[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 2.0.0 released

Hi,

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.0.0.  GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial
data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and
web services.  It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety
of command line tools.

   http://www.gdal.org/

The 2.0.0 release is a major new feature release with the following 
highlights:

 * GDAL and OGR driver and dataset unification:
       http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc46_gdal_ogr_unification
 * Support for curve geometries:
       http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc49_curve_geometries
 * Support for OGR field subtypes (boolean, int16, float32):
       http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc50_ogr_field_subtype
 * RasterIO() improvements : resampling and progress callback
       http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc51_rasterio_resampling_progress
 * Stricter SQL quoting:
       http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc52_strict_sql_quoting
 * OGR not-null constraints and default values:
       http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc53_ogr_notnull_default
 * OGR dataset transactions:
       https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc54_dataset_transactions
 * Refined SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() semantics:
       https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc55_refined_setfeature_deletefeature_semantics
 * OFTTime/OFTDateTime millisecond accuracy:      
       https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc56_millisecond_precisio
 * 64bit histogram bucket count:
       https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc57_histogram_64bit_count

 * New GDAL drivers:
    - BPG: read-only driver for Better Portable Graphics format (experimental)
    - GPKG: read/write/update capabilities in the unified raster/vector driver
                http://gdal.org/drv_geopackage_raster.html
    - KEA: read/write driver for KEA format
                http://gdal.org/frmt_kea.html
    - PLMosaic: read-only driver for Planet Labs Mosaics API
                http://gdal.org/frmt_plmosaic.html
    - ROI_PAC: read/write driver for image formats of JPL's ROI_PAC project
                http://www.gdal.org/frmt_various.html#ROI_PAC
    - VICAR: read-only driver for VICAR format
                http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/external/vicar.html

 * New OGR drivers:
    - Cloudant : read/write driver for Cloudant service
                http://gdal.org/drv_cloudant.html
    - CSW: read-only driver for OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) protocol
                http://gdal.org/drv_csw.html
    - JML: read/write driver for OpenJUMP .jml format
                http://gdal.org/drv_jml.html
    - PLScenes: read-only driver for Planet Labs Scenes API 
                http://gdal.org/drv_plscenes.html
    - Selaphin: read/write driver for the Selaphin/Seraphin format
                http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_selafin.html

 * Significantly improved drivers: CSV, GPKG, GTiff, JP2OpenJPEG, MapInfo, PG, 
SQLite

 * Upgrade to EPSG 8.5 database

 * Fix locale related issues when formatting or reading floating point numbers

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.0.0
release can be found at:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.0.0-News

The release can be downloaded from:
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200.zip - source as a zip
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.gz - source as 
.tar.gz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.xz - source as 
.tar.xz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdalautotest-2.0.0.tar.gz - test 
suite
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal200doc.zip - documentation / 
website

As there have been a few changes to the C++ API, and to a lesser extent to the 
C API, developers are strongly advised to read :
      https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/2.0/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

Best regards,

Even

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