GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC2 Release

Release

• Release date: 12 Jan 2009
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.0RC2.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php

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 1450 source code modifications have been done in the 6.4.0 release branch.

New modules

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1 release notes

Major module changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1 release notes

• new icons theme for wxGUI based on ​http://www.szczepanek.pl/icons.grass/v.0.1/

Minor module changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1 release notes

• v.in.dxf: fixed test to determine if a polyline is 3-d (Huidae)
• v.surf.bspline: better user error trapping (Roberto Antolín)
• v.surf.rst: check output vector map name validity before any processing (Maris)

Library changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1 release notes

Portability changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1 release notes

Build changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1 release notes

Message translation updates

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1 release notes

Closed tickets

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1 release notes

• querying vector map crashes wxGUI (trac #415)
• bogus rectangles on map display (trac #414)
• i.rectify; what does -a actually do? (trac #242)
• Can not set vector layer properties (trac #407)
• autorendering interferes with layer selection (trac #270)
• font settings not saved (trac #291)
• setting 'at=' to anything crashes raster legend (trac #289)
• v.surf.bspline broken (trac #96)
• wxNVIZ: error pressing "All" button (trac #300)

Interoperability changes

• R-GRASS interface (spgrass6 package): improvements to use the fast r.in.gdal/r.out.gdal instead of the GDAL plugin or r.in.bin/r.out.bin

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.0
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20090112_grass_6_4_0RC2/
• SVN Checkout 6.4.0RC2:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20090112_grass_6_4_0RC2
  

• SVN Checkout 6.4.0 release branch:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4