[Geotiff] libgeotiff 1.4.0 Release Candidate

[Howard Butler]

On May 23, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I have prepared a libgeotiff 1.4.0 release candidate at:
> 
>   http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.4.0RC1.tar.gz
>   http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.4.0RC1.zip
> 
> Major changes since the 1.3.0 release early in 2010 include:
> 
>  - Upgrade to EPSG 7.6 database (from 7.4)
>  - Fix GTIFGetDefn() to properly normalize false eastings and northings to
>    meters.
>  - Added unofficial GeogTOWGS84 geokey.

- CMake configuration from Mateusz Loskot http://trac.osgeo.org/geotiff/ticket/17 was also added, but it has not been added to the autotools dist target yet.  I would like the chance to have this as part of the standard release, and I will do my best to keep this in sync with any libtool changes I make.

Howard

> 
> Also a variety of bug fixes have been applied.
> 
> I would appreciate folks trying out the release candidate.  I will wait a
> few days before promoting it to a final release.  I will also not proceed
> until at least one other person on the list has indicated their support
> for promoting it to final release, based on their trying it out!
> 
> Best regards,
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