Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that OTB version 7.0.0 is out !

Ready-to-use binary packages are available on the package page of the website:

• OTB-7.0.0-Win32.zip for Windows 32 bits
• OTB-7.0.0-Win64.zip for Windows 64 bits
• OTB-7.0.0-Linux64.run for Linux
• OTB-7.0.0-Darwin64.run for Mac OS X

You can also checkout the release branch with git:

git clone https://gitlab.orfeo-toolbox.org/orfeotoolbox/otb.git OTB -b release-7.0

This version brings a lot of changes, including:

• Documentation:
  • The Cookbook has been refactored !
  • The Software guide has been removed, most of its content has been migrated to the Cookbook.
• New applications:
  • ZonalStatistics : Object based statistics computation
  • TrainVectorRegression, TrainImagesRegression, VectorRegression and ImageRegression : Refactoring of the regression framework, based on the classification framework.
  • LocalRxDetection and EndmemberNumberEstimation: Hyperspectral image processing.
• Modern Continuous Integration architecture:
  • For the main repository: Gitlab-CI, Docker, SonarQube, … check this wiki page.
  • Remote modules use Travis-CI, more information here.
• Other changes includes:
  • The minimum CMake version required to compile OTB is now 3.10.2 .
  • The Mosaic Remote Module has been moved inside the OTB.
  • The Python wrapper support logging.
  • Python 2 is not supported by the wrapper anymore
  • The Java wrapper has been removed.
  • Support for GDAL 3.X has been added, support for GDAL 1.X has been removed.
  • Support for OpenCV 4 has been added.
  • New SAR sensor Model : CosmoSkymed
  • A generic functorImageFilter has been added.

You can have a look at the Release Notes for the complete list of features & bug fixes of this version.

Thanks to everyone who helped during the release process !

The OTB team.