New development release available | 2.99_004

[Shawn Laffan]

A new development release of Biodiverse is now available.  This is the
third instalment in the 2.99 series, heading towards a version 3 release.

You can access it through
https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/wiki/Downloads

Releases are available for Windows and Mac at this time.  A Linux
release can be made if one is needed.


The main highlights of this release are:

1.
Unicode file names are now supported. This was implemented across
several issues - https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/projects/3
(A few) more details are in the blog post:
https://biodiverse-analysis-software.blogspot.com/2019/05/unicode-file-names-on-windows.html

2.
Label axes can be dropped.  e.g. a structure like
Family:Genus:species:population can be converted to Genus:species.
More details are in the blog post:
https://biodiverse-analysis-software.blogspot.com/2019/05/drop-label-and-group-axes.html

3.
You can now export RGB GeoTIFFs to reproduce the Biodiverse colour
schemes for spatial outputs.
https://biodiverse-analysis-software.blogspot.com/2019/05/reproduce-spatial-plots-with-same.html


Please give it a test run and report any errors or suggest any
improvements.  You can use this email list or the project issue tracker
at https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/issues

More details and links relating to the new developments for version 3
can be accessed at
https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/wiki/ReleaseNotes#version-299



Regards,
Shawn.


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Assoc Prof Shawn Laffan
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia
Tel +61 2 9385 8093
http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/staff/shawn-laffan
https://shawnlaffan.github.io/biodiverse (free diversity analysis software)

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