= GRASS GIS 7.0.4 =

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

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

=== Releases ===

==== Stable Release ====

 * Release date: ''1 May 2016''
 * Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/56/15/GRASS-GIS-7-0-4-released
 * Changelog: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.4.gz
 * Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
 * Source code: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.4.tar.gz ([http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.4.md5sum md5sum])~~
 * SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.4:
{{{
  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20160501_grass_7_0_4
}}}

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

 * Release date: ''18 Apr 2016''
 * Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/55/15/GRASS-GIS-7-0-4RC1-released
 * Changelog: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.4RC1.gz
 * Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
 * Source code: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.4RC1.tar.gz ([http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.4RC1.md5sum md5sum])
 * SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.4RC1:
{{{
  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20160418_grass_7_0_4RC1
}}}


=== SVN Source Code ===

 * Milestone: [milestone:"7.0.4"]
 * SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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 7.0.4RC1 release provides''' more than 140 fixes and improvements''' with respect to GRASS GIS 7.0.3.
The GRASS GIS 7.0.4 release provides''' 15 fixes and improvements''' with respect to GRASS GIS 7.0.4RC1.
==== New modules ====

 * G70:g.search.modules - Search in GRASS modules using keywords

==== Major module changes ====

 * G70:db.login + PG & mySQL driver: support hostname and port
 * G70:g.proj: read EPSG CSV files from GDAL data directory and no longer an private and meanwhile outdated copy (solves #2456)
 * G70:r.in.lidar: fix scan box calculation for percent < 100
 * G70:r.in.xyz: fix scan box calculation for percent < 100
 * G70:r.mapcalc: Fix row cache bug
 * G70:r.series: sync weights handling to r.neighbors
 * G70:r.sun: mode 1 fix for time offset due to timezone, see #2941 for explanations
 * G70:v.in.ogr: declare missing values in string and date fields as NULL, not empty strings
 * G70:v.select: fix reverse selection of areas
 * G70:v.net.steiner: shortest road is searched between node not line id's

==== Minor module changes ====

 * G70:g.extension: option to specify proxy server #1434
 * G70:r.external: added -t flag for listing bands
 * G70:r.transect: use new r.profile parameter names
 * G70:v.db.join: fix cache exception
 * G70:v.db.select: increase query buffer
 * G70:v.distance: use bbox in 2D and 3D accordingly
 * G70:v.net.distance: change path categories, adjust line directions; add new flag to produce single line paths
 * G70:v.to.db: allow (unitless) calculation of perimeter in XY location

==== GUI changes ====

 * G70:g.gui.mapswipe: fix raster layout (wxPython3)
 * G70:g.gui.gmodeler - all layers rewritten by last output for more than one parameter; add support for dbtables; many further fixes
 * Install additional hicolor icon sizes
 * listing maps in map selection widget using natural sort (#2818)
 * wxGUI: fix histogram of imagery group on Windows, see #2961
 * wxGUI: apply natural sort also when filtering data

==== PyGRASS changes ====

 * pygrass: fixed grid doctest

==== Library changes ====
 
 * libraster: support linking GDAL2
 * libraster: check for compressed null file
 * vlib: add 2D version of point in box function
 * vlib: support different graph versions

==== Map projection changes ====

 * libgis: datum added related to SIRGAS 2000/EPSG:4674
 * '''libproj: use EPSG CSV files from GDAL data directory and no longer an private and meanwhile outdated copy''' (solves #2456)
 * libproj: fix mixing of projection name and coordinate system name

==== Portability changes ====

 * Mac OSX: fix compilation of certain addons, lowercase r flag does not work on Mac

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

 * r.sim.sediment: MS-Windows portability improved
 * wingrass: document GRASS_SH (how to switch from cmd to bash, see r68212)
 * wingrass: build against GDAL 2
 * wingrass: fix packaging of C++ modules (G70:r.watershed, G70:r.terraflow, and G70:i.atcorr), see #2959
 * wingrass (64bit): fix packaging of modules which depend on libLAS (G70:r.in.lidar and G70:v.in.lidar); already available in repackaged 7.0.3

==== Manual pages ====

 * manual: avoid specific gender
 * G70:d.mon: explain non-interactive use
 * G70:g.copy: update manual
 * G70:g.findfile manual: shell examples extended
 * G70:g.gui.gmodeler: major manual improvements
 * G70:g.proj: cleanup of examples
 * G70:r.in.xyz: improved example for x,y,z ASCII file import
 * G70:r.li manual: highlight GUI and configuration file
 * G70:r.water.outlet: update example
 * G70:r.pack manual: explain current region behaviour
 * G70:v.buffer manual: demystify caps
 * G70:v.net: update manual
 * G70:v.net.spanningtree: update manual
 * G70:v.proj manual: describe automated vertex densification
 * G70:v.split manual: examples updated
 * G70:v.to.points manual: new NC sample data example
 * G70:t.register manual: ECAD example added
 * G70:t.vect.observe.strds manual: demystify 'where' clause usage
 * wxGUI/dbmgr: update images in the manual


==== Message translation updates ====

 * Spanish translation

=== Closed tickets ===

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

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.4&type=defect&order=priority)]]

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

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.0.4&type=enhancement&order=priority)]]

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

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