= GDAL/OGR 1.7.1 = 

The 1.7.1 release was prepared and issued primarily to deal with ticket #3382,
relating to the fact that GDAL 1.7 has had a significant regression in that
all Erdas Imagine (HFA/.img) files produced are unreadable by non-GDAL software
including released versions of ArcGIS and Erdas Imagine.  Following is a list
of all bug fixes since the 1.7.0 release.

== General ==

 * MacOS X: Support versioning for framework builds (#2661)
 * FreeBSD: fix --with-threads configuring (#3348)

== GDAL / Raster ==

 * HFA/Imagine: Fix very serious 1.7 bug with blank layer names which was producing .img files unreadable in non-GDAL software (#3382)
 * HFA: Ensure nodata values carried into overviews (#2855)
 * HFA: Fix support for files with nonstandard mapunits (#3338)
 * NITF: Improve NITF spec compliance when generating JPEG compression (#3345)
 * NITF: Improve dateline handling for CADRG products (#3383)
 * NITF: Return GCPPROJECTIONX metadata when we can't transform polar (#3337)
 * GeoRaster: Avoid error messages when looking up epsg codes (#3326)
 * DODS / GDALCopyWords(): Fix bug with negative offsets/flipping (#3388)
 * PCIDSK: Fix new bug with UTM MGRS zone handling (#3379)
 * PDS: Fix up offset support for detached labels (#3355)
 * gdal_merge.py: support per band init values (#3354)
 * ECW: Fix one broken case in configure logic (#3343)
 * !RasterLite: Fix crash on 32bit platforms (#3339)
 * NetCDF: Prevent !CreateCopy() of complex bands (r18602)
 * HDF4: Fix buffer overflow with !GeodeticLatitude (r18601)

== OGR / Vector ==

 * SQLite: !TestCapability() returns TRUE for transation support (#3394)
 * DXF: Support polylines in Object Coordinate System (#3372)
 * MIF/ogr2ogr: Fix new problem translating to MIF format (#3384)
 * GeoJSON: Support stdout output via new /vsistdout/ name (#3381)
 * Shapefile: Fixes for winding calculations on read and write (#3363, #3356)
 * Postgres: Get field width and precision from SQL queries (#3349)