[OSGeo-Announce] New final version of gvSIG available: gvSIG 2.0

The gvSIG Association announces the publishing of the gvSIG 2.0 final
version [1]. The main novelty of this version is its new architecture.
The way gvSIG manage the data sources has been redesigned with the
objective of improving the reliability as well as the modularity,
benefiting the users as well as the developers. Besides it permits an
easier maintenance and evolution of the technology. Therefore it has
been an investment in the future with the aim of not limiting the
technological evolution and establish the bases for a quick evolution.

However this new gvSIG Desktop version includes a series of new
features:
  - New installer that supports typical and custom installation.
  - Add-ons manager that allows to install new extensions and customize
gvSIG from the same application.
  - Some changes in the interface of data management tools like:
      · File import/export
      · Table operations
      · New layer
  - Layer load improved
  - WMTS (Web Map Tiled Service) support
  - Raster data cache
  - Unified geoprocessing interface
  - Import symbols, making the creation of symbols libraries easy.
  - Export symbols, that allows to share complete symbols libraries
with other users easily.
  - Scripting framework (languages: Jython, Groovy and Javascript).

Nevertheless it's the last version of gvSIG, it has to be taken into
account that it's really a new gvSIG, so you will find that some of the
gvSIG 1.12 functionalities are not included. These functionalities will
be included in following and continuous updates according to their
migration to the new architecture. The main functionalities that are
not included are the following:
  - Georeferencing
  - Legend by proportional symbols, graduated ones, dot density,
quantities by categories and by expressions.
  - Extensions: Network analysis and 3D

In the same way, there are several projects based on this new
architecture that will allow to include new functionalities and
improvements directly in gvSIG 2.0 in the next months.

Also it has to be taken into account that the level of stability of
this new version is not as high as we would have wished, considering it
a final version in order to be used by the community in an official
way, and mainly to tackle the new developments on it.

For that, we encourage you to test it and send us any errors in order
to fix them in the following updates. The known errors of this version
can be consulted in [2].

From this version, several mirrors are now available to download the
packages from gvSIG. These mirrors will be available within a few
days.

We hope you enjoy the new features of this version and you help us to
improve it.

[1]
http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-2.0/downloads
[2] http://gvsig.org/r?r=bugs200

Greetings,
gvSIG News Office