= GRASS GIS 7.0.3 =

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[wiki:Release/7.0.0-News New features in GRASS 7]

Binaries: http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x

=== Releases ===

==== Release Candidate 2 (RC2) ====

 * Release date: ''15 Jan 2016''
 * ~~Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/51/117/GRASS-GIS-7-0-3RC2-released/~~
 * Changelog: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.3RC2.gz
 * Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
 * Source code: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.3RC2.tar.gz ([http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.3RC2.md5sum md5sum])
 * SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.3RC2:
{{{
  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20160115_grass_7_0_3RC2
}}}

==== Release Candidate 1 (RC1) ====

 * Release date: ''31 Dec 2015''
 * Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/51/117/GRASS-GIS-7-0-3RC1-released/
 * Changelog: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.3RC1.gz
 * Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
 * Source code: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.3RC1.tar.gz ([http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.3RC1.md5sum md5sum])
 * SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.3RC1:
{{{
  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20151231_grass_7_0_3RC1
}}}

=== SVN Source Code ===

 * Milestone: [milestone:"7.0.3"]
 * SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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 GRASS GIS 7.0.3RC2 release provides '''more than 190 fixes and improvements''' with respect to GRASS GIS 7.0.2.

==== New modules ====

 * G7:g.gui.tplot - Allows the user to see in a plot the values of one or more temporal raser datasets for a queried point defined by a coordinate pair. Also allows plotting data of vector dataset for a defined categories and attribute.

==== Major module changes ====

 * G7:r.stream.extract: fix correction for diagonal flow bias
 * G7:r.watershed: fix correction for diagonal flow bias
 * G7:v.surf.idw: fix for severe bug in distance calculations

==== Minor module changes ====

 * G7:g.remove: print warning when no files found
 * G7:g.proj: don't ignore epsg as parameter when printing info (-p/g)
 * G7:r.mapcalc: Set default workers to zero
 * G7:r.thin: Support reclassified raster maps
 * temporal framework: Added output and region flag to t.rast.univar 
 * G7:v.db.join: fix db.describe and mysql support
 * G7:v.db.renamecolumn: fix  mysql support
 * G7:v.generalize: add test for self-intersection
 * G7:v.import: show reprojection progress; catch exception when unable to open datasource
 * G7:v.in.ogr: backport -j flag; add new parameters "epsg" and "datum_trans"
 * G7:v.rast.stats: fix handling column prefixes, check for MASK only in the current mapset
 * G7:v.surf.bspline: move opening raster after opening driver
 * G7:v.what.rast: exit when no features of given type found, precision fix for -i interpolate
 * G7:v.what.strds: new flag to update attribute table of input vector map

==== GUI changes ====

 * wxGUI/colortable: fix saving color table to file
 * wxGUI/modeler: fix setting parametrized options multiple times, overwrite flag handling fixed, various fixes
 * wxGUI: fix launching v.krige, fix encoding issues

==== Library changes ====
 
 * libgis: Fix handling of quotes in G_tokenize()

==== PyGRASS changes ====

 * grass.py: fix initialization script when gis_set.py is not available
 * pythonlib: implement db_begin/commit_transaction
 * !GridModule: fix leaving processes behind, add option to name mapsets

==== Map projection changes ====

==== Portability changes ====

 * grass.desktop: high res icons added, Debian specific xpm removed
 * Makefile system: add soname on linux
 * config.guess, config.sub: updated from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/

===== MS Windows =====

 * Proj.4 library (included in binary) upgraded to 4.9.2
 * winGRASS 64 bit support (via [http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup-x86_64.exe OSGeo4W 64bit Installer])

==== Manual pages ====

 * Examples added to various manual pages (i.landsat.toar, i.vi, v.buffer, ...)

==== Message translation updates ====

 * messages catalogue files (.po) updated
 * French messages updated
 * Latvian messages updated

=== Closed tickets ===

==== Closed bugs since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.3&type=defect&order=priority)]]

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

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.3&type=enhancement&order=priority)]]

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

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.3&type=task&order=priority)]]