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2025-08-24: libogdi4-4.1.0-3 (OGDI - Open Geographic Datastore Interface)an application programming interface (API) that uses a standardized access methods to work in conjunction with GIS software packages (the application) and various geospatial data products. commit log from Povl Abrahamsen ([email protected]): libogdi4: fix C99 errors2025-08-24: ccfits-2.7-1 (C++ wrapper for cfitsio library)
CCfits is an object oriented interface to the cfitsio library. It is designed to make the capabilities of cfitsio available to programmers working in C++. It is written in ANSI C++ and implemented using the C++ Standard Library with namespaces, exception handling, and member template functions. commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]): libcfitsio updates2025-08-24: fits-oct382-1.0.5-4 (FITS interface for Octave)
The Octave-FITS package provides functions for reading, and writing FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) files. The package supports uses the libcfitsio library. It includes the following additional functions: read_fits_image save_fits_image save_fits_image_multi_ext commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]): libcfitsio updates2025-08-24: libvips42-shlibs-8.3.0-6 (VASARI Image Processing System)
VIPS is an image processing system designed with efficiency in mind. It is good with large images (images larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working with colour. It can perform many image manipulation tasks much faster than other packages such as ImageMagick and the GIMP and includes some special features such as creating single "mosaic" images from multiple parts. commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]): libcfitsio updates2025-08-24: kstars4-mac-14.12.3-3 (KDE4 - Desktop planetarium)
KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]): libcfitsio updates2025-08-24: vim-nox-9.1.1684-1 (Improved version of the editor "vi")
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor: Unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection, graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars, text selection), and much much more. commit log from Hisashi T Fujinaka ([email protected]): Vim: Welcome to Vim-9.1.1684.2025-08-24: vim-9.1.1684-1 (Improved version of the editor "vi")
VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor: Unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection, graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars, text selection), and much much more. commit log from Hisashi T Fujinaka ([email protected]): Vim: Welcome to Vim-9.1.1684.2025-08-24: gdal2-2.4.4-7 (Raster/Vector Geospatial Format Translator)
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF, ESRI .BIL, .aux labelled raw, DTED, SDTS DEM, CEOS, JPEG, PNG, Geosoft GXF, Arc/Info Binary Grid, FITS, netCDF, GIF, and more. GDAL comes with the related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data. The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, S-57, SDTS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats. commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]): gdal,gdal2: libxml2 fix (based on PR #1270 for gdal3)2025-08-24: gdal-pgsql-1.11.5-7 (Raster/Vector Geospatial Format Translator)
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF (read/write), Erdas Imagine (read), ESRI .BIL (read/write), .aux labelled raw (read/write), DTED (read), SDTS DEM (read), CEOS (read), JPEG (read/write), PNG (read/write), Geosoft GXF (read), Arc/Info Binary Grid (read), FITS (read/write), netCDF (limited read/write), and GIF (read/write). GDAL comes with the related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data. The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, S-57, SDTS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats. commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]): gdal,gdal2: libxml2 fix (based on PR #1270 for gdal3)2025-08-24: gdal-1.11.5-7 (Raster/Vector Geospatial Format Translator)
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF (read/write), Erdas Imagine (read), ESRI .BIL (read/write), .aux labelled raw (read/write), DTED (read), SDTS DEM (read), CEOS (read), JPEG (read/write), PNG (read/write), Geosoft GXF (read), Arc/Info Binary Grid (read), FITS (read/write), netCDF (limited read/write), and GIF (read/write). GDAL comes with the related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data. The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, S-57, SDTS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats. commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]): gdal,gdal2: libxml2 fix (based on PR #1270 for gdal3)2025-08-24: gdal3-3.2.3-3 (Raster/Vector Geospatial Format Translator)
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. Current translators include GeoTIFF, ESRI .BIL, .aux labelled raw, DTED, SDTS DEM, CEOS, JPEG, PNG, Geosoft GXF, Arc/Info Binary Grid, FITS, netCDF, GIF, and more. GDAL comes with the related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data. The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ open source library (and commandline tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, S-57, SDTS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and Mapinfo mid/mif and TAB formats. commit log from Povl Abrahamsen ([email protected]): gdal3: fix for recent libxml2, bump dependencies2025-08-24: expect-5.45.4-1 (Tool for automatic interactive applications)
Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. commit log from Daniel Macks ([email protected]): expect: fix config.guess (resolves PR #1268)2025-08-20: lighttpd-1.4.81-1 (Lightning fast web server)
lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. lighttpd uses memory and CPU efficiently and has lower resource use than other popular web servers. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and much more) make lighttpd the perfect web server for all systems, small and large. commit log from Glenn Strauss ([email protected]): lighttpd: update to lighttpd 1.4.812025-08-20: libblosc1-shlibs-1.21.6-1 (Blocking, shuffling compression library)
Blosc is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() OS call. Blosc is the first compressor (that I'm aware of) that is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations. commit log from Povl Abrahamsen ([email protected]): libblosc1: v1.21.6