GRASS GIS 6.4.6

Release

Please note that no further GRASS GIS 6 releases are planned. We will continue the development as before in GRASS GIS 7 and future versions.

• Release date: 27 08 2016
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.6.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.6
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20160827_grass_6_4_6
• SVN Checkout 6.4.6:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20160827_grass_6_4_6
  

• SVN Checkout latest 6.4 release branch (including yet unreleased bugfixes):

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

Overview of changes

The GRASS GIS 6.4.6 release provides more than 40 fixes and improvements with respect to GRASS GIS 6.4.5.

Since its ​initial release in September 2010 more than 2550 source code modifications have been made to the 6.4 release branch.

Full details of all changes can be viewed in the ​ChangeLog.

New modules

• none

Major module changes

• g.region: fix uninitialized struct - fixes convergence angle (#1500)
• r.sun: mode 1 fix for time offset due to timezone, see #2876 for explanations
• r.watershed: fix correction for diagonal flow bias
• v.surf.idw: backport of fix for severe bug in distance calculations (#2820)

Minor module changes

• i.atcorr: added Landsat-8 support
• ps.map: vlegend: bugfix: crazy y values for vpoints in vector legend
• r.pack: strip off mapset to remove fully qualified input

• For more, see the detailed ​ChangeLog

Command line changes

• none

GUI changes

• wxGUI: fix broken plots with wxPython 3.0.2 (profile), bug #2558

Library changes

• none

Portability changes

(MS-Windows)

• none

(Mac OSX)

• none

(All)

• GCC 6 compatibility
• fixes for fail to compile with -Werror=format-security compiler flag (#2773)

Message translation updates

• Spanish translation updated

See also ​statistics

Documentation

• minor manual page improvements

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#384

wxGUI: vdigit crashes on a big map

#475

r.stats: last bin always has a single cell

#512

i18N Translation of welcome message in terminal not possible

#523

wxGUI: querying a vector map in edit mode does nothing

#729

v.to.rast fails to convert area in LL location when region spans equator

#734

wxGui sqlbuilder: a few bugs

#943

wxpython gui hangs after switching to cairo display driver

#1286

clean_temp can not be called before LOCATION_NAME is set

#1329

3D view silently crashes in pl_PL.UTF-8

#1444

g.parser does not filter for duplicate output map statements

#1500

g.region returns wrong convergence angle

#1586

v.in.wfs complains about xerces-c support in GDAL

#1683

error message v.db.addcol

#1684

configure GRASS 6 with X11 support

#1695

WinGRASS does not launch

#1699

language setting in wxGUI preferences does not work; could cause GUI crash

#2008

grass.script's find_program() can't find modules

#2039

Startup Error: G_getenv(): Variable LOCATION_NAME not set

#2120

wxgui: encoding errors

#2131

Terrible performance from v.what.rast due to per-iteration db_execute

#2170

Conflicting `std::is_void` and `is_void` function from `raster/r.terraflow/nodata.h`

#2217

Win 7 Grass 6.4.2 and 6.4.3 - location wizard not creating mapset AND cannot launch with any mapset

#2230

'g.region -p' writes new WIND file, causes race condition for parallel jobs

#2295

import of large shapefile in GRASS-db crashes 6.4.3 + 7.0 beta2

#2392

winGRASS GIS 6.4.5 svn r.li modules - issues with hard coded path to conf files

#2393

winGRASS GIS 6.4.5 svn r.li.setup not working

#2419

v.distance: hole considered as nearest area

#2477

r.out.gdal installed from 64bit OSGeo4W doesn't work

#2558

wxgui: profile surface map, bivariate scatter plot, histogram of raster map broken with wxPython 3.0.2 but work fine fine with 2.8

#2610

GRASS Gis v 6.4.4. KeyError: 'version' when start

#2653

GRASS 6.4.3 no file chooser popup for Add raster/vector map layer

#2667

r.mapcalculator in a loop generates C++ runtime error

Closed wishes since the last release

#337

r.resamp.stats - enable -w flag for min max sampling

#1077

sync nice features of r.out.tiff, r.out.png

#1080

Windows native installer: reinstall

#2095

GRASS changes for OSGeo4W 64bit

#2717

Add sensor Landsat8 to grass 6.4.4

Closed tasks since the last release

#585

init.bat should give usage info with --help