The GDAL/OGR team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.9.0.
This is a major new release including the following major new features:
* New GDAL drivers: ACE2, CTG, E00GRID, ECRGTOC, GRASSASCIIGrid, GTA, NGSGEOID, SNODAS, WebP, ZMap
* New OGR drivers: ARCGEN, CouchDB, DWG, EDIGEO, ESRI FileGDB, Geomedia, Google Fusion Tables, IDRISI, MDB, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SVG, XLS
* Significantly improved drivers: NetCDF
* Encoding support for shapefile/dbf (#882)
* RFC 35: Delete, reorder and alter field definitions of OGR layers
* RFC 37: Add mechanism to provide user data to CPLErrorHandler (#4295)
* gdalsrsinfo: new supported utility to report SRS in various form (supercedes testepsg)
Complete news on the new release can be found at:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.9.0-News
The new release can be downloaded from:
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal190.zip – source as a zip
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz – source as .tar.gz
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.9.0.tar.gz – test suite
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal190doc.zip – documentation / website
