Release v0.4.0: version, roadmap and highlights

Cargo.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ members = ["crates/*", "apps/*", "xtask"]
 default-members = ["crates/*", "apps/rustgis", "apps/rustgis-cli", "xtask"]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "0.3.0"
+version = "0.4.0"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 rust-version = "1.90"

GEOLIBRE_PARITY.md

@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ _GeoLibre: docs/user-guide/ai-assistant.md, docs/features.md › AI, Python, and
 _GeoLibre: docs/features.md › Platforms and interface; docs/i18n.md_
 
 - [ ] **More languages and right-to-left layout**: GeoLibre has 20 languages including Arabic,
-  Persian and Hebrew. Partial: 17 languages; Persian text is drawn right to left, while the panes
+  Persian and Hebrew. Partial: 18 languages; Persian text is drawn right to left, while the panes
   keep their left-to-right layout.
 - [ ] **Translated geoprocessing tool names**. Missing (possibly deliberate).
 - [ ] **Keyboard-shortcut cheat sheet**. Partial: Command Search; rebindable shortcuts are on the

README.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 <p align="center">
   <img alt="Written in Rust" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/written%20in-Rust-b84a2c?style=flat-square&logo=rust&logoColor=white">
   <img alt="License: Apache-2.0" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-2563eb?style=flat-square">
-  <img alt="17 languages" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/languages-17-0e9384?style=flat-square">
+  <img alt="18 languages" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/languages-18-0e9384?style=flat-square">
   <a href="https://plugins.rustgis.app"><img alt="Plugins" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/plugins-registry-7c3aed?style=flat-square"></a>
   <a href="https://pypi.org/project/rustgis/"><img alt="PyPI" src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/rustgis?style=flat-square&logo=python&logoColor=white&label=pypi"></a>
   <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/github/opengeos/RustGIS/blob/main/apps/rustgis-python/examples/getting-started.ipynb"><img alt="Open in Colab" src="https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg"></a>
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@
   tools and the AI model you pick, which receives your questions and the data it reads to answer
   them.
 - **Everything is a command.** Every button in the ribbon is a command with an id. Script it from
-  `rustgis-cli`, chain it in notebooks and models, or ask the AI Assistant to run it for you.
+  `rustgis-cli`, chain it in notebooks and models, use completion in the Script pane, or ask the
+  AI Assistant to run it for you.
 - **Familiar.** A ribbon laid out in the order of the work (Home, Data, Style, Edit, Analyze,
   View, Publish), Layers and Browser panes, an attribute table, and undo for every change.
 - **Extensible.** Over 1,000 GeoLibre and Whitebox tools for terrain, hydrology, LiDAR and remote sensing, and
@@ -90,20 +91,20 @@ Every screenshot is RustGIS itself, rendered offscreen by `cargo run -p rustgis-
 
 | Area | Highlights |
 |---|---|
-| **Data** | GeoJSON, CSV/TSV with x/y columns in any coordinate system or WKT geometry, Excel and OpenDocument spreadsheets, GeoRSS, LandXML, encoded polylines, Shapefile (zipped too, in the browser as well), GeoPackage, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, KML/KMZ (with styles), GPX, GML, MapInfo MIF/MID, OpenStreetMap PBF, TopoJSON, AutoCAD DXF, LiDAR point clouds (LAS, LAZ, COPC) and geotagged photos in (large files read in place), files by their web address, every vector format GDAL reads when it is installed, PostGIS, MySQL and MariaDB tables read live (desktop), and SQL queries and DuckDB databases through DuckDB Spatial when DuckDB is; PMTiles archives (web or file) and MBTiles files; GeoJSON, CSV, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile, FlatGeobuf, KML/KMZ, GPX and WKT out; standalone tables; layer and map files, styles, templates and packages |
-| **Rasters** | GeoTIFF and cloud-optimised GeoTIFF (any pixel type, tiled or striped, compressed), ASCII grids, Zarr 2 and 3 stores (a variable at a time step, by folder or web address), and JPEG 2000, NetCDF, HDF, ERDAS Imagine and the other rasters GDAL reads when it is installed (desktop); reprojection from any EPSG code; Stretch, RGB, Classify, Unique Values, Colormap and Shaded Relief; DRA, band combinations, brightness/contrast/gamma; raster functions, indices, change detection, classification, georeferencing |
-| **Maps** | Multiple maps and layouts per project, renamed and duplicated from the Browser pane; a 3D globe; Web Mercator or any projection (Equal Earth, Robinson, Winkel Tripel, polar and regional presets, or an EPSG code); bookmarks, extent history, Go To XY; five offline basemaps, with borders in two worldviews |
+| **Data** | GeoJSON, CSV/TSV with x/y columns in any coordinate system or WKT geometry, Excel and OpenDocument spreadsheets, GeoRSS, LandXML, encoded polylines, Shapefile (zipped too, in the browser as well), GeoPackage, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, KML/KMZ (with styles), GPX, GML, MapInfo MIF/MID, OpenStreetMap PBF, TopoJSON, AutoCAD DXF, LiDAR point clouds (LAS, LAZ, COPC) and geotagged photos (large files are read in place), files by their web address, every vector format GDAL reads when it is installed, Esri File Geodatabases without GDAL (desktop), PostGIS, MySQL, MariaDB and SQL Server tables read live (desktop), and SQL queries and DuckDB databases through DuckDB Spatial when DuckDB is installed; PMTiles archives (web or file) and MBTiles files; GeoJSON, CSV, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile, FlatGeobuf, KML/KMZ, GPX and WKT out; standalone tables; reusable connections; supported QGIS projects and layer styles; layer and map files, styles, templates and packages |
+| **Rasters** | GeoTIFF and cloud-optimised GeoTIFF (any pixel type, tiled or striped, compressed), ASCII grids, Zarr 2 and 3 stores (a variable at a time step, by folder or web address), and JPEG 2000, NetCDF, HDF, ERDAS Imagine and the other rasters GDAL reads when it is installed (desktop); reprojection from any EPSG code; Stretch, RGB, Classify, Unique Values, Colormap and Shaded Relief; DRA, band combinations, brightness/contrast/gamma; raster functions, indices, change detection, classification, georeferencing; cloud-optimised GeoTIFF export; data cubes, point time-series charts, temporal summaries and trends |
+| **Maps** | Multiple maps and layouts per project, renamed and duplicated from the Browser pane; tilt, rotation, terrain and a 3D globe; maps of the Moon, Mars and other celestial bodies; Web Mercator or any projection (Equal Earth, Robinson, Winkel Tripel, polar and regional presets, or an EPSG code); bookmarks, extent history, Go To XY; five offline basemaps, with borders in two worldviews |
 | **Web services** | WMS, WMTS, WFS, OGC API Features and ArcGIS REST (FeatureServer, MapServer, ImageServer, VectorTileServer) from their capabilities |
 | **Web tiles** | XYZ/TMS/WMS raster tiles, Mapbox Vector Tiles and MapLibre styles (sprites, patterns, expressions), cached and fetched in the background |
-| **Cartography** | Single symbol, unique values, graduated colours, proportional symbols; collision-free labels with placement, scale ranges and annotation; masking, display filters, aggregation bins, 2.5D extrusion; graphics and dynamic text |
+| **Cartography** | Single symbol, unique values, graduated colours, proportional symbols; label classes with SQL queries, straight and curved line placement, installed font families, scale ranges and annotation; stacked and dashed line strokes, symbol levels, reference scales and polygons without fill; masking, display filters, aggregation bins, 2.5D extrusion; graphics and dynamic text |
 | **Editing** | Create, move, rotate, scale, merge, split and explode features; snapping, templates, elevation, traverse, topology rules; domains, subtypes, attribute rules, relationships, archiving; undo for everything |
-| **Analysis** | Selection by attributes (SQL) and location; Buffer, Clip, Erase, Dissolve, Summarize Within, Summary Statistics and more; viewshed, line of sight, IDW, shortest path, suitability modelling; ModelBuilder and scripts; 1,000+ [GeoLibre](https://github.com/opengeos/geolibre-rust) and Whitebox raster, vector, LiDAR, hydrology and terrain tools |
+| **Analysis** | Selection by attributes (SQL) and location; Buffer, Clip, Erase, Dissolve, Summarize Within, Summary Statistics, Spatial Join, Zonal Statistics, A5 grids and a geometry calculator; viewshed, line of sight, IDW, ordinary kriging, shortest path, suitability modelling; ModelBuilder on a node canvas and scripts with command, parameter and value completion; 1,000+ [GeoLibre](https://github.com/opengeos/geolibre-rust) and Whitebox raster, vector, LiDAR, hydrology and terrain tools |
 | **Imagery** | Ortho and reality mapping, pixel classification (k-means, minimum distance, a trainable neural network), mensuration, hosted imagery tiles |
-| **Layouts and reports** | Page layouts with map frames, legends, scale bars, grids and map series; reports with groups, statistics, charts and subreports; presentations (HTML slideshow, PDF); notebooks (Jupyter in and out) |
+| **Layouts and reports** | Page layouts with map frames, legends, scale bars, grids and map series; publication sheets and figures in one command, format panes, guides, snapping and element locks; reports with groups, statistics, charts and subreports; presentations (HTML slideshow, PDF); notebooks (Jupyter in and out) |
 | **Sharing** | PNG export at any DPI; PDF; web map pages, OGC API Features collections, MapLibre styles, glTF scenes, locators; project, map and mobile map packages; offline areas with sync |
 | **AI Assistant** | Ask about your data or tell the map what to do in plain language, with Anthropic, OpenAI (a key, or your ChatGPT plan by signing in), Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible model; also `rustgis-cli ask`, and an [MCP server](docs/mcp.md) (`rustgis-cli mcp`) for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and other agents |
 | **Plugins** | Sandboxed WebAssembly [plugins](docs/plugins.md) add commands, tools and ribbon tabs; install them from [plugins.rustgis.app](https://plugins.rustgis.app) on the desktop, command line and web |
-| **Interface** | Layers, Browser and Data Sources panes as tabs, command search (Ctrl+K), keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, a customizable ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, linked side-by-side maps, 17 languages |
+| **Interface** | Layers, Browser and Data Sources panes as tabs, command search (Ctrl+K), keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, a customizable ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, linked side-by-side maps, 18 languages |
 
 The [user guide](https://rustgis.app/user-guide/) covers each area in detail,
 [Comparison](https://rustgis.app/comparison/) sets RustGIS beside GeoLibre, QGIS and ArcGIS, and