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# GDAL/OGR 3.8.2 Release Notes

GDAL 3.8.2 is a bugfix release.

## GDAL 3.8.2

### Port

* /vsis3/: takes into account AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_FULL_URI environment
  variable (#8858)
* cpl_safemaths.hpp: fix compilation with clang targeting Windows (#8898)
* CPLGetPhysicalRAM(): fix getting right value when running inside Docker on a
  cgroups v1 system (like Amazon Linux 2) (#8968)

### Algorithms

* Rasterization: avoid burning pixel that we only touch (with an empty
  intersection) (#8918)

### Utilities

* gdal_footprint: return an error if the requested output layer doesn't exist
* gdal_translate: avoid useless extra GDALOpen() call on a target GeoRaster
* pct2rgb.py: emit explicit exception when source file has no color table (#8793)

### Raster drivers

HDF5 driver:
 * classic 2D API: handle char,ushort,uint,int64,uint64 attributes when
   reading them as double
 * multidim: better warning when nodata value is out of range

JPEGXL driver:
 * add compatibility with latest libjxl git HEAD

NGSGEOID driver:
 * make dataset identification robust to NaN values (#8879)

OGCAPI driver:
 * make it robust to missing 'type' on 'self' link (#8912)

STACTA driver:
 * use GDAL_DISABLE_READDIR_ON_OPEN=EMPTY_DIR instead of
   CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS
 * use STAC Raster extension to get number of bands, their data type, nodata
   value, scale/offset, units, and avoid fetching a metatile
 * add support for upcoming STAC 1.1 which merges eo:bands and raster:bands
   into bands

netCDF, HDF4, HDF5:
 * SubdatasetInfo API: fix various issues (#8869, #8881)

VRT driver:
 * VRTComplexSource: fix excessive RAM usage with many sources (#8967, 3.8.0 regression)

### OGR 3.8.2

### Core

* OGRGeometryFactory::transformWithOptions(): fix WRAPDATELINE=YES on
  multipoint geometries (#8889)
* OGRSpatialReference::importFromUrl(): changes to no longer use a
  'Accept: application/x-ogcwkt' header
* OSRPJContextHolder: call pthread_atfork() once for the process, and
  re-enable it for MacOS
* OGRWKBIntersectsPessimisticFixture: handle all geometry types

### Utilities

* ogrinfo: really honours -if (refs #8590)
* ogr2ogr: implement -if

### Vector drivers

* PMTiles: Correct extension for temporary mbtiles file

## Python bindings

* gdal.Footprint(): add a minRingArea option
* fix build/install when there's a gdal-config from a pre-installed version in
  the PATH (#8882)
* add missing reference increment on Py_None in error case of
  Geometry.GetPoints() (#8945)

# GDAL/OGR 3.8.1 Release Notes

GDAL 3.8.1 is a bugfix release.

## Build

* CMake: add gdalinfo bash-completion file to list of installed files
* Fix build error with libxml2 2.12
* CMake: make GDAL_USE_LIBKML and GDAL_USE_OPENJPEG honor GDAL_USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS
* Detect failure in installation of the Python bindings

## GDAL 3.8.1

### Port

* CSLLoad2(): remove CPLErrorReset()

### Core

* RasterIO: fix subpixel shift when reading from overviews with non-nearest
  resampling
* GDALOverviewDataset::IRasterIO(): use parent dataset when possible for more
  efficiency

### Algorithms

* Inverse TPS transformer: speed improvement in gdalwarp use case (#8672)

### Utilities

* gdalwarp -of COG: use target SRS from -co TILING_SCHEME when specified (#8684)
* gdalwarp: add a heuristic to clamp northings when projecting from geographic
  to Mercator (typically EPSG:3857) (#8730)
* gdal_rasterize: fix inverse rasterization of polygon nested inside another
  one. Requires GEOS enabled build (#8689)
* gdal_footprint: fix -ovr on RGBA datasets (#8792)
* gdal_footprint: fix wrong taking into account of alpha band (#8834)
* gdal_footprint: fix taking into account of individual bands that have nodata
* gdal_sieve.py/gdalattachpct.py/gdalcompare.py/gdalmove.py:
  make sure --version and --help return 0 error code (#8717)

### Raster drivers

BSB driver:
 * fix opening datasets with errant 0x1A character in header (#8765)

COG driver:
 * avoid warnings when converting from world coverage to EPSG:3857
 * for JPEG compression, convert single band+alpha as single band JPEG +
   1-bit mask band

KEA driver:
 * Create(): error out if passing a /vsi file. avoids crashes (#8743)

MRF driver:
 * Avoid crashes when no overviews can be generated (#8809)

MSGN driver:
 * fix memleak in error code path

GeoTIFF driver:
* multithreaded reader/writer: in update scenarios, do not force serialization
  to disk of dirty blocks that intersect the area of interest to read (#8729)
* SRS reader: include VertCRS name from EPSG in CompoundCRS name if there's no
  citation geokey

VRT driver:
 * VRTSourcedRasterBand: serialize approximate statistics inside .vrt when
   there are overviews

## OGR 3.8.1

### Core

* PostFilterArrowArray(): various fixes to pass libarrow full validation checks
 (#8755)
* Add OGRCloneArrowArray()
* WriteArrowArray(): fix wrong taking into account of struct offset

### Utilities

* ogr2ogr: fix GPKG to shapefile with the -preserve_fid flag (#8761,
  3.8.0 regression)
* ogr2ogr: fix GPKG -> Shapefile when field names are truncated (#8849,
  3.8.0 regression)

### Vector drivers

Arrow/Parquet driver:
 * use OGRCloneArrowArray() for safer filtering

CSV driver:
 * CSV writer: do not quote integer fields by default (only if
   STRING_QUOTING=ALWAYS is specified)

GML driver:
 * SaveClasses(): fix memleak in error code path (ossfuzz#63871)

GPKG driver:
 * fix SetFeature()/UpdateFeature()/DeleteFeature() on views with INSTEAD OF
   triggers (#8707)
 * sqlite_rtree_bulk_load.c: fix memleak in error code path
 * fix adding field comments after alternative name
 * Add a OGRPARSEDATE_OPTION_LAX option to OGRParseDate() and use it when
   reading GPKG files (#8759)
 * fix GetNextArrowArray() when there are more than 125 columns (affects
   ogr2ogr from such GPKG) (#8757)

GPX driver:
 * make detection of extensions element more robust (#8827)

OAPIF driver:
 * add INITIAL_REQUEST_PAGE_SIZE open option (#4556)

PMTiles driver:
 * avoid undefined-shift when zoom level is too big (ossfuzz#64234,
   ossfuzz#64404)

S57 driver:
 * stricter dataset identification to avoid recognize S-101 datasets we don't
   handle

Shapefile driver:
 * fix spurious warning when reading polygons (#8767)
 * recognize '      0' as a null date
 * fix writing an invalid "0000/00/00" date

SQLite driver:
 * fix SRS retrieval of a SELECT layer from a non-Spatialite DB with a point
   geometry column (#8677)

## Python bindings

* GetArrowStreamAsNumPy(): fix missing offset when reading fixed size list of
  string
* Fix installation issue with Python 3.12 on Debian
* Python bindings: add a combineBands option to gdal.Footprint()

# GDAL/OGR 3.8.0 Releases Notes

GDAL/OGR 3.8.0 is a feature release.
Those notes include changes since GDAL 3.8.0, but not already included in a
GDAL 3.7.x bugfix release.

## In a nutshell...

* Add [JSONFG](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/jsonfg.html) read/write vector
  driver for OGC Features and Geometries JSON.
* Add [PMTiles](https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/pmtiles.html) read/write vector
  driver for PMTiles v3 datasets containing MVT PBF tiles
* Add [S102](https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/s102.html) raster read-only driver
  for S-102 bathymetric products (depends on libhdf5)
* Add [gdal_footprint](https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_footprint.html) utility:
  compute the footprint of a raster file, taking into account nodata/mask band,
  and generating polygons/multipolygons corresponding to areas where pixels are
  valid (#6264)
* Python bindings: various enhancements to reduce the number of "gotchas"
  related to inter-object ownership relationships, and a few syntaxic sugar
  enhancements
* Arrow interface: improve spatial and attribute filtering on read side;
  add write side with OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch()
* GeoPackage: much faster spatial index creation (~ 3-4 times faster)
* ARG driver deprecated: will be removed in 3.9.0

## Backward compatibility issues

See [MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.8/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT)

## New optional dependencies

* libaec to enable CCSDS Adaptive Entropy Coding decompression in the GRIB driver

## Build

* emit better error message when a raster driver cannot be enabled
  because of OGR_BUILD_OPTIONAL_DRIVERS=OFF
* improve static linking for CURL and EXPAT
* Java bindings: change default installation directory of JNI shared
  library and control it with GDAL_JAVA_JNI_INSTALL_DIR
* automatically enable SQLite driver if -DOGR_ENABLE_DRIVER_GPKG=ON
* Don't use libjpeg if disabled (and libjpeg-turbo >= 3.0 available) (#8336)
* gdal.pc generation: use CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR/CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR for
  includedir/libdir (#8012)
* gdal-config: add a --plugindir switch (#8012)

## GDAL 3.8.0 - Overview of Changes

### Port

* Add third_party/fast_float header library for fast string->double conversion
  for CPLStrtodDelim()
* /vsimem/: make it safe to use in multi-threaded scenarios
* /vsimem/: implicitly create parent directories when creating file
* CPLParseXML(): do not call CPLErrorReset()
* CPLJSon: add setters for uint64_t
* Add CPLJSONArray::AddNull() and CPLJSONObject constructor with primitive types
* VSIUnixStdioHandle / VSIWin32Handle: make Close() be callable multiple times
  to be friendly with VSIVirtualHandleUniquePtr
* /vsicurl/: avoid the same region to be downloaded at the same time from
  concurrent threads (#8041)
* /vsicurl/ / /vsicurl_streaming/: recognize IGNORE_FILENAME_RESTRICTIONS=YES
  open option to skip any extension based filtering (#8162)
* /vsicurl/: emit warnings if invalid values of CPL_VSIL_CURL_CHUNK_SIZE and
  CPL_VSIL_CURL_CACHE_SIZE are used (#8499)
* /vsicurl_streaming/: implement retry strategy if GDAL_HTTP_MAX_RETRY is set
* /vsis3_streaming/ and the like: implement ReadDir() by forwarding to
  non-streaming filesystem (#8191)
* IVSIS3LikeFSHandler::CopyFile(): retry with non-streaming source for more
  robustness
* /vsis3/ and /vsioss/: less error prone management of redirects / region
  discovery
* /vsiaz/: do not append trailing slash for directories deduced from
  .gdal_marker_for_dir special file
* /vsiaz/: implement server-side copy from /vsis3/, /vsigs/, /vsiadls/,
  /vsicurl/ to /vsiaz
* /vsiaz/: fix CopyObject() when source and target are both /vsiaz/ but in
  different buckets
* /vsiaz/: update to version 2020-12-06 for GetSignedURL(), limit to https and
  use blob resource type
* /vsi network file system: support r+ access under
  CPL_VSIL_USE_TEMP_FILE_FOR_RANDOM_WRITE=YES by copying initial content of
  remove file locally
* VSISync() network to network: implement SyncStrategy::TIMESTAMP
* Add VSIGetCanonicalFilename()
* CPLvsnprintf(): deal with '%.*f' formatting
* VSIFilesystemHandler: remove 'virtual' qualifier from ReadDir(), which now
  forwards to ReadDirEx(); modify all implementations to implement ReadDirEx()
* Add /vsicached? virtual file system, as another way of doing the same as
  VSICreateCachedFile() / VSI_CACHE=YES
* VSIFilesystemHandler::CopyFile(): detect wrong target file size w.r.t source
  file size
* /vsi7z/: Accept ArcGIS Pro Project Packages extension
* cpl_vsil_win32: check return value of FlushFileBuffers(), and open file with
  GENERIC_WRITE only if access=w or wb
* cpl_vsil_win32: implement a WRITE_THROUGH=YEs option to pass to VSIFOpenEx2L()

### Core

* GDALIdentifyDriverEx() and GDALDriver::QuietDelete(): do not call
  CPLErrorReset()
* GDALDataset::Open(): take into account open options for OF_SHARED mode (#7824)
* PAM .aux.xml: read geotransform from Esri GeodataXform.CoeffX/CoeffY elements
 (qgis/qgis#53125)
* Add a DCAP_FLUSHCACHE_CONSISTENT_STATE capability, and fix GeoJSON, JSONFG,
  GPKG drivers to implement it
* Overview/RasterIO resampling: use Float64 as working data type for Float64
  input data (#8187)
* Add GDALRegisterPlugins function to register all/only plugins (#8447)
* GDALDriver::DefaultCreateCopy(): in non-strict mode, turn (ignored) errors as
  warnings and do not silence them
* Add a GDALPamDataset::SetDerivedDatasetName() method, and use it to be able to
  save statistics of datasets returned by GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset()
* Add GDALGetSubdatasetInfo() and related functions  (#8155)

### Multidimensional API

* add Rename() methods. Implemented in MEM, netCDF, Zarr drivers
* add DeleteGroup(), DeleteMDArray(), DeleteAttribute()
  methods. Implemented in MEM, netCDF (for attributes) and Zarr drivers
* GDALDatasetFromArray: fix write/update support
* GDALMDArrayMask: take into account attributes at construction time
* GetMask(): add a UNMASK_FLAGS option
* GDALMDArray::ComputeStatistics(): add option to set actual_range in netCDF
  and Zarr when computing statistics
* GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset(): add a LOAD_EXTRA_DIM_METADATA_DELAY option,
  and expose it in Zarr driver
* GDALMDArray::AsClassicDataset(): allow to map band indexing arrays as band
  metadata items with BAND_METADATA option
* Add GDALGroup::SubsetDimensionFromSelection()

### Algorithms

* Warp average resampling: using Weighted incremental algorithm mean for numeric
  stability
* Warper: auto-enable OPTIMIZE_SIZE warping option when reasonable (#7761)
* Geoloc transformer: warn if the input dataset is larger in width or height
  compared to the geoloc array (#7751)
* GDALCreateGenImgProjTransformer2(): deal with discontinuity of GCPs around
  antimeridian (#8371)
* TPS transformer: use an iterative method to refine the inverse transformation
  (#8572)

### Utilities

* gdaladdo: add options to partially refresh existing overviews:
  ``--partial-refresh-from-source-timestamp,``,
  ``--partial-refresh-from-projwin <ulx> <uly> <lrx> <lry>``,`
  ``--partial-refresh-from-source-extent <filename1,...,filenameN>``
* gdal_translate: emit warning when -a_scale/-a_offset + -unscale is specified
 (#7863)
* gdal_translate: GTiff, COG, VRT, PNG and JPEG drivers recognize
  COPY_SRC_MDD=AUTO/YES/NO and SRC_MDD=domain_name creation options
* gdal_translate: add -a_gt option to assign geotransform (#8248)
* gdal_translate -scale: change dstMax value from 255.999 to 255
* gdal_translate: when specifying -srcwin, preserve source block size in the
  temporary VRT if srcwin top,left is a multiple of the block size
* gdalwarp: in -tr mode (without -ts / -te), detect blank edge lines/columns
  before warping and remove them (#7905)
* gdalwarp: fix cutline processing when warping with a cutline geometry in UTM
  1/60 crossing the antimeridian, on a raster in long/lat SRS (#8163)
* gdalwarp: tune usage to allow both -s_coord_epoch and -t_coord_epoch
* gdalwarp: fix error when using -ct and -cutline (master only), and actually
  use the -ct when possible if sourceCRS != targetCRS and targetCRS == cutlineCRS
* gdalwarp: do not enter a specific COG optimized code path when some of its
  preconditons are not met (#8655)
* gdalmdiminfo: output details of indexing variables that can be accessed only
  from the array (typically for TileDB dimension labels)
* nearblack: add "-alg floodfill" to select a flood fill algorithm, to address
  concave areas.
* gdalmdimtranslate: add support for resample=yes array spec option
* gdalbuildvrt: make -separate option process all bands of input datasets,
  unless -b is specified (#8584)
* gdal_polygonize: add a -overwrite switch (#7913)
* gdal_rasterize_lib: fix error messages
* gdaltransform: add -s_coord_epoch and -t_coord_epoch
* gdalcompare.py: multiple enhancements and new command line options
* gdal_pansharpen.py: avoid error trying to generate relative path
* Add validate_geoparquet.py sample Python script
* gdalinfo.py: use math.isnan() (#8196)
* gdalinfo.py: fix wrong order of long,lat corner coordinates (#8199)
* make --help and --help-general available in all utilities (#3816)

### Raster drivers

AAIGRID driver:
 * writing: remove leading space on each line (#8344)

ARG driver:
 * mark it deprecated, removal planned for GDAL 3.9 (#7920)

BAG driver:
 * increase the efficiency of getting depth&uncertainty values from the
   refinement grids
 * use low-resolution grid as the last overview level in MODE=RESAMPLED_GRID
 * add a MODE=INTERPOLATED mode using mostly bilinear interpolation of the
   refinement grid nodes

COG driver:
 * only update mode if the IGNORE_COG_LAYOUT_BREAK=YES open option is specified
   (#7735)
 * add a STATISTICS=AUTO/YES/NO creation option and forward gdal_translate
   -stats to it (#8169)
 * Lerc: add a MAX_Z_ERROR_OVERVIEW creation option to separately control the
   error threshold of overviews w.r.t the one of the full resolution image

ENVI driver:
 * warn if assigning different nodata value to different bands
 * support Int64 and UInt64

ESRIC driver:
 * Implement ESRI Tile Package (.tpkx) support (#7799)

GRIB driver:
 * allow opening files with invalid Earth of shape (#7811)
 * implement CCSDS Adaptive Entropy Coding decompression. Requires libaec (#8092)
 * only emit a CPLDebug() instead of a message on stdout when there are trailing
   bytes (#8574)
 * GRIB2 SRS writing: add support for Rotated LatLong grids (fixes #8536)

GTiff driver:
 * Performance improvement: avoid using block cache when writing whole blocks
   (up to about twice faster in some scenarios)
 * GTiff multi-threaded reader: catch errors emitted in worker threads and
   re-emit them in main thread
 * Internal libtiff: WebP codec: turn exact mode when creating lossless files
   to avoid altering R,G,B values in areas where alpha=0 (#8038)
 * Lerc: add a MAX_Z_ERROR_OVERVIEW creation option to separately control the
   error threshold of overviews w.r.t the one of the full resolution image
 * SRS writer: write Projected 3D built as a pseudo-compound in .aux.xml
 * Internal libtiff and libgeotiff: resynchronization with upstream

HDF5 driver:
 * optimize code-paths for RasterIO() without resampling
 * multidim: speed-up very slow cases of IRead()

ISG driver:
 * make it able to read headers > 1024 bytes
 * take into ISG format 2.0

JPEG driver:
 * allow QUALITY down to 1
 * redirect JPEG 'output message' to GDAL debug messages
 * only take into account first Exif directory found

MBTiles driver:
 * Add WEBP support (#8409)

MEM driver:
 * allocate a single buffer for band-interleaved data

netCDF driver:
 * on reading, set NETCDF_DIM_xxx band metadata items in on-demand way (helps
   with network accesses)
 * do not set NETCDF_DIM_xxxx_VALUES dataset metadata items for variables of
   unlimited dimensions on network access for performance reasons
 * better error message when reading from /vsi is not possible (#8398, #8378)
 * renormalize CRS and geotransform to metric, typically for EUMETSAT OSI SAF
   products. Add a PRESERVE_AXIS_UNIT_IN_CRS=YES/NO open option
 * add support for EMIT band data ordering and geolocation array (
   using glt_x/glt_y for multidimensional API)

NITF driver:
 * add support for CSCSDB (Common Sensor Covariance Support Data) DES from
   GLAS/GFM SDEs

OpenFileGDB raster:
 * add support for FileGDB v9 raster datasets
 * add a RASTER_DATASET metadata item with the name of the RasterDataset (#8427)

PDF driver:
 * PDFium backend: update to support (and require) PDFium/5952
 * Poppler backend: implement overviews by adjusting the DPI value (#8233)
 * PoDoFo backend: add support for PoDoFo >= 0.10.0 (#8356)
 * increase threshold to detect tile size and band count (#8236, #8240)
 * Various robustness fixes

PRF driver:
 * add associated PRJ file read

Sentinel2 driver:
 * additional metadata (#8379)

TileDB driver:
 * add read/write multidimensional support (requires libtiledb >= 2.15)
 * TileDBRasterBand::IRasterIO(): use correct band indexing
 * read/write Int8, Int64 and UInt64
 * add capability to read arbitrary (i.e. not created by GDAL) 2D/3D dense
   array (provided it uses uint64 dimension)
 * Add support for TileDB 2.17

VRT driver:
 * add `norm_diff` (#8081), `min` and `max` pixel functions (#8292)
 * ignore <OverviewList> when external .vrt.ovr is present, as documented and
   intended
 * vrt:// connection string: add `projwin`, `projwin_srs`, `tr`, `r`,
   `srcwin`, `a_gt`, `oo`, `scale`, `unscale`, `a_coord_epoch`, `nogcp`, `eco`,
   `epo`
 * VRTComplexSource (scaling typically): make sure to take into account
   constraints from VRTRasterBand data type in RasterIO() (rather than just
   taking into account output buffer data type)
 * IRasterIO(): avoid edge effects at sources boundaries when downsampling with
   non-nearest resampling
 * VRTMDArraySourceFromArray: fix taking into account relativeToVRT=1
 * allow a <ArraySource> element containing a 2D multidimensional array as a
   VRTRasterBand source and through the use of a <DerivedArray> make it possible
   to create a 2D array from a 3D or more multidimensional one, by slicing,
   transposing, resampling, gridding, etc.
 * VRTComplexSource: perf improvement: add specialization when only NODATA for
   Byte/UInt16/Int16 data types
 * VRTSimpleSource::GetFileList(): do not issue a stat() as it may be slow on
   network drives
 * VRTSourcedRasterBand::GetMinimum/GetMaximum(): limit to 1 second max when
   iterating over sources
 * VRTSourcedRasterBand::GetMinimum/GetMaximum(): use STATISTICS_MINIMUM/MAXIMUM
   metadata first

WCS driver:
 * remove non-standard 'FORMAT' parameter from 'DescribeCoverage' requests
   (#8381)

Zarr driver:
 * allow update support in classic mode
 * Zarr V3: update to current specification (breaks backward compatibility)
 * implement GDALDriver::Rename(), Delete() and CopyFiles()
 * ignore filename restrictions when reading tile data files (#8162)
 * add MULTIBAND=YES/NO, DIM_X and DIM_Y open options (#8237)
 * classic raster API: write multi-band datasets as Zarr 3D arrays (writing
   them as several 2D arrays as in GDAL 3.7 can be asked with the
   SINGLE_ARRAY=NO creation option)
 * fix writing partial tiles

## OGR 3.8.0 - Overview of Changes

### Core

* exportToGEOS(): do not drop M dimension with GEOS >= 3.12
* Add OGR_G_IsClockwise() and map it to SWIG
* core and ogr2ogr: add logic so that ogr2ogr can try a driver specific
  implementation of GDALVectorTranslate()
* OGRParseDate(): restrict valid times to HH:MM:SS(.sss) with at least 2 figures
  (#8150)
* Add OGR_F_DumpReadableAsString
* ArrowArray interface: make PostFilterArrowArray() deal with attribute filter,
  and enable that in Parquet&Arrow drivers
* OGRLayer::GetArrowStream(): do not issue ResetReading() at beginning of
  iteration, but at end instead, so SetNextByIndex() can be honoured
* ArrowStream interface: make TIMEZONE="unknown", "UTC", "(+|:)HH:MM" or any
  other Arrow supported value as an option of the generic implementation
* Add OGRLayer::WriteArrowBatch()
* ArrowArray: implement fast 'FID IN (...)' / 'FID = ...' attribute filter in
  generic GetNextArrowArray(), and use it for FlatGeoBuf one too (when it has a
  spatial index) (#8590)
* GetArrowStream(): support a GEOMETRY_METADATA_ENCODING=GEOARROW option (#8605)
* GetNextArrowArray() implementations: automatically adjust batch size of list/
  string/binary arrays do not saturate their capacity (2 billion elements)
* OGRGeometry classes: add addGeometry()/addRing()/addCurve() methods accepting
  a std::unique_ptr
* OGRLineString/Polygon/MultiPolygon/MultiLineString: make it possible to run
  importFromWkb() on the same object and limiting the number of dynamic memory
  (re)allocations
* organizePolygons: Remove handling of nonpolygonal geometries
* OGRGeometryFactory::transformWithOptions() WRAPDATELINE=YES: remove heuristics
  about points exactly at +/- 180 (#8645)
* gml2ogrgeometry: reject empty <gml:Triangle/>
* OGRGF_DetectArc(): harden tolerance when detecting consecutive arcs to avoid
  incorrect arc center computation (#8332)
* OGR SQL: allow MIN() and MAX() on string fields
* SQLite dialect: when the underlying layer has a FID column name, enable the
  user to use it as an alias of ROWID
* SQLite dialect: error out with explicit message on unsupported commands (#8430)
* Add OGRFieldDefn::GetTZFlag()/SetTZFlag(), and OGR_TZFLAG_ constants
* GDALDataset::ICreateLayer(): now takes a const OGRSpatialReference* instead of
  a OGRSpatialReference*. Affects out-of-tree drivers (#8493)
* OGR Python drivers: support WKB geometries

### OGRSpatialReference

* Add OGRCoordinateTransformationOptions::SetOnlyBest() /
  OCTCoordinateTransformationOptionsSetOnlyBest() (#7753)
* OGRProjCT::Transform(): do not emit generic error message if a specific one
  has already been emitted
* SetFromUserInput(): add support for urn:ogc:def:coordinateMetadata (PROJ >=
  9.4)
* SetFromUserInput(): recognize 'EPSG:XXXX@YYYY' (PROJ >= 9.4)
* Add OSRHasPointMotionOperation() (PROJ >= 9.4)
* OGR_CT: handle point motion operations (PROJ >= 9.4)

### Utilities

* ogrinfo: speed-up string concatenation
* ogrinfo: add support for DateTime field domains
* ogrinfo: emit distinct error message if the file doesn't exist or can't be
  opened (#8432)
* ogrinfo: output timezone flag
* ogr2ogr: calls FlushCache() (#8033)
* ogr2ogr: tune usage to allow both -s_coord_epoch and -t_coord_epoch
* ogr2ogr: better deal when reprojecting curve geometries to a non-curve
  geometry type (#8332)
* ogr2ogr: use Arrow interface in reading and writing when possible
* make -select '' work (or gdal.VectorTranslate(selectFields=[]))

### Vector drivers

Arrow/Parquet driver:
 * emit ARROW:extension:name=ogc.wkb in Feature field metadata, and return it
   also through GetArrowStream() for Parquet
 * implement faster spatial filtering with ArrowArray interface
 * optimize attribute filter on FID column
 * support/reading nested list/map datatypes as JSON
 * implement full spatial filtering (not just bbox intersection)
 * reading and writing: use field TZFlag
 * implement WriteArrowBatch() specific implementation
 * support LargeString and LargeBinary for geometry columns (read support only)

CSV driver:
 * reader: change to use separator with the most occurrences (#7831)
 * and add a SEPARATOR=AUTO/COMMA/SEMICOLON/TAB/SPACE/PIPE open option (#7829)
 * implement GetFileList() and return .csvt if used (#8165)

DGN driver:
 * CreateFeature(): fix crash on empty geometries (ossfuzz#56771)

DXF driver:
 * Preserve attributes in nested block insertions

ESRIJSON driver:
 * add support for esriFieldTypeSingle and esriFieldTypeDate data types

FlatGeoBuf driver:
 * GetNextArrowArray(): implement full spatial filtering (not just bbox
   intersection)

GeoJSON driver:
 * add AUTODETECT_JSON_STRINGS layer creation option (#8391)
 * writer: when writing with limited coordinate precision, run MakeValid() to
   avoid creating invalid geometries
 * reading: set field TZFlag
 * writer: in RFC7946 mode, refine logic to determine if a multipolygon spans
   over the antimeridian to write correct bbox (qgis/qgis#42827)
 * writer: use faster file write() primitive and detect write() errors

GeoJSONSeq driver:
 * add AUTODETECT_JSON_STRINGS layer creation option (#8391)
 * writer: use faster file write() primitive and detect write() errors

GeoPackage driver:
 * use much faster creation of RTree with a in-memory RTree building
 * speed-up HasMetadataTables() on dataset with many layers
 * speed-up unique constraint discovery on dataset with many layers
 * more efficient retrieval of layer extent from RTree content
 * deal with DateTime fields without milliseconds or seconds, as allowed by
   GeoPackage 1.4 (#8037)
 * add a DATETIME_PRECISION layer creation option (#8037)
 * implement SetNextByIndex() on table layers (by appending
   'OFFSET -1 LIMIT index')
 * make GetArrowStream() honour SetNextByIndex()
 * add a CRS_WKT_EXTENSION=YES/NO dataset creation option to force addition of
   definition_12_063 column
 * add a METADATA_TABLES creation option to control creation of system metadata
   tables
 * GetNextArrowArray(): implement full spatial filtering (not just bbox
   intersection)
 * GetNextArrowArray(): only do multi-threaded prefetch if more than 1 GB RAM
   available
 * make invalid attribute filter to cause error in main thread (so Python
   binding can emit an exception)
 * GPKG / SQLite dialect: improve detection of geometry columns when first row
   is NULL (#8587)
 * make GetFeatureCount() do full geometry intersection and not just bounding
   box (#8625)

GPX driver:
 * add a CREATOR dataset creation option

HANA driver:
 * Set sessionVariable:APPLICATION in connection string
 * Support connections using a user store key (#7946)

Memory driver:
 * add a FID layer creation option to specify the FID column name

MVT/MBTiles driver:
 * take into account tileStats metadata item to decide if a field of type
   'number' might be Integer or Integer64
 * MVT writer: clamp generated tile x, y coordinates to \[0,(1<<z)-1\]

NAS driver:
 * remove unused nas relation layer and remove GML driver's out-of-band
   attribute handling only used for it
 * support gfs @ notation for attributes to handle attributes for codelists
   (fixes norBIT/alkis-import#65)
 * Fix (and refactor) update operations for GID7

MySQL driver:
 * fix compliance issues with test_ogrsf

OAPIF driver:
 * bump default limit to 1000 and honor schema from API (#8566)

ODS driver:
 * add FIELD_TYPES and HEADERS open options (#8028)

OpenFileGDB driver:
 * add support for DateTime field domains
 * expose layer alias name in ALIAS_NAME layer metadata item

Parquet driver:
 * emit GeoParquet 1.0.0 version number
 * add a COORDINATE_PRECISION layer creation option
 * add fast implementation of Arrow Array interface when requesting WKT as WKB
 * make Parquet driver recognize a geometry column if it has
   ARROW:extension:name=ogc.wkb/ogc.wkt field metadata
 * add a GEOM_POSSIBLE_NAMES and CRS open options for wider compatibility with
   datasets not following GeoParquet dataset-level metadata
 * fix ExecuteSQL() MIN/MAX optimization on a UINT32 field on a Parquet 2 file
 * optimize SELECT MIN(FID), MAX(FID)
 * restrict FID column detection to Int32/Int64 data types
 * use statistics to skip row groups that don't match attribute filter (#8225)
 * use statistics of bbox.minx/miny/max/maxy fields (as found in Ouverture Maps
   datasets) to implement fast GetExtent()

PDF driver:
 * (minimal) take into account BMC operator to correctly handle BMC/EMC pairs
   w.r.t BDC/EMC ones (#8372)
 * Read vector unstructured: take into account OCMD constructs as found in
   recent USGS GeoPDFs (#8372)
 * ignore non-relevant StructTreeRoot in most recent USGS GeoPDFs (#8372)

PGDump driver:
 * use faster file write() primitive

PostgreSQL driver:
 * do not override search_path when not needed (#8641)

Shapefile driver:
 * use VSIGetCanonicalFilename() in GetFileList() (#8164)
 * be tolerant with .prj with lon, lat axis order (fixes #8452)

TileDB driver:
 * GetNextArrowArray(): implement full spatial filtering (not just bbox
   intersection)

XLSX driver:
 * add FIELD_TYPES and HEADERS open options (#8028)

WFS driver:
 * Don't issue STARTINDEX if feature count is small (#8146)
 * do not emit twice DescribeFeatureType request on servers with complex
   features and a single layer
 * ExecuteSQL(): skip leading spaces that could cause the rest of the function
   to malfunction
 * correctly paginate when number of features is lower than page size (#8653)
 * use numberMatched when present to avoid last empty GetFeature request, and
   set GetFeatureCount()

## SWIG Language Bindings

All bindings:
 * Map multidimensional API Rename() methods
 * Increment FeatureDefn ref count on ogr.Layer.GetLayerDefn()
 * add ogr.CreateRangeFieldDomainDateTime() and Domain.GetMinAsString()
   /GetMaxAsString()
 * Expose GetConfigOptions()
 * add gdal.SuggestedWarpOutput()
 * Expose GDALClose

Java bindings:
 * add Read/WriteRaster abilities for GDT_UInt64 & GDT_Int64 (#7893)
 * make multidimensional API usable (#8048)
 * implement ogr.CreateCodedFieldDomain() and FieldDomain.GetEnumeration()
  (#8085)
 * eliminate some deprecations / compiler warnings (#8055)
 * Add FieldDefn::GetFieldType() compatibility method

Python bindings:
 * Allow passing options as dict
 * Return context manager from Create, CreateDataSource
 * Use ogr.DataSource and gdal.Dataset as context managers
 * make gdal.Group.GetGroupNames() and GetMDArrayNames() return an empty list instead of None
 * detect invalid use of ReleaseResultSet() (#7782)
 * Invalidate band and layer refs when dataset closes
 * Invalidate mask, overview references after dataset close
 * Invalidate refs from CreateLayer on datasource close
 * Invalidate refs from CopyLayer on datasource close
 * Avoid crash when using dataset after Destroy or Release
 *  Avoid crashes when using orphaned Geometry refs
 * GetArrowStreamAsNumPy(): various fixes
 * Fix gdal.config_options to prevent migration of config options in and out of
   thread-local storage (#8018)
 * accept numpy.int64/float64 arguments for xoff, yoff, win_xsize, win_ysize,
   buf_xsize, buf_ysize arguments of ReadAsArray() (#8026)
 * make setup.py check that libgdal version >= python bindings version (#8029)
 * fix CoordinateTransform.TransformPoint(sequence of 3 or 4 values)
 * Use DumpReadable for Feature __repr__
 * add a outputGeotransform option to gdal.Translate()
 * Accept os.PathLike arguments where applicable
 * make Feature.SetField(field_idx_or_name, binary_values) work
 * add feature.SetFieldBinary(field_idx_or_name, binary_values)
 * throw exceptions (when enabled) on gdal_array.OpenArray()/OpenNumPyArray()/
   OpenMultiDimensionalNumPyArray()
 * improve performance of CSLFromPySequence() on large sequences
   (like > 100,000 strings)
 * Allow ExecuteSQL context manager to work on empty datasources
 * make sure that CPL_DEBUG=ON and gdal.UseExceptions() work fine during
   gdal.VectorTranslate() (and similar) (#8552)

# GDAL/OGR 3.7.0 Releases Notes

GDAL/OGR 3.7.0 is a feature release.
Those notes include changes since GDAL 3.6.0, but not already included in a
GDAL 3.6.x bugfix release.

## In a nutshell...

* [RFC 87](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc87_signed_int8.html): Add
  GDT_Int8 support
* [RFC 88](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc88_googletest.html): switch
  to GoogleTest framework for C++ tests (#3525)
* [RFC 89](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc89_sql_logging_callback.html):
  SQL query logging callback (#6967)
* [RFC 90](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc90_read_compressed_data.html):
  Direct access to compressed raster data
* [RFC 91](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc91_dataset_close.html):
  GDALDataset::Close() method
* [RFC 93](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc93_update_feature.html):
  OGRLayer::UpdateFeature() method
* [RFC 94](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc94_field_precision_width_metadata.html):
  Numeric fields width/precision metadata
* ogrinfo: make it accessible through a new GDALVectorInfo() C API call, and
  a -json switch
* Add read-only raster driver NOAA_B to read NOAA GEOCON/NADCON5 .b grids
* Add read-only raster driver NSIDCbin for Sea Ice Concentrations (#7263)
* Add read-only vector GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) driver
* TileDB: add read/write vector side
* Add support for [SOZip](https://sozip.org) (Seek Optimized ZIP) with enhanced
  /vsizip/ virtual file system and a new sozip utility
* OpenFileGDB: add read-only support for raster datasets (.gdb v10)
* PNG: 1.7-2.0x speed-up in whole image decompression with libdeflate on
  Intel/AMD CPUs. Benefits GPKG, MRF drivers
* [RFC 69](https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc69_cplusplus_formatting.html):
  C++ code reformatting
* Code linting and security fixes
* Remove any traces of Rasdaman driver, now moved to OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers
  repository (#4808)

## Backward compatibility issues

See [MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.7/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT)

## New installed files

* data/gfs.xsd: XML schema for .gfs files (#6655)
* data/gml_registry.xsd: new file with XML schema of gml_registry.xml (#6716)
* data/ogrinfo_output.schema.json: to validate ogrinfo -json output
* data/gdalinfo_output.schema.json: to validate gdalinfo -json output (fixes #6850)
* data/grib2_table_4_2_0_21.csv
* data/grib2_table_4_2_2_6.csv
* bin/sozip

## Build

* make BUILD_JAVA/CSHARP/PYTHON_BINDINGS default value dependent on the
  presence of requirements, and error out if those variables are set but
  requirements are missing
* Python bindings: remove generated files and require SWIG to be present
* Fix build with -DOGR_ENABLE_DRIVER_GML=OFF (#6647)
* make it possible to build on Linux if linux/fs.h is missing by explicitly
  setting ACCEPT_MISSING_LINUX_FS_HEADER
* Add support for (future) libjpeg-turbo 2.2 with its 8/12 bit dual mode (#6645)
* PDF driver with PDFium support must be built against PDFium from
  https://github.com/rouault/pdfium_build_gdal_3_7
* No longer alias VSILFILE* to FILE* in non-DEBUG builds (#6790)
* Add build option for using static Arrow/Parquet build (#7082)
* Quote variables for INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES / IMPORTED_LOCATION
* Enable OpenCL at build-time, but disable it at runtime by default unless
  the USE_OPENCL warping option or GDAL_USE_OPENCL config option is set (#7224)
* Fix MSVC x64 builds with /arch:AVX2 (#7625)

## New optional dependencies

* libarchive for new /vsi7z/ and /vsirar/ virtual file systems

## GDAL 3.7.0 - Overview of Changes

### Port

* /vsizip/: add read support for Deflate64 (#7013)
* Add read-only /vsi7z/ and /vsirar/ virtual file systems (depends on libarchive)
* Make it possible to specify all HTTP related configuration options as
  path-specific options with VSISetPathSpecificOption()
* VSIGSFSHandler::UnlinkBatch(): avoid potential nullptr deref
* /vsiaz/: implement UnlinkBatch()
* /vsis3/: add CPL_VSIS3_CREATE_DIR_OBJECT configuration option
* /vsigs/ allow GDAL_HTTP_HEADERS config option to be used as authentication method if contains at least a line starting with "Authorization:"
* /vsihdfs/: fix ReadDir() and EOF flag (#7632)
* add a robust CPLParseKeyValueJson() function (#6753)
* HTTP: set default User-Agent header to GDAL/x.y.z and add a
  CPLHTTPSetDefaultUserAgent() function (#6376)
* HTTP: CUSTOMREQUEST option overrides POST while send form
* /vsicurl/ / CPLHTTPFetch(): add a GDAL_HTTP_NETRC_FILE config option
* /vsicurl/ / CPLHTTPFetch(): add options to support SSL client certificates
* VSICurlHandle::ReadMultiRange(): avoid potential infinite loop
* Add VSIVirtualHandle::AdviseRead() virtual method and implement it in /vsicurl
* Add VSICopyFile()
* CPLCopyFile(): remap onto VSICopyFile()
* Implement CopyFile() for VSIZipFilesystemHandler
* Implement GetFileMetadata() for /vsizip/
* CPLDefaultFindFile: Warn if file not found and GDAL_DATA not defined
* Add VSIDuplicateFileSystemHandler() (for remote stores identifcal to popular
  ones, but with different settings).
* Make C type VSILFILE an alias of C++ VSIVirtualHandle (and make it a struct
  for that purpose) (#6643)
* Add a CPLGetErrorHandler() function
* Add VSIVirtualHandleUniquePtr type, unique pointer of VSIVirtualHandle that
  calls the Close() method

### Core

* ComputeRasterMinMax(), ComputeStatistics(), GetHistogram(): take into account
  mask band (and not only nodata value)
* Modify GDALFlushCache() and GDALDataset::FlushCache() to return CPLErr
  instead of void
* Add GDALDataset::Close() virtual method, call it from GDALClose() and make
  GDALClose() return a CPLErr
* GDALDataset:: add a SetBand() method that takes a GDALRasterBand unique_ptr
* RawRasterBand: cache GDAL_ONE_BIG_READ value for RasterIO (#6726)
* RawRasterBand: add IsValid() and Create() methods that return a unique_ptr
* RawDataset::RasterIO(): add optimization when reading from a BIP dataset to
  a BIP buffer (#6819)
* RAW: fix performance issue when reading files with very small width (#1140)
* Raw drivers: check RawRasterBand validity
* LoadPythonAPI(): take into account Python 3.12
* NASAKeywordHandler: add a Parse() method and change Ingest() return type to be bool
* Add GDALMDArray::GetGridded() / GDALMDArrayGetGridded()
* Add GDALMDArray::Resize() / GDALMDArrayResize(). Implement it in MEM, netCDF
  and Zarr drivers
* Support blocks > 2GB in GDALAllValidMaskBand and GDALNoDataValuesMaskBand
* GDALVersionInfo("BUILD_INFO"): report CURL_ENABLED=YES and CURL_VERSION=x.y.z
* Add CPLSubscribeToSetConfigOption() to subscribe to config option settings
* GoogleMapsCompatible tiling scheme: Increase max zoom level from 24 to 30
* JP2 structure dump: fix interpretation of METH field in COLR JP2 box
* Enable SSE2/AVX2 optims on 32bit MSVC builds if /arch:AVX2 is defined (#7625)

### Algorithms

* Polygonizer: switch implementation to Two-Arm Chains EdgeTracing Algorithm,
  which is much faster in some cases (#7344)
* Prefix ParseAlgorithmAndOptions() public symbol with GDALGrid for proper
  namespacing, and add #define alias for API compat (but ABI breakage)
* Pansharpening: require geotransform on panchromatic and multispectral bands.
  Remove undocumented and somewhat broken MSShiftX and MSShiftY options
* Warper: fix issue with insufficiently large source window, visible with RPC
  DEM warping (#7491)

### Utilities

* gdalwarp: add -srcband (aliased to -b) and -dstband options
* gdalwarp: preserve source resolution by default when no reprojection is
  involved (behavior change), and add '-tr square' to use previous behavior
* gdalwarp: better error message when not providing enough values after a switch
  (#7086)
* gdal_rasterize: support @filename for -sql option (#7232)
* gdal_rasterize: add -oo switch for open options (#7329)
* gdal_grid: add -oo switch for open options (#7329)
* gdal_polygonize.py: use transactions to speed-up writing
* gdal_polygonize.py: add a -lco option, and fix -o (#7374)
* gdalbuildvrt: implement numerically stable averaging of resolution (#7502)
* gdal2tiles: use logging module instead of print() for verbose output (#4894)
* gdal2tiles: update doctype to html format (#7631)
* gdal2tiles: uses GDALTermProgress() for progress bar
* gdal_calc: uses GDALTermProgress() for progress bar (#7549)
* gdal_fillnodata: fix parsing of -co option
* validate_gpkg.py: make it work better on examples from ngageoint repositories
* gdal_cp.py: use gdal.CopyFile()
* C/C++ command line utilities: take into account GDALClose() error code

### Raster drivers

ARG driver:
 * add support for int64/uint64

COG driver:
 * relax a bit the tolerance when computing tile number
 * propagate NUM_THREADS to warping (#7479)
 * add NBITS creation option (#7361)

ERS driver:
 * support GDA2020

GeoPackage driver:
 * load/save band statistics in GPKG metadata tables or PAM .aux.xml

GRIB driver:
 * update tables to wmo-im/GRIB2@v30
 * g2clib: allow negative longitudes in grid templates Lon/Lat, Rotated,
   Stretched, Stretched & Rotated, LAEA (#7456) and Mercator
 * fix GetNoDataValue() on band > 1 when there's a bitmap section (#7649)

GTiff driver:
 * add a JXL_ALPHA_DISTANCE creation option, e.g. to have lossless alpha and
   lossy RGB.
 * call VSIVirtualHandle::AdviseRead() in multithreaded read implementation
 * implement GetCompressionFormats() and ReadCompressedData()
 * add minimum support for reading CRS from ESRI's .xml side car file (#7187)
 * use libtiff >= 4.5 reentrant error handlers (when available) (#6659)
 * make sure that band description in PAM overrides the one coming from
   GDAL_METADATA tag
 * Internal libtiff: resync with upstream

HFA driver:
 * add a DISABLEPESTRING=YES creation option to disable use of ArcGIS PE String
   (#1003)

HDF5 driver:
 * add generic support for HDF-EOS5 grids and swaths (#7117)

JP2OpenJPEG driver:
 * add workaround for dop10 orthophotos wrong colorspace

JPEG driver:
 * add a APPLY_ORIENTATION=YES open option to take into account EXIF_Orientation
 * advertise JPEG_QUALITY metadata item in IMAGE_STRUCTURE domain
 * use ReadCompressedData(), implement lossless copy from JPEGXL that has
   JPEG reconstruction box
 * add a LOSSLESS_COPY creation option
 * add support for reading lossless 8-bit JPEG if using libjpeg-turbo >= 2.2
 * change behavior to return an error and not just a warning with reading a
   truncated file
 * Internal libjpeg: decompressor: initialize Huffman tables to avoid issues
   with some FileGDB raster

JPEGXL driver:
 * add a ALPHA_DISTANCE creation option, e.g. to have lossless alpha and
   lossy RGB.
 * add a APPLY_ORIENTATION=YES open option to take into account EXIF_Orientation
 * advertise COMPRESSION_REVERSIBILITY=LOSSY when there is a JPEG reconstruction
   box
 * add a LOSSLESS_COPY creation option
 * implement creation from JPEGXL content
 * fix lossless copy of JPEG with zlib compressed mask band
 * implement GetCompressionFormats() and ReadCompressedData()

MEM driver:
 * implement GetCoordinateVariables() from coordinates attribute
 * Adds 'SPATIALREFERENCE' element to the DSN format (#7272)

MRF driver:
 * make it use PNG driver for decompression of 8-bit images

netCDF driver:
 * add a ASSUME_LONGLAT open option (#6195)
 * add heuristics to detect invalid validity range when scale_factor is
   present (#7167)
 * report geolocation array for NASA L2 ocean colour products (#7605)

NITF driver:
 * nitf_spec.xml: add definition for subheader of CSATTB, CEEPHB and CSSFAB DES
   of GLAS/GFM
 * add capability of decoding DES data part as XML fields and add descriptors
   for CSATTB, CEEPHB and CSSFAB DES
 * add VALIDATE and FAIL_IF_VALIDATION_ERROR open options
 * fix bug that prevents adding subsequent TREs after a HEX TRE (#6827)

OGCAPI driver:
 * define raster/vector scope of open options
 * Passed uri to TileMatrixSet::parse
 * Updated uris of well-known tile matrix sets

PCIDSK driver:
 * support Web Mercator projection (#7647)

PDF driver:
 * skip JP2ECW driver if ECW_ENCODE_KEY required but not found

PNG driver:
 * 1.7-2.0x speed-up in whole image decompression with libdeflate on Intel/AMD CPUs

RMF driver:
 * Add scale, name, frame support.
 * Add vert CS write support.
 * Implement GetSuggestedBlockAccessPattern

VRT driver:
 * add 'a_offset', 'a_scale', 'a_srs', 'a_ullr', 'expand', 'exponent', 'gcp',
  'if', 'ot', 'outsize', 'ovr', 'scale' options for vrt:// connection string
 * add BLOCKXSIZE and BLOCKYSIZE creation options
 * Fix excessive RAM usage when reading a VRT made of single-tiled JPEG2000
   files read with the JP2OpenJPEG driver
 * implement GetCompressionFormats() and ReadCompressedData()
 * derived band: add a <SkipNonContributingSources>true optional element
   to discard non contributing sources (#7223)
 * VRTPansharpened: avoid issue when querying overviews when PAN and MS bands
   have significant different spatial extent
 * serialize NODATA/NoDataValue elements with double precision (#7486)
 * fix warning regarding with OpenShared with vrt://http://example.com/test.jp2
   with the JP2OpenJPEG driver

WEBP driver:
 * implement GetCompressionFormats() and ReadCompressedData()

## OGR 3.7.0 - Overview of Changes

### Core

* Add OGRLayer::UpdateFeature() and OGR_L_UpdateFeature() (RFC 93).
  Implement it in Memory, GPKG, MongoDBv3, PG
* OGRFeatureDefn: add GetFields() and GetGeomFields() for easier C++ iteration
* OGRFieldDefn: add GetComment() / SetComment() methods
* OGRFeature/OGRGeometry: add a DumpReadable method that outputs to a string
* Add GDAL_DMD_ILLEGAL_FIELD_NAMES, and feel it for OpenFileGDB, FileGDB,
  PostgreSQL
* Add GDAL_DMD_RELATIONSHIP_RELATED_TABLE_TYPES: list of standard related table
  types recognized by the driver, and feel it for OpenFileGDB, FileGDB and GPKG
* Add GDAL_DMD_CREATION_FIELD_DEFN_FLAGS metadata
* Add DCAP_FEATURE_STYLES_READ and DCAP_FEATURE_STYLES_WRITE capabilities
* Add ALTER_ALTERNATIVE_NAME_FLAG for use changing a field's alternative name
  when calling OGR_L_AlterFieldDefn
* Add ALTER_COMMENT_FLAG for altering field comments via OGR_L_AlterFieldDefn
* Add OGRLayer::GetSupportedSRSList() and SetActiveSRS()
* OGRToOGCGeomType(): add options to control output
* GenSQL: fix SetAttributeFilter() when dialect=OGRSQL and not forwarding the
  initial where clause to the source layer (#7087)
* OGR SQL: do not emit error message when comparing a NULL datetime
* OGRFeature::SetField(string argument): for bool, recognize 0/false/off/no as
  false and 1/true/on/yes as true
* Add OGRFeature::GetFieldAsISO8601DateTime() (#7555)
* Geometry WKT import: accept nan as a value, for parity with PostGIS and GEOS
* GDALDataset::CopyLayer(): copy source layer metadata, unless the COPY_MD=NO
  option is specified
* Add OGRGeometry::UnaryUnion() / OGR_G_UnaryUnion()
* SQL SQLite parser: correctly take into account statements like
  'SELECT ... FROM json_each(...)' (#7464)
* Make OGRGeometry::getSpatialReference() return a const OGRSpatialReference*
* Make OGRGeomFieldDefn::GetSpatialRef() return a const OGRSpatialReference*

### OGRSpatialReference

* importFromWkt(): take into account COORDINATEMETADATA[] (PROJ >= 9.2)
* update hard-coded definition of OGC:CRS84 to include the ID
* OSR_Panorama: Add some spatial references (GSK 2011, etc.)
* OSR_Panorama: Fix TM zone for projections with negative central meridian
* OSR_Panorama: Fix import from invalid data
* SetFromUserInput(): skip leading white space (#7170)
* Make OGRCoordinateTransformation::GetSourceCS() and GetTargetCS() return a
  const OGRSpatialReference* (#7377)
* OSRImportFromEPSG(): emit warning message about deprecated CRS substitution
  (#7524)
* Allow CPLSetConfigOption('PROJ_DATA', ...) to work by making it call
  OSRSetPROJSearchPaths()

### Utilities

* ogrinfo: make it accessible through a new GDALVectorInfo() C API call
* ogrinfo: add a -json switch
* ogrinfo: output CRS supported list
* ogrinfo: output relationships
* ogr2ogr: use SetActiveSRS() when possible when -t_srs is used
* ogr2ogr: make conversion from GML2 to GPKG work without explicit -lco
  FID=some_name_different_than_fid
* ogr2ogr: add a -dateTimeTo option to convert datetime between timezones (#5256)
* ogr2ogr: Improve performance of -clipsrc and -clipdst (#7197)
* ogr2ogr: LoadGeometry(): use UnaryUnion()
* ogrmerge.py: add optimization for GPKG -> GPKG non-single layer case (up to
  10x faster)

### Vector drivers

Arrow driver:
 * add support for getting/setting field alternative name and comment in
   gdal:schema extension

CSV driver:
 * recognize pipe separator and .psv extension for read (#6811)
 * fix GetFeatureCount() to work correctly with spatial and attribute filters
 * allow reading single column file (#7595)

CSW driver:
 * Add 'title' as query-able property

FileGDB driver:
 * do not set Length/Precision from OGR width/precision for floating-point data
   types (#7283)
 * correct ObjectID field to have a Length of 4.

FlatGeobuf driver:
 * decrease memory usage when inserting lots of features
 * speed-up writing of DateTime/Date values
 * avoid crash when writing huge geometry
 * Support reading/writing field comments in field description metadata (#7598)

GML driver:
 * Use geometry in boundedBy element if there are no geometry properties
 * use srsDimension on top gml:Envelope as the default one (#6986)
 * GML geometry parsing: don't promote to 3D a 2D <gml:Box>