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= 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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