wiki:Release/6.4.0-News

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GRASS GIS 6.4.0 final Release

Table of Contents

    1. Release
    2. Overview of changes since 6.3.0
      1. New modules
      2. Major module changes
      3. Minor module changes
      4. Library changes
      5. Driver changes
      6. GUI changes
      7. Portability changes
      8. Build changes
      9. Documentation updates
      10. Message translation updates
      11. Closed tickets
    3. SVN Source Code

Release

Overview of changes since 6.3.0

For changes between 6.2.3 and 6.3.0, see the ​6.3.0 release announcement. Since the 6.3.0 release in April 2008, more than 1500 source code modifications have been done in the 6.4.0 release branch.

New modules

Major module changes

Minor module changes

  • g.mapsets: Bug fix for many mapsets with long names (Huidae)
  • ps.map: Allow control over legend type (Hamish)
  • ps.map: Fix pattern clipping; four new patterns (Hamish)
  • v.in.gpsbabel: GPS device can be filename with spaces (Hamish)

Library changes

  • cache bug in DGLib fixed (trac #224), now vector networking modules are fast (Markus Metz)

Driver changes

  • see also RC4 release notes

GUI changes

  • see also RC4 release notes
  • Fix Tcl/Tk Output console Run in Xterm/DOS box (Hamish)

Portability changes

Build changes

Documentation updates

  • see also RC4 release notes

Message translation updates

Closed tickets

  • v.clean: creates polygons instead of holes (trac #397) (Markus Metz)
  • Python GUI extremely slow on selecting large vector datasets in dropdown box (trac #514) (Martin Landa)

SVN Source Code

  • SVN Checkout 6.4.0 release branch: 
      svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4
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