Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of Grass7/NewFeatures78
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- Sep 6, 2019, 3:38:08 PM (5 years ago)
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Grass7/NewFeatures78
v7 v8 9 9 After more than 1 year of development the **new stable release GRASS GIS 7.8** 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. 10 10 11 **Breaking news: Python 3 compatibility!** 11 **Breaking news: Python 3 compatibility** 12 13 This re-established compatibility with QGIS and other connected software packages. 12 14 13 15 === Releases === … … 19 21 == Graphical User Interface == 20 22 21 GRASS GIS 7.8 graphical user interface comes with a new... 22 23 * G7:g.gui.tplot ... 23 GRASS GIS 7.8 graphical user interface comes with many fixed for Python 3 and wxpython4. 24 24 25 25 == Modules (commands) == 26 26 27 A series of new modules has been added and many improved: 28 29 * ... 27 A series of relevant improvements has been done (selection): 30 28 31 29 === General modules === 32 30 33 * G7 :g.region: new ''grow'' option to increase or decrease the region extent in all directions.31 * G78:g.search.modules: support for installed addons added 34 32 35 33 === Raster modules === 36 34 37 New modules: 38 * ... 39 40 Several other raster modules have been improved with new options, flags or parallelization support: 41 * ... 35 * G78:r.compress: ZLIB is no longer the default compression method but [http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ ZSTD] compression 36 * G78:r.mapcalc.simple: former r.mapcalculator as now as r.mapcalc.simple 42 37 43 38 === Vector modules === 44 39 45 The already impressive list of vector functions in GRASS GIS now includes ~~two~~ new modules that46 47 Several other vector modules have been significantly improved with new options, flags, fixes and other enhancements: 48 * ...40 The following vector modules have been significantly improved with new options, flags, fixes and other enhancements: 41 * G78:v.in.pdal: use PDAL streaming instead of !PointView 42 * G78:v.overlay: speed-up for large, complex input areas 43 * G78:v.patch: automagic cleaning of boundaries if areas have been patched 49 44 50 45 === Imagery modules === 51 46 52 * ...47 * G78:i.pansharpen: updated i.pansharpen to handle pixel depths from 2-30 bits, and quashed some bugs 53 48 54 49 === Temporal GIS modules === … … 58 53 === Scripting === 59 54 60 ... 55 Major efforts have been done to port all Python scripts to Python 3. 56 61 57 === Python 3 support === 62 58 63 59 The deprecated shebang `#!/usr/bin/env python` has been changed to `#!/usr/bin/env python3` 60 64 61 == User Manuals - Documentation == 65 62 … … 74 71 == GRASS 7 Library changes == 75 72 76 In the past year of development, there were several changes in different GRASS GIS libraries. 77 78 * ... 73 * libsegment: the all-in-memory cache has been improved 79 74 80 75 == Source Code Portability ==