Preparing 1.2 release

Author: forman

CHANGES.md

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 ## Changes in version 1.2.0
 
+### Enhancements
+
+* The right sidebar has been redesigned. It now uses a tab bar to switch
+  between info, time-series charts, new statistics, and 3-D panels. 
+  Numerous info panel styles have been adapted to harmonise with the common 
+  style of the UI.
+
+* Introduced a statistics panel, where basic statistics for the currently 
+  selected variable, selected timestamp, and selected place can be computed
+  and displayed. If the place is an area, statistics include include 
+  minimum, maximum, mean, standard deviation, and a histogram. For 
+  point places the value at the point is displayed. 
+
 * Introduced a variable comparison mode. Users can now go to the layer 
   visibility dropdown menu (see below) and enable the variable compare mode.
   This will make the variable layer  fully transparent for initially one 
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   control bar. It also includes a new RGB layer from a secondary dataset
   so that now two different RGB layers can be compared.
 
-* The right sidebar has been redesigned. It now uses a tab bar to switch 
-  between info, time-series charts, and 3-D panels. Numerous info panel styles 
-  have been adapted to harmonise with the common style of the UI.
-
 * Introduced user-defined layers:
   - Users can now define their own base maps and overlay layers from
     WMS servers or tiled web maps (=XYZ).
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 * Fixed problem with color bar selector that occurred if a variable
   used an unknown color bar name.
 
+### Other Changes
+ 
 * Numerous changes regarding development environment renewal and 
   code quality improvements: