Now that the full freeze is in effect, I've had a look at what's new and
other changes for the Debian GIS packages in stretch.
Several new packages were introduced because they were already included
in OSGeo-Live like MapProxy, PyCSW, PySAL & PyWPS.
The updates in stretch bring greatly improved support for GeoPackage
which was mostly lacking in the packages in jessie.
Some highlights of the new packages:
* OTB 5.8.0, thanks to Rashad Kanavath, Andreas Tille & Paolo Cavallini
* Fiona 1.7.1, RasterIO 0.36.0, and many other Python packages thanks
to Johan Van de Wauw
* The new osmium family (protozero, libosmium, osmium-tool,
osmcoastline & pyosmium), thanks to excellent collaboration with
Jochem Topf
* mapcode 2.5.2, thanks to Stefan Fritsch
* MapProxy 1.9.0
* node-leaflet-* and other NodeJS packages thanks to Ross Gammon
* openstreetmap-carto 2.45.1, thanks to Christopher Baines
* PDAL 1.4.0
* PyCSW 2.0.2, thanks to Johan Van de Wauw & Angelos Tzotsos
* PySAL 1.13.0, thanks to Johan Van de Wauw
* PyWPS 4.0.0, thanks to Angelos Tzotsos
* SFCGAL 1.3.0, thanks to Sven Geggus
And some highlights of updated packages:
* GMT 5.3.1 and its (new) dependencies:
- DCW-GMT 1.1.2
- GSHHG 2.3.6 (replaces GSHHS)
Which fixed long standing issues with the GMT 4 packages.
* NetCDF 4.4.1.1, thanks to Nico Schlömer & Ross Gammon
Which introduced some new packages:
- netcdf-cxx 4.3.0
- netcdf-cxx-legacy 4.2
- netcdf-fortran 4.4.4
- netcdf4-python 1.2.7
Core package updates:
* PROJ.4 4.9.3
* GeoTIFF 1.4.2
* GEOS 3.5.1
* HDF4 4.2.12, thanks to Johan Van de Wauw
* HDF5 1.10.0, thanks to Gilles Filippini
* SpatiaLite 4.3.0a & SpatiaLite-GUI 2.0.0-devel
* LibKML 1.3.0 using upstream fork thanks to Rashad Kanavath
* libLAS 1.8.1
* GDAL 2.1.2
* Shapelib 1.4.0
* Spatialindex 1.8.5
* OSSIM 1.8.20-3
* PostGIS 2.3.1
* JTS 1.14
* Mapnik 3.0.12
Application updates:
* GRASS 7.2.0
* QGIS 2.14.11
* QMapShack 1.7.2 & QLandKarteGT 1.8.1, thanks to Jaromír Mikeš
* MapServer 7.0.4, MapCache 1.4.1 & TinyOWS 1.1.1
* pgRouting 2.3.2 & osm2pgRouting 2.2.0
* JOSM 11427 & JMapViewer 2.0, thanks to Felix Natter
* Merkaartor 0.18.3
* NCO 4.6.3
* GPSPrune 18.6
* osm2pgsql 0.92.0
* osmosis 0.45
* Routino 3.1.1, thanks to Uwe Steinmann
* SAGA 2.3.1, thanks to Johan Van de Wauw
* TileStache 1.51.5
* Total Open Station 0.3.3, thanks to Matteo F. Vescovi
Removed packages:
* gmt-gshhg (replaced by gmt-gshhg)
* libgaiagraphics (no longer required for spatialite-gui)
* librasterlite (replaced by librasterlite2)
* openstreetmap-map-icons (no longer required for JOSM)
* osmium (replaced by the new osmium family of packages)
* tilelite (dead upstream)
Also thanks to Antonio Valentino for continuing to maintain his Python
packages, and my apologies to any contributors I failed to mention.
Kind Regards,
Bas