chore(release): v1.8.0 (#904)

Author: giswqs

CITATION.cff

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ authors:
     email: giswqs@gmail.com
     affiliation: "University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA"
     orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-4073"
-version: 1.7.0
-date-released: 2026-06-23
+version: 1.8.0
+date-released: 2026-06-25
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20785400
 repository-code: "https://github.com/opengeos/GeoLibre"
 url: "https://geolibre.app"

README.md

@@ -27,15 +27,15 @@ GeoLibre is built with **Tauri v2**, **React**, **TypeScript**, **MapLibre GL JS
 - [GeoLibre 1.0: A Free, Open-Source Cloud-Native GIS That Runs Anywhere (Browser, Desktop & Jupyter)](https://youtu.be/87Cm0QagtxI)
 - [Geoprocessing in the Browser: 700+ Free GIS Tools in GeoLibre, Zero Install](https://youtu.be/W32bIQO_nG8)
 
-## Features (v1.7)
+## Features (v1.8)
 
 - Runs across desktop (Tauri), web (browser), native Android (Tauri v2 mobile), and mobile or small screens, with a responsive, touch-friendly layout that adapts menus, dialogs, and panels (on phones the Layers/Style panels overlay the map as slide-over sheets), plus per-panel visibility through Layout settings
-- MapLibre map workspace with OpenFreeMap and Protomaps basemaps, stacking of multiple raster basemaps, blank background support, double-click to swap the core basemap from the layer panel, and toggleable navigation, fullscreen, geolocation, globe, terrain, scale, attribution, and logo controls, plus a View menu with viewport history navigation, a reset pitch and bearing control, and a distinct north arrow
+- MapLibre map workspace with OpenFreeMap, Protomaps, EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless, and Openbasiskaart basemaps, stacking of multiple raster basemaps, blank background support, double-click to swap the core basemap from the layer panel, a right-click context menu for reading coordinates and quick actions, a Gridlines coordinate-grid overlay with edge labels, and toggleable navigation, fullscreen, geolocation, globe, terrain, scale, attribution, and logo controls, plus a View menu with viewport history navigation, a reset pitch and bearing control, and a distinct north arrow
 - Multi-map grid that splits the workspace into a grid of synchronized map views, so you can compare basemaps, layers, or time steps side by side
 - Load local vector layers supported by DuckDB-WASM Spatial, including common formats such as GeoJSON, GeoParquet, GeoPackage, Shapefile, FlatGeobuf, KML/KMZ (honoring embedded symbology), GML, delimited text, GPX, and OpenStreetMap PBF extracts (parsed in-browser with osmix)
 - Reproject vector layers to EPSG:4326 on load and split dragged GPX files into named waypoint, track, and route layers
 - Large local vector layers render through client-side vector tiling, with a warning before loading very large files
-- Add Data menu for XYZ tiles, WMS, WFS, GeoJSON URLs, vector tiles, COG and GeoTIFF rasters, Cloud-Optimized NetCDF/HDF (via kerchunk references), MBTiles, ArcGIS FeatureServer and VectorTileServer layers, PMTiles, Zarr, LiDAR, 3D Tiles (including authenticated tilesets via custom request headers), Gaussian splats, glTF/GLB 3D models placed at coordinates, and georeferenced video overlays, with a fully internationalized dialog, comma decimal support, drag-and-dropped CSV coordinate files, sample-data dropdowns on every upstream-backed panel for loading ready-made example datasets, and a saved service library for storing and re-adding frequently used web-service endpoints
+- Add Data menu for XYZ tiles, WMS, WFS, GeoJSON URLs, GeoRSS feeds (URL or file), vector tiles, COG and GeoTIFF rasters, Cloud-Optimized NetCDF/HDF (via kerchunk references), MBTiles, ArcGIS FeatureServer and VectorTileServer layers, PMTiles, Zarr, LiDAR, 3D Tiles (including authenticated tilesets via custom request headers), Gaussian splats, glTF/GLB 3D models placed at coordinates, georeferenced video overlays, and geotagged photos imported as a point layer from their EXIF GPS (with manual placement and drag for photos lacking coordinates), with a fully internationalized dialog, comma decimal support, drag-and-dropped CSV coordinate files, sample-data dropdowns on every upstream-backed panel for loading ready-made example datasets, and a saved service library for storing and re-adding frequently used web-service endpoints
 - Deck.gl Layer builder for composing deck.gl overlays from uploaded files or remote URLs
 - Cloud data integrations through the Planetary Computer and Earth Engine panels, the Overture Maps plugin, and federal Web Services plugins
 - Manual and automatic refresh for WFS, GeoJSON URL, and Add Vector Layer URL layers
@@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ GeoLibre is built with **Tauri v2**, **React**, **TypeScript**, **MapLibre GL JS
 - Attribute table with filtering, sorting, resize controls, feature highlighting, optional zoom to selected features, add-field and field-calculator tools, a Charts panel (histogram, scatter, bar, line, box), a field statistics summary panel, column management (rename, delete, hide/show, reorder) with a column explorer for finding and toggling fields in wide tables, virtualized rows for large layers, and export to GeoJSON/GeoParquet/Shapefile/GeoPackage/CSV
 - SQL Workspace for running DuckDB Spatial SQL against loaded layers, local files, and remote URLs, with sample queries, query history, and adding results to the map or exporting them, plus an in-browser PostGIS SQL engine via PGlite and an Apache Sedona spatial SQL engine
 - Multiple DuckDB SQL query-result layers with identify, selection, and attribute table support
-- Controls menu with Measure, Bookmark, Minimap, and View State tools, a Search panel, a Dashboard panel of configurable chart widgets that summarize the loaded layers, and a Print menu with a print layout composer (user-editable legend, explicit map-scale input, title block with editable title and footer, page-size controls, and a custom print extent) that exports the map to PNG or PDF
-- Bookmarks that capture the active layers alongside the camera, with selectable export, a resizable and reorderable panel, and a save-as name prompt
+- Controls menu with Measure, Bookmark, Minimap, View State, and Map annotation tools (draw text, arrows, and highlights on the map, saved with the project), a Search panel, persistent mode banners for the Directions and Reverse Geocode tools, a Camera Tour recorder that captures an animated keyframe tour to video (with per-keyframe recapture and saving/loading the tour setup as JSON), a Dashboard panel of configurable chart widgets that summarize the loaded layers, and a Print menu with a print layout composer (user-editable legend, explicit map-scale input, title block with editable title and footer, page-size controls, a custom print extent, and Copy to Clipboard) that exports the map to PNG or PDF
+- Bookmarks that capture the active layers alongside the camera, organized into folders, with selectable export, a resizable and reorderable panel, and a save-as name prompt
 - Field Collection tool for capturing point, line, and polygon observations with a per-layer custom form (text/number/date/choice fields and an optional photo), placed by device GPS or by tapping the map, written to a GeoJSON layer that flows into the attribute table, export, and offline use
-- Story map builder with a scroll-driven editor, presenter view, and standalone HTML export
-- Real-time multi-user collaboration (MVP; requires the `VITE_GEOLIBRE_COLLAB_URL` build variable — see [docs/collaboration.md](docs/collaboration.md)) so several people can edit the same project together, with an on-canvas session-status badge and roster (live dot, connected-participant count, and an expandable client list) while a session is active
-- Natural-language GIS assistant that turns plain-English requests into auditable, undoable GeoLibre operations (Spatial SQL, symbology, add/remove data, and map control), provider-pluggable with your own API key
+- Story map builder that composes its chapters directly on the live map, with a presenter view, a printable PDF handout generator, and standalone HTML export
+- Real-time multi-user collaboration (MVP; requires the `VITE_GEOLIBRE_COLLAB_URL` build variable — see [docs/collaboration.md](docs/collaboration.md)) so several people can edit the same project together, with per-participant permissions, an in-app chat panel, and an on-canvas session-status badge and roster (live dot, connected-participant count, and an expandable client list) while a session is active
+- Natural-language GIS assistant that turns plain-English requests into auditable, undoable GeoLibre operations (Spatial SQL, symbology, add/remove data, and map control), provider-pluggable with your own API key and a dedicated AI Providers settings section with per-feature provider dropdowns
 - In-app Python Console plus a Python automation API for scripting the app
 - Notebook panel docked beside the map for running Jupyter against the live map: the web build embeds a self-hosted JupyterLite site (in-browser Pyodide kernel) and the desktop build launches a uv-managed JupyterLab server, with notebook cells driving the map through an auto-loaded `geolibre` client. See [Notebook Panel](docs/notebook.md)
 - Command palette (`Ctrl`/`Cmd` + `K`) that searches and runs menu and toolbar actions across Add Data, Processing, Controls, Plugins, and Help, global keyboard shortcuts for New/Open/Save/Save As, and a `?` shortcuts cheat sheet
@@ -68,11 +68,11 @@ GeoLibre is built with **Tauri v2**, **React**, **TypeScript**, **MapLibre GL JS
 - H3 tools to create hexagonal grids over an extent and bin point layers into H3 cells
 - Undo/redo for layer and style operations
 - Drag and drop vector and GeoTIFF/COG raster files onto the map to add them as layers
-- Project menu to create, open, save, and Save As `.geolibre.json` projects
-- Desktop diagnostics panel, a guided update workflow with a startup update check and update preferences, and MSIX packaging support, with macOS installers signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple so they open without a Gatekeeper workaround, plus Windows Package Manager (winget) distribution as `OpenGeos.GeoLibre`
+- Project menu to create, open, save, and Save As `.geolibre.json` projects, export a project to a single standalone interactive HTML file that runs offline with no server, and a project gallery for browsing and opening shared projects with one click
+- Desktop diagnostics panel, a guided update workflow with a startup update check and update preferences, and MSIX packaging support, with macOS installers signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple so they open without a Gatekeeper workaround, plus Windows Package Manager (winget) distribution as `OpenGeos.GeoLibre` and a Windows portable zip build that runs without installation
 - Customizable UI profiles that tailor which menus, panels, and data sources are visible, so a deployment can present a focused subset of the app to its users. See [UI Profiles](docs/ui-profiles.md)
-- Plugin system with basemap, layer control, MapLibre components, swipe, street view, Overture Maps, USGS LiDAR, GeoAgent, and GeoEditor integrations, including configurable control positions and external plugin manifests; external plugins can render on the host's shared deck.gl instance via `app.getDeckGL()`, register first-class right-sidebar panels, toolbar menus, and floating panels through the plugin UI host API, and place their toolbar menus after the Help menu
-- Time Slider plugin for animating time series raster and vector data, including binding existing vector layers already on the map to the timeline
+- Plugin system with basemap, layer control, MapLibre components, swipe, street view, Overture Maps, USGS LiDAR, GeoAgent, and GeoEditor integrations, including configurable control positions and external plugin manifests; external plugins can render on the host's shared deck.gl instance via `app.getDeckGL()`, register native raster and tile layers, register first-class right-sidebar panels, toolbar menus, and floating panels through the plugin UI host API (including a shared-rail replace-style dock mode), and place their toolbar menus after the Help menu
+- Time Slider plugin for animating time series raster and vector data, including binding existing vector layers already on the map to the timeline and a pixel time-series chart that plots a sampled pixel's value across a raster stack
 - Atmosphere Effects plugin that renders a deep-space backdrop, parallax starfield, comets, and an atmospheric halo around the globe at low zoom (technique adapted from [Leonel Dias](https://leoneljdias.github.io/posts/globe-atmosphere-halo-comets/)), with a Spinning Globe panel and customizable atmosphere halo and deep-space colors
 - Directions plugin for interactive routing via [maplibre-gl-directions](https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-directions): click the map to add waypoints, drag to reposition, and click a waypoint to remove it (uses the public OSRM demo server, driving only)
 - Install external plugins from an uploaded zip on both desktop and web, plus external plugin zip loading from the app data plugins directory and local development plugin directories, with the Manage Plugins list sorted alphabetically

apps/geolibre-desktop/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "geolibre-desktop",
-  "version": "1.7.0",
+  "version": "1.8.0",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {

apps/geolibre-desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.lock

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "geolibre-desktop"
-version = "1.7.0"
+version = "1.8.0"
 description = "GeoLibre Desktop — lightweight cloud-native desktop GIS"
 authors = ["GeoLibre Contributors"]
 edition = "2021"

apps/geolibre-desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://schema.tauri.app/config/2",
   "productName": "GeoLibre Desktop",
-  "version": "1.7.0",
+  "version": "1.8.0",
   "identifier": "org.geolibre.desktop",
   "build": {
     "beforeDevCommand": "npm run dev",

apps/geolibre-desktop/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
 - [x] Windows Package Manager (winget) packaging as `OpenGeos.GeoLibre`, so the app can be installed and updated through winget
 - [x] [Microsoft Store](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nwt67rv531x) listing, so Windows users can install the signed, auto-updating build directly from the Store (see [Downloads](downloads.md))
 
-## v1.7: Plugin UI host API, color ramp previews, and category-browsed Whitebox tools (current)
+## v1.7: Plugin UI host API, color ramp previews, and category-browsed Whitebox tools
 
 - [x] Plugin UI host API that lets plugins register first-class right-sidebar panels, toolbar menus, and floating panels that dock beside the built-in Style panel instead of emulating an overlay, with external plugin toolbar menus now placed after the Help menu (see [Plugin API](plugin-api.md))
 - [x] Color ramp gradient swatches in both the vector Style panel and the raster Color ramp picker, so you can see each colormap's gradient inline (on the trigger and beside every option) while choosing rather than picking from a plain list of names
@@ -255,6 +255,30 @@
 - [x] On-canvas collaboration session-status badge and roster (a pulsing live dot, connected-participant count, and an expandable client list that announces joins and leaves), plus a clear "Go to map and collaborate" button so the host has a non-destructive way back to the map
 - [x] Welcome wizard is suppressed for embeds: project deep links (`?url=`) skip onboarding automatically, and a new `?welcome=0` parameter lets any embed opt out
 
+## v1.8: Camera tours, live story maps, standalone HTML export, and map annotations (current)
+
+- [x] Record an animated camera tour to video straight from the Controls menu, with a clearer keyframe layout, per-keyframe recapture, a two-step save, and the ability to save and reload the entire tour setup as a JSON file
+- [x] Story Map plugin can now compose its chapters directly on the live map instead of a separate editor, and generates a printable PDF handout of the finished story
+- [x] Export a project to a single standalone interactive HTML file that runs offline with no server, plus a project gallery for browsing and opening shared projects with one click
+- [x] Map annotation layer for drawing text, arrows, and highlights directly on the map, persisted with the project
+- [x] Gridlines overlay (renamed from Graticule) draws a coordinate grid with edge labels across the map
+- [x] Import geotagged photos as a point layer from their EXIF GPS, with manual placement and drag-to-position for photos that have no embedded coordinates
+- [x] GeoRSS feed support in Add Data, loaded from a URL or a local file
+- [x] EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless satellite imagery and Openbasiskaart added to the basemap library (Openbasiskaart via basemap-control 0.7.0)
+- [x] Right-click context menu on the map for reading coordinates and reaching quick actions without leaving the canvas
+- [x] Per-participant permissions and an in-app chat panel for real-time collaboration sessions
+- [x] Organize bookmarks into folders for tidier, grouped saved views
+- [x] Dedicated AI Providers section in Settings with per-feature provider dropdowns for choosing and configuring AI backends
+- [x] Plugin API can now register native raster and tile layers, and offers a shared-rail (replace-style) right-panel dock mode for plugin panels (see [Plugin API](plugin-api.md))
+- [x] Time Slider draws a pixel time-series chart for raster stacks, plotting a sampled pixel's value across the timeline
+- [x] Colorbar panel gains a stacking direction control, a resizable panel, and a stack-order fix for multiple colorbars
+- [x] Persistent mode banner for the Directions and Reverse Geocode tools so the active interaction mode stays visible
+- [x] Copy to Clipboard added to the Print Layout composer for pasting the rendered map straight into other apps
+- [x] Clearer Set view coordinate input workflow with support for degrees-decimal-minutes (DDM) entry
+- [x] Raster paint controls gain a greyscale toggle, a reset action, and numeric inputs, plus info icons explaining layer zoom-visibility controls
+- [x] Inline numeric opacity input in the layer control, with a fixed-name notice on the Background layer
+- [x] Windows portable zip build, so the desktop app can run without installation
+
 ## Plugin marketplace and registry (design)
 
 This captures the design for the `v1.0` "Plugin marketplace / registry" item. It