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GRASS GIS 6.4.4 Release Candidate 1

Release

SVN Source Code

Overview of changes

Key improvements of the GRASS 6.4.4RC1 release include ...

Since the 6.4.0 release in September 2010 more than 2400 source code modifications have been made to the 6.4 release branch. Between 6.4.3 and the current 6.4.4RC1 more than yy updates have been applied.

New modules

  • ...

Major module changes

  • r.li suite: backport of complete rewrite from GRASS GIS 7
  • 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.mkfontcap: Also scan for locally installed fonts on Linux systems
  • g.setproj: Added option to print and reset the Location's one-line description
  • i.his.rgb: Added support for NULL cells
  • 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.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.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.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 ChangeLog

GUI changes

  • wxGUI: check for invalid map size
  • wxGUI: fix for not closing of attribute dialog
  • wxGUI: show GRASS version in lmgr and mapdisp frame title
  • wxGUI/d.histogram: fix export histogram on Windows
  • wxGUI/location wizard: fixes for wxPython 3
  • wxGUI/psmap: update PIL import for pillow

Library changes

  • Vlib: fix linkm usage (fixes spurious segfaults in special cases)

Map projection changes

  • ...

Portability changes

(MS-Windows)

  • ...

(Mac OSX)

  • Compilation fixes in build scripts

(All)

  • AIX fixes

Message translation updates

  • French updated
  • Latvian translation added

See also statistics

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#86
d.rast.edit.tcl: doesn't start from wxPython without aspect map
#383
change fprintf to G_debug in do_proj.c
#390
r.viewshed precision bug
#413
doxygen comments in get_row.c are wrong?
#560
WinGRASS not deleting temp ppm files from map display
#576
i.pca fails to center data prior to analysis
#675
r.proj's "use different location" error while working in different dbases
#718
r.li forgets mask/illegal filename
#721
r.li.setup: don't modify the WIND file
#747
v.rast.stats to table connected to layer 2 fails
#776
wxvdigit not functional with 3D vector maps
#807
r.watershed doesnt consider longer distance to diagonal neighbouring pixels
#957
v.voronoi has extra lines in output
#1073
G_fatal_error segfault outside of GRASS session
#1114
Thematic map layer problem
#1214
r.li.edgedensity: segmentation fault
#1321
DebCheck QA: Passing value -1 to sqrt() leads to undefined result
#1328
v.in.ogr: bogus table connection created when input Shapefile has spaces in it's name
#1358
WinGRASS 6.4.1: SQLite driver errors: `Unable to open database'
#1413
r.to.vect overwrite problem
#1430
Buffer overrun in vector/diglib dig__fread_port_L with big-endian negative values on LP64 systems
#1451
r.li.mps (mean patch size): SIGPIPE at ipc.c:31
#1452
wx location wizard doesn't ask for datum transform options because proj4 4.7.1's epsg file is broken
#1555
python-scripts in wingrass64svn
#1644
OS X: Files are installed outside of --prefix
#1682
incorrect output from v.voronoi
#1716
Bulk import from multilayer geotiff adds wrong map names to layer tree
#1736
wxNVIZ volume display crashes Mac
#1747
v.rast.stats on dbf shapefile not enough precision even with DOUBLE PRECISION
#1768
wingrass6.x: python addon scripts aren't working
#1797
r.li.padcv broken
#1865
WinGrass v.buffer memory issue
#1963
wxGUI command console: "ls -" causes a traceback error
#1975
v.overlay.and gets "stuck"
#2012
d.vect wx module GUI forgets column names
#2016
v.surf.idw: very incorrect results
#2019
v.voronoi Segmentation fault
#2023
r.li.edgedensity
#2024
r.li.setup generates incomplete r.li conf file
#2031
G_legal_filename() cleanup patch for GRASS 6
#2036
Failed watershed analysis on Grass
#2047
GRASS doesn't build on FreeBSD
#2054
d.barscale module gui doesn't start from the command line
#2063
Memory leak in Rast_read_color_rules() ?
#2068
Saving the display as an image in wxGUI fails
#2085
diglib build failure on IBM s390x and ppc64
#2087
grass64 man page: missing words
#2093
--interface-description option broken for some commands
#2116
r.kappa: call to r.stats fails if spaces in path
#2138
winGRASS6.4.svn - addon python script status?
#2144
winGRASS6.4.svn - GUI problems with postgres as database backend
#2159
v.external gui exceeds the border of the screen
#2161
"About GRASS GIS" - invalid column index
#2162
can't close vector map query results window
#2167
Support for wxWidgets/wxPython 3.0
#2179
r.li.shannon - r.li.pielou
#2180
r.li.shannon - r.li.pielou
#2186
missing ) in ./lib/ogsf/gsd_legend.c
#2245
Run properly v.clean in v.mkhexgrid
#2276
r.covar: output N (number of cells considered)
#2335
Unable to locate GDAL library (installed on the system)

Closed wishes since the last release

#722
r.li.daemon: respect for WORKERS enviro var
#1103
WinGrass64 - windows-commandline not released
#1467
include/gis.h hard-coding version a the SVN revision level
#1693
v.colors placeholder raster map naming option
#1717
layer remove does not work on multiple selections
#1925
Inherited Verbosity level for grass array .write()
#1965
wingrass wx carto composer: please add grid and geogrid
#2207
provide downloadable tar balls of html man pages
#2222
Typo in v.overlay HTML description

Closed tasks since the last release

#88
opt->guisection and opt->label for a better GUI world
#2002
The ordinal 32 could not be located in the dynamic link library proj.dll

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