= GDAL/OGR 2.4.0 Release Notes =
== In a nutshell... ==
* New GDAL drivers:
- BYN: read/write support for Natural Resources Canada's Geoid binary format
- EEDAI: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API
- IGNFHeightASCIIGrid: read-only driver to read IGN-France height correction ASCII grids
- NGW: NextGIS Web read-only driver
- NTv1: read-only driver for NTv1 datum shift grids
* New OGR drivers:
- EEDA: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API
- GeoJSONSeq: read/creation support of new-line or record-separator separated GeoJSON features (#378)
- NGW: NextGIS Web read-write driver
* Improved drivers:
- BAG: add read support for variable-resolution grids, and write support for single-resolution grids
- GTiff driver: add Lerc and WebP codecs
- PostgisRaster: add support for out-db rasters
- RMF
- MSSQLSpatial
* RFC 72: Make GDAL Python autotest suite use pytest framework
* Add /vsihdfs/ virtual file system handler for Hadoop File System (via libhdfs)
* Add /vsiwebhdfs/ read-write virtual file system for Web Hadoop File System REST API
* gdal_contour rewriting: speed optimizations and capability to compute polygon isosurfaces.
* Remove PHP and Ruby bindings.
* Continued code linting in C++, Python scripts, Shell scripts and autotest
== Backward compatibility issues ==
* The value of COMPRESSION_ZSTD used for ZStd-in-TIFF compression has been changed. ZStd-compressed TIFF files produced by GDAL 2.3.0 will not be readable
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