This is the planning issue for release 7.0.0.

Feature freeze date: TBD

Meta

• #1603 (closed) Semantic Versioning
• #1792 (closed) Remove OTB_USE_DEPRECATED mechanism

Features

• !587 (merged) New application: ImagesRegression (Regression framework refactoring)
• !565 (merged) New application: VectorRegression (Regression framework refactoring)
• !496 (merged) Renaming of PredictRegression in TrainImagesRegression (Regression framework refactoring)
• !492 (merged) Display deprecation status of application
• !488 (merged) New application: TrainVectorRegression (Regression framework refactoring)
• !353 (merged) New application: Local RX detection
• !299 (merged) New generic functor image filter
• !224 (merged) New class otb::SpatialReference
• !223 (merged) StreamingStatisticsMapFromLabelImageFilter no data support
• !222 (merged) New application: Zonal statistics
• !179 (merged) Display Pixel type of Image in ReadImageInfo application
• !176 (merged) Output time of otbcli applications in minutes, seconds instead of scientific notation
• !158 (merged) Add box kernel to morphological operations apps
• !154 (merged) Allow to compute modulus and phase from 2 bands scalar image
• !77 (merged) Nodata extended filename
• !59 (merged) Add statistics to otbStreamingStatisticsMapFromLabelImageFilter

Deprecated

• !496 (merged) TrainRegression application
• !233 (merged) LSMSSmallRegionsMerging application

Breaking changes

This will be a significant release that will break backwards compatibility in several places (see #1716 (closed)):

Applications

• !324 (merged) Remove Convert app
• !158 (merged) Rename parameters of morphological operations apps
• !159 (merged) Change input interpretation of DynamicConvert mask parameter
• !182 (merged) In VectorDataProjection application, remove "origin/spacing" from GenericRSTransform call : Vector Data shall not be expressed with origin & spacing from the reference image (see #1681 (closed))
• Simplify FineRegistration application by removing warping option (see #1652 (closed), #1852) : this creates a 2nd pipeline and could be replaced by using GridBaseImageResampling (with some adaptation)
• !471 (merged) Remove ComputePolylineFeatureFromImage, DSFuzzyModelEstimation, VectorDataDSValidation

C++ API

• !216 (merged) Change API of 2 methods in SEMClassifier
• !243 (merged) Removed otbThreads.h and otb::Threads::Sleep
• !221 (merged) Removed unused OSSIM base classes : DEMConvertAdapter, GeometricSarSensorModelAdapter, PlatformPositionAdapter.
• !224 (merged) Change map projection backend
• #1770 (closed) Remove ParameterType_Empty
• !244 (merged) Remove TileMapImageIO
• !236 (merged) !320 (merged) Remove VectorDataRendering
• #1697 (closed) SetFileName const char* overloads
• !412 (merged) More strict type checking for Application Parameters
• !442 (merged) Remove complex image parameters
• !471 (merged) Remove OrthoRectificationFilter
• !484 (merged) Remove SetDocName and GetDocName

Modules

• !471 (merged) Remove modules: DisplacementField, RCC8, UrbanArea, RoadExtraction, ObjectDetection, MorphologicalPyramid, SeamCarving.
• !471 (merged) Remove Dempster-Shafer based classification of vectors framework

Build system and dependencies

• #1715 (closed) Drop special case for Python 2.x support
• #1769 (closed) Drop support for GDAL 1.x
• #1896 (closed) Add support for GDAL 3.x
• !593 (merged) Add support for OpenCV 4.x
• !320 (merged) Remove Mapnik dependency
• Drop Java support

SuperBuild and packaging

• #1853 (closed) Upgrade GDAL to 2.4.0
• #1853 (closed) Upgrade OpenCV to 4.1.1

Documentation

• !580 (merged) Refactoring of the BandMathX documentation
• !425 (merged) New recipe for hyperspectral image processing
• Official remote modules are documented in the CookBook