Good news for users of GDAL/OGR:

The GDAL/OGR team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.9.0.
This is a major new release including the following major new features:

• New GDAL drivers: ACE2, CTG, E00GRID, ECRGTOC, GRASSASCIIGrid,
  GTA, NGSGEOID, SNODAS, WebP, ZMap
• New OGR drivers: ARCGEN, CouchDB, DWG, EDIGEO, ESRI FileGDB, Geomedia,
  Google Fusion Tables, IDRISI, MDB, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SVG, XLS
• Significantly improved drivers: NetCDF
• Encoding support for shapefile/dbf (#882)
• RFC 35: Delete, reorder and alter field definitions of OGR layers
• RFC 37: Add mechanism to provide user data to CPLErrorHandler (#4295)
• gdalsrsinfo: new supported utility to report SRS in various form
  (supercedes testepsg)

Some nice new formats in there. How does it all work? Paolo Corti takes a look and says, “Brilliant!”.