PDAL/PDAL: 2.5.0

• TileDB 2.3 now required for TileDB read/write support (#3722)
• readers.fbx and readers.mrsid have been removed (#3841)
• Make PDAL Locale agnostic (#3873) Thanks @jjimenezshaw!
• Non-public symbols are now hidden on unix (#3931) Thanks @abellgithub!
• PipelineExecutor class is now deprecated (#3937)

• readers.ptx (Thanks @dbrookes96!) supports reading the PTX format(#3718)
• writers.fbi and readers.fbi supports TerraSolid binary format(#3822) (Thanks @alavenant!)
• filters.trajectory estimates trajectory for certain data configurations (#3743)
• filters.geomdistance computes the (2D) distance of points to a given geometry (#3891)
• readers.stac dereferences STAC Catalogs to read point cloud data (#3915)
• filters.expression uses the same syntax as where to filter data (#3930)

• boundary_json GeoJSON added to pdal info output (#3750)
• Sort COPC output by GPSTime if available (#3747)
• filters.zsmooth enabled by default (#3785)
• update googletest to 1.12.1 by in (#3917)
• Support GDAL 64bit integer types if they are defined (#3795)
• PROJJSON output now added to pdal info output (#3780)
• QuickInfo now supports adding Metadata (#3894)
• stage-n-push support for writers.copc (#3790)
• pdal translate will not overwrite data by default (#3794)
• 'bounds' option to limit filters.overlay usage (#3815)
• wmain usage of pdal comand for wide filename character support on Windows (#3824)
• binmode added to writers.gdal to count only points inside pixels (#3840)
• attr_dims and ogr_options options to writers.ogr (#3837) Thanks @rcoup!
• Add metadata to readers.las QuickInfo (#3897)
• writers.copc.threads option (#3910)
• Support spaces in dimension names (#3907)
• writers.copc.a_srs option (#3908)
• readers.copc outputs copc_info metadata on read (#3936)

• UTF-16 filename conversion and multibyte character filename support on windows (#3761) (#3764) (#3757)
• Invalid LogPtr usage in filters.normal in some scenarios (#3781)
• 'count' metadata added to readers.bpf (#3744)
• readers.ply QuickInfo support (#3705)
• Use source separator as output separator when file globbing (#3755)
• Support non-ASCII filenames on Windows for FileUtils::mapFile (#3757)
• Strip characters after NULL for VLR description/userID (#3773)
• Better integer support in readers.pts (#3754)
• Remove significant laz-perf memory leak (#3811)
• readers.las.nosrs not working correctly (#3818)
• Arbiter now loads drivers on demand (#3831)
• openscenegraph reader was not compiling (#3842)
• JSON fixes (#3845) (#3906)
• Fix duplicate dimension detection in readers.text (#3859)
• writers.ogr crs bug (#3863) Thanks @rcoup!
• writers.ogr don't set OGR FID (#3865) Thanks @rcoup!
• writers.las not preserving classFlags (#3879) Thanks @craigds!
• Screen width computation (#3893)
• Make writers.ogr use transactions if they are available (#3898) Thanks @wonder-sk
• Limit stream resets in readers.las (#3900)
• Make readers.copc.threads respect explicit thread count (#3913)
• Extra bytes support in writers.copc was borken (#3912)
• readers.copc was reading past its buffer (#3918)
• writers.draco was reading incorrect dimension size (#3919)
• Low precision WKT export from filters.hexbin (#3922)
• Close HTTP pools and connections in readers.ept and readers.copc (#3920)
• handle CURL_VERSION_ASYNCHDNS in Arbiter (#3926)
• filters.overlay filtering geometries not reprojecting as expected (#3940) Thanks @wonder-sk!

• @sunpoet made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3728
• @davidcaron made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3730
• @gmwwho made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3751
• @jef-n made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3806
• @rcoup made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3837
• @craigds made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3879
• @wonder-sk made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3877
• @jjimenezshaw made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3873
• @0-wiz-0 made their first contribution in https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/pull/3916

Full Changelog: https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/compare/2.4.0...2.5.0