GRASS 7 Release Planning

• Release scope: new display architecture, new raster library, new features such as temporal data handling...
• The SVN trunk corresponds to GRASS 7 (for access, see here)
• ​http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_7_ideas_collection (to be merged into trac)

Already implemented

• New features in version 7 (already implemented)
• 3D raster library and modules in version 7 (finished)
• ​Introduction of temporal modules | ​Available temporal modules | ​Tutorials (user contributed content)

Planning & ongoing

Source code changes:

• Display library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Raster library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Vector library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Temporal extension for GRASS 7 (core functions are implemented, ongoing improvement)
  • ​Temporal Library API
  • Temporal GIS Algebra for Raster and Vector Data GSoC project 2013

Documentation

• Use Sphinx for Python API (complete?)
• Documentation: update HTML manual pages to more recent technology (see examples by Vaclav Petras) and #151

Trunk

• move ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/grass7/imagery/i.spec.unmix/la_extra.c (and la_extra.h) to lib/gmath/

7.0.2 (to be backported)

Please check:

• r64877 - grass/trunk/raster/r.patch: call Rast_cell_size just once, not for every cell - Author: wenzeslaus Date: 2015-03-16
• r62162 - vector/v.generalize: add test for self-intersection, use Vect_line_intersection2() - Author: mmetz Oct 2, 2014
• r64404 - libpython: move cmd list <-> tuple from wxGUI: martinl Date: Feb 2, 2015
• r64406 - wxGUI: replace utils cmd list <-> tuple by grass.script.gtask functions
• What is the status of r65057, #2626, #2627, #2628, #2147 and #2655?
• r65587-8, r65599 - v.proj + r.proj
• r65634 (wxGUI source code compatibility)
• r65710 (v.buffer corners)
• r65519 temporal library: Store the default database connection as shell variable substitude to avoid wrong temporal database path's in cases the location was renamed or the path to the grass database changed.

Blockers

No results

Critical issues

No results

Further issues

• Open bugs concerning GRASS 7
• List Open Enhancement Requests

General strategy

7.0.0

• released, see Release/7.0.0-News

7.0.0RC 1-3 releases

• released, see Release/7.0.0RC-News

7.0.0Beta 4 release: planned as last beta before RC1

• released, see Release/7.0.0beta-News

7.0.0Beta 1-3 releases

• See "New features" above and Release/7.0.0beta-News

History notes

• GRASS 6.3.0 has been released from the releasebranch_6_3 branch
• a new develbranch_6 branch has been created (for access, see here)
• a new releasebranch_6_4 branch has been created (for access, see here)
• ​Announcement (2008, GRASS 7 development started)
• branches/releasebranch_7_0 has become GRASS 7.0.svn
• trunk has become GRASS 7.1.svn