The new version 1.11.0 of GDAL/OGR (http://www.gdal.org/) which offers major new features has been released. 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.

Highlights:

• New GDAL driver:
  • KRO: read/write support for KRO KOKOR Raw format
• New OGR drivers:
  • CartoDB: read/write support
  • GME / Google Map Engine : read/write support
  • GPKG / GeoPackage : read-write support (vector part of the spec.)
  • OpenFileGDB: read-only support (no external dependency)
  • SXF: read-only support
  • WALK: read-only support
  • WasP .map : read-write support
• Significantly improved drivers: GML, LIBKML
• RFC 40: enhanced RAT support
• RFC 41: multiple geometry fields support
• RFC 42: OGR Layer laundered field lookup
• RFC 43: add GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList() (#5275)
• RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mapping
• 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