GDAL/OGR 2.2.3 Release Notes

The 2.2.3 release is a bug fix release.

Build

• nmake.opt: Ensure PDB is included in release DLL if WITH_PDB requested (#7055)

Port

• /vsicurl/ and derived filesystems: redirect ReadDir() to ReadDirEx() (#7045)
• /vsicurl/: enable redirection optimization on signed URLs of Google Cloud Storage. Helps for the PLScenes driver (#7067)
• /vsicurl/: fix 2.2 regression regarding retrieval of file size of FTP file (#7088)
• /vsis3/: fix to avoid invalid content to be sent if Write() writes more than 50 MB in a single call (#7058)
• /vsis3/: fix Seek(Tell(), SEEK_SET) fails if current position is not 0 (#7062)
• /vsis3/: fix support of non-ASCII characters in keys (#7143, #7146)
• Fix CPLCopyTree() that doesn't properly on MSVC 2015 (and possibly other platforms) (#7070)

Algorithms

• RPC transformer: set output coordinates to HUGE_VAL when failure occurs, so that a following coordinate transformation can detect the error too (#7090)
• GDALGrid() with linear algorithm: avoid assertions/segmentation fault when GDALTriangulationFindFacetDirected() fails (#7101)
• GDALComputeProximity(): fix int32 overflow when computing distances on large input datasets (#7102)
• GDALResampleChunk32R_Gauss: fix potential out of bounds access (​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=4056)

GDAL utilities

• gdalwarp: fix issue with GDALAdjustValueToDataType(Float32, +/- inf) that didn't preserve infinity, which affected gdalwarp -dstnodata inf (#7097)
• gdalwarp -crop_to_cutline: reduce number of iterations to find the appropriate densification (#7119)
• gdal_contour: return with non-0 code if field creation or contour generation failed (#7147)

GDAL drivers

GeoRaster driver:

• fix int overflow (#6999)

GPKG driver:

• speed-up statistics retrieval on non-Byte datasets (#7096)

GRIB driver:

• if GRIB_ADJUST_LONGITUDE_RANGE config option is set to YES, adjust the longitude range to be close to [-180,180] when possible for products whose left origin is close to 180deg. (#7103)

GSAG driver:

• avoid assertion on some files with nul characters (​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=3726)

GTiff driver:

• make sure that -co PHOTOMETRIC=RGB overrides the color interpretation of the first 3 bands of the source datasets (#7064)
• on reading use GeogTOWGS84GeoKey to override the defaults TOWGS84 values coming from EPSG code (#7144)
• fix potential crash when reading in RGBA mode with internal libtiff (​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=4157)
• fix potential crash with old-jpeg compression and internal libtiff (​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=4180)

HTTP driver:

• do not open the underlying dataset with GDAL_OF_SHARED, to avoid later assertion

JP2KAK driver:

• fix unix build with Kakadu 7.A and later (#7048, #7081)

JPEG driver:

• Add compatibility with libjpeg-turbo 1.5.2 that honours max_memory_to_use (cf ​https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/162)

JP2OpenJPEG driver:

• Add support for openjpeg 2.3 (#7074)

netCDF driver:

• fix raster read as nodata with Byte datatype, (valid_range={0,255} or _Unsigned = True) and negative _FillValue (#7069)
• be more tolerant on the formatting of standard parallel (space separated instead of {x,y,...} syntax), and accept up to 2/1000 error on spacing to consider a regular grid, to be able to read files provided by the national weather institute of Netherlands (KNMI) (#7086)

PDF driver:

• round to upper integer when computing a DPI such that page size remains within limits accepted by Acrobat (#7083)

Sentinel2 driver:

• add support for direct opening of .zip files of new safe_compact L1C products (#7085)

VRT driver:

• avoid error being emitted when opening a VRTRawRasterBand in a .zip files (#7056)

OGR core

• Fix OGR[Curve]Polygon::Intersects(OGRPoint*) to return true when point is on polygon boundary (#7091)
• importFromWkt(): fix import of GEOMETRYCOLLECTION ending with POINT EMPTY or LINESTRING EMPTY (#7128, 2.1 regression)

OGR utilities

• ogrtindex: fix crash when using -f SQLITE -t_srs XXXX (#7053)

OGR drivers

Amigocloud driver:

• Fixed data field types (​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/246)
• Output list of datasets if dataset id is not provided.
• Implemented waiting for job to complete on the server. This will improve write to AmigoCloud reliability.
• Updated documentation.

FileGDB driver:

• remove erroneous ODsCCreateGeomFieldAfterCreateLayer capability declaration (​https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/247)

GeoJSON driver:

• ESRIJson: recognize documents that lack geometry fields (#7071)
• ESRIJson: recognize documents starting with a very long fieldAliases list (#7107)

GeoRSS driver:

• fix detection of field type (#7108)

GML driver:

• fix FORCE_SRS_DETECTION=YES effect on feature count and SRS reporting on gml files with .gfs (#7046)
• do not try to open kml files (#7061)
• GML geometry parsing: fix robustness issue with gml:PolyhedralSurface
• do not report gml:name / gml:description of features as layer metadata

GPKG driver:

• do not try to update extent on gpkg_contents after GetExtent() on a empty layer of a datasource opened in read-only mode

GTM driver:

• fix null pointer dereference in case of read error (​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=4047)

MDB driver:

• fix multi-thread support (​https://issues.qgis.org/issues/16039)

MITAB driver

• do not emit error if the .ind file is missing, just a debug message (#7094)

MySQL:

• fix build with MariaDB 10.2 (#7079)

OCI driver:

• initialize in multi-threaded compatible mode to fix QGIS related crashes (​https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17311), and fix a few memleaks

ODS driver:

• avoid using CPLSPrintf() return directly with VSIFOpenL() as the temp buffer might be later recycled (​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=4050)

PLScenes driver:

• backport data/plscenesconf.json from trunk to add SkySatScene fields

Shapefile driver:

• Fix GetFeatureCount() to properly take into account spatial filter when attribute filter also in effect (#7123)

SQLite/Spatialite driver:

• don't invalidate statistics when running a PRAGMA (​https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17424)
• SQLite dialect: support SQLite 3.21, and LIKE, <>, IS NOT, IS NOT NULL, IS NULL and IS operators (#7149)

XLS driver:

• workaround opening filenames with incompatible character set on Windows (​https://issues.qgis.org/issues/9301)

XLSX driver:

• fix non working detection of Date/Time fields in some documents (#7073)
• fix opening of documents with x: namespace in xl/workbook.xml (#7110)
• avoid using CPLSPrintf() return directly with VSIFOpenL() as the temp buffer might be later recycled (​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=4050)

SWIG bindings

• map GRA_Max, GRA_Min, GRA_Med, GRA_Q1 and GRA_Q3 (#7153)

Python bindings

• remove 'from . import _gdal_array' line from gdal_array.py that is not necessary with normal execution of the bindings, and cause errors with PyInstaller (#7044)