v3.3.0

[3.3.0] 2021-06-15

Added

• GDAL 3.3.0
• Read-only support of the new Multidimensional Raster Data Model introduced in GDAL 3.1, requires GDAL >= 3.1
• NetCDF, GRIB, HDF5, Carto, FlatGeobuf, WMS, WMTS and WCS drivers
• Support generalized strides in gdal.RasterBandPixels.{write|read}()
• Add gdal.RasterBandPixels.{set|get}Async()
• Add gdal.RasterBand.computeStatisticsAsync
• Add an explicit stderr warning when the GC has to active sleep on an async operation and solve all (known) occurrences
• Add an explicit stderr warning when user code is calling a synchronous method while an asynchronous operation is running in the background

Changed

• Vastly improved locking mechanism allowing better parallelization
• Linux release builds have lazy binding enabled
• gdal.DatasetBands.get{Async}() now throws an Error if an invalid band is requested instead of returning a null object
• Completely reworked persistent object storage
• Thread-safe gdal.RasterBand.fillAsync
• Fix a number of cases where an unreferenced gdal.Dataset was not protected from the GC during an asynchronous operation

Removed

• Drop support for linking against a system-installed GDAL 1.x library
• Drop support for Ubuntu 16.04
• Drop support for Node.js 10.x and 15.x
• Drop support for Python 2
• Drop support for the drivers removed in GDAL 3.3: AeronavFAA, BNA, E00Grid, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA and XPlane