All,

I am pleased to announce the release of libLAS 0.9.6. Numerous bug fixes are in this release, including a serious one related to scan angle ranks and the C API (which includes the utilities and Python bindings). Here is a summary of the issues addressed in this release:

• Python bindings leaking memory for functions that return char* http://liblas.org/ticket/44
• Python bindings leaking LASPoint handles http://liblas.org/ticket/43
• 'import liblas' properly imports liblas.core to initialize the LAS ctypes bindings
• Licensing information copied to all source and include files http://liblas.org/ticket/8
• GUID operations were missing in the C and Python APIs http://liblas.org/ticket/37
• Scan angle rank values from C API were broken due to mismatched return types http://liblas.org/ticket/41
• Numerous documentation updates to the C API (not quite done yet though) http://liblas.org/doxygen/liblas_8h.html
• IsValid and Validate methods for LASPoint (C++ and C APIs -- does not exist in Python API, but will be done by 1.0)
• Point validation for write operations
• Fixed a ton of silly leaks in the utilities
• las2las was saying it clipped points, but wasn't actually doing so on the second pass through the file when clipping by classification.

http://liblas.org/wiki/0.9.6

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