CVE-2006-2314

Advisory

Gdal 2.3.0 drops support for PostgreSQL client library older than 7.4, or non security maintained releases older than 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13, 7.3.15.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Port:
* Add CPLJSONDocument/Object/Array - C++ thin wrapper around json-c library. (github 282)
* /vsicurl/: fix occasional inappropriate failures in Read() with some combinations of initial offset, file size and read request size (6901)
* /vsicurl/: add a CPL_VSIL_CURL_NON_CACHED configuration option, so as to be able to specify filenames whose content must not be cached after dataset closing
* /vsicurl/: honour GDAL_HTTP_MAX_RETRY and GDAL_HTTP_RETRY_DELAY config options. Add extended filename syntax to pass options use_head, max_retry, retry_delay and list_dir.
* /vsicurl/: enable redirection optimization on signed URLs of Google Cloud Storage. Helps for the PLScenes driver (fixes 7067)
* /vsicurl/ and derived filesystems: redirect ReadDir() to ReadDirEx() (7045)
* /vsicurl/ and related file systems: add compatibility with HTTP/2 (requires recent enough curl, built against nghttp2). Can be controlled with the GDAL_HTTP_VERSION=1.0/1.1/2/2TLS
* /vsicurl/: fix 2.2 regression regarding retrieval of file size of FTP file (7088)
* /vsicurl/: when stat'ing a file, fallback from HEAD to GET if the server issues a 405 error
* Add a VSICurlClearCache() function (bound to SWIG as gdal.VSICurlClearCache()) to be able to clear /vsicurl/ related caches (6937)
* CPLHTTPSetOptions(): use SearchPathA() for curl-ca-bundle.crt on Windows. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1538
* CPLHTTPFetch() / vsicurl: add retry on HTTP 429, and add exponential backoff logic for retry delay
* CPLHTTPFetch(): when openssl is enabled, and used by libcurl, use openssl thread safety mechanism to avoid potential crashes in multithreading scenarios
* CPLHTTPFetch(): add a SSL_VERIFYSTATUS option / GDAL_HTTP_SSL_VERIFYSTATUS configuration option to check OCSP stapling
* CPLHTTPFetch(): add a USE_CAPI_STORE option / GDAL_HTTP_USE_CAPI_STORE configuration option to use certificates from the Windows certificate store
* Ignore SIGPIPE that may arose during curl operations (mostly when using OpenSSL for TLS)
* Add CPLHTTPMultiFetch() and CPLMultiPerformWait()
* /vsis3/: support reading credentials from ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.aws/config or IAM role on EC2 instances
* /vsis3/: properly handle cases where a directory contains a file and subdir of same names; implement Mkdir() and Rmdir()
* /vsis3/: fix Seek(Tell(), SEEK_SET) fails if current position is not 0 (7062)
* /vsis3/: properly handle 307 TemporaryRedirection (7116)
* /vsis3/: fix support of bucket names with dot in them (7154)
* /vsis3/: make multipart upload work with Minio
* /vsigs/: add new authentication methods using OAuth2 refresh token or service account or Google Compute Engine VM authentication, or using ~/.boto file
* /vsigs/: add write, Unlink(), Mkdir() and Rmdir() support
* /vsigs/: allow authentication to be done with the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS configuration option pointing to a JSon file containing OAuth2 service account credentials
* /vsis3/ and /vsigs/: take into account user provided x-amz- / x-goog- HTTP headers with GDAL_HTTP_HEADER_FILE
* Fix CPLReadDirRecursive() to behave properly on /vsis3/ buckets that have foo (file) and foo/ (sub-directory) entries (7136)
* /vsis3/: add a AWS_NO_SIGN_REQUEST=YES configuration option to disable request signing (7205)
* /vsis3, /vsigs, /vsioss, /vsiaz: fix support of non-ASCII characters in keys (7143)
* Add VSIGetActualURL(), typically to expand /vsis3/ paths to full URLs, and bind it to SWIG as gdal.GetActualURL()
* Add VSIGetSignedURL()
* Add VSIGetFileSystemsPrefixes() and VSIGetFileSystemOptions()
* CPLFormFilename() / CPLProjectRelativeFilename(): add /vsis3 and similar file systems to the list of filesystems requiring unix separator (github 281)
ù Make CPLFormFilename() properly work with http[s:]// filenames
* Add a CPLGetErrorCounter() function that can be used to test if new errors have been emitted
* Add cpl_safemaths.hpp to detect integer overflows (6229)
* /vsigzip/: avoid trying to write a .gz.properties file on a /vsicurl/ file (7016)
* CPLStrtod(): parse string like '-1.IND0000000' as NaN instead of -1 (seen when looking at refs 7031, but does not fix it)
* Fix CPLCopyTree() that doesn't properly on MSVC 2015 (and possibly other platforms) (7070)
* /vsimem/: to improve Posix compliance, do not make Seek() after end of file error out in read-only mode
* cpl_config.h.vc: define HAVE_LONG_LONG 1; cpl_port.h remove MSVC specific logic for int64 (github 264)
* /vsisparse/: make Read() detect end of file
* GDALVersionInfo("BUILD_INFO"): report if GEOS is available
* Add VSIMkdirRecursive() and VSIRmdirRecursive()
* Add CPLGetHomeDir()
* CPLSetErrorHandler(): avoid later crashes when passing a null callback (github 298)
* CPLHTTPParseMultipartMime(): make it format the pasMimePart[].papszHeaders in a standard key=value format without EOL
* CPLString: avoid std::string symbols to be exported with Visual Studio (7254)
* I/O on Android: add support for 64-bit file operations if API level >= 24 (Android 7.0 or later) (github 339)

Core:
* add GDALDataTypeIsFloating, GDALDataTypeIsSigned, GDALDataTypeUnionWithValue, GDALFindDataType, GDALFindDataTypeForValue (github 215). Add GDALDataTypeIsInteger()
* Cleanup ARE_REAL_EQUAL() and GDALIsValueInRange() (6945, 6946)
* Various SSE2/AVX2 optimizations for GDALCopyWords()
* GDALGCPsToGeoTransform(): add GDAL_GCPS_TO_GEOTRANSFORM_APPROX_OK=YES and GDAL_GCPS_TO_GEOTRANSFORM_APPROX_THRESHOLD=threshold_in_pixel configuration option (6995)
* RawDataset::IRasterIO(): don't assume all bands are RawRasterBand
* GDALOpenInfo: make number of bytes read at opening configurable with GDAL_INGESTED_BYTES_AT_OPEN
* GDALCopyWholeRasterGetSwathSize(): try to use at least 10 MB for swath size
* GDALDatasetCopyWholeRaster(), GDALRasterBandCopyWholeRaster(), GDALCreateCopy(): always call AdviseRead() on the full extent of the source dataset (7082)
* make DefaultCreateCopy() copy RAT
* Generate gcore/gdal_version.h from git date and sha for a dev version (Unix builds only)
* Add GDALDataset::Open()
* Add C++ iterators for layers, bands and features in GDALDataset
* External .ovr: make sure that ExtraSamples tag is written
* Overview creation: avoid creating too many levels, and fix related heap buffer overflow (github 557)
* SetStatistics(): write a STATISTICS_APPROXIMATE=YES metadata item if bApproxOK=true, and take it into account in GetStatistics() (4857,4576)

Algorithms:
* Contour: make sure no 3D geometry is created unless -3d switch is defined (336)
* Warper: revise/improver how working data type is inferred from other parameters
* Warper: when operating on single-band, skip target pixels whose source center pixel is nodata (2.2 regression, 7001)
* Warper: avoid blocking when number of rows is 1 and NUM_THREADS > 1 (7041). Also limit the number of threads so that each one processes at least 65536 pixels
* Warper: use AdviseRead() when source chunks are sufficiently compact (7082)
* Warper: fix rounding error in scale factor computation (github 273)
* Warper: use panSrcBands[0] in the single band case (regression fix, github 295)
* Warper: add very special case to handle situation where input raster edge touches dateline, but proj.4 transformation involves a discontinuity (7243)
* Geoloc transformer: fix systematic pixel shift (github 244)
* RPC transformer: set output coordinates to HUGE_VAL when failure occurs, so that a following coordinate transformation can detect the error too (7090)
* RPC transformer: return NULL at instantiation if the specified RPC_DEM file cannot be opened
* Export GDALRegisterTransformDeserializer() and GDALUnregisterTransformDeserializer() (5392)
* GDALRasterize(): avoid hang in some cases with all_touched option (5580)
* Optimize GDALResampleConvolutionVertical() and GDALPansharpenOperation::WeightedBroveyPositiveWeightsInternal() for SSE2 / AVX
* Overview / resampling: speed-up bicubic upsampling for SSE2
* GDALGrid() with linear algorithm: avoid assertions/segmentation fault when GDALTriangulationFindFacetDirected() fails (7101)
* GDALComputeProximity(): fix int32 overflow when computing distances on large input datasets (7102)
* GDALAllRegister(): make sure that all drivers that need to look for sidecar files are put at the end

Utilities:
* GDAL and OGR C++ and Python utilities: accept -f or -of to specify output format
* --optfile: re-parse inlined content with GDALGeneralCmdLineProcessor(), in particular to support --config key value in option file
* gdalsrsinfo: for consistency with other output, do not quote the proj.4 string output
* gdal_rasterize: fix segfault when rasterizing onto a raster with RPC (6922)
* gdal_rasterize: add a -to option to specify transformer options
* gdal_rasterize / GDALRasterizeGeometries(): optimize rasterization for large number of small geometries (5716)
* gdal_rasterize: fix crash in some situations with ALL_TOUCHED option (7176)
* gdaladdo: support not specifying explicitly overview factors, and add -minsize option
* gdal_translate: add -a_scale / -a_offset (7093)
* gdal_translate: add -colorinterp / -colorinterp_X options
* DefaultCreateCopy()/gdal_translate: do not destroy target file in case of failed copy wen using -co APPEND_SUBDATASET=YES (7019)
* gdal_translate: make -b mask[,xx] use the appropriate band data type (7028)
* gdal_translate property copy RAT (or not-copy RAT when -norat is specified)
* gdalwarp: make -crop_to_cutline works when RPC transform is involved
* gdalwarp: for RPC warping add a few extra source pixels by default
* gdalwarp: -crop_to_cutline: reduce number of iterations to find the appropriate densification (7119)
* gdalwarp: do not set implicitly nodata on destination dataset when -dstalpha is specified (7075)
* gdalwarp: display errors (such as invalid open options) on successful opening of destination dataset
* gdalwarp: fix "-dstnodata inf" (7097)
* gdalwarp: fix when several input datasets with different SRS are specified, and no explicit target SRS is provided (7170)
* gdalwarp: make sure to try to redefine the destination nodata value from the source nodata even if the newly created dataset has already set a default nodata value (7245)
* gdalwarp: improve progress meter when using multiple source files. For GDALWarp() function, make sure that the progress goes monotonically from 0 to 1. (352)
* gdal2tiles.py: fix GDAL 2.2 regression where tilemapresource.xml was no longer generated (6966)
* gdal2tiles: add --processes=intval option to parallelize processing (4379)
* gdalinfo --format / ogrinfo --format: report extra metada items in a 'Other metadata items:' section (7007)
* gdalinfo: make sure to display geodetic coordinates always in degree (and not potentially in another unit such as grad) (4198)
* gdalinfo: report 'Mask Flags: PER_DATASET NODATA' when NODATA_VALUES metadata item is specified
* gdal_edit.py: add a -colorinterp_X red|green|blue|alpha|gray|undefined option to change band color interpretation
* gdal_contour: return with non-0 code if field creation or contour generation failed (7147)
* gdal_retile.py: fix failure if the filename contains % (percent) symbol (7186)
* gdalbuildvrt: make warnings about heterogeneous projection/band characteristics more explicit (6829)
* gdalbuildvrt: add support for band scale and offset (3221)
* gdal_fillnodata.py, gdal_pansharpen.py, gdal_polygonize.py, gdal_proximity.py, gdal_sieve.py, rgb2pct.py: avoid potential problem on Windows in verbose mode (github 458)

Sample Python scripts:
* Add gdal_mkdir.py, gdal_rm.py and gdal_rmdir.py samples scripts
* gdalcopyproj.py: fix use of GCP related API (github 255)
* ogr2vrt.py: automatically set relativeToVRT=1 for input and output filenames givn in relative form in the same directory

Multi driver changes:
* tag (and do needed changes) CALS, FUJIBAS, PAUX, SGI, RS2, GXF, TERRAGEN, Rasterlite, CPG, MSGN, Leveller as supporting GDAL_DCAP_VIRTUALIO

AIGRID:
* fix handling on raw 32-bit AIG blocks (6886)

BT driver:
* make GetNoDataValue()/SetNoDataValue() use PAM

DIMAP driver:
* do not report dummy geotransform (see https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2018-January/048014.html)

DTED driver:
* Support VerticalCS for DTED and SRTM drivers when REPORT_COMPD_CS config option is set (github 237)

ECW driver:
* fix Windows compilation against old ECW SDK and VS < 2015 (6943)
* make AdviseRead() to store its call parameters, and only do the actual work in RunDeferredAdviseRead() if TryWinRasterIO() determines that the IRasterIO() parameters are compatible of the AdviseRead() ones (7082)
* data/ecw_cs.wkt: fix PRIMEM of MONTROME (2340)

EHdr driver:
* support reading/writing .clr as/from RAT (3253)
* only write .stx if bApproxOK=false (github 514)

ENVI driver:
* support 'major frame offsets' keyword (7114)

ERS driver:
add extension metadata (github 320)

GeoPackage driver:
* update from 'tiled gridded extension' to now OGC approved 'tiled gridded coverage data extension' (OGC 17-066r1) (7159)
* avoid corruption of gpkg_tile_matrix when building overviews, down to a level where they are smaller than the tile size (6932)
* fix opening subdatasets with absolute filenames on Windows (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/16997)
* fix possible assertion / corruption when creating a raster GeoPackage (7022)
* properly handle non-0 nodata value in edge tiles, especially with TILING_SCHEME creation option
* do not write empty tiles for Float32 data type
* speed-up statistics retrieval on non-Byte datasets (7096)
* make DELLAYER:rastertable / DROP TABLE rastertable delete the table and all references to it (7013)
* create single tiled TIFF tiles if they are not bigger than 512x512 pixels
* avoid multi-threading issues when creating TIFF tiles with GDAL_NUM_THREADS defined.
* fix overview creation with big overview factors on some datasets

GeoRaster driver:
* handle memory allocation failures (6884)
* add support for GCP (6973)

GTiff driver:
* add support for ZSTD compression/decompression (requires internal libtiff, or libtiff HEAD)
* when IRasterIO() realizes that several blocks are going to be needed, use MultiRangeRead() interface for /vsicurl/ related file systems to get data in parallel
* change default value of BIGTIFF_OVERVIEW to be IF_SAFER (github 231)
* make sure that -co PHOTOMETRIC=RGB overrides the color interpretation of the first 3 bands of the source datasets (7064)
* allow modifying color interpretation on existing file opened in update mode
* Internal libtiff: resync with upstream HEAD (post 4.0.9)
* Internal libgeotiff: resync with upstream HEAD: use ProjScaleAtCenterGeoKey for CT_Mercator if ProjScaleAtNatOriginGeoKey is not set (github 296)
* fix compilation without BIGTIFF_SUPPORT (6890)
* fix reading subsampled JPEG-in-TIFF when block height = 8 (6988)
* when reading a COMPD_CS (and GTIFF_REPORT_COMPD_CS=YES), set the name from the GTCitationGeoKey (7011)
* on reading use GeogTOWGS84GeoKey to override the defaults TOWGS84 values coming from EPSG code (7144)
* when writing SRS, do not drop EXTENSION PROJ4 node if the projection is unknown (7104)
* make it accept to write SetGeoTransform([0,1,0,0,0,1]) as a ModelTransformationTag, and remove particular cases with the [0,1,0,0,0,1] geotransform (1683)
* warn when SetNoDataValue() is called on different bands with different values (2083)
* add a GTIFF_HONOUR_NEGATIVE_SCALEY=YES config option that can be set to honour negative ScaleY value in GeoPixelScale tag according to the GeoTIFF specification (4977)
* read/write Z dimension for ModelTiepointTag and ModelPixelScaleTag and translate it into/from band scale and offset, when there's a SRS with a vertical component (7093)
* fix reading PCSCitationGeoKey (7199)
* add support for reading and writing TIFF_RSID and GEO_METADATA GeoTIFF DGIWG tags
* use consistently multiplication/division by 257 when converting between GDAL [0,255] range to TIFF [0,65535] range for color map values (2213)
* don't write <GDALMetadata> colorinterp when writing a file with a color table
* copy georeferencing info to PAM if the profile is not GeoTIFF

GRIB driver:
* add GRIB2 write support
* update to degrib 2.14 and g2clib 1.6.0
* add support for GRIB2 template 4.32 (github 249)
* add support for GRIB2 template '4.32 Simulate (synthetic) Satellite Product'
* add support for GRIB2 template 4.40 (Analysis or forecast at a horizontal level or in a horizontal layer at a point in time for atmospheric chemical constituents)
* update table 4.2-0-7 current (github 274)
* add support for GRIB1 products with non-zero NV (number of vertical coordinate parameters) field in GDS (NV is just ignored) (7104)
* add support for Rotated pole LatLon projections (7104)
* adjust the longitude range to be close to [-180,180] when possible for products whose left origin is close to 180deg. Can be controlled with the GRIB_ADJUST_LONGITUDE_RANGE=YES/NO config option, that defaults to YES (7103)
* advertise .grb2 and .grib2 extensions in metadata
* expose product discipline of GRIB2 products in GRIB_DISCIPLINE (5108)
* add a GRIB_PDS_TEMPLATE_ASSEMBLED_VALUES metadata items which expose a slightly higher view of GRIB_PDS_TEMPLATE_NUMBERS
* speed-up GetNoData() implementation of GRIB2 files by avoiding decompressing the data
* GRIB2: add support for Transverse Mercator, Albers Equal Area, Lambert Azimuthal projections, fixes in Mercator and Polar Stereographic support, adjustment for GS80 and WGS84 datums
* correctly read Mercator as Mercator_2SP when stdparallel1 != 0
* GRIB2: add support for Grid point data - IEEE Floating Point Data template 5.4 encoding
* GRIB2: report Section 1 / Identification section as GRIB_IDS metadata item
* fix decimal_scale_factor != 0 handling with nbits = 0 for simple packing and JP2K compression/decompression, and PNG compression.
* GRIB2: don't error out on a unhandled template in Section 4
* remove TDLPack support

GSAG driver:
* fix reading issue that could cause a spurious 0 value to be read and shift all following values (6992)

GTX driver:
* do not emit error when opening with GDAL_PAM_ENABLED=NO (6996)

GRC driver:
* Fix handling of alpha values in GRC color table (6905)
* Handle case of 0-len GRC class names (6907)

HDF5 driver:
* Added CInt16, CInt32, CFloat32, CFloat64 support (github 359)
* HDF5 driver as a plugin: register the BAG driver as well (5802)

HF2 driver:
* creation: copy source information (including nodata) into PAM if needed (6885)
* fix reading tiles that are 1-pixel wide (2.1 regression, 6949)

HFA driver:
* add GDAL_HFA_OVR_BLOCKSIZE configuration option to control HFA overviews block size (github 292)

HTTP driver:
* do not open the underlying dataset with GDAL_OF_SHARED, to avoid later assertion

ISIS3 driver:
* make sure that -co USE_SRC_HISTORY=NO -co ADD_GDAL_HISTORY=NO results in remove of History section (6968)
* fix logic to initialize underlying GeoTIFF file in IWriteBlock(), and implement Fill() (7040)

JP2ECW driver:
* add NBITS creation option, and automatically select codestream output for .j2k extension

JP2KAK driver:
* add support fr Kakadu 7.A (7048)
* fix lossless compression with NBITS != 8 for Byte and NBITS != 16 for UInt16
* use tile dimensions as block size up to 2048x2048 (6941)
* make write side honour .j2k extension to generate only codestream

JP2OpenJPEG driver:
* add support for OpenJPEG 2.2 (7002) and 2.3 (7074). Drop support for openjpeg 2.0
* fix performance issues with small images with very small tile size, such as some Sentinel2 quicklooks (7012)
* emit warning if GMLJP2v2 explicitly requested but georeferencing implemented
* allow YCC for non-Byte datasets; and allow 4-band MCT with openjpeg >= 2.2

JPEG driver:
* Add compatibility with libjpeg-turbo 1.5.2 that honours max_memory_to_use
* add capability to write EXIF and GPS tags in a EXIF segment
* Internal libjpeg: provide implementation of tmpfile() that works better on Windows (1795)
* avoid mis-identification of some SRTMHGT files as JPEG

JPEG2000 driver:
* add NBITS creation option, and automatically select codestream output for .j2k extension

KEA driver:
* add some additional metadata items (STATISTICS_HISTOBINVALUES and STATISTICS_HISTONUMBINS) (6892)

L1B driver:
* support reading NOAA18 datasets (7115)

MBTiles driver:
* add read/write support for Mapbox vector tiles
* support opening and creating datasets with tiles whose dimension is not 256 (7233)
* default to opening as RGBA (6119)

MEM driver:
* Avoid Create(foo.tif) / CreateCopy(foo.tif) on the MEM or Memory drivers to delete a 'real' foo.tif file
* add RAT support

MRF driver:
* Add Zen chunk support
* Open option to ignore decompression errors and missing data files
* delay data file creation when NOCOPY is set
* Identify MRF metadata passed as filename
* Initialize PAM better on CopyCreate, enable external mask.
* Fix for coordinates when opening single overview level
* Use input mask if available to filter input data when creating JPEG compressed files.
* Add open option to select Z-slice, also Z-slice selection in the metadata file

MrSID driver:
* add support for LTI_COLORSPACE_GRAYSCALEA and LTI_COLORSPACE_GRAYSCALEA_PM color
spaces

NetCDF driver:
* avoid vector vs raster variable confusion that prevents reading Sentinel3 datasets, and avoid invalid geolocation array to be reported (6974)
* fix raster read as nodata with Byte datatype, (valid_range={0,255} or _Unsigned = True) and negative _FillValue (7069)
* be more tolerant on the formatting of standard parallel (space separated instead of {x,y,...} syntax), and accept up to 2/1000 error on spacing to consider a regular grid, to be able to read files provided by the national weather institute of Netherlands (KNMI) (7086)
* on creation, attach grid_mapping attribute to all bands
* netCDF: support UTF-8 filenames on Windows (7065)
* add support for reading files in rotated pole projection (4285)
* behave correctly when an extra dimension of a variable has a corresponding 1D variable of different names (7165)
* netCDF: fix bad interaction of SetNoDataValue() and SetGeoTransform()/SetProjection() for NC4/NC4C modes (7245)

NITF driver:
* add support for NITF CCINFA TRE (github 232)
* data/nitf_spec.xml: fix location of PIAPRD TRE (github 234)
* make sure that BLOCKA_ or TRE=BLOCKA= creation option override source NITF metadata; add a USE_SRC_NITF_METADATA=YES/NO creation option; make sure that gdal_translate doesn't preserve source BLOCKA when georeferencing is modified
* fix swapped lines and samples in IMRFCA (github 289)
* allow to read single-block JPEG2000 compressed images with one dimension > 8192 pixels (fixes 407)

PCIDSK driver:
* sort overviews (7100)

PCRaster driver:
* fix fseek/ftell for large files on Windows (322)

PDF driver:
* add support for Poppler 0.58 (7033)
* round to upper integer when computing a DPI such that page size remains within limits accepted by Acrobat (7083)
* do not emit 'Cannot find GPTS object' on VP.Measure objects whose Subtype != GEO

PDS driver:
* map STEREOGRAPHIC with fabs(lat)=90 to Polar_Stereographic (6893)

PLMosaic driver:
* update to use the new Basemaps and Mosaics API
* take into account BBOX for XYZ tiles

PNM driver:
* add .pgm and .ppm extensions in metadata

RMF driver:
* add RMF native overviews support (github 266)
* fix raster garbage values while reading sparse RMF files (github 267)
* add native overview build (github 275)
* fix NoData value update (github 312)
* fix elevation units write and update (github 314)

RRASTER driver:
* add support for reading creator and created metadata items, band names and color table / RAT
* add update and create/createcopy support

SAGA driver:
* add support for .sg-grd-z files (github 228)

Sentinel2 driver:
* make sure that the True Color Image subdatset really uses the R,G,B bands and not the R,R,R (7251)
* add support for direct opening of .zip files of new safe_compact L1C products (7085)

SNODAS driver:
* accept header lines up to 1024 characters (github 506)

SRTMHGT driver:
* set appropriate description when opening a .hgt.zip file
* recognizes the .hgt.gz extension (7016)
* add support for reading .SRTMSWBD.raw.zip files (GRASS 3246)

USGSDEM driver:
* properly handle southern hemisphere UTM projections (344)

VICAR driver:
* optimize nodata handling, and map STEREOGRAPHIC with fabs(lat)=90 to Polar_Stereographic (6893)

VRT driver:
* add option for separable kernel (github 216)
* warn if band attribute of VRTRasterBand is not the one expected
* implement FlushCache()
* fix use of VRTs that point to the same source in multi-threaded scenarios (6939)
* Warped VRT: correctly take into account cutline for implicit overviews; also avoid serializing a duplicate CUTLINE warping options in warped .vrt (6954)
* Warped VRT: fix implicit overview when output geotransform is not the same as the transformer dst geotransform (6972)
* fix IGetDataCoverageStatus() in the case of non-simple sources, which unbreaks gdalenhance -equalize (6987)
* re-apply shared='0' on sources if existing in original VRT when rewriting it due to invalidation
* avoid error being emitted when opening a VRTRawRasterBand in a .zip files (7056)
* implement VRTDataset::AdviseRead() (in the particular case of a single source) (7082)
* allow to incorporate a warped VRT as CDATA in the SourceFileName field of a regular VRT
* VRTDerivedRasterBand: fix detection of Python runtime already loaded when more than 100 modules are linked. Fixes QGIS3 use case (7213)
* add RAT support
* for consistency, make sure that VRT intermediate datatype demotion is done, e.g that a VRT band of type Byte, with a source of type Float32, requested as Float32 buffer involves Float32 -> Byte -> Float32 conversions
* VRTDataset::AddBand(): honour 'PixelFunctionLanguage' option (github 501)

WCS driver:
* add support for WCS 2.0
* add caching
* add various open options

WMS driver:
* ArcGIS miniserver: use latestWkid and wkt metadata (6112)
* avoid AdviseRead() to download too many tiles at once (7082)
* recognize /ImageServer?f=json ESRI endpoints
* Add support for maximum size and expiration time and unique per dataset name for WMS cache

XYZ driver:
* fix 2.2.0 regression where the driver hangs on some dataset with missing samples (6934)
* support non numeric characters when there is an header line (7261)

== OGR 2.3.0 - Overview of Changes ==

Core:
* OGRLayer::FilterGeom(): make sure a feature with a null or empty geometry never matches a spatial filter (7123)
* OGRSimpleCurve::get_LinearArea(): return 0 on a non-closed linestring (6894)
* OGRFeature::SetField: Improve the setting for OFTInteger fields from a double.
* OGR_G_TransformTo(): emit error message when source geometry has no SRS
* OGR API SPY: various fixes
* OGRCurve::get_isClosed(): do not take into account M component (7017)
* OGRLineString::setPoint() and addPoint() with a OGRPoint* argument. properly takes into account ZM, Z and M dimensions (7017)
* OGRMultiSurface: refuse to add a triangle to it. (github 357)
* OGRPolyhedralSurface: importFromWkt(): remove support for invalid constructs, that contrary to comments are not supported by PostGIS
* Fix OGR[Curve]Polygon::Intersects(OGRPoint*) to return true when point is on polygon boundary (7091)
* Emit an explicit error message for OGRGeometry::IsValid(), IsSimple(), IsRing() when GEOS is not available
* Make OGRGeometry::assignSpatialReference() a virtual method, and make implementation recursively assign the SR to child geometries (7126)
* Expose OGRGeometry::swapXY() as OGR_G_SwapXY() in C API (7025)
* importFromWkt(): fix import of GEOMETRYCOLLECTION ending with POINT EMPTY or LINESTRING EMPTY (7128, 2.1 regression)
* OGRSQL: avoid silent cast so that int64->int overflow is better signaled
* OGRSQL: accept using the real FID column name (in addition to the special 'FID' alias) (7050)
* Add GDAL_DCAP_NONSPATIAL capability to ODS, REC, XLS and XLSX drivers
* Add GDAL_DCAP_FEATURE_STYLES capability to CAD, DGN, DWG, DXF, EDIGEO, JML, KML, lIBLML, MITAB, OpenAIR and VRT drivers
* Add DMD_CREATIONFIELDDATASUBTYPES metadata type (github 278)
* OGRParseDate(): only accept seconds up to 60 included for leap seconds (6525)
* Fix OGRPolygon::IsPointOnSurface() broken with polygons with holes
* OGRFormatDouble(): add a OGR_WKT_ROUND config option that can be set to FALSE to disable the heuristics that remove trailing 00000x / 99999x patterns (7188)
* Add C++ iterators for feature in layer and field values in features.
* Add C++ iterators for "sub-parts" of geometry classes
* Const-correctness fixes in signatures of methods of OGRFeatureDefn, OGRFeature, OGRFieldDefn and OGRGeomFieldDefn classes.
* Fix constness of OGR_G_CreateFromWkb(), OGR_G_CreateFromFgf(), OGR_G_ImportFromWkb() and related C++ methods
* Fix const correctness of OGRGeometry::importFromWkt() and OGRGeometryFactory::createFromWkt(), and add compatibility wrappers

OGRSpatialReference:
* Update to EPSG v9.2 (7125)
* Update data/esri_extra.wkt and add data/esri_epsg.wkt, taken from https://github.com/Esri/projection-engine-db-doc (Apache v2 license) (#2163)
* Add support for PROJ.5 new API (requires proj 5.0.1 or later)
* Add a OSRFindMatches() function to look for equivalent SRS in the EPSG database, map it to SWIG Python. Enhance gdalsrsinfo to use it
* Add OGRSpatialReference::convertToOtherProjection() (bound to C as OSRConvertToOtherProjection() and to SWIG) to transform between different equivalent projections (currently Merc_1SP <--> Merc_2SP and LCC_1SP <--> LCC_2SP) (3292)
* Fix OGRSpatialReference::IsSame() to return FALSE when comparing EPSG:3857 (web_mercator) and EPSG:3395 (WGS84 Mercator) (7029)
* importFromProj4(): implement import of Hotine Oblique Mercator Two Points Natural Origin, and fix OGRSpatialReference::Validate() for that formulation (7042)
* morphFromESRI(): fix remapping from DATUM = D_S_JTSK + PRIMEM = Ferro to OGC DATUM System_Jednotne_Trigonometricke_Site_Katastralni_Ferro
* Add alternate simpler signature for OGRGeometryFactory::createFromWkt()
* Add importFromWkt(const char**)

Utilities:
* ogrmerge.py: fix '-single -o out.shp in.shp' case (6888)
* ogrmerge.py: allow using wildchar '*' in source names and use glob.glob to expand it
* ogrmerge.py: correctly guess vrt format
* ogrmerge.py: error when outputting to a existing vrt if -overwrite_ds is not specified
* ogrmerge.py: use ogr.wkbUnknown to fix -nlt GEOMETRY
* ogr2ogr: fix crash when using -f PDF -a_srs (6920)
* ogr2ogr: make -f GMT work again (6993)
* ogr2ogr: make it fail if GetNextFeature() returned NULL with an error
* ogr2ogr: honour -select when using -addfiels
* ogr2ogr: preserve source geometry field name for output drivers that support GEOMETRY_NAME layer creation option (such as GPKG)
* ogr2ogr: add support for circularstring, compoundcurve, curvepolygon, multicurve and multisurface in SetZ()
* GDALVectorTranslate(): fix converting from Memory to Memory datasources (7217)
* gnmmanage: fix crash on shape files with linestring and multilinestring geometries mixing
* ogrtindex: fix crash when using -f SQLITE -t_srs XXXX (7053)
* ogrinfo: always open in read-only mode, unless -sql without -ro is specified
* ogrinfo/ogr2ogr with -sql filename: remove lines starting with '--' (github 459)

Multi driver changes:
* port/tag ILI, NAS, DGN, NTF, SDTS, OGR_GMT, Geoconcept, AVCE00, AVCBin to VirtualIO API

Amigocloud driver:
* Fixed data field types (github 246)
* Output list of datasets if dataset id is not provided.
* Implemented waiting for job to complete on the server. This will improve write to AmigoCloud reliability.
* Add HTTP user agent (github 263)
* add OVERWRITE open option (github 268)

AVCE00 driver:
* Make sure AVCE00 opens .e00 files and not AVCBIN one

AVCBin driver:
* fix 2.1 regression regarding attributes fetching (6950)

Carto driver:
* fix append mode by retrieving the sequence name for the primary key (7203)
* fix insertion with ogr2ogr -preserve_fid (7216)
* fix missing features when iterating over a SQL result layer with pagination (6880)

CSV driver:
* add a STRING_QUOTING=IF_NEEDED/IF_AMBIGUOUS/ALWAYS layer creation option, that defaults to IF_AMBIGUOUS (quote strings that look like numbers)
* temporarily disable spatial and attribute filter when rewriting CSV file (7123)
* fix autodetection of types when a Real value is followed by a Integer64 one (343)

DGNv8 driver:
* add support for building against static library (7155)

DXF driver:
* Support LEADER and MULTILEADER entities (7111, 7169)
* Support HELIX and TRACE entities
* Support spline hatch boundaries
* Support MLINE entity
* Support rows/columns within INSERT
* Add support for block attributes (ATTRIB entities) (7139)
* Support text styles (7151)
* Support cylinders (CIRCLE entities with thickness)
* set dx and dy to DXF LABEL style string on TEXT and MTEXT objects (github 225)
* fix reading of hatches with boundaries that contain elliptical arcs (6971)
* fix reading files where INSERT is the last entity and DXF_MERGE_BLOCK_GEOMETRIES is false (7006)
* fix ordering of vertices in a SOLID entity (7089)
* only apply certain escaping rules to the text of the MTEXT object (7047)
* Handle all known MTEXT escapes; allow user to turn off text unescaping (fixes 7122)
* do not apply the OCS transformation for MTEXT (7049)
* do not output dx and dy in MTEXT style strings (7105)
* apply DXF codepage encoding while decoding ExtendedEntity field (5626)
* allow user to set the tolerance used when joining parts of a hatch boundary with a DXF_HATCH_TOLERANCE config option, and default to 1e-7 of the extent of the geometry (7005)
* refactor out block insertion to its own function, and transform insertion point of an INSERT entity into OCS (7077)
* on write side, force 'defpoints' layer to be non-displayed (7078)
* entities on layer 0 within a block should inherit the style of the layer the INSERT is on. Do that for entities with a PEN style string for now. (7099)
* OCS fixes for HATCH and INSERT entities (7098)
* defer inlining of blocks until actually required (7106)
* Read DIMSTYLEs and block record handles
* Handle linetype scales (7129)
* Improved support for DIMENSION entities (7120)
* handle ByBlock colors (7130)
* Fix parsing of complex linetypes (7134)
* Correct color for ByBlock text features; respect hidden objects (5592, 7099, 7121)
* Make ACAdjustText also transform text width and offset (7151)
* Honor block base points (5592)
* Use BRUSH style tool instead of PEN when reading polygonal SOLIDs and leader arrowheads; add PEN style string to 3DFACE
* Specify ground units for TEXT dx and dy style values; interpret dx and dy in the writer
* Fix bug in text style property retrieval; handle text color in DIMENSION fallback renderer
* Write text styles and HATCH elevations; fix output of invalid extent values (7183)
* Allow access to unused entity group codes with RawCodeValues field (github 226)
* Reduce the size of header.dxf and trailer.dxf (tested with AutoCAD, QCAD Teigha, QCAD dxflib, FME)
* Make the writer aware of linetype scaling
* Don't force elevation to zero in smooth polylines (7200)
* Always output all edges in polyface mesh, and add styling (7219)
* Remove incorrect OCS transformation from MLINE entities
* Introduce 3D extensible mode to allow translation of 3D entities

ESRIJson driver:
* "New": extracted from code previously in GeoJSON driver
* avoid endless looping on servers that don't support resultOffset (6895)
* use 'latestWkid' in priority over 'wkid' when reading 'spatialReference' (github 218)
* recognize documents that lack geometry fields (7071)
* do not attempt paging requests on a non-HTTP resource
* recognize documents starting with a very long fieldAliases list (7107)

FileGDB driver:
* remove erroneous ODsCCreateGeomFieldAfterCreateLayer capability declaration (github 247)
* add LAYER_ALIAS layer creation option (7109)
* FileGDB / OpenFileGDB: attempt to recover EPSG code using FindMatches()
* FileGDB / OpenFileGDB: linearize Bezier curves with a more reasonable number of points

GeoJSON driver:
* Add support for json-c v0.13 (github 277)
* support loading (true) GeoJSON files of arbitrary size (6540)
* in update mode, support appending features, in some cases, without ingesting features of existing file into memory
* writer: accept writing ZM or M geometry by dropping the M component (6935)
* fix 2.2 regression regarding lack of setting the FeatureCollection CRS on feature geometries (fixes https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/449#issuecomment-319369945)
* make sure that -lco WRITE_NAME=NO works even if the native data has a 'name' attribute
* ignore 'properties' member of features whose value is null or empty array
* fix writing of id with RFC7946=YES (7194)
* add ID_FIELD and ID_TYPE layer creation options

GeoPackage driver:
* default to version 1.2 (7244)
* speed-up loading of databases with hundreds of layers
* make driver robust to difference of cases between table_name in gpkg_contents/gpkg_geometry_columns and name in sqlite_master (6916)
* fix feature count after SetFeature() with sqlite < 3.7.8 (6953)
* do not error out if extent in gpkg_contents is present but invalid (6976)
* avoid GetFeature() to hold a statement, that can cause database locking issues (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17034)
* emit warning when feature geometries are not assignable to layer geometry type
* remove UNIQUE keyword for PRIMARY KEY of gpkg_metadata (doesn't hurt, but just to align with the examples of DDL in the GeoPackage spec)
* fix logic to detect FID on SQL result layer when several FID fields are selected (7026)
* fix handling of spatial views
* do not try to update extent on gpkg_contents after GetExtent() on a empty layer of a datasource opened in read-only mode
* when inserting a SRS with a non-EPSG code, then avoid using srs_id that could be later assigned to a EPSG code
* when deleting a layer, delete from gpkg_metadata metadata records that are only referenced by the table we are about to drop
* fix incorrect rtree_<t>_<c>_update3 trigger statement (https://github.com/opengeospatial/geopackage/issues/414)
* fix definition of extensions
* only create metadata table if needed, and register it as extension
* declare gpkg_crs_wkt extension when using GPKG_ADD_DEFINITION_12_063=YES config option, and do not emit warning when finding it declared

GeoRSS driver:
* fix detection of field type (7108)

GML driver:
* CreateGeometryFromGML(): accept gml:Arc with odd number of points > 3, even if they are invalid
* decode gml:Solid as PolyhedralSurface (6978)
* JPGIS FGD v4: fix logic so that coordinate order reported is lon/lat (github 241)
* a GML_FEATURE_COLLECTION=YES/NO dataset creation option
* fix FORCE_SRS_DETECTION=YES effect on feature count and SRS reporting on gml files with .gfs (7046)
* do not try to open some kml files (7061)
* do not report gml:name / gml:description of features as layer metadata

GMLAS driver:
* get the srsName when set on the srsName of the gml:pos of a gml:Point (6962)
* CityGML related fixes: better take into account .xsd whose namespace prefix is not in the document, fix discovery of substitution elements, handle gYear data type (6975)
* properly interpret SolidPropertyType (6978)
* handle GML geometries in elements that are a substitutionGroup of an element (6990)
* make sure to try namespaces that are indirectly imported (helps in the case of parsing the result of a WFS GetFeature request)
* take into account gYearMonth XML data type (https://github.com/BRGM/gml_application_schema_toolbox/issues/46)
* implement resolution of internal xlink:href='....' references (https://github.com/BRGM/gml_application_schema_toolbox/issues/31)
* Recognize gml:Envelope as a Polygon geometry (https://github.com/BRGM/gml_application_schema_toolbox/issues/56#issuecomment-381967784)

GMT:
* fix creation of several layers

IDB driver:
* optimize spatial query using spatial index and st_intersects function (6984)
* close connection at dataset closing (7024)

ILI driver:
* declare OLCCreateField and OLCSequentialWrite capabilities

Ingres driver:

JML driver:
* add support for reading and write SRS from gml:Box element (7215)

KML driver:
* KML / LIBKML: read documents with an explicit kml prefix (6981)
* KML/LIBKML: make sure layer names are unique (QGIS github5415)

LIBKML driver:
* fix reading placemarks in toplevel container, when it has subfolders (7221)
* improve open performance on huge number of layers

MDB driver:
* fix multi-thread support (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/16039)

MITAB driver:
* support for additional datums (5676)
* add support for Reseau_National_Belge_1972 / EPSG:31370 on writing (6903)
* add support for SWEREF99 datum (7256)
* fix EPSG datum code for NTF Paris
* support units as code instead of string when reading a coordsys string from a .mif (3590)
* add read/write support between MapInfo text encodings and UTF-8. Add ENCODING layer/dataset creation option (github 227)
* do not emit error if the .ind file is missing, just a debug message (7094)
* accept creating files with LCC_1SP SRS (3292)
* support 'CREATE INDEX ON layer_name USING field_name' (if called after field creation and before first feature insertion)
* avoid reporting invalid extent on empty .mif
* report aspatial .tab as wkbNone geometry type
* export BRUSH(fc:.....) with mapinfo brush pattern 2 (solid fill)

mongoDB driver:
* compilation fix on Windows

MSSQLSpatial driver:
* Fix issues on x64 (6930)
* Implement EXTRACT_SCHEMA_FROM_LAYER_NAME layer creation option.
* properly format DELETE statement with schema (7039)

MySQL:
* fix compilation issue with MariaDB 10.1.23 (6899) and MariaDB 10.2 (7079)
* make sure geometry column name is properly set (GDAL 2.0 regression, github 397)

NAS driver:
* [NAS/GML] try reversing non contiguous curves
* Allow usage of a GFS template file for type assignment and mapping of element paths to attributes and remove arbitrary hacks that used to avoid attribute name conflicts:
* New option: NAS_GFS_TEMPLATE: specify gfs template
* New option: NAS_NO_RELATION_LAYER: skip unused alkis_beziehungen (also makes progress available)
* Multiple geometries per layer
* NAS_INDICATOR updated to "NAS-Operationen;AAA-Fachschema;aaa.xsd;aaa-suite"
* use single geometry column name from input (like GMLAS)
* accept unqualified attribute name in wfs:Update

NTF driver:
* fix regression introduced by fix for https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=2166 causing some valid records to be skipped (#7204)

NULL driver:
* Generalize OGR NULL development driver as a GDAL raster+vector one; enable to compile it --with-null

OCI driver:
* initialize in multi-threaded compatible mode (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17311)
* support for extended max_string_size (7168)

ODBC driver:
* deal with table names that require double quoting (7242)

ODS driver:
* add read/write support for Boolean sub datatype

OSM driver:
* performance improvements
* increase string buffer for osm XML files (6964)
* OGR_SQL/OSM: avoid OSM driver warning about attribute filter not being taken into account when issuing a 'select * from X limit Y' request on a OSM datasource

OpenFileGDB driver:
* properly read GeneralPolygon with M component whose all values are set to NaN (7017)

PDF driver:
* make OGR_PDF_READ_NON_STRUCTURED=YES configuration option work with documents without layers (6359)
* Improvements to text and dash pattern support in writer (7185)

PDS driver:
* fix reading 8-byte IEEE_REAL fields (github 570)

PG driver:
* do not be confused by a 'geometry' table in a non-PostGIS enabled database (6896)
* PG/PGDump: make sure serial sequence is updated at layer closing/end-of-copy if we inserted features with fixed ids (7032)

PLScenes driver:
* remove support for V0 and V1 API. Only Data V1 is kept (6933)
* add SkySatScene

SEGY driver:
*report more attributes from Segy Standard Trace Header (github 315)

Shapefile driver:
* Fix GetFeatureCount() to properly take into account spatial filter when attribute filter also in effect (7123)
* use VSIStatL() in Create() to properly work with /vsimem/ directories (6991)
* fix regression affecting GDAL 2.1.3 or later, 2.2.0 and 2.2.1, when editing the last shape of a file and growing it, and then appending a new shape, which resulted in corruption of both shapes (7031)
* hide shapelib symbols on Unix
* improvements auto-identification of EPSG codes from input SRS, using OSRFindMatches()
* Improve guidance on use of SHAPE_RESTORE_SHX in SHPOpenLL() (7246)

SQLite/Spatialite driver:
* SQLite/GPKG: report SQLITE_HAS_COLUMN_METADATA=YES as driver metadata item when it is available (7007)
* escape integer primary key column name on table creation (7007)
* don't invalidate statistics when running a PRAGMA (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17424)
* SQLite dialect: avoid erroring out if source layer has a OGR_STYLE field
* SQLite dialect: support SQLite 3.21, and LIKE, <>, IS NOT, IS NOT NULL, IS NULL and IS operators (fixes 7149)
* SQLite/GPKG: avoid parsing of OGR_SQLITE_JOURNAL to stop on JOURNAL_MODE keyword

VFK driver:
* fix collecting linestrings for sbp layer
* collect geometries also for zvb layer
* Improve VFK parser logic (github 365)
* add option to suppress geometry (github 371)

VRT driver:
* increase maximum size limit to 10 MB (instead of 1MB), and add config option to be able to force loading if above that

XLS driver:
* workaround opening filenames with incompatible character set on Windows (https://issues.qgis.org/issues/9301)

XLSX driver:
* avoid 'ogr2ogr -f XLSX out.xlsx in.shp -preserve_fid' to overwrite the first record. Note however that FID preservation itself doesn't really work with XLSX (6994)
* fix non working detection of Date/Time fields in some documents (7073)
* fix opening of documents with x: namespace in xl/workbook.xml (7110)
* fix misdetection of field type if first cell blank (github 291)
* fix updating multi layer document where existing layers where dropped (7225)
* add read/write support for Boolean sub datatype
* on writing, use %.16g formatting for floating point numbers (7230)

== SWIG Language Bindings ==

All bindings:
* Expose gdal.VSIFEofL()
* Expose gdal.GRA_Max, GRA_Min, GRA_Med, GRA_Q1 and GRA_Q3 (7153)
* Expose Geometry.SwapXY()
* Expose Geometry.RemoveGeometry()
* Expose SpatialReference.SetMercator2SP()
* Expose Band.AdviseRead() and Dataset.AdviseRead()

CSharp bindings:

Java bindings:
* create single JNI shared library (gdalalljni.so/dll) (github 286)

Perl bindings:
* Keep parent geometry alive if an object is created from a child geometry. Experimental methods Features and Geometries. Catch an error in storing a geometry into a feature. Prefer GeometryCount over GetGeometryCount and Geometry over GetGeometryRef.
* Set INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR and INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR according to what is in GDALmake.opt if INSTALL_BASE is set. (6142)
* ignore no data cells in ClassCounts and Reclassify for real valued rasters.
* support for number line (or decision tree) classifiers also for integer bands.
* Set error handler separately in all modules (required by Strawberry Perl build).

Python bindings:
* add scripts to python module (342)
* make sure that errors in Open() related functions, that do not prevent dataset opening in C/C++, do not either prevent it in Python (7094)
* avoid hang when calling gdal/ogr.UseExceptions()/DontUseExceptions() in wrong order (6891)
* accept callback = 0 since SWIG generates it as the default argument of BandRasterIONumPy(). (github 219)
* fix 2.2.0 regression preventing use of callback function in Band.ComputeStatistics() (6927)
* fix reference count issue on gdal.VSIStatL() when it returns None, that can cause Python crashes if None refcount drops to zero
* avoid potential cross-heap issue on Windows with numpy (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/466)
* fix potential alignment issues when reading double values with ReadRaster() or ReadBlock()
* fix issue with PyInstaller (7044)
* add a addAlpha option to gdal.DEMProcessing()
* fix for include files when building .cpp files (github 258)
* make gdal.Transform() return None in case of an error (instead of an invalid Transformer object)
* emit exceptions if VSI_RETVAL methods (such as gdal.Rename()) fail and gdal.UseExceptions() is enabled
* add addFields and forceNullable options to gdal.VectorTranslate()
* for command line utilities as functions, serialize number of floating-point arguments with higher precision
* Fix python 3.x package installation in custom prefixes (6671)
* lots of PEP8-related fixes in scripts and autotest
* add NULL checks after PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() in case the unicode cannot be translated to UTF-8 and workaround SWIG bug to avoid crashes with Python 3. (github 356)
* make sure gdal.VectorTranslate() and gdal.Grid() open their source dataset with a vector driver (github 449)
* make 'for field_val in feature' work (github 451)

= GDAL/OGR 2.2.0 Release Notes =

== In a nutshell... ==

* New GDAL/raster drivers:
- DERIVED driver: read-support. Expose subdatasets in a a new metadata domain, called DERIVED_SUBDATASETS
- JP2Lura driver: read/create support for JPEG-2000 images using Luratech JP2 Library
- PRF: add read-only support for PHOTOMOD PRF file format driver (github 173)
- RRASTER driver: read-support .grd/.gri files handled by the R 'raster' package (6249)
* New OGR/vector drivers:
- CAD driver: read support for DWG R2000 files (GSoC 2016 project)
- DGNv8 driver: read-write support for DGN 8.0 format (using Teigha ODA libraries)
- GMLAS driver: read-write support. XML/GML driver driven by Application Schemas.
* New utility script: ogrmerge.py to merge several vector datasets into a single one
* New /vsigs/ and /vsigs_streaming/ virtual file systems to read Google Cloud Storage non-public files
* Significantly improved drivers:
- NWT_GRD: write support (6533)
- FileGDB/OpenFileGDB: add support to read curve geometries (5890)
- VRT derived band: add the capability to define pixel functions in Python
- Add read support for RasterLite2 coverages in SQLite driver
- GPKG: implement tiled gridded elevation data extension
- ISIS3: add write support and improve read support
* RFC 63: Add GDALRasterBand::GetDataCoverageStatus() and implement it in GTiff and VRT drivers
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc63_sparse_datasets_improvements
* RFC 64: Triangle, Polyhedral surface and TIN
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc64_triangle_polyhedralsurface_tin
==> this RFC introduces potential backward incompatible behavior.
Consult MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt
* RFC 66: OGR random layer read/write capabilities
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc66_randomlayerreadwrite
* RFC 67: add null field state for OGR features, in addition to unset fields
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc67_nullfieldvalues
==> this RFC introduces potential backward incompatible behavior.
Consult MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt
* Upgrade to EPSG database v9.0 (6772)
* Python bindings: Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) released before entering GDAL native code (for all, in GDAL module and a few ones in ogr like ogr.Open())
* Continued major efforts on sanitization of code base
* Remove bridge and vb6 bindings (6640)
* GNM built by default

== Installed files ==

* Removed: data/s57attributes_aml.csv data/s57attributes_iw.csv data/s57objectclasses_aml.csv data/s57objectclasses_iw.csv
* Added plscenesconf.json, gmlasconf.xsd

== Backward compatibility issues ==

See MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

== GDAL/OGR 2.2.0 - General Changes ==

Build(Unix):
* improve detection of packaged libfyba (SOSI) --with-sosi, as in Ubuntu 16.04 (6488)
* Sort files in static library to make the build reproducible (6520)
* fix libqhull include path when it is /usr/local/include/libqhull (6522)
* FileGDB: compilation fix on Linux in C++11 mode
* configure: make pdfium detection not fail if there are just warnings. And make configure fail if --with-pdfium was required but failed (6653)
* Make ./configure --with-xerces fail if not found
* Don't install script documentation in INST_BIN (github 157)
* configure: auto-detect webp without requiring explicit --with-webp
* configure: use pkg-config for HDF5 detection so that works out of the box on recent Ubuntu
* auto-detect JDK 8 on Ubuntu
* MDB: allow libjvm.so to be dlopen'd with --with-jvm-lib=dlopen (Unix only, github 177)
* configure: delete temporary directories on the mac
* configure: make sure --with-macosx-framework is correctly defined
* configure: error out if --with-ld-shared is specified (6769)
* configure: remove bashism.
* configure: fix --without-mrf (6811)
* configure: take into account CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS in a few more cases (cryptopp, podofo, libdap)
* Vagrant: all lxc and Hyper-V provider support; use vagrant-cachier for package caching
* configure: update DWG support to work with Teigha libraries
* Internal libgeotiff: hide symbols in --with-hide-internal-symbols mode
* Shape: do not export Shapelib symbols for builds --with-hide-internal-symbols (6860)

Build(Windows):
* Try to avoid confusion between libqhull io.h and mingw own io.h (6590)
* update script to generate most recent Visual C++ project files (6635)
* fix broken and missing dependencies in makefile.vc
* add a way to use an external zlib (github 171)
* Rename makegdal_gen.bat to generate_vcxproj.bat
* generate_vcxproj.bat: Set correct value of PlatformToolset property based on specified Visual C++ version. Add NMAKE command line parameters: MSVC_VER based on specified Visual C++ version, DEBUG=1 WITH_PDB=1 to Debug build configuration.
* generate_vcxproj.bat: generate project for autotest/cpp (Ticket 6815)
* Add WIN64=1 to NMAKE command line options.
* Add HDF4_INCLUDE option (6805)
* Add MSVC compiler option /MP to build with parallel processes.
* Add ZLIB_LIB missing from EXTERNAL_LIBS

Build(all):
* make Xerces 3.1 the minimal version
* drop support for PostgreSQL client library older than 7.4, or non security maintained releases older than 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13, 7.3.15

Resources

• https://pypi.org/project/gdal
• https://pyup.io/changelogs/gdal/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2314