GRASS GIS 7.0.1 Release Candidate

What's new in a nutshell

TODO

Releases

Release Candidate 1 (RC1):

• Release date: DD MONTH 2015
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
• Changelog: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.1RC1.gz
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.1RC1.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.1RC1:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2015MMDD_grass_7_0_1RC1
  

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• SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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

Major module changes

Minor module changes

• r.surf.idw: exit with fatal error in case of FCELL or DCELL input
• r.compress: print flag added; examples added
• v.vol.rst: do not ignore null values in cross_input, causes serious slow down on Windows
• v.surf.rst: sync elevation color table with the new elevation table
• g.manual: use webbrowser package
• g.extention: improve handling of broken zipfiles on Windows
• v.in.ogr: fix r64353, backport 64476
• v.category: fix r56286, #2618
• r.report: fix broken layout (units moved to right)
• g.mapset: added G_OPT_M_DIR for gisdbase selection
• v.surf.bspline: fix when no default DB is defined

GUI changes

• g.mapsets: dialog must be destroyed, app.MainLoop seems not necessary here
• wxGUI: don't failed when loading map layers in quiet mode (from workspace)
• wxGUI/ws: fix dialog for wxPython 3.0
• wxGUI: fix importing vectors with one geometry column
• wxGUI: fix change current writing directory on Mac - style=wx.DD_CHANGE_DIR is not working on Mac
• wxGUI/nviz: fix the name in the toolbar
• wxGUI/composer: catch error due to Ghostscript missing or not on path
• wxGUI/animation: fix speed dialog problem caused by granularity proble
• wxGUI: fix layertree error when switching to different location
• wxGUI/toolboxes: make tooboxes a little bit more independent from GUI
• wxGUI: import only after grass.script.parser() call g.gui.*
• wxGUI: encode from unicode when saving module output to file, see #2614
• wxGUI/dbmgr: add clear button to reload all data
• wxGUI/dmgr: fix focus on Deselect all
• wxGUI/dbmgr: improve handling string where values (check for quotes)
• wxGUI: fix extension manager when metadata are not available

Library changes

• PyGRASS: fix exception check, remove unused or duplicated code
• PyGRASS: removed references to RasterNumpy
• PyGRASS: add VARCHAR column support on Table
• PyGRASS: fix undefined limits in the Parameter class
• dbmilib: fix db_copy_table() - overwrite existing table
• PyGRASS: fix Area.boundaries()
• libraster: use strerror(errno)
• 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

Map projection changes

Portability changes

• Rename _n macro to n_ to avoid clashes with other libs

Manual pages

• wxGUI vdigit manual: expanded
• r.relief manual: added Exporting shaded relief maps to GeoTIFF
• g.mapsets manual: screenshot added for g.mapsets GUI; text improvements; HTML cosmetics
• rename section BUGS to KNOWN ISSUES in manuals
• d.rast.num manual: example + screenshot added
• r.random.cells manual: clarify presence of 0
• pygrass manual: add missing import (PIPE)
• v.vect.stats added to vectorintro.html
• g.gui.vdigit manual: Added a paragraph on topological digitizing of polygons (+ some language corrections)
• v.vol.rst manual: wmult -> wscale; zmult -> zscale
• r.watershed manual: clarify low mem max amount of pixels
• d.vect.chart manual: screenshot added
• i.eb.soilheatflux manual: more explanations about overpass time maps

Message translation updates

• Many languages updated with many new translations (​see stats)
• Sylvain Maillard: FR translation cont'ed
• Czech translation updated by Stanislav Horáček
• Shulin Yang: Chinese translation cont'ed
• Maris Nartiss: Latvian translation (port from trunk)

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

#665

enable copying from statusbar

#2437

order parameters in g.remove window

#2690

PEP8 like code styling for the i.tasscap.py script

#2786

grass-7.0.1: libraries built and installed with no SONAME

Closed tasks since the last release

#2337

t.list hangs on newly created temporal DB