Now that the full freeze is in effect, I've had a look at what's new and other changes for the Debian GIS packages in stretch.
Several new packages were introduced because they were already included in OSGeo-Live like MapProxy, PyCSW, PySAL & PyWPS. The updates in stretch bring greatly improved support for GeoPackage which was mostly lacking in the packages in jessie. Some highlights of the new packages: * OTB 5.8.0, thanks to Rashad Kanavath, Andreas Tille & Paolo Cavallini * Fiona 1.7.1, RasterIO 0.36.0, and many other Python packages thanks to Johan Van de Wauw * The new osmium family (protozero, libosmium, osmium-tool, osmcoastline & pyosmium), thanks to excellent collaboration with Jochem Topf * mapcode 2.5.2, thanks to Stefan Fritsch * MapProxy 1.9.0 * node-leaflet-* and other NodeJS packages thanks to Ross Gammon * openstreetmap-carto 2.45.1, thanks to Christopher Baines * PDAL 1.4.0 * PyCSW 2.0.2, thanks to Johan Van de Wauw & Angelos Tzotsos * PySAL 1.13.0, thanks to Johan Van de Wauw * PyWPS 4.0.0, thanks to Angelos Tzotsos * SFCGAL 1.3.0, thanks to Sven Geggus And some highlights of updated packages: * GMT 5.3.1 and its (new) dependencies: - DCW-GMT 1.1.2 - GSHHG 2.3.6 (replaces GSHHS) Which fixed long standing issues with the GMT 4 packages. * NetCDF 4.4.1.1, thanks to Nico Schlömer & Ross Gammon Which introduced some new packages: - netcdf-cxx 4.3.0 - netcdf-cxx-legacy 4.2 - netcdf-fortran 4.4.4 - netcdf4-python 1.2.7 Core package updates: * PROJ.4 4.9.3 * GeoTIFF 1.4.2 * GEOS 3.5.1 * HDF4 4.2.12, thanks to Johan Van de Wauw * HDF5 1.10.0, thanks to Gilles Filippini * SpatiaLite 4.3.0a & SpatiaLite-GUI 2.0.0-devel * LibKML 1.3.0 using upstream fork thanks to Rashad Kanavath * libLAS 1.8.1 * GDAL 2.1.2 * Shapelib 1.4.0 * Spatialindex 1.8.5 * OSSIM 1.8.20-3 * PostGIS 2.3.1 * JTS 1.14 * Mapnik 3.0.12 Application updates: * GRASS 7.2.0 * QGIS 2.14.11 * QMapShack 1.7.2 & QLandKarteGT 1.8.1, thanks to Jaromír Mikeš * MapServer 7.0.4, MapCache 1.4.1 & TinyOWS 1.1.1 * pgRouting 2.3.2 & osm2pgRouting 2.2.0 * JOSM 11427 & JMapViewer 2.0, thanks to Felix Natter * Merkaartor 0.18.3 * NCO 4.6.3 * GPSPrune 18.6 * osm2pgsql 0.92.0 * osmosis 0.45 * Routino 3.1.1, thanks to Uwe Steinmann * SAGA 2.3.1, thanks to Johan Van de Wauw * TileStache 1.51.5 * Total Open Station 0.3.3, thanks to Matteo F. Vescovi Removed packages: * gmt-gshhg (replaced by gmt-gshhg) * libgaiagraphics (no longer required for spatialite-gui) * librasterlite (replaced by librasterlite2) * openstreetmap-map-icons (no longer required for JOSM) * osmium (replaced by the new osmium family of packages) * tilelite (dead upstream) Also thanks to Antonio Valentino for continuing to maintain his Python packages, and my apologies to any contributors I failed to mention. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1
