X-Git-Url: https://git.street.me.uk/andy/viking.git/blobdiff_plain/ad11b0479a36de2ed0f96a0e64538ba898de0e02..f9d4faa9a7c9de11ba340c842afcb25f9cd40f4a:/NEWS?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4967c5b4..fa4657ee 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,397 @@ +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. +* Detect USB Garmin eTrex HCx Legend devices (and maybe others). +* Auto use of /dev/ttyUSB type device if available on Unix systems. +* Add ability to turn off Garmin GPS after transfer. +* Add a 'home' default location preference. +* Add ability to changes preferences outside of the preferences.c file. +* NLS Maps API: Historic map of Great Britain +* Change GUI related command line parameter for Waypoint symbol size into run time preference. +* Support All Zoom Levels in Zoom Menu +* [DOC] Import User Manual from wiki +* Add menu item for help contents + +Fixes since 0.9.93 +* Add Viking's contributors as copyright holders +* Remove unecessary '\' from the View Menu +* Better Preferences Dialog Title +* More Menu Improvements +* Replace autogen.sh +* On GPS data acquire, only create a layer if it contains something. +* Fix POTFILES with new source file +* Fix OMF category +* Fix Filter->Simplify All Tracks default. +* [DOC] Fix Gnome's menu entry category for viking +* [DOC] Fix erroneous warning +* Fix compiler warning. +* Fix #2977752: win-gtk: osm tiles don't show up +* Fix Track -> View Google Directions URL +* Fix function's return value +* Fix compilation warnings +* Fix #2988574: Can't save files opened via recent file menu +* Fix #2991657: Terraserver downloads fail +* Fix geocaching + +Viking 0.9.93 (2010-04-11) +New features since 0.9.92 +* Allow overriding map source +* Make GPS layer cut/copy available from popup menu. +* [DOC] Document new files in viking's manpage +* Increase possible smaller zoom +* Add negative scales so that we can have bigger zoom on maps +* Allow images from bigger and smaller zoom to be selected if current zoom has no image + +Fixes since 0.9.92 +* Fix: set a default filename while exporting +* [DOC] Fix: Viking's sources are hosted by Git now +* Further variable type corrections. +* Fix GPS layer copy. +* Fix Track/Waypoint Layer Paste on 64bit systems. +* [DOC] Fix FILES section of manpage. +* Fix: First Track not Black in Draw All Tracks Black Mode. + +Viking 0.9.92 (2010-03-15) +New features since 0.9.91 +* Memorize previously selected go-to service. +* Better scale when zoomed close in and in miles distance mode. +* Add and use preference for height units. +* Add and use preference for speed units. +* Add and use preference for distance units. +* Use a preference to set the tiles age. +* New preference for default maplayer cache. +* Improve DEM-Layer. +* Remove OpenAerial support. +* Translation updates. + +Fixes since 0.9.91 +* Fix: Correctly rotate thumbnail images +* Fix #2958601: Support for non ascii characters in "Go-to" search +* Fix error handling in go-to feature + +Viking 0.9.91 (2010-02-06) +New features since 0.9.9 +* Interpolation for maps: use less precise images when wanted image is not present +* GObjectify maps +** Add compatibility facilities +* GObjectify go-to/search feature +** Add Name finder search engine +** Add Nominatim search engine +** Add Geonames search engine +** Add generic XML search code +* Add configuration file for map sources, goto and external tool + (See examples in distribution) +* Add option to download only maps that are more recent on server +** Try to download newer tiles when autodownload is set and server supports such check +** Tiles must be older than a specified age before checking server +* Add support for recently used files +* Add DEM Gradient +* Add DOAP file + +Fixes since 0.9.9 +* Fix: add GIO dependency and header for GFile +* Fix #2946287: open a recent file +* fix some confusing indentation and bracing +* Fix #2881916: rename a track with c&p +* Fix #2766373: Use a string as device path +* Fix "Moving Map Method" cannot be disabled +* Fix #2880741: replace gps_open with gps_open_r +* Fix #2921899: uses conditional macro to support two versions of libgps +* Fix warnings +* Fix URL formatting issue +* Fix error messages +* Fix #2801874: keep second part of a splitted track visible +* Fix #2838556: emit warning when gpsbabel is not found in PATH +* Fix bashism in test script. +* Merge branch 'fix-osm-api-0.6' +* Fix magic scissors +* Get rid deprecated GtkTooltips API. +* Add configure option to track deprecated feature +* Use motion hints to make map motion more responsive in slow environment. +* Viking compatible with libgps >= 2.90 +* finish OSM 0.6 API support +* Optimise bandwidth usage +* keeping OSM password safe + +Viking 0.9.9 (2009-09-09) +New features since 0.9.8 +* Filter out irrelevant key-modifiers. +* Upgrade OSM-traces support to 0.6 API +* Manage hdop,vdop,pdop,nsat +* Remove unused (and buggy) feature +* Document previous merge +* Improvement of map cache +* Add a viking parameter for mapcache memory size +* Add menu option to flush mapcache, and reduce viking memory footprint +* Use thread-pool to manage download +* Show path used for map directory in options even when using default one +* Include full libcurl version in user agent + +Fixes since 0.9.8 +* Don't crash when jobs are cancelled via the background jobs dialog. +* Fix #2163652: GPX file with byte order mark not parsed +* Fix #2766609: Don't use gpsd_units() +* Fix #2812856: Change SRTM URL +* Fix #2818818: unset langage preset while opening external Google +* Fix copyright in --version output +* Fix SRTM Server change +* Fix memory leaks found with cppcheck +* Fix warning in call to MD5Update() in function md5_hash() +* Fix previous patch +* vdop, hdop, pdop, nsats and fix_mode values were not shown +* Fix #570956: change saved_width to 1 +* Fix build problem +* Fix bug #2481237: Maps directory file chooser should look for directory + +Viking 0.9.8 (2009-01-31) +New features since 0.9.7 +* Add GeoNames support (both for search and for POI import from Geonames+Wikipedia) +* Remove Google's map tiles. +* Add external tools framework. +* Add OpenStreetMap and Google web tools. +* Clicking on "visible" tick no longer makes the layer selected. +* GPX export: sort track by time. +* Merging tracks by name. +* Tittle waypoint properties dialog as "Waypoint Properties". +* Add larger size waypoint symbols (icons). +* Waypoint names are now displayed at the top of waypoint symbol. +* Waypoint symbols: Use Garmin waypoint. +* New server for OSM cycle map. + +Fixes since 0.9.7 +* Fix loading of world map file. +* Fix 2249398: Fix some memory leaks. +* Fix bugs that caused magic scissors not working. +* Fix compatibility problem for windows. +* Fix implicit declaration of maps_layer_default_dir(). +* Fix missing status return in spawn_command_line_async(). +* Fix curl error buffer usage. +* GPS realtime tracking: Keep retrying when fail to connect. +* Windows port: avoid "\\" in URL. + +Viking 0.9.7 (2008-10-12) +New features since 0.9.6 +* Add new moving map method for realtime tracking. +* Rename icon: viking_icon.png -> viking.png +* src/viking.desktop.in: add GenericName and revise Categories +* Change "Zoom To" short cut to avoid conflict with "Zoom Tool". +* Update translations +* Google search adapting changes from Google. +* add osm cycle layer support +* add a menu entry to extend an existing track using magic scissors +* Patch #2009666: OpenAerialMap +* Add preferences to select how degrees are displayed +* Color picker button for the Coordlayer properties dialog +* Cut/Copy/Paste empty selection is not critical +* Layers panel UI improvements +* Homogeneous icons management. +* Add preferences to store OSM login/password +* Add a password entry widget +* Ensure that confirmation dialog is over file selector + +Fixes since 0.9.6 +* Fix 2161310: Fix some more compiler warnings +* Fix 2134452: Properties of some tracks show as NaN +* QA: cleanning old stuff +* Fix segfault in realtime tracking. +* Fix missing files in po/POTFILES.in +* viking.spec.in, src/icons/Makefile.am: Fix icon target dir +* fix parallel build (make -j8) on multi-processor machines. +* Fix #1947260: correct a corrupted escape +* Fixed crashes when creating new layers. +* Fix #1952523: mode_button assertion loading old datafile +* Fix: update layer after applying properties +* Fixed google map download problem. +* Replace specific About dialog by GtkAboutDialog +* Replace some g_warning by g_debug + +Viking 0.9.6 (2008-07-31) +Fixes since 0.9.5 + +* Fix Google maps' URL +* Fix gcget command line to accomodate negative coords +* Fix unecessary viking.desktop + +Viking 0.9.5 (2008-07-21) +New features since 0.9.4 + +* Add panning tool as default. +* Replace GtkFileSelection by GtkFileChooser. +* No longer converts waypoint names to uppercase. Waypoint names are now case insensitive. +* Windows port updated. +* Track properties: Keep markers of the graphs in sync with each other. +* Track properties: split track at marker. +* New translations: el, it, ja, lt, nb, nl, pl, zh_CN, zh_TW +* Added viking.desktop +* Added --debug and --verbose command line options. +* Updated man pages. + +Fixes since 0.9.4 + +* Fix #1839948: Maximize/Restore changes current cursor. +* Bug #1915121: add an utility to reproduce (test/gpx2gpx). +* Fix #1915121: use GLib functions to handle ISO8601 dates. +* Fix pipe leaks. +* Remove dependency to wget. +* Fix google version number. +* Track graph marker now works again. +* Fix #1947456: Compiler warning fixes + + +Viking 0.9.4 (2008-02-25) +New features since 0.9.3 + +* Make elev graph show better graph for low altitude tracks. +* Printing support +* Draw circle for downloading geocaches. +* Improve track graphs. Some tracks looked too flat. +* Internationalization (I18N) +* Localization (L10N): Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish +* Use a list of possible browsers. +* New map source: BlueMarble tiles (http://mike.teczno.com/notes/blue-marble-tiles.html) +* New map source: Google Terrain +* Use the "next unused" (not really) waypoint number as default. +* Sort waypoints in GPX output. +* Preferences support in ~/.viking/viking.prefs +* Update source for OSM/Osmarender tiles +* Full screen mode. +* Tuned the v-t diagram drawing + +Fixes since 0.9.3 + +* Many fixes around compilation warnings +* Fix a bug that caused crashes when displaying elev graph for some track. +* Fix bug that caused Old Google maps not being disabled by default. +* Fix a bug that can potentially cause segfault. +* Fix compilation under HURD (missing MAXPATHLEN macro) +* Fix: ensure config.h is included conditionnaly +* Fix a crash bug in mapcache +* Fix a crash bug in merge-by-time + +Viking 0.9.3 (2007-10-21) +New features since 0.9.2 + +* Half-drawn redraw for faster refreshing display of viewport (Maps, tracks, waypoints...) +* Allow multiple selections when adding DEM files. +* (Semi) auto downloading and importing for SRTM 90m DEM file (worldwide). +* Indicating areas which have DEM file download but not imported. +* "Minimum elevation" is now configurable for DEM layer. It can be used together with the existing "Max Elev" to make DEM display more distinguish colors for a particular area of interest. +* Interpolating DEM data. +* Add realtime tracking to GPS layer with track recording. +* Trackpoints acquired in realtime mode store extra information of speed, course, fix mode and number of satellites. +* Track properties dialog no longer blocks user interaction on main window. Using multiple track dialogs (simultaneously for different tracks) is now allowed. +* Make use of DEM elevation data and GPS speed data for track graphs (Properties Dialog). +* Track Properties: now displays track distance/time instead of "Selected Time". +* Marker for selected position on track graphs. +* Various enhancement to improve usability of track dialog. +* Mouse cursor is now changed accordingly to tool currently in used. +* Magic Scissors (Automatically drawing track between points) can now be undone using right click, and extended via Ctrl-click. +* Shortcuts for panning: Ctrl-arrow key, and Shift-scroll and Ctrl-scroll. +* Extend track. +* Ctrl-shift-scroll to zoom like google, scroll to zoom w/o changing center. +* Preview adding a trackpoint by drawing a line when moving mouse. +* Esc key used to stop track edition. +* Backspace key used to remove last added point. +* Use $BROWSER environment variable (for viewing geocache pages). +* Automatically fetching google version numbers. +* Upgrading to API 0.5 of OSM. + +Fixes since 0.9.2 + +* Fix: Make viking's default start location somewhere more likely has maps. +* Fix: bug that causes crashes when using "Maps Download" tool. +* Fix: Adding command line option framework (--help & --version). +* Fix #1789550: mkdtemp usage is conditioned. +* Fix #1789550: define MAX macro if not defined on ALL systems. +* Fix: optional geocaching -- include config.h to compile. +* Fix: DEM Layer copy/paste. +* Fix: crashes on using wrong tools. +* Fix: bugs that caused odd display of date/time on track properties dialog. +* Fix: Correctly calculate position when click on speed-time graph. +* Fix: Relax dependencies about glib. +* Fix: Upgrading to API 0.5 of OSM. +* Fix: plotting of DEM data on elevation graph. + +Viking 0.9.2 (2007-09-04) +New features since 0.9.1 + +* Use $EMAIL to initialise email field for OSM upload. +* Preset filename when exporting a TrwLayer. + +Fixes since 0.9.1 + +* Fix: crash when "applying" a map layer property dialog. +* Fix: Do not warn about drawmode inconsistency while reading file. +* Fix: Hide Expedia view mode when expedia is not built in. + Viking 0.9.1 (2007-09-02) New features since 0.9