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QGIS News
Change history for the QGIS Project
Thursday February 20, 2014
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Whats new in Version 2.2.0 'Valmiera'?
2. Whats new in Version 2.0.1 'Dufour'?
3. Whats new in Version 2.0.0 'Dufour'?
4. Whats new in Version 1.8.0 'Lisboa'?
5. Whats new in Version 1.7.2 'Wroclaw'?
6. Whats new in Version 1.7.1 'Wroclaw'?
7. Whats new in Version 1.7.0 'Wroclaw'?
8. Whats new in Version 1.6.0 'Capiapo'?
9. Whats new in Version 1.5.0?
10. Whats new in Version 1.4.0 'Enceladus'?
11. Whats new in Version 1.3.0 'Mimas'?
12. Version 1.2.0 'Daphnis'
13. Version 1.0.0 'Kore'
14. Version 0.11.0 'Metis'
15. Version 0.10.0 'Io'
16. Version 0.9.2rc1 'Ganymede'
17. Version 0.9.1 'Ganymede'
18. Version 0.9 'Ganymede'
19. Version 0.8 'Joesephine' .... development version
20. Version 0.6 'Simon'
21. 0.5
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Last Updated: Thursday February 20, 2014
Last Change : Thursday February 20, 2014
1. 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.
- Colour 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 colour 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!
4. 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 coloured 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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.
7.1. 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.
7.2. 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.
7.3. 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.
7.4. 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.
7.5. 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.
7.6. 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).
7.7. 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
7.8. 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.
7.9. 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.
7.10. Printing
==============
- Undo/Redo support for the print composer
8. 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.
8.1. 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.
8.2. 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.
8.3. Labelling (New generation only)
====================================
- Data defined label position in labeling-ng.
- Line wrapping, data defined font and buffer settings for labeling-ng.
8.4. 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.
8.5. 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).
9. 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.
9.1. 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
- Delimited text provider: allow empty values in numeric columns
- Added rule-based renderer for symbology-ng
- Ability to create spatial lite databases from within QGIS
- Inclusion of GDAL Raster tools plugin into QGIS core
- New python console (with history)
- Add validation to capture tool
- Allow postgres layers without saved username & password by asking for credentials
- Support NULL values in search strings
- Optionally add new layers to the selected group
- Map composer can add attribute Tables in layouts. It is possibile to show
only visible features in composer table or all features
- Identify tool attribute form now non-modal in view mode (since r12796)
- Identified features' highlight disappear when window is deactivate or
closed and reappears when reactivated.
9.2. WMS and WMS-C Support
==========================
- WMS-C support, new spatial authorities, wms selection improvements
- Resolved EPSG dependency in spatial reference systems and included french
IGNF definitions in srs.db
- WWM provider makes requests asynchronously through QNetworkAccessManager now
- WMS selection allows inserting of all layers of a branch
- WMS has support for more mime types
- Added load/save to WMS dialog
- WMS-C scale slider gui added and more selection improvements
9.3. API Updates
================
- QgsDataProvider & QgsMapLayer: add dataChanged() signal, so that a
provider can signal that the datasource changed
- Use QNetworkAccessManager instead of QgsHttpTransaction (including caching
and dynamic authentication to website and proxies)
- Allow opening layer properties from plugins
- Support for custom plugin layers.
- Allow refreshing of plugins programmatically
- Support for custom plugin directories using QGIS_PLUGINPATH environment
variables. More paths can be passed, separated by semicolon.
- Legend interface added to retrieve layers in legend order
- Support more GEOS operators
10. Whats new in Version 1.4.0 'Enceladus'?
===========================================
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 1.3.0. 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 around 200 bug fixes, nearly 30 new features and has had
a lot of love and attention poured in to it to take our favourite desktop GIS
application another step on the road to GIS nirvana! So much has happened in
the 3 months since our last release that it is impossible to document
everything here. Instead we will just highlight a couple of important new
features for you.
Probably the biggest new feature is the addition of the new vector symbology
infrastructure. This is provided alongside the old implementation - you can
switch using a button in the vector layer properties dialog. It does't replace
the old symbology implementation completely yet because there are various isues
that need to be resolved and a large amount of testinhen it is considered
ready.
QGIS now has a field calculator, accessible via a button in the attribute
section of the vector properties, and from the attribute table user interface.
You can use feature length, feature area, string concatenation and type
conversions in the field calculator, as well as field values.
The map composer has had a lot of attention. A grid can now be added to
composer maps. Composer maps can now be rotated in the layout. The limitation
of a single map layout per project has been removed. A new composer manager
dialog has been added to manage the existing composer instances. The composer
widget property sheets have been completely overhauled to use less screen space
Various parts of the user interface have been overhauled with the goal of
improving consistency and to improve support for netbooks and other smaller
screen devices. Loading and saving of shortcuts. Position can now be displayed
as Degrees, Minutes, Seconds in the status bar. The add, move and delete vertex
buttons are now removed and the node tool is moved from the advanced editing
toolbar to the standard editing toolbar. The identification tool has also
undergone numerous improvements.
A render caching capability has been added to QGIS. This speeds up common
operations such as layer re-ordering, changing symbology, WMS / WFS client,
hiding / showing layers and opens the door for future enhancements such as
threaded rendering and pre-compositing layer cache manipulation. Note that it
is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the options dialog.
User defined SVG search paths are now added to the options dialog.
When creating a new shapefile, you can now specify its CRS. Also the avoid
intersections option for polygons is now also possible with background layers.
For power users, you can now create customizable attribute forms using Qt
Designer dialog UIs.
11. Whats new in Version 1.3.0 'Mimas'?
=======================================
This release includes over 30 bug fixes and several useful new features:
11.1. OSM plugin & provider updates
=======================================
- new OSM style files.
- new icons.
- dialog text updated and completed.
- "Saving OSM into file" functionality was improvements.
- fixed some problems with encoding... ascii to utf-8.
- all OSM layers are automatically removed after disabling OSM plugin in plugin manager.
- other OSM related bugfixes.
11.2. Other notable features and improvements in this release
=============================================================
- Marker size is now configurable when editing a layer.
- Incorporation of the analysis library into the mainstream release.
- Identify features across multiple layers.
- Added a new plugin for carrying out raster terrain analysis (computing slope
aspect, steepness etc).
- A reshape tool to apply to line/polygon geometries. The part of a geometry
between the first and last intersection of the reshape line will be replaced.
- Added snapping to current layer in measure dialog.
- Added ability to select the primary key for views.
- Zoom to a coordinate by entering it in the status bar coordinate display.
12. Version 1.2.0 'Daphnis'
===========================
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. If stability 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 stable 1.0.x release series.
This release includes over 140 bug fixes and enchancements
over the QGIS 1.1.0 release. In addition we have added
the following new features:
12.1. Editing
=============
Editing functionality in QGIS has had a major update in this release. This
includes the addition of new vector editing tools:
- delete part of multipart feature
- delete hole from polygon
- simplify feature
- Added a new "node" tool (in advanced digitizing toolbar).
- New functionality for merging features
- Added undo/redo functionality for vector layer editing.
- Added option to show only markers of selected features in editing mode.
- Change layer's icon in legend to reflext that the layer is editable.
In addition, there are undo/redo actions in Edit menu, in Advanced digitizing toolbar
and there is a new dock widget displaying undo stack of active layer.
About the node tool: It resembles a tool for editing paths by nodes that is
present in every vector editor. How does it work (in QGIS)? Click on a
feature, its nodes will be marked by small rectangles. Clicking and dragging a
node moves it. Double clicking a segment will add a new node. Pressing delete
key will remove active node. It's possible to select more active nodes at
once: by clicking and dragging a rectangle. It's possible to select a segment's
adjacent nodes by clicking on the segment. It's possible to add/remove active
nodes by using Ctrl when clicking a node or dragging a rectangle
We recommend that you turn off vertex markers in QGIS options when working with
this tool: the redraws are much faster and the map is not cluttered with
markers.
12.2. Keyboard shortcuts
========================
New feature: configure shortcuts for actions within main window of qgis!
See menu Setting->Configure shortcuts
12.3. Map Composer
==================
It is now possible to lock/unlock composer item positions by right mouse click.
The width and height of the composer map will now remain fixed if user sets the
composer map extent to the map canvas extent. possibility to display
current date in composer label by typing (d 'June' yyyy) or similar.
It is now possible to keep the current layers in a composer map even if further
layers are added to the main map. Export to PDF in composer is now possible.
12.4. Attribute tables
======================
It is now possible to search the attribute table within selected records only.
General speedups have been made on the attribute table. Setting of field width
and precision when adding attributes is now possible. Handling of attribute
types in WFS provider has bee improved.
Attribute aliases for vector layers are now available. The aliases are shown
instead of the original field names in the info tool and attribute table to
make things easier for end users. There is now a GUI for setting edit widgets
for layer attributes. A new dialog allows loading a value map from a layer
(could be non-spatial table too!). The edit widgets settings will also now
be respected in the attribute table.
12.5. Plugins
=============
- The order of layers in the WMS dialog can now be changed.
- The eVis plugin, version 1.1.0, has been added to the QGIS project and
included as a standard plugin. More information about eVis can be found here:
http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/open_source/evis/documentation.php .
- The interpolation plugin now has the ability to use line layers as constrains
for triangulation in interpolation plugin. You can also now save the
triangulation to shape file.
- An new OpenStreetMap provider and plugin have been added to QGIS.
12.6. Projects Management
=========================
QGIS now includes support for project relative position of file data sources
and svgs. The saving of relative paths of file data sources is optional.
12.7. PostGIS & the PostgreSQL Provider
=======================================
You can now select the SSL mode when adding a new DB connection. Turning off
SSL encryption can greatly improve performance of PostGIS data loading where
connection security is not required. Support has been added for more native
types and for setting of column comments.
12.8. Symbology enhancements
============================
- allow refresh of symbols via popup menu on the renderer's symbol selection
- add support for data defined symbols
- add support for font symbol markers (only data defined - no gui yet)
- add symbol size in map units (ie. symbols that keep the size in mapunits
independent of the mapscale)
12.9. Command line arguments
============================
Added command line argument support on windows.
Enhancement of command line arguments:
- allow given snapshot sizes
- allow suppression of splash screen
- capture map decorations from plugins on snapshots
== Grass ==
There is a new GRASS shell. Also there have been many cleanups and consistency
updates.
= Version 1.1.0 'Pan' =
Please note that this is a release in our 'unstable' release series. As
such it contains new features and extends the programmatic interface over
QGIS 1.0.x. If stability 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 stable 1.0.x release series.
This release includes many bug fixes and enchancements
over the QGIS 1.0.0 release. In addition we have added
the following new features:
- Updates to translations.
- Improvements and polishing of the Python plugin installer. Switch to the
new official QGIS repository.
- Improvements to themes so that plugins and other parts of the GUI are
better supported when switching themes. Addition of the new GIS icon
theme.
- Improvements to Debian packaging to better support Debian standard
requirements.
- Support usb: as a GPS device under Linux.
- WMS plugin now supports sorting and shows nested layers as a tree. WMS
provider also support 24bit png images now. The WMS plugin also now
provides a search interface for finding WMS servers.
- Added svg point symbols symbols from Matt Amos (with his permission).
- Improvements to proxy support and support of proxy in WFS provider. The
WFS provider now also shows progress information as it is fetching data.
- Improvements the PostGIS client support. Massive speedups in PostGIS layer
rendering can now be achieved by disabling SSL in the connection editor.
- Mapserver Export improvements for continuous color support.
- Added tools menu - the fTools plugins are now part of the core QGIS
plugins and will always be installed by default.
- Improvements to the print composer including object alignment options. It
is also now possible to print maps as postcript raster or vector. For
python programmers, the composer classes now have python bindings.
- When using File - Save as image, the saved image is now georeferenced.
- Projection selector now includes quick selection of recently used CRS's.
- Continuous color renderer supports point symbols now too.
- Improved CMake support for building against dependencies from OSGEO4W
(Windows only). Addition of an XCode project of developers building under
OSX.
- Updates and cleanups to the GRASS toolbox.
- Changes in open vector dialog to support all drivers available in ogr
including database and protocol drivers. This brings with it support for
SDE, Oracle Spatial, ESRI personal geodatabase and many more OGR
supported data stores. Note that in some cases accessing these may
require third party libraries to be on your system.
- The middle mouse button can now be used for panning.
- A new, faster attribute table implementation.
- Numerous cleanups to the user interface.
- A new provider was added for spatiallite - a geodatabase-in-a-file
implementation based on the SQLITE database.
- Vector overlay support that can draw pie and bar charts over vector
layers based on attribute data.
13. Version 1.0.0 'Kore'
========================
This release includes over 265 bug fixes and enhancements over the
QGIS 0.11.0 release. In addition we have made the following changes:
- HIG Compliance improvements for Windows / Mac OS X / KDE / Gnome
- Saving a vector layer or subset of that layer to disk with a different
Coordinate Reference System to the original.
- Advanced topological editing of vector data.
- Single click selection of vector features.
- Many improvements to raster rendering and support for building pyramids
external to the raster file.
- Overhaul of the map composer for much improved printing support.
- A new 'coordinate capture' plugin was added that lets you click on the map
and then cut & paste the coordinates to and from the clipboard
- A new plugin for converting between OGR supported formats was added.
- A new plugin for converting from DXF files to shapefiles was added.
- A new plugin was added for interpolating point features into ASCII grid layers.
- The python plugin manager was completely overhauled, the new version
having many improvements, including checking that the version of QGIS
running will support a plugin that is being installed.
- Plugin toolbar positions are now correctly saved when the application is closed.
- In the WMS client, WMS standards support has been improved.
- Tidy ups for GRASS integration and support for GRASS 6.4
- Complete API revision - we now have a stable API following well defined naming conventions.
- Ported all GDAL/OGR and GEOS usage to use C APIs only.
14. Version 0.11.0 'Metis'
==========================
This release includes over 60 bug fixes and enhancements over the
QGIS 0.10.0 release. In addition we have made the following changes:
- Revision of all dialogs for user interface consistency
- Improvements to unique value renderer vector dialog
- Symbol previews when defining vector classes
- Separation of python support into its own library
- List view and filter for GRASS toolbox to find tools more quickly
- List view and filter for Plugin Manager to find plugins more easily
- Updated Spatial Reference System definitions
- QML Style support for rasters and database layers
15. Version 0.10.0 'Io'
=======================
This release includes over 120 bug fixes and enchancements
over the QGIS 0.9.1 release. In addition we have added
the following new features:
- Improvements to digitising capabilities.
- Supporting default and defined styles (.qml) files for file based
vector layers. With styles you can save the symbolisation