= List of new features in GRASS GIS 7.6 =

'''NOTE''': this page is a draft to start keeping track of the new features that will come with GRASS GIS 7.6.0

GRASS GIS 7.6 is actively developed and maintained with a first 7.6.0 stable release in ~~January 2018~~. In total, it comes with '''more than XX fixes and improvements''' with respect to the previous [wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures74 stable releases 7.4.x]. This page summarizes the manifold new features which have been added to GRASS 7.6.

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

After ~~more than 1 year of development~~ the **new stable release GRASS GIS 7.6** is available. Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience even better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to modules and further improving the graphical user interface. Several modules were migrated from addons to the core GRASS GIS suite.

=== Releases ===

 * See list here: ~~[wiki:Release/7.4.0-News] (Jan 2018)~~
 * The development was officially moved to a dedicated release branch on ~~November 12, 2017 (r71701).~~

== Graphical User Interface ==

GRASS GIS 7.6 graphical user interface comes with a new... 

* G7:g.gui.tplot: now allows to set labels for title, x and y axes, and to export the plotted time series data in a CSV file
implement widget for SQL WHERE params 
wxGUI: make wx.BusyInfo? compatible with wxPython 4 

== Modules (commands) ==

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

=== General modules ===

* G7:g.region: new ''grow'' option to increase or decrease the region extent in all directions.

=== Raster modules ===

A new module, ...

Several other raster modules have been improved with new options, flags or parallelization support: 
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=== Vector modules ===

The already impressive list of vector functions in GRASS GIS now includes ~~two~~ new modules that 

Several other vector modules have been significantly improved with new options, flags, fixes and other enhancements:
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=== Imagery modules ===

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=== Temporal GIS modules ===

 * G7:t.rast.algebra: new ''suffix'' option for map names

=== Scripting ===

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== User Manuals - Documentation ==

=== Translations ===

Translations are now managed in Transifex (please join and translate messages): https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass72

=== User manual pages improvements ===

More than ~~130~~ User Manual pages have received major or minor improvements.

== GRASS 7 Library changes ==

In the past year of development, there were several changes in different GRASS GIS libraries. The most relavant changes are described below:
 * support for PROJ 5 

== Source Code Portability ==

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== GRASS GIS 7.6 Addons ==

There are ~~twenty six [wiki:Release/7.4.0-News#NewAddonssinceGRASS7.2.0 26 new addons]~~ that now enlarge the already impressive list of extensions available (see http://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/). 

Among these new extensions there is a set of components, **i.signature.*** to...

New addons to download and import Sentinel-2 imagery: i.sentinel.download and i.sentinel.import

== Migrating from GRASS GIS 6 to version 7.x ==
 * see [wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures#Optionschanges here] for changes in parameter names and changed flags
 * see [wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures#Replacedandremovedmodules here] for removed modules and renamed modules
 * see [wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures#Optionschanges here] for renamed options