Release 7.0.0 changelog

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 (closed)) : 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

!158 (merged) and !159 (merged) include breaking changes and are already merged to develop. I suspect they aren't the only ones.

!158 (merged) and !159 (merged) include breaking changes and are already merged to develop. I suspect they aren't the only ones.

Ok, thank you !

Should we also use this issue to list features that are marked deprecated in 7.0: !189 (merged) depreciates SetFileName and SetExtendedFileName const char* overloads.

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mentioned in merge request !221 (merged)

mentioned in issue #1715 (closed)

mentioned in issue #1716 (closed)

mentioned in merge request !243 (merged)

!243 (merged) removed otbThreads.h and otb::Threads::Sleep.

changed title from OTB 7.0 : List of changes that will break backward compatibility to Release 7.0.0

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Note to all: I have renamed this issue to 'Release 7.0.0' to track all changes that need to be documented. Feel free to make suggestions (we can also track new features for example). The point is not to copy paste the git log, but to provide a useful overview of all changes being prepared for 7.0.0 that are important enough to be documented.

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