Howard Butler, Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Michael Sumner, Even Rouault, Mike Smith, Chris Toney, and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 09/25/2025. The following items were discussed and reported upon:
- NASA is renewing its Gold GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks again NASA!
- Safe Software is renewing its Silver GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks again Safe!
- LINZ is renewing its Bronze GDAL sponsorship for 2025. Thanks again LINZ!
- Howard is working to get a new GDAL tshirt design available through the NumFOCUS Spreadshirt shop. Look for an announcement in the next month or so.
Alessandro
- 40+ PR reviews
- 'gdal vector change-field-type' OSGeo/gdal#13086
Dan
- Code example testing – using CI to verify and compile examples to preserve them
- 'gdal raster zonal-stats' OSGeo/gdal#13059
Even
- 70+ PRs and tickets
- GDAL 3.11.4, libtiff 4.7.1, openjpeg 2.5.4, and shapelib 1.6.2 releases
- RFC 109 – splitting headers https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc109_gdal_cpp_api.html
- CLI pipeline materialize OSGeo/gdal#13051
- Renamed 'gdal raster color-merge' to 'gdal raster blend' OSGeo/gdal#13114
- Added 'gdal raster neighbors' for focal statistics OSGeo/gdal#13088
- convolution for 'gdal raster calc' OSGeo/gdal#13083
- Add 'gdal vector partition' OSGeo/gdal#13015
- EPSG update for PROJ 9.7.0 release
The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 10/23/2025 at 13:00 UTC. GDAL PSC members and Pull Request contributors are welcome to contact me for an invite.
Howard