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Release Notes for Thuban-1.2.1 (released 2008-02-03)
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Announcement Thuban 1.2.1

Bringing out to light what was hidden - 
is a fitting motto of this maintenance release. Thuban had a few interesting
Extensions, but if users saw them depended on their customisation. Now
all Extensions can be enabled per installation.  Not all of these gems 
have been fully brought back to life. With ogr you can still open up
all formats this powerful library can read. Wms currently needs a makeover
which is on the list for the next release. Of course a number of defects
have been fixed. The Thuban 1.2.x series seems a little less stable than
usual because of the way we are half way there to fully support unicode
internally. But thanks to our users, all reports help us to iron out
the problems! Thanks to all that have send us feedback!

Bernhard Reiter
Didrik Pinte


Notable issues:
 - gdal version 1.5.0: The following issue was reported with this new version:
   https://wald.intevation.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=587
   gdal 1.5.0-3 (from Debian sid) leads to error messages and test failures
 	
 - Extension OGR: 
	- Two tests fail (probably because of an ogr/shapelib problem.)
	https://wald.intevation.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=91
	The failure looks harmless. As the ogr layer support is beta 
	it did not block the release.
	- Is slower than native Shapefile support.
	- Classification might not work.
 - Extension WMS: probably does not work correctly, thus it is disabled
   in Thuban/thuban_cfg.py. 
 - Extension profiling: makes use of a non-free "profile" module which 
   therefor will not be available on all python installations. Consequently
   it is also not enabled by default.
 - Because we enabled translations for the Extensions only recently,
   some translations will be outdated more then usual.


Release Notes for Thuban-1.2.0 (released 2007-03-13)
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Announcement Thuban 1.2.0

Thuban is back. 
There was a period of slow development with Thuban, where it just worked.
Since the 1.0.0 release of Thuban in 2003 
quite a bit of new features got added and released as a development 1.1.0.
Our users were never presented a version called stable. Now they are -
with Thuban 1.2.0. Beside this long due duty, the new development
team has brought Thuban up to be compatible with newer versions
of python, wxWidgets, pysqlite and more. There is a new windows installer.
This was classic boring maintenance, but now we are in a position
to add new features and accelerate Thuban's rate of innovation again.

Give Thuban a spin and help us to improve it.

Bernhard Reiter
Didrik Pinte



Notable issues:
 - Extension OGR:
	- Two tests fail (probably because of an ogr/shapelib problem.)
	https://wald.intevation.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=91

	  The failure seems harmless. As the ogr layer support is beta 
	  it did not block the release, but packagers running the tests 
	  must pay attention.

	- Is slower than native Shapefile support.
	- Classification might not work.

 - On Windows with language settings that have decimalpoint != '.',
	e.g. German, Thuban might throw an exception, due to a python defect
	in the locale module (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1699853&group_id=5470&atid=105470).
	The fix for Thuban is in SVN, you can also set Windows to English.
 - On Windows raster images with setting "bitmap" will not be displayed.
	Workaround: use setting "alpha" instead.

 - The Windows installer is still dependant on some prerequisites in order to
   	work correctly. See the INSTALL.txt file on wald 
	for more information on the complete installation procedure.
