As of Friday, GDAL 3.11.0 “Eganville” has been released. Starting with GDAL 3.11, parts of the GDAL utilities are available from a new single gdal program which accepts commands and subcommands. This simplifies and unifies GDAL syntax. More detail can be found on the gdal manual page.
The migration guide includes several examples:
Getting information on a raster dataset in human-readable format:
gdalinfo my.tifbecomes
gdal raster info --format=text my.tifGetting information on a vector dataset in human-readable format:
ogrinfo -al -so my.gpkgbecomes
gdal vector info --format=text my.gpkgConverting a georeferenced netCDF file to cloud-optimized GeoTIFF:
gdal_translate -of COG in.nc out.tifbecomes
gdal raster convert --of=COG in.nc out.tifClipping a raster with a bounding box:
gdal_translate -projwin 2 50 3 49 in.tif out.tifbecomes
gdal raster clip --bbox=2,49,3,50 in.tif out.tif
For those interested: On June 3, the GDAL Project Steering Committee will host a webinar on the modernization of GDAL:
The 2024 GDAL User Survey showed the GDAL Command Line Interface (CLI) to be in need of modernization, and GDAL 3.11.0 is the first release to provide a substantial refactoring of the common interaction point of many with the nearly 27 year old software project. (…)
Existing GDAL CLIs will continue to be supported as-is, but we hope the new CLI will make it easier to explore, learn, and reason about GDAL while manipulating geospatial data. In celebration of the release, Even Rouault, Dan Baston, Mike Smith, and Howard Butler of the GDAL project will be hosting a webinar to provide a deep dive into the new CLI on June 3rd at 1400 UTC.