The 3.13.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:
In a nutshell...
- New 'gdal' command line interface capabilities:
- gdal vector combine (#13895)
- gdal vector concave-hull
- gdal vector convex-hull
- gdal vector create (#14210)
- gdal vector dissolve (#13985)
- gdal vector export-schema (#14156)
- gdal vector update
- gdal vector rename-layer (#14132)
- gdal vector sort (#13351)
- gdal dataset check
- gdal driver cog validate (uses validate_cloud_optimized_geotiff.py
underneath) - gdal driver gpkg validate (uses validate_gpkg.py underneath)
- gdal pipeline: add a external step to run an external command
- Zarr: various improvements in Zarr V3 support (sharding), support for
multiscales, spatial and proj extensions for EOPF Visualization products. - COG driver: implement GDALDriver::Create() for random write creation
- Add E57 read-only raster driver to read 2D images from ASTM E2807 (E57) files
- Add SAR Compensated Phase History Data (CPHD) multi-dimensional read-only
driver (#14310) - MiraMonRaster: add creation support (#13960)
- JP2GROK: read/write driver for JPEG-2000 using Grok JPEG 2000 toolkit
(the toolkit is AGPL v3 licensed) - S102/S104/S111 driver: add write support
- NITF driver: add support for CADRG writing
- Add support for INTERLIS 2.4
- Make cloud users aware of commercial cloud providers that don't sponsor the
project and whose cloud storage protocol may be removed in the future (#14313) - Revert removal of OGR Tiger and UK. NTF drivers (but still to be considered
as living on borrowed time) - Bump of shared lib major version
Detailed release notes
At https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.13.0/NEWS.md
Backward compatibility issues
See migration guide