[Qgis-developer] Preparing the Changelog for 2.18

[Nyall Dawson]

On 6 October 2016 at 06:54, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> Le mercredi 05 octobre 2016 22:33:04, Tim Sutton a écrit :
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have started preparing the changelog for 2.18:
>>
>> http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/2.18.0/
>>
>> The usual caveat applies: Please do not publicize this link until the
>> changelog is completed and the release is ready.
>>
>> If anyone has worked on newsworthy features for 2.18 please add your
>> proposed entries there (I am still working back through the commit log
>> adding any obvious ones I can see there, I will finish that tomorrow
>> night). You should be able to sign in to the site and post new entries
>> using your GitHub user credentials. If that presents any problem for you,
>> please just email me directly with the text and ideally a screenshot, and
>> I will add it for you. Also if you can improve text and graphics for
>> existing entries, please feel free to submit your suggestions.
>>
>> I will be adding a few notes at the top of the changelog description of the
>> upcoming feature freeze breakage for 2.18.1 (to add DWG support) and
>> 2.18.2 GeoPackage provider improvements. @Even could you provide a little
>> detail about the planned GeoPackage improvements for 2.18.2?
>
> Tim,
>
> Hum, I'm not sure if this will go into 2.18. Was more intended to be for
> master and possibly backported in master_2 if feasible. But I guess if
> master_2 is doable, backport to 2.18.X could also be done (although there will
> be non trivial changes in DB manager to separate the spatialite code path and
> GPKG code path)
>
> Anyway, here are the topics:
>   *   Add, rename and remove columns, both in the "Fields tab" of QGIS, but
> also in the DB manager ( Note: this will require GDAL 2.2dev for rename and
> remove columns)

Is this one public yet? I'd love to have a look over.

Nyall

>   *   Add capability to save an existing layer in the project with "Save As"
> into an already existing geopackage (rather than overwriting it)
>   *   DB-Manager: rename existing tables in geopackage ( Note: this will
> require GDAL 2.2dev)
>   *   DB-Manager: delete tables from the geopackage.
>   *   DB-Manager: load non-geometry tables
>
> There will be other improvements, but probably master only.
>
> Even
>
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