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GDAL/OGR 2.0 Release Notes

In a nutshell…

New installed files

  • data/gdalvrt.xsd: XML schema of the GDAL VRT format

Backward compatibility issues

See ​https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.0/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

GDAL/OGR 2.0 - General Changes

Build(Unix):

  • Fix for cpl_recode_iconv.cpp compilation error on freebsd 10 (#5452)
  • Fix pthread detection for Android
  • Fix in Armadillo detection test (#5455)
  • Fix detection of OCI by changing linking order to please modern GCC (#5550)
  • Fix test to accept MariaDB 10.X as valid MySQL (#5722)
  • Make sure $(GDAL_INCLUDE) is first to avoid being confused by GDAL headers of a previous version elsewhere in the include path (#5664)
  • Always use stat rather than stat64 for Mac OSX in AC_UNIX_STDIO_64. (#5780, #5414).
  • Add support for ECW SDK 5.1 (#5390)
  • Do not enable Python bindings if PYTHON env variable is set without --with-python being explicitly specified (#5956)

Build(Windows):

  • PDF: fix compilation issue with Visual Studio 2012 (#5744)
  • PDF: Add support to compile the pdf driver as plugin (#5813)
  • Add support for MrSID 9.1 SDK (#5814)
  • when building netCDF, HDF4, HDF5 as plugins, call registration of 'sub-drivers' GMT, HDF4Image and HDF5Image (#5802)

Build(all):

  • Ruby bindings: disable autoconf and makefile support (#5880)
  • Fix compilation errors with json-c 0.12 (#5449)
  • Fix compilation error in alg/gdalgrid.cpp when AVX is available, but not SSE (#5566)

GDAL 2.0 - Overview of Changes

Port:

  • Introduce a more generic lock API (recursive mutex, adaptive mutex, spinlock)
  • Add types for CPLMutex, CPLCond and CPLJoinableThread (only enforced in -DDEBUG mode)
  • Add CPLGetPhysicalRAM() and CPLGetUsablePhysicalRAM()
  • CPLSpawn() on Windows: quote arguments with spaces in them (#5469)
  • /vsigzip/: avoid infinite loop when reading broken .gml.gz file (#5486)
  • /vsizip/ : fix bug that caused premature end of file condition with some read patterns (#5530)
  • /vsizip/ on >4GB zips: accept .zip declare 0 disks (#5615)
  • /vsitar/: remove useless validation test that prevents from opening valid .tar files (#5864)
  • /vsistdout/: add VSIStdoutSetRedirection() for compatibility with MapServer FCGI (​https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/4858)
  • /vsimem/: update st_mtime and return it with Stat()
  • /vsimem/: in update mode, when seeking after end of file, only extend it if a write is done
  • /vsimem/: Make Rename() on a directory also rename filenames under that directory (#5934)
  • /vsicurl/: avoid reading after end-of-file and fix failure when reading more than 16MB in a single time (#5786)
  • Allow CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS to be set to special value {noext}
  • VSIWin32Handle::Flush(): no-op implementation is sufficient to offer same guarantee as POSIX fflush() (#5556)
  • Unix VSIL: reset eof in all cases in Seek()
  • Windows plugins: complementary fix to #5211 to avoid error dialog box when there are dependency problems (#5525)
  • Fix VSIReadDirRecursive() recursing on the parent or current directory (#5535)
  • cpl_error: obfuscate password
  • HTTP: set CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL if available (#5568)
  • Add COOKIE option to CPLHTTPFetch() (#5824)
  • CPLHTTPFetch(): add retry logic in case of 502, 503 and 504 errors with the GDAL_HTTP_MAX_RETRY (default: 0)and GDAL_HTTP_RETRY_DELAY (default: 30 s) config options (#5920)
  • Fix stack corruption upon thread termination with CPLSetThreadLocalConfigOption on Windows 32 bit (#5590)
  • cpl_csv: Stop probing for csv/horiz_cs.csv. (#5698)
  • vsipreload: implement clearerr() and readdir64() (#5742)
  • CPLsetlocale(): return a string that is thread-locale storage to avoid potential race in CPLLocaleC::CPLLocaleC() (#5747)
  • CPLHexToBinary(): faster implementation (#5812)
  • CPLAcquireMutex(): improve performance on Windows (#5986)

Core:

  • Add imagery (satellite or aerial) metadata support (Alos, DigitalGlobe, Eros, GeoEye, OrbView, Landsat, Pleiades, Resurs-DK1, Spot/Formosat).
  • Reduce lock contention on the global cache mutex and make it possible to use spin lock instead with GDAL_RB_LOCK_TYPE=SPIN
  • Block cache: make block cache manager safe with respect to writing dirty blocks (#5983)
  • EXIF reader: fix memleak in error code path
  • EXIF reader: add missing validation for some data types (#3078)
  • Fix crash in GDALPamRasterBand::SerializeToXML() when saving an empty RAT (#5451)
  • ComputeStatistics(): use Welford algorithm to avoid numerical precision issues when computing standard deviation (#5483)
  • Fix crashing issue with TLS finalization on Unix (#5509)
  • GDALJP2Metadata::CreateGMLJP2(): use EPSGTreatsAsLatLong() and EPSGTreatsAsNorthingEasting() to determine if axis swapping is needed (#2131)
  • GDALJP2AbstractDataset: implement GetFileList() to report .wld/.j2w if used
  • GMLJP2: be robust when parsing GMLJP2 content that has nul character instead of \n (#5760)
  • GMLJP2: add missing rangeParameters element to validate against GMLJP2 schema (#5707)
  • GMLJP2: write non null bounding box at root of FeatureCollection (#5697)
  • GMLJP2: SRS export as GML: output XML definition of a SRS as a GML 3.1.1 compliant Dictionary (#5697)
  • GMLJP2: when setting GDAL_JP2K_ALT_OFFSETVECTOR_ORDER=TRUE write it as a XML comment so that we can interpret the OffsetVector elements correctly on reading
  • GMLJP2: when parsing a GMLJP2 box, accept srsName found on gml:RectifiedGrid if not found on origin.Point, so as to be compatible with the example of DGIWG_Profile_of_JPEG2000_for_Georeferenced_Imagery.pdf (#5697)
  • GMLJP2: add compatibility with GMLJP2 v2.0 where SRS is expressed as CRS URL
  • GMLJP2: on reading, don't do axis inversation if there's an explicit axisName requesting easting, northing order (#5960); also strip axis order in reported SRS
  • JP2Boxes: add null terminated byte to GDAL XML, XML or XMP boxes
  • Add GDALGetJPEG2000Structure() (#5697)
  • GDALMultiDomainMetadata::XMLInit(): when importing XML metadata, erase the existing document to replace it with the new one
  • Metadata: fix correct sorting of StringList / metadata (#5540, #5557)
  • Make GetMaskBand() work with GDT_UInt16 alpha bands (#5692)
  • Fix 32bit overflow in GDALRasterBand::IRasterIO() and GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() (#5713)
  • RasterIO: small optimization in generic RasterIO() implementation to avoid loading partial tiles at right and/or bottom edges of the raster when they are going to be completely written
  • Fix crash when calling GetTiledVirtualMem() on non-Linux platform (#5728)
  • Add GDAL_OF_INTERNAL flag to avoid dataset to be registered in the global list of open datasets
  • GDALDriver::CreateCopy(): accept _INTERNAL_DATASET=YES as creation option, so as to avoid the returned dataset to be registered in the global list of open datasets
  • Implement GDALColorTable::IsSame()
  • GDALPamDataset: do not serialize dataset metadata unless it has been set through GDALDataset::SetMetadata() or GDALDataset::SetMetadataItem()
  • GDALLoadTabFile: add TAB_APPROX_GEOTRANSFORM=YES/NO configuration option to decide if an approximate geotransform is OK (#5809)
  • Optimize copy efficiency from tiled JPEG2000 images
  • Avoid fetching remote non-existing resources for sidecar files, when using /vsicurl/ with a URL that takes arguments (#5923)

Algorithms:

  • RPC transformer: fix near interpolation in RPC DEM (#5553)
  • RPC transformer: take into account nodata in RPC DEM (#5680)
  • RPC transformer: add RPC_DEM_MISSING_VALUE transformer option to avoid failure when there's no DEM at the transformed point (#5730)
  • RPC transformer: in DEM mode, implement optimization, in specific conditions (input points at same longitude, DEM in EPSG:4326) to extract several elevations at a time
  • TPS transformer: fix crash if the forward or backward transform cannot be computed (#5588)
  • OpenCL warper: remove unused variable in bilinear resampling that can cause compilation error (#5518)
  • OpenCL wraper: fix code compilation with NVIDIA OpenCL (#5772)
  • Overview: Fix and speed-up cubic resampling in overview computation to take into account scaling factor (#5685)
  • Overview: ignore alpha=0 values when compute an average overview of an alpha band; and also avoid memory errors when calling GetMaskBand()/GetMaskFlags() after overview computation if GetMaskXXX() has been called before (#5640)
  • Overview: avoid crash when computing overview with a X dimension much smaller than Y dimension (#5794)
  • GDALRegenerateOverviewsMultiBand(): fix stride calculation error with certain raster dimensions (#5653)
  • Warper: numerous speed optimizations (SSE2 specific code, more fast code paths, ...)
  • Warper: fix Cubic and Bilinear resampling to work correctly with downsizing (#3740)
  • Warper: fix and optimize CubicSpline
  • Warper: regardless of the warping memory limit, add heuristics to determine if we must split the target window in case the 'fill ratio' of the source dataset is too low (#3120)
  • Warper: accept warping options METHOD=NO_GEOTRANSFORM and DST_METHOD=NO_GEOTRANSFORM to run gdalwarp on ungeoreferenced images
  • Warper: fix GDALSuggestedWarpOutput() wrong extent in some circumstances (e.g. dataset of big dimension with world coordinates) (#5693)
  • Warper: fix integer overflow when reprojecting into an area with (part of) bounds completely outside of the source projection (#5789)
  • Warper: add min,max,med,q1 and q3 resampling algorithms (#5868)
  • Warper: add a SRC_COORD_PRECISION warping option to help getting more reproducable output when -wm parameter changes (#5925)
  • Warper: fix failure in GDALSuggestedWarpOut2() when top-left and bottom-right corners tranform to the same point (#5980)
  • GDALReprojectImage(): takes into account nodata values set on destination dataset
  • Median cut and dithering: optimizations and enhancements to deal with 8-bit precision (only if using internal interface for now)
  • rasterfill: add option to specify driver to use for temporary files
  • Polygonize: speed optimization: do not try to build the polygon for pixels that are masked by the mask band (i.e. alpha, nodata, etc...). Can considerably speed-up processing when the nodata outline forms a very complex polygon

Utilities:

  • gdalinfo: display extra metadata domains attached to band, and refactor code a bit (#5542)
  • gdalinfo: add -oo option per RFC 46
  • gdalinfo: add -json switch (partial implementation of RFC 44)
  • gdaladdo: add -oo option per RFC 46
  • gdaladdo: add warning when subsampling factor 1 specified
  • gdal_translate: add -oo option per RFC 46
  • gdal_translate: add -r and -tr options per RFC 51
  • gdal_translate: add a -projwin_srs option to be able to express -projwin coordinates in another SRS than the one of the dataset
  • gdal_translate: support -'outsize avalue 0' or '-outsize 0 avalue' to preserve aspect ratio
  • gdal_translate: avoid preserving statistics when changing data type in situations where clamping can occur
  • gdal_translate: adjust RPC metadata (pixel/line offset/scale) when subsetting/rescaling, instead of just discarding it
  • gdal_translate: don't recopy band units if rescaling or unscaling is involved (#3085)
  • gdal_translate: increase GDAL_MAX_DATASET_POOL_SIZE default value to 450. (#5828)
  • gdal_translate: preserve NBITS image structure metadata when possible
  • gdalwarp: add -oo option per RFC 46
  • gdalwarp: add -te_srs option to specify -te in a SRS which isn't the target SRS
  • gdalwarp: add a -ovr option to select which overview level to use, and default to AUTO. Also add a generic OVERVIEW_LEVEL=level open option, and make it available in standard VRT (#5688)
  • gdalwarp: initialize destination dataset to no_data value when automatically propagating source nodata (#5675)
  • gdalwarp: only apply INIT_DEST when processing the first input dataset (#5387)
  • gdalwarp: increase GDAL_MAX_DATASET_POOL_SIZE default value to 450. (#5828)
  • gdalwarp: do not preserve NODATA_VALUES metadata item in output dataset if adding an alpha channel with -dstalpha
  • gdalwarp: fix '-dstnodata none' to avoid read of uninitialized values (#5915)
  • gdalwarp: make -crop_to_cutline densify cutline in source SRS before reprojecting it to target SRS (#5951)
  • gdaldem: avoid too large files to be produced when using -co COMPRESS=xxxx -co TILED=YES (#5678)
  • gdallocationinfo: add -oo option
  • gdaltransform: add a -output_xy flag to restrict output coordinates to 'x y' only
  • gdal_grid: use nodata= parameter in the algorithm string to determine the nodata value to set on the band (#5605)
  • gdal_grid: fix crash in optimized mode with GCC 4.4 on 64bit (#5987)
  • gdalbuildvrt: add a -r option to specify the resampling algorithm
  • gdal_edit.py: add -unsetstats option (and fix -a_nodata to run on all bands, ant not just first one)
  • gdal_edit.py: add -stats and -approx_stats flags (patch by mwtoews, #5805)
  • gdal_edit.py: change -mo add metdata to existing one; add new option -unsetmd to clean existing metadata
  • gdal_edit.py: add -oo to specify open options
  • gdal_retile.py: fix to make it work with input images of different resolutions (#5749)
  • gdal_retile.py: implement progress bar (#5750)
  • gdal_merge.py: add timing information in verbose output
  • gdal_merge.py: take into account alpha band to avoid writing zones of source images that are fully transparent (#3669)
  • gdal2tiles.py: fix inverted long/lat in BoundingBox and Origin elements of tilemapresource.xml (#5336)
  • pct2rgb.py: make it work with color tables with less than 256 entries (#5555)
  • gdal_fillnodata.py: FillNodata: copy no data value to destination band when creating a dataset (if available) (#4625)
  • gdal_proximity.py: add a -use_input_nodata flag
  • gdalcompare.py: add options to suppress selected comparisons
  • gdalcompare.py: takes into account differences in overview bands
  • gdalcompare.py: compute difference on float to avoid integer underflow
  • epsg_tr.py: change to make it possible to export GEOCCS and COMPD_CS to proj.4 epsg and PostGIS spatial_ref_sys.sql files

Python samples:

  • Added swig/python/samples/jpeg_in_tiff_extract.py
  • Added dump_jp2.py
  • Added validate_jp2.py
  • Added build_jp2.py
  • Added gcps2ogr.py
  • tolatlong.py: report error when operating on a non-georeferenced dataset

AAIGRID:

  • Fix formatting string (#5731)

BAG driver:

  • change nodata value for uncertainty band to 1e6 (#5482)

BMP driver:

  • backout r17065 change that infered georeferencing based on the resolution information in the BMP header (#3578)

DIMAP driver:

  • DIMAP 2: handle the case where the Raster_Data element is in main file (#5018, #4826)
  • DIMAP 2: fix to extract geodetic SRS (#5018, #4826)
  • DIMAP 2: fix to extract geotransform from JPEG2000 file if not available in XML (#5018, #4826)

DDS driver:

  • Add ETC1 compression format support
  • Header correction for worldwind client

ECW driver:

  • correctly assign color interpretation to bands if order is unusual

ENVI driver:

  • avoid generating potentially corrupted .hdr files when opening in update mode; Write 'Arbitrary' instead of 'Unknown' as the projection name for an undefined SRS (#5467)
  • when writing, consider that LOCAL_CS SRS is like ungeoreferenced (#5467)

ERS driver:

GeoRaster driver:

  • fix Oracle SRID authority (#5607)
  • fix user-defined SRID issue (#5881)
  • new SRID search (#5911)

GIF driver:

  • add compatibility with giflib 5.1 (#5519)
  • fix crash on images without color table (#5792)
  • fix reading of interlaced images with giflib >= 5.0
  • validate the size of the graphic control extension block (#5793)
  • implement GetFileList() to report worldfile

GRASS driver:

  • GRASS 7.0.0 support (#5852)

GRIB driver:

  • avoid divide by zero while setting geotransform on 1xn or nx1 grib file (#5532à
  • allow writing PDS template numbers to all bands (#5144)

GTiff driver: New capabilities:

  • for JPEG-in-TIFF, use JPEG capabilities to decompress fast overview levels 2,4 and 8, to generate 'hidden' overviews used by RasterIO()
  • add DISCARD_LSB creation option (lossy compression) to be best used with PREDICTOR=2 and LZW/DEFLATE compression
  • when GTIFF_DIRECT_IO=YES is enabled, performance improvements in GTiffRasterBand::DirectIO() with Byte dataset and Byte buffer
  • implement dataset DirectIO()
  • add GTIFF_VIRTUAL_MEM_IO=YES/NO/IF_ENOUGH_RAM configuration option so that RasterIO() can rely on memory-mapped file I/O (when possible and supported by the OS)
  • support reading and created streamable files
  • for JPEG-compressed TIFF, avoid quantization tables to be emitted in each strip/tile and use optimized Huffman coding by default
  • avoid SetNoDataValue() to immediately 'cryztalize' the IFD
  • allow unsetting TIFFTAG_SOFTWARE, TIFFTAG_DOCUMENTNAME, etc... by removing them from metadata list or passing None as a value of SetMetadataItem() (#5619)
  • allow lossless copying of CMYK JPEG into JPEG-in-TIFF
  • set alpha on target by default when translating from Grey+Alpha
  • Internal overviews: for near, average, gauss and cubic, and pixel interleaving, make sure to use the same code path for compressed vs uncompressed overviews (#5701)
  • add RPCTXT=YES creation option to write sidecar _RPC.TXT file
  • internal libtiff updated to upstream libtiff 4.0.4beta
  • internal libgeotiff updated to upstream libgeotiff SVN head
  • speed optimization on write (at least in Vagrant) (#5914)
  • use importFromEPSG() when ProjectedCSTypeGeoKey is available (#5926)
  • on reading better deal with a few ESRI formulations of WebMercator (#5924)

Fixes:

  • when overriding metadata in update mode, make sure to clear it from PAM file (#5807)
  • fix handling of Mercator_2SP (#5791)
  • avoid TIFF directory to be written (at end of file) when creating a JPEG-in-TIFF file
  • for a paletted TIFF with nodata, set the alpha component of the color entry that matches the nodata value to 0, so as gdal_translate -expand rgba works properly
  • fix to make band SetMetadata(NULL) clear band metadata (#5628)
  • fix error message when requesting a non existing directory
  • check data type with PHOTOMETRIC=PALETTE
  • be robust to out-of-memory conditions with SplitBand and SplitBitmapBand
  • avoid using optimized JPEG --> JPEG-in-TIFF path if INTERLEAVE=BAND is specified with a 3-band JPEG
  • to make Python bindings happy, avoid emitting CE_Failure errors due to libtiff errors when we still manage to open the file (#5616)
  • avoid crash when reading GeoTIFF keys if the stored key type isn't the one expected
  • make sure to call libgeotiff gtSetCSVFilenameHook() method when linking against external libgeotiff
  • avoid/limit DoS with huge number of directories
  • clean spurious spaces when reading values from _RPC.TXT
  • serialize RPC in PAM .aux.xml file if using PROFILE != GDALGeoTIFF and RPB = NO
  • fix clearing of GCPs (#5945)
  • avoid generated corrupted right-most and bottom-most tiles for 12-bit JPEG-compressed (#5971)
  • make sure to use scanline write API when writing single-band single-strip 1-bit datasets

GRASS driver:

  • fix compilation issues against GRASS 7

HDF4 driver:

  • Add configuration support to be able to open more files simultaneously
  • Add class suffix to the parameter name when parsing HDF-EOS objects.
  • Fix AnyTypeToDouble() to use proper type (int instead of long) to work with DFNT_INT32/DFNT_UINT32 on 64-bit Linux (#5965)
  • MODIS: Set more correct values for PIXEL_/LINE_ OFFSET/STEP by comparing longitude and latitude subdatasets dimensions with main subdataset dimensions

HDF5 driver:

  • avoid opening BAG files in the case HDF5 and BAG are plugins, and HDF5 is registered before BAG

HFA driver:

  • fix recognition of Hotine Mercator Azimuth Center in Imagine format (and Swisstopo GeoTIFF) (#5551)
  • fix various hangs on invalid files
  • read projection even when it does not contain datum information (#4659)

HTTP driver/wrapper:

  • make it work with vector files too
  • fix handling of non VSI*L file on Windows

IRIS driver:

  • add support for the SHEAR data type (#5549)

JPEG2000 driver:

  • do expansion of 1-bit alpha channel to 8-bit by default. Can be controlled with the 1BIT_ALPHA_PROMOTION open option (default to YES)
  • add GMLJP2 creation option
  • add GMLJP2V2_DEF creation option to create a GMLJP2 v2 box
  • Add capability of reading GMLJP2 v2 embedded feature collections and annotations
  • Add read/write support for RPC in GeoJP2 box (#5948)

JP2ECW driver:

  • add metadata about JPEG2000 codestream and boxes (#5408)
  • Add 1BIT_ALPHA_PROMOTION open option (default to YES) to control expansion of 1-bit alpha channel to 8-bit
  • correctly assign color interpretation to bands if order is unusual
  • add WRITE_METADATA and MAIN_MD_DOMAIN_ONLY creation options to write GDAL metadata, JP2 XML boxes or XMP box
  • add GMLJP2V2_DEF creation option to create a GMLJP2 v2 box
  • Add capability of reading GMLJP2 v2 embedded feature collections and annotations
  • Add read/write support for RPC in GeoJP2 box (#5948)

JP2KAK driver:

  • Compatibility with Kakadu v7.5 (#4575, #5344)
  • Handle Kakadu version 7 allocator.finalize (#4575)
  • fix bug in vsil_target::end_rewrite() that prevented TLM index to be generated (#5585)
  • Add FLUSH in creation option XML (#5646)
  • Do expansion of 1-bit alpha channel to 8-bit by default. Can be controlled with the 1BIT_ALPHA_PROMOTION open option (default to YES)
  • add GMLJP2V2_DEF creation option to create a GMLJP2 v2 box
  • Add capability of reading GMLJP2 v2 embedded feature collections and annotations
  • Add read/write support for RPC in GeoJP2 box (#5948)

JP2OpenJPEG driver:

  • Support writing arbitrary number of bands. (#5697)
  • Generate cdef box when transparency is needed. Add NBITS, 1BIT_ALPHA and ALPHA creation options (#5697)
  • add INSPIRE_TG (for conformance with Inspire Technical Guidelines on Orthoimagery), PROFILE, JPX and GEOBOXES_AFTER_JP2C creation option (#5697)
  • add GMLJP2V2_DEF creation option to create a GMLJP2 v2 box
  • Add capability of reading GMLJP2 v2 embedded feature collections and annotations
  • add PRECINCTS creation option (#5697)
  • allow several quality values to be specified with QUALITY creation option. Add TILEPARTS, CODEBLOCK_WIDTH and CODEBLOCK_HEIGHT options (#5697)
  • support reading&writing datasets with unusual order of band color interpretation (#5697)
  • add WRITE_METADATA and MAIN_MD_DOMAIN_ONLY creation options to write GDAL metadata, JP2 XML boxes or XMP box (#5697)
  • add support for reading/writing/updating IPR box (from/into xml:IPR metadata domain) (#5697)
  • add YCC creation option to do RGB->YCC MCT, and turn it ON by default (#5634)
  • add USE_SRC_CODESTREAM=YES experimental creation option, to reuse the codestream of the source dataset unmodified
  • support reading & writing images with a color table (#5697)
  • support update mode for editing metadata and georeferencing (#5697)
  • add compatibility with OpenJPEG 2.1 (#5579)
  • fix warning when reading a single tile image whose dimensions are not a multiple of 1024 (#5480)
  • Add 1BIT_ALPHA_PROMOTION open option (default to YES) to control expansion of 1-bit alpha channel to 8-bit
  • Add read/write support for RPC in GeoJP2 box (#5948)
  • limit number of file descriptors opened

JPEG driver:

  • use EXIF overviews if available
  • add EXIF_THUMBNAIL creation option to generate an EXIF thumbnail
  • use optimized Huffman coding to reduce file size
  • add support for reading and writing COMMENT
  • optimize whole image reading with dataset IRasterIO()
  • report non-fatal libjpeg errors as CE_Warning (or CE_Failure if GDAL_ERROR_ON_LIBJPEG_WARNING = TRUE) (#5667)
  • in compressor, increase default val of max_memory_to_use to 500MB

JPIPKAK driver:

  • avoid symbol collision with kdu_cpl_error_message from JP2KAK driver
  • reset the bNeedReinitialize flag after a timeout (#3626)

KMLSuperOverlay driver:

  • fix truncated raster on 32 bit builds (#5683)
  • make Identify() more restrictive to avoid false positives

L1B driver:

  • add support for little-endian LRPT datasets (#5645)
  • expose band mask when there are missing scanlines (#5645)
  • expose WGS-84 or GRS-80 datum if read from header record (#5645)

MAP driver:

  • retrieve the image filename in a case insensitive way (#5593)

MBTiles driver:

  • better detection of 4 bands dataset and take into account alpha component of color table in RasterIO() (#5439)
  • avoid wrong detection of 3 bands when finding paletted PNG in /vsicurl mode (#5439)
  • fix dimension computation when opening a single tile dataset
  • better computation of extent from min/max of tile coordinates, for a single zoom level
  • use standard EPSG:3857 origin to fix a ~8m shift (#5785)

MEM driver:

  • implement optimized versions of raster band and dataset IRasterIO()

MSG driver:

  • fix compilation problem (#5479)
  • fix memory leaks (#5541)

NetCDF driver:

  • Force block size to 1 scanline for bottom-up datasets if nBlockYSize != 1 (#5291)
  • Fix computation of inverse flattening (#5858)
  • In case the netCDF driver is registered before the GMT driver, avoid opening GMT files
  • Fix crash on opening a NOAA dataset (#5962)

NGSGEOID driver:

  • make Identify() more restrictive

NITF driver:

  • deal correctly with JPEG2000 NITF datasets that have a color table inboth Image Subheader and JP2 boxes, and for drivers that don't do color table expension
  • HISTOA TRE: put definition of TRE in conformance with STDI-0002 (App L page 14) and STDI-0006 (Page 57) (#5572)

OGDI driver:

OZI driver:

  • remove .map header detection from Identify() since this is actually handled by the MAP driver

PCIDSK driver:

  • close dataset in case of exception in PCIDSK2Dataset::LLOpen() (#5729)

PCRaster driver:

  • Allign libcsf code with PCRaster raster format code (#5843)
  • Implement Create() (#5844)
  • Improve handling of no-data value (#5953)

PDF driver:

  • add compatibility with Poppler 0.31.0
  • in the OGC Best practice case, switch rotational terms of the geotransform matrix (gt[2] and gt[4])
  • in the OGC Best practice case, handle rotations of 90 and 270 degrees.
  • advertize LAYERS metadata domain
  • deal with OHA- datum (Old Hawaiian)
  • fix compilation problem with Podofo on Windows (patch by keosak, #5469)
  • add sanity check on page count

PDS driver:

  • Added support for SPECTRAL_QUBE objects used e.g. by THEMIS instrument of Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

PNG driver:

  • add creation options to write metadata in TEXT/iTXt chunks
  • optimize whole image reading with dataset IRasterIO()
  • Internal libpng: update to 1.2.52

PostgisRaster driver:

  • Fix read of metadata for tables with multiple raster cols (#5529)

Rasterlite driver:

  • accept space in filename

RPFTOC driver:

  • add tweak for weird relative directory names in the A.TOC file (#5979)

VRT driver:

  • add handling of a shared='0' attribute on <SourceFilename> to open sources in non-shared mode, and VRT_SHARED_SOURCE config option that can be set to 0 in case the shared attribute isn't there (#5992)
  • VRT warp: make selection of source overview work (#5688)
  • VRT warp: expose as many overviews in warped dataset as there are in source dataset, and make warped VRT honour -ovr parameter of gdalwarp (#5688)
  • make sure nodata value set on VRT raster band is taken into account in statistics computation (#5463)
  • fix ComputeStatistics() on VRT that are a sub-window of source dataset (#5468)
  • VRT raw: fix corrupted serialization on Windows (#5531)
  • implement heuristics to determine if GetMinimum()/GetMaximum() should use the implementation of their sources of not. Can be overriden by setting VRT_MIN_MAX_FROM_SOURCES = YES/NO (#5444)
  • VRT warp: avoid to warp truncated blocks at right/bottom edges, so that scale computation is correct
  • fix RasterIO() to be able to fill buffers larger than 2GB (#5700)
  • fix performance problem when serializing into XML a big number of sources
  • do not output empty <Metadata> node on VRTDataset and VRTRasterBand elements
  • fix rounding of output window size on VRTSimpleSource (#5874)
  • add trick to make relativeToVRT works for a VRT-in-VRT
  • add more checks to CheckCompatibleForDatasetIO() to avoid issues with overview bands (#5954)
  • preserves relative links on reserialization of existing VRT (#5985)

USGSDEM driver:

  • take into account horizontal unit = ft in the UTM case (#5819)

TIL driver:

  • fix half pixel shift in geo registration (#5961)

WEBP driver:

  • Lazy uncompressed buffer allocation and optimize band-interleaved IRasterIO() for whole image reading

WMS driver:

  • Add support for ArcGIS server REST API
  • fix to make GDAL_DEFAULT_WMS_CACHE_PATH configuration option work as expected (#4540)
  • move the WMS layer name encoding to be done before the sub datasets URLs are created.

XYZ driver:

  • fix back line seeking with datasets that have not the same number of values per lines (#5488)
  • deal with lines that have missing values (but still regularly spaced)

OGR 2.0 - Overview of Changes

Core:

  • OGRPolygon::importFromWkt(): fix memleak when importing broken 2.5D polygon
  • Fix OGRFeature::SetGeometryDirectly() and SetGeomFieldDirectly() to free the passed geometry even if the method fails (#5623)
  • OGR SQL: Add hstore_get_value(hstore, key) function
  • OGR SQL: sanitize how we deal with field names expressed as table_name.field_name and "fieldname.with_point_inside". By default, use standard quoting rules, and be tolerant when there's no ambiguity
  • OGR SQL: support arbitrary boolean expression on ON clause of a JOIN
  • OGR SQL: accept AS keyword in 'FROM table_name AS alias' clause
  • OGR SQL: don't consider backslash-doublequote as an escape sequence when inside a single-quoted string literal
  • Add OGR_API_SPY mechanism (​http://www.gdal.org/ograpispy_8h.html)
  • Make OGRParseDate() recognize ISO 8601 format
  • ogr_core.h: only ignore -Wfloat-equal for IsInit() and not for the rest of the file and files that include it (#5299)
  • OGR layer algebra: properly initialize field maps to avoid Valgrind warnings in OGRLayer::Update() (#5778)
  • Make OGR_F_SetFieldBinary() set OFTString fields, mostly for testing purposes
  • OGR_G_CreateGeometryFromJson(): attach a WGS84 SRS to the returned geometry if the json object has no 'crs' member (#5922)

OGRSpatialReference:

  • Upgrade to EPSG v8.5 database
  • Proj.4 import: for HOM, make sure +no_off/no_uoff is preserved, and change default value of gamma parameter to be the same as alpha (#5511)
  • Proj.4 export: export Aitoff, Winkel I, Winkel II, Winkel-Tripel, Craster, Loximuthal, Quartic Authalic
  • Adding support for Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere without AUTHORITY SECTIONS (#3962)
  • Add QSC (Quadrilateralized_Spherical_Cube) projection, compatible with PROJ 4.9
  • Various fixes to put EXTENSION node before AUTHORITY and make it pass Validate() (#5724)
  • importFromEPSG()/exportToProj4(): avoid precision loss in TOWGS84 parameters, e.g. on Amersfoort / RD EPSG:4289 (​https://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/260)
  • Add OSRCalcInvFlattening() and OSRCalcSemiMinorFromInvFlattening(), and use them in various places (#5858)
  • Remove deprecated variant of OGRSpatialReference::importFromOzi() (#5932)

Utilities:

  • ogrinfo: add -oo option per RFC 46
  • ogrinfo: display dataset and layer metadata. Add -nomdd, -listmdd, -mdd all|domain options, like in gdalinfo. OGR VRT: add dataset and layer metadata support
  • ogrinfo: add -nocount and -noextent options
  • ogr2ogr: add -oo and -doo options per RFC 46
  • ogr2ogr: add -spat_srs option
  • ogr2ogr: turn string value to one element list if destination field is stringlist
  • ogr2ogr: fix problem with SRS when copying layers with multiple geometry columns with different SRS (#5546)
  • ogr2ogr: add special case for -update and GPKG and input=output
  • ogr2ogr: when copying a layer that has a source integer/integer64 field with same name as target FID column, avoid creating it into target layer and use its content as the FID value (#5845)
  • ogr2ogr: in non-append mode, if target layer has a FID creation option, reuse source FID name and source FIDs, unless -unsetFid is specified (#5845)
  • ogr2ogr: copy source dataset and layer metadata, unless disabled by -nomd. Additionnal dataset metadata can be set with -mo KEY=VALUE
  • ogr2ogr: add -ds_transaction to force dataset transactions, mainly for FileGDB driver
  • ogr2ogr: fix crash with -clipdst when a reprojection fails before (#5973)
  • ogrlineref: fix project if reper lies on first point or last point of line
  • ogr_layer_algebra.py: for Update, Clip and Erase, only creates attribute of input layer by default (#5976)

Other:

  • OGR WCTS removed from tree

Cross driver changes:

  • MSSQLSpatial and GPKG: use standardized 'GEOMETRY_NAME' option name. Add GEOMETRY_NAME to SQLite (#5816)
  • FileGDB and MySQL: use standardized 'FID' option name. SQLite: add a FID layer creation option (#5816)
  • SQLite, GPKG, PG, PGDump: in a newly created table, allow to create a integer field with same name of FID column (#5845)

BNA driver:

CartoDB:

  • add CARTODBFY layer creation option
  • launder layer and column names by default (#5904)
  • enable by default batch insertion of features in update mode
  • on a newly created layer, send new features created by CreateFeature() by chunks of a maximum size of 15 MB (configurable through CARTODB_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE).
  • implement deferred field creation
  • support boolean type
  • register tables with cdb_cartodbfytable()
  • fix creation of features with Date/DateTime/Time values
  • fix for multi-user account, and optimization for SQL layers
  • implement TestCapability() and CreateDataSource() similarly to PostgreSQL, i.e. redirect to Open() in update mode
  • accept a user column to have the same name of the FID (cartodb_id)
  • do automatic polygon->multipolygon promotion at creation time
  • in authenticated mode, retrieve all column information, including spatial info, default value and primary key in one single statement
  • use integer primary key of tables, when available, to scroll faster among features instead of using OFFSET/LIMIT (#5906)

CSV driver:

  • add optional field type detection with AUTODETECT_TYPE=YES open option
  • add QUOTED_FIELDS_AS_STRING open option that default to NO. So by default, if AUTODETECT_TYPE=YES, the content of quoted fields will be tested for real, integer,... data types
  • fix to avoid truncation of WKT geometries to 8000 characters (#5508)
  • fix segfault when reading allCountries.txt of geonames.org (#5668)
  • accept space as separator as input/output, and add MERGE_SEPARATOR=YES/NO open option

DXF driver:

FileGDB driver:

  • add layer creation option to set CONFIGURATION_KEYWORD
  • avoid error message when failing to import SRS from WKID code (might be an ESRI code for example)
  • do not reject features with null geometry
  • use LatestWKID when available (#5638)
  • avoid emitting error when opening a FileGDB v9, so that OpenFileGDB can be tried to open it, in the case FileGDB is a plugin (#5674)
  • fix CreateFeature() to work when a esriFieldTypeGlobalID field is not set
  • report width of string fields (#5806)
  • add compatibility with FileGDB SDK v1.4
  • enable bulk load on newly created layers

GeoJSON driver:

  • implement Date/Time/DateTime field type detection
  • expose a 'id' object, of type string, directly on Feature object (not in its properties) as a field
  • add FLATTEN_NESTED_ATTRIBUTES and NESTED_ATTRIBUTE_SEPARATOR open options
  • TopoJSON: establish layer schema from objects properties (#5870)
  • implement automatic scrolling through result sets of ArcGIS GeoServices Feature Service (#5943)
  • accept and skip UTF-8 BOM (#5630)
  • ESRIJson: parse correctly rings of esriGeometryPolygon objects to build correct Polygon or MultiPolygon (#5538)
  • avoid truncation of real numbers on reading (#5882)
  • internal libjson-c: Fix to read floating point numbers in non C locale (#5461)
  • improve TestCapability(ODsCCreateLayer)
  • make string comparison for authority name case insensitive so as to recognize lowercase 'epsg' (#4995)
  • support reading Feature without geometry field

GeoRSS driver:

  • fix to parse ATOM feed documents with atom: namespace (#5871)

GME driver:

  • Added fixes discovered while using v.in.ogr and v.out.ogr in GRASS

GML driver:

  • add XSD=filename open option
  • add FORCE_SRS_DETECTION, INVERT_AXIS_ORDER_IF_LAT_LONG, CONSIDER_EPSG_AS_URN, READ_MODE, EXPOSE_GML_ID, EXPOSE_FID, DOWNLOAD_SCHEMA and REGISTRY open options
  • fix bug that prevented multiple instanciation of the reader with Xerces backend (#5571)
  • parse correctly GML geometries whose srsDimension attribue is on top-level geometry element and not on posList (#5606)
  • add datasource option SRSDIMENSION_LOC=GEOMETRY to be able to write srsDimension attribute on top level geometry element, default on posList unchanged (#5066)
  • add support for reading layers resulting from a WFS 2.0 join query
  • read/write top <gml:description> and <gml:name> as DESCRIPTION and NAME metadata items. Also add GML_ID, DESCRIPTION and NAME creation options
  • support to reader response to CSW GetRecords queries
  • Fix incorrect geometry cast when reading GML topogeometries (#5715)
  • VFR: fix ST_Z type (changes) -- list all layers
  • VFR: include also non-spatial (removed) features (ZaniklePrvky) in type ST_Z (changes)
  • VFR: use String when 32-bit integer wasn't wide enough
  • VFR: add support for UVOH file type
  • VFR: add missing support for OriginalniHraniceOmpv geometry
  • VFR: update GFS files to RFC31 (OGR 64bit Integer Fields and FIDs)
  • update RUIAN GFS files: add missing GMLFeatureClasses to OB type (SpravniObvody, Mop, Momc)
  • add support for parsing .xsd with a <choice> of polygonProperty and multiPolygonProperty
  • remove wrong case insensitive comparison related to gml_registry.xml use
  • various fixes to better deal with ArcByCenterPoint() as found in FAA AIXML files
  • make Expat parser accept trailing nul characters
  • correctly record path to attribute in case of attribute located on a nested element when .gfs is created with GML_ATTRIBUTES_TO_OGR_FIELDS=YES
  • fix GML_ATTRIBUTES_TO_OGR_FIELDS=YES to work correctly with xlink:href too (#5970
  • make GML_EXPOSE_GML_ID to be honoured on WFS documents

GPKG driver:

  • add support for non-spatial layers via the gdal_aspatial extension (#5521)
  • add support for creating spatial index
  • add layer metadata read/write support
  • implement ST_GeometryType(), GPKG_IsAsisgnable() and ST_SRID() to be compatible with Geometry Type Triggers and SRS ID Triggers Extensions
  • on creation, use GEOMCOLLECTION (instead of GEOMETRYCOLLECTION) (#5937)
  • make SELECT expressions passed to ExecuteSQL() be evaluated by SQLite
  • make it possible to use spatialite 4.2.0 SQL functions
  • add a 'INDIRECT_SQLITE' dialect that goes through the VirtualOGR mechanism (e.g. for compat with older Spatialite)
  • allow table names with dash character (#5472)
  • emit warning when required extensions are not implemented
  • disable PRAGRAM integrity_check by default, since it can be expensive on big files
  • read-only support for tables without integer primary key
  • fix Date and DateTime support
  • implement TEXT(maxwidth) type in read and creation
  • implement deferred table creation
  • fix reporting of geometry type for 2.5D (previous behaviour had the effect to turn to wkbUnknown)
  • put correct value (1) in gpkg_geometry_columns for 2.5D tables (#5481)
  • fix component geometry type of 3D MultiGeometries (#5629)
  • fix GetExtent() crash on layers without extent set in gpkg_contents (#5471)
  • avoid leak when a table has more than one FID column
  • accept spatial tables whose geometry field is declared as BLOB
  • recognize both GeomCollection and GeometryCollection as possible values, until GeoPackage SWG clears what is the official value
  • escape all column names in SQL (#5520)
  • accept geometries with Spatialite format, that can be returned with issuing a SQL request using spatialite functions
  • enable Spatialite 4.3 'amphibious' mode to avoid explicit cast to Spatialite geometries

GPSBabel driver:

  • automatically open .igc files, implement Identify() and add open options
  • advertize creation option

GTM driver:

  • declare OLCCreateField and OLCSequentialWrite capabilities

IDRISI driver:

  • fix support for multi-ring polygons (#5544)

ILI driver:

  • Use Ili1TransferElement written by ili2c 4.5.5 and newer
  • Fix crash in polygon geometry reading
  • Fix reading SURFACE polygons with multiple rings
  • Fix reading tables with polygon type
  • Support curve geometries for ILI1 and ILI2.
  • Add a MODEL open option

ISIS3 driver:

KML driver:

LIBKML driver:

  • add support for reading gx:MultiTrack
  • rework libkml singleton factory management (#5775)

MITAB driver:

MSSQLSpatial driver:

  • Implement SPATIAL_INDEX layer creation option for MSSQL (#5563)
  • Implement support for WKB geometry upload (#5682)
  • Fix schema handling in MSSQL driver (#5401)
  • Fix spatial geometry field handling (#5474)
  • Bind string fields to unicode string columns in the database (#5239)
  • Fix recognizing image columns as geometry columns for the select layers. (#5498)
  • Fix issue when creating non-spatial table (#5696)
  • Fix to read metadata if the tables are specified in the connection string (#5796)
  • Fix crash if the tablename is specified in the connection string (#5826)
  • Include geometry column name in Update statement (#5930)
  • Implement FID layer creation option (#5816)
  • Fix issue when removing an MSSQL spatial layer

MySQL:

  • thread-safe initialization of mysql client library (#5528)

NAS driver:

  • implement wfs:update (adds new context 'update' and fields "endet" and "anlass" to "delete" layer).
  • also assign xlink:href attributes as layer attribute (not only in "alkis_beziehungen" layer; #5372)
  • fix filtering on OGR_GEOMETRY special field
  • make chevrons configurable by NAS_INDICATOR

OCI driver:

  • add a ADD_LAYER_GTYPE=YES/NO layer creation option that defaults to YES to enforce a layer geometry type and is used to retrieve the layer geometry type when listing layers (#3754)
  • Fix FID (multi_load=off, OGRNullFID) - start with 1 (not -1) (#5454)
  • use VARCHAR2 instead of VARCHAR for unsupported types
  • Fix "ORA-00972: identifier is too long" error (#5466)
  • Fix memory leaks (#5599)
  • Fix creation of date and datetime fields (#5600)
  • initialize member variable to avoid UpdateLayerExtents() to be called randomly on non spatial tables (#5376)
  • avoid spatial index to be created each time SyncToDisk() is called
  • fix memory leak in DeleteLayer(const char*)
  • fix reading of 2D geometries that were always turned as 3D
  • in layers returned by ExecuteSQL(), only expose geometry column if there's one
  • force NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS to ". " (#5709)

ODBC driver:

  • try alternate DSN template for 64bit ODBC
  • make ODBC driver honour PGEO_DRIVER_TEMPLATE config. option (and also MDB_DRIVER_TEMPLATE in case PGEO_DRIVER_TEMPLATE isn't defined) (#5594)

ODS driver:

  • fix export of OFTDate fields that were exported as string

OpenAir driver:

  • tweak detection logic to read beyond first 10KB bytes when needed (#5975)

OpenFileGDB driver:

  • add compatibility with .gdbtable files bigger than 4 GB (#5615)
  • support opening files with ConfigurationKeyword=MAX_FILE_SIZE_4GB or MAX_FILE_SIZE_256TB (#5615)
  • fix occasionnal write-after-end-of-buffer (#5464)
  • avoid error message when failing to import SRS from WKID code (might be an ESRI code for example)
  • fix spatial filter with GeneralPolygon shapes (#5591)
  • fix for reading GDB with string fields with a default value length > 127 (#5636)
  • better handling of certain definitions of raster columns
  • use LatestWKID when available (#5638)
  • increase accepted size for field description zone up to 10 MB (#5660)
  • fix ResetReading() on SQL layer with ORDER BY on indexed column (#5669)
  • add support for non spatial GDB v9 tables (#5673)
  • improve error reporting when file exists but cannot be opened due to permission problem (#5838)
  • report width of string fields (#5806)
  • try to deal more gracefully with inconsistent nValidRecordCount vs nTotalRecordCount values (#5842)
  • report 25D layer geometry type on FileGDB v9 tables when relevant
  • optimize sequential reading of sparse layers
  • avoid warning when opening a00000004.gdbtable
  • disable feature count optimization with IS NOT NULL on an index column

OSM driver:

  • add mechanism to compute fields from other fields/tags with SQL expressions. Apply it for z_order on lines layer
  • fix random crash, particularly on MacOSX (#5465)
  • add CONFIG_FILE, USE_CUSTOM_INDEXING, COMPRESS_NODES, MAX_TMPFILE_SIZE and INTERLEAVED_READING open options

PG driver:

  • use COPY mode by default (unless PG_USE_COPY is set to NO) when inserting features in a newly create table (#5460)
  • add UNLOGGED=YES/NO layer creation option to create unlogged tables (improved version of patch by Javier Santana, #4708)
  • implement deferred loading of table list, to optimize ExecuteSQL() (#5450)
  • implement optimization for spatial table listing for PostGIS 2.x
  • implement deferred creation of tables to capture all attribute and geometry column creations into a single CREATE TABLE statement (#5547)
  • change "No field definitions found" from fatal error to debug
  • when creating a table and filling it, avoid re-reading the table definition from PG system tables (#5495)
  • better handling of SRS authority name different than EPSG (authority code must still be integral)
  • fix crash when writing a StringList with 0 element (#5655)
  • emit errors instead of debug messages when postgres issues an error (#5679)
  • fix to make ExecuteSQL('CREATE DATABASE foo') work
  • fix regression that prevented to retrieve more than 500 features from a connection with tables= parameter and on a SQL result layer (#5837)
  • PG/PGDump: fix truncation of fields to work with multi-byte UTF-8 characters (#5854)

PGDump driver:

  • switch to DROP_TABLE=IF_EXISTS by default (#5627)
  • fix crash when writing a StringList with 0 element (#5655)

PGeo driver:

  • try alternate DSN template for 64bit ODBC

REC driver:

Shapefile driver:

  • add SPATIAL_INDEX layer creation option (#5562)
  • support .prj files with UTF-8 BOM
  • fill 'date of last update' header with current time instead of dummy date, and add a DBF_DATE_LAST_UPDATE layer creation option to override this with a fixed date (#3919)
  • fix reading of shapefiles whose .shx is non conformant (#5608)
  • fix writing values up to 253 in OFTReal fields with 0 decimal places (#5625)
  • delete implicit FID field as soon as we CreateField a real one
  • GetExtent(): don't trust extent in header if it contains Not-A-Number values (#5702)
  • make REPACK compact .shp if SetFeature() is called and changes one geometry size (#5706)
  • add check not to cut unicode character while cut the string lengnt for field max length during SetFeature
  • avoid reading whole .shx at open time for /vsicurl/
  • add SHAPE_REWIND_ON_WRITE configuration option that can be set to NO to disable correction of ring winding order on write. Useful when dealing with MultiPolygon that are MultiPatch objects in fact (#5888)
  • Make ENCODING layer creation option prioritary over SHAPE_ENCODING config. option

SOSI driver:

  • remove error noise (#5710)

S57 driver:

  • various compliance fixes in ISO8211 and S57 writer (#5798)
  • make it possible to set LNAM_REFS=OFF as advertized in the doc

SQLite/Spatialite driver:

  • SQLite/Spatialte: add support for multiple geometry colunn tables, accordingly with RFC 41 (#5494)
  • SQLite SQL dialect: Add hstore_get_value(hstore, key) function
  • remove 'T' suffix when formatting the content of a Date field (#5672)
  • optimize CreateFeature() when fields can be null or not null from one feature to another one
  • Spatialite: improve insertion performance by disabling triggers and doing the job ourselves
  • Fix segmentation fault when executing OGR2SQLITE_Register() when compiling against sqlite 3.8.7 (#5725)
  • make GetFIDColumn() work when run as first method call (#5781)
  • emit warning when reading text values in a integer/real field (possible since SQLite has no strong typing)
  • support reading date/datetime from Julian day floating point representation

SUA driver:

  • tweak detection logic to read beyond first 10KB bytes when needed (#5975)

SXF driver:

  • Fix SXF file version check (#5456)
  • Fix wrong Miller Cylindrical projection string
  • Fix encoding issues (#5647)
  • Fix extract z value to OGRGeometry
  • Fix case sensitivity of RSC file

VFK driver:

  • recode also header values
  • process DKATUZE from header properly
  • handle also duplicated records
  • check attribute 'parametry_spojeni'
  • speed-up GetFeatureCount()
  • fix reading properties. Escape characters for SQL
  • change SRS from EPSG 2065 to 5514
  • fix reading SBP datablock (fix mismatch when reading from file and db)

VRT driver:

  • do not propagate ignoring of x and y cols of a PointFromColumns to the source layer (#5777)
  • add an optional 'name' attribute on FID element, so as to be able to force the report of a FID column name even if it is not exposed as a regular field (related to #5845)
  • handle optional <OpenOptions><OOI key='key'>value</OOI></OpenOptions> to specify open options

Tiger driver:

  • Fix potential buffer underflow when providing /vsistdin/ to Tiger driver (#5567)

WAsP driver:

  • added options and changed output precision to match WAsP Map Editor
  • improve TestCapability(ODsCCreateLayer)

WFS driver:

  • automatically enable paging if WFS 2.0 capabilities report paging support
  • evaluate SELECT with JOIN on server-side for a Join-capable WFS 2.0 server
  • add a TRUST_CAPABILITIES_BOUNDS open option, that can be set to YES to trust layer bounds declared in GetCapabilities response, for faster GetExtent() runtime (#4041)
  • add INVERT_AXIS_ORDER_IF_LAT_LONG, CONSIDER_EPSG_AS_URN and EXPOSE_GML_ID open options
  • add capability to use spatial functions ST_xxxxx() as server-side filters
  • add dataset and layer metadata
  • allow SELECT with several ORDER BY columns
  • report name of geometry column
  • Add COOKIE option (#5824)
  • when parsing a layer schema without geometry from the GML .xsd, do not expose a geometry field at the WFS layer level (#5834)

XLSX driver:

  • fix column numbering when there are more than 26 columns (#5774)

XPlane driver:

  • add support for Taxi Location 1300 record found in V1000

SWIG Language Bindings

All bindings:

Java bindings:

  • Pass eRWFlag to allow both reading or writing. Write was broken in DatasetRasterIO().
  • updates to generate maven artifacts

Perl bindings:

  • The breaking changes are described in more detail in swig/perl/Changes-in-the-API-in-2.0.
  • More comprehensive use of strings as constants (such as capabilities); they are also taken from bindings, which added new ones, and not hard-coded.
  • New classes (e.g., VSIF, GeoTransform, GeomFieldDefn) and new methods (e.g., constant lists, Dataset::SpatialReference).
  • Much improved documentation and switch to Doxygen::Filter::Perl.
  • New test codes.
  • Errors are confessed with stack trace and often caught earlier with better messages.
  • Use of attributes is deprecated and methods have been added to replace them.
  • Multiple geometry fields have necessitated some changes in schema and field related methods.
  • More support for named parameters (i.e., hashes as arguments).
  • NoDataValue: set max float if undef is given.
  • Unit: set if undef is given.
  • Also other changes that will also remove some "use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry" warnings.
  • Automatic handling of SQL result layers.
  • Fix issue with index attribute for field meta data (schema) (#5662)
  • Warn if attempt to create non-integer column for colors.
  • Remove prefix GCP from GCP swig made attributes.

Python bindings:

  • add optional buf_xsize, buf_ysize and buf_type parameters to Dataset.ReadAsArray() and Dataset.LoadFile(), and use dataset RasterIO for better efficiency
  • avoid generating Python exception when PyString_FromStringAndSize() fails and GDAL errors as Python exceptions are disabled
  • Band.ReadRaster() and Dataset.ReadRaster(): clear the buffer in case there are holes in it due to odd spacings specified by the user
  • Fix hang of Python in case of repeated call to gdal/ogr.UseExceptions() and CE_Warning emitted (#5704)
  • for Python 2, accept unicode string as argument of Feature.SetField(idx_or_name, value) (#4608)
  • for Python 2, accept Unicode strings to be passed as key and/or value of the dictionary passed to SetMetadata() (#5833)
  • fix processing error of ogr_python.i with SWIG 3 (#5795)
  • NUMPY driver: avoid returning CE_None in GetGeoTransform() when there's no geotransform set (#5801)
  • Make GetFieldAsBinary() work with OFTString fields
  • For Python3 compat, make Feature.GetField() use GetFieldAsBinary() if GetFieldAsString() fails (#5811)
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