GDAL/OGR 1.9.1 Release Notes

The 1.9.1 release is a bug fix release.

Core

• fix crash with VSICachedFile::Read() for large reads (#4646)

• Unix VSI*L: correctly set current offset after a failed read (#4583)

• Improve OpenJDK finding logic in configure. (#4643)

• Fix iconv configure problem on FreeBSD (#4525)

• Fix MinGW build when pthread is also available (#4430)

• makegdalXX.vcproj : update 71,80 and 90 version. Drop 10 version --> open the 90 version and VS2010 should convert it (#4415)

GDAL 1.9.1

• Fix statistics computation when nodata value is +/- infinity (#4506)

gdal_polygonize.py:

• Fix problem identifying some 8-connected polygons (#4647)

gdalwarp:

• properly close datasets in error conditions (#4554)
• assign color interpretation of source bands to target dataset, in the case of target VRT (#4462)

gdalident.py, gdal_merge.py:

• backout the evil globbing stuff (#2783, #4542)

GTIFF (GeoTIFF) Driver:

• internal libgeotiff updated from upstream to capture fix for user defined linear units (libgeotiff #51)
• Maximize EPSG compatability where PCS is defined (#4607)
• Better preserve and use units defined by EPSG code (libgeotiff #51)
• ensure that rowsperstrip is never larger than ysize (#4468)

JP2KAK / JP2ECW / JP2MrSID Drivers:

• Fix support for GMLJP2 Axis interpretation (#4657)

DIMAP2 Driver:

• Backport support for DIMAP2 (

Northwood Driver:

• Fix wrong file offset computation for >2GB files. (#4645)
• avoid win32 build issue with sizeof, remove debug output (#4565)

TSX Driver:

• fix crashes in Identify() with certain filenames, and the file is empty or doesn't exist (#4622)

HFA (Imagine) Driver:

• fix crash on dataset closing when .ige file header is corrupted (#4596)
• Added BASEDATA support for EPT_u1 (#4537)

HDF4 Driver:

• add .hdf extension to the HDF4 driver metadata (#4559)

GRIB Driver:

• fix fgetc signed/unsigned problem for Grib format VSI*L reader (#4603)

JPEG Driver:

• don't return junk content when requesting xml:XMP but no XMP metadata is present (#4593)

Oracle GeoRaster Driver:

• Backport various improvements.

KML Superoverlay Driver:

• Remove code that limited generation to one zoom level (#4527)

PDF Driver:

• Fix crashes on some PDF files with poppler >= 0.17.0 (#4520)

ISIS Driver:

• ensure projection scaleFactor defaults to 1 (#4499)

NetCDF Driver:

• use nc-config to detect netcdf compilation and linking parameters (#4424)
• make sure netcdf file is in data mode in IReadBlock and only set data/define mode for datasets in update mode (#4432)

ACE2 Driver:

• fix typo that prevented dataset to be opened with explicit /vsigzip/ (#4460)

OGR 1.9.1

OGR Core:

• reverseWindingOrder(): don't force coordinate dimension to 3 (#4621)
• Fix incorrect rounding in OGRFormatDouble (#4614)
• Fix segfault when running 'ogr2ogr target src -select AFIELD -where FID=xxx' when the source layer has more than 5 fields (#4500)

OGRSpatialReference:

• mapped methods EPSG methods 1028 and 1029 to equidistant cylindrical (#4589)

OGR SQL:

• Fix invalid conversion from float to integer (#4634)
• fix 'SELECT MAX(OGR_GEOM_AREA) FROM XXXX' (#4633)
• fix incorrect result with more than 2 JOINs and SELECT with expressions with field names (#4521)
• fix segfault on SELECT DISTINCT(foo) when first feature has NULL value for foo (#4509)

gdalsrsinfo:

• fix gdalrsrsinfo --formats (#4518)
• try to open with GDAL and OGR even if argument is not a file (bug #4493)
• Fix build of gdalsrsinfo when OGR support is disabled (#4459)

ogr2ogr:

• correctly deal with filenames that begin with 'polygon' or 'multipolygon' as arguments of -clipdst and -clipsrc (#4590)
• fix -select with shapefile output when specified field name case doesn't match source field name case (#4502)

Shapefile Driver:

• fix GetFeatureCount?() when spatial filter set, especially on big-endian hosts (#4491)

GML Driver:

• make sure to use provided control points in linear approximation of gml:Arc (#4451)
• be tolerant about valid constructs for empty geometries (#4473)
• avoid point duplication concatenating gml curve segments (#4451)
• .xsd parser: recognize type='date' or type='dateType' as a string for now (#4439)
• make filtering of features based on OGR_GEOMETRY work (#4428)

OCI (Oracle) Driver:

• (optionally) put back OCI index creation when layers are created (#4497)

ESRI FileGDB Driver:

• Unix configure: fix r24125 when no --with-fgdb option is specified and there's no filegdbapi in system directory (#4570)
• Add OBJECTID as a reserved word for FGDB field names (#4517).
• make test for use of reserved keywords case insensitive (#4458)
• define CLSID/EXTCLSID to fix Feature Class alias being ignored in ArcMap? (#4477)
• do appropriate layer name laundering in CreateLayer?() (#4466)
• implment field name laundering, avoid reserved words (#4458)

ILI (Interlis) Driver:

• Upgraded to support reading models.

CSV Driver:

• Fix support for empty column names in header (#4654)
• Detect and remove UTF-8 BOM marker if found (#4623)

MITAB (MapInfo) Driver:

• Fix support with Mollweide projection (#4628)

DXF (Autocad) Driver:

• fix crash with TranslatePOLYLINE() with empty geometries (#4648)

PG (Postgres/PostGIS) Driver:

• SRS evaluation for SQL layers (#4644)
• Avoid fatal error when the public schema is absent. #4611
• Fix bad AND priority when spatial and attribute filter are combined in PG, MySQL, SQLite and MSSpatial drivers (#4507)

Spatialite / Sqlite Driver:

• spatial index can be used even when linking against regular SQLite (#4632)
• make sure C locale is loaded when building spatial filter (#4631)
• fix compilation problem with SQLite >= 3.6.0 and < 3.6.7 (#4515)
• fix temporary names creation in OGRSQLiteVFS (#4510)

MYSQL Driver:

• Fixed parser to swap coordiantes with geography data type (#4642)

MSSQL Spatial Driver:

• Report DeleteFeature/DeleteLayer? capabilities for the MSSQL Spatial data source. (#4474)

INGRES Driver:

• Bulk backport of improvements from trunk (#4567)

KML Driver:

• simplify ParseCoordinate?() implementation (#4592)
• avoid potential out-of-range string access (#4592)

LibKML Driver:

• backport libkml stylemap support into 1.9 branch

VRT Driver:

• fix OGR VRT sensitive to whitespace and <?xml> nodes (#4582)

PGEO Driver:

• remove heuristics that tried to identify if a MDB file belonged to the PGeo or Geomedia driver. It broke the opening of valid PGeo MDB files (#4498)
• fix crash when reading polygon with 0 rings, such as in Top25namen_07.mdb (#4441)

WFS Driver:

• Don't trust width/precision from single sample feature (#4440)

TIGER/Line Driver:

• Fix opening TIGER datasource by full file name (#4443)

XLS Driver:

• fix behaviour of OGRXLSLayer::DetectColumnTypes?() in -O2 optimization level (#4423)