GDAL/OGR 2.3.1 Release Notes

The 2.3.1 release is a bug fix release.

Build

All:

• Fix build with recent Poppler (0.64) (#573)
• PDF driver: fix build against PDFium (#612)
• Do not use json-c private API in RDA and AmigoCloud drivers (#618)
• fix build against MySQL 8.0
• Include gdalsse_priv.h from user defined paths

Unix:

• update GRASS drivers to support GRASS 7.4.0 (#633)
• configure: use CXXFLAGS when CXX is used (#693)

Windows:

• MBTILES: remove extra parenthesis around $(ZLIB_FLAGS)
• NMAKE: copy gdal pdb to $(LIBDIR) in libinstall target
• NMAKE: Enable friendlier static library builds: DLL_BUILD can be set to 0

Port

• cpl_port.h: avoid compilation error when compiling GMT's gmtdigitize.c that defines _XOPEN_SOURCE to empty (#590)
• gdal_pc: fix CONFIG_INST_DATA (#609)
• /vsioss/: fix support of filenames with spaces
• /vsis3/: fix VSIStatL() on a directory (#603)
• /vsitar/: support headers with fields using star base-256 coding (#675)
• /vsizip/: fix memory leaks in error code paths on file opening (#699)
• /vsigs/, /vsiaz/, /vsioss/: fix signature issues related to Date HTTP header, when non-C locale is enabled
• Installed headers: re-install cpl_vsi_error.h

GDAL core

• GDALProxyPoolDataset constructor: fix inverted logic related to projection
• GDALGetJPEG2000Structure(): avoid excessive memory allocation. (oss-fuzz#8268)
• Overview: fix wrong computation of source pixel indices for AVERAGE and pixel-interleave bands

GDAL utilities

• gdal_contour: avoid out-of-memory situation (#594)
• gdal_merge.py: apply NaN check for raster copy
• gdal_retile.py: fix rounding issues when computing source and target regions (#670)

GDAL algorithms

• OpenCL wrapper: fix memory leak

GDAL drivers

EHdr driver:

• fix creation of large enough drivers (#705)

ENVI driver:

• fix creation of large enough drivers (#705)

ERS driver:

• avoid potential stack overflow (oss-fuzz#8614)
• avoid infinite recursion (oss-fuzz#8744)
• avoid potential bad cast (oss-fuzz#8745)

FIT driver:

• avoid excessive block size on creation (oss-fuzz#8292)

GPKG driver:

• fix memory leak if errors on writing metadata

GRIB driver:

• g2clib: avoid potential out of bound access (CID 1393528)

GTiff driver:

• Internal libgeotiff: when rewriting a ASCII key with a string value longer than the original value, do not add a dummy "0 0 0 0" entry in the GeoKeyDirectory (#641)
• work-around above mentionned libgeotiff bug (#641)
• avoid various memory corruptions when reading some corrupted file (oss-fuzz#8488)

HDF5 driver:

• fix reading variable names with single character (#622)

IRIS driver:

• avoid infinite loop (oss-fuzz#8256, oss-fuzz#8439)

ISCE driver:

• fix creation of large enough drivers (#705)

PCRaster driver:

• libcsf: avoid potential out of bound access (CID 1074445)

PostgisRaster driver:

• add support for out-db rasters (Trac #3234)
• improve performance of line by line reading

RS2 driver:

• fix avoid potential memleak (CID 1393537, CID 1393534, CID 1074387)

SGI driver:

• avoid out-of-bound buffer access (oss-fuzz#8889)

USGSDEM driver:

• fix reading of Benicia.dem and Novato.dem (fixes trac #4901, github #583)
• avoid potential out-of-bounds access (CID 1393532)

WCS driver:

• avoid null pointer dereference (#648)

OGR core

• OGRLineString::TransferMembersAndDestroy(): fix crashing issue with M component. (oss-fuzz#8773)
• OGRSQL evaluation: avoid too deep recursion. (oss-fuzz#8836)
• OGRGeometry::exportToGEOS(): fix potential out-of-bounds write on some GeometryCollection with TIN/PolyhedralSurface (#688)

OGRSpatialReference

• Validation: fix wrong values in papszProjectionDefinitions array, affecting Stereographic, Krovak, and Two_Point_Equidistant
• Validation: add missing parameter names in papszParameterDefinitions array
• MorphToESRI(): avoid potential heap use-after-free (#696)

OGR drivers

AVCE00 driver:

• avoid perforance issues on huge lines (oss-fuzz#8284)

BNA driver:

• refuse to open existing file in update mode, since it causes later crashes when attempting to add new features (fixes ​https://issues.qgis.org/issues/18563)

CSV driver:

• in writing, use WKT instead of actual geometry column name if GEOMETRY=AS_WKT mode is used without CREATE_CSVT=YES (#660)

DXF driver:

• avoid null pointer dereference when DXF_MAX_BSPLINE_CONTROL_POINTS is hit (oss-fuzz#8254)

GeoJSON driver:

• properly flush the file in SyncToDisk() in append situations (relates to ​https://issues.qgis.org/issues/18596)
• fix type deduction when there is a Feature.id of type string and Feature.properties.id of type int (#669)

GMT:

• avoid performance issue when opening layer with big number of fields. (oss-fuzz#8259)

GPKG driver:

• take into ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT to invalidate cached feature count
• GPKG/SQLite: make sure to not invalidate POSIX advisory locks

MSSQLSpatial driver:

• Fix layer-schema separation problem (#586)
• Fix bulk copy for multiple layers (#619)

MVT driver:

• writer: do not skip Z/M/ZM geometries, just keep their XY coordinates

VFK driver:

• create index on ID column only for selected (geometry-related) layers (#498)
• create db indices after inserting data and befor resolving geometrys (#498)
• avoid bigint overflow, force text attributes (PODIL_CITATEL/PODIL_JMENOVATEL) (#672)

WFS3 driver:

• update to current version of the API draft (#626)
• remove legacy hack for feature paging that can cause endless loops

XLSX driver:

• avoid stack buffer overflow is creating too many fields (oss-fuzz#8198)
• avoid timeout (oss-fuzz#8225)
• fix null pointer dereference (oss-fuzz#8286)

SWIG bindings

Java bindings:

• Javadoc updates
• update to Java 1.6 requirement to please 'ant maven' target

Perl bindings:

• require wrappers to be made before proceeding make (fixes #643).

Python bindings:

• fixed NULL check on VSIFReadL (#572)