Howard Butler, Dan Baston, Alessandro Pasotti, Chris Toney, Michael Smith, Even Rouault, Norman Barker, and Javier Jimenez Shaw held the monthly GDAL Maintainers Meeting on 04/23/2026. The following items were discussed and reported upon:
- Maintenance release GDAL 3.12.4 was released https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/releases/tag/v3.12.4 See https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/v3.12.4/NEWS.md for bug list and details
- GDAL 3.13.0b2 is now available. Preliminary release notes are available at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/304c53e1298e3294c8b854a996103ad1ca8a131d/NEWS.md
- Even and Seth will be giving the GDAL Workshop at FOSS4GE in Timisoara, Romania on July 3rd, 2026. See https://2026.europe.foss4g.org/schedule/workshops/ for details and get your ticket at https://pretix.geo-spatial.org/foss4ge2026/timisoara2026/
- Howard's talk "Building the GDAL Sponsorship Program" was accepted for FOSS4G Hiroshima https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2026/talk/review/FNSYDBBCF7LUPB77JHSGPUMUQV3NSNWB
- 27 PR reviews
- CLI argument dependencies to allow linking of arguments – no breaking change
(unable to attend but provided report via email)
- finalizing the projections tutorial at https://gdal.org/en/latest/tutorials/reprojecting_data.html
- updating the Conda master pipeline, so there is only one package per version (looks like it is all working now at https://anaconda.org/channels/gdal-master/packages/libgdal-core/files?versions=3.12.99)
- Doc: Add SPARSE_OK example to COG page: OSGeo/gdal#14390
- Doc: Add raster clip example and update error message: OSGeo/gdal#14384
- CI: Strip out any \r when running on Windows for Conda uploads: OSGeo/gdal#14342
- CI: Add channel for windows and jq: OSGeo/gdal#14339
- CI: Conda master builds remove duplicate versions: OSGeo/gdal#14335
- Doc: Add PAM projection example: OSGeo/gdal#14317
- Doc: Projections tutorial: OSGeo/gdal#14285
- Doc: Add WCS examples: OSGeo/gdal#14239
- Documentation clarifications over available pipeline parameters: OSGeo/gdal#14389
- Doc: gdal vector check-geometry: OSGeo/gdal#13844
- Doc: Add MSSQL Driver examples: OSGeo/gdal#14405
Continuing GEOS curve support
- CLI argument consist'ification to use --input/--output instead of --src/--dest[ination]. Old incantations will still be allowed but hidden to encourage usage of input/output
- Polygonize, distance calc, and geometry splitting algorithms in OGR that leverage GEOS curve support
- 100+ items
- GDAL 3.12.4 release
- GDAL 3.13.0 b1 and b2 releases
- Various AI-discovered security related issues have been communicated in the last weeks, in particular in the old HDF/EOS library
- Even no longer reviewing vibe-coded stuff. Too easy to generate verbose code that is difficult to maintain relative to the rest of GDAL.
- Docker images now bumped to 26.06
- gdal driver geopackage validate
- document explaining differences between vsicurl/vsihttp/vsicurl_streaming
- libtiff security activities
- Planning to attend the June 18th arrow+parquet meetup in Paris
The next GDAL Maintainers Meeting is 05/28/2026 at 13:00 UTC. Project contributors should contact Howard Butler for an invite.
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