diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 9fd3cc1c8..f44ec29ef 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -36,9 +36,16 @@
 
   - <https://github.com/georust/gdal/pull/324>
 
+- Added `GdalTypeDescriptor` to provide access to metadata and supporting routines around `GDALDataType` ordinals.
+- **Breaking**: `GDALDataType` is no longer `pub use` in `gdal::raster`, 
+  as `GdalType` and `GdalTypeDescriptor` sufficiently cover use cases in safe code. 
+  Still accessible via `gdal_sys::GDALDataType`.
+
+  - <https://github.com/georust/gdal/pull/318>
+
 ## 0.13
 
-- Add prebuild bindings for GDAL 3.5
+- Add prebuilt bindings for GDAL 3.5
 
   - <https://github.com/georust/gdal/pull/277>
 
diff --git a/src/raster/mod.rs b/src/raster/mod.rs
index 92d7b4290..4c9e76a93 100644
--- a/src/raster/mod.rs
+++ b/src/raster/mod.rs
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ pub use rasterband::{
     StatisticsMinMax,
 };
 pub use rasterize::{rasterize, BurnSource, MergeAlgorithm, OptimizeMode, RasterizeOptions};
-pub use types::{AdjustedValue, GDALDataType, GdalType, GdalTypeDescriptor};
+pub use types::{AdjustedValue, GdalType, GdalTypeDescriptor};
 pub use warp::reproject;
 
 /// Key/value pair for passing driver-specific creation options to
diff --git a/src/raster/rasterband.rs b/src/raster/rasterband.rs
index 7ba1e246f..57a51c226 100644
--- a/src/raster/rasterband.rs
+++ b/src/raster/rasterband.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 use crate::dataset::Dataset;
 use crate::gdal_major_object::MajorObject;
 use crate::metadata::Metadata;
-use crate::raster::{GDALDataType, GdalType};
+use crate::raster::GdalType;
 use crate::utils::{_last_cpl_err, _last_null_pointer_err, _string};
 use gdal_sys::{
     self, CPLErr, GDALColorEntry, GDALColorInterp, GDALColorTableH, GDALComputeRasterMinMax,
-    GDALCreateColorRamp, GDALCreateColorTable, GDALDestroyColorTable, GDALGetPaletteInterpretation,
-    GDALGetRasterStatistics, GDALMajorObjectH, GDALPaletteInterp, GDALRIOResampleAlg, GDALRWFlag,
-    GDALRasterBandH, GDALRasterIOExtraArg, GDALSetColorEntry, GDALSetRasterColorTable,
+    GDALCreateColorRamp, GDALCreateColorTable, GDALDataType, GDALDestroyColorTable,
+    GDALGetPaletteInterpretation, GDALGetRasterStatistics, GDALMajorObjectH, GDALPaletteInterp,
+    GDALRIOResampleAlg, GDALRWFlag, GDALRasterBandH, GDALRasterIOExtraArg, GDALSetColorEntry,
+    GDALSetRasterColorTable,
 };
 use libc::c_int;
 use std::ffi::CString;
diff --git a/src/raster/types.rs b/src/raster/types.rs
index ded597d05..b264715c3 100644
--- a/src/raster/types.rs
+++ b/src/raster/types.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 use crate::errors::{GdalError, Result};
 use crate::utils::{_last_null_pointer_err, _string};
-pub use gdal_sys::GDALDataType;
 use gdal_sys::{
-    GDALAdjustValueToDataType, GDALDataTypeIsConversionLossy, GDALDataTypeIsFloating,
+    GDALAdjustValueToDataType, GDALDataType, GDALDataTypeIsConversionLossy, GDALDataTypeIsFloating,
     GDALDataTypeIsInteger, GDALDataTypeIsSigned, GDALDataTypeUnion, GDALFindDataTypeForValue,
     GDALGetDataTypeByName, GDALGetDataTypeName, GDALGetDataTypeSizeBits, GDALGetDataTypeSizeBytes,
 };