GDAL 3.12.0 "Chicoutimi"

The 3.12.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

In a nutshell...

• New 'gdal' command line interface capabilities:

  • Add 'gdal raster as-features' (#12970)
  • Add 'gdal raster blend'' (port of hsv_merge.py + regular alpha blending)
  • Add 'gdal raster compare' (port of gdalcompare.py) (#12757)
  • Add 'gdal raster neighbors' (#12768)
  • Add 'gdal raster nodata-to-alpha' (#12524)
  • Add 'gdal raster pansharpen' (port of gdal_pansharpen.py)
  • Add 'gdal raster proximity' (#12350)
  • Add 'gdal raster rgb-to-palette' (port of rgb2pct.py)
  • Add 'gdal raster update'
  • Add 'gdal raster zonal-stats'
  • Add 'gdal vector check-coverage'
  • Add 'gdal vector check-geometry'
  • Add 'gdal vector clean-coverage'
  • Add 'gdal vector index' (port of ogrtindex)
  • Add 'gdal vector layer-algebra' (port of ogr_layer_algebra.py)
  • Add 'gdal vector make-point'
  • Add 'gdal vector partition'
  • Add 'gdal vector set-field-type'
  • Add 'gdal vector simplify-coverage'
  • Add 'gdal mdim mosaic' (#13208)
  • Add 'gdal dataset' port of 'gdal manage'
  • gdal vector pipeline: add limit step
  • Make 'gdal pipeline' support mixed raster/vector pipelines
  • Pipeline: add support for nested pipeline (#12874)
  • Pipeline: add support for a 'tee' step (#12874)
  • Move 'gdal vector geom XXXX' utilities directly under 'gdal vector'
  • Rename 'gdal vector geom set-type' as 'gdal vector set-geom-type'
  • gdal raster reproject: add a -j/--num-threads option and default to ALL_CPUS
  • Make 'gdal raster fill-nodata/proximity/sieve/viewshed' pipeline-able
  • gdal raster mosaic/stack: allow it to be the first step of a raster pipeline
  • gdal pipeline: allow to run an existing pipeline and override/add parameters
  • Improved Bash completion
  • Python bindings: add a dynamically generated 'gdal.alg' module
    (e.g. gdal.alg.raster.convert(input="in.tif", output="out.tif"))
  • Many other improvements to existing utilities (see below)

• VRT pixel functions: Add mean, median, geometric_mean, harmonic_mean, mode
  (#12418), and handle NoData values

• Add C/C++/Python API for raster band algebra:
  arithmetic operators, comparison operators, AsType(),
  gdal::abs()/sqrt()/log10()/log()/min()/max()/mean()/IfThenElse() functions

• Add MiraMon raster driver: read-only support (#12293)

• ADBC driver: support for ADBC BigQuery driver (requires BigQuery ADBC driver)

• JSONFG driver: add read/write support for curve and measured geometries;
  update to 0.3.0 spec

• Parquet: add update support using OGREditableLayer mechanism

• Add C++ public header files for raster functionality

• Security: avoid potential path traversal in several drivers

• Various code linting, static code analyzer fixes, etc.

• Significant automation of the release process

• Add Docker attestation (#13066)

• Bump of shared lib major version

Detailed release notes

At https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.12.0/NEWS.md

Backward compatibility issues

See migration guide

GDAL 3.11.5

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.11.5/NEWS.md

GDAL 3.12.0beta1

See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.12.0beta1/NEWS.md

GDAL 3.11.4

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.11.4/NEWS.md

GDAL 3.11.3

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.11.3/NEWS.md

GDAL 3.11.2

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.11.2/NEWS.md

GDAL 3.11.1

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.11.1/NEWS.md

GDAL 3.11.0 "Eganville"

The 3.11.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:

In a nutshell...

• RFC 104: Adding a "gdal" front-end command line interface.
  • See the list of commands
  • Includes new "gdal raster calc" and "gdal raster resclassify" utilities.
  • "gdal raster tile", C++ port of gdal2tiles, runs faster (3x to 6x in some cases)
  • Includes "gdal vsi list/copy/delete/move/sync" (ports of Python sample scripts)
  • Includes "gdal driver {driver_name}" for driver-specific commands.
  • Includes smart Bash autocompletion
  • Includes C, C++, Python API
• Add GDALG (GDAL Streamed Algorithm Format) driver: reading of on-the-fly / streamed vector dataset replaying compatible "gdal" command lines (kind of VRT).

Other topics

• RFC 100: Support float16 type
• RFC 102: Embedding resource files into libgdal
• RFC 103: Add a OGR_SCHEMA open option to selected OGR drivers
• RFC 105: Add and use safe path manipulation functions
• RFC 106: Metadata items to reflect driver update capabilities
• RFC 107: Add OGRLayer::IGetExtent() and OGRLayer::ISetSpatialFilter()
• Add read-only OGR ADBC (Arrow Database Connectivity) driver, in particular
  with support for DuckDB or Parquet datasets (if libduckdb also installed)
• Add LIBERTIFF driver: native thread-safe read-only GeoTIFF reader
• Add read-only RCM (Radarsat Constellation Mission) raster driver
• Add read-only AIVector (Artificial intelligence powered vector) driver
• VRT Pixel Functions: Add function to evaluate arbitrary expression (#11209)
• Substantially improved drivers: ZARR, with support for Kerchunk JSON and Parquet reference stores
• GeoPackage: change default version to GeoPackage 1.4 on creation (#7870)
• RFC 108:
  • Removed raster drivers: BLX, BT, CTable2, ELAS, FIT, GSAG (Golden Software ASCII grid), GSBG (Golden Software 6.0 binary grid), JP2Lura, OZI OZF2/OZFX3, Rasterlite (v1), R object data store (.rda), RDB, SDTS, SGI, XPM, DIPex
  • Removed vector drivers: Geoconcept Export, OGDI (VPF/VMAP support), SDTS, SVG, Tiger, UK. NTF
  • Removed write support in following drivers: Interlis 1, Interlis 2, ADRG, PAux, MFF, MFF2/HKV, LAN, NTv2, BYN, USGSDEM, ISIS2
• Removed OpenCL warper
• OGR "Memory" driver deprecated, and aliased to the "MEM" driver. Its functionality is merged into the "MEM" driver that has raster, vector
  and multidimensional support.
• Various code linting, static code analyzer fixes, etc.
• Bump of shared lib major version

Detailed release notes

At https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.11.0/NEWS.md

New optional dependencies

• muparser is strongly recommended to be added as a build and runtime dependency, to provide nominal support for C++ VRT expressions.
• exprtk may be added as a build dependency (this is a header-only library) to provide support for advanced C++ VRT expressions. Note that it causes an increase in libgdal size of about 8 MB. exprtk support is recommended to be an addition to muparser support, not as a replacement.

Backward compatibility issues

See MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

GDAL 3.10.3

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.10.3/NEWS.md

GDAL 3.10.2 "Gulf of Mexico"

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.10.2/NEWS.md