GDAL/OGR 1.7.2

The 1.7.2 release is a routine bug fix release on the stable GDAL/OGR 1.7 branch.

General

• configure/libtool/etc regenerated with newer versions.
• Fix definition of CPL atomic function with CPL_INLINE undefined (#3526)
• Clean out remnants of old generation python support in configure (#3489)
• Fix build problems on systems with 64bit pointer and 32bit long (#3460)
• C#: Fixed ambiguous reference to SpatialReference in C# sample apps (#3477)
• C#: Fix crash on memory release of string from ExportToWkt() (#3529)
• Java: Handle transparency better in color tables (#3455)
• Python 2.x/3.0 compatability fixes for scripts (#3441, #3395)
• Python fixes for numpy array io (#3542)
• stateplane.csv updated for Kentuky and California fixes (#3408)

GDAL / Raster

• USGS DEM: Add state plane coordinate system support (#3494)
• PCIDSK: Ensure C++ compiler used to compile C++ code on unix (#3526)
• GTiff: Fix writing of area or point metadata (#3522)
• NITF: Improve error handling for GeoSDE (#3518)
• NITF: Fix support for reading large blocks (#3263)
• NITF: fix handling of zone 'J' as south pole (#3337)
• Leveller: Fix build problem with 8bit string (#3490)
• Fix support for larger than 2GB buffers in GDALDataset::RasterIO() (#3481)
• Avoid infinite loop in rasterize algorithm with small buffers (#3473)
• Burn attribute into all bands during rasterization (#3396)
• Fix crash with null geometries when rasterizing (#3437)
• Warper: Backout heuristics about aligning io on block boundaries (#3459)
• Warper: Fixed chunking problem that sometimes causes data dropout (#3458)
• gdalwarp: Fix crash on files with no bands. (#3438)
• Avoid unnecessary work in GDALSuggestedWarpOutput2() (#3447)
• HDF4: better support for odd sizes datasets, avoid missing ds crash (#3316)
• JP2KAK: support quality values as low as 0.01 percent. (#2801)
• JP2KAK: Avoid use of set_fussy(), makes some images fail (#3295)
• gdal_proximity.py: fix when -q is not specified.
• gdal_polygonize.py: fix specifying field name in existing layer (#3418)
• HFA: Avoid crash for long field names (#3427)
• HFA: Several fixes for generating large HFA overviews (#3371)
• GeoRaster: Fixes for JPEG compression and RGBA color interprtation (#3430)
• ENVI: Include INTERLEAVE metadata(#3436)
• Improve GDAL plugin loading support on MacOS X (#2661)
• PDS: Several fixes to support prototype Dawn products (#3543)
• AIGRID: support sparse sets of tiles (#3541)

OGR / Vector

• Shape: Support .prj file from virtual file sources like zip (#3536)
• Shape: Fix REPACK support on unix (#3434)
• MapInfo: Create layer definition on layer creation. (#3391)
• ogr2ogr.cpp: Fix crash on exit with -clipsrc or -clipdst (#3530)
• Postgres: Improve logic for extending spatial_ref_sys (#3508)
• Postgres: Do not ignore "pg*" tables that are not system tables (#3480)
• SQLite: Improve SRS generation for spatial_ref_sys (#3506)
• SQLite: Fix support for db with nulls in geometry_columns (#3507)
• SQLite: Preserve triggers/index when adding fields (#3474)
• SQLite: Avoid altering geometry column type in CreateField (#3471)
• Make forceTo* function robust with EMPTY geometries. (#3504)
• Fix forceToPolygon() (#3498)
• ODBC: format string safety changes in error/debug messages (#3402)
• ODBC: Avoid problem with integer overflow in buffer sizes (#3385)
• Be careful of NULL geometries in geos wrapper code (#3467)
• DXF: Support DXF files with only an entities section (#3412)
• DXF: Fixup polygon and 2d/3d handling (#3393)
• DXF: Ensure points have AcDbEntity and AcDbPoint (#3423)
• CopyLayer(): Use transactions for better performance (#3335)