[Xastir] Xastir Release 2.1.2

[Curt Mills]

Because you jumped right past the release version to the new development
version.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 7:03 AM Tom Henderson <Tom at henderson4.us> wrote:

> 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".
> >
> > Xastir web pages: http://xastir.org
> > Xastir Code: https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir
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> >
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