Changes between Version 383 and Version 384 of Grass7/NewFeatures


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    11= List of new features in GRASS GIS 7.0 =
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    3 GRASS GIS 7 is the current development version of GRASS GIS. In total, more than 10,000 changes have been implemented so far with respect to GRASS GIS 6.4. The development was started in April 2008 (r31142). Since then a lot of new features have been added to GRASS 7; until the official release becomes available, it is already possible to use GRASS GIS 7 through [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/ nightly snapshots].
     3GRASS GIS 7 is the version of active development with a first 7.0.0 stable release in February 2015. In total, more than 10,500 changes have been implemented so far with respect to GRASS GIS 6.4. The development was started in April 2008 (r31142). This page summarizes the manifold new features which have been added to GRASS 7.
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    55|| [[Image(splash_screen.png, left, 250px)]] || The graphical user interface based on wxPython (introduced in GRASS GIS 6.4) has been enriched with many new features in order to make complex GIS operations available as simple as possible. The old !Tcl/Tk based GUI has been dropped. Relevant new features are available in the core system, among the most important the [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python#Python_extensions_in_GRASS_GIS new Python interface to the C library]. This new feature permits Python developers to create new modules in a simple way while at the same time creating powerful and fast modules. Furthermore, the vector library was particularly improved to make it faster and more efficient with support of [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Massive_data_analysis huge files]. This required a [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Convert_all_GRASS_6_vector_maps_to_GRASS_7 easy to manage topology format update] including a new spatial index. Finally, there are a series of new modules to analyse raster and vector data; some of the already existing modules were improved and made faster (some even 1000 x faster). For more details see below.
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    99 * [wiki:Release/7.0.0RC-News] (RC2 released 8 Feb 2015)
    1010 * [wiki:Release/7.0.0beta-News] (several releases in 2014) - after almost 6 years of development (r31142)
     11 * [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/ nightly snapshots]
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