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5. Whats new in Version 1.7.2 'Wroclaw'?
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5. Whats new in Version 1.8.0 'Lisboa'?
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6. Whats new in Version 1.7.2 'Wroclaw'?
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9. Whats new in Version 1.6.0 'Capiapo'?
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10. Whats new in Version 1.5.0?
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11. Whats new in Version 1.4.0 'Enceladus'?
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This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:
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- Colour preview modes in composer and map canvas
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- Multi-threaded rendering
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- New expression functions (bounding box related functions, wordwrap)
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- Copy, paste and drag and drop colours
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- Label features multiple times
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- Improvements to composer picture items
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- Predefined scales mode for atlas maps
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- Improved attribute tables in composer
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- General composer improvements - join and capping styles, button to zoom to main map
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- Improvements to HTML frames in composer
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- Shapeburst fill style
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- Rules in the rule based renderer can now be copied and pasted.
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- Improved attribute tables in composer
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- General composer improvements - join and capping styles, button to zoom to main map
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- Improvements to HTML frames in composer
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- Shapeburst fill style
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- Option to shift marker line placement
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- New Inverted Polygon renderer
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= Whats new in Version 2.2.0 'Valmiera'? =
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This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:

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