v2.29.0 (2026-08-11)

Overview

Vite Horizon 2.29.0 lets the line tool draw curves: a new Line style picker in the editors reads your clicks as arcs instead of straight segments. It also renames the Combine & Split buttons in the Map Editor and the Advanced Editor, reworks the LOGR Editor panel, makes update announcements quiet unless a release is deliberately marked as notable, and corrects a group of defects in which several analysis tools could read other people's Sketch features.

Breaking Changes

Combine & Split buttons renamed — and "Cut" now means something different

The Combine & Split buttons in the Map Editor and the Advanced Editor have been renamed to say what they do in plain terms. The operations themselves are unchanged — only the wording on the buttons, their tooltips and their messages.

The buttons are icon-only — hover one to see its name.

Old name	New name	What it does
Subtract	Cut Shape	Removes the reference shapes from the target shapes.
Union	Merge Shape	Combines the target and reference shapes into one.
Cut	Split Shape	Splits the target shapes along a reference line.
XOR	XOR (unchanged)	Keeps the parts covered by the target or the reference shapes, but not both.

The name "Cut" moved

"Cut" no longer does what it used to. The button now named Cut Shape is the old Subtract, and the operation that used to be called Cut is now Split Shape. If you work by muscle memory, check the tooltip before clicking — the two produce very different results. Both are reversible with Undo.

The Advanced Editor has no Split Shape button, so only Cut Shape and Merge Shape change there.

Two icons changed at the same time, so the row looks different as well as reading differently: Cut Shape now shows a scissors icon, and XOR has taken over the icon Subtract used to carry.

Success and error messages were reworded to match — for example, a merge that cannot proceed now reports a "Merge Failed" message rather than a "Union Failed" one.

See the Map Editor guide.

New Features and Improvements

Draw curves: the new Arc line style

Every editor that draws lines gains a Line style picker with two icon buttons — Straight (the default, and the long-standing behaviour) and Arc. It sits at the end of the drawing options row, next to the Multi, Snap and Meas switches. There is no new drawing tool: the same line tool simply reads your clicks differently.

With Arc selected, a reminder appears under the row:

Arc: click a start point, then a point to curve through and an end point — repeat the last two for each further curve.

That is the whole click contract. The first click starts the line, and after that each pair of clicks is a point to curve through followed by the end of that curve. So three clicks give one curve, five clicks give two joined curves, and each new curve continues from where the previous one finished. Double-click to complete the line, as always. The curve appears as you click, so you can see the shape before you finish.

The picker is available in the Map Editor, the Advanced Editor and the seven unified editors — FPP, Plan Burn, Wildfire, Sketch, NOI, Cart Route and Spray. In the FPP Editor it appears only while the editor is in Edit mode, since that is the only mode with a line tool to govern. Your choice stays selected between draws and survives closing and reopening the editor; it returns to Straight when you reload Horizon.

An arc line is an ordinary line

A finished arc is stored as a closely-spaced series of vertices that follow the true curve to within about a quarter of a metre, so nothing downstream changes: measurement, the shape tools, the Combine & Split operations, Undo, printing, export to SHP/KML/FIRS and Save to MyLayer all behave exactly as they do for a straight line.

When a curve is drawn straight instead

A curve needs a genuine bend. If the middle (through) click lands almost on the straight line between the start and end points, or beyond the end point, that piece is drawn as straight segments rather than sweeping off across the map. If you finish with an odd click left over, that last click is joined as a straight segment. Either way nothing you drew is lost — the line simply falls back to the straight result.

See the Map Editor guide and the Advanced Editor guide.

Shorter labels on the drawing options row

To make room for the Line style picker, the three switches above the drawing buttons were shortened from Multiple, Snapping and Measure to Multi, Snap and Meas. Nothing about them changed — hover any switch for a tooltip with the full meaning. On a narrow panel the row wraps onto a second line rather than hiding a control.

LOGR Editor: Undo, Redo and Reset

The LOGR Editor panel has been reworked.

• Undo, Redo and Reset buttons now sit at the end of the Operations row. Undo steps back through your work — selecting a feature, buffering, Intersect, Subtract, Union, Replace, clearing a layer and Reset itself — and Redo steps forward again. An edit made with the vertex editor is undoable too, provided you actually moved something: opening the editor and closing it again without changing the shape does not add a step.
• The three history buttons stay available even when no LOGR GeoFence layer is selected, so losing the selection can no longer hide the Undo that would recover your work.
• Reset clears both layers and the current selection in one step, replacing the small ✕ that used to sit on the selection banner.
• The selection banner is now a standard notice: green, reading Selected: PROVCOUPE … once a feature is chosen, and blue, reading Select a target feature from the LOGR GeoFence layer to begin editing until then. It reads correctly in dark mode, which the old coloured cards did not.
• The buffer controls lost their separate heading, and the two buttons now read Target and Reference. The permitted distance range moved onto a tooltip on the distance box instead of a line of text beneath it.
• Buttons are larger and grouped together rather than stretched across the panel, and the Geometry Operations heading is now simply Operations — so more of the panel is usable without scrolling.
• Fixed: the LOGR GeoFence layer is now selected as soon as the panel opens. Previously the target tools, the buffer controls and the operations row could stay hidden until you opened the layer dropdown once.

See the LOGR Editor guide.

Update messages are quiet unless a release is marked as notable

The update notification added in v2.28.0 has been made quieter, and this changes what that page told you.

• Previously: any release that changed the version number showed the "Update available" message over the map.
• Now: a new release shows only the dot on the Settings button unless that release is deliberately marked as one worth interrupting you for. Settings → About → Version still offers Reload now whenever an update is waiting.

Routine corrections and maintenance therefore arrive without a message. The "please reload Horizon" prompt is unaffected: if Horizon is updated while your tab is open and a tool can no longer load, that prompt still appears every time, whatever the release is marked as.

Fixed: analysis tools could read other users' Sketch features

Worth knowing if you have used these tools on a Sketch layer

Sketch layers only ever show your own drawings on the map. However, four tools asked the underlying service for features directly, without the restriction that limits a Sketch layer to your own work — so they could select, list or count sketches drawn by other people, with no error and nothing on screen to indicate it.

The affected tools were Area Summary, Feature Table, Canopy Analysis and Yield Summary. If you have taken figures from any of them against a Sketch layer, they may have included other users' shapes and are worth re-running.

Specifically:

• Area Summary — clicking on the map to select a Sketch feature could select a polygon belonging to another user, in a place where you have drawn nothing.
• Feature Table — the worst case. Opening the table on a Sketch layer listed everyone's rows, not just yours. Worse, pressing the table's Clear button to remove a filter announced that it was showing all features — and then did exactly that, other users included.
• Canopy Analysis and Yield Summary — clicking to pick a Sketch feature could pick another user's, and the Yield calculation could count other users' features into its result.

All four now honour the same restriction the map does, so they report only your own sketches. As a side benefit, any filter you have applied to the layer is respected too, instead of being ignored.

This also affects the Feature Table's filter controls generally: applying or clearing a filter inside the table no longer discards the restrictions the layer already carried.

See the Feature Table guide and the Area Summary guide.

Only Sketch layers are personal

Plan Burn, Wildfire, FPP, Cart Route, NOI and Spray layers deliberately show everyone's work — that is by design and is unchanged. Sketch is the only layer type restricted to the person who drew it.

Under the Hood

• Drawing an arc adds no second drawing tool, no extra map click handling and no new geometry type — the existing line tool reinterprets the same list of clicks. That is why arc lines need no special handling anywhere else in Horizon.
• A safety limit stops an arc from being drawn if a stray click would produce an enormous sweeping curve; the line falls back to straight segments instead.
• The AI Filter Assistant on the Filter panel's Advanced tab now runs on an updated language model. Nothing on screen changes, and the generated clause is still checked and presented for your review before anything is applied.
• Whether a release announces itself is now recorded per release when it is published, and a release that says nothing is quiet by default — so a forgotten entry can only ever make an update quieter, never noisier.