[Qgis-developer] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.8

[G. Allegri]

Well done!
Thx a lot for the hard work of these days ;)

giovanni

2012/6/21 Salvatore Larosa <lrssvtml at gmail.com>

> Congrats!
>
> Il giorno gio, 21/06/2012 alle 11.14 +0200, Tim Sutton ha scritto:
> > We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.8.0 'Lisboa'.
> > This release contains new features and extends the programmatic
> > interface over QGIS 1.0.x and QGIS 1.7.x
> >
> > Binary and source code packages are available at:
> >
> > http://download.qgis.org
> >
> > If there is not yet a package for your platform on the above page,
> > please check back regularly as packagers are still pushing out their
> > work and they will update the download page to reflect the new
> > packages. Along with the release of QGIS 1.8.0, the QGIS Community
> > Team is hard at work on an updated QGIS Users' Guide version 1.8.0.
> > The guide will be available in the near future - we will post
> > announcements when it is available.
> >
> > A word of thanks to our contributors, donors and sponsors
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > QGIS is a largely volunteer driven project, and is the work of a
> > dedicated team of developers, documenters and supporters. We extend
> > our thanks and gratitude for the many, many hours people have
> > contributed to make this release happen. Many companies and
> > organisations contribute back improvements to QGIS when they use it as
> > their platform, and we are grateful for this and encourage others to
> > do the same! We would also like to thank our sponsors and donors for
> > helping to promote our work through their financial contributions. Our
> > current* sponsors are:
> >
> > Silver Sponsor
> >
> > - State of Vorarlberg (http://www.vorarlberg.at - Austria, November
> 2011)
> >
> > Bronze Sponsors
> > - Argusoft (http://www.argusoft.de - Germany, June 2012)
> > - GeoSynergy (http://www.geosynergy.com.au - Australia May, 2012)
> > - ibW Bildungszentrum Wald (http://www.bzwmaienfeld.ch - Switzerland,
> > March 2012)
> > - City of Uster (http://gis.uster.ch - Switzerland - November 2011)
> >
> > *QGIS Sponsorship is valid for one year.
> >
> > A current list of donors who have made contributions large and small
> > to the project can be seen here:
> >
> > http://qgis.org/en/sponsorship/donors.html
> >
> > If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please
> > visit http://www.qgis.org/en/sponsorship.html . QGIS is Free software
> > and you are under no obligation to do so.
> >
> >
> > Visual tour of the new release:
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
> > You can find a list of highlighted changes and new features listed on
> > the detailed release announcement available here:
> >
> > http://qgis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=149
> >
> > New features with this release:
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > - 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 to set 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
> >
> > Happy QGIS'ing!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > The QGIS Team!
> >
> >
>
> --
> Salvatore Larosa
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