Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of Grass7/NewFeatures78


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Sep 6, 2019, 3:38:08 PM (5 years ago)
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  • Grass7/NewFeatures78

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    99After more than 1 year of development the **new stable release GRASS GIS 7.8** is available. Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience even better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to modules and further improving the graphical user interface.
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    11 **Breaking news: Python 3 compatibility!**
     11**Breaking news: Python 3 compatibility**
     12
     13This re-established compatibility with QGIS and other connected software packages.
    1214
    1315=== Releases ===
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    1921== Graphical User Interface ==
    2022
    21 GRASS GIS 7.8 graphical user interface comes with a new...
    22 
    23  * G7:g.gui.tplot ...
     23GRASS GIS 7.8 graphical user interface comes with many fixed for Python 3 and wxpython4.
    2424
    2525== Modules (commands) ==
    2626
    27 A series of new modules has been added and many improved:
    28 
    29  * ...
     27A series of relevant improvements has been done (selection):
    3028
    3129=== General modules ===
    3230
    33  * G7:g.region: new ''grow'' option to increase or decrease the region extent in all directions.
     31 * G78:g.search.modules: support for installed addons added
    3432
    3533=== Raster modules ===
    3634
    37 New modules:
    38  * ...
    39 
    40 Several other raster modules have been improved with new options, flags or parallelization support:
    41  * ...
     35 * G78:r.compress: ZLIB is no longer the default compression method but [http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ ZSTD] compression
     36 * G78:r.mapcalc.simple: former r.mapcalculator as now as r.mapcalc.simple
    4237
    4338=== Vector modules ===
    4439
    45 The already impressive list of vector functions in GRASS GIS now includes ~~two~~ new modules that
    46 
    47 Several other vector modules have been significantly improved with new options, flags, fixes and other enhancements:
    48  * ...
     40The following vector modules have been significantly improved with new options, flags, fixes and other enhancements:
     41 * G78:v.in.pdal: use PDAL streaming instead of !PointView
     42 * G78:v.overlay: speed-up for large, complex input areas
     43 * G78:v.patch: automagic cleaning of boundaries if areas have been patched
    4944
    5045=== Imagery modules ===
    5146
    52  * ...
     47 * G78:i.pansharpen: updated i.pansharpen to handle pixel depths from 2-30 bits, and quashed some bugs
    5348
    5449=== Temporal GIS modules ===
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    5853=== Scripting ===
    5954
    60 ...
     55Major efforts have been done to port all Python scripts to Python 3.
     56
    6157=== Python 3 support ===
    6258
    6359The deprecated shebang `#!/usr/bin/env python` has been changed to `#!/usr/bin/env python3`
     60
    6461== User Manuals - Documentation ==
    6562
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    7471== GRASS 7 Library changes ==
    7572
    76 In the past year of development, there were several changes in different GRASS GIS libraries.
    77 
    78  * ...
     73 * libsegment: the all-in-memory cache has been improved
    7974
    8075== Source Code Portability ==