| 1 | GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released
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| 2 | 3 September 2010
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| 3 | http://grass.osgeo.org
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| 6 | We are pleased to announce the new stable version of GRASS GIS. As a
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| 7 | stable release GRASS 6.4 will enjoy long term support. While active
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| 8 | development has continued in the background, due to our highly
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| 9 | conservative stabilization policy this is the first official release of
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| 10 | GRASS to introduce new features since October 2006. It supersedes the
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| 11 | previous stable GRASS 6.2 line while remaining backward-compatible with
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| 12 | all previous releases since 6.0. As such there are a host of new features
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| 13 | to explore and it incorporates many structural improvements.
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| 15 | GRASS 6.4 debuts our new and improved wxPython graphical user
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| 16 | interface (wxGUI); Python is now a fully supported scripting language;
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| 17 | and for the first time since its inception with a port from the VAX
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| 18 | 11/780 in 1983, GRASS now runs natively on a non-UNIX based platform:
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| 19 | MS-Windows. GRASS has been translated into twenty languages and
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| 20 | supports a wide array of popular data formats.
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| 22 | GRASS differs from many other GIS software packages used in the academic
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| 23 | and professional worlds in that it is developed and distributed by users
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| 24 | for users, mostly on a volunteer basis, in the open, and is given away for
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| 25 | free. The source code is also freely available, allowing for immediate
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| 26 | customization, examination of the underlying algorithms, addition of new
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| 27 | features, and faster patching of bugs.
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| 30 | Full story at http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass640.html
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