[Freegis-list] GDAL 1.2.4 Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

GDAL 1.2.4 has been officially released.

   http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.2.4.tar.gz
   http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal124.zip

The NEWS is below, but I wanted to highlight a copy things:

  1) There were some very serious bugs in the OGR VRT driver which
     resulted in crashes in some common scenarios where it is used
     as a front to an ODBC database in MapServer.  Please update as
     soon as possible if you are using OGR VRT datasources.

  2) Libtiff is under active revision lately, and I believe there may
     have been some signficant bugs in 1.2.3 with building overviews.
     Consider upgrading to 1.2.4 if you might be doing this (even for
     non-GeoTIFF formats since the overviews are stored as TIFFs).

Enjoy!


GDAL 1.2.4 - Overview of Changes
--------------------------------

gdalwarp:
   - Fixed some issues with only partially transformable regions.
   - Added Alpha mask generation support (-dstalpha switch).

HFA/Imagine Driver:
   - bug fix in histogram handling.
   - improved support for large colormaps.

Envi Driver:
   - Capture category names and colormaps when reading.

SAR CEOS Driver:
   - Added support for PALSAR/ALOS Polarmetric Datasets.

RadarSat 2 Driver:
   - New.  Reads RadarSat 2 Polarmetric datasets with a "product.xml" and
     imagery in TIFF files.

OGDI Driver:
   - Important bug fix for downsampled access.

GeoTIFF Driver:
   - Lots of libtiff upgrades, including some quite serious bug fixes.
   - Added better support for 16bit colormaps.
   - Write projection information even if we don't have a geotransform or GCPs.
   - Improved alpha support.
   - Generate graceful error message for BigTIFF files.

DODS Driver:
   - Almost completely reimplemented.   Uses chunk-by-chunk access.  Supports
     reading several bands from seperate objects.  Some new limitations too.

NetCDF Driver:
   - Seperated out a GMT NetCDF driver and a more generic but partially broken
     NetCDF driver (Radim).

JP2KAK Driver:
   - Added alpha support, including greyscale+alpha.

AirSAR Driver:
   - New, reads AirSAR Polarmetric Radar format.



OGR 1.2.4 - Overview of Changes
-------------------------------

epsg_tr.py:
   - Added escaping rules when generating PostGIS output.

tigerpoly.py:
   - Discard dangles and degenerate rings.

VRT Driver:
   - Fixed serious error in handling cleanup of VRT datasources, was often
    causing a crash.

SQLLite Driver:
   - Fixed substantial memory leaks.

MySQL Driver:
   - New readonly non-spatial MySQL driver implemented.

MITAB Driver:
   - Updated from upstream, several fixes.

TIGER/Line Driver:
   - Fixed serious bug with handling "full" records at end of .RT2 file.

OCI/Oracle Driver:
   - Added OCI_FID environment support to control FID selection.

OGRGeometry:
   - Added Centroid() implementation (from GEOS?)


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