In my excitement and haste, I forgot to update the MapServer installer itself to check for GDAL 1.6. Done.

GRASS 6.4 RC1 is now available for testing. See the release notes for details.

MapServer has been rebuilt to use the new GDAL 1.6.

One down.

PostGIS updated to 1.3.5. This is an important update for MapServer users that have installed PostGIS 1.3.4.

Quick installer fix for GDAL 1.6.0. It installed support files in the GDAL 1.5 folder. You should also reinstall 1.5.3 to make sure the correct support files are present for 1.5.

GDAL 1.6 is here! And a little late, so is 1.5.3 — I wanted to synchronize some OSX fixes in 1.6 with 1.5, and make sure the 2 versions work together. More than just a new version, here are some OSX fixes and changes:

• [1.5/1.6] HDF4 64bit OSX now works.
• [1.5/1.6] DODS OSX issues worked out.
• [1.5/1.6] ECW-JP2 support works again. It was there, it just wasn’t loading, only ECW. I also fixed a 64bit issue with ECW-JP2. This gives OSX users a good working JP2 format driver. Note: ECW still only works for read-only, I’ll see if I can figure out write support, but don’t hold your breath.
• [1.5/1.6] Python binaries have been moved to be inside the framework bundle. A gdal.pth file is now installed in the Python site-packages folder to point to the framework. This lets the next change easily work:
• [1.5/1.6] Python support on Leopard can now be used with the python.org Python 2.5, if installed. This is in addition to the system Python on Leopard. The gdal.pth file avoids unnecessary duplication of the binaries.
• [1.6] The plugins folder is now versioned. For GDAL 1.6, that is /Library/Application Support/GDAL/1.6/PlugIns. GDAL 1.5 plugins will be left in /Library/Application Support/GDAL/PlugIns.
• [1.6] Internal GRASS libraries updated to GRASS 6.4.svn. (GRASS left at 6.3 for GDAL 1.5)

Both GDAL 1.5.3 and 1.6 can be installed, but the most recent version installed will be the active one for Python and developer use. Notes are included to switch this. Current application builds will still use GDAL 1.5, until I rebuild them for 1.6.

A full set of plugins for ECW and MrSID for both 1.5 and 1.6, and a new rgdal for R 2.8, are also available.

I fixed a problem in Qgis where all PostGIS layers would be seen as invalid.

Oops, the MapServer installer installed the Leopard Python-MapScript on Tiger. Fixed. This only affects Tiger users and Python-MapScript.

MapServer updated to 5.2.1. Python MapScript can now be installed for the python.org Python 2.5 on Leopard, if it is installed. More choices 😉

Minor update, only affects developers and those compiling software that uses PROJ. This fixes a problem that may affect some configuration scripts finding PROJ.