OpenJUMP Roadmap

Version policy

From version 1.4.1, well follow the rules

• First number change is for a new major version. It can break compatibility in OpenJUMP core (refactoring) and add important new features.
• Second number change is for a version adding important new features, but keeping compatibility.
• Third number change is for a bug fix release. It can include minor improvements and capabilities.

OpenJUMP 1.7.0 (?)

• Improve javadoc, wiki documentation, language files
• Adding a Webstart version (Matthias ?)

Refactoring/Releasing

• Create unit test and/or non-regression test (Benjamin ?)
• FR 3421958 from Michael + Benjamin work about plugin architecture
• Adding a PlugIn Manager (Eric ?)

New Features

• FR 3085736 : Viewing pixel values in the status bar (Alberto ?)
• FR 3421059 : zoom to pixel size

Improvements

• Improve image management (Alberto ?)
• Study the multi-styles mechanism implemented in Kosmo and try to implement it in OpenJUMP (Michaël)
• Improve measurement tool (Peppe and Matthias)
• Improve input file error messages for Join Text Table plug-in. (Landon)

Fixes

• Bug 3212739 : Navigating from AttributeTab
• Bug 3310791 : Navigation Hotkey Issue
• Bug 3176257 : Bug random behavior of Save Image to Raster
• Bug 3043312 : OJ styling bugs and issues

PLUS version

• Bug 3470989 : WFS plugin (need developper with w*s skill)
• prepare a generalization extension with simplify, smooth, orthogonalize (from skyjump), densifying
• Improve GPX PlugIn (Landon)

OpenJUMP 1.6.0 (mar 2013)

• Improve javadoc, wiki documentation, language files

Refactoring/Releasing

• Prepare release (Ede)
• Improve windows 64, jre 7, windows 7 compatibility (issues 3528916, 3528917, 3570707)

Fixes

• Bug 3564039 and 3564137 in save view image as plugin (Michaël)
• Bug 3525977 PNG rasters with void pixels not displayed (Michaël)
• Bug 3590463 fixed in PlanarGraphPlugIn (Michaël)
• Some simple Sextante algorithms throw exception (ex. buffer)
• Check fixes which have been made in SkyJUMP for last two years (Michaël)
• Create Lattice from Raster failed in some cases
• Bug 3521940 Trouble with opening several shapefiles from one zip file (Ede)

Improvements

• Selected features order is now predicatble (useful for merge selected features for example)
• Refactoring and improvement of the shortcut framework (not yet finished - Ede)
• Check improvements made in SkyJUMP for last two years
• FR 3491966 : Label rendering performance improvment (Michaël)
• FR 3203852 : jml writer could throw a OOM for geometries
• FR 3521960 : Export large dataset in svg format
• FR 3488025 : Delete existing sbn/sbx/qix files when writing a shp
• FR 3472020 : Saving long attribute name into shapefile (Michaël)
• Make skin option persistent
• Improvement of Noder plugin (make it compatible with new no-option plugins in the map context menu)
• Fix import of zipped shapefiles with XML metadata file. [OJ thinks its a GML file and asks for input template.]

New features

• Create Point Layer from Attribute Table in Generate submenu (Stefan)
• Join Table plugin in Edit Attribute submenu (Stefan)
• Triangulation plugins using JTS 1.12 api (Michaël)
• 'Add Geometry Attributes' and 'Add 3D Geometry Attributes' plugins
• FR 3516240 : New densifier function in geometry functions
• FR 3506380 : New "merge selected features" in place available in map context menu (Michaël)
• Six new plugins derived from Noder plugin and available in the map context menu
• Create grid plugin : see discussion
• SkyJUMP pick Color integration (Peppe)
• Adding the north arrow plugin
• Add OffsetCurve plugin (Michaël)

PLUS version

• Add ClanCoveragePlugIn to Topology extension
• FR 3601072 : aggregation plugin now adds attribute in the target layer
• Add beanshell-based attribute calculator
• Improve Sextante PlugIn reliability
• Integration of Sextante 1.0 (Stefan)
• Better integration of PostGIS plugin in OpenJUMP framework (Michaël)
• FR 3439229 : New csv driver (Michaël)
• SkyJUMP KML reader/writer (ready as an extension - include it in PLUS distro ?)
• Update DXF Driver, TopologyPlugIn (Michaël)

OpenJUMP 1.5.2 (may 2012 ?)

Distribution

• Include a source bundle and javadoc in the distribution
• Changed logo in windows installer (new logo has a vertival layout)

Performance improvements

• Improved startup time of the application, including PLUS edition
• Improved performance of complex polygon reading from shapefiles
• WMS : cache the label associated to each MapLayer in MapLayerPanel as it is called very often and includes a costly calculation (getFullSRSList)

User Interface improvements

• New application wide info icon and cursor
• Selected skins in options dialog are now persistent over restarts
• FR 3511501 : Change FillPolygon ToolTip

Other improvements in CORE

• Improved PostGIS 2.0 compatibility
• BZIP, GZ compressed files read support e.g. data.shp.gz
• BZIP, GZ compressed and uncompressed TAR archive read support

Bug fixes

• Bug 3521266 : Open Raster image (Sextante) checkbox was now always available when an image file was selected
• Bug 3521940 : Trouble with opening several shapefiles from one zip file
• JML format : Preserve z values in JML format, even if first coordinate has no z
• WKT display : Write again z values in WKT format of Info viewer
• Bug 3515663 : Regression in OpenJUMP 1.5.x (fixed in ClassifyAttributesPlugIn)
• Bug 3513864 : Left click on RasterImageLayer name throws exceptions
• Bug 3513741 : Attribute used to dissolve is repeated in unioned layer
• Bug 3513735 : Sextante Raster visibility not saved in project
• Bug 3510832 : Changing schema with attribute table opened throw exception
• Bug 3510778 : EZ Button does not respect layer editability
• Bug 3497362 : Dialog box of "draw circle from center and radius" pops up
• Bug 3491956 : Union of overlapping lines can't merge
• Bug 3489322 : Snapping on grid not precise
• Bug 3489028 : FillPolygon returning the bad Polygon
• Bug 3489026 : Bad FillPolygon user experience with large dataset
• Bug 3488976 : Noder plugin fails to split polygons
• Bug 3488974 : Buffer PlugIn
• Bug 3488028 : Datasets read from zip files should be tagged read-only
• Bug 3486847 : Wrong Dialog message when Closing project
• SimpleQuery : Change the definition of strictIntersection from TFFTFF*** to TFF*FF*** so that closed linestring can also be found

Work on PLUS distribution

• Improve startup time
• Bug in Network Topology Cleaning plugin (PLUS edition) -> topology-0.3.4
• Bug 3519929 : Improved PostGIS PlugIn compatibility with date datatype (not yet complete)
• Bug 3492384 : DXF export of lines does not export z value
• Bug 3487686 : BeanshellEditor : window priority

OpenJUMP 1.5.1 (4 feb 2012)

• Improve javadoc, wiki documentation, language files

Refactoring

• New scripts for releases
• New multiplatform installer based in izpack

Fixes

• Bug 3472008 in ClipToFencePlugIn fixed
• Bug in CombineSelectedLayer fixed
• Optimization of DeleteDuplicateItemsPlugIn
• workaround for a graphic display JVM-bug on linux

OpenJUMP 1.5.0 (7 jan 2012)

• Improve javadoc, wiki documentation, language files

Refactoring

• new scripts for a CORE and a PLUS release
• Refactoring/improvements in EditTransaction
• Refactoring/improvements in Selection Manager
• Refactoring/improvements in FeatureInstaller
• Better error management in image loading

Fixes

• Bug 2728360: Layer operations break the Undo Chain
• Bugs 3418067 and 3413619 in LayerNamePanel
• Fixes UI bug appearing in MacOSX distribution
• Bug 3415409 : NoteStyle could not be deserialized

Improvements

• Feature request 3422848 add a maxFeature parameter to AddDataStore
• 3407229 Improved Label placement
• Improved Buffer PlugIn : adds options from JTS 1.12
• Improved Union PlugIn : make a single plugin from Union and Dissolve
• ShapefileWriter can now truncate fields having more than 255 chars if desired
• Added a new noder plugin
• Added a new FillPolygon edit tool

Other UI Improvements

• Go on with user interface improvements made by Peppe in JUFRE,
  • add icons (on-going, more to do)
  • size of toolbar icon is varying (3 first icons too small, Sextante icon very small...)
  • ...
• Better About dialog
• Improved AutoAssignAttributePlugIn
• Improved readability of selected Layer Name in dialog boxes

New features

• One side buffer using JTS 1.12 api
• Improving noding capabilities based on JTS 1.12 api
• 3 new zoom plugins from LayerViewPanel
• Add copy/paste schema from SkyJUMP
• Add InverseOrientation PlugIn

OpenJUMP 1.4.2 (11 sept 2011)

See ChangeLog file [1] for a list of changes already committed

• Improve javadoc, wiki documentation, language files

Refactoring

• Remove MultiInputDialogWithoutCancel (replaced by new MultiInputDialog)

Bug fix

• Include net package in the distribution (used for encrypted WMS URL)
• Bug 3303503 : Faulty handling of schemas in OJ 1.4.0.3
• Bug 3354118 : Changing L&F throws NPE
• Bug 3360102 : Reverse line direction applied to source layer
• Bug 3397856 : Decoration / display z value not working with points
• Bug 3398100 : Attribute based query throws NPE with null values

UI Improvements

• Add a unicode police under GPL for special fonts (ex. telugu)
• Clean View menu : Move "Run SQL Query..." and "Add Image (Test, ECW...)" from Layer Menu to File menu.
• Readme file in the InfoPanel

New functions, function improvements

• Add Geometry Conversion tools from Ede
• New options to the BlendLineStrings tool

OpenJUMP 1.4.1 (4 july 2011)

See ChangeLog file [2] for a list of changes already committed

• Improve javadoc, wiki documentation, language files

Refactoring

• Try to get rid of proprietary source code - thanks to Ede
  • JPEGDecodeParam in com\vividsolutions\jump\workbench\imagery\mrsid\MrSIDReferencedImage
  • BASE64Encoder in com\vividsolutions\wms\WMService and com\vividsolutions\wms\MapRequest

• Fix all javadoc warnings, improve javadoc
• Check jar dependencies and remove unused jars :
  • xml-api and xml-api-ext are used by PrintLayoutPlugin (but need to be in lib directory)
  • js.jar and pdf-transcoder.jar also used by PrintLayoutPlugIn (removed from OJ 1.4.1)
  • postgis_1_0_0.jar : no more used, removed from distribution (removed from 1.4.1.2313-s)

Bug fix

• Bug 2975012 jts 1.11 related bug on deleting point features (fixed in jts 1.12 included in OJ 1.4.1)
• Bug 3034927 Measure Tool doesn't Comply with snap (check with Matthias if it is corrected)
• Bug 3085727 Raster color editor not refreshing (check with Mohammed if he can try to fix this)
• Bug 3091363 Duplicate vertices with resized Vertices (mmichaud)
• Bug 3104103 Bugs in classifyAttributePlugIn (mmichaud)
• Bug 3202697 Some geometry functions not working (mmichaud)
  • After all, this is not really a bug (but it needs to be seriously documented or enhanced for Polygonize, Line merge and Line sequence)

Enhancements

• new MultiInputDialog
• Request 3200477 Attribute panel : don't zoom in for points
• reorganize Tools>Query menu as proposed by Uwe
• reorganize menus to make the UI more friendly (check this with Peppe)
  • (Peppe) see proposal for possible modifications of menu here:http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/opensit/Openjump/development/readme.txt
  • Attached modified version of Openjump.jar with all the modifications: http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/opensit/Openjump/development/OpenJUMP_15beta.jar
  • Changes from Peppe are partly done, the work should continue on 1.4.x
• Feature request 3206932 : Save layers created from Run SQL query...