Version History
Evaluating Portable Tile Server Releases
Release Notes iOS/Android Mobile Version, full history of bug fixes, features, and platform updates across each release.
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Highlights |
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Latest
August 2026
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iOS / Android |
- All Esri REST endpoints: FeatureServer, MapServer, VectorTileServer, ImageServer, StreamServer, and SceneServer
- Connected Systems: publish SensorThings & Moving Features writes to an outbox with replay and live fan-out
- Bundled map viewers return: OpenLayers, MapLibre, and Terria, installed on first launch, served on the LAN
- Geospatial data importers on the home screen: cached tiles (PMTiles/GPKG/MBTiles), raster (TIF/COG), vector (GeoJSON/KML/GPX/CSV)
- Forms fill fix: published forms open reliably (no more crash screen); friendlier errors for invalid forms
- UI fixes for modern devices (Android 15+ edge-to-edge)
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1.3
October 2023
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iOS / Android |
Bug Fixes
- Support for serving data without WiFi – internal IP address to serve data to another app on the same End User Android Device (Sere data to a game engine app or to ATAK app or another mapping app)
- 3D & Game Engine Support
- Serving OGC 3DTILES (3D Buildings, 3D Point Clouds, 3D Features) for Cesium and Cesium Game Engines (from zip archive or 3TZ archive)
- Serving Raster map tiles as OSGEO TMS-Tile Map Service with tileset.xml for Cesium Game Engine Compatibility (from MBTILES and GPKG)Serving Quantized Mesh Terrain Tiles for Cesium and Cesium Game Engine (from MBTILES)
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1.2
July 2023
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Android |
- Geopackage Vector Features as Dynamic PNG Raster Tiles with symbology/styling
- GeoPackage Vector Features as OGC API Features searchable/Querable endpoint and return GeoJSON
- Vector Tiles to Raster Tiles (and hybrid satellite and topo-terrain and other compositing multiple layers) Rendering of a BBOX and Min/Max Zoom Range
- 3D Map View with 3D Terrain and 3D Buildings (3DTILES and GLB 3D Models and 3D Geospatial data from KML, CZML, GeoJSON)
- Fixes for /atak and tile.xml endpoint for integration with iTAK, ATAK, WINTAK, MCH and other apps
- Serve map catalogs (JSON) with catalog builder for 2D Map and 3D Map
- Updates to Discover webpage
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1.1
December 2021
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Android |
Bug Fixes and Updates
Latest Android support
Fix URL's with .mbtiles and .gpkg
Fixes to WMTS URL
New Features:
- More details of metadata table in Tile Details
- TileJSON is clickable and sharable
- New XML URL for ATAK/WINTAK app compatibility
- Many improvements and updates to /map endpoint
- New data_distribution endpoint for downloading full files
- New COG support for serving Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF Raster Imagery
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1.0
November 2019
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iOS / Android |
Initial Full-featured release
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