Official version history and changelog information for Surfer (2019). 

Surfer 17.1.288 (December 11, 2019)

Fixes:

• Surfer crashed when changing some properties
• Grid Data: the variogram graphic showed the Direction rotating in the opposite direction
• Grid Data: defaults were set to the settings for the last gridded data set in that instance of Surfer
• Surfer crashed sometimes immediately after starting
• Surfer crashed when gridding with Local Polynomial when No Search was selected from previously gridding data

Surfer 17.0.275 (November 15, 2019)

• First released version of Surfer 17

New features and improvements

• 3D View: 3D axes with grid lines, ticks, labels and titles
• 3D View: report XYZ coordinates in the status bar
• Adjust PM line spacing when computer text Scale is increased
• Attribute Table: define Type as numeric or text for attribute fields
• File Defaults: Map Scale Bar: sbCylceSp and sbLabInc default settings were changed to be Always reset
• Grid Data improvements:
  • Redesign/update dialog with new layout
  • New CoKriging gridding method
  • Support Cross Variograms in Variogram modeling page
  • Add new grid back as map layer
  • Blank a grid file during gridding, using any vector format
  • Save/Load gridding parameters to/from a file
• Variograms: Use industry standard terms "partial sill" instead of "scale" and "range" instead of "length"
• Notifications window for communications from Golden Software
• Points, Polylines, Polygons: display and edit XY (and Z if any) vertex coordinates in the Property Manager
• Worksheet Transform: relative cell references should use all rows for number of rows by default
• 3D PDF export
• VRML export

Fixes:

• Crash when undoing pasting data into table
• Crash in Colormap Editor when working with Presets
• Internal Error when changing the Coordinate System (mapframenode.cpp)
• Point Cloud: IE when trying to select points in a non-active map (pointcloudimpl.cpp)
• Internal Error when creating 3D View (scatterplotconverter.cpp)
• Crash on closing S17 saved as S15 MapTypes.srf
• 3D View: Vector data points: map limits are not honored (entire data set is plotted)
• IE when clicking Back in Grid Data then selecting NoData boundary as None
• Saving large files to network drive taking extremely long time
• Crash when print
• Internal Error when using polyline 'Break at Intersections' (findintersections.cpp)
• Internal Error: Break at intersections applied to two spline polylines cmdbreakpolylineatintersections.cpp)
• Crash when editing font size in Axis title
• Color relief: colormap data limits don't update after changing grid
• Crash when opening 3D View (Stratos.dll)
• Crash when Grid Data - Select Data

Surfer 16.6.484 (August 22, 2019)

New Features/Improvements:

• Try Beta Version command to access the beta version of the next Surfer!
• Autorecovery option to auto-save files periodically
• Import: move from File menu to Insert group on Ribbon and rename to 'Graphic'
• Colormap: keep "Use data limits" enabled when reloading grid with different extents
• Reload Layer Data has a new icon
• Base from Server: Update server list
• Base from Server: Get server list from online source instead of INI

Fixes:

• Grid from Contours: Internal Error when creating grid (robustsigndeterminant2x2.cpp)
• Base Map: attributes are getting truncated at numeric value
• Internal Error after georeferencing (usertransform.cpp)
• Crash copying/pasting between plots
• Cannot open SRF file after saving (srf appears to be corrupt or incomplete and cannot be loaded)
• Attribute Table: Cell entries containing "/" being formatted inconsistently
• Internal Error after saving file (gscatch.cpp)
• Internal Error when opening S16.1 SRF file (stratosstatemanager.cpp)
• Internal Error when pasting color scale or scale bar from one plot to another (colorscale/scalenode.cpp)
• Crash when gridding data from Wizard

Surfer 16.5.446 (May 31, 2019)

New Features/Improvements:

• Grid Info: limit the calculated statistics for the area inside or outside a polygon or set of polygons
• Profiles: Reverse axis
• Profiles: Limits property page was added to specify the X and Y limits for the profile
• Reload Layer Data command added to the File menu and in the right click menu for map layers

Fixes:

• Crash after pasting
• Crash after copying
• Base from Server: default timeout increased from 30 to 90 seconds
• Base from Server: WMS error "Remote server returned an error: (400) Bad request"
• Base from Server: WMS error "Unacceptable layer names"
• When data files contain very small values and were gridded, the resulting grids could contain invalid floating point data or generate a std exception error
• Export to vector format: new option to export with axis reversed (otherwise map is mirrored in X and labels upside down when axis is reversed)
• Internal Error when gridding data with Triangulation (grid.cpp)
• Internal Error when using Grid From Contours (lineintersection.cpp)
• Assign NoData was much slower than previous versions with very large polygons
• Assign NoData inside polygon was including/not including the correct nodes along the edges of the polygon

Surfer 16.4.426 (May 3, 2019)

New Features/Improvements:

• Drop Shadow for text and drawing shapes
• Print preview
• FGDB Import (v10): Import Options dialog to select which layers to import
• Copy or duplicate layers with linked objects without getting a warning

Fixes:

• Internal Error in Colormap Editor when filling contours (colormapdlg.cpp)
• FGDB Import Options: Spatial limits were not applied
• Copy/Paste Format: some checkbox settings weren't copied/pasted
• Export Options dialog does not appear when exporting to ASCII formats from the worksheet
• Copying color scale does not copy the 'show max value' flag
• PDF Export: Rotated map frame is causing artifacts when exported to vPDF
• Image Export: Post map labels and points are randomly missing/cutoff
• Crash when opening worksheet (SurferCore.dll)
• Post map: reloading multisheet workbook doesn't prompt for sheet

Surfer 16.3.408 (April 5, 2019)

New Features/Improvements:

• Export to SHP/DXF: Contour fill polygons are exported with Zmin as the 3D Z value and have the Zmin as an attribute
• Drawing: SHIFT snaps to nearest vertex
• Colormap Editor: Edit the Presets drop down menu (add, remove and rearrange presets)
• Copy Format/Paste Format: Apply properties from one object onto another object of the same type
• Import grid-type TIF files as images in a base map
• Contour map color scale: Add label to the top of the color scale
• Post and Base maps: Show which sheet in an Excel workbook is used
• Base map: Drag and drop attribute labels
• Base from Server: Update NAIP server URL to new NAIP Plus location
• Added 5 more colors to the color palette

Fixes:

• Reflectance map missing when saving to S14 (and prior) SRF format
• 3D View: vector data points: symbols are much too large for lat/lon map
• Reflectance map duplicated when saving to S15 SRF and crash
• Crash when changing Z axis tick settings
• 3D View: Point Cloud doesn't update colors when Plot View Colormap is changed
• Error loading IMG file "Failed decoding raster data"
• Grids | New Variogram: Statistics dialog is not positioning the "Report" button correctly when dialog is resized.
• Point Cloud: Internal Error when trying to select points in a non-active map (pointcloudimpl.cpp)
• 3D View: Rendering stalls on 'Creating grid' message when displaying objects in large file
• Crash when gridding data through Grid Wizard (GridLibu.dll)
• 3D View: "Same as plot" sizing method does not work with Lat/Lon maps
• Error during Save: "Error opening file 'C:\...\Temp\gs[xxx].tmp': Access denied"
• Automation: encountered improper argument closing plot after saving

Surfer 16.2.375 (February 6, 2019)

New Features/Improvements:

• Attribute Table: Added the Query Objects command in the toolbar
• Attribute Table: Copy the entire table without having to hold down select button
• Attribute Table: Export to data/database file (e.g. CSV, DAT, DBF, TXT, XLSX)
• Attribute Table: Find/Replace
• Attribute Table: Make it easier to select and copy non-adjacent cells/rows
• Base Layer: Added the Query Objects and Open Attribute Table commands to the right-click context menu when in Edit mode
• Add the Duplicate and Move/Copy commands to the right-click context menu
• Export: Automatically use map scaling source for export when base layer is in edit mode
• Increase the size of the text in Digitized Coordinates dialog when using a high resolution monitor
• Map Wizard: Make Browse its own button
• Query dialog: Make modeless so you can access other commands/dialogs (e.g. the Attribute Table) when it is open

Fixes:

• Map Wizard: Choosing text columns for data files leaves you stuck on second dialog with no indication of what's wrong
• Internal Error when create 3D view (geometryconverter.cpp)
• Color Relief: Reflectance color data min/max goes to grid min/max when reload grid
• Internal Error when exporting to .raw file with the header size set to a non-zero number (bufferedfile.cpp)
• Watershed: Changing the grid and then Undo doesn't revert the Threshold value
• Watershed: Properties doesn't clear the Pour point file field if selected file is invalid
• Grid Editor: Improper Argument error when saving in ADF format
• Options: Rectangle must fully surround: Unchecked doesn't have any effect
• Internal Error in the worksheet when attempting to import data past its end

Surfer 16.1.350 (December 13, 2018)

New Features/Improvements:

• Improvements in user interface display when using high resolution monitors (e.g. increase size of icons, reshape nodes, checkboxes, etc)
• JPG import: image is imported at original rotation after editing in an image editor
• Colormap Editor: Recalculate histogram based on specified Data min and max values
• 3D View: vertical exaggeration: adjust formatting so entire value can be displayed
• Hyperlink objects to a file or URL
• Attribute Table: copy and paste multiple attribute values from Excel into the Attribute Table
• Transform: add function SIGN(Arg)

Fixes:

• Color scale bar does not update when click Apply from Colormap Editor
• Grid from Contours: Doesn't show contour source when Browse
• Drawn objects: Changes to Fill properties do not immediately apply
• Internal Error when close the 3D view (propertymanager.cpp)
• Colormap Editor: Stretch says it's Equalize when it's not
• Internal Error when trying to create a 3D view (layernode.cpp)
• Crash when throwing "Too many pour points" error in watershed map
• Crash in grid contours dialog
• Crash when editing colors in the 3D View
• Crash with Grid from Contours
• Internal Error when selecting the Z column for Classed Post (databins.cpp)
• Internal Error in 3D view (statepresenter.cpp)
• Crash when selecting grid to use with Grid Mosaic
• Crash in Map Wizard when selecting data
• Axes: turning off/on needs refresh
• Classed Post: Classes for Map: properties aren't applied until refresh
• Internal Error when checking to create water level in 3D View before visualization is completely loaded (statepresenter.cpp)
• 3D View: vertical exaggeration increases when Map is turned off in plot view
• Watershed map disappears after getting "too many pour points" error
• Internal Error when opening S9 SRF file (axisnode.cpp)
• Internal Error when closing a plot view containing a profile node (axisnode.cpp)
• Crash when closing windows (mfc140u.dll)
• Grid Wizard/Mosaic/GridContours: copy geometry from: browse and then cancel goes back to None instead of last selection
• Internal error while importing a TIFF file (trlattice.cpp)
• Internal Error when importing DXF file (TrGraphics.cpp)
• Internal Error when loading a PLY file with bad node data
• Automation: VectorLegend: LabelFont and LabelFormat are not applied
• Automation: Internal Error from SetMapFrame when there is only a single map frame
• Grid Data Advanced Options: dialog says Inverse Distance Parameters instead of Data Metrics
• Draw posted points even when outside the viewable window
• Surfer 16 user with expired beta trial license is not given option to enter a new PK
• Error importing DEM file
• PDFv Export: dashes touching in wide lines (line looks solid)
• Crash when closing 'A license must be activated to continue.' error and modal window is present (surfer.cpp)

Surfer 16.0.330 (November 7, 2018)

• First released version of Surfer 16