= GRASS GIS 7.0.6 =

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NOTE: This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release. For **current** GRASS GIS see [wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures74 New features in GRASS 7.4]
=== Releases ===

==== Stable Release ====

 * Release date: ''1 Mar 2018''
 * Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/73/15/GRASS-GIS-7-0-6-released/
 * Old [wiki:Release/7.0.0-News New features in GRASS 7.0.0] announcement
 * Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.6.gz
 * Binaries: ​not planned
 * Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.6.tar.gz ([https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.6.md5sum md5sum])
 * SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.6:
{{{
  svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20180301_grass_7_0_6
}}}

==== Release Candidate 1 (RC1) ====

 * skipped

=== SVN Source Code ===

 * Milestone: [milestone:"7.0.6"]
 * SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (old stable branch; including yet unpublished bugfixes):
{{{ 
  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0
}}}

=== Overview of changes ===

A series of stability fixes, manual improvements and a few language translations have been added.

The GRASS GIS 7.0.6 release provides '''more than 110 fixes and improvements''' with respect to GRASS GIS 7.0.5.

==== New modules ====

* ''none''

==== Major module changes ====

* ''none''

==== Minor module changes ====

 * G70:i.atcorr: Quickbird2 filter functions added
 * G70:i.landsat.toar: avoid endless loop and exit if approximation
 * G70:i.tasscap manual: fix example for TOAR input
 * G70:i.vi: finish progress info (cosmetics)
 * G70:r.in.aster: r.in.aster: pass output prefix to import function 
 * G70:r.in.wms: fix crashes if server does not exist
 * G70:r.mapcalc: fix for #3296
 * G70:r.mask: ignore case when removing mask for Windows
 * G70:r.out.xyz: fixed indentation
 * G70:r.out.xyz: new -i flag to include no data values
 * G70:r.plane: fix encoding issue for compiling winGRASS
 * G70:r.plane: original author name added
 * G70:r.random.surface: rename variable Surface to RSurface to avoid …
 * G70:r.stats.quantile: re-sync to r.quantile, use correct min
 * G70:r.texture: fix #3210, #2315, clean up code, fix f2_contrast, fix f4_var, handle possible division by zero
 * G70:r.volume: the first item in the array is unused, so don't read from it
 * G70:r.what: fix segfault when using -r and outside of region
 * G70:t.rast.mapcalc: fix Typeerror: object of type '!NoneType' has no len()
 * G70:v.colors: throw fatal error if rules from stdin are specified
 * G70:v.db.select: fix #3236
 * G70:v.external.out: SRID lost when not exactly defined
 * G70:v.in.ogr: do not replace user-given dbname, user, and/or password
 * G70:vlib/pg: disable any settings defined for pg driver 
 * G70:vlib/pg: report categories also for centroids
 * G70:v.lidar.*: partially revert r70776, be less chatty
 * G70:v.net.path: fix segfault, skip identical from - to
 * G70:v.surf.bspline: fix shadowed variables + G_free() usage
 * G70:v.vect.stats: fix #3184, also remove the erroneous 'half' parameter
 * G70:v.vol.rst: improve wording of warning (#3100)
 * G70:v.what: use layer information

==== GUI changes ====

 * wxGUI/nviz: fix #3219 (merge from trunk, r70029)
 * wxGUI/plot: use local wxlibplot for all wxPython versions

==== PyGRASS changes ====

 * ...

==== Library changes ====
 
 * dglib: update to libavl-2.0.3
 * gmath lib: avoid syntax error with attribute in ctypes wrapping
 * libgis: stabilize G_ellipsoid_polygon_area()
 * libraster: support GDAL 2.1 on Windows
 * libtemporal: simplify percent() calls in dataset_mapcalculator
 * ogr dbdriver: support OFTInteger64
 * python ctypesgencore: lexer support added for FLT64X_EPSILON
 * vectorlib: enhance numerical stability for segment intersections

==== Map projection changes ====

* ...

==== Portability changes ====

 * ...

===== MS Windows =====

* ...

==== Manual pages ====

 * various minor improvements

==== Message translation updates ====

 * minor translation updates

=== New Addons ===

New addons since release 7.0.5:

 * ...

=== Closed tickets ===

==== Closed bugs since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.6&type=defect&order=priority)]]

==== Closed wishes since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.6&type=enhancement&order=priority)]]

==== Closed tasks since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.6&type=task&order=priority)]]