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@rouault rouault released this 07 May 14:09
· 16335 commits to master since this release
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  • 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 RFC 76: 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:
  • 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