This is the planning issue for release 7.0.0.

Feature freeze date: TBD

Meta

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

Features

• New class otb::SpatialReference !224
• New RPC model based on GDAL #1762
• Zonal statistics !222 (merged)
• Add statistics to otbStreamingStatisticsMapFromLabelImageFilter !59 (merged)
• Add box kernel to morphological operations apps !158 (merged)
• StreamingStatisticsMapFromLabelImageFilter no data support !223 (merged)
• Display Pixel type of Image in ReadImageInfo application !179 (merged)
• Output time of otbcli applications in minutes, seconds instead of scientific notation !176 (merged)
• Allow to compute modulus and phase from 2 bands scalar image !154 (merged)
• Synchronized writers #1532
• In memory connection for OGRDataSource #1521
• pip install otbApplication #1615
• Display deprecation status of application #1791
• Nodata extended filename !77 (merged)

Deprecated

• LSMSSmallRegionsMerging application !233 (merged)

Breaking changes

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

Applications

• Remove Convert app !324 (merged)
• Rename parameters of morphological operations apps !158 (merged)
• Change input interpretation of DynamicConvert mask parameter !159 (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)

C++ API

• Change API of 2 methods in SEMClassifier (see !216 (merged))
• Removed otbThreads.h and otb::Threads::Sleep !243 (merged)
• Removed unused OSSIM base classes (!221 (merged)): DEMConvertAdapter, GeometricSarSensorModelAdapter, PlatformPositionAdapter.
• Change map projection backend !224
• Remove old classes #1763
• Identify filters available in ITK and remove from OTB #1764
• Move some modules out of OTB #1765
• Remove ParameterType_Empty #1770 (closed)
• Remove TileMapImageIO !244 (merged)
• Remove VectorDataRendering !236 (merged) !320 (merged)
• SetFileName const char* overloads #1697 (closed)
• More strict type checking for Application Parameters !412 (merged)

Build system and dependencies

• Drop special case for Python 2.x support (see #1715 (closed))
• Drop support for GDAL 1.x #1769 (closed)
• Remove Mapnik dependency !320 (merged)

SuperBuild and packaging

• Upgrade GDAL to 2.4.0 #1853