GRASS GIS 6.4.1RC2 Release

Release

• Release date: 17 March 2011
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.1RC2.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.1
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20110317_grass_6_4_1RC2
• SVN Checkout 6.4.1 RC2:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20110317_grass_6_4_1RC2
  

• SVN Checkout latest 6.4.x release branch (with future bugfixes):

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

Overview of changes

Since the 6.4.0 release in September 2010 more then 530 source code modifications have been made to the 6.4.x release branch.

Between 6.4.1RC1 and the current 6.4.1RC2 more than 150 updates have been applied.

New modules

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

Major module changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

• v.out.ogr: also export attributes if multiple features share the same cat

Minor module changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

• i.atcorr: Added sensors' raw CSV data
• v.transform: fix dim of output vector map
• r.proj: fix segfault when mapset is not given, be less verbose

Library changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

• vlib: normalize path for Windows

GUI changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

• v.digit fixed mouse wheel handling (#638)
• v.digit fixed ability to create single boundary areas (#1255) and not leave lines/boundaries with single node (#1256)
• wxGUI: import dialog fixed
• wxGUI: fix adding legend/barscale from command prompt
• wxGUI: some new icons by Robert Szczepanek

Map projection changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

Portability changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

Message translation updates

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

• Extract NVIZ messages to separate message catalog
• Several other language translations improved
  • German: Helmut Kudrnovsky, Robert Nuske
  • Chinese: Shulin Yang
  • Polish: Milena Nowotarska, Maciej Sieczka
  • Italian: Luca Delucchi, Marco Curreli

WinGRASS changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.1RC1 release notes

• Major update of OSGeo4W environment and support scripts, GRASS compiled against GDAL 1.8

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#73

r.out.gdal tiff output does not work

#181

tac command missing in OSX

#224

cache bug in DGLib

#626

layers re-renamed after change properties (wxpython)

#638

Tk interface does not handle mouse wheel events in v.digit

#713

OSGeo4W patch for g3d lib

#788

r.out.gdal and nodata

#819

Problems in displaying postscript labels layer

#865

vector libs: select 3D lines with 2D polygon

#870

Duplicate Legend layer in tcltk

#959

r.surf.contour. Resulting range of values has an incorrect 0 minimum.

#994

v.buffer2 creating wrong buffer around polygon edges.

#1003

WxGUI measure tool activation should switch Map Display to "Pointer" tool

#1045

strange behaviour in v.net.path

#1051

wxgui: SEARCH_PATH corruption

#1102

Subgroup option is not "inserted" in command-line

#1142

r.in.poly fails in LL

#1151

v.extract: where letting all pass on double prec

#1152

d.out.file + cairo: errors writing the image

#1155

GRASS Working Environment - Mapset Access is Broken

#1157

WinGrass-Installer should include a working gdal-version which is built against

#1159

v.in.ascii points import fails in WinGRASS-6.4.0-1

#1161

g.region and r.info decimal issue when using grass python libs

#1162

g.message: unwanted expansion

#1164

newlines in sed scripts not portable for wingrass

#1165

wingrass: cs2cs fails from the msys command line

#1167

wx location wizard: proj4 terms fall off edge of window

#1169

wget misses libssl32.dll (affects r.in.wms)

#1174

Set zoom to/from computational region in display map does not work

#1177

r.in.gdal gives an error when adding a mutiband raster to the layers tree.

#1179

daily wingrass binary snapshots are down

#1180

g.extension fails on install step when GRASS is launched from source directory

#1185

v.in.ogr on WinGrass: "Bad file descriptor"

#1187

TclTk digitizer does not recognize right-click

#1190

Error on compiling GRASS in Windows using osgeo4w

#1192

wxGUI: propagate option key_desc

#1194

v.build opt=dump does not report the Z coord

#1197

d.grid fails with -g flag in winGRASS

#1198

Error while parsing file paths in WinGRASS with Scripts

#1199

3D points with attributes is broken

#1202

Error after loading projection

#1207

installation incomplete/messed

#1208

v.to.db option=start/end fails to populate database

#1210

g.remove fails to remove vector files under GRASS/OSgeo4w

#1211

freeze of wxgui when changing properties of a displayed vector map

#1212

ESRI ASCII-Rasterimport

#1220

Error when creating vector(areas) from raster

#1232

gui modeler don't works as aspected

#1233

MacOSX: layer manager and mapdisplay - bad startup position

#1240

wxGUI: attribute manager reports db connection not set while existing

#1245

v.db.connect parsing

#1249

unexpected error from the wxguy using "show attribute table" from the toolbar.

#1255

v.digit line snapping fails to snap to it self

#1256

leftover node when deleting boundaries vertex-by-vertex

#1257

Georectifier is broken

#1262

r.proj broken in all dev versions

#1264

Error v.clean by menu

#1273

profile analysis plot scaling not converting from meters when PROJ_UNITS is feet

#1278

d.mon strings from grassmods po files not localised at runtime

#1280

problem about the output of g.parser

#1284

'v.vol.rst --help' fails

#1287

Windows native installers TCL lacks .enc files for non-latin 1 encodings

#1295

Wx location wizard fails to create location if it's title contains non-latin letters

#1298

v.digit crashes dbf.exe on Windows when creating attribute table

#1299

Provide user-friendly error message when trying to edit vectors in Windows

#1300

WxGUI measure tool gives wrong results

#1301

wingrass: db.in.ogr fails to load .csv file

#1303

v.in.ogr leaves TMP file after import

#1308

wingrass - dbf.exe-crash

#1332

wingrass: during install generating font configuration file fails

#1335

g.region compilation fails with recent proj

#1336

wxgui crashes with wx 2.9.1.1

#1340

wxGUI uses improper .grassrc syntax and may cause .grassrc file corruption

Closed wishes since the last release

#983

sort g.mapsets -l output

#1016

v.info support for level 1 (patch)

#1104

rfe: easier to read wx map layer list

#1108

packaging osgeo4w-gdal18 in WinGrass-installer

#1171

wingrass: include a gpsbabel with XML support

#1201

wingrass, gdal, proj4

#1268

r.out.vtk does not work as desired for RGB images

#1271

osgeo4w patch update

Closed tasks since the last release

#1127

new nViz tcl messages are not indicated for gettext