
+GeoJSON driver:
+ * updated JSON-C library to version 0.9
+ * use VSIF*L API
+
+GML driver :
+ * Speed-up considerably parsing of GML coordinates in big geometries, in particular on Windows
+ * Add support for gml3.1.1 srsDimension attribute, to deal with 3D geometries (#2311)
+ * Support multiple <gml:pos> elements in linearrings of polygons (#3244)
+ * Limited support for GML3
+ * Support direct use of FIDs as long as they are all numeric or they have a completely fixed prefix (#1017)
+ * Fix OGRGMLLayer::GetFeatureCount() if there's a .XSD file available (#2969)
+ * Added support for out-of-band attributes on features (for NAS)
+ * Adding the date field type to xsd writer and precision info for OFTReal fields. (#2857)
+
+GPX driver:
+ * Add GPX_SHORT_NAMES configuration option to make the GPX driver report shorter field names
+   and avoid duplicated field names once translated to shapefile (#2966)
+ * Write the <bounds> element (write only)
+ * Avoid escaping XML content when writing <extensions>.
+ * Add appropriate xmlns when detecting Garmin GPX extensions
+
+GRASS driver:
+ * Do not report 3D geometries for 2D GRASS maps (#3009)
+
+GTM (GPSTrackMaker) driver :
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 (#3113)
+
+ILI driver :
+ * Improved curve segmentation algorithm
+ * ILI1: Support for multiple point geomtries
+ * ILI1: Support Real and Integer column types
+
+Ingres driver:
+ * Utilize the new OGC based ingres capabilities (#3159)
+
+KML driver:
+ * Support reading MultiGeometry and layers with mixed geometry type.
+ * Speed-up considerably the reading of huge KML geometries (#3005)
+ * Speed-up considerably with huge number of layers
+ * Moved the location of the Style element to match the OGC Schema (#2858)
+ * Advertize 25D geometry type when relevant (#1803, #1853, #2181)
+ * Relax KML driver about xmlns (#3004)
+
+MySQL driver :
+ * Fix mysql driver compilation with mysql 5.1/g++-4.3.2 (Mandriva 2009.1) (#2972)
+ * Fixed bug MySQL driver truncating decimal places for double field type. (#2852)
+
+OCI driver :
+ * OCI varchar2 columns can be up to 4000 bytes (#2876)
+
+ODBC driver :
+ * make it slightly less likely that the srs_tablename parsing will interfere with complex DSNs.
+ * support for schemas (#1969)
+
+OGDI driver :
+  * fix to avoid applying old spatial filter to unrelated layer
+  * fix to force ResetReading() when changing current layer
+
+PGEO driver :
+ * Recognize more ESRI shape type constants. (#2991, #3100)
+ * implement GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn() methods (#2694)
+ 
+PostgreSQL driver:
+ * Add support for tables with 'geography' column type introduced in PostGIS 1.5 (#3216)
+ * Extend support of schemas in PG driver with 2 new options in the connection string:
+   active_schema=foo and schemas=foo[,bar] (#522 and #525)
+ * Implement OGRPGTableLayer::CreateFeature() by using UPDATE instead of DELETE + INSERT (#2557)
+ * Implement SetNextByIndex() for layers of PG datasources (#3117)
+ * Support PG 'real' data type in tables (#3006)
+ * Speed-up PG database opening by avoiding 2 SQL requests per table
+ * Avoid evaluating GetFieldIndex() on each field of each feature,
+   which can be very expensive if the layer has many fields
+ * allow ST_AsBinary with non binary connections
+ * added a configuration option PG_SKIP_VIEWS.
+ 
+GeoRSS driver :
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 (#2726)
+
+OCI driver:
+ * support blob column binding
+ 
+PCIDSK driver :
+ * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+ 
+Shape driver :
+ * Handle duplicate field names in shapefile driver. (#3247)
+ * Support for opening and handling .DBF files > 2 GB (#3011)
+ * Optimize to use shape bounds for spatial test before organizing poly (#2775)
+ * Support for alternate date format (#2746)
+ * Improve/fix TestCapability() on OGRShapeLayer
+ * Refreshed shapelib from upstream
+ 
+S57 driver :
+ * Fix incorrect return value of GetFeatureCount() on S57 SOUNDG layer when SPLIT_MULTIPOINT=ON;
+   also avoid warning on that layer when ADD_SOUNDG_DEPTH=OFF (#3163)
+  
+SQLite driver:
+ * Add creation and write support in SpatiaLite-compatible databases
+ * Add SPATIAL_INDEX creation option for SpatiaLite tables if linked against
+   libspatialite (default to YES)
+ * Implement OGRSQLiteTableLayer::TestCapability(OLCFastFeatureCount)
+ * Implement OGRSQLiteLayer::GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn()
+ * Implement TestCapability(OLCRandomRead)
+ * Add a SQLITE_LIST_ALL_LAYERS configuration option to list all(non-spatial)
+   tables into a SQLite DB even if there are spatial tables
+ * Avoid reporting the primary key column as a regular column.
+ * Better precision for double values in CreateFeature()
+
+VFK driver:
+  * New for GDAL/OGR 1.7.0
+
+VRT driver:
+ * Allow fast spatial filtering in the VGS_Direct case
+ * Add support for CreateFeature(), SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() operations
+ * Added field definition and style control
+ * Added new vrt/schema creation capability (@dummy@ datasource, ogr2vrt.py script)
+ * Implement 'SrcRegion' element
+ * Add a 'reportSrcColumn' attribute to the 'GeometryField' to avoid reporting
+   the x,y,wkt or wkb source fields in the VRT layer field definition
+ * Forward TestCapability(), GetExtent(), SetNextByIndex() to source layer when possible
+ 
+XPlane/Flightgear driver:
+ * Improve handling of Bezier curves (#3030)
+ * Support new file names used by XPlane 9.00 & later
+ * Cut into 2 pieces airway segments that cross the antemeridian
+ * Add new layer 'Stopway' that contains the shape of the stopway/blastpad/over-run of a runway 
+ * Recognize code 16 and 17 for seaplane bases and heliports and add a new field to APT layer
+
+== SWIG Language Bindings ==
+
+General:
+ * Recommanded SWIG version is 1.3.39
+ * Added API : 
+    - GDAL: gdal.!FilldoData(), gdal.!FileFromMemBuffer(), gdal.!Unlink(), gdal.!ApplyGeoTransform(), gdal.!InvGeoTransform(), Band.!GetUnitType(), Band.!GetBand(), Band.!ComputeStatistics(), Band.!HasArbitraryOverviews(), !RasterAttributeTable.!GetLinearBinning() and !SetLinearBinning(), extend [Band|Dataset].[!ReadRaster|!WriteRaster] to accept pixel, line and band spacing parameters
+    - OGR: ogr.!GeneralCmdLineProcessor(), Geometry.Segmentize(), !FieldDefn.!GetTypeName(),Geometry.!ApproximateArcAngles()
+    - OSR: osr.!ImportFromMICoordSys(), osr.!ExportToMICoordSys(), !SpatialReference.Clone(),osr.!EPSGTreatsAsLatLong(), osr.!ImportFromEPSGA()
+ * Make resampling an optionnal parameter for gdal.!RegenerateOverview(),
+   to be consistant with gdal.!RegenerateOverviews()
+ * NONNULL checks have been added to check various arguments of methods
+ * add missing constants : DCAP_VIRTUALIO, color interpretations, OGR constants
+
+CSharp bindings : 
+ * Add support for !GetFieldAsStringList, !GetFieldAsDoubleList and !GetFieldAsIntegerList in the C# wrapper (#2839)
+ * Support MSVC2008 builds with the csharp interface (#2862)
+ * Change the dll mapping rules to support the recent MONO versions
+ * Use GC pinned arrays instead of the double copy in the RasterIO functions (#3073)
+ * Add typemaps to support custom CPLErrorHandler via C# swig bindings
+
+Perl bindings :
+ * in Polygonize make a local copy of the parameters as they are potentionally edited
+
+Python bindings :
+ * Add support for Python 3.X. Compatibility with Python 2.X preserved (#3265)
+ * Remove old-generation Python bindings (gdal/pymod).
+ * Add Python binding's version description capabilities (#3137)
+ * NUMPY : Make Band|Dataset.!ReadAsArray() take into account preallocated array (#2658, #3028)
+ * Various memory leaks fixed
+ * Fix gdal.!RegenerateOverviews(), Feature.!GetFieldAsStringList(),
+   Feature.!GetFieldAsIntegerList(), Feature.!GetFieldAsDoubleList(),
+   Transform.!TransformPoints and CoordinateTransformation.!TransformPoints
+ * Extend python !TransformPoints typemap to accept any sequence (#3020)
+ * Make Geometry iterable (#1886)
+ 
+Java bindings (general changes):
+ * Maintained again. A lot of changes to get them into clean state.
+ * !RasterIO API : added API for standard Java arrays in addition to !DirectByteBuffer
+ * Javadoc available at http://gdal.org/java
+