GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC4 Release

Release

• Release date: TBA
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.0RC4.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 1500 source code modifications have been done in the 6.4.0 release branch.

New modules

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, and RC3 release notes

Major module changes

• r.surf.contour: Speed up by a third (Hamish, Glynn)
• v.vol.rst: Speed up by removing unnecessary computations (Antonio Galea)

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, and RC3 release notes

Minor module changes

• v.colors: color parameter fixed (Markus)

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, and RC3 release notes

Library changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, and RC3 release notes

GUI changes

• Add a menu item to change the default GUI (Hamish)

Portability changes

• i.cluster and r.topmodel and G__open_cell_old(): use DOS-friendly null device (Hamish)

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, and RC3 release notes

Build changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, and RC3 release notes

Documentation updates

• various manuals improved by Eric Patton, Markus Neteler and Hamish Bowman

Message translation updates

• Turkish wxpython translation fixed
• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, and RC3 release notes

Closed tickets

• see also GRASS 6.4.0RC1, RC2, and RC3 release notes

• wxgui mapset access module broken (trac #479)
• Map Display Window position does not remember saved position settings (trac #476)
• wxPython profiling tool fails to detect missing numpy (trac #472)
• vector georect broken in wx gui (trac #470)
• raster data needs binary mode on windows (trac #469)
• crash in GPJ_grass_to_wkt() on windows (trac #468)
• r.le.patch crashes on long filenames (trac #416)
• v.out.ascii: layer=2 column output wrong (trac #495)

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.0
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_2009xxxx_grass_6_4_0RC4/
• SVN Checkout 6.4.0RC4: svn checkout ​http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2009xxxx_grass_6_4_0RC4

• SVN Checkout 6.4.0 release branch:

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