The 3.2.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:
* New GDAL drivers:
– [ESRIC](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/esric.html): ESRI bundle cache read-only driver (#2663)
– [HEIF](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/heif.html): read-only driver for HEIF/HEIC file. Requires libheif
– [OGCAPI](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/ogcapi.html): tiles/maps/coverage raster/vector experimental driver
– [TGA](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/tga.html): read/only driver to read TGA image file format
* New OGR drivers:
– [LVBAG](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/lvbag.html): read-only support for Dutch LVBAG/Kadaster 2.0 vector format
* New utilities:
– [gdal_create](https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_create.htm): 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
More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.2.0
release can be found at:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.2.0/gdal/NEWS
The release can be downloaded from:
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal320.zip – source as a zip
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.gz – source as .tar.gz
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.xz – source as .tar.xz
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal-grass-3.2.0.tar.gz – GDAL-GRASS plugin
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdalautotest-3.2.0.tar.gz – test suite
* https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.2.0/gdal320doc.zip – documentation / website
Best regards,
Even
