GDAL/OGR 3.0.1 Release Notes

The 3.0.1 release is a bug fix release.

Build

• configure: fix detection of libpq in a non-standard place (3.0 regression) (#1542)
• Fix MSVC linking issue related to TransformWithOptionsCache class (#1639)

Port

• /vsitar/: support >100 character file names (#1559)
• /vsicurl/: fix CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS with query string (#1614)
• /vsicurl/: allow 'Connection timed out' CURL errors as candidate for HTTP retry
• /vsicurl/: GetFileSize(): when HEAD request does not return Content-Length header, retry with GET
• /vsis3/: for a long living file handle, refresh credentials coming from EC2/AIM (#1593)

GDAL algorithms

• GDALReprojectImage(): properly take into account source/target alpha bands
• GDALCreateReprojectionTransformerEx(): do not emit error if reverse transformation fails, and fix crash when trying to use null reverse transformation
• Warper: fix GDAL 2.3 regression in a situation with source nodata value, multiple bands and nearest resampling where the logic to detect which source pixels are nodata was inverted (#1656)
• Contour generator: fix SegmentMerger list iterator skipping and out of bounds error. (#1670)

GDAL core

• GDALInvGeoTransform(): make it work with scale and rotation/skew coefficients of small absolute value (#1615)
• GDALCopyWholeRasterGetSwathSize(): fix potential int overflows for big values of GDAL_SWATH_SIZE or GDAL_CACHEMAX

GDAL utliities

• gdal_translate: Make 'gdal_translate foo.tif foo.tif.ovr -outsize 50% 50% -of GTiff' work
• gdalwarp: fix wrong axis order when using source/target CRS being a geographic3D CRS such as EPSG:4979, and with vertical shift grid application (#1561, 3.0 regression)
• gdal_calc.py: Fixed NaN-streaking in output images when the --allBands option is given to tiled images, and removed redundant calculation of nXValid.
• gdal_polygonize.py: fix outputing to geojson without explicit -f switch (#1533)
• gdallocationinfo: emit verbose error when dataset canot be opened (#1684)

GDAL drivers

ENVI driver:

• fix potential use of invalid pointer on some unusual std::string implementations (#1527)
• add read support for reading GCPs (#1528), and fix off-by-one offset on line,pixel on reading GCP

GTiff driver:

• make WEBP_LEVEL to be honored in Create() mode (#1594)
• reset m_bGeoTIFFInfoChanged flag in FlushDirectory()
• PushMetadataToPam(): early exit when PAM is disabled, to avoid error messages

GXF driver:

• avoid closing the file pointer before being sure this is a GXF driver, otherwise this can prevent the opening of some raw format files (#1521)

HDF5 driver:

• Make GH5_FetchAttribute(CPLString) more robust and able to cope with variable-length string

ISIS3 driver:

• fix parsing of lists in JSon metadata, and quote string items when writing lists when needed (#1510)

KEA driver:

• return error when deleting metadata item rather than crashing (#1681)

NITF driver:

• fix parsing of SENSRB TRE (#1520)

RS2 driver:

• add half-pixel shift to reported GCP line and column numbers (#1666)

TileDB driver:

• removed ambiguous use of size_t
• TILEDB_LIBS added for windows build

VRT driver:

• Python pixel functions: also probe libpython3.Xm.so.1.0 (#1660)

OGRSpatialReference

• EPSG:4326 to EPSG:3857: fix invalid output with some input coordinates (3.0 regression)
• GetAxis(): make it work with a compound CRS (#1604)
• importFromWkt(): emit a CPLError() in case of import failure (refs #1623)

OGR drivers

EEDA driver:

• fix startTime / endTime comparisons that were incomplete in #1506

GeoJSON driver:

• fix recognizing some documents with members sorted alphabetically (#1537)
• avoid SetFeature() to repeat first feature when looping over features (#1687)

ElasticSearch driver:

• set 'application/json' in RunRequest() with POST (#1628)
• GeoJSON type field should be mapped as text in ES>=5

GPKG driver:

• change default value of OGR_GPKG_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECK to NO, so as to avoid issues in downstream software
• insert more accurate spatial extent in gpkg_contents
• fix memory leak in case of corrupted database. Fixes ​https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=14683.

KML driver:

• set OAMS_TRADITIONAL_GIS_ORDER for SRS returned on returned layers

MapInfo driver:

• TAB: don't left truncate numeric values in the .dat when the field formatting is incompatible, but error out (#1636)

MSSQLSpatial driver:

• Fix handling empty geometries (#1674)
• Fix handling mixed geometries (#1678)

MVT driver:

• make CONF option accept a filename as well

PostgreSQL driver:

• do not attempt to create VARCHAR(n) columns with n >= 10485760 (#1508)

Shapefile driver:

• better deal with empty .shp+.shx and SHAPE_RESTORE_SHX (#1525)
• fix crash when creating a layer with a wkbNone geometry type but a SRS (3.0 regression)
• launder layer name to get Windows compatible filename

WaSP driver:

• on creation, make sure the layer geometry type set on the feature definition is wkbLineString25D

SWIG bindings

• add osr.SetPROJSearchPath(path) that can be used since setting PROJ_LIB from C# does no work (#1647)

Python bindings

• honour gdal.UseExceptions() in numpy related methods (gdalnumeric module) (#1515)