HAKE GEOSPATIAL
Hake GeoDesk – Desktop GIS
Professional GIS for Mapping, Analysis & Spatial Intelligence
Hake GeoDesk – Desktop GIS
Version 2026.0.0 release notes.
Product & branding
- Desktop product identity: Hake GeoDesk – Desktop GIS with product version label 2026.0.0.
- Default theme Hake Light, with Hake Dark available under application themes.
- Welcome screen and About dialog use Hake GeoDesk naming and branding.
- Modern Qt6 desktop foundation for mapping, analysis, and spatial intelligence workflows.
User interface & map tools
- Redesigned welcome page for a clearer first-run experience.
- Create user-defined toolbars and menus; unlock shipping themes through plugins.
- Map tool to edit blank segments; copy features in an array along a line.
- Attribute table: double-click to zoom to a feature.
- Temporal maps: accumulate-pixels option for representing temporal values.
Symbology, labelling & annotations
- Copy and paste all styles from one layer to another, with additional grouped style categories.
- Selective masking presets for cartographic control.
- Reworked multipart geometry labelling and curved label placement modes.
- Option to ignore whitespace when detecting label collisions.
- New annotations selection tool; text annotations in 3D views; annotation markers as 3D billboards.
3D
- Esri Scene Layers support; orthographic camera; 2D map overlay in 3D views.
- Highlight identified features; render floors of extruded polygons.
- Cross sections with fixed width tolerance and left/right nudge.
- Dynamic vector chunking; option to disable terrain export on 3D scene exports.
Point clouds
- Virtual point cloud (VPC) build enhancements, remote dataset support, and editing.
- Choose the zoom level at which VPC shows actual points.
- New algorithms: Compare point clouds (M3C2), Height above ground, Classify ground points, Filter noise, and Transform point cloud.
Print layouts & expressions
- Layout charts, including a new pie chart plot type; layout item rotation handles.
- Atlas: reshape map frames from atlas geometries; limit coverage-layer rendering to the current feature.
- Horizontal alignment for map grid annotations; data-defined grid annotation visibility and grid expression variables.
- Improved initial layer set and synchronization for layout legends; set map extent to a layer from the map item toolbar.
- New expressions: geometry equals, magnetic models, DMS extract helpers, unaccent, substring count, and time-zone functions.
Digitising & forms
- Bézier map tool; chamfer and fillet for polygons.
- CAD dock floater values for area and total length/perimeter.
- Preview the attributes form inside vector layer properties.
- Refined reuse of last entered values with a remembrance toggle.
Data management & browser
- Enhanced Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) support for raster exports; create COGs from a directory.
- Copy raw attribute values; named layers as temporary output; rename scratch layers in the layer panel when saving.
- Store comments in projects saved to PostgreSQL; suggest a file name when exporting a layer or group as a layer definition.
- Browser: move multiple database tables to another schema; table comments; create or delete spatial indexes from Manage.
- Control whether layers are included in automatic print layout legends; custom elevation profile sources.
Processing
- Model designer updates: unlimited canvas, inline component configuration, and live feature counts through the model.
- Native polygon orientation, feature-preserving raster smoothing, Gaussian blur, and total curvature tools.
- Terrain analysis NODATA and raster creation options; specify raster format on algorithm outputs.
- Network analysis validation; Dataset Identification; approximate medial axis; filter parts by length or area.
- Reproject Layer can transform Z coordinates; Package Layers supports destination CRS and extent intersection filters.
- WMS extraction scale and resolution settings; PDAL Export to raster (TIN) max-triangle-edge-length support.
Data providers & projects
- Save and version projects in PostgreSQL; richer PostgreSQL layer properties.
- OAPIF: GML feature format and alternate download formats beyond GeoJSON.
- Update and delete field domains in GeoPackage; Planetary Computer authentication method.
- OAuth2 auto-refresh; project trust enhancements for embedded code; Elevation Profile Manager.
- Project and layer metadata localization; HTML GetFeatureInfo maptip-only project setting.
Elevation profiles
- Sync elevation profile layers with project layers.
- Render point clouds as a continuous elevation line.
- Show distance:elevation scale ratio in profile settings.
Scripting & automation
- Expanded Python API for 3D map tools, cross-section mode, and ray casting.
- Geometry helpers including 3D area support; vector layers can export to GeoPandas where available.
- SFCGAL library support; templated line symbol layer for blank-area workflows.
Plugins
- Default plugin repository: http://plugins.haketech.com/plugins.html.
- Plugin Manager catalog URL: plugins.xml?hake-geodesk=2026.