It’s been quite a long way, but finally GDAL 1.4.3 RC1 was issued today. Initially, the 1.4.3 was planned to be final patch release for 1.4.x but recently heard rumors tell me that we can expect 1.4.4 in near future.
Here is the RC1 announcement I posted on the gdal-dev list:
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:57:53 +0100 From: Mateusz Loskot mateusz@loskot.net To: gdal-dev@lists.maptools.org Subject: [Gdal-dev] GDAL /OGR 1.4.3 Release Candidate 1
Folks,
The GDAL Team is pleased to announce that today we’ve cleaned all issues assigned to the roadmap of milestone 1.4.3 and we are very close to issue next stable release numbered 1.4.3.
64 tickets were addressed:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/query?status=closed&milestone;=1.4.3
The NEWS is available at:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.4.3-News
Source packages with 1.4.3 “Release Candidate 1” are available at:
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal143rc1.zip http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.4.3rc1.tar.gz
We would be thankful for testing and reporting any issues.
Best regards
Mateusz Loskot
You should expect final stable release for 1.4.3 very soon.