GRASS GIS 6.4.2RC2 Release

Release

• Release date: 15 Nov 2011
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.2RC2.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.2
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20111115_grass_6_4_2RC2
• SVN Checkout 6.4.2:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20111115_grass_6_4_2RC2
  

• 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 than 1000 source code modifications have been made to the 6.4.x release branch.
• Between 6.4.2RC1 in Oct 2011 and the current 6.4.2RC2 more than 52 updates have been applied.

New modules

• see also GRASS 6.4.2RC1 release notes

Major module changes

• see also GRASS 6.4.2RC1 release notes

Minor module changes

• v.in.ogr: search box T,B must be zero
• HTML manual cosmetics
• v.net: manual updated
• see also GRASS 6.4.2RC1 release notes

Library changes

• driver ODBC: Fix type mismatch
• restore possibility to compile with make < 3.81
• see also GRASS 6.4.2RC1 release notes

GUI changes

• wxGUI: various stability fixes
• wxGUI: fixed for languages which use double-byte characters (Japanese etc)
• wxGUI: add extra dialog when trying to remove gislock
• wxGUI: don't fail on missing icons
• wxGUI: don't fail on missing openGL support
• wxGUI: vector query - don't fail when no attribute table linked to the vector map
• see also GRASS 6.4.2RC1 release notes

Map projection changes

Portability changes

Message translation updates

• Some languages updated

WinGRASS changes

• winGRASS: clean up support files for osgeo4w
• see also GRASS 6.4.2RC1 release notes

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#14

libgis and libvect memory leaks

#198

v.in.ascii: column scanning is borked

#541

wxDigit on windows fails (osgeo4w 6.4.svn)

#597

Digitize tool won't work

#620

Platform.make odd variables settings

#1004

WxGUI CMD fails if command contains non-latin letters

#1014

wxgui: display labels doesn't work

#1099

GRASS 6.4SVN with MSYS fails to start startup screen

#1110

v.rast.stats locks up on wingrass

#1128

v.digit toolbox - Button text might be hard coded, cannot be translate

#1139

v.report has a problem (only via OSGEO4W package)

#1158

Removing vector map in Windows fails with "Unable to delete vector map"

#1178

WinGrass: g.extension - problem with path to $GISBASE

#1181

r.le.setup fails on WinGRASS due to missing xterm

#1184

"d.vect display=attr" imply grass open process but doesn't close them.

#1189

wingrass: 'g.region -l' fails when using a NTv2 grid file

#1215

db.tables in Windows layer manager does not populate driver field for pg

#1276

r.null after v.to.rast in winGRASS does not work properly

#1307

wingrass: new wxgui dialog for v.in.ogr in windows7 does not show *.shp files

#1310

Browse button in WxPython GUIs (for scripts) does not provide a correct file path for WinGRASS

#1317

DebCheck QA: Invalid number of character

#1319

[wx vdigit] DebCheck QA: Mismatching allocation and deallocation

#1330

wxGUI: "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters" in pl_PL.UTF-8

#1331

winGrass: hangs when displaying vector attribute labels

#1347

r.out.png uses now hidden libpng structs

#1348

wxGUI: Command console": Click here to show search module engine fails

#1352

Mismatch between overwrite parameter in GCPManager and v.transform

#1354

Missing MSVCR71.dll / MSVCP.dll prevent winGRASS from starting

#1355

Error starting wxpython v.digit session

#1374

psmap window does not open

#1375

wxGUI: vector digitizer: cannot close (empty) vector map

#1379

v.out.ogr incorrect output

#1380

WxGUI, menu does not work at all (languages using double-byte characters)

#1382

scripts/r.fillnulls fails when filename contains spaces

#1383

wxGUI crashes if settings file .grasswx6 does not exist

#1384

wxGUI Preferences: apply or save settings erases Layer Manager menu

#1386

wxGUI output gone

#1387

wingrass65 - wxgui compiling error and not starting

#1388

r3.univar gives bad results for cell counts

#1392

r3.to.rast converts FCELL map data to 0

#1398

problem with multiple entry selection

#1399

v.surf.rst fills up all available hard drive space when region is not set

#1400

preferences apply doesn't seem to do anything

#1406

g.extension fails on Mac (maybe other platforms too?)

#1409

wxGUI command console does not parse correctly "help" and first parameter

#1415

closecell: can't move + quant file error in winGRASS Msys shell

#1431

r.sun segfault in mode 2

#1432

wxGUI GDAL/OGR Importer: changing format doesn't affect list of layers

#1433

Problem with v.digit

#1441

Hard Copy Map Utility (wxPython wrapper for ps.map) text overlay is broken

#1448

run model menu item does not seem to work

#1450

grass 6.4.svn nightly build fails on startup

#1462

r.walk not working in Lambert Conformal Conic projection

#1477

error running v.what.vect under Windows/Osgeo4w

#1485

Cannot save workspace from wxGUI

#1486

wxGUI: legend "hanging", not updated after map change

#1489

winGRASS: don't even try to install if C:\Programms\GRASS XX not writable

#1493

wxgui About GRASS fails with UnicodeDecodeError

#1504

NVIZ shows only English Menu

#1507

r.in.gdal & others: -e must only modify the current mapset's WIND file

#1518

Misunderstanding with different topology format

#1519

Opening a saved workspace doesn't display all layers correctly in 6.4.2RC2

#1521

grass crashed on Fedora 14

#1522

dbm_base.py fails with multilayer maps

#1526

"Diplay/update attributes" can freeze GUI

#1531

bug in cartographic composer

#1532

Race condition in build system

#1533

mm.cc fails to build with GCC 4.7

#1534

vector_db_select fails with kwargs

#1535

winGRASS g.extension.py problems

#1538

wxGUI: Common raster formats importer python error for single file

#1540

grass python scripts run from grass6 return 1 on success

#1541

wxGUI: adding map to layer tree fails for r.mapcalculator and r.shaded.relief

#1542

problem starting r.mapcalc from the wxGUI command prompt

#1544

(Windows/osgeo4w) libtiff.dll is broken

#1547

wxGUI Cartographic Composer: division by zero

#1548

v.generalize: strange behaviour on win

#1549

r.to.vect lines not working well?

#1551

missing NVIZ translations

#1552

WinGRASS: spaces in pathnames for r.in.aster

#1564

The options of 'Create histogram of raster map' are not working in wxpython GUI

#1570

In GRASS6.4.2RC3 with wxpython GUI the option Add raster cell numbers doesn't work

#1579

wingrass: errors while a DB is open results in a zombie dbf.exe

Closed wishes since the last release

#587

svn versions should better reflect svn rev

#641

Add setting to psmap to allow user to define embedded title of ps file

#662

db.in.ogr: allow --overwrite

#972

Provide visual feedback when loading available vector map list

#1007

WxGUI should provide visual feedback when adding new db column

#1133

ps.map doesn’t accept more than 10 ‘labels’ instructions

#1140

Formula in Raster Map Calc is not working with 'IF' condition, and NOT to have space. Only from GUI after commna.

#1147

user-defined tick labels for d.legend (patch included)

#1277

v.kernel - equal split on network

#1407

confusing error message after grass7 crash

#1419

wingrass - change commandline to "windows home"

#1454

v.outlier manual page does not refer that the vector needs to be a 3D one

Closed tasks since the last release

#1132

wxNviz and wxVdigit missing from 6.4svn

#1296

wx gui close shortcuts

#1345

backport ctypes to relbr64

#1422

FSF postal address

#1456

rename nviz_cmd

#1482

Wish - update to v.in.osm2