Merge topic 'FindGDAL-improvements' into release-3.20

55e493928b FindGDAL: add release note
f4b53fadda FindGDAL: support finding additional GDAL library names
1b2774450d FindGDAL: add support for skipping gdal-config
1621cb3eb1 FindGDAL: add documentation to cache variables
3caaff4c08 FindGDAL: conditionally set the output variables
3f6a4f2062 FindGDAL: mark cache variables as advanced
02e906305d FindGDAL: use execute_process instead of exec_program
140344da14 FindGDAL: fix some indentation

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !5799

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diff --git a/Help/release/3.20.rst b/Help/release/3.20.rst
index efe937b..77f9441 100644
--- a/Help/release/3.20.rst
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@@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ Modules
   toolkits when ``nvcc`` is a symbolic link,
   for example due to a ``ccache`` or ``colornvcc`` wrapper script.
 
+* The :module:`FindGDAL` module has been improved to document and mark as
+  advanced its cache variables. There is a new ``FindGDAL_SKIP_GDAL_CONFIG``
+  variable which may be used to skip over the ``gdal-config``-based search.
+  Users may also set ``GDAL_ADDITIONAL_LIBRARY_VERSIONS`` to add additional
+  versions to the library name search strategy.
+
 * The :module:`FindIntl` module now provides an imported target.
 
 * The :module:`FindOpenSSL` module learned to support a version range.