<spanclass="warning">Please read this entire document for important information about this release.</span><br>
<spanclass="warning">You find a <ahref="http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html">PDF manual of the current version</a> on the QGIS website.</span>
<li>There is a new angle measuring tool that allows you to interactively measure angles against the map backdrop.</li>
<li>Live GPS Tracking tool</li>
<li>User configurable WMS search server</li>
<li>Allow editing of invalid geometry in node tool</li>
<li>Choice between mm and map units for new symbology. Scaling to use new symbology in print composer as well</li>
<li>SVG fill symbol layer for polygon textures</li>
<li>Font marker symbol layer</li>
<li>Added --noplugins command line options to avoid restoring the plugins. Useful when a plugin misbehaves and causes QGIS to crash during startup</li>
<li>Allow hiding of deprecated CRSes</li>
<li>Add point displacement renderer plugin - allows points to be shifted to avoid colliding with other points</li>
<li>Allow saving vector layers as ogr vector files</li>
<li>Raster provider: reduce debugging noise</li>
<li>Allow adding parts to multi points and lines</li>
<li>Text and form annotation tools are now in gui and app</li>
<li>Added possibility to place a set of default composer templates in pkgDataPath/composer_templates</li>
<li>Gradient color ramps now support multiple stops - for adding intermediate colors</li>
<li>Center map if user clicks into the map</li>
<li>New plugin for carrying out spatial selections</li>
<li>Data-defined size and rotation for single symbol renderer in symbology-ng</li>
<li>IdentifyAsHtml to raster layer and use it in identify</li>
<li>Export legend groups and layers with legendinterface and use this information to display groups in the composer legend.</li>
<li>Show selected feature count in status bar </li>
<li>Query option added to layer menu to subset vector layers</li>
<li>Option to label only selected features (on the 'old' labelling tool)</li>
<li>Load/save queries created in the query builder.</li>
<li>Manual adding of categories in symbology-ng.</li>
<li>Georeferencer: possibility to configure if residuals should be showed in pixels or map units</li>
<li>Delimited text provider: allow empty values in numeric columns</li>
<li>Added rule-based renderer for symbology-ng</li>
<li>Ability to create spatial lite databases from within QGIS</li>
<li>Inclusion of GDAL Raster tools plugin into QGIS core</li>
<li>New python console (with history)</li>
<li>Add validation to capture tool</li>
<li>Allow postgres layers without saved username & password by asking for credentials</li>
<li>Support NULL values in search strings</li>
<li>Optionally add new layers to the selected group</li>
<li>Map composer can add attribute Tables in layouts. It is possibile to show only visible features in composer table or all features</li>
<li>Identify tool attribute form now non-modal in view mode (since r12796)</li>
<li>Identified features' highlight disappear when window is deactivate or closed and reappears when reactivated.</li>
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<h3>WMS and WMS-C Support</h3>
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<li>WMS-C support, new spatial authorities, wms selection improvements</li>
<li>Resolved EPSG dependency in spatial reference systems and included french IGNF definitions in srs.db</li>
<li>WWM provider makes requests asynchronously through QNetworkAccessManager now</li>
<li>WMS selection allows inserting of all layers of a branch</li>
<li>WMS has support for more mime types</li>
<li>Added load/save to WMS dialog</li>
<li>WMS-C scale slider gui added and more selection improvements</li>
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<h3>API Updates</h3>
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<li>QgsDataProvider & QgsMapLayer: add dataChanged() signal, so that a provider can signal that the datasource changed</li>
<li>Use QNetworkAccessManager instead of QgsHttpTransaction (including caching and dynamic authentification to website and proxies)</li>
<li>Allow opening layer properties from plugins</li>
<li>Support for custom plugin layers.</li>
<li>Allow refreshing of plugins programmatically</li>
<li>Support for custom plugin directories using QGIS_PLUGINPATH environment variables. More paths can be passed, separated by semicolon.</li>
<li>Legend interface added to retrieve layers in legend order</li>
Improvements and polishing of the Python plugin installer. Switch to the new official QGIS repository.
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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.
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Improvements to Debian packaging to better support Debian standard requirements.
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Support usb: as a GPS device under Linux.
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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.
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Added svg point symbols symbols from Matt Amos (with his permission).
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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 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.
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When using File - Save as image, the saved image is now georeferenced.
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Projection selector now includes quick selection of recently used CRS's.
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Continuous color renderer supports point symbols now too.
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Improved CMake support for building against dependencies from OSGEO4W (Windows only). Addition of an XCode project of developers building under OSX.
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Updates and cleanups to the GRASS toolbox.
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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.
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The middle mouse button can now be used for panning.
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A new, faster attribute table implementation.
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Numerous cleanups to the user interface.
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A new provider was added for spatiallite - a geodatabase-in-a-file implementation based on the SQLITE database.
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Vector overlay support that can draw pie and bar charts over vector layers based on attribute data.
The python plugin installer 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.
<li>The <ahref="http://expat.sourceforge.net/">Expat XML Parser</a> is required for the GPS plugin. This vastly improves the speed and memory management when loading GPX files.
<li>The raster georeferencer plugin requires the <ahref="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/">GNU Scientfic Library</a> (GSL).
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GSL and Expat are optional and required only if you want to use the georeferencer or GPS plugins respectively. SQLite is always required.
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<dl><dt><spanclass="subheader">Known Issues in this Release
<li>Due to a limitation in the Quicktime graphics engine, there is a limit on the number points allowed per feature. See the Readme that comes with the OS X dmg
<li>Review the list of current issues to make sure your bug has not already been submitted. If it has, review the submission and see if there is anything you can add to the bug report to aid the developers
<li>If your bug has not been reported, create a new ticket, making sure to either login to trac or provide your email address. Tickets lacking contact information are subject to deletion.
<dd>The QGIS manual is the definitive guide to using QGIS including installation and coding instructions (be sure to read this!). A current version of the QGIS manual and translations are provided at <ahref="http://qgis.osgeo.org/en/documentation/manuals.html">http://qgis.osgeo.org/en/documentation/manuals.html</a>. Older versions are available at <ahref="http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/">http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/manual/</a>."
