Changelog:
1. What's new in Version 2.18 'Las Palmas'?
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This release has following new features:
- Symbology: Color picker is now embedded in layer style panel
- Labelling: Substitution list support for labeling
- Labelling: Improved line label placement algorithm
- Labelling: Label polygons using curved labels along perimeter
- Data Management: Add flag to only copy selected features
- Forms and Widgets: Allow controlling labels for individual edit widgets
- Forms and Widgets: Conditional visibility for tabs and group boxes
- Forms and Widgets: Client side default field values
- Map Composer: True North Arrows
- Processing: Point on surface algorithm added
- Processing: New algorithm for geometry boundary
- Processing: New algorithm for calculating feature bounding box
- Processing: Processing dissolve algorithm accepts multiple fields
- Processing: Optimised processing clip algorithm
- Processing: New algorithm for merging connected lines
- General: Automatic links in identify results
- General: Mouse wheel over color dialog sliders
- General: Add custom color schemes to color button drop down menu
- Data Providers: Preview for WMTS + added XYZ tile layers
- QGIS Server: Possibility to segmentize feature info geometry in server
- Plugins: DB Manager: Add the ability to update SQL Layer
- Programmability: New expression functions
- Programmability: Expose GEOS linear referencing function to QgsGeometry
http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog214/index.html)
General
Feature: Changed behaviour of strpos function
Feature: Zoom to feature with right-click in attribute table
Feature: Speed and memory improvements
Feature: More expression variables
Feature: Better control over placement of map elements
Feature: Paid bugfixing programme
Feature: Field calculator can be used to update feature's geometry
Feature: New expression functions in 2.14
Analysis tools
Feature: More statistics available in merge attributes tool
Feature: z/m values are shown when using the identify tool
Feature: Unified handling of distance and area units and coordinate formats
Browser
Feature: Browser Improvements
Data Providers
Feature: Cache WMS capabililies
Feature: Curved geometry support expanded
Feature: Better handling of time and datetime fields
Feature: Z/M support in delimited text provider
Feature: Transaction groups for postgres editing
Feature: Postgres provider PKI authentication
Feature: Virtual layers
Feature: More file extensions for GDAL and OGR providers file selectors
Feature: Use ST_RemoveRepeatedPoints for server-side simplification with PostGIS 2.2 (or newer) layers
Data management
Feature: Removal of SPIT plugin
Feature: DXF export: option to use title instead of name as DXF layer name in application and server
Feature: Geometry type can be overridden in the vector save as dialog
Feature: Vector joins are now saved within QLR layer-definition-files
Feature: External Resource widget
Feature: N:M relation editing
Digitising
Feature: Configurable rubber band color
Feature: Trace digitising tool
Labelling
Feature: "Cartographic" placement mode for point labels
Feature: Applying label distance from symbol bounds
Feature: Control over label rendering order
Feature: Actual rendered symbol is now considered as an obstacle for point feature labels
Layer Legend
Feature: Paste a style to multiple selected layers or to all layers in a legend group
Feature: Filter legend by expression
Map Composer
Feature: New options for filtering legend elements
Feature: Additional paths for composer templates
Feature: Multiple selection of compositions in manager
Plugins
Feature: Authentication system support for plugin manager
Processing
Feature: New algorithms in 2.14
QGIS geoalgorithms:
GDAL/OGR geoalgorithms:
Feature: Unit Tests Q/A
Feature: Improved toolbox
Feature: Batch processes can be saved and later recovered from the batch processing interface
Feature: More informative algorithm dialog
Feature: GRASS7 v.net modules
Programmability
Feature: Redesign expression function editor
Feature: Store python init code into the project
Feature: New filtering and sorting options for QgsFeatureRequest
Feature: Custom feature form Python code options
Feature: New PyQGIS classes in 2.14
New core classes
New GUI classes
Reusable widgets:
Reusable dialogs:
QGIS Server
Feature: STARTINDEX param in WFS GetFeature Request
Feature: showFeatureCount in GetLegendGraphic
Feature: Option to avoid rendering artefacts at edges of tiles
Feature: Configuration checker in project properties
Feature: WMS INSPIRE Capabilities
Feature: Add short name to layers, groups and project
Symbology
Feature: Size assistant for varying line width
Feature: Support for transparency in SVG color parameters
Feature: Easy duplication of symbol layers
Feature: 2.5D Renderer
Feature: Allow definition of rendering order for features
Feature: Geometry generator symbols
Examples
Translate a geometry
Fill style for polygon border
User Interface
Feature: Attribute table can be refreshed
Feature: Directly set renderer and class symbol colors from context menu in legend
Feature: Edit legend symbols directly from layer tree
Feature: Show/hide all legend items via the context menu
- even if python bindings are not selected, it is needed as a tool
for build
- during build, it wants to run an executable from the build dir,
which fails to find a not-yet-installed shared librarie.
Fixed by calling it with appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH set
- fix PLIST
no PKGREVISION bump as it didn't build before.
New Features in QGIS 2.12 ‘Lyon’
This is the next release in our 4-monthly release series. It
gives you access to the new features we have been working on and
represents the ‘cutting edge’ of QGIS development.
QGIS ‘Lyon’ is jam-packed with awesome new features. Special
highlights are support for rule based labelling, rule based
styling of attribute tables, and advanced geometry checker,
support for digitising curve based geometries, better
authentication management and much, much more! QGIS 2.12 also has
many bug fixes and memory leaks addressed. The features provided
in QGIS 2.12 will be included in the next LTR release (slated for
release in 2016), so using this release provides you with an
excellent opportunity to test new features that will make their
way into the next LTR.
* Fix5010 Line intersection non fatal error
* Fix2992 Use native Separators in Filename-edit-widget
* Fix4633 'Save as...DXF' does not add file extension
* Fix4412 Ftools: Input layers are not presented in alphabetical order
* Fix4326 Use project title as default filename in Save and Save as dialogs
* Fix4623 GPS plugin: 'Save as...' does not add file extension
* Fix4652 Remove "unsynced" EPSG CRS that are not listed in GDAL
* Fix4625 Enable wait cursor when WMS search is ongoing
* Fix3845 Add support for modulo operator (%) in rule based rendering
* Fix4193 GRASS Rasters are not drawn with user-defined style
* Fix4557 Fix crash when project is not yet saved
* Fix4315 'Stretch Histogram to full dataset' toolbar button does not work with
GRASS rasters
* Fix4632 More precise composer map rotation
* Fix4664 Fix label orientation with line dependent position
* Fix2435 Fix Query builder from layer properties when layer name in cyrrilic
* Fix4684 Skip attribute values with invalid variant type
* Fix4549 Update QgsGenericProjectionSelector bindings
* Fix4129 GDAL provider: add statusChanged signal and fix debugging output
* Fix4379 If set 'prompt for CRS', CRS is asked when creating new shapefile
layer
* Fix4694 Hourglass not shown when classifying
* Fix4478 Actions using %% do not work from identify results
* Fix4646 Editing of table of attributes goes Wild
* Fix3963 Crash when applying a graduated vector style
* Fix3185,4689 Gps Tools: Allow user to add new ports
* Fix4402 QGIS crashes displaying overview if diagrams are used
* Fix4371 Identify tool does not work with reprojected WMS layers
* Fix4305 Query builder: added ' ' around numeric fields (wrong)
* Fix4217 Allow up to 5 decimal places for width/size Scale Field
* Fix4452 Support for cyrillic symbols in raster metadata
* Fix4558 Enhancements in OGR Provider
* Fix3201 Show warning when user tried to create field 'shape' in shapefile
* Fix 3581 Ftools: union tool leave holes in output
* Fix 4500 Simplify tool freezes QGIS
* Fix 4466 Fixes for 'v.what.vect' and 'v.generalize' modules in the GRASS
plugin
* Fix 4552 Patch for v.what.vect
* Fix 4035 Print Composer shape combo box not refecting current shape
* Partial Fix 3097 Add preference to set/override environment variables
* Fix 2749 Move 'Add to Attributes List' button
* Fix 4560 Wrong scale displayed in Map canvas
* Partial Fix 4383 Ftools: Improve how processes are handled
* Fix 3577 Adding a print composer doesn't dirty the document
* Fix 3170 Many GDAL Tools don't work in OS X standalone
* Fix 3723 Transparency settings are not applied from *.qml
* Fix 3576 qml not read automagically for rasters
* Fix 2977 Messy uninstallation of the standalone installer
* Union and Symetrical difference works only on whole layer fixed
* Save some time in node tool for geometry export and avoid detachs
* Initialize default symbol to 0 in rule based renderer
* Make relative paths default
* Fix tab restoration in project properties
* Add helpful info to GdalTools Settings dialog on how to configure GDAL path
* New vector layer dialog - show CRS as authid-description pair instead of
proj4 string
* Fix crash with relative file paths if projPath is not yet defined
* Add helpful info to GdalTools Settings dialog on how to configure GDAL path
* And a lot of other smaller Bugfixes
This release includes many great new features to make your QGIS experience
even better than ever before. This release also contains many bug fixes that
should improve stability over previous releases. See below for a list of the
more noticable changes made in this release.
(GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official
project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux,
Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows and supports numerous vector, raster, and database
formats and functionalities.
Quantum GIS provides a continously growing number of capabilities provided by
core functions and plugins. You can visualize, manage, edit, analyse data, and
compose printable maps. Get a first impression with some screenshots and a more
detailed feature list.
