[Xastir] Xastir Release 2.1.2
Curt Mills
curt.we7u at gmail.com
Sun Jun 2 19:03:38 PDT 2019
This release of Xastir implements the following changes:
- National Weather Service shapefile script updated, dbfawk files added.
- Compilation errors in OS X earlier than 10.6 fixed.
- Tiger WMS server maps added.
- A new set of National Map .geo files replaces those that referenced WMS
products that have gone off-line since the last release.
- GDAL and OGR support removed.
- Xastir builds are now reproducible (builds no longer contain the build
date and time).
- Deprecated GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick function calls replaced with
new API.
- Download of tiled maps is now handled by a download manager running in a
separate thread, dramatically improving map update speed.
- Obsolete interface to old Tiger/Line map server removed (the server went
down years ago).
- OpenTrac decoding support removed.
- Support for the old PocketAPRS (PalmOS based APRS) map format has been
removed. Users of these old map types should transition to a more modern
format.
- Xastir sources no longer contains a copy of an old version of shapelib
source. Shapelib support must now always be provided by an external
library.
- The embryonic "Xastir-qt" project has been moved to a separate repository.
- "Xastir -V" will now cause Xastir to report its version number (with git
sha-1 hash appended if built from a git clone) and exit.
- Support for many additional satellite navigation (GNSS) receivers has
been added to the existing GPS support. Prior to this release, only NMEA
sentences starting with $GP were recognized.
- Many compilation warnings from recent GCC and Clang compilers have been
eliminated, resulting in a cleaner build.
- Our Makefiles now default to "silent rules" to reduce uninteresting
output during compliation. The old, noisier behavior may be invoked by
adding "V=1" to the "make" line at build time.
- The configure summary now shows the status of its probe for Xpm libraries
under "Xpm / Snapshots".
Xastir web pages: http://xastir.org
Xastir Code: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir
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