All,

The GDAL team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL 1.6.2 RC1.

* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.6.2-RC1.tar.gz
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal162-RC1.zip

The following issues were addressed in this release:

General:
* OGR expression parser causes access violations with large expressions (#2996)
 * OGR cannot open/handle .DBF files > 2 GB (#3011)
* crash in cpl_vsil_win32.cpp when compiling as x64 under Windows (#3035)
 * create index sql execute problem (#3044)
* GTiffDataset::FlushCache() cause crashes when used just after dataset creation (#3067) * GDALDefaultOverviews::BuildOverviews() causes out-of-bounds writes for a 1x1 dataset (#3069) * gdaladdo crashes on a 16-bit dataset when external overviews are requested to have JPEG compression (#3070) * Corrupt EXIF info can cause stack buffer overflow in JPEG driver (#3078)

GDAL:
 * GenBin driver problems (#2730)
* Additional dependency to libgdal.so added during linking in gdal/ apps (#2970)
 * This NITF Can not be opened (endless loop) with recent GDAL (#3001)
 * This NITF Can not be opened (endless loop) with recent GDAL (#3002)
 * PPM Driver 16bit Support Byte Order Decision Questionable (#3012)
 * GDAL changes projection parameter values (#3017)
* bad reading of AAIGRID dataset whose last line doesn't have a linebreak character (#3022)
 * HDF5 Subdataset Issue (#3024)
 * jp2kak driver can't display this unsigned 16 bit J2K image (#3027)
 * NITF PRJPSB TRE handling wrong for Transverse Mercator (#3029)
* gdaladdo not producing correct overviews for greyscale+alpha image (#3033)
 * GDALLoadRPB/IMDFile fails with path (#3047)
* Setting stats and histogram to JP2 compressed NITF corrupts the aux.xml (#3051) * poBand->SetMetadataItem( "source_0", szFilterSourceXML, "vrt_sources" ) not supported as expected (#3052) * gdaladdo fails with JPEG YCBCR when interleaving is not specified to be pixel (#3064)
 * georaster - NLS problem with XML metadata (#3066)
 * gdalwarp can crash when reprojecting into an irrelevant SRS (#3079)

OGR:
 * Relax KML driver about xmlns (#3004)
 * KML driver painfully slow when reading huge geometries (#3005)
 * PG driver does not recognize 'real' data type (#3006)
* X-Plane reader: Bezier curves in Pavement and APTLinefeature not curved (#3030)

OGR Spatial References:
* Mercator with scale=1 at non-equatoral latitude handled improperly. (#3026) * Hotine Oblique Mercator translation to PROJ.4 format looses scale factor. (#3032)
 * Equidistant Conic ESRI Morphing Broken (#3086)

Python:
 * OGRFeature.SetField segfault (#3000)

.NET:
* C# Osr.GetProjectionMethodParameterList / OPTGetParameterList Access Violation (#3018) * [PATCH - C#] Dataset.ReadRaster()/WriteRaster() doesn't work on multi-band datasets (#3073)


If no significant issues are identified, a PSC vote will be called for to promote this RC to final on Wednesday or Thursday next week.

Howard

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