Libraries

GDAL / OGR

• Latest release 2.4.0 (Dezember 2018)
• New GDAL and OGR drivers
• Improved drivers: PostGIS raster, MSSQL Spatial

PROJ

• Latest release 6.0.0 (March 2019)
• Geodetic datum transformation with new C++ API
• Unified database for CRS, Datums etc.
• WKT2 support and ISO-19111:2019 compliant

JTS Topology Suite

• Latest release 1.16.1 (February 2019)
• Morton/Hilbert curve builder
• Support for M values
• Derivatives: JSTS, GEOS > R-GEOS, rgeo, Shapely

GeoTools

• Latest release 21.0 (February 2019)
• Better NODATA support for raster data
• CLI for migrating NetCDF H2 indexes
• NEAREST spatial predicate support for PostGIS
• Java 11 compatibility

Orfeo Toolbox (OTB)

• Latest release 6.6.1 (December 2018)
• Data augmentation with generated samples
• Dimensionality reduction: Encoder, PCA, SOM

PDAL

• Latest release 1.8.0 (November 2018)
• Supports ESRI I3S, Riegl RDB, Unity FBX
• NNDistance filter & Delauany Triangulation
• LAZ compression for writerss.pointcloud

MDAL

• Latest release 0.2.0 (Feb 2018)
• Handling unstructured mesh data
• NetCDF, GRIB, XMDF, DAT, 3Di

sf

• Latest release 0.7.3 (February 2019)
• Better GEOS integration
• New buffering styles
• read_sf creates tibbles directly

stars

• Latest release 0.3.0 (February 2019)
• Spatialtemporal tidy arrays
• sf integration

GeoPandas

• 2.0.0 (January 2019)
• Multi-scale GWR
• Bayes on Gibbs samples
• Categorial Spatial Markov

Rasterio

pySAL

• 1.0.2x (March 2019)
• Signed int8 support
• Window operations
• In-Memory datasets

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

Mapnik

• Latest release 3.0.22 (January 2019)
• LinePatternSymbolizer with repeat option
• Improved padding calculation for clipping

Leaflet

• Latest release 1.4.0 (December 2018)
• Extend pan API to not recenter for a new point

OpenLayers

• Latest release 6.0 beta (March 2019)
• Replace Canvas2D with DOM compositions
• Improved Vector Tiles rendering
• Mapbox-GL layer

Cesium

• Latest release 1.55 (March 2019)
• Support for polylines and textured entities on 3D Tiles
• CZML arcs for lines and polygons
• WMS-T (time) support in WebMapServiceImageryProvider

• Latest release 2.19.x (March 2018)
• Icon and text rendering optimization
• Generalized GPU shaders
• VTS MapProxy converter

VTS

• Latest release 2.8.0 (March 2019)
• Add 3D Tiles extension support
• KML parser and modify GPX parser
• Immersive views and StreetControls

iTowns

OSM Buildings

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

Tangram

• Latest release ES 0.10.1 (Dec 2018)
• Latest release JS 0.18.0 (Feb 2019)
• ES: TouchInput for gestures
• ES/JS: Zoom configuration
• JS: Improved layer matching

Desktop

Apps

GRASS GIS

• Latest release 7.6.0 (January 2019)
• New raster modules
• New virtual raster data type
• New raster compression method (ZSTD)
• Updated PROJ support

QGIS

• Latest release 3.6 (February 2019)
• New editing features
• More expression functions
• New raster image map marker
• QGIS Server, QGIS WebClient

gvSIG

• Latest release 2.5rc (February 2019)
• New topology framework
• Virtual fields for layers
• Ring maps

Open Jump

• Latest release 1.14 (January 2018)
• Improved raster profile tool
• OpenKLEM for hydrological analysis
• Improved LegendPlugin

SAGA GIS

• Latest release 7.2 (February 2019)
• Geogr. coord. to projected vertices
• Improved Python interface

GeoDa

• Latest release 1.12rc (February 2019)
• Extended support for vector formats
• Linking maps and diagrams
• Improved scatterplot matrixes
• New GUI design

hale

• Latest Release 3.5.0 (January 2019)
• Deegree feature store configuration export
• GML partitioning by spatial extent
• Migration of join conditions and context filters

Databases Indexes

PostGIS

• Latest Release 2.5.2 (March 2019)
• 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 9.8 (January 2019)
• Support for WCS version 2.1 request
• Support for exporting to CIS 1.1 GML format
• Support for NaNf and Inff floating-point constants

Tile38

• Latest Release 1.16 (March 2019)
• pub/sub notifications
• MQTT tls/cert options
• Add Kafka key

GeoRocket

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

Servers

GeoServer

• Latest release 2.15 (March 2019)
• See GeoTools improvements
• Layer-wise en/disabling web services
• GeoFence internal server extension
• Java 11 compatibility

Mapserver

• Latest release 7.2.2 (February 2019)
• Mapbox Vector Tiles support
• Vendor-Specific OGC FILTER parameter (WMS)
• WCS 2.0 support

deegree

• Latest release 3.4.4 (March 2019)
• Improved label rendering in polygons
• CSW client: getIsoRecords method with constraints
• New CLI tool to import comlex GML
• Java 11 compatability

• SOS: 4.4.5 (February 2019)
• WPS: 4.0beta6 (August 2018)

pyWPS

52n SOS / WPS

• 4.2.1 (December 2018)
• Support for HPC cluster
• Streamed URL data input
• Doc validators

GeoWebCache

• Latest release 3.18.x (March 2018)
• Imrpoved handling for stopping events
• Switch from Travis to CircleCI

MapFish Print

• Latest release 1.15 (February 2019)
• WMTS REST integration
• Vector-Tiles Mime Type support
• Java 11 compatability

OpenMapTiles

• 0.9.1 (November 2018)
• Better GDAL integration
• Simplification tolerance

Tegola

t-rex

• 0.8.1 (November 2018)
• gzip tile caching
• Proper VT Mime Type
• Support sub queries

• 3.9 (November 2018)
• Multilingual streets
• Better indoor
• Improved 3D buildings

Web

Clients

Mapbender

• Latest release 3.0.8beta (March 2019)
• New coordinate tool
• Search-router with mouse-over
• Many GUI improvements

Oskari

• Latest release 1.51 (March 2019)
• Thematic maps improvements
• WFS-layers based on MVT / GeoJSON
• Webpack build environment

GeoNode

• Latest release 2.10rc4 (August 2018)
• Use env var instead of secrets
• Cloning configuration from S3

• Latest release 3.3 (February 2019)
• Query validation on user inputs
• Queries with OR operator
• Moreadmin capabilities

GeoMoose

• Latest release 3.0.0 (February 2019)
• Updates components
• JSONB support (Postgres)
• Java 11 compatability

SHOGun

• Latest release 1.0 (February 2019)
• More QGIS for web

QGIS Web Client 2

• Latest release 3.2.2 (March 2019)
• Dataviz and Atlas capabilities
• Embeddable maps
• Search can use Postgres

Lizmap

• Latest release 0.0.64 (February 2019)
• Improved glTF loading
• Update to latest BIMServer release

BIM Surfer

• Latest release 1.1 (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

Styling

GeoStyler

• Latest release 3.1.1 (February 2018)
• New CQL parser
• Extended Rule Editor

Maputnik

• Latest release 1.5 (February 2018)
• show-collision-boxes query parameter
• Support for ‘raster-resampling’
• Thunderforest vector tiles

Datawrapper

• Latest release 1.19 (April 2018)
• New data editor and histogram view
• Full table search
• Column reordering and row sorting

Catalogues Data lineage

GeoNetwork

• Latest release 3.6.0 (Janaury 2019)
• Web accessibility standards, improved guidelines
• Editor board and record history
• ISO19139 / DataCite output format

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 1.2.1 (November 2018)
• Support for GeoServer 2.12 (web API Refresh)
• Improved performance for Replication
• QGIS plugin usability improvements

Distributed

Computing

GeoMesa

• Latest release 2.2.1 (January 2019)
• Support for cross-layer filtering in GeoServer
• Improved anti-meridian query handling
• Apache Kudu data store implementation

GeoWave

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

GeoSpark

• Latest release 1.2.0 (March 2019)
• Core: GeoJSONReader, Wkt/WkbReader
• SparkSQL: More join functions
• Viz: Add support for Spark DataFrames
• New connector to Apache Zeppelin

GeoTrellis

• Latest release 2.2.0 (February 2019)
• Spark: Tiled processing and reprojection
• Ratser: Native support for Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (COG)
• Vektor: bbox field to all GeoJSON Features