The 1.7.1 release was prepared and issued primarily to deal with ticket 3382,
relating to the fact that GDAL 1.7 has had a significant regression in that
all Erdas Imagine (HFA/.img) files produced are unreadable by non-GDAL software
including released versions of ArcGIS and Erdas Imagine. Following is a list
of all bug fixes since the 1.7.0 release.
== General ==
* MacOS X: Support versioning for framework builds
* FreeBSD: fix --with-threads configuring
== GDAL / Raster ==
* HFA/Imagine: Fix very serious 1.7 bug with blank layer names which was
producing .img files unreadable in non-GDAL software
* HFA: Ensure nodata values carried into overviews
* HFA: Fix support for files with nonstandard mapunits
* NITF: Improve NITF spec compliance when generating JPEG compression
* NITF: Improve dateline handling for CADRG products
* NITF: Return GCPPROJECTIONX metadata when we can't transform polar
* GeoRaster: Avoid error messages when looking up epsg codes
* DODS / GDALCopyWords(): Fix bug with negative offsets/flipping
* PCIDSK: Fix new bug with UTM MGRS zone handling
* PDS: Fix up offset support for detached labels
* gdal_merge.py: support per band init values
* ECW: Fix one broken case in configure logic
* RasterLite: Fix crash on 32bit platforms
* NetCDF: Prevent CreateCopy() of complex bands
* HDF4: Fix buffer overflow with GeodeticLatitude
== OGR / Vector ==
* SQLite: TestCapability() returns TRUE for transation support
* DXF: Support polylines in Object Coordinate System
* MIF/ogr2ogr: Fix new problem translating to MIF format
* GeoJSON: Support stdout output via new /vsistdout/ name
* Shapefile: Fixes for winding calculations on read and write
* Postgres: Get field width and precision from SQL queries
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