Prepare for GDAL 3.9.1 (RC2)

CITATION.cff

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ message: Please cite this software using these metadata or in the CITATION file.
 type: software
 title: GDAL
 version: 3.9.1
-date-released: 2024-06-19
+date-released: 2024-06-22
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5884351
 abstract: GDAL is a translator library for raster and vector geospatial data
   formats that is released under an MIT style Open Source License by the Open

NEWS.md

@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ GDAL 3.9.1 is a bugfix release.
 * GDALContourGenerateEx(): validate LEVEL_INTERVAL option (#10103)
 * GDALTranslate(): use directly generated VRT even if BLOCKXSIZE/BLOCKYSIZE
   creation options are specified
+* GDALSieveFilter(): avoid assert() when all pixels are masked (3.9.0 regression)
+  (raster/rasterio#3101)
+* Overview generation: fix multi-threaded bug, resulting in locks/crashes with
+  GeoPackage in particular (#10245)
 
 ### Core
 
@@ -90,13 +94,26 @@ STACIT driver:
 
 VRT driver:
  * fix processing of LUT where the first source value is NaN
+ * fix serialization of separatable kernel in VRTKernelFilteredSource (#10253)
+
+Zarr driver:
+ * SerializeNumericNoData(): use CPLJSonObject::Add(uint64_t) to avoid potential
+   undefined behavior casts
 
 ## OGR 3.9.1
 
 ### Core
 
 * OGRSQL: validate column name in COUNT(field_name) and error out if it
   doesn't exist (#9972)
+* OGR SQL: fix crash when the ON expression of a JOIN contains OGR special
+  fields (in particular feature id)
+* OGR layer algebra: honour PROMOTE_TO_MULTI=YES for Points
+* OGRFeature::SetField(int, double): avoid UndefinedBehavior when passing NaN
+* OGRFeature::SetField(int, GIntBig): avoid UndefinedBehavior when passing value
+  close to INT64_MAX
+* OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch(): avoid UndefinedBehavior when trying to convert
+  NaN to Int64
 
 ### OGRSpatialReference
 
@@ -193,6 +210,9 @@ OpenFileGDB driver:
  * detect and try to repair corruption of .gdbtable header related to above item
  * BuildSRS(): do not use CPLErrorReset()
 
+Parquet driver:
+ * GeoParquet: always write version=1.1.0
+
 PDF driver:
  * fix wrong order of matrix multiplication for 'cm' operator... (#9870)
  * make ExploreContentsNonStructured() be able to parse OGCs as generated
@@ -208,6 +228,10 @@ PG driver:
    permissions (#9994)
  * really honor OGR_PG_ENABLE_METADATA=NO in SerializeMetadata()
 
+SQLite/GPKG drivers
+ * detect UNIQUE constraints expressed as a ', CONSTRAINT name UNIQUE (column_name)'
+   at the end of CREATE TABLE (qgis/QGIS#57823)
+
 XLSX driver:
  * implement IUpdateFeature() that was broken up to now
  * declare missing capabilities DELETE_FIELD, REORDER_FIELDS,

gcore/gdal_version.h.in

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 #if !defined(DO_NOT_DEFINE_GDAL_DATE_NAME)
 #ifndef GDAL_RELEASE_DATE
-#  define GDAL_RELEASE_DATE     20240619
+#  define GDAL_RELEASE_DATE     20240622
 #endif
 #ifndef GDAL_RELEASE_NAME
 #  define GDAL_RELEASE_NAME     "3.9.1"