= List of new features in GRASS GIS 7.8 =

'''NOTE''': this page is a draft to start keeping track of the new features that will come with GRASS GIS 7.8.0

GRASS GIS 7.8 is actively developed and maintained with a first 7.8.0 stable release in ~~Jan 2019~~. In total, it comes with '''more than XX fixes and improvements''' with respect to the previous [wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures76 stable releases 7.6.x]. This page summarizes the manifold new features which have been added to GRASS 7.8.

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

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. Several modules were migrated from addons to the core GRASS GIS suite.

=== Releases ===

 * See list here:
   * [wiki:Release/7.8.0-News] ~~(XXX 2019)~~ (7.8.0 forthcoming)
 * The release development was officially moved to a dedicated release branch on MMM DD, 2019 (rZZZZZ).

== Graphical User Interface ==

GRASS GIS 7.8 graphical user interface comes with a new... 

 * G7:g.gui.tplot ...

== Modules (commands) ==

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

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=== General modules ===

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

=== Raster modules ===

New modules:
 * ...

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 ===

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=== Scripting ===

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=== Python 3 support ===

The deprecated shebang `#!/usr/bin/env python` has been changed to `#!/usr/bin/env python3`
== User Manuals - Documentation ==

=== Translations ===

Translations are managed in Transifex (please join and translate messages): https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass7

=== User manual pages improvements ===

More than ~~XXX~~ 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. 

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== Source Code Portability ==

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== GRASS GIS 7.8 Addons ==

There are ~~twenty six [wiki:Release/7.6.0-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 new addons to download, import and preprocess Sentinel-2 imagery: ...

== Migrating from GRASS GIS 6 to version 7.x ==

If you are still using GRASS GIS 6, here details upgrade instructions for own scripts:
 * 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