Tested it and all looks good.

+1 to promote GDAL 1.6.3-RC2 to 1.6.3

Daniel

Howard Butler wrote:
Even found a small issue with the Python bindings having their version number 
be 1.6.2.  I have issued an RC 2 to fix this.

http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.3-RC2.tar.gz
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal163-RC2.zip


On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Howard Butler wrote:

I would like to motion to make the 1.6.3-rc1 official.  Please run a quick test 
if you have a chance before voting.

+1 Howard


On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Howard Butler wrote:

All,

The GDAL team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL 1.6.3 RC1.

http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.3-RC1.tar.gz
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal163-RC1.zip

The following issues were addressed in this release:

General:
* r13533 (ogr postgis plugin) have been added to the stable branch only 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3125/>
* GRIB detection not thread safe <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3209/>

GDAL:
* GDALRasterizeLayers() and GDALRasterizeGeometries() segfault when passed invalid 
band numbers <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3146/>
* Patch for HDF5 block size recognition 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2270/>
* Gdal doesn't calculate stats correctly if it is negative number 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2511/>
* ERS file pointing to an ECW file is not opening when a full path name is not 
specified <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2907/>
* Keyword causing format unrecognized (PDS) 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2956/>
* Add support for large NITF files <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2989/>
* do not remove leading spaces after TRE=xxxx= metadata when writing them 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3088/>
* [PATCH] TSX COSAR driver and 'pixel validity mask' 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3112/>
* GDALDataset::BlockBasedRasterIO() does not use overviews 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3124/>
* SIGBUS when reading A.TOC on Solaris <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3130/>
* Cleanup of drivers when using ECW data  is very expensive 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3134/>
* When PIXELTYPE=SIGNEDBYTE, band.GetStatistics returns wrong values 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3151/>
* HFA doesn't support reading COMPRESSED + SIGNEDBYTE 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3152/>
* undefined reference to ... error with gdalbuildvrt.cpp 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3167/>
* variation on label to image pointer (PDS) 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3177/>
* GDALGridCreate with NULL progress callback function 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3189/>
* ERS driver fails with ERSs containing relative paths to non-ERStorage rasters 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3196/>
* Wrong type casting in GDALGrid data metrics functions 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3207/>
* HDF5 driver crashes with stackoverflow on this HDF5 image 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3218/>

Utilities:
* Python utililities should support command-line wildcards 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2783/>
* gdalbuildvrt -resolution lowest/highest does not work correcty for y pixel size 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3198/>
* [PATCH] Part of the reprojected image is missing from GDAL 1.6.0 along 180E/180W 
longitude <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3206/>

OGR:
* OGRLayer::GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn() just return empty strings from 
Python bindings <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2694/>
* GML read failure for GDAL 1.6+ <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2948/>
* GML reading problems with Xerces 3.x <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3156/>
* OGRLayer::GetFeatureCount returns a wrong value for SOUNDG layer 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3163/>
* XPlane driver causes fatal memory allocation in ogrinfo/ogr2ogr 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3164/>

Configuration:
* libtool: /bin/sh: arg list too long (powerpc-ibm-aix5.3) 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3080/>
* Error when building the gdal 1.6.2 for Linux 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3149/>

Python:
* Add __version__ to python bindings <http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3137/>
* ReadRaster() crashes when GDAL is built with MinGW 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3173/>

OGR Spatial References:
* EPSG:3785 does not support spherical mercator hack 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3136/>
* Add 2 NZ coordinate system definition to mitab driver 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3187/>



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