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

• NULL compression, make default and backport to 7.0 for compatibility
• RLE/DEFLATE/LZ4 compression: #2750: LZ4 when writing raster rows; better than double I/O bound r.mapcalc speed
• r.mapcalc / r3.mapcalc: new variables to access current region dimensions in cells (nrows, ncols, ndepths) (r67664)

7.0.3 (to be backported)

• r65625 - vector/v.external/
  • martinl: I suggest to keep these changes only in trunk
• Backport the testing framework. We want this also in relbranch70
  • wenzeslaus: The coverage is really low; far less than 10% (even less when you consider lib and gui). Wouldn't backporting just give a false feeling of safety?
  • martinl: I suggest to remove this issue from to-be-backported list

7.0.4 (to be backported)

• r67306 Close wxGUI on GRASS CLI exit (#770) - experimental prototype
• r66382 + r66383: display/d.rast.arrow/ - Drainage aspect type
• r65057: db/db.login/
• r66467: raster/r.random.cells expanded
• r66379: vector/v.random/main.c
• r66460: vector/v.distance/distance.c (see #2734)
• r67007: vector/v.db.select/main.c - SQL GROUP BY
• r66726 + r66729: vector/v.in.ogr/main.c - Support int64 for key column
• r66777: scripts/v.krige/ kappa support
• fix mySQL support: ​2 tickets
• r67455: v.rast.stats: remove unnecessary code related to mask
• #2859
• import changes: r67284, r67285, r67628, r67631:67634
• quit dialog: r67635
• graphic identity - ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2016-January/078528.html
• extensions: r67668

Blockers

No results

Critical issues

No results

• #2456: read CSV from GDAL data directory

Further issues

• Check overview in: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.0.3
• Open bugs concerning GRASS 7
• List Open Enhancement Requests

General strategy

... regular publication of stability releases:

7.0.x ... 7.0.1 ... 7.0.0:

• all released, see Release

Historical notes

• a releasebranch_6_4 branch has been created (for access, see here) - used to release GRASS GIS 6.4.x
• a develbranch_6 branch has been created (for access, see here) - unused since 2015
• trunk has become GRASS 7.1.svn
• branches/releasebranch_7_0 has become GRASS 7.0.svn
• ​Announcement (2008, GRASS 7 development started)
• GRASS GIS 6.3.0 has been released from the releasebranch_6_3 branch

See also

• ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8Planning