= GRASS GIS 7.0.1 Release Candidate =

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=== 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 ([http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.1RC1.md5sum 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: [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 * SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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.

==== Major module changes ====

==== Minor module changes ====

* G7:g.extention: improve handling of broken zip files on Windows
* G7:g.manual: use web browser package
* G7:g.mapset: added G_OPT_M_DIR for GISDBASE selection
* G7:r.compress: print flag added; examples added
* G7:r.report: fix broken layout (units moved to right)
* G7:r.surf.idw: exit with fatal error in case of FCELL or DCELL input
* G7:v.category: fix option=transfer, #2618
* G7:v.in.ogr: do not use old projection for area calculations in new projection, improve topological cleaning suggestions
* G7:v.surf.bspline: fix when no default DB is defined
* G7:v.surf.rst: sync elevation color table with the new elevation table
* G7:v.vol.rst: do not ignore null values in cross_input (causes serious slow down on MS Windows)

==== GUI changes ====

 * G7:g.mapsets: fix -s GUI dialog
 * wxGUI/animation: fix speed dialog problem caused by granularity problem
 * 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: 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 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: 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)
* 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
* PyGRASS: fix Area.boundaries()

==== Map projection changes ====

==== Portability changes ====

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

==== Manual pages ====

* G7:d.rast.num manual: example + screenshot added
* G7:d.vect.chart manual: screenshot added
* G7:g.gui.vdigit manual: Added a paragraph on topological digitizing of polygons (+ some language corrections)
* G7:g.mapsets manual: screenshot added for g.mapsets GUI; text improvements; HTML cosmetics
* G7:i.eb.soilheatflux manual: more explanations about overpass time maps
* pygrass manual: add missing import (PIPE)
* G7:r.random.cells manual: clarify presence of 0
* G7:r.relief manual: added 'Exporting shaded relief maps to GeoTIFF' example
* G7:r.watershed manual: clarify low mem max amount of pixels
* G7:v.vect.stats added to G7:vectorintro.html
* G7:v.vol.rst manual: wmult -> wscale; zmult -> zscale
* G7:wxGUI vdigit manual: expanded
* rename section BUGS to KNOWN ISSUES in manuals

==== Message translation updates ====

* Many languages updated with many new translations ([http://grass.osgeo.org/development/translations/#statistics 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 ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.1&type=defect&order=priority)]]

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

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.1&type=enhancement&order=priority)]]

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

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.1&type=task&order=priority)]]