[OSGeo-Announce] GDAL 3.4.0 is released

News item by Evan Rouault
Published at https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-3-4-0-is-released/

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.4.0. 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://gdal.org/

The 3.4.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

  • RFC 81:
    Support for coordinate epochs in geospatial formats.
    Implemented in FlatGeoBuf, GeoPackage, MEM, VRT
  • New GDAL drivers:
  • Zarr:
    read/write support for ZarrV2 (and experimental V3), using 2D
    classic raster
    API or multidimensional API:
  • STACIT:
    Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items as virtual mosaics
  • Other improvements:
  • number of enhancements in file system operations of /vsigs/
  • NITF: additions to comply with NITF Version 2.1 Commercial Dataset
    Requirements Document (NCDRD)
  • ODBC and PGeo: multiple fixes and improvements
  • SAFE (Sentinel1): multiple improvements related to SLC/calibration
    (change
    subdataset naming)
  • multidimensional API: caching, and other improvements
  • Code linting and security fixes
  • MDB driver (Java based) mark as deprecated. Planned for removal for
    GDAL 3.5.
    ODBC driver is the preferred solution (with up-to-date MDBTools
    library on
    non-Windows platforms)
  • Writing side of Tiger driver deprecated and will be removed in GDAL 3.5
  • Remainder: DODS, JPEG2000(Jasper), JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, FUJIBAS, IDA,
    INGR and
    vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME,
    GEOMEDIA,
    GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, REC, WALK are planned for removal in GDAL 3.5.
    As well
    as Perl bindings

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.4.0
release can be found at:

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.4.0/gdal/NEWS.md

The release can be downloaded from:

Best regards,

Even


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