QGIS 2.6 "Brighton"

01.11.2014 19:04 ·  GIS  ·  qgis, release

The release of QGIS 2.6 “Brighton” has been announced. This release contains many new features, bugfixes and improvements.

The detailed changelog can be found here. For normal users, it is better to use the visual changelog. The most important and interesting changes are listed below:

• implemented support for expression (virtual) fields
• actions can now have an associated icon
• more expression functions and variables have been added, including $currentfeature and $atlasfeature to get the current feature in different contexts, attribute() and getFeature() to get the attribute value of a feature or a feature with matching attribute, respectively
• layer tree overhaul: new API, visibility groups, legend filter and more
• syntax highlighting in all code editors (Python, expressions, HTML and CSS)
• added support for custom colour palettes
• new colour picker dialogue with a wide range of features
• Processing Modeler overhaul
• online repository for Processing models and scrips
• item panel in Print Composer for quick access to all composer items
• many properties of various composer items have been made data-defined
• support for multiple overview maps for a composer map element
• and much more

The source code and binary packages for Windows, Debian, and Ubuntu are available for download. Packages for other distributions and operating systems will appear as they are prepared by the maintainers.