v0.15.3

Changes

• Replaces minimal patches with delta-filters - a more general-purpose way of filtering parts (inserts, updates, deletes) of JSON diffs when not all parts are required. #998
• Remove automatic resolution of localhost before calling MSSQL driver. Fixes SQL Server instance names issue. #999
• Upgraded pyodbc for compatibility with the latest MSSQL driver.

v0.15.2

Changes

• Adds a new command kart export which enables export of vector or tabular datasets to any OGR format. #992

v0.15.1

Changes

• Prevented committing local changes to linked datasets. #953
• Fixes a bug where even datasets marked as --no-checkout are checked out when the working copy is first created. #954
• Fixes a bug where minor changes to auxiliary metadata (.aux.xml) files that Kart is supposed to ignore were preventing branch changes. #957
• Improved performance when the user filters a diff request to only show certain features. #962
• Clean up the empty directory if a clone fails outright. #963
• Fixes add-dataset to work for PostGIS working copies. #965
• Fixes kart import --link to not fetch any tiles when importing into a bare Kart repo. #970

v0.15.0

Major changes

• First and foremost: linked datasets! Kart now supports linking a tile-based dataset to tiles that are hosted on S3, so that the tiles don't need to be hosted on a Kart LFS server. For more information, see Linked Datasets. #905

Other changes

• Native Apple Silicon builds are now available for macOS 12 and newer. #927
• Adds support for disabling the working-copy checkout of specific datasets using the commands kart import DATASET --no-checkout or kart checkout --not-dataset=DATASET, and re-enabling it using kart checkout --dataset=DATASET. #926
• Adds information on referencing and citing Kart to CITATION. #914
• Fixes a bug where Kart would misidentify a non-Kart repo as a Kart V1 repo in some circumstances. #918
• Improve schema extraction for point cloud datasets. #924
• Some tweaks to --dry-run output of Kart LFS commands. #932
• Now using Python 3.11 to build Kart, and vendored dependencies have been updated to newer versions. #933
• Adds support for importing point-cloud and raster tiles directly from an S3 URL. #940
• checkout: Smoother progressbar updates
• Add library support for WEBP & ZSTD compression with GeoTIFF raster datasets. #951

v0.14.2

Changes

• Fixes a bug where the GPKG application ID is not being written in GPKG working copies - other software reading the GPKG may be confused by this. #902
• Fixes a bug where points could shift by small amounts while importing point-clouds if the tiles were converted to COPC. PDAL#4180

v0.14.1

Changes

• Fixes a bug where Git subprocesses (such as git clone) don't prompt the user for credentials or to resolve SSH issues on Windows. #852
• Better protection against XSS in the HTML diff viewer. #884
• Speed-up: greatly reduces the time taken to update the index file after checking out LFS tiles to the working copy. #880
• Adds --with-dataset-types option to kart data ls command (and deprecates kart data version). #892
• Use journal_mode = WAL in annotations.db sqlite database. #898
• Slightly modifies the GPKG working copy format to avoid an incompatiblity with Global Mapper. #899

v0.14.0

Major changes

• First and foremost: raster datasets! Kart now supports raster datasets, which track changes to a set of GeoTIFF files. To get started, see Raster Datasets #794

Other changes

• Fixes a bug where SIGINT (Ctrl+C) wasn't terminating Kart when using helper mode, affects macOS and Linux. #869
• Fixes a bug where reflink wasn't working on macOS, leading to larger size on disk for point cloud datasets. #876

v0.13.0

Major fix: Corruption of Postgres NUMERIC values

⚠️ This release fixes a bug causing corruption of NUMERIC fields when read from Postgres databases. #863

If your repositories use the NUMERIC or NUMERIC(a,b) types and were imported/committed from a Postgres source or working copy, you may have lost data.

Specifically, any numeric values with a scale of zero (no digits after the decimal point) were affected. If the only numerics in your repositories were defined with a scale greater than zero, no data corruption should have occured.

For example, a value of 100 in a postgres database with the type NUMERIC(10, 0) or NUMERIC would have been imported as 1 - losing its trailing zeroes.

However, a value of 100.0 in a field declared as NUMERIC(10, 1) would not have been affected.

Other data types (integer, floating-point etc) are not affected, and repos sourced from other SQL databases (Geopackage, MSSQL, MySQL) were not affected.

Other changes

• Allow kart to import non-spatial tables from PostgreSQL databases which don't have postGIS extension installed. #728
• PostgreSQL working copy no longer requires PostGIS for aspatial datasets. #729
• Fixes a bug where the current spatial filter isn't stored in the filesystem working copy, affecting the spatial filtering of point cloud datasets. #833
• Fixes pthread_key leaks in a long running Kart process due to repeated loading and unloading of mod_spatialite. #838
• Fixes a bug where features are written to the working copy without their CRS identifier during kart resolve. #840
• Drop CI testing of amazonlinux:2, replace with amazonlinux:2023. #838
• Point clouds (or rasters): during import, require the user to choose if they want to make a "cloud-optimized" dataset or a "preserve-format" dataset. #842
• Point clouds (or rasters): require --no-convert-to-dataset-format to add new tiles to a dataset that can be committed as-is but only if the dataset's format is changed. Note --convert-to-dataset-format works as before. #842
• Allow kart to check out attached files into the file-based working copy.
• Fixes a bug where tab-completion wasn't working with helper mode, affects macOS and Linux. #851
• Fixes a bug where git-lfs (and potentially other subprocesses) wasn't working reliably with helper mode, affects macOS and Linux. #853
• import now informs the user to use add-dataset instead if they try to import a table that is already inside the working copy. #249
• Fixes a bug where datasets with no CRS couldn't be checked out into a Geopackage working copy. #855
• Upgrade libgit2 to v1.6.4, pygit2 to v1.12.1 (plus Kart-specific changes). #868

v0.12.3

• Fix the issue where re-importing the same shapefile with --replace-existing would show spurious schema changes (and therefore row changes). #791
• Added support for committing new layers to a kart repository with add-dataset and the table name. #249
• Switched the crs84Extent field for point-cloud tiles to store a 4-point-polygons (instead of an axis-aligned envelope). #809
• Improved progress reporting when importing tiles, in line with working copy checkout.
• Added support for --diff-format option under kart show command to display different level of detail depending on the user's needs. #721
• Allow for automatically resolving primary key conflicts during a merge using kart resolve --renumber=(ours|theirs) #814
• Improved tile import performance for point-cloud (and eventually raster) by making it multithreaded. #818
• Fixed a bug where Kart would require user.name and user.email to be set, even when GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and similar variables were set in the environment. #812
• Update native dependencies. #820
• Drop CI testing of Debian Stretch/oldoldstable. #820

v0.12.2

0.12.2

• Fix for issue with launching an editor while using helper mode, affects macOS and Linux. #788