GRASS GIS 6.4.0 final Release

Release

• Release date: to be defined
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.0.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php#g64x

Overview of changes since 6.3.0

For changes between 6.2.3 and 6.3.0, see the ​6.3.0 release announcement. Since the 6.3.0 release in April 2008, more than 1500 source code modifications have been done in the 6.4.0 release branch.

New modules

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, RC3, and RC4 release notes

Major module changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, RC3, and RC4 release notes

Minor module changes

• g.mapsets: Bug fix for many mapsets with long names (Huidae)
• ps.map: Allow control over legend type (Hamish)
• ps.map: Fix pattern clipping; four new patterns (Hamish)
• ps.map: Vector area fills shouldn't fill islands (Hamish)
• v.in.gpsbabel: GPS device can be filename with spaces (Hamish)

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, RC3, and RC4 release notes

Library changes

• cache bug in DGLib fixed (trac #224), now vector networking modules are fast (Markus Metz)

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, RC3, and RC4 release notes

Driver changes

• see also RC4 release notes

GUI changes

• see also RC4 release notes
• Fix Tcl/Tk Output console Run in Xterm/DOS box (Hamish)

Portability changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, RC3, and RC4 release notes

Build changes

• Wrong detection on cairo fixed (trac #467) (Funda Wang/Mandriva)

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, RC3, and RC4 release notes

Documentation updates

• see also RC4 release notes

Message translation updates

• wxGUI translated into Bahasa Indonesia by Firman Hadi

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, RC3, and RC4 release notes

Closed tickets

• v.clean: creates polygons instead of holes (trac #397) (Markus Metz)
• Python GUI extremely slow on selecting large vector datasets in dropdown box (trac #514) (Martin Landa)
• wxGUI cmd: r.mapcalc fails (quoting + args with spaces) (trac #528) (Martin Landa)

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, RC3, and RC4 release notes

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.0
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_2009XXXX_grass_6_4_0RC4
• SVN Checkout 6.4.0 final: svn checkout ​http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2009XXXX_grass_6_4_0RC4

• SVN Checkout 6.4.0 release branch:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4