GRASS GIS 7.6.0

NOTE: PLANNED RELEASE

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.6

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: DD MM 2018
• Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/TODOTODO/GRASS-GIS-7-6-0-released/
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/ChangeLog_7.6.0.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g76x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/grass-7.6.0.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.6.0:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2018XXYY_grass_7_6_0
  

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: DD MM 2018
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/ChangeLog_7.6.0RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g76x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/grass-7.6.0RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.6.0RC1:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2018XXYY_grass_7_6_0RC1
  

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 7.6.0
• Release branch created in r73210
• SVN Checkout latest 7.6 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_6
  

Overview of changes

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

The GRASS GIS 7.6.0 release provides more than XXX fixes and improvements with respect to the stable release 7.4.2.

New modules

• ...

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G76:...

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G76:r.colors and G76:r3.colors: new flag -d to list available rules with description (e.g. "srtm: color palette for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation [range: -11000 to 8850]")
• G76:r.slope.aspect: add -n option to create aspect as degrees clockwise from North (azimuth), with flat = -9999
• G76:r.mapcalc: Do not add extra spaces when inserting a map name or function in GUI

Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• G76:wxGUI: ...

Scripting

• pygrass: Atempt to access data from a closed raster map now rises IndexError

Projection support

• Support of PROJ v.5

Library changes

• ...

User Manuals - Documentation

• G76:...

Portability

• ...

Message Translations

• i18N: ...

New Addons since GRASS 7.6.0

• G7A:...
• TODO

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#613

clean_temp: not safe for concurrent use

#2251

highlight selected features and zoom - display not centered over the highlighted feature

#2679

Drop or fix setting of Location and Mapset using environmental variables

#2693

Error with SQLite path update after moving grass data

#3462

Allow setting environment variables in grass startup script

#3501

t.rast.algebra WARNING: Couldn't create 'parsetab'. [Errno 13] Permission denied:

#3506

3D view mode not available: Reason: name '__int64' is not defined

#3509

g.region grow with negative number limited because of top and bottom

#3510

wxpython 4: fix warnings for Attribute Table Manager

#3527

i.atcorr: discrepancy in sensor band numbering in the manual

#3609

g.gui.timeline does not show granularity of time series

#3629

cannot click to check/uncheck accessible mapsets in g.mapsets

#3631

Mapset remains locked after switch to it and exit

#3685

pygrass GridModule: ERROR: Unable to open element file <windows>

#3717

Patch to fix spelling errors

Closed wishes since the last release

#769

Add ceil and floor to r.mapcalc

#934

d.vect with z height colors uses a random polygon point for height - patch to fix attached

#1057

r.slope.aspect: add -c option

#2736

t.rast.algebra output naming sheme

#2750

LZ4 when writing raster rows; better than double I/O bound r.mapcalc speed

#2979

r.watershed: better documentation for 'drainage' w/ MFD

#3193

r.out.gdal: add AUTHORITY node to the srs info of the exported raster

#3246

r.in.srtm: patch to support SRTM water bodies import (SWBD)

#3302

t.rast.algebra: add support for suffix option in output map names

#3371

Perceptual color tables

#3431

r.mapcalculator script for QGIS processing

#3466

v.to.db: check if column exists before running

#3523

v.rast.stats: avoid multiple rasterization when run on multiple raster maps

#3533

g.gui.tplot: add support to export time series values in a text file

#3537

Add functionalities –tmp-location and –no-clean

#3555

v.rast.stats: addition of null_cells count

#3586

Add XY location to grass command interface

#3594

Allow users to set the RNG seed in r.random

#3615

Two new functions for grass.script python lib

#3689

v.rast.stats: add where option