[Xastir] Xastir Release 2.1.2

Tom Henderson Tom at Henderson4.us
Tue Jun 4 07:03:19 PDT 2019


I ran update-xastir and it worked smoothly. However, when I open the 
"About Xastir" window, it says I am running 2.1.3.

Tom Henderson

On 6/2/19 9:03 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
> 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".
>
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> Xastir Code: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir
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