Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of Release/6.4.3-News


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Timestamp:
Jul 24, 2013, 6:24:22 AM (11 years ago)
Author:
neteler
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merge in of RC notes

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  • Release/6.4.3-News

    v8 v9  
    3434==== New modules ====
    3535
     36 * '''i.landsat.acca''' - Performs Landsat TM/ETM+ Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment (ACCA).
     37 * '''i.landsat.toar''' - Calculates top-of-atmosphere radiance or reflectance and temperature for Landsat MSS/TM/ETM+.
     38 * '''i.modis.qc''' - Extracts quality control parameters from Modis QC layers.
     39 * '''v.vect.stats''' - included from Addons according to release plan
     40
    3641==== Major module changes ====
    3742
    38 (see also closed tickets below)
     43 * various modules - better handle spaces in GISDBASE path
     44 * examples added to several manual pages
     45 * Python examples - Python ctypes usage examples in doc/python/
     46
     47 * db.out.ogr - also support attribute export in case of line and area vectors
     48 * d.vect - display area labels also when centroids are not displayed
     49 * g.extension - build addon in the mapset .tmp dir for cases when GRASS is installed by package and the end user doesn't have write permissions to GISBASE
     50 * g.manual - also look for help/man page in the addons dir
     51 * i.landsat.toar - bugfix for thermal band and metadata file; better management of metadata file
     52 * ps.map - backport of RGB support and bugfixes
     53 * r.cost -  backport direction output
     54 * r.drain - use movement direction surface from r.walk and r.cost; output vector paths
     55 * r.grow.distance - backport of geodetic distance support
     56 * r.walk - backport direction output
     57 * r.watershed - fix drainage directions; sync skipping edge cells; fix bug in SFD
     58 * v.category - add option=layers; new option to print layers only
     59 * v.in.ogr - detect if unclean import data needs to have nodes snapped closed, and suggest a suitable distance threshold
     60 * v.kernel - massive speed-up
     61 * v.overlay - massive speed-up
    3962
    4063==== Minor module changes ====
     
    4265A few more minor changes; see the detailed [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/ChangeLog_6.4.3.gz ChangeLog]
    4366
    44  * v.out.svg: fix point/line export
     67 * d.colortable - add flag to skip showing NULL color for FP maps, ie fill the box
     68 * d.grid - backport of dot flag and line width option
     69 * d.grid - Fix geodesic grid overlay text label placement for longitude
     70 * d.legend - backport of RGB support for text color and at= monitor history fidelity
     71 * d.thematic.area - enable color gisprompt
     72 * g.extension - Continuing improvements and robustness
     73 * i.maxlik - update manual (improved: rejection map discussion)
     74 * i.spectral - Bug fix for imagery groups and plotting improvements
     75 * r.distance - bugfix #1731
     76 * r.drain - update manual
     77 * r.in.bin - Fix large file (>2GB) support on 32-bit systems
     78 * r.in.gdal - report all possible projection mismatches
     79 * r.li.setup - Fix for mouse-based masked area selection
     80 * r.mask - Fix for floating point input maps
     81 * r.out.arc - output is to a file not a raster
     82 * r.out.gdal - fix output standard option
     83 * r.random - don't segfault on long map names
     84 * r.recode - use title option
     85 * r.report - bugfix #970
     86 * r.report - manual, note how to get computer-parsable output
     87 * v.digit - don't mess with the current WIND file, use WIND_OVERRIDE instead
     88 * v.distance - always sort results for -a
     89 * v.external - fix for 3D data
     90 * v.in.ogr - suggest a minimum snapping threshold if topological errors are encountered
     91 * v.in.ogr - support whitespace in dsn and layer
     92 * v.in.wfs - check for WFS server errors; new example
     93 * v.net.distance - manual improved
     94 * v.out.svg - fix point/line export
     95 * v.reclass - bugfix #548
     96 * v.to.rast - Avoid crash when map names are very long
     97 * v.transform - fix memory issues; bugfix #1615
     98 * v.what - fix segfault when querying multiple maps
     99 * v.what.rast - fix fp precision
    45100
    46101(see also closed tickets below)