ProRaster Essential Updates
On this page, you will a table describing the new features and other changes made in each update to ProRaster Essential.
For instructional videos that describe new features in each update, visit the ProRaster Updates page.
Release 2.5.1 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential. It contains improvements, modifications, and bug fixes.
Release 2.5.0 Minor Version
This is a minor version upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
| Type | Detail | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Run length encoding is now supported for 1/2/4 and 64 bit unsigned integer index band in classified rasters. | |||||
| Improvement | UniqueByName option added to the raster source editor. | |||||
| Improvement | Support added for chained GDAL virtual file system directives in raster source filenames. | |||||
| Modification | All rasters using a /vsi.../ directive are automatically handled by the GDAL driver exclusively. | |||||
| Modification | Enabled editing of the "Open rasters in base support mode" setting in the Driver Preferences dialog. | |||||
| Modification | "Always render using filtering" is now the default option. | |||||
| Bug fix | Data transforms that map specified values to an index were returning a valid index for intermediate values. | |||||
| Bug fix | Changing the "Invalid beyond clip limits" option would not always apply immediately. | |||||
| Bug fix | Changing the "Color - Intensity balance" option would not always apply immediately. | |||||
| Bug fix | If you connect to an invalid raster source, it was impossible to disconnect from it. | |||||
| Bug fix | Flickering and jittering when zooming in and out has been fixed. | |||||
| Bug fix | Zoom extent was not being maintained in 2D map windows when changing raster sources in the algorithm. | |||||
| Upgrade | GDAL 3.9.3 |
Release 2.4.0 Minor Version
This is a minor version upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
Release 2.3.0 Minor Version
This is a minor version upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
Release 2.2.17 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
| Type | Detail | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improvement | We now ship the Fabio Crameri Scientific Colour Maps. | |||||
| Improvement | When using the Rotate color transform, match the number of colors in the selected color table. | |||||
| Improvement | When you select a color map or legend, the same data transform is automatically selected. | |||||
| Bug fix | CET and FCSCM external folders were being serialised. |
Release 2.2.13 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential. It contains low-level improvements and bug fixes.
Release 2.2.10 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential. It contains low-level improvements and bug fixes.
Release 2.2.09 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential. It contains low-level improvements and bug fixes.
Release 2.2.07 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
In addition to improvements, there are some critical bug fixes in this maintenance update.
| Type | Detail | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improvement | Rasters that you browse to or load via drag&drop are now remembered and can be reloaded from the Open drop menu button. | |||||
| Improvement | Support for drag&drop of multiple raster files by creating a new raster source. | |||||
| Improvement | Recursive folder search for raster sources using wildcards. | |||||
| Improvement | Flexible wildcard search for raster sources in ZIP archives. | |||||
| Improvement | Improved rendering optimisation. | |||||
| Modification | User interface simplification. | |||||
| Bug fix | Memory limit for processing was not being applied. | |||||
| Bug fix | Rasters with an unequal cell size were not displaying isotropically. | |||||
| Bug fix | Creating a layer for a raster source only displayed the first file. |
Release 2.2.06 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
| Type | Detail | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modification | Rendering algorithms now interpret valid cells containing a value of zero to be a masked cell. | |||||
| Modification | Raster Mask operation now considers valid cells containing a value of zero to be a masked cell. | |||||
| Upgrade | Visual Studio 17.9.2. | |||||
| Bug fix | Correct data transform Ranges: Spread about the mean/median/mode. | |||||
| Bug fix | Correct data transform Ranges: Deviations about the mean. |
Release 2.2.04 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
In addition to new features and many improvements, there are some critical bug fixes in this maintenance update.
| Type | Detail | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancement | Select a color table as a data transform and the color table selection is automatically updated. | |||||
| Enhancement | Add a new raster source and when you close the editor it is rendered in a new algorithm. | |||||
| Improvement | Plot zoom extents are maintained when changing critical algorithm data like projection, raster sources, etc. | |||||
| Upgrade | Visual Studio 17.8.4. ZLIB 1.3.00. LZMA 23.01. LIBPNG 1.6.40. GDAL 3.8.3. | |||||
| Downgrade | The gdalplugins folder is no longer shipped. | |||||
| Bug fix | Fixed a crash accessing a variable that was not thread safe. | |||||
| Bug fix | Fixed a crash associated with coordinate reprojection. | |||||
| Bug fix | Fixed a crash associated with coordinate reprojection of polar coordinate systems. |
Release 2.2.03 Maintenance
This is a maintenance upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
There are some critical bug fixes in this maintenance update.
This is a minor version upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
Version 2.2.01 includes additional color tables and maps.
ProRaster Essential inherits the bug fixes and improvements from the ProRaster Scientific development, some of which are listed below.
| Type | Detail | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | Automatically use appropriate color table maps from UserTables, External folders or SystemMaps for common spectral indices. | |||||
| Enhancement | System color table maps added for commonly used spectral indices. | |||||
| Enhancement | Color tables added from ColorCET (Perceptually uniform colour maps) project. | |||||
| Modification | Dialogs have been modified to better reflect product purchasing options. | |||||
| Modification | Color table names are now more discoverable. |
Release 2.1.01
This is a minor version upgrade for ProRaster Scientific, ProRaster Premium, and ProRaster Essential.
Version 2.1.01 includes some important bug fixes and minor improvements.
ProRaster Essential inherits the bug fixes and improvements from the ProRaster Scientific development, some of which are listed below.
| Type | Detail | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upgrade | The native TIFF driver now reads Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF (COG) rasters. | |||||
| Enhancement | Free versions now display a landing page. | |||||
| Enhancement | The ECW/JP2000 driver now honours the driver preferences field type strictly. | |||||
| Enhancement | The ECW/JP2000 driver now supports per-band cell validity masks for continuous data fields | |||||
| Enhancement | The ECW/JP2000 driver now supports null values | |||||
| Bug Fix | Under certain circumstances, virtual raster cell data and validity could be corrupted. | |||||
| Bug Fix | Support for 32 and 64 bit complex numbers in TIFF files was fixed. | |||||
| Bug Fix | Rasters loaded via GDAL did not honour the null value specified by the user in driver preferences. |
Release 2.0.01 and 2.0.02
This is a major release for ProRaster Premium and ProRaster Essential. It is a first-release candidate for ProRaster Scientific.
Version 2.0.02 is a maintenance release containing bug fixes and minor improvements.
ProRaster Essential inherits many bug fixes and improvements from the ProRaster Scientific development, just a few of which are listed below.
| Type | Detail | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancement | You can now report coordinates only as a tool tip in a map view. | |||||
| Enhancement | You can now report geodetic map coordinates in decimal degrees or DMS notation. | |||||
| Enhancement | You can now automatically unload all algorithms and data, other than the current selected algorithm. | |||||
| Enhancement | You can now manually reload or refresh an algorithm via a button on the main dialog. | |||||
| Enhancement | You can now specify the event time in driver preferences. | |||||
| Enhancement | When you change the time range in any component it can be mirrored in all other components in the layer. | |||||
| Enhancement | When you change the data transform in the Red component of an RGB Layer it can be mirrored in the Green, Blue, and Pan components. | |||||
| Enhancement | Improved rendering performance. | |||||
| Enhancement | The manual zoom dialog now defaults the zoom extents to the current map extents, providing an option to zoom and clip the algorithm to the current map extents. | |||||
| Modification | App family common resource files will be migrated to a new location. | |||||
| Modification | ProRaster works best when the mouse wheel can be used to scroll inactive windows that are under the cursor. This is the default setting in Windows 10 and 11. To control this go to Settings then open Bluetooth & Devices and select Mouse. Turn on "Scroll inactive windows when hovering over them". ProRaster now behaves as if this is turned on regardless of the global setting. | |||||
| Update | Many improvements and fixes implemented as a part of the ProRaster Scientific first release. | |||||
| Update | Visual Studio 2022 17.6.4, zlib 1.2.13, libpng 1.6.39, ECW 5.5(4) | |||||
| Bug fix | The GeoTIFF driver now adjusts the coordinate registration for rasters that have GTRasterTypeGeoKey set to "Point". This shifts the raster north and west by half a grid cell. | |||||
| Bug fix | Data Transform editor did not display histogram statistics in some cases. |
Release 1.0.05
This is a maintenance release for ProRaster Essential.
There are improvements to zooming, driver preferences, statistics reporting, statistics calculation and storage, and more.
A number of bugs have been resolved. If you create algorithms with geographic rasters as well as local projected rasters, you will find the system handles these scenarios better.
| Type | Detail |
|---|---|
| Feature | Raster Information reporting now has an additional mode that generates a complete report with summary statistics but no histogram data. The "Complete" reporting mode now writes the report to a nominated text file. |
| Feature | Image layers can now be instructed to ignore alpha color data when blending is enabled for the algorithm, allowing layers to be blended but individual Image layers to ignore alpha values embedded in the color component. |
| Feature | Raster source driver preferences now allow you to offset a raster location in X and Y. |
| Feature | ProRaster can now remember each manual zoom extent you define so that you can easily recall it. The zoom extent is only remembered for the life of the ProRaster Session. |
| Feature | ProRaster can now manually zoom to the range of a polygon set loaded from a MapInfo TAB file. The zoom extent is only remembered for the life of the ProRaster Session. |
| Modification | Combo boxes resize to fit long resource names. |
| Modification | Cell value tooltip no longer drills into virtual raster sources unless in verbose reporting mode. |
| Modification | Statistics are now written to a STTX file as well as the GHX file. If both are present, only the STTX file is loaded when the raster is mounted. This improves raster mounting efficiency. |
| Modification | Added a new option to assign 87.5% of physical memory to the tile cache. |
| Modification | When acquiring a default coordinate system for a layer or for the algorithm, we prefer geographic over projected coordinate systems. |
| Bug fix | When you zoom to a raster the coordinate range of the raster was not being converted into the coordinate system of the algorithm. |
| Bug fix | Application will crash if you turn off the Red component in an RGB layer. |
| Bug fix | Sigmoid darkening transform with absolute value range was not allowing a K value of greater than 64. |
| Bug fix | Virtual rasters containing defined events with a raster source defining the field and bands were not being referenced correctly and consequently were not being mounted correctly. |
| Bug fix | The raster tile cache was not being set to reflect the user request on start up. |
| Bug fix | Fixed component color data range calculator for rasters with multiple fields and events. |
| Bug fix | Polar stereographic projections were not always located correctly for the south pole. |
| Bug fix | When a color table was deleted it was not removed from the recently used color tables list. |
| Bug fix | The data zoom for an algorithm was sometimes reset when a new algorithm is created or loaded. |
Release 1.0.04
This is the final release candidate for ProRaster Essential.
There are significant improvements to the tooltip reporting of raster values and coordinates in maps. You can also zoom the map to a variety of different bounds including coordinate system bounds, raster source bounds, and manually defined bounds.
To make it easier to manipulate classified and image palette field rasters, you can now automatically generate a color table legend for these fields. Edit the legend to modify the raster visualisation.
A number of bugs have been resolved, particularly in the blending operation for image layers, and in data – color transforms using color table legends.
| Type | Detail |
|---|---|
| Feature | Create a new color table for a classified or image palette field in a raster. Use to color modulate by the Index band. |
| Feature | Zoom the map to the bounds of any coordinate system used in the algorithm. |
| Feature | Zoom the map to the extents of any raster source used in the algorithm. |
| Feature | Zoom the map to manually defined extents. |
| Feature | Optionally report tooltip coordinates in geodetic (latitude/longitude) coordinates. |
| Feature | New "All data information" tooltip reporting mode. |
| Enhancement | When Publishing, if MapInfo Pro is not running a warning is raised. |
| Enhancement | Added button to browse for a raster to define a transform raster source. |
| Enhancement | The Data Transform Editor map preview now reports cell key value in a tooltip. |
| Enhancement | Delete a row in a color table by hitting the Delete key on the row header. |
| Enhancement | Allow opening an external map without closing the preview map first. |
| Modification | In blending Overprint mode, allow "Blend with background" to be set. |
| Modification | In blending Override, Overprint, and LightTable modes, disable the layer opacity controls. |
| Modification | Updated compiler version to 17.2.5. |
| Bug fix | Blending Overprint mode for an Image layer now operates like per-pixel blending (without layer opacity). |
| Bug fix | Blend mode for an Image layer now operates like per-pixel blending with opacity taken from the alpha component and layer opacity. |
| Bug fix | Manual statistics box is disabled at component shadow level when overridden in the algorithm. |
| Bug fix | Correctly support "no data" value on rows in a color table map. |
| Bug fix | Fix reporting of color values from classification tables in the information report. |
| Bug fix | Fix range clipping when using legend color tables. |
| Bug fix | Fix loss of label when copying a legend color table. |
| Bug fix | Fixed data transform using discrete value tables. |
Release 1.0.03
This is the first maintenance release. One bug was resolved and two additional color tables were shipped.
| Type | Detail |
|---|---|
| Enhancement | Shipped two additional system color table maps. |
| Bug fix | Fatal error when saving an edited color legend from the color editor dialog. |
Release 1.0.02
This was the first release of ProRaster made to the Microsoft Store. A number of new features were introduced at this release, in addition to the core features that were planned for.
| Type | Detail |
|---|---|
| Feature | Publish Clipped. Publish your algorithm to MapInfo Pro clipped to complex polygon set. |
| Feature | Fit the manual data range in a color-data transform to the range of the raster data currently visible in the map. |
| Enhancement | Control the size of the raster cache from the Options dialog. |
| Modification | Rearranged main dialog user interface and simplified the ProRaster Essential user interface. |
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