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Changelog

Compiled from merged PRs and release-adjacent issues; GitHub releases remain the authoritative artifact list. Dates are month-level.

v3.0.0 beta (current)

npm tag beta; in active development.

Ground-up rewrite on cpp.js: headers-as-modules API, bundler plugins (Vite, Webpack, Rollup, Rspack, Metro).
React Native support: native GDAL over JSI on iOS & Android (New Architecture).
GDAL 3.13.1; driver registry CI-asserted per build.
New program-level tools: buildVRT, demProcessing, grid, nearblack, footprint, multiDimTranslate / multiDimInfo, GCP georeferencing.
Filesystem API: OPFS backing, /vsimem/, /vsizip/, readDir/unlink/rename/copyFile/getFileList.
GeoTIFF codecs JPEG / ZSTD / LERC / LERC_ZSTD in the wasm and native builds.
Experimental edge-runtime build artifacts (st).

WHEN	CHANGE
May 2026	`clearFS()`: reset the virtual filesystem between conversions (PR #109, community)
Apr 2026	ZSTD + LERC + LERC_ZSTD GeoTIFF compression (PR #108, community)
Apr 2026	JPEG codec in libtiff/GDAL: JPEG-compressed GeoTIFFs open (PRs #105/#107, community)
Apr 2026	Worker memory-leak fix for long pipelines (PR #104, community)
Dec 2024	2.8.1: absolute path support (Electron) (PR #89, community)
Feb 2024	2.8.0: Emscripten `Module`/`FS` exported for manual file IO (issue #67)
Jan to Feb 2024	GDAL → 3.8.3/3.8.4 (issue #64); PDS planetary driver enabled, GPSBabel disabled (PR #66, by GDAL's lead maintainer)

WHEN	CHANGE
Nov 2023	2.7.0: VFS open prefixes (`/vsizip/`-style) on `Gdal.open` (PR #62, community)
Dec 2023	2.6.0: `gdalinfo`/`ogrinfo` applications; log & error handlers (issues #61, #63)
Nov 2022	`gdallocationinfo` (PR #49, community); output file lists & `outputName` (issues #44, #45)
Oct 2022	Dataset open options (`-oo`) (PR #42, community); GDAL config options (issue #40)
Jul 2022	License change GPL → LGPL by community request (issue #36)
Jun to Jul 2022	2.3.0: PROJ 6.3.2 → 9.x (issue #35); CPL config binding (PR #28, community)
Mar 2022	2.1.0: Rollup-based build fixing Vite/Vue 3 imports (issue #30); Node FS fix (2.0.2, issue #29)
2020 to 2021	Initial port: GDAL applications (`gdal_translate`, `ogr2ogr`, `gdalwarp`, `gdal_rasterize`, `gdaltransform`) compiled to WebAssembly