GDAL 3.2.3

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.2.3/gdal/NEWS

GDAL 3.3.0

• RFC 77 (https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc77_drop_python2_support.html): Drop Python 2 support in favor of Python 3.6 (#3142)
• RFC 78 (https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc78_gdal_utils_package.html): Add a gdal-utils Python package
• New driver:
  • STACTA: raster driver to read Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets
• Add /vsiadls/ virtual file system for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
• Improved drivers: DIMAP, NITF
• Number of improvements in Python bindings
• Add automatic loading of configuration options from a file
• Add support for enumerated, constraint and glob field domains in MEM, FileGDB/OpenFileGDB and GeoPackage drivers
• Deprecation:
  • Disable by default raster drivers DODS, JPEG2000, JPEGLS, MG4LIDAR, FUJIBAS, IDA, INGR, ZMAP and vector driver ARCGEN, ArcObjects, CLOUDANT, COUCHDB, DB2, DODS, FME, GEOMEDIA, GTM, INGRES, MONGODB, REC, WALK at runtime, unless the GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_{drivername} configuration option is set to YES. Those drivers are planned for removal in GDAL 3.5
  • Perl bindings are deprecated. Removal planned for GDAL 3.5. Use Geo::GDAL::FFI instead
• Removal of BNA, AeronavFAA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, XPlane, BPG, E00GRID, EPSILON, IGNFHeightASCIIGrid, NTV1 drivers. Moved to (unsupported) https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository.

GDAL 3.2.2

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.2.2/gdal/NEWS

GDAL 3.2.1

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.2.1/gdal/NEWS

GDAL 3.2.0

• New GDAL drivers:
  • ESRIC: ESRI bundle cache read-only driver (#2663)
  • HEIF: read-only driver for HEIF/HEIC file. Requires libheif
  • OGCAPI: tiles/maps/coverage raster/vector experimental driver
  • TGA: read/only driver to read TGA image file format
• New OGR drivers:
  • LVBAG: read-only support for Dutch LVBAG/Kadaster 2.0 vector format
• New utilities:
  • gdal_create: to create/initialize a new raster file
• Other improvements:
  • Multi-threaded overview computation (if GDAL_NUM_THREADS set)
  • COG driver: TILING_SCHEME creation option
  • OpenFileGDB driver: add support for using spatial indexes
  • BAG driver: multiple improvements
  • FITS driver: multiple improvements (MEF and binary table support)
  • NITF driver: support for SNIP TREs
  • OGRFieldDefn: support UNIQUE constraint
  • OGRFieldDefn: support a AlternativeName (alias) property (#2729)
  • Python bindings: move implementation of scripts (except gdal2tiles) in osgeo.utils package to be reusable
  • Faster GTIFF Deflate compression/decompression through libdeflate (if using internal libtiff or libtiff > 4.1.0)
• Removed functionality:
  • API_PROXY mechanism: likely never used for real usage.
  • Removal of GDAL and OGR ArcSDE drivers

GDAL 3.1.4

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.1.4/gdal/NEWS

GDAL 3.1.3

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.1.3/gdal/NEWS

GDAL 3.1.2

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.1.2/gdal/NEWS

GDAL 3.1.1

Bug fix release. See release notes: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.1.1/gdal/NEWS

GDAL 3.1.0

• Implement RFC 75: support for multidimensional arrays in MEM, VRT, netCDF, HDF4, HDF5 and GRIB drivers. Read/write for MEM and netCDF. Read/only for others. Add gdalmdiminfo and gdalmdimtranslate utilities.
• Implement RFC 76: add capability of writing vector drivers in Python
• New GDAL drivers:
  • COG: write-only, for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
  • EXR: read/write driver, relying on OpenEXR library
  • ISG: read-only, for geoid models of the International Service for the Geoid
  • RDB: read-only, for RIEGL Database .mpx RDB 2 files (#1538) (needs proprietary SDK)
• New OGR drivers:
  • FlatGeoBuf: read-support and creation (#1742)
  • MapML: read/write driver for experimental web spec
• Improved drivers:

• OAPIF driver (renamed from WFS3): updated to OGC API - Features 1.0 core spec
• GTiff: improve performance of internal overview creation
• GTiff: GeoTIFF 1.1 support
• Shapefile driver: add read/creation/update support for .shz and .shp.zip
• netCDF vector: read/write support for CF-1.8 Encoded Geometries (#1287)
• VICAR: multiple improvements and write support (#1855)
• DDS: add read support

• Other improvements:
  • gdalwarp: accept output drivers with only CreateCopy() capabilities
  • gdal_viewshed: new utility for viewshed algorithm
• Remove GFT driver now that the online service no longer exists (#2050)
• New Sphinx-based documentation
• Multiple security related fixes (ossfuzz)
• Continued code linting (cppcheck, CoverityScan, etc.)
• Compatibility with GDAL 3.0:
  • C and C++ API: backward compatible changes
  • C ABI: backward compatible changes
  • C++ ABI: modified
  • Functional changes: see MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT