= List of new features in GRASS 7 =

== Graphical User Interface ==

 * wxGUI improved (see [http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/wxGUI here])

== Display modules ==

 * old display architecture removed
 * new display architecture based on CAIRO and wxPython

== Raster modules ==

 * r.cost faster by orders of magnitude (10x - 100x)
 * r.walk faster by orders of magnitude (10x - 1000x)
 * r.watershed improved from G6.3 to G6.4 to G6.5 to G7: faster, less memory, floating point DEM support, MFD, clean stream extraction from MFD, segmented mode in G7 faster than in G6 by orders of magnitude (segmented mode in G7 only a bit slower than all-in-ram mode of G6.4)

== Vector modules ==

 * v.in.ogr faster for polygon-import, cleaner output

== Libgis ==

 * WPS support implemented in parser
 * Libraster separated out into own library

== Libraster ==

 * Libraster separated out from libgis

== Libvector ==

 * Large File Support (LFS) added
 * new spatial index, and spatial index kept in file: faster queries (>10x for large vectors), less memory for opening an existing vector
 * cleaning functions 'break polygons' and 'snap lines' faster, less memory