Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of Release/6.3.0RC5-News


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  • Release/6.3.0RC5-News

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    77GRASS is currently used around the world in academic and commercial settings as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. It runs on a variety of popular hardware platforms and is Free open-source software released under the terms of the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License].
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    9 Joining GRASS's well-developed raster engine, the GRASS 6 series introduced a new topological 2D/3D vector engine featuring support for vector network analysis and SQL-based DBMS management of linked attributes. This new release improves the integration and functionality of the raster and vector engines, and greatly enhances 3D raster volume (voxel) support.
     9Joining GRASS's well-developed raster engine, the GRASS 6 series introduced a new topological 2D/3D vector engine featuring support for vector network analysis and SQL-based DBMS management of linked attributes. This new release improves the integration and functionality of the raster and vector engines, and greatly enhances 3D raster volume (voxel) support. The [http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/ screenshots section] illustrates this.
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    1111Additionally, this release debuts a new ''experimental'' graphical user interfaced based on [http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS wxPython], while an improved version of the old GUI display manager has been retained for legacy support. The NVIZ visualization tool has been enhanced to display 3D vector data and voxel volumes, and now supports the creation of on-the-fly MPEG animations. Further improvements include substantial message translations (i18n) with support for !FreeType fonts, including multi-byte Asian characters, and the inclusion of tools to create new project locations automatically given a georeferenced data file or EPSG code.
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    2929  * i.atcorr: Fixing GCC 4.3 issue #21
    3030  * i.landsat.rgb: work with FP input maps
    31   * nviz: fixed 'display flat' button from crashing UI: 'display thematic' crashing UI if no point maps is selected; linewrap fix in site_attr
    32   * r.in.srtm: fix sometimes broken ZIP file detection
     31  * nviz: fixed 'display flat' button from crashing UI: 'display thematic' crashing UI if no point maps is selected; linewrap fix in site_attr; view mode from fly back to eye or center #42
     32  * r.in.srtm: fix sometimes broken ZIP file detection issue #39
    3333  * r.le.setup: fix segfault
    3434  * r.sim.water: fixes
    3535  * v.db.renamecol: fail if DBF driver and too long target column name
    36   * v.generalize: fix for bug #36
     36  * v.generalize: fix for issue #36
    3737 * Graphical user interfaces
    3838  * [http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WxPython-based_GUI_for_GRASS wxPython]-based GUI included