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QGIS News
Change history for the QGIS Project
Thursday October 06, 2016
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1. What's new in Version 2.16 'Nødebo'?
2. What's new in Version 2.14 'Essen'?
3. What's new in Version 2.12 'Lyon'?
4. What's new in Version 2.10 'Pisa'?
5. What's new in Version 2.8 'Wien'?
6. What's new in Version 2.6.0 'Brighton'?
7. What's new in Version 2.4.0 'Chugiak'?
8. Whats new in Version 2.2.0 'Valmiera'?
9. Whats new in Version 2.0.1 'Dufour'?
10. Whats new in Version 2.0.0 'Dufour'?
11. Whats new in Version 1.8.0 'Lisboa'?
12. Whats new in Version 1.7.2 'Wroclaw'?
13. Whats new in Version 1.7.1 'Wroclaw'?
14. Whats new in Version 1.7.0 'Wroclaw'?
15. Whats new in Version 1.6.0 'Capiapo'?
16. Whats new in Version 1.5.0?
17. Whats new in Version 1.4.0 'Enceladus'?
18. Whats new in Version 1.3.0 'Mimas'?
19. Version 1.2.0 'Daphnis'
20. Version 1.0.0 'Kore'
21. Version 0.11.0 'Metis'
22. Version 0.10.0 'Io'
23. Version 0.9.2rc1 'Ganymede'
24. Version 0.9.1 'Ganymede'
25. Version 0.9 'Ganymede'
26. Version 0.8 'Joesephine' .... development version
27. Version 0.6 'Simon'
28. 0.5
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Last Updated: Thursday October 06, 2016
Last Change : Wednesday July 27, 2016
1. What's new in Version 2.16 'Nødebo'?
========================================
This release has following new features:
- User Interface: Improvements to map zooming
- User Interface: Map canvas magnifier
- User Interface: Redesigned interactive gradient editor
- User Interface: Choice of default view for the attribute dialog
- User Interface: Improvements to calendar popups
- User Interface: Improved color pickers
- User Interface: Copy cell contents from attribute table
- User Interface: Improved HiDPI support
- User Interface: Improved map select tool behaviour
- Symbology: Arrow symbol layer
- Symbology: New "Filled marker" symbol layer type
- Symbology: New accessibility and low vision symbols
- Symbology: New simple marker symbols
- Symbology: "No symbol" renderer
- Symbology: More control over centroid fill point rendering
- Symbology: Outline setting for font markers symbol
- Symbology: Control outline join style for simple, ellipse, and font markers
- Symbology: New map tool for interactively setting point symbol offset
- Symbology: Style Dock
- Labelling: Labeling map tools now work with rule-based labeling
- Diagrams: Legend entries for diagram size
- Diagrams: Unit selection for outline width
- Diagrams: Diagrams behave like labels and can be managed from toolbar
- Rendering: New options for on the fly simplification
- Rendering: Quantile based classification for raster layers
- Rendering: Live hillshade renderer
- Digitising: "Repeating" locking mode for constraints
- Digitising: Extend linestring geometries with reshape tool
- Digitising: Segmentation tolerance
- Data management: New configuration options for attribute table
- Data management: Multiple columns in attribute forms
- Data management: Control over attributes to export when saving a vector layer
- Data management: Forms view: side column now sortable
- Data management: Relation reference widget: shortcut for adding new values
- Data management: DXF export improvements
- Data management: Top level widgets in drag and drop designer
- Data management: Form based select and filter
- Data management: Create GeoPackage layers
- Data management: Constraints on widgets
- Data management: Edit attributes of multiple features simultaneously
- Layer Legend: New option to zoom to a layer's visible scale range
- Map Composer: New tools for drawing polygons and polylines
- Map Composer: Embed atlas features into composer HTML source as GeoJSON
- Map Composer: Parameterized svg support for composer svg images
- Map Composer: Easier use of HTML in labels
- Map Composer: Relative links in composer labels
- Map Composer: Georeference outputs (eg PDF) from composer
- Map Composer: Composer maps now auto-update with presets
- Analysis tools: Named parameters in expressions
- Analysis tools: More distance units
- Analysis tools: Changes to expressions
- Analysis tools: Statistics for string and date fields
- Analysis tools: Show curve point radius in info tool
- Analysis tools: Aggregate support for expressions
- Analysis tools: fTools plugin has been replaced with Processing algorithms
- Processing: Set point locations by clicking on canvas
- Processing: Additional GRASS algorithms in processing
- Processing: Support for expressions and variables
- Processing: Preconfigured algorithms
- Processing: Create a plugin with script-based algorithms from the toolbox
- Processing: Use of authentication manager in PostGIS related algorithms
- Processing: Support for writing tables with no geometry
- General: Copying features in GeoJSON format
- General: Store spatial bookmarks in project files
- General: Support for GNSS GNRMC messages
- General: Paste GeoJSON features directly into QGIS
- General: Map tip improvements
- General: QGIS Paid Bugfixing Programme
- General: Desktop MIME icons for QGIS file types
- Data Providers: OGR datasets are opened in read-only mode by default
- Data Providers: Improved handling of Postgres DOMAIN type fields
- Data Providers: Make readOnly mode of vector layers configurable in project
- Data Providers: Support for DB2 databases
- Data Providers: Refresh Postgres materialized views in db manager
- Data Providers: OGR FID attribute shown
- Data Providers: Save styles in MS SQL and Oracle databases
- Data Providers: Rename fields in layers
- Data Providers: ArcGIS Map and Feature REST services
- Data Providers: Basic support for Oracle Workspace Manager
- Data Providers: Massive improvements to WFS Provider
- Data Providers: Generation of default values on Postgres layers "just in time"
- QGIS Server: Redlining support in GetMap and GetPrint
- QGIS Server: Default datum transformation for server
- Plugins: Refreshed globe plugin
- Plugins: Globe: Extrude objects
- Plugins: API: Add pages to vector layer properties
- Plugins: Globe: Vector support
- Plugins: Globe: Vertical exaggeration for DTM
- Programmability: Embedded widgets in layer tree
- Programmability: Plugins can add pages to vector layer properties
2. What's new in Version 2.14 'Essen'?
======================================
This release has following new features:
- Analysis tools : More statistics available in merge attributes tool
- Analysis tools : z/m values are shown when using the identify tool
- Browser : Browser Improvements
- Data Providers : Use ST_RemoveRepeatedPoints for simplification on PostGIS 2.2 or newer
- Data Providers : Cache WMS capabililies
- Data Providers : Better handling of time and datetime fields
- Data Providers : Z/M support in delimited text provider
- Data Providers : Curved geometry support expanded
- Data Providers : Transaction groups for postgres editing
- Data Providers : Postgres provider PKI authentication.
- Data Providers : Virtual layers
- Data Providers : More file extensions for GDAL and OGR providers file selectors
- Data management : dxf export: option to use title instead of name as dxf layer name in application and server
- Data management : Removal of SPIT plugin
- Data management : Geometry type can be overridden in the vector save as dialog
- Data management : Vector joins are now saved within QLR layer-definition-files
- Data management : N:M relation editing
- Data management : External Resource widget
- Digitising : Configurable rubber band color
- Digitising : Autotrace
- Digitising : Trace digitising tool
- General : Changed behaviour of strpos function
- General : Field calculator can be used to update feature's geometry
- General : Virtual layers
- General : Zoom to feature with right-click in attribute table
- General : Speed improvements
- General : More expression variables
- General : New expression functions in 2.14
- General : Better control over placement of map elements
- General : Paid bugfixing programme
- Labelling : Actual rendered symbol is now considered as an obstacle for point feature labels
- Labelling : "Cartographic" placement mode for point labels
- Labelling : Applying label distance from symbol bounds
- Labelling : Control over label rendering order
- Layer Legend : applying the same style to selected layers or to legend group
- Layer Legend : New options for filtering legend elements
- Layer Legend : Filter legend by expression
- Map Composer : Additional paths for composer templates
- Map Composer : Multiple selection of compositions in manager
- Plugins : Authentication system support for plugin manager
- Processing : New algorithms in 2.14
- Processing : Unit Tests Q/A
- Processing : Improved toolbox.
- Processing : More informative algorithm dialog.
- Processing : Batch processes can be saved and later recovered from the batch processing interface
- Processing : GRASS7 v.net modules
- Programmability : Redesign expression function editor
- Programmability : Store python init code into the project
- Programmability : New filtering and sorting options for QgsFeatureRequest
- Programmability : Custom feature form Python code options
- Programmability : New PyQGIS classes in 2.14
- QGIS Server : STARTINDEX param in WFS GetFeature Request
- QGIS Server : showFeatureCount in GetLegendGraphic
- QGIS Server : Enhance store project keyword list
- QGIS Server : Option to avoid rendering artifacts at edges of tiles
- QGIS Server : WMS INSPIRE Capabilities
- QGIS Server : Configuration checker in project properties
- QGIS Server : Add short name to layers, groups and project
- Symbology : Size assistant for varying line width
- Symbology : Support for transparency in SVG color parameters
- Symbology : Easy duplication of symbol layers
- Symbology : 2.5D Renderer
- Symbology : Geometry generator symbols
- Symbology : Allow definition of rendering order for features
- User Interface : Attribute table can be refreshed
- User Interface : Edit legend symbols directly from layer tree
- User Interface : Directly set renderer and class symbol colors from context menu in legend
- User Interface : Improved and more powerful file picker widget for forms
- User Interface : Show/hide all legend items via the the context menu
3. What's new in Version 2.12 'Lyon'?
=====================================
This release has following new features:
- Analysis tools : Added number of vertices to derived fields in identify tool
- Analysis tools : Raster alignment tool
- Analysis tools : Geometry Checker and Geometry Snapper plugins
- Application and Project Options : Encrypted password management
- Browser : Improvements to PostGIS connections in browser
- Data Providers : PostGIS provider improvements
- Data management : DBManager Improvements
- Data management : Conditional formatting for attribute table cells
- Data management : Support for relative paths in widgets
- Digitising : Digitising improvements
- General : New welcome screen
- General : Ongoing improvements to code quality
- General : Advanced settings editor
- General : Mutually exclusive layer tree groups
- General : Filtering for field values in expression widget
- General : User Interface Theme support
- General : New expression functions in 2.12
- General : Variables in expressions
- Labelling : Data defined quadrant when in "around point" mode
- Labelling : Draw only labels which fit inside polygons
- Labelling : Control priority of labeling obstacles
- Labelling : New options to control how polygon layers act as obstacles
- Labelling : Data defined control over label priority
- Labelling : Option for obstacle-only layers
- Labelling : Rule-based labeling
- Map Composer : Atlas navigation improvements
- Map Composer : Custom format for grid annotations
- Map Composer : Multiline text handling and automatic text wrapping in composer attribute tables
- Map Composer : Advanced customisation of cell background color
- Map Composer : Add fit page to contents option and options for cropping exports to contents
- Map Composer : Force vector layers to render as a raster images
- Map Composer : Data defined control over map layers and style presets
- Map Composer : Option to hide pages from view/export
- Plugins : Update of the GRASS plugin
- Programmability : Open scripts in external editor
- Programmability : Maptools moved from app->gui
- Programmability : Editing layers via `with edit(layer):`
- Programmability : New API for labeling engine (QgsLabelingEngineV2)
- Programmability : New classes for PyQGIS programs
- QGIS Server : QGIS Server Python API
- QGIS Server : getMap in dxf format
- Symbology : Export thumbnails from style manager
- Symbology : New option for limiting size in mm when using map unit sizes
- Symbology : Improvements to displacement renderer
- Symbology : All color ramps can now be edited
- Symbology : Improved handling of SVG marker outlines
- Symbology : Add pixels as option for all symbology size unit choices
4. What's new in Version 2.10 'Pisa'?
=====================================
This is a minor release increment with the following new features:
- New statistical summary dock widget.
- Use logarithmic functions in the raster calculator.
- New zonal statistics features.
- New browser properties widget.
- New browser icon.
- PostGIS: support for Pointcloud layers.
- PostGIS: provider side expression filters.
- GRASS plugin/provider improvements.
- DXF Export Improvements.
- Virtual fields are now updatable.
- Line edit with auto-completer for ValueRelation edit widget.
- Improvements to DB Manager.
- Filter chaining for relation reference widget.
- Diagram improvements.
- Improved geometry rotation tool.
- New geometry engine.
- Improved handling of potential project file overwrites.
- Join parameters can now be edited.
- Layers with joins can now be filtered.
- Tweaks to label properties dialog.
- Support for non-latin scripts for curved labels.
- "Follow point" alignment for multiline labels.
- Support overridden layer styles also in the composer legend.
- Add scalebar sizing mode to fit a desired scalebar width.
- Plugins can now create their own entries in the browser.
- More uniform and predictable names for processing outputs.
- Allow changing vector layer data source.
- Implicit sharing of classes.
- New QgsStatisticalSummary class for calculating statistics from a list of numbers.
- Qt minimum increased to 4.8.
- GetFeature without geometry.
- Support for tolerance parameter in WMS GetFeatureInfo requests.
- Data defined properties for font marker.
- Size scale and rotation have been removed from the advanced menu.
- Match categories to existing styles.
- New option for preventing the automatic clipping of features to the map extent.
- Size, rotation and stroke-width expressions at the symbollist level.
- Live layer effects for layers and symbol layers.
- Visualise and modify the graduated renderer using a histogram.
- Vary symbol sizes using the graduated renderer.
- User interface improvements.
5. What's new in Version 2.8 'Wien'?
====================================
This is a minor release increment with the following feature:
- QGIS 2.8 is the basis for a long term release (which will be maintained for a year).
- >1000 issues which were flagged by static analysis tools have been fixed.
- New code commits and pull requests are now automatically tested against our testing framework.
- More responsive QGIS Browser thanks to multithreading support.
- Support for contextual WMS legend graphics.
- Custom prefixes for joins.
- Creation of memory layers is now a core feature.
- New field calculator bar in attribute table.
- DXF export improvements.
- Advanced digitizing tools.
- Improved snapping options and behaviour.
- Better simplify tool - including support for on the fly reprojection being enabled.
- Qt5 support (optional - default packages are still currently built against Qt4).
- Spatial bookmark import/export.
- Composer user interface improvements.
- Grid overlay improvements for composer maps.
- Raster image fill type.
- Live heatmap renderer.
- You can now use multiple styles per layer.
- Rotation of map canvas is now supported.
- Improved user interface for data defined symbology.
- New algorithms in processing.
- Expressions are now extendable with custom python functions.
- Comments are now supported in expressions.
- QGIS server improvements: better caching, layer style support, value relations,
DescribeLayer, python plugins.
6. What's new in Version 2.6.0 'Brighton'?
==========================================
This is a minor release increment with the following new features:
- Improved DXF export
- Project filename in project properties
- Allow removing last point while measuring via del/backspace keys
- Select related feature on the canvas from the relation reference widget
- Editor widgets support null and other improvements
- Optionally use just a subset of fields from the joined layer
- Expression field (virtual fields)
- Can toggle display of classes within graduated and categorised renderers
- Additional expressions types and options
- Added icon support to actions
- Classes within graduated and categorised renderers can be toggled
- Legend improvements such as filtering, layer management icons etc.
- Control over hiding print composer items from prints/exports
- Control over page printing for empty composer frames
- New Composer Item tree panel
- More control over appearance of composer arrow/line items
- Data defined control of composer items
- Composer images can be specified as remote URLS
- Composer Table improvements (header fonts / colors, better pagination support, filter to atlas feature etc.)
- Composer improvements
- Improved item snapping
- Multiple overviews for a map item
- HTML item improvements
- Composer map grid improvements
- Processing now has an online collection of models and scripts
- Processing graphical modeller completely rewritten
- API changes for QGIS widgets
- Enhancements of searching with GetFeatureInfo request
- Add a precision setting for GetFeatureInfo geometry attributes
- Better random color choice
- Symbology UI Improvements
- Syntax highlighting code and expression editor
- User defined color palettes
- New color picker dialog
- Single select feature tool merged into select by rectangle
- Add layer to map canvas behavior
- Support icon sizes of 48 and 64 pixels
- New color buttons
- Context menu for identify tool
7. What's new in Version 2.4.0 'Chugiak'?
=========================================
This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:
- Multi-threaded rendering
- Color preview modes in composer and map canvas
- New expression functions (bounding box related functions, wordwrap)
- Copy, paste and drag and drop colors
- Label features multiple times
- Improvements to composer picture items
- Predefined scales mode for atlas maps
- Improved attribute tables in composer
- General composer improvements - join and capping styles, button to zoom to main map
- Improvements to HTML frames in composer
- Shapeburst fill style
- Option to shift marker line placement
- New Inverted Polygon renderer
8. Whats new in Version 2.2.0 'Valmiera'?
=========================================
This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:
- You can now define 1:n relations for layers.
- It is now possible to export your project to DXF format.
- When pasting a selection, it is now possible to create a new layer on the fly
from the pasted features.
- WMS Legend is now available via a getLegendGraphic request.
- It is now possible to digitise a new feature as an interior ring of an
existing feature.
- Recent expressions are saved in the expression builder for quick re-use.
- You can now set the color for the zebra map border style in composer.
- You can now rotate any element in the print composer.
- Composer window now has scale in the status bar and improved rulers.
- Composer output as image can be created with a world file now so that your
maps are georeferenced.
- Numerous enhancements to the atlas let you preview and print each map sheet.
- It is easier to select overlapped items in the map composer.
- Support for styling pages and shapes has been improved in the map composer.
- QGIS Server can now deliver Web Coverage Service (WCS) maps.
- Gradients can now be used for polygon fills.
- Classes in paletted rasters can now be labelled.
- Color ramps can now be inverted.
- Rules in the rule based renderer can now be copied and pasted.
- Support for on-the-fly feature generalisation has been added.
- For marker layers you can now define the anchor points / origin of the marker.
- For vector symbology you can now use expressions instead of only a field for
the classification.
- Size and attributes of diagram renderer can now be set using expressions.
- Polygon outlines can be drawn with an inner stroke (to prevent the stroke
being drawn in a neighbouring polygon)
- The visual style of all our properties dialogs has been improved.
- The keybindings for the user interface have been updated to make it easier to
navigate.
- QGS now supports multiple datum transformations.
- 'Processing' now has a script editor.
- 'Processing' can be used headless in scripts.
9. Whats new in Version 2.0.1 'Dufour'?
=======================================
This is a small bugfix release to address the missing copyright / credits for
our new splash screen and to update supporting documentation. The spanish
translation was also updated.
10. Whats new in Version 2.0.0 'Dufour'?
========================================
This is a new major release. Building on the foundation of
QGIS 1.x.x releases, QGIS Dufour introduces many new features,
improvements and bug fixes. Here is a summary of some of the
key new features.
- We have updated out icon theme to use the 'GIS' theme which introduces
an improved level of consistency and professionalism to the QGIS user
interface.
- The new symbol layer overview uses a clear, tree-structured layout
which allows for easy and fast access to all symbol layers.
- QGIS 2.0 now includes Oracle Spatial support.
- With the new data defined properties, it is possible to control symbol
type, size, color, rotation, and many other properties through feature
attributes.
- You can now place html elements onto your map.
- Having nicely aligned map items is critical to making nice printed
maps. Auto snapping lines have been added to allow for easy composer
object alignment by simply dragging an object close to another.
- Sometimes you need to align objects a curtain distance on the composer.
With the new manual snapping lines you are able to add manual snap lines
which allow for better align objects using a common alignment. Simply
drag from the top or side ruler to add new guide line.
- Ever needed to generate a map series? Of course you have. The composer
now includes built in map series generation using the atlas feature.
Coverage layers can be points, lines, polygons, and the current feature
attribute data is available in labels for on the fly value replacement.
- A single composer window can now contain more then one page.
- The composer label item in 1.8 was quite limited and only allowed a single
token $CURRENT_DATE to be used. In 2.0 full expression support has been
added too greater power and control of the final labels.
- The map frame now contains the ability to show the extents of another
map and will update when moved. Using this with the atlas generation
feature now core in the composer allows for some slick map generation.
Overview frame style uses the same styling as a normal map polygon
object so your creativity is never restricted.
- Layer blending makes it possible to combine layers in new and exciting
ways. While in older versions, all you could do was to make the layer
transparent, you can now choose between much more advanced options such as
"multiply", "darken only", and many more. Blending can be used in the
normal map view as well as in print composer.
- HTML support has been added map composer label item to give you even
more control over your final maps. HTML labels support full css styles
sheets, html, and even javascript if you are that way inclined.
- The labelling system has been totally overhauled - it now includes many
new features such as drop shadows, 'highway shields', many more data bound
options, and various performance enhancements. We are slowly doing away
with the 'old labels' system, although you will still find that
functionality available for this release, you should expect that it will
disappear in a follow up release.
- The full power of normal label and rule expressions can now be used for
label properties. Nearly every property can be defined with an expression
or field value giving you more control over the label result. Expressions
can refer to a field (e.g. set the font size to the value of the field
'font') or can include more complex logic. Examples of bindable
properties include: Font, Size, Style and Buffer size.
- With the expression engine being used more and more though out QGIS to
allow for things like expression based labels and symbol, many more
functions have been added to the expression builder and are all accessible
though the expression builder. All functions include comprehensive help
and usage guides for ease of use.
- If the expression engine doesn't have the function that you need. Not to
worry. New functions can be added via a plugin using a simple Python API.
- The Python API has been revamped to allow for a more cleaner, more
pythonic, programming experience. The QGIS 2.0 API uses SIP V2 which
removes the messy toString(), toInt() logic that was needed when working
with values. Types are now converted into native Python types making for a
much nicer API. Attributes access is now done on the feature itself using
a simple key lookup, no more index lookup and attribute maps.
Note: Most plugins written for QGIS < 1.x will need to be
ported to work correctly in QGIS 2.x. Please consult
http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Python_plugin_API_changes_from_18_to_20
for more details.
- The raster data provider system has been completely overhauled. One of
the best new features stemming from this work is the ability to 'Layer ->
Save As...' to save any raster layer as a new layer. In the process you
can clip, resample, and reproject the layer to a new Coordinate Reference
System. You can also save a raster layer as a rendered image so if you for
example have single band raster that you have applied a color palette to,
you can save the rendered layer out to a georeferenced RGB layer.
- There are many, many more new features in QGIS 2.0 - we invite
you to explore the software and discover them all!
11. Whats new in Version 1.8.0 'Lisboa'?
========================================
This is a new feature release. Building on the foundation of
QGIS 1.7.x releases, Lisboa introduces many new features,
improvements and bug fixes. Here is a summary of some of the
key new features.
- QGIS Browser - a stand alone app and a new panel in QGIS. The browser lets you easily navigate your file system and connection based (PostGIS, WFS etc.) datasets, preview them and drag and drop items into the canvas.
- DB Manager - the DB manager is now officially part of QGIS core. You can drag layers from the QGIS Browser into DB Manager and it will import your layer into your spatial database. Drag and drop tables between spatial databases and they will get imported. You can use the DB Manager to execute SQL queries against your spatial database and then view the spatial output for queries by adding the results to QGIS as a query layer.
- Action Tool - now there is a tool on the map tools toolbar that will allow you to click on a vector feature and execute an action.
- MSSQL Spatial Support - you can now connect to your Microsoft SQL Server spatial databases using QGIS.
- Customization - allows setting up simplified QGIS interface by hiding various components of main window and widgets in dialogs.
- New symbol layer types - Line Pattern Fill, Point Pattern fill
- Composers - have multiple lines on legend items using a specified character
- Expression based labelling
- Heatmap tool - a new core plugin has been added for generating raster heatmaps from point data. You may need to activate this plugin using the plugin manager.
- GPS Tracking - The GPS live tracking user interface was overhauled and many fixes and improvements were added to it.
- Menu Re-organisation - The menus were re-organised a little - we now have separate menus for Vector and Raster and many plugins were updated to place their menus in the new Vector and Raster top level menus.
- Offset Curves - a new digitising tool for creating offset curves was added.
- Terrain Analysis Plugin - a new core plugin was added for doing terrain analysis - and it can make really good looking colored relief maps.
- Ellipse renderer - symbollayer to render ellipse shapes (and also rectangles, triangles, crosses by specifying width and height). Moreover, the symbol layer allows setting all parameters (width, height, colors, rotation, outline with) from data fields, in mm or map units
- New scale selector with predefined scales
- Option to add layers to selected or active group
- Pan To Selected tool
- New tools in Vector menu - densify geoemtries, Build spatial index
- Export/add geometry column tool can export info using layer CRS, project CRS or ellipsoidal measurements
- Model/view based tree for rules in rule-based renderer
- Updated CRS selector dialog
- Improvements in Spatial Bookmarks
- Plugin metadata in metadata.txt
- New plugin repository
- Refactored postgres data provider: support for arbitrary key (including non-numeric and multi column), support for requesting a certain geometry type and/or srid in QgsDataSourceURI
added gdal_fillnodata to GDALTools plugin
- Support for PostGIS TopoGeometry datatype
- Python bindings for vector field symbollayer and general updates to the python bindings.
- New message log window
- Benchmark program
- Row cache for attribute table
- Legend independent drawing order
- UUID generation widget for attribute table
- Added support of editable views in SpatiaLite databases
- Expression based widget in field calculator
- Creation of event layers in analysis lib using linear referencing
- Group selected layers option added to the TOC context menu
- load/save layer style (new symbology) from/to SLD document
- WFS support in QGIS Server
- Option to skip WKT geometry when copying from attribute table
- upport for zipped and gzipped layers
- Test suite now passes all tests on major platforms and nightly tests
- Copy and paste styles between layers
- Set tile size for WMS layers
- Support for nesting projects within other projects
12. Whats new in Version 1.7.2 'Wroclaw'?
=========================================
This is a bugfix release over version 1.7.1. The following changes
were made.
- Fix Gdaltools error checking for ogr layers
- More Translations in OSM plugin
- Fix for ticket #4283 (composer forgets on/off status of layers)
- Fix to v.generalize for recent GRASS versions
- Fix typos in GRASS command list
- Restore override cursor when about box is shown
- Fix #4319 (Enhance maximum for point displacement tolerance)
- Added Python wrappers for QgsZonalStatistics
- Fix #4331 (Classification dialog issues)
- Fix #4282 (Wrong map zooming when using the "Attribute Table" zoom tool)
- Match proj4string in database
- Fix #4241 (Ensure that we have a valid line in line decoration)
- Fix label id for GetPrint in composer
- Fix #3041 (Make the gdaltools command editable)
- Fix shift in point displacement renderer
- Fix for a crash in projection selection
- Fix #4308 (Interpolation and Terrain core plugins)
- Insert date value in attribute editor
- Fix #4387 (Enable "add direction symbol" only for line layers)
- Fix #2491 (Handle raster layer's transparency band while rendering)
- Allow setting I/O encoding for OGR layers in vector layer properties.
- Fix #4414 (SVG indicators for arrows are not shown)
- Label direction symbol shouldn't depend on "map" vs. "line" orientation.
- Set prompt as default behaviour for unknown CRS
- For EPSG initialize GDAL CRS from authid instead of proj.4 string
- Fix #4439 (Crash when changing style in Layer Properties)
- Fix #4444 (Error when loading Python plugins)
- Fix #4440 (invalid reference to Trac)
- Fix stopRender call in graduated symbol renderer
- Fix #4479 - trigger "new color ramp" always when activated
- Hide query entry in legend context menu for layers with joins
- Fix #4496 (Refresh map list in composer table widget in showEvent)
- OS X build/install updates
- GRASS version support
- Intializing from WKT favourize EPSG instead of PROJ.4
- Add What's this to Help menu (implement #4179)
- fTools: update layers lists after adding new layer to TOC (fix #4318)
- Don't block QGIS main window when running Merge shapefiles tool. Partially addresses #4383
- Fix broken Assign projection functionality in GDALTools and improve handling output file extension
13. Whats new in Version 1.7.1 'Wroclaw'?
=========================================
This is a bugfix release over version 1.7.0. The following changes
were made.
- Raster performance improvements backported to 1.7.1 [see
http://linfiniti.com/2011/08/improvements-to-raster-performance-in-qgis-master/]
- Update version on cmakelists and splash to 1.7.1
- Move setting projection to after we have features
- symbology-ng: sort the category items when classifying them #4206
- Fix feature_count consideration in wms feature info
- Check topological editing yes/no when opening snapping dialog
- Updated required version for bison and cmake
- Small efficiency improvement for rendering
- make sure gdaltools input vector layers are ogr vectors
- Fix #4266 - georeferencer and spatial query crashing on exit
- translation update: nl by Richard for 1.7.x branch
- translation update: cz by Jan for 1.7.x release
- Don't check for plugin errors at startup
- Fix QTreeWidget.resizeColumnToContents() issue observed in PyQt4.8.3 @ Debian
- translation update: hu update for 1.7.x by Zoltan
- german translation update
- UPDATE TRANSLATIONS: for new bugfix Release in 1.7.x
- Show only provider fields as join target candidates (ticket #4136)
- Shortcuts dialog now remembers window state between uses
- Center small marker symbols in composer legend
- Backport of 6e889aa40e
- BUGFIX Backport of #4113 and #2805
- [BACKPORT] increase maximum points count in Random Points tool
- [BACKPORT] set default contrast enchacement algorithm to NoStretch because this is more appropriate value
- [BACKPORT]fix RandomPoints crash when there are NULL values in
- Patch from Michal Klatecki - see ticket #3325
- Fix #3866 for measure angle tool
- Backported ui fix for wms select
- Better block for signals when creating composer legend widget
- Fix for considering layer title length in composer legend
- apply #3793: libfcgi cannot change mapserv's environment variables on windows
- german translation update
- fix 55a1778 with patched qt on osgeo4w
- add support for mixed case geometry types of PostGIS 2.0
- Reduce top and side margins for attribute table dialog
- Remove the (hopefully) last SVN reference
- More svn version removal
- Added missing color accessor/mutator/member from composerlegenditem header
- Get rid of svn version stuff from release branch.
- Other workaround for Qt#5114 (fixes #3250, #3028, #2598)
- Try to make the histogram smoother
- More legend cleanup
- Better layout for composer legend
- Better consideration of large point symbols in composer legend
- Fix for composer legend issues, e.g. ticket #3346
- Merge branch 'release-1_7_0' of github.com:qgis/Quantum-GIS into release-1_7_0
- Fix labeling-ng with utf-8 layers (ticket #3854)
- Tweak for layer cache
- [backport] Fix bug where histogram can be assigned negative frequency for a pixel range. Also fix potential memory leak as new histogram vector was assigned to band stats without clearing the old.
- Added section on using QtCreator
- Fix bugs causing a crash when histogram is gathered due to uninitilised histogram vector
- Added missing QUrl include
- A neater fix for missing map parameter as suggested by Juergen
- Fixed a bug where map= was not being published in onlineresource url when project files are not in the same dir as cgi
14. Whats new in Version 1.7.0 'Wroclaw'?
=========================================
This release is named after the town of Wroclaw in Poland. The Department of
Climatology and Atmosphere Protection, University of Wroclaw kindly hosted our
developer meeting in November 2010. Please note that this is a release in
our 'cutting edge' release series. As such it contains new features and extends
the programmatic interface over QGIS 1.0.x and QGIS 1.6.0. As with any
software, there may be bugs and issues that we were not able to fix in time for
the release. We therefore recommend that you test this version before rolling
it out en-masse to your users.
This release includes over 277 bug fixes and many new features and
enhancements. Once again it is impossible to document everything here that has
changed so we will just provide a bullet list of key new features here.
14.1. Symbology labels and diagrams
===================================
- New symbology now used by default!
- Diagram system that uses the same smart placement system as labeling-ng
- Export and import of styles (symbology-ng).
- Labels for rules in rule-based renderers.
- Ability to set label distance in map units.
- Rotation for svg fills.
- Font marker can have an X,Y offset.
- Allow the line symbol layers to be used for outline of polygon (fill) symbols.
- Option to put marker on the central point of a line.
- Option to put marker only on first/last vertex of a line.
- Added "centroid fill" symbol layer which draws a marker on polygon's centroid.
- Allow the marker line symbol layer to draw markers on each vertex.
- Move/rotate/change label edit tools to interactively change data defined label properties.
14.2. New Tools
===============
- Added GUI for gdaldem.
- Added 'Lines to polygons' tool to vector menu.
- Added field calculator with functions like $x, $y and $perimeter.
- Added voronoi polygon tool to Vector menu.
14.3. User interface updates
============================
- Allow managing missing layers in a list.
- Zoom to group of layers.
- 'Tip of the day' on startup. You can en/disable tips in the options panel.
- Better organisation of menus, separate database menu added.
- Add ability to show number of features in legend classes. Accessible via right-click legend menu.
- General clean-ups and usability improvements.
14.4. CRS Handling
==================
- Show active crs in status bar.
- Assign layer CRS to project (in the legend context menu).
- Select default CRS for new projects.
- Allow setting CRS for multiple layers at once.
- Default to last selection when prompting for CRS.
14.5. Rasters
=============
- Added AND and OR operator for raster calculator
- On-the-fly reprojection of rasters added!
- Proper implementation of raster providers.
- Added raster toolbar with histogram stretch functions.
14.6. Providers and Data Handling
=================================
- New SQLAnywhere vector provider.
- Table join support.
- Feature form updates:
- Make NULL value string representation configurable.
- Fix feature updates in feature form from attribute table.
- Add support for NULL values in value maps (comboboxes).
- Use layer names instead of ids in drop down list when loading value maps from layers.
- Support feature form expression fields: line edits on the form which
name prefix "expr_" are evaluated. Their value is interpreted as field
calculator string and replaced with the calculated value.
- Support searching for NULL in attribute table.
- Attribute editing improvements:
- Improved interactive attribute editing in table (adding/deleting features, attribute update).
- Allow adding of geometryless features.
- Fixed attribute undo/redo.
- Improved attribute handling:
- Optionally re-use entered attribute values for next digitized feature.
- Allow merging/assigning attribute values to a set of features.-
- Allow OGR 'save as' without attributes (for eg. DGN/DXF).
14.7. Api and Developer Centric
===============================
- Refactored attribute dialog calls to QgsFeatureAttribute.
- Added QgsVectorLayer::featureAdded signal.
- Layer menu function added.
- Added option to load c++ plugins from user specified directories. Requires application restart to activate.
- Completely new geometry checking tool for fTools. Significantly faster,
more relevant error messages, and now supports zooming to errors. See the
new QgsGeometry.validateGeometry function
14.8. QGIS Mapserver
====================
- Ability to specify wms service capabilities in the properties
section of the project file (instead of wms_metadata.xml file).
- Support for wms printing with GetPrint-Request.
14.9. Plugins
=============
- Support for icons of plugins in the plugin manager dialog.
- Removed quickprint plugin - use easyprint plugin rather from plugin repo.
- Removed ogr converter plugin - use 'save as' context menu rather.
14.10. Printing
===============
- Undo/Redo support for the print composer
15. Whats new in Version 1.6.0 'Capiapo'?
=========================================
Please note that this is a release in our 'cutting edge' release series. As
such it contains new features and extends the programmatic interface over QGIS
1.0.x and QGIS 1.5.0. We recommend that you use this version over previous releases.
This release includes over 177 bug fixes and many new features and enhancements.
Once again it is impossible to document everything here that has changed so we will
just provide a bullet list of key new features here.
15.1. General Improvements
==========================
- Added gpsd support to live gps tracking.
- A new plugin has been included that allows for offline editing.
- Field calculator will now insert NULL feature value in case of calculation
error instead of stopping and reverting calculation for all features.
- Allow user specific PROJ.4 search paths and update srs.db to include grid reference.
- Added a native (C++) raster calculator implementation which can deal with large rasters efficiently.
- Improved interaction with extents widget in statusbar so that the text
contents of the widget can be copied and pasted.
- Many improvements and new operators to the vector attribute table field
calculator including field concatenation, row counter etc.
- Added --configpath option that overrides the default path (~/.qgis) for
user configuration and forces QSettings to use this directory, too. This
allows users to e.g. carry QGIS installation on a flash drive together with
all plugins and settings.
- Experimental WFS-T support. Additionally ported wfs to network manager.
- Georeferencer has had many tidy ups and improvements.
- Support for long int in attribute dialog and editor.
- The QGIS Mapserver project has been incorporated into the main SVN
repository and packages are being made available. QGIS Mapserver allows you
to serve your QGIS project files via the OGC WMS protocol.
Read More... (http://linfiniti.com/2010/08/qgis-mapserver-a-wms-srver-for-the-masses/)
- Select and measure toolbar flyouts and submenus.
- Support has been added for non-spatial tables (currently OGR, delimited
text and PostgreSQL providers). These tables can be used for field lookups
or just generally browsed and edited using the table view.
- Added search string support for feature ids ($id) and various other search related improvements.
- Added reload method to map layers and provider interface. Like this,
caching providers (currently WMS and WFS) can synchronize with changes in
the datasource.
15.2. Table of contents (TOC) improvements
==========================================
- Added a new option to the raster legend menu that will stretch the current
layer using the min and max pixel values of the current extent.
- When writing shape files using the table of contents context menu's 'Save
as' option, you can now specify OGR creation options.
- In the table of contents, it is now possible to select and remove several layers at once.
15.3. Labelling (New generation only)
=====================================
- Data defined label position in labeling-ng.
- Line wrapping, data defined font and buffer settings for labeling-ng.
15.4. Layer properties and symbology
====================================
- Three new classification modes added to graduated symbol renderer (version
2), including Natural Breaks (Jenks), Standard Deviations, and Pretty
Breaks (based on pretty from the R statistical environment).
[Read more...
http://linfiniti.com/2010/09/new-class-breaks-for-graduated-symbols-in-qgis/]
- Improved loading speed of the symbol properties dialog.
- Data-defined rotation and size for categorized and graduated renderer (symbology-ng).
- Use size scale also for line symbols to modify line width.
- Replaced raster histogram implementation with one based on Qwt. Added
option to save histogram as image file. Show actual pixel values on x axis
of raster histogram.
- Added ability to interactively select pixels from the canvas to populate
the transparency table in the raster layer properties dialog.
- Allow creation of color ramps in vector color ramp combo box.
- Added "style manager..." button to symbol selector so that users will find
the style manager more easily.
15.5. Map Composer
==================
- add capability to show and manipulate composer item width/ height in item
position dialog.
- Composer items can now be deleted with the backspace key.
- Sorting for composer attribute table (several columns and ascending / descending).
16. Whats new in Version 1.5.0?
===============================
Please note that this is a release in our 'cutting edge' release series. As
such it contains new features and extends the programmatic interface over QGIS
1.0.x and QGIS 1.4.0. If an unchanging user interface, programmatic API and
long term support is more important to you then cool new and untested features,
we recommend that you use a copy of QGIS from our Long Term Support (LTS)1.0.x
release series. In all other cases we recommend that you use this version.
This release includes over 350 bug fixes, over 40 new features.
Once again it is impossible to document everything here that has changed so we will
just provide a bullet list of key new features here.
16.1. Main GUI
==============
- There is a new angle measuring tool that allows you to interactively
measure angles against the map backdrop.
- Live GPS Tracking tool
- User configurable WMS search server
- Allow editing of invalid geometry in node tool
- Choice between mm and map units for new symbology. Scaling to use new
symbology in print composer as well
- SVG fill symbol layer for polygon textures
- Font marker symbol layer
- Added --noplugins command line options to avoid restoring the plugins.
Useful when a plugin misbehaves and causes QGIS to crash during
startup
- Allow hiding of deprecated CRSes
- Add point displacement renderer plugin - allows points to be shifted to
avoid colliding with other points
- Allow saving vector layers as ogr vector files
- Raster provider: reduce debugging noise
- Allow adding parts to multi points and lines
- Text and form annotation tools are now in gui and app
- Added possibility to place a set of default composer templates in
pkgDataPath/composer_templates
- Gradient color ramps now support multiple stops - for adding intermediate
colors
- Center map if user clicks into the map
- New plugin for carrying out spatial selections
- Data-defined size and rotation for single symbol renderer in symbology-ng
- IdentifyAsHtml to raster layer and use it in identify
- Export legend groups and layers with legendinterface and use this
information to display groups in the composer legend.
- Show selected feature count in status bar
- Query option added to layer menu to subset vector layers
- Option to label only selected features (on the 'old' labelling tool)
- Load/save queries created in the query builder.
- Manual adding of categories in symbology-ng.
- Georeferencer: possibility to configure if residuals should be showed in
pixels or map units