= List of new features in GRASS GIS 8.2 = GRASS GIS 8.2 is actively developed and maintained with a first 8.2.0 stable release in XXXX 2022. In total, it comes with '''almost [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/compare/8.0.1...8.2.0 YYY fixes and improvements]''' with respect to the previous stable releases 8.0.0. This page summarizes the manifold new features which have been added to GRASS 8.2. [[TOC]] === What's new in a nutshell === The **new stable release GRASS GIS 8.2** is available. Efforts have concentrated on parallel processing, single window graphical user interface, and a new grass.jupyter package for interacting with Jupyter notebooks. Detailed list of new features: * see [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/milestone/8?closed=1 Milestone GRASS GIS 8.2.0] **Highlights** * Parallel processing in r.series, r.patch, r.mfilter, r.slope.aspect * Single window graphical user interface from Settings > Preferences > General * A new map display settings dialog and status bar context menu * A new grass.jupyter package for interacting with Jupyter notebooks * GridModule from grass.pygrass is easier and safer to use * init from grass.script.setup now returns a context manager * A JSON file with latest commit info is available for reproducibility purposes Project management: issues, fixes, and ongoing improvements are publicly accessible at [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/ GitHub]. === Releases === * For more details than on this overview page, see list here: * ~~https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.2.0~~ (DD MMM 2022) * The 8.2 release development was officially moved to a dedicated release branch on 26 Apr 2022: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tree/releasebranch_8_2 == Graphical User Interface == * Single window graphical user interface from Settings > Preferences > General == Modules (commands) == ... === General modules === * G82:... === Raster modules === * G82:... === Vector modules === * G82:... === Imagery modules === * G82:... === Temporal GIS modules === * G82:... === Scripting === * G82:... === Database support === * G82:... == 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 8 Library changes == * ... == PROJ support == * ... == GDAL support == ... == Source Code Quality == ... === Unit tests / CI === * ... == Source Code Portability == * Python-3.7+ support implemented across the tree * FreeBSD: ... * Mac: ... * MS-Windows/OSGeo4W: ... === Docker and Singularity support === * ... == New GRASS GIS 8 Addons == There are numerous new addons which enlarge the already impressive list of addons available (see http://grass.osgeo.org/grass8/manuals/addons/): * G8A:... === Addons moved to core === These modules have been moved to core GRASS GIS (and removed from addons grass8 branch): * G82:... == Migrating from GRASS GIS 7 to version 8.x == With the addition of semantic labels, the temporal database was modified to version 3 and hence, to be able to read and process GRASS 7.x space-time datasets, users will be prompted to run G82:t.upgrade. If users want to read space-time datasets newly created in GRASS 8 back in GRASS 7.x, they can run G78:t.downgrade.