We will give a status report on the GDAL software, focusing on recent developments and achievements in the 3.8 and 3.9 GDAL versions released during the last year. The discussed topics will be as various as the scope of GDAL is, covering: - new vector drivers: JSONFG for the in-development OGC Features and Geometries JSON specification, PMTiles (ProtoMap Tiles) v3 for tiled vector datasets - new raster drivers for IHO standards: S-102, S-104 and S-111 for bathymetric surface products, water level information for surface navigation and Surface Current products - a new command line utility: gdal_footprint - a new raster driver, GDAL Tile Index, to manage mosaics of many many files - enhancements in the Arrow interface and GeoParquet driver - performance improvements in the GeoPackage driver