Welcome to the uDig 1.3.2 release.

Installation

Download the package appropriate to your platform, unzip and run:

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac
• SDK: For use with SDK Quickstart instructions

Windows and Linux packages includes a Java Runtime so you really can unzip and run without making any configuration changes to your Machine. On Mac OSX uDig is able to check for Java Advanced Imaging and install if needed.

To get started with uDig:

• Help Menu provides a Quickstart and Guided Cheatsheet
• Walkthrough 1
• Walkthrough 2

About uDig 1.3.2

The 1.3.2 release showcases active assistance when writing CQL expressions and filters. This technology will be used to making editing styles a more rewarding and dynamic experience.

This release has been generated with maven using the tycho plugin. This technology will allow us to issues on a more frequent basis. Thanks to Cliff Broadbent and Sam Guymer for the required research and effort required to set this up.

The 1.3 series features some great usability improvements with a new tool palette and easy to access tool options.

For developers this release of the uDig platform provides access to the latest open source libraries.

Here are some new features you can look forward to:

• Includes a revitalised User Guide a new clean look (available online)
• Import SLD 1.1 Styles
• Additional bundled Edit Tools - no longer require a separate download
• Active assistance when editing CQL Filters and Expressions
• Area - define your area of interest based on CRS, current screen or a bookmark. You can use the area of interest to filter the Table view, this is a great way to focus on only the features displayed on screen.
• Filter Map Layers using a dynamic Constraint Query Language edit. There is also a checkbox to filter a Map Layer using the current area of interest which can be used to answer simple feature containment questions.
• Transform operation with dynamic expression editor for generating new values.
• Define an expression to generate a label for individual features, allowing the Information view to report back features by name.
• Updated Info and Profile tool for raster data
• Teradata support
• Spatial Toolbox view allowing access to OMS3 processing; with tutorial!
• New import and export formats: CSV and KML.
• For details on these and other features check out the What is new!

Usability Improvements

• New Tool Palette with easy to use Tool Options for quick access to preferences
• New "cheatsheet" help system offering guide assistance to new users
• Control Tool interaction with your layers with the ability to mark background layers

Additional documentation:

• Updated Walkthrough 1 and Walkthrough 2 for the new Tool Palette and Tool Options
• Extensive update to online help including uDig Overview
• New step by step Introduction to Spatial Toolbox
• Updated What is new page
• Reorganised the Tasks section with step by step instructions for using new features

• Access to the latest GeoTools 8.1 release
• Access to the latest JTS 1.12
• Access to the latest ImageIO-EXT 1.1.4

• uDig 1.3.2 Release Notes
• uDig 1.3.1 Release Notes
• uDig 1.3.0 Release Notes
• uDig 1.2.2 Release Notes
• uDig 1.2.1 Release Notes
• uDig 1.2.0 Release Notes

Known Issues:

• The mac release is unable to support the full range of ImageIO-EXT formats. Please contact udig-devel if you are able to build GDAL on Mac OSX.
• The ImageIO-EXT / GDAL library requires native code for MrSID and ECW available on limited platforms (win32, linux32)