QGIS Version 1.7.4 'Wroclaw' is released

We are pleased to announce another release in our 1.7.x series of releases. To download your copy, please visit the QGIS download page. This release is named after the town of Wroclaw in Poland. The Department of Climatology and Atmosphere Protection, University of Wroclaw kindly hosted the developer meeting in November 2010 when 1.7 was released.

Please note that this is a bugfix release. As such it contains no new features preserves the programmatic interface of QGIS 1.7.0. As with any software, there may be bugs and issues that we were not able to fix in time for the release. We therefore recommend that you test this version before rolling it out en-masse to your users. The original release announcement of QGIS 1.7.0 including details and screenshots can still be found here.

1. Changelog

This is a bugfix release over version 1.7.3. The following changes were made.

• Fix #5010 Line intersection non fatal error
• Fix #2992 Use native Separators in Filename-edit-widget
• Fix #4633 'Save as...DXF' does not add file extension
• Fix #4412 Ftools: Input layers are not presented in alphabetical order
• Fix #4326 Use project title as default filename in Save and Save as dialogs
• Fix #4623 GPS plugin: 'Save as...' does not add file extension
• Fix #4652 Remove "unsynced" EPSG CRS that are not listed in GDAL
• Fix #4625 Enable wait cursor when WMS search is ongoing
• Fix #3845 Add support for modulo operator (%) in rule based rendering
• Fix #4193 GRASS Rasters are not drawn with user-defined style
• Fix #4557 Fix crash when project is not yet saved
• Fix #4315 'Stretch Histogram to full dataset' toolbar button does not work with GRASS rasters
• Fix #4632 More precise composer map rotation
• Fix #4664 Fix label orientation with line dependent position
• Fix #2435 Fix Query builder from layer properties when layer name in cyrrilic
• Fix #4684 Skip attribute values with invalid variant type
• Fix #4549 Update QgsGenericProjectionSelector bindings
• Fix #4129 GDAL provider: add statusChanged signal and fix debugging output
• Fix #4379 If set 'prompt for CRS', CRS is asked when creating new shapefile layer
• Fix #4694 Hourglass not shown when classifying
• Fix #4478 Actions using %% do not work from identify results
• Fix #4646 Editing of table of attributes goes Wild
• Fix #3963 Crash when applying a graduated vector style
• Fix #3185,#4689 Gps Tools: Allow user to add new ports
• Fix #4402 QGIS crashes displaying overview if diagrams are used
• Fix #4371 Identify tool does not work with reprojected WMS layers
• Fix #4305 Query builder: added ' ' around numeric fields (wrong)
• Fix #4217 Allow up to 5 decimal places for width/size Scale Field
• Fix #4452 Support for cyrillic symbols in raster metadata
• Fix #4558 Enhancements in OGR Provider
• Fix #3201 Show warning when user tried to create field 'shape' in shapefile
• Fix #4736 Do not create the .gislock file under Windows (as native GRASS now does)
• Fix #4523,#4737,#4738 Several Nodetool fixes
• Fix #4690 Crash when adding field to a shape file's attribute table
• Fix #2709 There is no default value of Categorized symbol in new symbology
• Fix #4693 Always save last used directory in Raster terrain analysis plugin
• Fix #4567 Fix Union tool to produce correct attribute table
• Fix #1209 Save last used directory and last used filter in GPSTools plugin
• Fix #206 (partial) Remember dialog size and position and restore them
• Fix #4138 Display real band number for multiband rasters when single band gray drawing style used
• Fix #4178 Display plugins from additional paths in Plugin Manager
• Fix #3763 Use native file dialogs wherever possible
• Fix #3189 Increase scale range
• Fix #4843 Fix highlighting for identify tool when OTF enabled
• Fix #4635 Attribute table edit button: only changes to columns are refreshed when Discarding changes
• Fix #4109 Save-as to 'original CRS' incorrectly reprojects if OTF reprojection is disabled
• Fix #5010 Fix Intersect lines tool
• Fix #4465 Make the GRASS plugin working with GRASS 6.4.2RC2
• Fix #4668 Make r.sunmask.position and r.sunmask.datetime work
• Fix #4965 Enable toggle editing button depending on layer type
• minor UI fix in New SpatiaLite Layer dialog
• Merge shapefile to one crash when used layers mode
• Reload default color table
• Fix for attribute shift in form when invoked from table
• Postgres provider: remove ctid limitation to 32bit
• Add extension to new SpatiaLite database if user ommits it
• Disable rendering while legend group is removed
• Query builder: support null values in values lists
• Avoid useless canvas redraw when user interacts with scale selector
• Clear collected plugins path before collecting svg path
• Case insensitive search for CRS in WMS provider
• New icons for RGB to PCT and PCT to RGB tools
• New gis theme icon for Merge shapefiles tool
• Several other small fixes
• Improved and updated Translation