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

Surfer Beta 18.0.93 (December 11, 2019)

New Features/Improvements

• Add Slack button to ribbon
• Add Send Feedback/Report Bug button to the ribbon
• Image Crop: add ALT key

Fixes:

• Cannot create more than one 3D view per SRF file
• Surfer crashed sometimes immediately after starting
• Surfer crashed when changing some properties
• Surfer crashed when gridding with Local Polynomial when No Search was selected from previously gridding data
• Grid Data: defaults were set to the settings for the last gridded data set in that instance of Surfer
• Grid Data: the variogram graphic showed the Direction rotating in the opposite direction
• Internal Error when exporting to a vector format (e.g. PDFv, GSB, BLN, etc)
• Adding georeferenced layer to unreferenced map with profile creates looping errors

Surfer Beta 18.0.79 (November 16, 2019)

New Features/Improvements:

• 3D View: export to image file (TIF, JPG, PNG, BMP)
• 3D View: Vertical Exaggeration: add 'Reset' button
• Attribute Table: Double click column header dividers to shrink/expand fields to width of data
• Automation: special error message for setting radii on polygons (that used to be rounded rectangles).
• Base Layer: Edit Group: draw ellipse, rectangles, rounded rectangles when geotransformed
• Base layer: Edit Group: Indicate which layer is in editing mode in Contents window
• Base layer: Zoom selected to zoom to selected object in base layer (not entire map)
• Base Map: label ellipse, rectangles with attributes
• Base Map: start editing for multiple layers at a time
• Base Symbology: Unique Values: save/load table of values and properties
• Contents: select multiple map layers and delete
• Contents: select multiple map layers and reorder within map
• Contents: select multiple objects and toggle visibility
• Digitize: keep red crosses on plot when clicking inside Digitized Coordinates window
• Export: if Enter Group is active, still export entire plot
• Export: select and export individual map layers
• Export: Selected Objects Only to export individual objects in Base layer, not entire map/layer
• Grid Volume, Grid Data, Assign NoData: use with ellipse, rectangle, rounded rectangle boundaries
• Image: Crop
• Image: Set Transparent Color
• Map Measure: allow when in edit mode for Base/Group
• Map New or Map Add: select multiple files (data, base, grid) at once
• Move/Copy to Layer, Duplicate (or drag): allow ellipse, rectangle, range rings, rounded rectangle
• Profile: create profile from any polyline in any Base layer
• Rectangles, Rounded Rectangles, and Ellipses: create as polygons
• Ribbon: Features: move Split and Combine into New Features group
• Sample: New Sample File (SHP)
• Scale Bar: convert Linear units of labels from map units (i.e. meters to km, feet to miles, etc)
• Scale Bar: link Cycle Spacing to Label Increment by default
• Scale Bar: Title and Labels use different Font properties
• Set map CS to unreferenced without exiting group
• Set Transparent Color: small improvements
• Set Transparent colors for images in Base(vector) layers and inserted images too
• SHP Export: export Base with numeric attributes as numeric (not text)
• Start/Stop Editing not required to geoprocess/add/query/select multiple objects/etc in group or base layer
• Symmetrical Shapes: convert to polyline
• Symmetrical Shapes: Split and Combine them
• Treat or Create Symmetrical Shapes as Polygons
• Welcome dialog: Add Grid Data button.

Fixes

• 3D View: Crash when viewing 3D Surface.
• Attribute Table: added fields cannot be scrolled to until you expand the AT window
• Copying/Pasting map selects all item in a map
• Crash adding attribute field for empty table
• File opens with math text all bold/italics/colored (only parts should be bold/italics/colored)
• Hide labels for base objects that are invisible
• Internal Error copying objects to plot (scenelist.cpp, Line 1536)
• Internal Error when selecting objects (scenelist.cpp)
• Internal Error when selecting objects in a base layer (scenelist.cpp)
• Internal Errors creating objects
• Profile: Dragging layers from one map to another does not remove those layers from profile
• Reload data while editing base layer loses track of editing list

Surfer Beta 17.0.255 (September 24th, 2019)

New Features/Improvements:

• Grid Data: save/load parameters: a few parameters aren't saved
• Grid Data: save/load parameters: don't revert to default if change parameters

Fixes

• 3D Axes: do not allow multiple 3D view windows to be opened (avoid PM-view window sync issues)
• 3D View: axes that have labels toggled are not updated after geotransform
• 3D View: Axes: move 'Major interval' property to Ticks page (can't change Major interval)
• 3D View: changing line color for base layer (in Plot window) freezes Surfer
• 3D view: default scaling is not ideal with lat/long coordinates
• 3D View: lighting shows uncropped version in the middle of cropped version
• 3D View: Z grid lines do not sync up with Z axis tick marks
• Grid Mosaic: copy geometry from is empty by default (should be <None>)
• Internal Error: Break at intersections applied to two spline polylines

Surfer Beta 17.0.240 (September 3rd, 2019)

•  First released version of Surfer Beta

Updated September, 2019