This is a long overdue update which skips the 3.1 major release.
py-gdal is also udpated.
Besides what is noted in upstream NEWS, gdalserver has been withdrawn.
See NEWS in the source tarball; this pkgsrc update corresponds to 1452
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= GDAL/OGR 3.2.0 Release Notes =
== In a nutshell... ==
* New GDAL drivers:
- ESRIC: ESRI bundle cache read-only driver (#2663)
- HEIF: read-only driver for HEIF/HEIC file. Requires libheif
- OGCAPI: tiles/maps/coverage raster/vector experimental driver
- TGA: read/only driver to read TGA image file format
* New OGR drivers:
- LVBAG: read-only support for Dutch LVBAG/Kadaster 2.0 vector format
* New utilities:
- gdal_create: to create/initialize a new raster file
* Other improvements:
- Multi-threaded overview computation (if GDAL_NUM_THREADS set)
- COG driver: TILING_SCHEME creation option
- OpenFileGDB driver: add support for using spatial indexes
- BAG driver: multiple improvements
- FITS driver: multiple improvements (MEF and binary table support)
- NITF driver: support for SNIP TREs
- OGRFieldDefn: support UNIQUE constraint
- OGRFieldDefn: support a AlternativeName (alias) property (#2729)
- Python bindings: move implementation of scripts (except gdal2tiles) in osgeo.utils package to be reusable
- Faster GTIFF Deflate compression/decompression through libdeflate (if using internal libtiff or libtiff > 4.1.0)
* Removed functionality:
- Python bindings: old-style "import gdal" is no longer available. Use "from osgeo import gdal" instead
- API_PROXY mechanism: likely never used for real usage.
- Removal of GDAL and OGR ArcSDE drivers
== Backward compatibility issues ==
See MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt
= GDAL/OGR 3.1.0 Release Notes =
== In a nutshell... ==
* Implement RFC 75: support for multidimensional arrays in MEM, VRT, netCDF, HDF4, HDF5 and GRIB drivers. Read/write for MEM and netCDF. Read/only for others. Add gdalmdiminfo and gdalmdimtranslate utilities.
* Implement RFC76: add capability of writing vector drivers in Python
* New GDAL drivers:
- COG: write-only, for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
- EXR: read/write driver, relying on OpenEXR library
- ISG: read-only, for geoid models of the International Service for the Geoid
- RDB: read-only, for RIEGL Database .mpx RDB 2 files (#1538) (needs proprietary SDK)
* New OGR drivers:
- FlatGeoBuf: read-support and creation (#1742)
- MapML: read/write driver for experimental web spec
* Improved drivers:
- OAPIF driver (renamed from WFS3): updated to OGC API - Features 1.0 core spec
- GTiff: improve performance of internal overview creation
- GTiff: GeoTIFF 1.1 support
- Shapefile driver: add read/creation/update support for .shz and .shp.zip
- netCDF vector: read/write support for CF-1.8 Encoded Geometries (#1287)
- VICAR: multiple improvements and write support (#1855)
- DDS: add read support
* Other improvements:
- gdalwarp: accept output drivers with only CreateCopy() capabilities
- gdal_viewshed: new utility for viewshed algorithm
* Remove GFT driver now that the online service no longer exists (#2050)
* New Sphinx-based documentation
* Multiple security related fixes (ossfuzz)
* Continued code linting (cppcheck, CoverityScan, etc.)
* Compatibility with GDAL 3.0:
- C and C++ API: backward compatible changes
- C ABI: backward compatible changes
- C++ ABI: modified
- Functional changes: see MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT
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