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Mar 19, 2018, 6:38:04 AM (6 years ago)
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Even Rouault
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2.2.4 news page

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     1= GDAL/OGR 2.2.4 Release Notes =
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     3The 2.2.4 release is a bug fix release.
     4
     5== Build ==
     6
     7 * configure: add support for ECW SDK 5.4, by detecting if we must link against the newabi or oldabi link
     8
     9== Port ==
     10
     11 * CPLSetErrorHandler(): avoid later crashes when passing a null callback (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/298)
     12
     13== GDAL utilities ==
     14
     15 * gdalinfo: make sure to display geodetic coordinates always in degree (and not potentially in another unit such as grad) (#4198)
     16 * gdalinfo / VRT: fix crash with implicit overviews on per-dataset mask band (https://github.com/mapbox/rasterio/issues/1266#issuecomment-367233149)
     17 * gdalwarp: fix when several input datasets with different SRS are specified, and no explicit target SRS is provided (#7170)
     18 * gdal_rasterize: fix crash in some situations with ALL_TOUCHED option (#7176)
     19
     20== GDAL algorithms ==
     21
     22 * Warping: use panSrcBands[0] in the single band case (regression fix, https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/295)
     23
     24== GDAL drivers ==
     25
     26AirSAR driver:
     27 * fix computation of imaginary part in C23 case (#7222)
     28
     29EHdr driver:
     30 * fix read heap buffer overflow with nbits < 8. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=6724. Credit to OSS Fuzz
     31
     32GTiff driver:
     33 * use consistently multiplication/division by 257 when converting between GDAL [0,255] range to TIFF [0,65535] range for color map values (#2213)
     34
     35netCDF driver:
     36 * behave correctly when an extra dimension of a variable has a corresponding 1D variable of different names (#7165)
     37
     38NITF driver:
     39 * fix swapped lines and samples in IMRFCA (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/289)
     40
     41PCRaster driver:
     42 * fix fseek/ftell for large files on Windows (#7255)
     43
     44RRASTER driver:
     45 * fix wrong declaration of PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE for datatype=INT1S
     46 * fix reading empty nodatavalue keyword
     47
     48Sentinel2 driver:
     49 * make sure that the True Color Image subdatset really uses the R,G,B bands and not the R,R,R (#7251)
     50
     51VRT driver:
     52 * VRTDerivedRasterBand: fix detection of Python runtime already loaded when more than 100 modules are linked. Fixes QGIS3 use case (#7213)
     53
     54== OGR core ==
     55
     56 * Fixed memory leak in OGRPolygon::PointOnSurface method (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/269)
     57 * OGRCT: make sure to free the proj4 context after freeing the projection objects, to avoid crashes
     58
     59== OGR utilities ==
     60
     61 * ogr2ogr: honour -select when using -addfiels; fix converting from Memory to Memory datasources (#7217)
     62
     63== OGR drivers ==
     64
     65Carto driver:
     66 * fix append mode by retrieving the sequence name for the primary key (#7203)
     67 * fix insertion with ogr2ogr -preserve_fid (#7216)
     68 * fix missing features when iterating over a SQL result layer with pagination (#6880)
     69
     70GeoJSON driver:
     71 * fix writing of id with RFC7946=YES (#7194)
     72 * Add support for json-c v0.13 (#7195)
     73
     74GPKG driver:
     75 * fix incorrect rtree_<t>_<c>_update3 trigger statement, as found in https://github.com/opengeospatial/geopackage/issues/414
     76
     77LIBKML driver:
     78 * workaround Windows specific issue with libkml (at least the version used by OSGeo4W at time of writing), where tabulations as coordinate separators aren't properly handled (#7231)
     79 * workaround Windows specific issue if the content of <coordinates> is non-empty and does not contain any digit (#7232)
     80
     81MITAB driver:
     82 * fix crash on reading TAB views (#7171)
     83 * add support for SWEREF99 datum (#7256)
     84
     85NAS driver:
     86 * also accept unqualified attribute name in wfs:Update
     87 * fix memory leak and potential assertion. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=2661. Credit to OSS Fuzz
     88
     89NTF driver:
     90 * fix regression introduced by fix for https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=2166 causing some valid records to be skipped (#7204)
     91
     92Shapefile driver:
     93 * fix write heap buffer overflow when provided with empty string filename. Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=6992. Credit to OSS Fuzz
     94 * fix potential read heap buffer overflow in single-point polygon in SHPRewindObject(). Fixes https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=6993. Credit to OSS Fuzz
     95
     96ODBC driver:
     97 * deal with table names that require double quoting (#7242)
     98
     99XLSX driver:
     100 * fix updating multi layer document where existing layers where dropped (#7225)
     101 * on writing, use %.16g formatting for floating point numbers (#7230)
     102
     103== GNM ==
     104 * avoid potential issue with CPL circular buffers (can happen if there are extra drivers that use CPLGet....() functions)
     105
     106== SWIG bindings ==
     107
     108 * Fix potential null pointer dereference in Python/Perl Dataset.WriteRaster() and Perl Dataset.ReadRaster() when buffer type is not specified and there is a single band
     109 * Python bindings: add addFields and forceNullable options to gdal.VectorTranslate() (#7217)
     110 * Python bindings: fix build when CC variable is made of serveral words