QGIS News

Change history for the QGIS Project

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1. Whats new in Version 2.4.0 'Chugiak'?

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This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:

- Multi-threaded rendering

- New expression functions (bounding box related functions, wordwrap)

- Label features multiple times

- Improvements to composer picture items

- Predefined scales mode for atlas maps

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This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:

<LI>'Processing' can be used headless in scripts.

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.

This is a new major release. Building on the foundation of

you to explore the software and discover them all!

This is a new feature release. Building on the foundation of

<LI>GPS Tracking - The GPS live tracking user interface was overhauled and many fixes and improvements were added to it.

<LI>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.

<LI>Offset Curves - a new digitising tool for creating offset curves was added.

<LI>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

<LI>New scale selector with predefined scales

<LI>Option to add layers to selected or active group

<LI>Support for nesting projects within other projects

This is a bugfix release over version 1.7.1. The following changes

<LI>Fix broken Assign projection functionality in GDALTools and improve handling output file extension

This is a bugfix release over version 1.7.0. The following changes

<LI>Fixed a bug where map= was not being published in onlineresource url when project files are not in the same dir as cgi

This release is named after the town of Wroclaw in Poland. The Department of

changed so we will just provide a bullet list of key new features here.

<LI>New symbology now used by default!

<LI>Move/rotate/change label edit tools to interactively change data defined label properties.

<LI>Added GUI for gdaldem.

<LI>Added voronoi polygon tool to Vector menu.

<LI>Allow managing missing layers in a list.

<LI>General clean-ups and usability improvements.

<LI>Show active crs in status bar.

<LI>Default to last selection when prompting for CRS.

<LI>Added AND and OR operator for raster calculator

<LI>Added raster toolbar with histogram stretch functions.

<LI>New SQLAnywhere vector provider.

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<LI>Refactored attribute dialog calls to QgsFeatureAttribute.

new QgsGeometry.validateGeometry function

<LI>Ability to specify wms service capabilities in the properties

section of the project file (instead of wms_metadata.xml file).

<LI>Support for wms printing with GetPrint-Request.

<LI>Support for icons of plugins in the plugin manager dialog.

<LI>Removed quickprint plugin - use easyprint plugin rather from plugin repo.

<LI>Removed ogr converter plugin - use 'save as' context menu rather.

<LI>Undo/Redo support for the print composer

Please note that this is a release in our 'cutting edge' release series. As

just provide a bullet list of key new features here.

<LI>Added gpsd support to live gps tracking.

the datasource.

<LI>Added a new option to the raster legend menu that will stretch the current

<LI>In the table of contents, it is now possible to select and remove several layers at once.

<LI>Data defined label position in labeling-ng.

<LI>Line wrapping, data defined font and buffer settings for labeling-ng.

<LI>Three new classification modes added to graduated symbol renderer (version

the style manager more easily.

<LI>add capability to show and manipulate composer item width/ height in item

<LI>Sorting for composer attribute table (several columns and ascending / descending).

Please note that this is a release in our 'cutting edge' release series. As

just provide a bullet list of key new features here.

<LI>There is a new angle measuring tool that allows you to interactively

closed and reappears when reactivated.

<LI>WMS-C support, new spatial authorities, wms selection improvements

<LI>WMS-C scale slider gui added and more selection improvements

<LI>QgsDataProvider &amp;amp; QgsMapLayer: add dataChanged() signal, so that a

<LI>Support more GEOS operators

Please note that this is a release in our 'cutting edge' release series. As

Designer dialog UIs.

This release includes over 30 bug fixes and several useful new features:

<LI>new OSM style files.

<LI>other OSM related bugfixes.

<LI>Marker size is now configurable when editing a layer.

<LI>Zoom to a coordinate by entering it in the status bar coordinate display.

Please note that this is a release in our 'cutting edge' release series. As

the following new features:

Editing functionality in QGIS has had a major update in this release. This

markers.

New feature: configure shortcuts for actions within main window of qgis!

See menu Setting-&gt;Configure shortcuts

It is now possible to lock/unlock composer item positions by right mouse click.

layers are added to the main map. Export to PDF in composer is now possible.

It is now possible to search the attribute table within selected records only.

be respected in the attribute table.

<LI>The order of layers in the WMS dialog can now be changed.

<LI>An new OpenStreetMap provider and plugin have been added to QGIS.

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.

You can now select the SSL mode when adding a new DB connection. Turning off

types and for setting of column comments.

<LI>allow refresh of symbols via popup menu on the renderer's symbol selection

independent of the mapscale)

Added command line argument support on windows.

layers based on attribute data.

This release includes over 265 bug fixes and enhancements over the

<LI>Ported all GDAL/OGR and GEOS usage to use C APIs only.

This release includes over 60 bug fixes and enhancements over the

<LI>QML Style support for rasters and database layers

This release includes over 120 bug fixes and enchancements

<LI>Support for migration of old projects to work in newer QGIS versions.

<LI>This release candidate includes over 40 bug fixes and enchancements

improvements 'under the hood'.

This is a bug fix release

<LI>Python Plugin installer to install PyQGIS plugins from the repository

<LI>Python bindings - This is the major focus of this release

<LI>Improvements to the GeoReferencer

<LI>2006-01-23 [timlinux] 0.7.9.10 Dropped use of qpicture and resampling for point markers in favour of

grid_maker plugin

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save or save as (if not specified by the user).

<LI>2004-12-01 [gsherman] 0.5.0devel30 Added functions to qgsdataprovider.h to support updating the feature count

This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:

- Multi-threaded rendering

- New expression functions (bounding box related functions, wordwrap)

- Label features multiple times

- Improvements to composer picture items

- Predefined scales mode for atlas maps