see also: https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/gdal-ogr-3-2-0-is-released/
news item from Even Rouault
Hi,
On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.2.0. 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.
The 3.2.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:
* New GDAL drivers:
- [ESRIC](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/esric.html): ESRI bundle cache
read-only driver (#2663)
- [HEIF](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/heif.html): read-only driver for
HEIF/HEIC file. Requires libheif
- [OGCAPI](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/ogcapi.html): tiles/maps/
coverage raster/vector experimental driver
- [TGA](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/tga.html): read/only driver to read
TGA image file format
* New OGR drivers:
- [LVBAG](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/lvbag.html): read-only support
for Dutch LVBAG/Kadaster 2.0 vector format
* New utilities:
- [gdal_create](https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_create.htm): 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:
- API_PROXY mechanism: likely never used for real usage.
- Removal of GDAL and OGR ArcSDE drivers
More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.2.0
release can be found at:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.2.0/gdal/NEWS
The release can be downloaded from:
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal320.zip - source as a zip
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.gz - source as
.tar.gz
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.xz - source as
.tar.xz
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-grass-3.2.0.tar.gz - GDAL-GRASS
plugin
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdalautotest-3.2.0.tar.gz - test
suite
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal320doc.zip - documentation /
website
Best regards,
Even
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