We are very pleased to simultaneously announce the releases of QGIS 1.0.2 (stable release) and QGIS 1.1.0 (unstable release).

Our 1.0.x 'stable' release series are part of our effort to provide a stable, unchanging, long term supported environment. Each minor release in our stable series contains only bug fixes and no new features. For a list of bugs that were closed in the 1.0.2 release, please see the 1.0.2 release milestone.

Our 'unstable' release series are provided to offer users a chance to try out new features as they make their way into the code base. We will not support these releases over a long term and they are aimed more for those who value new features over stability.

Binary and source code packages are available at http://qgis.org

Along with the release of QGIS 1.1.0, the QGIS Community Team is also extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of the QGIS Users' Guide version 1.1. The guide can be downloaded from http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html.

Read on for the QGIS 1.1.0 changelog...

Introduction

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS), licensed under the GNU General Public License, that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS is Open Source software and its free of cost. It supports vector, raster, and database formats (including the most common ESRI ShapeFile and geotiff). QGIS supports a wide variety of plugins to do things like display tracks from your GPS, and much more. They can be easily managed through the Plugin Manager.

As an open source project, we provide support for using QGIS via our mailing lists and bug tracker:

• For general enquiries subscribe to our users mailing list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
  
• For developer related enquiries subscribe to our separate developers list at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
  
• If you think you have found a bug, please report it using our bug tracker. When reporting bugs, please include some contact information in case we need help with replicating your issue. The tracker is available at https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/
  

Download your copy

Binary and source code packages are available at http://qgis.org

Let's take a deeper look at what's new in this release...

Visual changes

New Open Vector Dialog

The new Open Vector Dialog allows the user to choose the source type of vector layers: files for most formats including ESRI Shapefile, directories for example for ArcInfo coverages, databases for PostGIS and SpatiaLite data, and protocols.

Diagram Overlay

The new Diagram Overlay plugin, shipped as a core plugin, allows the user to add a graphic overlay to a vector layer. The current implementation of diagrams provides support for piecharts and barcharts and for linear scaling of the diagram size according to a classification attribute.

fTools plugin becomes core plugin!

fTools is now automatically installed and enabled in new versions of QGIS, and as with all plugins, it can be disabled and enabled using the Plugin Manager. When enabled, the fTools plugin adds a Tools menu to QGIS, providing functions ranging from Analysis and Research Tools to Geometry and Geoprocessing Tools, as well as several useful Data Management Tools. See the manual for complete description of its functionality!

Improved Attribute Table

The attribute table offers various functionalities, like sorting records by a simple click on the column header, simple or advanced search with Query Builder, zooming on selected features in the map and showing only selected records. In this release performance for large recordsets has been optimised.

Improved Print Composer

Print Composer offers further functionality, like PostScript and PDF output, alignment tools, save layout as template, three different preview modes and useful navigation tools. Give it a try!

Changelog

Full changelog is provided here:

• Plugin Installer polishing, updates, new repositories for the 1.x
  
• add usb: to list of gps device on linux
  
• Added open WMS search interface from Mathias Walker
  
• display layer name for WMS layers instead of server to distinguish several layers from the same WMS
  
• WMS: don't apply proxy to a list of selected urls. Done in QgsHttpTransaction::applyProxySettings so WFS & co can later also use this function. Not tested yet and still needs some cleanups
  
• For WMS layers: combine the transparency of WMS and the layer transparency
  
• Apply proxy settings also for WFS
  
• Show a progress dialog for WFS if there is a main window
  
• Added GIS GRASS icon theme
  
• New GRASS modules to convert loaded rasters and vectors
  
• Removing GRASS duplicate modules in default
  
• Added SVG symbols from Matt Amos (with his permission)
  
• mapserver export: fixed i18n problems, fixed continuous color renderer export
  
• initial commit of fTools
  
• Ftools: don't consider nan vertices for interpolation
  
• Ftools: add two new tools - polygon from layer extent - delaunay triangulaltion
  
• Ftools: changes to menu item - sampling tools -> research tools
  
• merge of advanced printing branch 2
  
• Add the option to print maps as rasters
  
• Write a world file when creating a screenshot so that it is georeferenced
  
• Removed members of httptransaction that are no longer needed
  
• fix error in adding output to mapcanvas & ability to create grid coverage of current zoom level
  
• Add a second PNG in case UMN mapserver offers image/png and image/png; mode=24bit
  
• Dodo-ification of graticule plugin in favour of ftools plugin which is now in svn
  
• improved handeling of postGIS layers
  
• add missing postgres provider to optional plugins target
  
• make SSL mode of PostgreSQL connections configurable
  
• supporting the SpatiaLite Data Provider
  
• fix feature count in postgres provider
  
• updates to geoprocessing
  
• Add a list of most recently used projections to Project Properties
  
• New georeferencer from GIS-Lab
  
• Allow continuous color rendering also for point symbols
  
• Added EPSG to the quick CRS button
  
• skip labels with size <=0 - otherwise the size is ignored
  
• added panning with mouse wheel when digitizing
  
• remove old gridmaker plugin
  
• Changes in openvector dialog to support all drivers available in ogr including database and protocol drivers (Changes in "load vector layer")
  
• New attribute table!
  
• plugin installer and the fTools are now enabled by default as core plugins
  
• icon themes support for the mapserver_export plugin
  
• Hide / show vector layer editing tool based on context of layer type and editing status
  
• Gui cleanups for coordinate capture - dont use a toolbar icon, rather use a button in the dock.
  
• added icon for plugin installer in plugin manager
  
• fix for georeferencing with linear transformation
  
• Added possibility to express tolerances for digitising also in pixels in addition to map units
  
• internal sqlite3 was replaced with spatialite
  
• make sslmode optional