GDAL/OGR 2.0.2 Release Notes

The 2.0.2 release is a bug fix release.

Build(Windows)

• Fix linking error with MSVC_VER=1900 (VS 2015) (#6255)

Build(Unix)

• Add pkg-config support for libkml fork, in addition to the old detection method. The libkml/libkml fork on GitHub supports pkg-config and no longer includes the third_party libraries. (#6077)
• gdalserver.c: Add include of signal.h for SIGPIPE and signal() (#6193)
• fix detection of FreeXL on MinGW/MSYS (#6330)

Port

• CPLGetValueType(): improve heuristics to avoid detecting some WKB strings as real numbers (#6128)
• Fix CPLGetValueType() to recognize D1 as a string and not a real number (#6305)
• /vsistdout/: flush when closing the handle (#6149)
• CPLFormFilename(): use '/' directory separator on Windows on /vsicurl_streaming/ files (#6310)

GDAL Core

• Fix memory leaks if GDALAllRegister is not called (#6139)
• Make private member of GDALDataset really opaque so as to be able to extend it without breaking the C++ ABI (#6163)
• Avoid deadlock when writing 2 datasets in 2 threads (#6163)
• Block cache: fix excessive memory consumption when dealing with datasets with different block sizes (#6226)
• Fix leak in GetMetadataItem() on GDALProxyPoolDataset (#6238)
• MDReader: do no attempt reading side-car files on /vsisubfile/ (#6241)
• Fix potential buffer overflow in PamHistogramToXMLTree() (#6266)

GDAL Algorithms

• Warp: avoid really excessive processing time for some warping with target areas completely off the source raster (especially when involving RPC) (#6182)

Utilities

• ogr2ogr: prevent from the gt setting to override transaction group size of 1 set by skipfailures earlier (#2409)
• ogr2ogr: fix -skip mode to rollback current transaction in case of failed insertion (#6328)
• gdalmove.py: fix to run with GDAL 2.0 gdal.InvGeoTransform() signature (#6173)
• gdaladdo: emit error message if passed an invalid dataset name (#6240)
• gdalwarp: fix -srcnodata to not put garbage values as target dstnodata (#6315)

GDAL drivers

BSB driver:

• remove broken and useless logic to deal with extension lines in headers (#6307)

ECRG driver:

• fix base34 decoding and Windows filename handling (#6271)

GTiff driver:

• [2.0 regression] fix problem with implicit overviews of JPEG-compressed files (#6308)
• fix potential memleak in GTiffDataset::GetJPEGOverviewCount() (#6318)
• call XTIFFInitialize() in LibgeotiffOneTimeInit() as the former isn't thread-safe, so better call it from the later which is thread-safe (#6163)
• fix writing other angular units than degree (namely arc-second, arc-minute, grad, gon and radian) (#6171)
• fix reading angular unit value for angular units than degree (#6171)
• do not use VirtualMemIO optimization on compressed /vsimem/ files (#6195)
• fix DirectIO() mode with complex types and inverted endianness (#6198)
• correctly set GTRasterTypeGeoKey=RasterPixelIsPoint if AREA_OR_POINT=Point but there is no SRS set (#6225)
• do not read large 'one row' JBIG compressed files with the scanline API (#6264)
• fix SetMetadata() to properly clear existing PAM metadata (complement to #5807)
• prevent potential out of bounds read to TIFFTAG_EXTRASAMPLES (#6282)
• do not use first directory as potential mask, to avoid assertion in GTiffDataset::SetDirectory() (#6287)
• reject files with strips/tiles/scanlines bigger than 2 GB to avoid 32 bit integer overflow. Also in case of files with Contig PlanarConfiguration do not make reading one block for band 2 OK when reading for band 1 issued an error (#6288)

GPKG driver:

• fix various issues in update scenarios when interacting with the GDAL block cache that could result in lost/corrupted band data to be written in tiles (#6309)
• fix potential use of freed sqlite temporary DB handle when generating overviews with partial tiles (#6335)

HFA driver:

• fix crash when nNumRuns = 0 with RLE compression (#6208)
• avoid potential out-of-bounds buffer write (#6286)

KMLSuperoverlay driver:

• [2.0 regression] fix errors happening with some RasterIO() requests involving resampling (#6311)

netCDF driver:

• fix one byte heap write overflow in NCDFTokenizeArray() (#6231)
• fix potential buffer overflows with uses of nc_inq_varname(), nc_inq_attname() and nc_get_att_text() (#6227)
• validate that gridmapping:GeoTransform has 6 values (#6244)
• NCDFIsGDALVersionGTE(): validate content of NC_GLOBAL#GDAL variable (#6245)

NITF driver:

• fix TRE parser to properly deal with variable length items not in first nesting level, such as ENGRDA (not added in nitf_spec.xml in this changeset) (#6285)

PDF driver:

• correctly take into account non-meter linear units with OGC BP encoding, and add support for US FOOT (#6292)

PDS driver:

• change default values of PDS_SampleProjOffset_Shift and PDS_LineProjOffset_Shift to 0.5 (#5941)

USGSDEM driver:

• fix CreateCopy() with VS 2015 (#6257)

VICAR driver:

• change PDS_SampleProjOffset_Shift and PDS_LineProjOffset_Shift default values to 0.5 (#5941)
• VICARKeywordHandler::Ingest(): fix potential buffer overflows (#6256)
• be robust to truncated files (#6321)

VRT driver:

• serialize NODATA and NoDataValue items with %.16g, e.g. so as to be able to hold large int32 nodata values (#6151)
• VRT raw: don't truncate last figure of ImageOffset if there are left space padding (#6290)

WMS driver:

• limit number of zoom levels for ArcGIS MapServer JSon (#6186)

XPM driver:

• fix vulnerabilities in reading (#6253)

OGR core

• OGRSQL: correctly sort NULL values in first positions (#6155)
• OGRLayer::SetIgnoredFields(): properly reset state of non first geometry fields (#6283)
• Make OGRLayer::SetSpatialFilter(GetSpatialFilter()) work with non empty spatial filter (#6284)
• OGRLayer::Erase(): do not discard input geometries that have no intersection with method layer (#6322)
• OGRFeature::SetGeometry()/SetGeometryDirectly(): make it work when passed geometry is the currently installed geometry (#6312)

OGRSpatialReference

• morphFromESRI(): map Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere to EPSG:3857 (#5924)
• morphFromESRI(): special case with PROJCS name 'WGS_84_Pseudo_Mercator' (#6134)
• OSR C API: fix declarations of OSRSetAxes() and OSRSetWagner(), and add missing OSRSetHOMAC(), OSRSetMercator2SP() and OSRSetTPED() (#6183)

OGR drivers

CSV driver:

• Make OGRCSVLayer::CreateGeomField() returns OGRERR_NONE in case of success instead of OGRERR_FAILURE (#6280)

GeoJSON driver:

• [2.0 regression] fix crash on null / non-json object features (#6166)
• make sure there's enough space to write the FeatureCollection bbox (#6262)

GML driver:

• serialize in .gfs file the name of the geometry element when it is 'geometry' since this is a particular case (#6247)
• fix logic error in BuildJointClassFromScannedSchema() (#6302)
• VFR: fix broken processing VFR ST_UVOH files (#6248)
• VFR: fix reading ZpusobOchrany attributes (#6258)

GPX driver:

• [2.0 regression] fix crash when parsing a 'time' extension element at route/track level (#6237)

ILI driver:

• Support for Surface polygon rings spread over multiple geometry records (#5099)

MITAB driver:

• add support for block sizes other than 512 bytes in .map files, for MapInfo 15.2 compatibility (#6298)
• read MID files with TAB delimiter and empty first field (#5405)
• use projection code 29 when exporting non-Polar Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (#5220)
• fix segfault when parsing a Region 0 (#6273)
• TABPolyline::ReadGeometryFromMIFFile(): fix segfaults on invalid geometries (#6273)
• TABRectangle::ReadGeometryFromMIFFile(): fix crash on malformed ROUNDRECT (#6273)

MSSQLSpatial driver:

• do not treat a primary key that is not of integer type as the FID (#6235)

NTF driver:

• fix potential buffer overflows when reading too short lines (#6277)

OpenFileGDB driver:

• fix min/max on columns without indices (#6150)
• fix import of MultiLineString Z geometries with several parts (#6332)

PG driver:

• fix memleak in ExecuteSQL() (#6179)
• avoid reseting error potentially emitted by ExecuteSQL() (#6194)

PGDump driver:

• fix issue with case of ogc_fid field in case the FID layer creation option is not set by user or by ogr2ogr (related to #6232)

Shape driver:

• fix REPACK crash on shapefile without .dbf (#6274)
• fix crash on MultiLineStringM shapes that have no M component (#6317)

VRT driver:

• fix editing with 'direct' geometry mode which could cause attribute column to be empty (#6289)

SWIG Language Bindings

Perl bindings:

• Fix incorrect signature in "shadow" feature of Geo::OGR::Feature new (#6181)
• Add missing osr.t to MANIFEST. Update Makefile.PL to the one in CPAN version.

Java bindings:

• GNUmakefile: add support for all hardening buildflags (#5998)