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Release Notes for MapSurfer.NET v2.6.0

22 March, 2017

Core

  • New: Added Color property to ExternalGraphicSymbol to support coloring of SVG images.
  • New: Added Alignment property to GraphicsFill which controls the alignment of a pattern. Possible values are Local and Global.
  • New: Added Anchor property to LinePointPatternPlacement.
  • New: Added IsRepeated property to LinePointPatternPlacement.
  • Improved: Performance of WKB decoding by 60-70%.
  • Improved: Performance of PNG encoding by 10-15%.
  • Fixed: An exception thrown when a label contains a new line character '\n'.
  • Updated: SQLite has been update to version 3.14.2.
  • Updated: Json.NET has been update to version 9.0.1.
  • Updated: protobuf-net has been update to version 2.1.0.
  • Updated: Native libraries in folders Native.X86 and Native.x64 have been rebuilt using Visual Studio 2017 toolset.

Plugins

  • New: Added "Memory mapped" option in the dialog to configure the access to shapefiles.
  • New: PostGIS plugin detects connection settings from the environment variables such as PGHOST, PGPORT, PGUSER and PGPASSWORD, if they are not explicitly specified.
  • New: Added OracleSpatial data source provider.
  • New: In CartoCSS processor, added xxx-visibility property to toggle symbolizer visibility. Possible values are visible and hidden.
  • Improved: For the sake of compatibility with SQL queries created in TileMill(Mapnik), we added support for query tokens T_PIXEL_WIDTH and T_PIXEL_HEIGHT.
  • Improved: In PostGIS provider, changed the layout and the behavior of the dialog to configure connection settings.
  • Improved: In MySQLSpatial provider, changed the layout and the behavior of the dialog to configure connection settings.
  • Improved: In Spatialite provider, changed the layout and the behavior of the dialog to configure connection settings.
  • Improved: In MsSQLSpatial provider, changed the layout and the behavior of the dialog to configure connection settings.
  • Improved: Modified internal calls in MySQLSpatial plugin to support MariaDB.
  • Improved: The performance of the Shape data source provider by 40%.
  • Improved: In OctreeQuantizer, Color32 struct is passed by value that generates a lot of memory allocations.
  • Fixed:: PlainMetaTileWriter closes an underlying MemoryStream, this behaviour throws an exception in the case of RecyclableMemoryStream.
  • Fixed: Shape data source provider can not be initialized when "memory mapped" option is enabled.
  • Fixed: GDI renderer throws an exception when dash pattern contains 0 value.
  • Fixed: In GDI renderer, stroke width is two times thicker than expected when ScaleFactor equals 2.
  • Fixed: In GDI renderer, ScaleFactor is not applied to halos.

Studio

  • New: Added a context menu in MapViewer, which allows copying map extent, mouse coordinates or map image to the clipboard.
  • Fixed: Incorrect highlighting of symbolizer properties when a style contains any attachments.

Installer

  • Fixed: The installer does not detect Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64) – 14.0.24212.0.
  • Updated: The installer checks/requires Visual C++ 2017 Redistributables.
  • Updated: Build year has been changed to 2017.