Hi,
I've prepared a beta1 of GDAL 3.9.0 to get feedback from early testers.
The NEWS file is here:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.9.0beta1/NEWS.md
For packagers,
https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc96_deferred_plugin_loading.html may
make it more attractive to build some drivers that typically have heavy
dependencies as plugins, installable in separate packages, due to the
load time penalty having being improved. It is let to the appreciation
of packagers to decide which drivers are worth building as plugins
installable in a separate package.
You may also pass CMake options
([GDAL/OGR]_DRIVER_<driver_name>_PLUGIN_INSTALLATION_MESSAGE=xxx) so
user get a hint of which package they need to install when GDAL detects
that a file may be opened by a plugin which is not available on the file
system but known to have been built as a plugin. Cf
https://gdal.org/development/building_from_source.html#deferred-loaded-plugins
for more details.
For end-users, the following utilities have been updated to use a new
argument parsing framework: gdaladdo, gdalinfo, gdal_translate,
gdalwarp, gdal_grid, gdal_viewshed, gdalbuildvrt, nearblack, ogrinfo,
ogr2ogr, sozip.
This helps detecting errors such as specifying twice an argument that
should be specified once (where generally the last instance was the one
used). While we have tried to retain backwards compatibility for nominal
use cases, obviously if you have scripts that accidentally specify an
argument several times whereas it should be specified at most once, they
will have to be corrected.
Docker images with 3.9.0beta1 are currently cooking.
master is now marked as 3.10.0dev, and the release/3.9 branch has been
created. All bugfixes for 3.9 should be backported into it.
Source snapshots at:
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0beta1.tar.gz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0beta1.tar.xz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal380beta1.zip
Autotest snapshots:
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdalautotest-3.9.0beta1.tar.gz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdalautotest-3.9.0beta1.zip
Even
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