- Update to 2.4.0:
* In a nutshell:
- New GDAL drivers:
BYN: read/write support for Natural Resources Canada's Geoid binary format
EEDAI: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API
IGNFHeightASCIIGrid: read-only driver to read IGN-France height correction ASCII grids
NGW: NextGIS Web read-only driver
NTv1: read-only driver for NTv1 datum shift grids
- New OGR drivers:
EEDA: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API
GeoJSONSeq: read/creation support of new-line or record-separator separated GeoJSON features (#378)
NGW: NextGIS Web read-write driver
- Improved drivers:
BAG: add read support for variable-resolution grids, and write support for single-resolution grids
GTiff driver: add Lerc and WebP codecs
PostgisRaster?: add support for out-db rasters
RMF
MSSQLSpatial
- RFC 72: Make GDAL Python autotest suite use pytest framework
- Add /vsihdfs/ virtual file system handler for Hadoop File System (via libhdfs)
- Add /vsiwebhdfs/ read-write virtual file system for Web Hadoop File System REST API
- gdal_contour rewriting: speed optimizations and capability to compute polygon isosurfaces.
- Remove PHP and Ruby bindings.
- Continued code linting in C++, Python scripts, Shell scripts and autotest
* Backward compatibility issues
- The value of COMPRESSION_ZSTD used for ZStd-in-TIFF compression has been changed.
ZStd-compressed TIFF files produced by GDAL 2.3.0 will not be readable
* Full changelog: https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.4.0-News
- Add md5 checksum
- Refresh patch:
* gdal-perl.patch
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/660945
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Application:Geo/gdal?expand=0&rev=80
