GRASS GIS 7.0.5

New features in GRASS 7

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

Releases

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 27 Aug 2016
• Announcement: TODO
• Changelog: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.5RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.5RC1.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.5RC1:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20160827_grass_7_0_5RC1
  

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 7.0.5
• SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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 7.0.5RC1 release provides XX fixes and improvements with respect to GRASS GIS 7.0.4.

New modules

Major module changes

Minor module changes

• G70:g.region: fix uninitialized struct - fixes convergence angle, #1500
• G70:d.northarrow: fix multiplication of arrow in latlon regions, see #1242 and #1410
• i.eb.* + i.evapo.*: fix for MegaJoules per meter square per day
• G70:i.segment: fix manhattan distance
• G70:i.vi: writing of color table fixed
• G70:r.mapcalc: fix wrong result when neighborhood modifier takes a cell above first
• G70:v.category: fix Windows bug
• G70:i.vi: print msg which index is actually calculated; fix ARVI name; apply standard NDVI color table in case of viname=ndvi
• G70:d.barscale/northarrow: fix layout when using frame, see #3121
• G70:r.out.gdal: enhance compatibility WRT metadata
• G70:d.histogram: fix x axis labels for small numbers, see #2463
• G70:v.in.ogr Segmentation fault (fix #2868)
• G70:r.to.vect: delete output on error (see #2394)
• G70:v.in.ogr key flag does not change category values and you loose connection between features and attributes (fix #1494)

GUI changes

• wxgui: fix for profile surface map, bivariate scatter plot, histogram of raster map broken with wxPython 3.0.2 (#2558)
• wxGUI: fix font dialogs on Mac, see #3046
• wxGUI/nviz: when showing legend parameter at can have floats not just int
• wxGUI: catch also UnicodeDecodeError when reading current directory as GISDBASE
• G70:g.gui.gmodeler: substitute all occurrences of variable in command (bugfix)
• wxGUI: fix escape button to close dialogs and fix keyboard shortcuts on Mac, see #797
• wxGUI: solve #2558 and #3112 by distributing wx.lib.plot.py with GRASS
• wxGUI web_services: archived NASA OnEarth replaced with NASA GIBS WMTS
• G70:g.gui.gmodeler - not possible to remove data from model (trac #2947)
• wxGUI: escape single quotes when editing attributes from GUI, see #2252

PyGRASS changes

• python script: backported raster_what function to work with or without localized labels fixed #2912

Library changes

• Gtempfile() lacks perror support (fix #2278)

Map projection changes

• libgis: register NAD83/2011 datum (EPSG:6543)

Portability changes

• Patches to make the build reproducible (fileordering, randomness)

MS Windows

Manual pages

• G70:r.watershed: update manual
• G70:r.univar/G70:r3.univar manuals: examples improved
• G70:v.distance manual: explain units of dmin and dmax
• G70:r.import manual: SRTM V3 example added
• G70:r.import manual: fix WorldClim import example
• G70:i.atcorr manual, imageryintro: clarify TOAR part; cross links added; keywords added
• G70:r.in.gdal manual: add Worldclim import trick
• G70:r.mapcalc manual/rasterintro: explain precision differences
• G70:r.neighbors manual: fix average example (was wrongly in maximum)
• G70:r.statistics + r.stats.quantile + r.stats.zonal manual: extended
• G70:v.overlay: remove duplicated notes about olayer option from the manual, figure caption cosmetics

Message translation updates

• Spanish translation

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#590

wxGUI vector display forgets layer selection

#797

Cmd-C on Mac closes display

#909

FTBFS: r.mapcalc in trunk

#960

Some hotkeys disabled in 6.5 wxgui

#965

Location wizard: doesn't create MYNAME

#1242

vector fills and line widths not displaying in latlon regions

#1258

Trouble with external OGR sources and relative paths (v.external)

#1410

scalebar displays multiples north arrows

#1427

strange, low res display output behavior

#1442

GRASS 7: d.grid layout suboptimal

#1474

random color -c flag broken in d.vect

#1494

v.in.ogr key flag does not change category values and you loose connection between features and attributes

#1568

'make install' results in an installation dependent upon temporary build directories

#1574

WXGUI Launch script: "output already exists"

#1593

location wizard setting default extents broken

#1705

i.group segfaults on empty input

#1804

r.clump NULL handling

#1857

Correction help file r.colors

#1863

DBMI Protocol Error in v.extract

#1873

winGrass hangs when issuing exit command from the console if not GUI hasn't been closed first

#1876

pressing "save" on Digitization settings dialog raises error

#1909

remove deleted layer from layer tree

#1920

create IPython magic to launch GRASS wxGUI components Ipython qt console

#1921

create IPython magic to control from IPython Notebook

#1966

filesystem cruft from wingrass installer

#1988

towgs84 datum transform options not maintained with shapefile export

#2028

SetVirtualSizeHints is deprecated in wxWidgets 2.9

#2058

Example instructions in (grass/trunk) d.graphs' manual refer to d.frame

#2097

r.modis install using g.extension fails

#2099

G_OPT_M_COLR not recognized in Python script

#2115

wxgui renders disabled layers on map change

#2119

wxgui: attribute table manager fails with "Inconsistent number of columns in the table"

#2140

m.proj does not handle cs2cs failure

#2147

db.databases not working in GRASS 7

#2178

No polygon fill when using the png display driver

#2252

wxGUI vector digitizer passing unescaped text to database

#2272

Improve consistency in random generator usage

#2278

G__tempfile() lacks perror support

#2360

grass startup script and wx preference file: language setting in wx does not contain country specific language code

#2389

Error in Grass-gis 7.1. svn

#2398

grass.exec_command should add .exe where needed

#2406

wxview compilation error

#2438

Vect_get_line_type cannot handle line out of range

#2452

v.surf.rst option devi Windows problem

#2463

d.histogram x-axis numbering incorrect

#2469

Zoom to saved region in Map Display not working

#2480

v.class.ml: ImportError: No module named training_extraction

#2481

g.gui.iclass: cannot display analysis results because of "No graphics device selected"

#2506

g.rename fails to rename map when there is already map of the same name in PERMENENT

#2509

d.mon output overwrite

#2513

v.colors freezes using the pg driver and attr

#2514

G_OPT_C_BG and G_OPT_C_FG differ in support of color_none

#2540

[PATCH] Add options to r.out.gdal to suppress GRASS specific metadata items

#2586

Display of labels in raster query results window is limited to the first 60 characters

#2594

r.univar output error

#2605

d.rast.leg: invalid literal for float(): rectangle

#2623

GRASS won't start after creating addons

#2658

[PATCH] v.to.db compactness gives wrong results in feet location

#2659

replace function bug in t.rast.mapcalc.py

#2664

The r.watershed module documentation has the wrong value for cells that do not get included in a complete watershed.

#2683

grass 7 doesn't start in text mode on CentOS 7

#2710

vector digitizer: new vector layer is not checked in layer manager

#2730

wxGUI: wx.metadata/wx.mwprecip/etc: Unable to fetch interface description for command 'wx.metadata'

#2817

Adding multiple raster/vector maps is slow

#2848

g.gui.vdigit: snapping distance seems to only be defined in map units, not screen pixels

#2854

results in winGRASS7 32bit vs 64bit: should they be identical?

#2868

v.in.ogr Segmentation fault

#2893

Specify crs when exporting to GeoJSON

#2902

i.segment.hierarchical: Execution of subprocesses was not successful

#2912

raster_what() not compliant with localised version of GRASS

#2934

Documentation error in i.vi WRT to MSAVI parameters

#2947

g.gui.gmodeler - not possible to remove data from model

#2968

g.extension problem with module containing various python files: "ImportError: No module named"

#2981

r.watershed & blocking

#3012

g.region -p reporting correct projection, but unknown datum NAD83(2011) /North Carolina (USft)

#3030

v. generalize fails to generalize polygons in a random manner

#3036

Bug with location wizard on OSX (version 7, homebrew)

#3039

"Analyze map" not working with GRASS 7.0.4 (OSX - homebrew)

#3040

<m.nviz.script> - old manuals?

#3041

Grass Nviz crashes

#3042

Patches to make the build reproducible (fileordering, randomness)

#3045

OSX: command-C closes window instead of copying text

#3046

Cannot set display font

#3049

g.proj.html: remove link to g.setproj in GRASS 7

#3052

Watts to MegaJoules/Day conversion issue

#3067

r.mapcalc gives wrong result when neighborhood modifier takes a cell above first

#3070

Update link in r.param.scale

#3072

ddd

#3073

addons installl error

#3085

Batch import with import raster data tool does not recognize projection information

#3088

Patch to fix various spelling errors

#3089

exec_command fails if '.exe' not included in filename.

#3105

r.stats.zonal parameter description

#3108

db selection: integer overflow

#3112

wxgui scatterplot tool: C++ assertion "m_window" failed at ../src/gtk/dcclient.cpp(2043) in DoGetSize(): GetSize() doesn't work without window

#3133

v.what output is not valid JSON format

#3135

Pressing Run button in GUI dialogs open a new dialog

#3138

Patch to fix various spelling errors

#3144

i.segment.hierarchical: RuntimeError: Execution of subprocesses was not successful

#3147

d.wms entry in workspace file is not well formed

#3148

d.wms cannot move temp file with os.rename

#3163

Patch for spelling errors

#3165

v.out.ogr -c seg fault

#3167

db.connect: connection to remote database does not work

Closed wishes since the last release

#84

scritps for converting raster maps into GRASS 7 format, and back

#307

v.in.dxf: output name should be required

#386

Thematic grouping of grass modules in the command line

#742

v.coregister / v.align : A module to translate and rotate a point cloud to best match one another

#1209

v.random, restrict output

#1236

r.in.wms sleep parameter

#1376

Interactive spectral plot gui

#1377

wingrass7 hotkey Ctrl+V an have unexpected behaviour from windows user point of view

#1390

fully qualified name on g.mlist

#1703

wxGUI vector and raster querying

#1719

GRASS 7 Monitor command line support

#1732

r.colors feature request (add flag to copy categories without having to run r.category separately)

#1923

add "area" to head in r.report

#1980

Multiple time stamp support for raster and 3D raster maps

#1984

i.pca should accept also group names as input (like r.out.gdal)

#2045

r.to.vect: use less memory

#2143

d.legend: add option to output legend definition as text

#2148

wxGUI modeler: allow to name elements in the model schema

#2208

r.in.gdal/v.in.ogr: reprojection at import

#2952

g.gui.gmodeler - global overwriting option is not respected

#3060

Create location from command line using "r.in.gdal" and similar

Closed tasks since the last release

#1107

r.terraflow: consistent type for D8CUT

#1446

add --with-opencl support to ./configure

#2196

g.manual on Windows opens extra file explorer window

#2657

pygrass: remove RasterNumpy references