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+Viking 1.3 (2012-04-22)
+New features since 1.2.2
+* Be consistent in that track and waypoint list dialogs are always sorted alphabetically.
+* Add OSM Transport map as a built in map option.
+* Add supported MIME types to the desktop file specification.
+* Add example script that can be used to upload a track as a route to a predefined GPS device.
+* Display the average moving speed for a track in the track properties.
+* Add ability to open a TrackWaypoint layer with another external program (default merkaartor).
+* Add ability to open a TrackWaypoint layer with an external program (default JOSM).
+* Use map default: OSM MapQuest tileserver.
+* Add and use a preference for the associated image viewer program.
+* Add and use KML File Export units option.
+* Add ability to geotag images interpolating times against tracks.
+* Acquire Geotag Images via TRW Layer
+* Ensure vtl created in acquire operation runs post read stage.
+* EXIF read implementation for geotagged images (libexif).
+* Add new process stage for acquire methods.
+* Enable reversing a track from the track menu.
+* Display compact message on the statusbar for the selected trackpoint or waypoint. (SF#3314888)
+* Enable multiple selection and deletion.
+* Scale waypoint icons to give large or small icons as necessary.
+* Add Yahoo! Maps webtool link.
+* Extend webtools with a bounds version for the URL which takes four string parameters.
+* Add webtool for Bing maps.
+* Add Acquire OSM option into the Track/Waypoint layer operations.
+* Add used geo-* scripts as they are public domain.
+* Continue geocaching.com support via third party tools.
+* Show elevation gain/loss on track creation 'tooltip' (as per SF#2838561 request), when such data is available.
+* Automatically attempt to set elevation data from the DEM layer whilst a track is being created.
+* When creating a track, display the total distance of track (via a tooltip like text) on the main display.
+* Allow to import any file known by gpsbabel
+* Add support for any device known by gpsbabel
+* Add experimental support for GPSD_API_MAJOR_VERSION 5.
+* Add ability to acquire GPS traces stored on OSM
+* Enable copying layer/sublayer names as plain text, so that it can be pasted into external text handling applications.
+* Enable getting of the statusbar from the window.
+* On creating a new waypoint always attempt to auto set the altitude if DEM data is available.
+* Enable the escape key to remove/reset the ruler tool.
+
+Fixes since 1.2.2
+* Remove Tiles@home support as the service has stopped.
+* cleanup: Remove unused and out of date 'viking-remote' script and related files.
+* cleanup: Remove *very* old documentation and don't bother distributing any of it which is all old.
+* Fix Track Properties graph blob marker drawn at wrong elevation when elevation graphs have different min/max heights.
+* Fix Track Properties graph DEM points drawn at wrong elevation when lowest elevation is not zero.
+* Use an intermediary program which will invoke the system's default for opening images.
+* Fix opening of external web sites via center method when the zoom level is less than 1 mpp.
+* Fix crashing on opening a file via recent menu after a .vik file is opened.
+* Fix too easy to accidently move a waypoint with an image with the select tool - must use shift key.
+* Fix can not immediately select another layer if currently selected layer's visibility changes.
+* Fix compilation with curl 7.21.7 (SF#3376584)
+* Improve libgps test with the consistently available function: gps_close
+* Fix <GTK 2.24 combo box usage.
+* Fix crashing on opening multiple files after a .vik file is opened.
+* Solution for SF#2766266 - Give user feedback about OSM uploads (success/failure).
+* Fix: send VLP's update signal when adding a layer
+* Fix: Don't abort program when attempting webtool center with different x & y factors.
+* Fix Join Tracks functionality.
+* Fix SF#3408170: Selected Track Thickness is Always 1px
+* Fix tracks not shown over map when map layer is dragged to the end of the treeview list.
+* Refuse to load unsupported file types.
+* Restore broken GPS power off command.
+* Fix: SF#3042692 - Tiles May Get Deleted During Offline Usage.
+* Fix some tracks elevation profile may display no altitude, despite all altitudes available in the track.
+* Fix SF#3387590: Top Layer cannot be renamed
+* Enable merging tracks without timestamps to other tracks that do not have timestamps. (SF#2886231)
+* Prevent track merge by time requests when there are no other suitable tracks.
+* Improve track name when split from Track Properties window.
+* Replace 'Magic Scissors' by a more accurate name - 'Route Finder'.
+
+Viking 1.2.2 (2011-11-03)
+Fixes since 1.2.1
+* Increase default tile age check to 7 days.
+* Fix compilation with curl 7.21.7 (SF#3376584)
+
+Viking 1.2.1 (2011-06-16)
+Fixes since 1.2
+* Support proper MAC OS file locations.
+* Fix incorrect track property line marker positioning when the track has gaps.
+* Fix track property point marker drawing error - sometimes draws dot marker too low.
+
+Viking 1.2 (2011-05-24)
+New features since 1.1
+* Remove unecessary treeview item selection.
+* Add zoom level 0.5 to map layer
+* [DOC] Add links to access Viking's source code
+* Rename file to prevent any case-insensitive issues.
+* Add getting the users confirmation when deleting (emptying) data from the GPS layer.
+* Enable keypad delete to remove layers in the layers panel.
+* Enable deleting multiple tracks or waypoints within a layer by selecting them from a list.
+* Add getting the users confirmation when deleting an individual track or waypoint.
+* Add the ability to delete all waypoints or tracks in the layer.
+* Add getting the users confirmation when deleting a layer.
+* Start a new 'Tracks' treeview menu, similar to the 'new' Waypoints treeview menu.
+* Add operations on waypoints into the 'new' Waypoints treeview menu.
+* Add new graph type Speed/Distance in the track properties window.
+* Add new graph type Elevation/Time in the track properties window.
+* Add new graph type Distance/Time in the track properties window.
+* Improve Track Properties speed/time drawing to display in nice human friendly whole number scaled units.
+* Improve Track Properties elevation drawing to display in nice human friendly whole number scaled units.
+* On the Track Properties Window draw an always updating indicator of where the readings are taken from.
+* Enable controls of drawing DEM data and GPS speeds on the Track Properties Window.
+* Add keyboard accelerators for the Track Properties Window.
+* Add ability to resize the Track Properties window.
+* On the Track Properties Window, also show the elevation or speed for the current track position as indicated by the mouse pointer.
+* Add support for kml files.
+* Add ... where necessary to track & waypoint menu entries.
+* Enable Open Waypoint Image via right click menu entry.
+* Use ability to select a waypoint given the thumbnail image size.
+* Add ability to open the trackpoint edit dialog via the viewport right click menu when a trackpoint is selected.
+* Add ability to move selected trackpoint or waypoint by the mouse within the select tool.
+* Add a new select tool at the window level to enable/disbale item selection of the a track or a waypoint.
+* Enable to unselect treeview item
+* Add Select Request layer interface and use within the track/waypoint layer to select an item.
+* Add internal track right click menu variable.
+* Tidy up track/waypoint sublayer callbacks to only use the layers panel if it available.
+* Add viewport to sublayer add menu items callback.
+* Make the highlight colour configurable and use as appropriate for the selected track/waypoint drawing.
+* Add track and waypoint highlight for the selected layer or individual item.
+* Add the storage and retrieval of any kind of track or waypoint selected item (either an individual item, list (i.e. a sublayer) or layer) at the window level.
+* Add viewport property to control the display of the track / waypoint item highlight.
+* Add backup support for launching URLs with Mac OS based browsers.
+* Add backup support for launching URLs with Google Chrome based browsers.
+* Add support for Bing maps
+* Add support for dynamic copyright
+* Add map's logo support
+* Add support for reference documentation
+* Generate a trackwaypoint layer update on the finish creatiing of the thumbnails so the images are shown.
+* Enable the tree view panel to be more usefully resized smaller than the text names.
+* Windows: Open help pdf file when when clicked on Help->help
+* [DOC] Split By Number of Points
+* Add Track->Split by Number of Points (as per SF#2847587 request).
+* Add a new dialog to return positive number.
+* SF#2844872: Suggest name for the new track when splitting the track via the trackpoint edit dialog.
+
+Fixes since 1.1
+* Better safety checking to prevent crash due to null variable reference in use of the current trackpoint.
+* Fix: Reduce GObject cast
+* Fix etag handling
+* Fix: generate doc/reference/Makefile when needed
+* Fix Track -> Split by Timestamp such that newly created tracks are ordered correctly.
+* Fix sensitivity of the track properties window split marker to be disabled when the track marker is not drawn.
+* Fix crashing due to incorrect usage of libcurl - SF#3206628.
+* Fix non-void function should return a value.
+* Fix reference documentation generation - some systems need explicit mention of libz.
+* Fix displaying of 'Waypoints' treeview menu.
+* Fix vik_aggregate_layer_get_all_layers_of_type for track/waypoint layer types, since these may also be stored under GPS layers.
+* Improve previous fix: background calling code should control return value
+* Fix: background calling code should control return value
+* Fix: enforce background feature
+* Fix compiler warnings from gcc 4.5.4
+* SF#3178554: Fix Sun Studio build
+* gtk_object_sink has been deprecated since gtk version 2.10, use g_object_ref_sink() instead.
+
+Viking 1.1 (2011-02-08)
+New features since 1.0
+* [DOC] Add MapQuest Nominating search service in examples
+* Adjust colour of last auto track colour to not clash with default create track colour.
+* Add menu icons for the maps layer menu.
+* Make the selection list in Merge With Other Tracks sorted alphabetically.
+* Add sort list by name function. Will be useful for track and waypoint list ordering.
+* [DOC] Mark ready for 1.1 release. Update help manual version to 0.2.
+* [DOC] Add layer information for Aggregates, Coords and GeoRefs in help.
+* [DOC] Add Maps layer help information.
+* [DOC] Add overall layer information and promote each layer to be a top level section in help.
+* [DOC] Add DEM layer help information.
+* [DOC] Mention waypoint properties in help information.
+* [DOC] Update GPS layer help information.
+* [DOC] Update track operations help information.
+* [DOC] Update waypoint operations help information.
+* [DOC] Update Tools help section
+* [DOC] Update TrackWaypoint layer menu help Information
+* Improve positioning of the menu separator on waypoint menus.
+* Add GeoRef layer tooltip to show the file name in use.
+* Add GPS Layer tooltip to say the protocol (aka device manufacturer) type.
+* TrackWaypoint Layer tooltip featuring summaries for tracks and waypoints.
+* Add maps layer tooltip to show the map name(type).
+* Add DEM layer tooltip to show the number of DEM files in use.
+* Add Track and waypoint sublayer tooltip information.
+* Add treeview use and display of layers tooltip.
+* Add Layer Tooltip callback definition
+* Add sublayer tooltip callback definition.
+* When getting data via the GPS layer automatically set the view to see it, unless the realtime tracking mode is on.
+* On acquiring data from sources (inc. GPS) automatically set the view to see it. Except for GeoCaches; as it's likely you're requesting data for the current area, so no point in trying to change the view.
+* On opening GPX files automatically view all the data.
+* Add 'View All Tracks' option to the panel Layer menu options, which sets the view (center & zoom) to see all the tracks of that layer.
+* Add 'View Waypoints' option to the TrackWaypoint layer menu options, which sets the view (center & zoom) to see all the Waypoints.
+* Add 'View Track' option to the Track sublayer menu options, which sets the view (center & zoom) to see the track.
+* Add 'View Layer' option to the TrackWaypoint Layer menu options, which sets the view (center & zoom) to see the entire layer.
+* Add the ability to 'autozoom' to view an area specified by maximum and minimum lat/longs for a TrackWaypoint layer.
+* Create a new 'Show' submenu entry
+* Improve curl usage as should call cleanup on application exit.
+* Add copyright and license properties for NASA BlueMarble data.
+* Add background thread loading of DEM files.
+* Add Track->Goto Highest and Lowest points features.
+* Add Track->Goto Maximum Speed feature.
+* Rework Track->Goto menu options.
+* Add support for the TMS interface provided by SPOTMaps
+* Add license related properties
+* Add copyright property
+* Improve key binding for Mercator Mode -> ctrl+m
+* Add documentation for generic TMS map source
+* Improve key bindings for ModeLatLon.
+* Add OSM WMS Server
+* Add support for WMS-C
+* Add support for more standard TMS
+* Move-up download methods
+* Add LatLon projection
+* Better safety checking code
+* Add support for Locosys devices via GPSBabel's navilink device protocol.
+* Add support for DeLorme devices via GPSBabel's delbin device protocol.
+* Add the ability to insert a trackpoint into a track via the Edit Trackpoint dialog.
+* Add internal function to insert a trackpoint after the currently selected trackpoint.
+* Add license notice to new file
+* Enable individual track to GPX export via the Track sublayer menu.
+* Set default action on dialogs.
+* Add a perl script to auto generate basic Viking .vik files for directories containing images.
+* Enable control of the visibility of the menubar [including keyboard shortcut - F4]. Also enable panic key 'Escape' to restore menubar if hidden and no tool uses it.
+* Enable control of the visibility of the toolbar [including keyboard shortcut - F3].
+* Make use of the vikwindow toolbar variable.
+* Enable control of the visibility of the statusbar [including keyboard shortcut - F12].
+
+Fixes since 1.0
+* Prevent Gtk-CRITICAL assertion when the application is closed with a Track Property window on display.
+* Prevent Gtk-CRITICAL assertion when the application is closed whilst loading DEMs.
+* Fix trackpoint edit altitude sensitivity to be re-enabled after it has been disabled.
+* Fix incorrect cut/copy of sublayers when accessed via the layers panel buttons.
+* Fix the List Dialog so that it does not become taller than the screen when there are lots of entries.
+* Fix some compiler warnings in viktrwlayer.c when configured to build with --disable-alphabetized-trw
+* Fix Resource leak detected by cppcheck 1.46
+* Fix compiler warning in curl_download.c
+* Fix compiler warning in vikmapslayer.c
+* Fix compiler warning in vikwindow.c - use correct const typing.
+* Fix compiler warnings - correct Widget / Window type.
+* Fix memory leak when generating image file
+* Fix: Improve XML reading error reporting
+* Fix compiler warnings in osm.c
+* Fix compiler warning in vikmapslayer.c
+* Fix Waypoint & Track visibility issues.
+* Fix SF#3104028: Default Color Background is incorrectly saved as black into a new .vik file.
+
+Viking 1.0 (2010-11-14)
+New features since 0.9.96
+* Add minimal translator-credits in About dialog
+* Add documenters to About dialog
+
+Fixes since 0.9.96
+* Improve copyright holders
+* Prevent crashes when downloading Expedia Maps.
+* Fix extend track using magic scissors.
+* Fix autodownloading while panning
+* Fix Debian #599048: Segmentation fault when using gpsbabel
+* Fix dem_gradient_colors allocation.
+* Fix compiler warnings in preferences.c
+
+Viking 0.9.96 (2010-10-11)
+New features since 0.9.95
+* Use ETag to detect fresh tiles on servers
+* Add new menu entry in GPS Layer to delete the realtime information.
+* Ensure GPS realtime information deleted when GPS Layer -->Empty All is called.
+* Prevent zoom factor string displaying unnecessary .0s when it's a whole number.
+* Improve Track Properties speed profile display for low speed difference (e.g. walking) tracks.
+* Use speed units in display of Track/Waypoint layer draw by velocity config values, but maintain units as metres per second when read from/saved to files.
+* Add keyboard accelerators for as many as possible View Menu entries.
+* Simplify zoom status when xmpp and ympp are equal
+* Use height units in the altitude readout for the cursor position on the status bar.
+* Use height units in display of DEM min / max elevation values, but maintain units as metres when read from/saved to files.
+
+Fixes since 0.9.95
+* Fix many memory leaks
+* DEM layer properties tidy up.
+* Prevent getting stuck in a near infinite loop when using Coord layer, UTM mode and zoomed out to see the whole world.
+* Prevent lock up in attempt to download maps along a track in UTM mode.
+* Launchpad Bug #445374: Prevent crash when downloading maps along a track, with Terraserver maps when in Mercator mode.
+* Add explicit linking against libz and libm
+* Fix SF#3009431: Prevent Crash in Real Time Tracking GPS Mode & Autodownload Maps.
+* Fix display of rounded speed units scale markers in the speed profile.
+* Fix cycle map URL
+* Fix compiler warnings
+* Fix Track Draw by Velocity mode, so that individual track points are coloured (as was the intention).
+* Fix bug where older file was removed when network not present
+* Fix: warning 'draw-mode' message does not display
+* Fix incorrect limitation on source map id
+
+Viking 0.9.95 (2010-09-07)
+New features since 0.9.94
+* Add some function short cut key definitions to control showing of the center mark and scale viewport features.
+* [DOC] Replace Google with OSM capability in man pages.
+* When manually creating a track, automatically give it a default name.
+* [DOC] Add contributors from the Wiki(s) history.
+* Better dialog name when searching for a waypoint.
+* Change max cache time to 1 week.
+
+Fixes since 0.9.94
+* Prevent "Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated" messages.
+* Invalid number of arguments in call to a_http_download_get_u
+* Prevent crash when cut of a GPS track/waypoint layer is attempted via the layers buttons.
+* Prevent DEM layer colour indexing going negative and can crash on gradient view.
+* Fix DEM layer to show default sea level.
+* Fix track background thickness being able to set back to zero.
+* Fix internal tile locking
+* Fix top layer not drawn after made invisible and then back to being visible.
+* Fix impaired (drawcentermark setting bodged) vik file if saved with the top layer visibility turned off.
+* Fix syntax errors in help manual
+* Fix map drag and drop to show the correct whole map
+* Fix "Go to UTM" dialog title.
+* Fix first opening of a file which has spaces (or other interesting characters) via the recent files menu.
+* Fix unnamed_tracks / unnamed_waypoints misuse.
+
 Viking 0.9.94 (2010-06-10)
 New features since 0.9.93
 * Add knots as a speed unit option.
@@ -393,7 +702,7 @@ Viking 0.1.3 (2007-05-17)
 
 Viking 0.1.2 (2007-02-13)
 - direct access to GPS device: GPS layer
-- position inputs accept DDD/DMM/DMS formats (ex: 3.5, 3°30.0, 3°30'0.00)
+- position inputs accept DDD/DMM/DMS formats (ex: 3.5, 3\B030.0, 3\B030'0.00)
 - time position in Track Poperties
 - tool (menu entries and buttons) are enabled/disabled following context
 - standard 'Edit' menu (with 'Copy', 'Cut', 'Paste' and 'Delete' actions)