GRASS GIS 7.0.1
What's new in a nutshell
This release addresses some minor issues found in the first GRASS GIS 7.0.0 release. It provides a series of stability fixes in the core system and the graphical user interface, PyGRASS improvements, manual enhancements, and a few language translations.
This release is the 32nd birthday release of GRASS GIS.
Release
- Release date: 30 July 2015
- Binaries: http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
- Changelog: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.1.gz
- Source code: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.1.tar.gz (md5sum)
- SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.1:
svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20150730_grass_7_0_1
SVN Source Code
- Milestone: 7.0.1
- SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):
svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0
Overview of changes
A series of stability fixes, manual improvements and a few language translations have been added.
The first release candidate GRASS GIS 7.0.1RC1 provides 168 fixes and improvements with respect to GRASS GIS 7.0.0. The second release candidate GRASS GIS 7.0.1RC2 provides 55 fixes and improvements with respect to the first release candidate. The final release GRASS GIS 7.0.1 provides 6 fixes and improvements with respect to the second release candidate.
Major module changes
- none
Minor module changes
- G70:g.extension: improve handling of broken zip files on Windows
- G70:g.manual: use web browser package
- G70:g.mapset: added G_OPT_M_DIR for GISDBASE selection
- G70:r.compress: print flag added; examples added
- G70:r.mapcalc: prevent concurrent raster reads when a MASK is present
- G70:r.report: fix broken layout (units moved to right)
- G70:r.surf.idw: exit with fatal error in case of FCELL or DCELL input
- G70:v.category: fix option=transfer, #2618
- G70:v.colors: reading from stdin is not supported, inform user about that
- G70:v.in.ogr: do not use old projection for area calculations in new projection, improve topological cleaning suggestions
- G70:v.surf.bspline: fix when no default DB is defined
- G70:v.surf.rst: sync elevation color table with the new elevation table
- G70:v.to.3d: make reverse transformation possible also for lines - contours
- G70:v.vect.stats: fixed error msgs; examples added
- G70:v.vol.rst: do not ignore null values in cross_input (causes serious slow down on MS Windows)
- G70:v.what.strds: added
GUI changes
- G70:g.mapsets: fix -s GUI dialog
- wxGUI/animation: fix speed dialog problem caused by granularity problem
- wxGUI/animation: fix setting region, broken in r65226
- wxGUI/animation: fix exporting animation with multiple views and no data frames
- wxGUI/composer: catch error due to Ghostscript missing or not in path
- wxGUI/dbmgr: add clear button to reload all data
- wxGUI/dbmgr: improve handling string where values (check for quotes)
- wxGUI/dmgr: fix focus on Deselect all
- wxGUI/iclass: fix basic functionality for Windows
- wxGUI: change default command dialog style on Linux
- wxGUI: copy button added (#2313)
- wxGUI: don't fail when loading map layers in quiet mode (from workspace)
- wxGUI: encode from unicode when saving module output to file, see #2614
- wxGUI: fix #2634 by bringing back r64834 and removing unnecessary decode()
- wxGUI: fix change current writing directory on Mac OSX - style=wx.DD_CHANGE_DIR is not working on Mac OSX
- wxGUI: fix extension manager when metadata are not available
- wxGUI: fix importing vectors with one geometry column
- wxGUI: fix layertree error when switching to different location
- wxGUI: fix reopening d.vect.thematic properties with multiple colors
- wxGUI/profile: fix truncating values when exporting to csv
- wxGUI: import only after grass.script.parser() call g.gui.*
- wxGUI/nviz: fix the name in the toolbar
- wxGUI/toolboxes: make tooboxes a little bit more independent from GUI
- wxGUI/ws: fix dialog for wxPython 3.0
- wxGUI: fix sqlbuilder verify button (#2661)
Library changes
- dbmilib: fix db_copy_table() - overwrite existing table
- libgis: fix missing std options in r64733
- libgis: create standardized option for location and dbase, use it in r.proj, v.proj, g.mapset
- libgis: improve consistency of rand() between 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
- libraster: use strerror(errno)
- libraster: get_row.c: fix NaN check in GDAL (r.external) support
PyGRASS changes
- fix exception check, remove unused or duplicated code
- removed references to RasterNumpy
- add VARCHAR column support on Table
- fix undefined limits in the Parameter class
- fix Area.boundaries()
- backported RasterSegment fix r65174 related to #2599
- include in command also parameters with value equal 0
- documentation improvements
- add a new method to check the correctness of the provide parameter, a new special parameter: check_ is added to skip the check
Map projection changes
- various modules: improve and streamline "override projection" message
Portability changes
- gettext message macros: Rename _n macro to n_ to avoid clashes with other libs
- Compile.make: change order of ldflags (gcc 4.8+ is more sensitive)
Manual pages
- G70:d.legend manual: example + screenshot added
- G70:d.rast.num manual: example + screenshot added
- G70:d.vect.chart manual: screenshot added
- G70:g.gui.vdigit manual: added a paragraph on topological digitizing of polygons (+ some language corrections)
- G70:g.mapsets manual: screenshot added for g.mapsets GUI; text improvements; HTML cosmetics
- G70:i.eb.soilheatflux manual: more explanations about overpass time maps
- pygrass manual: add missing import (PIPE)
- G70:r.flow manual: examples added
- G70:r.random.cells manual: clarify presence of 0
- G70:r.relief manual: added 'Exporting shaded relief maps to GeoTIFF' example
- G70:r.slope.aspect manual: examples added
- G70:r.watershed manual: clarify low mem max amount of pixels
- G70:v.vect.stats added to G70:vectorintro.html
- G70:v.vol.rst manual: wmult -> wscale; zmult -> zscale
- G70:wxGUI vdigit manual: expanded
- rename section BUGS to KNOWN ISSUES in manuals
- Introduction to grass.script package
- Detailed documentation of grass.script.setup.init function
Message translation updates
- Many languages updated with many new translations (see stats)
- Maris Nartiss: Latvian translation (port from trunk)
- Shulin Yang: Chinese translation cont'ed
- Sylvain Maillard: French translation cont'ed
- Stanislav Horáček: Czech translation updated
Closed tickets
Closed bugs since the last release
- #1819
- problems compiling map swipe, animation, modeler, and r.li.setup
- #2577
- d.info: entire screen version frame
- #2597
- v.surf.bspline fails on windows
- #2602
- GUI preferences dialog fails to open
- #2603
- grass 7 startup problem
- #2614
- wxgui Output save fails with UnicodeEncodeError
- #2616
- grass.script.array cannot write raster
- #2619
- v.in.gps compile error
- #2621
- r.random.cells should use NULL instead of 0
- #2624
- r.horizon problem in Windows (horizon_zud)
- #2630
- startup screen i18n
- #2634
- 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 8: invalid start byte
- #2642
- Profile surface map not working
- #2648
- v.concave.hull fails with small number of points
- #2661
- sqlbuilder: verify button
- #2662
- v.in.proj crashes on Windows (v.in.ogr problem)
- #2682
- Gtk critical message starting grass
- #2686
- r.hazard.flood error output
- #2689
- handling nulls warning on Windows
- #2695
- Error loading extension. File is not zip file
- #2703
- 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)
- #2704
- Various typo fixes
- #2707
- pygrass ignores option rules
- #2723
- error when running v.krige
- #2724
- gdal-grass: Wrong return type in ogrgrass.h
- #2802
- Examples in r.reclass.area not updated
Closed wishes since the last release
Closed tasks since the last release
- #2337
- t.list hangs on newly created temporal DB