Probably you already know:
QGIS 2.8 (Wien) has been released last friday!
2.8 is a long term release (LTR) version, that means it will be supported with updates for the next year.
As a stable and less frequently changing platform it should especially be interesting for use in enterprises/organisations who do not want to update more often than once a year.
The developer team has worked hard to bring us some really usefull new features:
Analysis tools
- Scale widget
- Measure dialog improvements
Browser
- More responsive browser
Data Providers
- Support for contextual WMS legend graphics
Data management
- Custom prefix for joins
- Support for creation of temporary memory layers
- Support for calculations on selected rows
Digitising
- Advanced digitizing tools
- Improved simplify tool
- Snapping improvements
General
- Enter expressions into spin boxes
- Bookmarks can be imported/exported
- Improvements to expressions
- Continuous testing framework and QA improvements
Layer Legend
- Show rule-based renderer’s legend as a tree
Map Composer
- Composer GUI Improvements
- Grid improvements
- Label item margins
Plugins
- Python console improvements
Processing
- New geometric predicate parameter type
- New algorithms
Programmability
- Add comment functionality to expressions
- Custom expression function editor
- Qt5 support
- Bulk loading spatial index
- Run only the selected part of a SQL query
QGIS Server
- Server python plugins
- Support for layer styles
- Add DescribeLayer Method to WMS
Symbology
- Raster image fill type
- Map rotation in canvas, improved rotation in composer
- Live heatmap renderer
- Multiple styles per layer
- More data-defined symbology settings
- DXF export: improve marker symbol export
User Interface
- Improved/consistent projection selection
For further information about the changelogs, visit: http://changelog.linfiniti.com/qgis/version/2.8/
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