5.15. Latest changes

This section describes the latest changes to the software.

4.7.0 released on 04 Apr 2024

• Turn legend categories on/off for a better experience on webmaps.

• Lots of customization options for embedded webmaps: map tools and panels.

• Ability to exclude feature layer fields from text search.

• Configurable permissions for groups, users, SRS and CORS management.

• Enhanced feature attachment viewer now includes panoramic images support.

• Ctrl+click opens feature attachment in a fixed tab.

• Ability to copy printing parameters as a URL for sharing.

• Support for custom SVG logos in addition to PNG.

• Add export to CSV and import from CSV for lookup tables.

• Support for multiple replicas and long-runnning requests.

• Update minimum required NodeJS version to 20.0.

• Fix permission dependencies on QGIS style parent resources.

• Copying QGIS styles from one to another.

4.6.2 released on 02 Mar 2023

• Expanded list of allowed CORS headers.

4.6.1 released on 27 Dec 2023 and 29 Dec 2023

• Fix styles for WFS layers.

4.6.0 released on 27 Dec 2023 and 29 Dec 2023

• Support for lookup tables for feature layer attributes.

• Print to TIFF format in addition to PDF, JPEG and PNG.

• Geometry-based filtering of feature tables on webmaps.

• Autodetection of minimum and maximum scales for webmap and WMS layers.

• Refresh feature tables after saving layer changes on webmaps.

• Improved handling of id and fid attributes of vector layers.

• Improved handling of date and time inputs.

• Passing a zoom level to webmaps via zoom attribute.

• Support for OpenID Connect UserInfo endpoint.

• Extraction of scale ranges from QML styles.

• Fix NextGIS ID configuration issue.

• Support for PostgreSQL 12.

4.5.1 released on 17 Nov 2023

• Fix print to TIFF format in addition to PDF, JPEG and PNG.

4.5.0 released on 29 Sep 2023

• New tileset resource for storing and serving prerendered tiles.

• New OGC API Features service with read and write support.

• Up to 2x speed-up of loading vector layer data.

• Differentiate webmap intial and contstraining extents.

• Support for Google Analytics metrics.

• Support for basic user-defined styles.

• Save to PDF from the webmap printing panel.

• Check effective permissions of other users for a resource.

• Legends for webmaps is enabled by default.

• Lots of improvements in feature editing widgets.

• OutputFormat declaration in WFS for better compatibility.

• Store audit journal in PostgreSQL database instead of ElasticSearch.

• React library upgraded to 18.

• Ant Design library upgraded to 5.

4.4.0 released on 30 Jun 2023

• Auto-generated and configurable legends for webmaps.

• Reordering layers via drag-and-drop while viewing webmaps.

• Changing layer opacity while viewing webmaps.

• Creation of an empty vector layer without uploading a file.

• Ability to replace existing vector layer features and fields from a file.

• Brand-new feature table based on React.

• Resource and feature description editors updated to CKEditor 5.

• Improved handling of resource descriptions on webmaps.

• Zoom to a filtered set of features on webmaps.

• Geometry properties in the identification popup.

• Show the cursor location and the current extent on webmaps.

• Zoom to all layers on webmaps.

• Support for linear and polygonal annotations.

• Default display names for resources during creation.

• Deletion of all features and changing geometry type for vector layers.

• Limit by extent while exporting feature layers.

• Ability to export a filtered set of features.

• MapInfo formats support when creating a vector layer.

• TMS client: parallel fetching of tiles and HTTP/2.

• Reasonable resource tabs ordering and auto-activation.

• Improved usability of the layers tree on webmaps.

• Fast PNG compression for rendering.

• Chrome 102+, Safari 15+, Edge 109+ or Firefox 102+ is required.

• User permissions section is moved to a separate page.

• OAuth-based automatic group assignment.

4.3.1 released on 14 Dec 2022

• Fix resource group selection issue while cloning webmaps

4.3.0 released on 21 Nov 2022

• Support for webmap cloning via UI.

• Search by coordinates on web maps.

• CSV and XLSX support when creating a vector layer.

• Export and import feature layer attachments.

• Vector layer export to KML and KMZ formats.

• Fields selection while exporting feature layer.

• Assign default groups while creating users via UI.

• Experimental support for authorization links.

• Use resource SRS by default while exporting raster and vector layers.

• Support for booleans and nulls in resource metadata.

• Support for fixed length character columns in PostGIS layers.

• Support for materialized views and 25D geometries in PostGIS layers.

• Ability to turn off user password and keep only OAuth authentication.

• Check for disk free space in the healthcheck.

• Ability to search through resources recursively in REST API.

• OpenLayers library upgraded to 6.15.1.

4.2.0 released on 18 Jul 2022

• “Locate me” tool on web maps.

• Identifiable setting for web map layers.

• Batch deletion and moving of resources.

• Ability to download raster layers as an internal representation.

• PostGIS connection and layer diagnostic tool.

• Support for quad-key basemaps on web maps.

• OAuth improvements: NextGIS ID integration, simultaneous authorization code and password grant types.

• Improved management of spatial reference systems and catalog integration.

• Better support for 25D geometries on web maps and PostGIS layers.

• Improved handling of URLs in descriptions and feature layer fields.

• Cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (COG) enabled by default.

• In-place conversion between COG and non-COG rasters.

• Hide empty groups and groups with no accessible layers on web maps.

• M dimension stripping while creating vector layers in LOSSY mode.

• Selecting features on web maps via hl_* URL parameters.

• Ability to inject some HTML into the base template for metrics and counters.

• Fast JSON serialization and deserialization based on orjson library.

• Completed control panel migration to Antd and React.

4.1.0 released on 16 Feb 2022

• Cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (COG) support for raster layers.

• Browser compatibility test and Internet Explorer deprecation.

• Experimental support for long-runnning requests for raster and vector layers creation using lunkwill extension.

• Private annotations on web maps, visible only for authors.

• Wrapping around the dateline for tile-based layers on web maps.

• A lot of improvements for the control panel: filters, batch operations, etc.

• Improved handling of vector layer sources with id and geom fields.

• Reprojection into different coordinate systems in WMS and WFS services.

• Export feature layer using field display names (aliases) instead of keynames.

• Support for CORS domain wildcards (like https://*.csb.app).

• WFS client and server simple filters support.

• Improved handling of coordinates outside boundaries of coordinate systems.

• Support for 25D geometries in PostGIS layers.

• Ability to filter NULL values in feature REST API.

• Unknown fields in REST API filters return an error.

• Improved handling of external services errors and timeouts.

• Upgraded dependencies: Pyramid 2.0, SQLAlchemy 1.4, and OpenLayers 6.10

4.0.0 released on 18 Nov 2021

• Source layer selection while creating vector layers from multi-layer sources, such as ZIP-archives or Mapinfo TABs.

• On-the-fly reprojection for WMS and WFS services.

• Ability to restrict address search by a country if using Nominatim.

• Hide inaccessible layers while displaying web maps.

• Highlight feature when selecting from search results.

• Display emails as active mailto: links in the webmap popup.

• Ability to delete users and groups from the control panel.

• Ability to change resource owner in UI and REST API.

• Automatic generation of keynames for WMS and WFS services.

• Improved support for Unicode field names for WFS services.

• Granular control setting for resource export availability.

• ISO-8601 date and time formatting in feature layer REST API via dt_format=iso option.

• Drop Python 2.7 support, NextGIS Web now requires Python 3.8+.

• PostgreSQL 10+, PostGIS 2.5+ and GDAL 3.0+ are required now.

• Synchronization of translations with POEditor.

• Yandex Maps-based address search on the webmap.

3.9.0 released on 11 Aug 2021

• Simple tool for previewing resources on the map.

• Resource quick search tool in the page header.

• Disable/enable address search via settings in the control panel.

• Ability to constraint address search area by web map initial extent.

• Zoom to a better extent from address search and bookmark panel.

• Language autodetection, per-user language setting, and support for the external translation files.

• Automatic downsampling of a social preview image to 1600x630 pixels.

• Better support for KML: LIBKML GDAL driver is used when available.

• Filtering features by ID in feature REST API.

• Layers with an “id” field can be loaded if the field has an integer type.

• Information about available distribution versions in the control panel.

• Experimental storage accounting and estimation subsystem.

3.8.0 released on 12 May 2021

• Ability to constraint a web map to the default extent.

• More length and area units in web map settings.

• Automatic correction of errors during the creation of a vector layer.

• Support for creation of vector layers from GML and KML files.

• User login is case insensitive when logging in.

• Configuration option for disabling social networks sharing buttons.

• Performance improvements in geometry handling and rendering, especially when converting between WKT and WKB formats.

• Performance improvements in tile cache component.

• Improved word wrapping in web map identification popup.

• Minimum and maximum scale restrictions in WMS server.

• Experimental integration of modern JavaScript and Webpack.

• Quota for the maximum number of enabled users.

• OpenLayers library upgraded to 6.5.0.

• OAuth server logout support via logout redirect endpoint.

3.7.0

• Add database migrations framework and automatic migrations applying.

• External access links for styles, web maps (TMS), and feature layers (MVT).

• Experimental WFS client and raster mosaic, which is disabled by default.

• Add support of 1.1.0 version in WFS server implementation.

• Improved handling of NODATA values in raster layer and raster style.

• Compression level of PNG images is set to 3, which is much faster.

• Performance improvements and better concurrency for tile cache.

• New “CSV for Microsoft Excel” export format for better Excel compatibility.

• Fix infinite wait of database lock, including during vector layer deletion.

• Improved handling of invalid JSON bodies in RESP API, now the correct error message is returned.

• Vector layer export to MapInfo MIF/MID format.

• Vector layer export to Panorama SXF format.

3.6.0

• Major improvements and bug fixes in WFS protocol implementation.

• Permission model changes: now any action on resource requires read permission from scope resource on the resource and its parent.

• PostGIS layer extent calculation and improved extent calculation in vector layer.

• Vector layer export to GeoPackage format.

• Faster processing of empty tiles and images.

• Tile cache and webmap annotations are enabled by default.

• Command to delete orphaned vector layer tables.

• HTTP API with resource permissions explanation.

• Support for like, geom and extensions in feature layer REST API.

• Support for GeoJSON files in ZIP-archive and faster ZIP-archive unpacking.

• Clickable resource links in webmap, WMS and WFS services.

• Ability to disable SSL certificate check for TMS connection.

• Lookup table component is part of nextgisweb core package nextgisweb.

• Fix TMS layer tile composition in case of extent outside the bounds.

• Fix GDAL > 3 compability issues, including axis orientation.

• SVG marker library resource available to renderers.

3.5.0

• Raster layer export to GeoTIFF, ERDAS IMAGINE and Panorama RMF formats.

• Customizable link preview for resources.

• Improved resource picker: inappropriate resources are disabled now.

• New implementation of WFS server which fixes many bugs.

• Quad-key support in TMS connection and layer.

• Support for geom_format and srs in feature layer REST API (POST / PUT requests).

• Session-based OAuth authentication with token refresh support.

• Delete users and groups via REST API.

• Track timestamps of user’s last activity.

• Customization of web map identify popup via control panel.

• Speedup cleanup of file storage maintenance and cleanup.

• Fix bulk feature deletion API when passing an empty list.

• Fix bug in CORS implementation for requests returning errors.

• Fix coordinates display format in web map identification popup.

• Fix tile distortion issue for raster styles

3.4.2

• Fix WMS layer creation.

3.4.1

• Fix layout scroll bug in vector layer fields editing.

3.4.0

• New tus-based file uploader. Check for size limits before starting an upload.

• Server-side TMS-client. New resource types: TMS connection and TMS layer.

• Create, delete and reorder fields for existing vector layer.

• Improved Sentry integration.

• WMS service layer ordering.

• Stay on the same page after login.

• Error messages improvements on trying to: render non-existing layer, access non-existing attachment or write a geometry to a layer with a different geometry type.

2020-06-30 release

• General. Add/remove fields of attributes table.

• General. Reorder fields of attributes table.

2020-06-24 release

• General. Support raster pyramids for QGIS style for raster layers.

2020-06-05 release

• General. New data uploader. Check for size limits before starting an upload.

• General. Stay on the same page on login to the same page.

• General. Human readable error on trying to access non-existing attachment.

• General. Human readable error on trying to render non-existing layer.

• General. Human readable error on trying to write a geometry to a layer with a different geometry type.

• General. Improve handling rasters with huge size.

• Extensions. Whitelabel - new extension to set corporate interface elements (logos, links, company mentions etc.).

2020-04-16 release

• For developers. Single feature extent endpoint. Example: https://demo.nextgis.com/api/resource/1735/feature/1/extent

• For developers. Ordering for data filtering. Reverse ordering and two and more field ordering are supported. Example: https://demo.nextgis.com/api/resource/1731/feature/?limit=10&order_by=NAME,-LEISURE

• Admin GUI. Prohibit blocking of the last (the only) administrator in the system.

2020-03-03 release

• Services. Fix declared CRS for WMS containing raster layers.

• Services. Fix RGBA conversion to JPG on WMS requests.

2020-02-12 release

• Storage. Support for storing Z-type geometries, PolygonZ etc.

• For developers. API can accept and provide Z-type geometries.

2019-11-18 release

• Storage. Support for numeric-type fields on layers added from external PostgreSQL/PostGIS

• Search. Improve address search (uses Nominatim)

• For developers. In addition to style IDs Web Map API now provides layer IDs.

2019-11-06 release

• Printing. Zooming with the box now correctly fit the zoomed area with chosen paper format (A4 etc.)

2019-10-17 release

• CRS. Import from ESRI WKT (in addition to OGC WKT)

• CRS. Unicode in CRS names is now supported.

• CRS. Identification doesn’t crash anymore if CRS transformation was not possible.

2019-08-12 release

• Web Map. Search for integer values in added to the embedded feature table.

• Web Map. Improved zooming on a point from the embedded feature table.

• Web Map. While editing the embedded feature table is correctly updated to show newly added features.