= List of new features in GRASS GIS 7.2 =

GRASS GIS 7.2 is the version of active development with a first 7.2.0 stable release in ~~December 2016~~. In total, it comes with '''more than 1900 fixes and improvements''' with respect to the stable releases 7.0.x. The development was officially moved to a dedicated release branch in May 2016 (r68500). This page summarizes the manifold new features which have been added to GRASS 7.2.

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=== What's new in a nutshell ===

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After almost two years of development the new stable major release GRASS GIS 7.2 is available. The graphical user interface based on wxPython has been further improved in order to make complex GIS operations available as simple as possible. The developers have added important new functionality to the core system: the [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/libpython/pygrass_index.html Python interface to the C library] got extended which permits users to create new GRASS GIS-Python modules in a simple way while yet obtaining powerful and fast modules. Furthermore, a series of new modules to analyse raster and vector data was added. For details see below.

=== Releases ===

 * See list here: [wiki:Release/7.2.0-News]

== Graphical User Interface ==

blabla

== Modules (commands) ==

A series of new modules have been added and many improved.

=== Display modules ===

New:
* G72:d.legend.vect

Improved: 
* G72:d.legend

=== General modules ===

 * G72:g.search.modules - Search for a GRASS GIS module based on keywords (searches descriptions or manuals)

=== Raster modules ===



=== Raster3D modules ===



=== Vector modules ===



=== Temporal GIS modules ===



=== Scripts ===


--exec flag goes here?

--> yes


== User Manual - Documentation ==


== Python interface ==


== API improvements ==


== GRASS 7 Library changes ==


=== GRASS GIS Temporal Framework ===

 * new Python framework to implement spatio-temporal modules (see [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/temporalintro.html manual])  <-- already in 7.0
  
=== Libccmath ===

 * new library for numerical functions (see [http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/dir_64394d1269c0009c9cccd489361deaa9.html programmer's manual])

=== Libdbmi ===


=== Libgis ===


=== Libgmath ===


=== Libosgf ===


=== Libraster ===


=== Libvector ===


== Source Code Portability ==


== GRASS GIS 7.2 Addons ==

Many new addons are available:

 * see ~~http://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/addons/~~