Releases · OSGeo/gdal

The 3.8.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

Add JSONFG read/write vector driver for OGC Features and Geometries JSON.
Add PMTiles read/write vector driver for PMTiles v3 datasets containing MVT PBF tiles
Add S102 raster read-only driver for S-102 bathymetric products (depends on libhdf5)
Add gdal_footprint utility: compute the footprint of a raster file, taking into account nodata/mask band, and generating polygons/multipolygons corresponding to areas where pixels are valid (#6264)
Python bindings: various enhancements to reduce the number of "gotchas" related to inter-object ownership relationships, and a few syntaxic sugar enhancements
Arrow interface: improve spatial and attribute filtering on read side; add write side with OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch()
GeoPackage: much faster spatial index creation (~ 3-4 times faster)
ARG driver deprecated: will be removed in 3.9.0

and many other enhancements and fixes as detailed in the release notes

The 3.7.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

RFC 87: Add GDT_Int8 support
RFC 88: switch to GoogleTest framework for C++ tests
RFC 89: SQL query logging callback
RFC 90: Direct access to compressed raster data
RFC 91: GDALDataset::Close() method
RFC 93: OGRLayer::UpdateFeature() method
RFC 94: Numeric fields width/precision metadata
ogrinfo: make it accessible through a new GDALVectorInfo() C API call, and a -json switch
Add read-only raster driver NOAA_B to read NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b grids
Add read-only raster driver NSIDCbin for Sea Ice Concentrations
Add read-only vector GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) driver
TileDB: add read/write vector side
Add support for SOZip (Seek Optimized ZIP) with enhanced /vsizip/ virtual file system and a new sozip utility
OpenFileGDB: add read-only support for raster datasets (.gdb v10)
PNG: 1.7-2.0x speed-up in whole image decompression with libdeflate on Intel/AMD CPUs. Benefits to GPKG, MRF drivers
RFC 69: C++ code reformatting
Code linting and security fixes
Remove any traces of Rasdaman driver, now moved to OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository (#4808)
Bump of shared lib major version

and many other enhancements and fixes as detailed in the release notes

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