GDAL/OGR 2.1.0 released

On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.1.0.  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.

The 2.1.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights:

• RFC 26: Add hash-set band block cache implementation for very larger rasters (WMS, WMTS, ...) 
• RFC 48: Geographical networks support (GNM)
• RFC 58: Add DeleteNoDataValue() 
• RFC 59.1: Make GDAL/OGR utilities available as library functions 
• RFC 60: Improved round-tripping in OGR. Implemented in GeoJSON driver
• RFC 61: Support for measured geometries. Implemented in Shapefile, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, PGDump, MEM, SQLite, GeoPackage, FileGDB, OpenFileGDB, CSV, VRT

• New GDAL/raster drivers:
  • ​CALS: read/write driver for CALS Type I rasters
  • ​DB2: read/write support for DB2 database (Windows only)
  • ​ISCE: read/write driver
  • ​MRF: read/write driver for Meta Raster Format
  • ​SAFE: read driver for ESA SENTINEL-1 SAR products
  • ​SENTINEL2: read driver for ESA SENTINEL-2 L1B/LC1/L2A products
  • ​WMTS: read driver for OGC WMTS services
• New OGR/vector drivers:
  • ​AmigoCloud: read/write support for AmigoCloud mapping platform
  • ​DB2: read/write support for DB2 database (Windows only)
  • ​MongoDB: read/write driver
  • ​netCDF: read/write driver
  • ​VDV: read/write VDV-451/VDV-452 driver, with specialization for the Austrian official open government street graph format
• Significantly improved drivers:
  • ​CSV: new options, editing capabilities of existing file
  • ​ElasticSearch: read support and support writing any geometry type
  • ​GeoJSON: editing capabilities of existing file, "native data" (RFC 60) support
  • ​MBTiles: add raster write support. fixes in open support
  • ​PDF: add PDFium library as a possible back-end.
  • ​PLScenes: add support for V1 API
  • ​VRT: on-the-fly pan-sharpening
  • ​GTiff: multi-threaded compression for some compression methods
• Port library: add ​/vsis3/, ​/vsis3_streaming/, ​/vsicrypt/ virtual file systems
• Upgrade to EPSG database v8.8 
• General sanitization pass to clean-up code, fix a lot of compiler warnings, as well as issues pointed by static code analyzers.
• Fixes in a number of drivers to be more robust against corrupted files . 

You can also find more complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.1.0.

The release can be downloaded from:
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal210.zip - source as a zip
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal-2.1.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal-2.1.0.tar.xz - source as .tar.xz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal-grass-2.1.0.tar.gz - source of GDAL GRASS plugin
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdalautotest-2.1.0.tar.gz - test suite
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.0/gdal210doc.zip - documentation/website

As there have been a few changes that affect the behaviour of the library, developers are strongly advised to read the migration guide.