The 3.9.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:
- RFC 96: Deferred C++ plugin loading
- RFC 97: OGRFeatureDefn, OGRFieldDefn and OGRGeomFieldDefn “sealing”
- RFC 98: Build requirements for GDAL 3.9
- RFC 99: Geometry coordinate precision
- Add S104 (Water Level Information for Surface Navigation Product) and S111 (Surface Currents
Product) raster read-only drivers (required libhdf5) - Add raster GTI (GDAL Raster Tile Index) driver to support catalogs with huge number of sources.
- Add vector MiraMonVector read/creation driver (#9688)
- Deprecated ARG driver has been removed (#7920)
- Bump of shared lib major version
More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.9.0 release can be found at:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.9.0/NEWS.md
The release can be downloaded from:
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.gz – source as .tar.gz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.gz.md5 – md5sum
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.gz.sig – signature
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.xz – source as .tar.xz
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.xz.md5 – md5sum
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal-3.9.0.tar.xz.sig – signature
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal390.zip – source as a zip
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal390.zip.md5 – md5sum
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal390.zip.sig – signature
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdalautotest-3.9.0.tar.gz – test suite
- https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.9.0/gdal390doc.zip – documentation / website
Note to packagers: obviously GCC 14 has just been released. It breaks mingw64 builds. Fix in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/9894
