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List of new features in GRASS GIS 8.0
GRASS GIS 8.0 is actively developed and maintained with a first 8.0.0 stable release in XXX 2021. In total, it comes with almost 800 fixes and improvements with respect to the previous stable releases 7.8.x. This page summarizes the manifold new features which have been added to GRASS 8.0.
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What's new in a nutshell
After more than 3 year of development the new stable release GRASS GIS 8.0 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.
Breaking news: new graphical user interface
This re-establishes compatibility with QGIS and other connected software packages.
Releases
- For more details than on this overview page, see list here:
- Release/8.0.0-News (DD MM 2021)
- The 8.0 release development was officially moved to a dedicated release branch on TODO, 2021: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tree/releasebranch_8.0
Graphical User Interface
GRASS GIS 8.0 graphical user interface comes with an entirely new concept of startup.
See ... TODO
Modules (commands)
A number of relevant improvements have been made (selected list):
General modules
- G80:...
Raster modules
- G80:...
Vector modules
- G80:...
Imagery modules
Band support
- G80:...
Temporal GIS modules
- G80:...
Graphical user interface
- wxGUI ...
Scripting
Major efforts have been taken to port all Python scripts to Python 3.6
Database support
- PostgreSQL driver: ...
Python 3 support
- Code formatting with
black - Hundreds of PEP8 fixes with
flake8
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
- numerous user manual pages have received major or minor improvements
- ...
GRASS GIS 7 Library changes
- ...
PROJ support
PROJ 4 to PROJ 7 compatibility implemented.
- ...
GDAL support
GDAL 3 compatibility improved with speed-ups.
Source Code Portability
- Python-3 support implemented across the tree
- FreeBSD: ...
- Mac: ...
- OSGeo4W: ...
Unit tests / CI
- (GitHub Actions activated in master: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/actions)
JSON / REST support
- json parser: ...
Docker support
- ...
GRASS GIS 8.0 Addons
There are numerous new addons which enlarge the already impressive list of addons available (see http://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/):
- G7A:...
Migrating from GRASS GIS 7 to version 8.x
Nothing special to care about.
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