= GRASS GIS 6.4.4 Release Candidate 1 =

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=== Release ===

 * Release date: 14 June 2014
 * Source code: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.4RC1.tar.gz ([http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.4RC1.md5sum md5sum])
 * Binaries: http://grass.osgeo.org/download/

=== SVN Source Code ===

 * Milestone: [milestone:"6.4.4"]
 * Browse Source: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20140614_grass_6_4_4RC1
 * SVN Checkout 6.4.4RC1:
{{{
  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20140614_grass_6_4_4RC1
}}}
 * SVN Checkout latest 6.4 release branch (including unreleased bugfixes):
{{{ 
  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4
}}}

=== Overview of changes ===

'''Key improvements''' of the GRASS 6.4.4RC1 release include complete rewrite of r.li suite, major fixes for buffers based on GEOS library, major speedup for some vector modules (v.rast.stats and v.in.gpsbabel), various fixes for the wxPython based portable graphical interface (wxNVIZ, Location Wizard or Cartographic Composer), enabled Cairo dependency for MS-Windows, and more message translations. 

Since the [wiki:Release/6.4.0-News 6.4.0 release] in September 2010 more than ''2400'' source code modifications have been made to the 6.4 release branch.
Between [wiki:Release/6.4.3-News 6.4.3] and the current 6.4.4RC1 more than ''340'' updates have been applied.

==== New modules ====

 * ''none''

==== Major module changes ====

 * r.li suite: backport of complete rewrite from GRASS GIS 7
 * v.buffer: fixed (now requires the [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ GEOS library])
 * v.voronoi: backport fixes for bug tickets #957, #1682, #2019

==== Minor module changes ====

 * d.correlate: Added option to draw a trend line and calculate linear regression formula
 * d.shadedmap: Added option to save draped image to a new raster map 
 * g.extension.py: fixes for bug ticket #2138
 * g.extension.py: modify bat files similarly to bash scripts, use GRASS_ADDON_PATH instead of hardcoded path
 * g.mkfontcap: Also scan for locally installed fonts on Linux systems
 * g.mlist, g.mremove: examples improved
 * g.setproj: Added option to print and reset the Location's one-line description
 * i.his.rgb: Added support for NULL cells
 * i.landsat.toar: fixes for Landsat-8 metadata file support (author: E. Jorge Tizado)
 * i.rgb.his: Added support for NULL cells
 * r.contour: write attributes in one commit (speed-up)
 * r.horizon: added sanity check for dist parameter
 * r.li.setup: fix creation of configuration file using circle 
 * r.out.gdal: close raster band
 * r.out.xyz: Added support for multiple file export
 * r.ros: do not double close spotdist map (fixes crash)
 * r.watershed: standardize basin parameter description
 * v.colors: Added option to name placeholder map containing data for creating a legend
 * v.colors: add v.colors placeholder raster map naming option (#1693)
 * v.external: remove formats from module description (#2159), backport -f flag
 * v.in.dxf: fixed possible infinite loop
 * v.in.gpsbabel: Major speedup, better support for MS Windows (spaces in paths)
 * v.patch: create index for table (speed-up)
 * v.rast.stats: use DB TRANSACTION (speed-up)
 * v.to.db: fix perimeter 
 * v.transform: Added option to swap x for y coordinates
 * v.vol.rst: finally fixed mask issue

 * Many more; see the detailed [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/ChangeLog_6.4.4RC1.gz ChangeLog]
==== GUI changes ====

 * wxGUI: check for invalid map size
 * wxGUI: fix for not closing of attribute dialog
 * wxGUI: show GRASS version in Layer Manager and Map Display frame title
 * wxGUI/d.histogram: fix export histogram on Windows
 * wxGUI/location wizard: fixes for wxPython 3
 * wxGUI/psmap: update PIL import for pillow
 * wxGUI: more GUI sections for various dialogs
 * wxNviz: point size and height are float (fix #2072)
 * wxNviz: fix displaying 3d points on surface and with z coordinate
 * wxNviz: fix error when switching to 3D second time for 3d rasters
==== Library changes ====

 * Vlib: fix linkm usage (fixes spurious segfaults in special cases)
 * libgis: backport fix FPE error tolerance for plotting
 * diglib: fix support for BIG ENDIAN
 * ogsf: change field size to prevent crash, see #1736
 * libgis: Protect against fatal error handlers calling G_fatal_error() (#1073)
==== Map projection changes ====

 * ''none''

==== Portability changes ====

(MS-Windows)

 * unix2dos on bat files
 * Major clean up of standalone installer
 * Cairo dependency enabled
 * Better handle spaces in GISDBASE (#1683)
 * Installer - copy DLL files to extrabin, remove extralib

(Mac OSX)

 * Compilation fixes in build scripts

(All)

 * AIX fixes
 * Close file once done with it (#1323), quote path
 * Support for newer svnversion output string (#587)
 * Also search for locally installed fonts
 * Don't encourage bashism
==== Message translation updates ====

 * French updated
 * Latvian translation added
 * Italian updated
 * Korean updated
 * Portuguese updated
 * Greek updated

See also [http://grass.osgeo.org/development/translations/#statistics statistics]
=== Closed tickets ===

==== Closed bugs since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=6.4.4&type=defect&order=priority)]]

==== Closed wishes since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=6.4.4&type=enhancement&order=priority)]]

==== Closed tasks since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=6.4.4&type=task&order=priority)]]