Libraries

GDAL / OGR

• Latest release 2.3.2 (September 2018)
• New GDAL drivers: PDS4, RDA
• New OGR drivers: MVT, ESRIJson, TopoJSON, WFS 3
• Improved drivers: MBtiles, DXF, GRIB, WCS, GMLAS, GeoPackage

PROJ

• Latest release 5.2.0 (September 2018)
• New internal API and better alignment with standards
• New CLI, called cct
• Pipelining transformation
• Higher accuracy for geodetic transformations

JTS Topology Suite

• Latest release 1.16 (September 2018)
• Support for M values
• Improved Quadtree and STRtree queries
• Derivatives: JSTS, GEOS > R-GEOS, rgeo, Shapely

GeoTools

• Latest release 20.0 (September 2018)
• Map algebra via Jiffle
• Support for PostGIS arrays and M values
• Improvements on image mosaic
• Enhanced filtering in app-schema module

Orfeo Toolbox (OTB)

• Latest release 6.6.0 (June 2018)
• Data augmentation with generated samples
• Dimensionality reduction: Encoder, PCA, SOM

PDAL

• Latest release 1.7.2 (May 2018)
• Read Numpy data directly
• Streaming options for pipeline and translate

sf

• Latest release 0.7 (October 2018)
• Better GEOS integration
• New buffering styles
• read_sf creates tibbles directly

stars

• Latest release 0.2.0 (u.d.)
• Spatialtemporal tidy arrays

GeoPandas

• 2.0rc2 (July 2018)
• Multi-scale GWR
• Bayes on Gibbs samples
• Categorial Spatial Markov

Rasterio

pySAL

• 1.0.8 (October 2018)
• Window operations
• Georeferencing
• In-Memory datasets

• 0.4.0 (July 2018)
• Improved overlay
• Explode data frames
• read_file rasters

Mapnik

• Latest release 3.0.21 (October 2018)
• Mostly bugfixing of components
• Improved SVG parsing

• New improved `interior` placement algorithm

Leaflet

• Latest release 1.3.4 (August 2018)
• AutoPan when dragging markers at map edges
• Enable options for LayerGroup
• Tolerance option on rendering

OpenLayers

• Latest release 5.2 (August 2018)
• More convenient select and sketch layer management
• Add 'rendercomplete' event
• Extended ImageStatic API

Cesium

• Latest release 1.50 (October 2018)
• Initial support for clamping to 3D Tiles
• Added ground atmosphere lighting

OSM Buildings

• Latest release 4.0 (Agugust 2018)
• Highlighting / Hiding multiple objects
• Picking always returns object
• Improved overall performance

Tangram

• Latest release ES 0.9.6 (July 2018)
• Latest release JS 0.15.4 (Sep 2018)
• ES: Textures for Draw Rules
• ES/JS: Improved point feature
• JS: Data preprocess options

Desktop

Apps

GRASS GIS

• Latest release 4.7.1 (June 2018)
• Better Data Catalog usability
• Better data compression
• New geomorphons module
• Spatial topological operators

QGIS

• Latest release 3.2.3 (September 2018)
• Better filter expression editor
• Geometry smoothing and simplification
• Project mgmt: gzip or PostgreSQL, metadata
• https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog32/
• QGIS Server, QGIS WebClient

gvSIG

• Latest release 2.4 (February 2018)
• Direct OSM downloads
• Improved 3D/4D support
• Geocoding

Open Jump

• Latest release 1.13 (May 2018)
• CRS transformation part of core
• Many new plugins

SAGA GIS

• Latest release 6.4 (June 2018)
• Grid collection computation

GeoDa

• Latest release 1.10 (June 2017)
• Local Geary Cluster Map
• Multivariate Local Geary Cluster Map
• Clustering: PCA, KMeans, Hierarchical Clustering

hale

• Latest Release 3.4.1 (September 2018)
• Isolated workspaces for GeoServer
• Merge alignments via CLI
• Split GML output by feature type
• XtraServer plugin

Databases Indexes

PostGIS

• Latest Release 2.5 (September 2018)
• Improved parallelism
• nD spGIST indexing (Kd trees)
• Hashable geometry in CTEs

SpatiaLite

• Latest Release 5.0beta (August 2018)
• New Topology support
• Stored Procedures support
• New VirtualRouting module
• New BLOB TinyPoint format

GeoPackage

• Latest Release 1.2.1 (June 2018)
• Allow using non-spatial data
• Removing geometry type extensions

Rasdaman

• Latest Release 9.7 (June 2018)
• WMS now supports 3D+ coverages
• Polygon clipping support in WCS and WCPS
• Allow expressions in WCPS subsets on grid axes

Tile38

• Latest Release 1.13 (August 2018)
• pub/sub notifications
• MQTT tls/cert options

GeoRocket

• Latest Release 1.3.0 (September 2018)
• Many performance improvements
• POST compressed files (GZIP)
• Multiple Elasticsearch hosts

Servers

GeoServer

• Latest release 2.14 (September 2018)
• See GeoTools improvements
• Improved style editor
• WMS “nearest match” supporting time
• New modules: OAuth2, WFS 3

Mapserver

• Latest release 7.2.1 (October 2018)
• Mapbox Vector Tiles support
• Vendor-Specific OGC FILTER parameter (WMS)
• WCS 2.0 support
• Enable Python 3 for Mapscript

deegree

• Latest release 3.4.3 (August 2018)
• Fully compliant to OGC OWS standards
• GML Temporal support
• Better INSPIRE support
• Pageable WFS
• New CLI tool to import comlex GML

ZOO Project

• 4.0beta6 (August 2018)

pyWPS

52n WPS

• 4.0 (December 2016)

• 1.6 (February 2017)

istSOS

• Latest release 4.4.3 (June 2018)
• Timeout support
• Improved result filtering
• Static reference values

52n SOS

• v3.0 under development

GeoWebCache

• Latest release 1.11 (November 2017)
• Improve reprojection performance
• Updated ArcGIS compact cache
• Support for S3, Redis, GeoPackage

MapProxy

• Latest release 1.14 (August 2018)
• Improved S3 storage support
• REST configuration management

OpenMapTiles

• 0.9 (July 2018)

Tegola

t-rex

• 0.7.0 (August 2018)

• 3.8.1 (June 2018)

Web

Clients

Mapbender

• Latest release 3.0.7.5 (September 2018)
• New coordinate tool
• Search-router with mouse-over
• Many GUI improvements

Oskari

• Latest release 1.47 (May 2018)
• Improved filtering in statistical maps
• Timeseries in embedded maps
• Moving to OpenLayers 4

GeoNode

• Latest release 2.8 (April2018)
• SLD Upload for Layers
• Vectorial Layers Download Filter
• Improved Metadata Editor Wizard
• Monitoring Plugin for Administrators

• Latest release 3.4 (June 2018)
• Queryable JSON layers
• Multi field searchable layers
• Update build system

GeoMoose

• Latest release 3.1.0 (September 2017)
• Updates to new OL and ExtJS versions

GeoExt

• Under development
• WMS, KML import
• Better layer tree management
• New draw & editing components

QGIS Web Client

• Latest release 3.2rc6 (October 2018)
• External request proxy configuration

Lizmap

• Latest release 2.16 (October 2018)
• Advanced measuring tools
• New search features
• C++ backend, HTTP Proxy, Unity plugin

VTS

• Latest release 2.3.0 (February 2018)
• Wireframe support for 3DTiles layer
• Object orientation = tile orientation
• Improved debugging functionalities
• Update THREE.js

iTowns

• Latest release 0.0.45 (October 2018)
• Improved glTF loading
• Update to latest BIMServer release

BIM Surfer

• Latest release 1.0.7 (May 2018)
• Better queuing and RAM management
• Quantized mesh tiles

Mago3D

• Latest release 0.4.1 (January 2018)
• Mostly fixes
• Greyhound server -> Plasio.js

Plas.io UI

• Latest release 1.6 (March 2018)
• Las -> Potree converter
• Desktop/Portable version

potree

Catalogues Data lineage

GeoNetwork

• Latest release 3.4.3 (July 2018)
• WPS harvesting
• Load INSPIRE codelists from registry
• WFS feature indexing using Elasticsearch

pyCSW

• Latest release 2.2.0 (March 2018)
• WMS, WPS harvesting
• Python plugin enhancements
• CQL to Filter transform
• CQL WKT ENVELOPE support

GeoGig

• Latest Release 1.2 (October 2017)
• Support for GeoServer 2.12 (web API Refresh)
• Improved performance for Replication
• QGIS plugin usability improvements

Distributed

Computing

GeoMesa

• Latest release 2.1 (August 2018)
• Easier auto ingestion of data
• Apache Kudu data store implementation
• FileSystem data store support for non-point geometries

GeoWave

• Latest release 0.9.8 (September 2018)
• Upcoming support for Cassandra
• Allow other CRSes in indexes
• Support more GeoTools data stores

GeoTrellis

• Latest release 2.0.0 (October 2018)
• Native support for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (COG)
• Partitioner option for many operations
• New Piramid class for rasters
• Binary Kryo serialization of geometry