[OSGeo-Announce] GDAL 3.1.0 is released

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Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.1.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line tools.

http://www.gdal.org/

The 3.1.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

  • Implement [RFC 75]

(https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc75_multidimensional_arrays.html):

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]

(https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc76_ogrpythondrivers.html):

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.)

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.1.0

release can be found at:

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.1.0/gdal/NEWS

The release can be downloaded from:

plugin

suite

website

The migration guide can be found at :

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.1/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

Best regards,

Even

Spatialys - Geospatial professional services

http://www.spatialys.com