The 3.7.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:
- RFC 87: Add GDT_Int8 support
- RFC 88: switch to GoogleTest framework for C++ tests
- RFC 89: SQL query logging callback
- RFC 90: Direct access to compressed raster data
- RFC 91: GDALDataset::Close() method
- RFC 93: OGRLayer::UpdateFeature() method
- RFC 94: 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
- Add read-only vector GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) driver
- TileDB: add read/write vector side
- Add support for SOZip (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 to GPKG, MRF drivers
- RFC 69: C++ code reformatting
- Code linting and security fixes
- Remove any traces of Rasdaman driver, now moved to OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository (#4808)
- Bump of shared lib major version
and many other enhancements and fixes as detailed in the release notes