GDAL/OGR 1.11.0 released

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.11.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line tools.

http://www.gdal.org/

The 1.11.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights:

* New GDAL drivers:
** KRO: read/write support for KRO KOKOR Raw format http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#KRO

* New OGR drivers:
** CartoDB : read/write support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_cartodb.html
** GME / Google Map Engine : read/write supporthttp://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GMEDriver
** GPKG / GeoPackage : read-write support (vector part of the spec.) http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_geopackage.html
** OpenFileGDB: read-only support (no external dependency) http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_openfilegdb.html
** SXF: read-only support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_sxf.html
** WALK: read-only support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_walk.html
** WasP .map : read-write support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_wasp.html

* Significantly improved drivers: GML, LIBKML

* RFC 40: enhanced RAT support http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc40_enhanced_rat_support

* RFC 41: multiple geometry fields support http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc41_multiple_geometry_fields

* RFC 42: OGR Layer laundered field lookup http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc42_find_laundered_fields

* RFC 43: add GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList() (#5275) http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc43_getmetadatadomainlist

* RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mapping http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc45_virtualmem

* Upgrade to EPSG 8.2 database

More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 1.11.0 release can be found at http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.0-News

The new release can be downloaded from:
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110.zip – source as a zip
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal-1.11.0.tar.gz – source as .tar.gz
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdalautotest-1.11.0.tar.gz – test suite
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110doc.zip – documentation / website

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