Small tweaks and improvements to the changelog in news

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   1. What's new in Version 2.8.0 'Wien'?
   2. What's new in Version 2.6.0 'Brighton'?
   3. What's new in Version 2.4.0 'Chugiak'?
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 Last Updated: Friday February 20, 2015
 Last Change : Friday February 20, 2015
 
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 This is a minor release increment with the following feature:
 
-- Long term release (maintained for a year)
-- >1000 issues flagged by static analysis tools fixed
-- new code commits and pull requests are now automatically tests against our testing framework.
-- more responsive browser
-- support for contextual WMS legend graphics
-- custom prefixes for joins
-- creation of memory layers in core
-- field calc bar in attribute table
-- dxf export improvements
-- advanced digitizing tools
-- improved snapping
-- better simplify tool
-- Qt5 support
-- Bookmark import/export
-- composer gui improvements
-- grid improvements
-- raster image fill type
-- live heatmap renderer
-- multiple styles per layer
-- rotation of map canvas
-- improved date defined symbology UI
-- new algorithms in processing
-- expressions extentable with custom functions
-- comments in expressions
-- QGIS server improvements: better caching, layer style support, value
-  relations, DescribeLayer, python plugins
+- QGIS 2.8 is the basis for a long term release (which will be maintained for a year).
+- >1000 issues which were flagged by static analysis tools have been fixed.
+- New code commits and pull requests are now automatically tested against our testing framework.
+- More responsive QGIS Browser thanks to multithreading support.
+- Support for contextual WMS legend graphics.
+- Custom prefixes for joins.
+- Creation of memory layers is now a core feature.
+- New field calculator bar in attribute table.
+- DXF export improvements.
+- Advanced digitizing tools.
+- Improved snapping options and behaviour.
+- Better simplify tool - including support for on the fly reprojection being enabled.
+- Qt5 support (optional - default packages are still currently built against Qt4).
+- Spatial bookmark import/export.
+- Composer user interface improvements.
+- Grid overlay improvements for composer maps. 
+- Raster image fill type.
+- Live heatmap renderer.
+- You can now use multiple styles per layer.
+- Rotation of map canvas (disabled by default, activate in settings) is now supported.
+- Improved user interface for data defined symbology.
+- New algorithms in processing.
+- Expressions are now extendable with custom python functions.
+- Comments are now supported in expressions.
+- QGIS server improvements: better caching, layer style support, value relations, DescribeLayer, python plugins.
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   2. What's new in Version 2.6.0 'Brighton'?
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 - Context menu for identify tool
 
 
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   3. What's new in Version 2.4.0 'Chugiak'?
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@@ -138,6 +137,7 @@ This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:
 - New Inverted Polygon renderer
 
 
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   4. Whats new in Version 2.2.0 'Valmiera'?
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@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ This is the minor release sports a number of great new features:
 - 'Processing' can be used headless in scripts.
 
 
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   5. Whats new in Version 2.0.1 'Dufour'?
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@@ -328,6 +329,7 @@ added gdal_fillnodata to GDALTools plugin
 - Support for nesting projects within other projects
 
 
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   8. Whats new in Version 1.7.2 'Wroclaw'?
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 - Fix broken Assign projection functionality in GDALTools and improve handling output file extension
 
 
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   9. Whats new in Version 1.7.1 'Wroclaw'?
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@@ -473,6 +476,7 @@ changed so we will just provide a bullet list of key new features here.
 - Move/rotate/change label edit tools to interactively change data defined label properties.
 
 
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   10.2. New Tools
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 - Default to last selection when prompting for CRS.
 
 
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   10.5. Rasters
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 - Added raster toolbar with histogram stretch functions.
 
 
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   10.6. Providers and Data Handling
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  - Allow OGR 'save as' without attributes (for eg. DGN/DXF).
 
 
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   10.7. Api and Developer Centric
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 - Removed ogr converter plugin - use 'save as' context menu rather.
 
 
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   10.10. Printing
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 - Undo/Redo support for the print composer
 
 
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   11. Whats new in Version 1.6.0 'Capiapo'?
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@@ -618,6 +627,7 @@ caching providers (currently WMS and WFS) can synchronize with changes in
 the datasource.
 
 
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   11.2. Table of contents (TOC) improvements
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 - In the table of contents, it is now possible to select and remove several layers at once.
 
 
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   11.3. Labelling (New generation only)
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 the style manager more easily.
 
 
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   11.5. Map Composer
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 - Sorting for composer attribute table (several columns and ascending / descending).
 
 
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   12. Whats new in Version 1.5.0?
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 closed and reappears when reactivated.
 
 
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   12.2. WMS and WMS-C Support
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 - WMS-C scale slider gui added and more selection improvements
 
 
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   12.3. API Updates
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@@ -765,6 +780,7 @@ variables. More paths can be passed, separated by semicolon.
 - Support more GEOS operators
 
 
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   13. Whats new in Version 1.4.0 'Enceladus'?
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@@ -841,6 +857,7 @@ This release includes over 30 bug fixes and several useful new features:
 - other OSM related bugfixes.
 
 
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   14.2. Other notable features and improvements in this release
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@@ -856,6 +873,7 @@ This release includes over 30 bug fixes and several useful new features:
 - Zoom to a coordinate by entering it in the status bar coordinate display.
 
 
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   15. Version 1.2.0 'Daphnis'
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 - Added option to show only markers of selected features in editing mode.
 - Change layer's icon in legend to reflext that the layer is editable.
 
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 In addition, there are undo/redo actions in Edit menu, in Advanced digitizing toolbar
 and there is a new dock widget displaying undo stack of active layer.
 
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 - An new OpenStreetMap provider and plugin have been added to QGIS.
 
 
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   15.6. Projects Management
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   independent of the mapscale)
 
 
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   15.9. Command line arguments
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 layers based on attribute data.
 
 
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   16. Version 1.0.0 'Kore'
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 - Ported all GDAL/OGR and GEOS usage to use C APIs only.
 
 
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   17. Version 0.11.0 'Metis'
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 - QML Style support for rasters and database layers
 
 
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   18. Version 0.10.0 'Io'
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@@ -1111,6 +1135,7 @@ improvements 'under the hood'.
 - Support for migration of old projects to work in newer QGIS versions.
 
 
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   19. Version 0.9.2rc1 'Ganymede'
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@@ -1128,6 +1153,7 @@ in raster layers. Support for color ramps in raster layers.
 improvements 'under the hood'.
 
 
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   20. Version 0.9.1 'Ganymede'
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 - Python Plugin installer to install PyQGIS plugins from the repository
 
 
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   21. Version 0.9 'Ganymede'
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 - Improvements to the GeoReferencer
 
 
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   22. Version 0.8 'Joesephine' .... development version
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 grid_maker plugin
 
 
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   23. Version 0.6 'Simon'
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 - currently this process IS NOT KNOWN TO BE REVERSIBLE so please backup data
 first before experimenting.
 
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 2004-04-27 [ts] 0.2.0devel1
 
 Rejigged single marker symbol so directory, icon selector, preview and 
@@ -2313,9 +2343,7 @@ Search radius for identifying features on vector layers added to Preferences
 2004-02-23 [ts]
 Save current view to disk as a PNG image
 
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 Version 0.1 'Moroz' February 25, 2004
 User interface improvements - menu and dialog cleanups and a new icon theme
   based on Everaldo's Crystal icon set.
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   This is the initial import of the code base into CVS on Sourceforge.net.
 
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