6/20/2008

All,

I am pleased to announce the release of libLAS 1.0.0b1. Congratulations to all of the developers (especially Mateusz) who have helped make this software a reality. I think it has shaped up quite nicely, and it's time to kick it out the door. I propose that with the 1.0.0 beta 1 release, we attempt to widely advertise and hope to attract more testers. I would like to aim for a 1.0.0 final release by July 31st, with the number of beta releases being anywhere from one to three, depending on how much work is identified that needs to be done.

Here's a short list of stuff that's been done since 0.9.7:

• proper endianness support for big and little endian machines http://liblas.org/ticket/48
• las2ogr is now available when libLAS is linked to GDAL http://liblas.org/ticket/32
• geotiff key writing from proj.4 strings with the latest CVS libgeotiff http://liblas.org/ticket/39
• VLR summary info is printed when lasinfo is issued
• las2las respects the --verbose switch
• las2las was using an incorrect system id http://liblas.org/ticket/56
• las2las can be used to convert between 1.0 and 1.1 data by specifying --format http://liblas.org/ticket/53
• exit() calls in the utilities were normalized to behave similarly http://liblas.org/ticket/55
• The C API no longer uses void* for the opaque handles for more compile-time type safety http://liblas.org/ticket/59
• stack corruption bug in las2las http://liblas.org/ticket/57
• Use today's information upon initialization of a LASHeader http://liblas.org/ticket/60

Source release

http://liblas.org/raw-attachment/wiki/1.0.0b1/las-1.0.0b1.tar.bz2 http://liblas.org/raw-attachment/wiki/1.0.0b1/las-1.0.0b1.tar.bz2.md5

Windows Binary

http://liblas.org/raw-attachment/wiki/1.0.0b1/liblas1.0.0b1-win32.zip http://liblas.org/raw-attachment/wiki/1.0.0b1/liblas1.0.0b1-win32.zip.md5

Thanks,

Howard