GRASS GIS 7.4.1

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A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.4

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: XX May 2018
• Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/71/15/GRASS-GIS-7-4-1-released/
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/ChangeLog_7.4.1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g74x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/grass-7.4.1.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.4.1:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_201805XX_grass_7_4_1
  

Release Candidate 2 (RC2)

• Release date: XX Apr 2018
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/ChangeLog_7.4.1RC2.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g74x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/grass-7.4.1RC2.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.4.1RC2:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_201804XX_grass_7_4_1RC2
  

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 4 May 2018
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/ChangeLog_7.4.1RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g74x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/grass-7.4.1RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.4.1RC1:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20180504_grass_7_4_1RC1
  

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 7.4.1
• SVN Checkout latest 7.4 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_4
  

Overview of changes

A series of new features and stability fixes, manual improvements, and a few language translations have been added.

The GRASS GIS 7.4.1 release provides more than 100 fixes and improvements with respect to the stable release 7.4.0.

New modules

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G74:i.atcorr: sync to trunk (updated spectral curves for various satellites; fix band order for Worldview2; addition of Sentinel-2B, improvement of numerical stability
• G74:v.in.pdal: change API calls to PDAL 1.6.0, see #3496 and #2732

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• raster and vector export (G74:r.out.gdal, G74:r.external.out, G74:v.out.ogr, G74:v.external.out) now includes the CRS EPSG code if available
• G74:r.cross: create categories for output value 0, it is a valid result
• G74:r.contour: avoid tracing back of contour lines
• G74:r.import: use auto-adjustment for lat/lon
• G74:r.in.gdal: fix column offset and column mapping when limiting import to the current region
• G74:r.in.gdal: print only proj comparision when -j flag is given (r.in.gdal -j is mostly used in scripts)
• G74:r.texture: Fatal error if one of the requested output maps exists
• G74:t.info: activate -h flag
• G74:t.rast.series: Fixed bug #3223 wrong time stamp for raster map in case where condition was used
• G74:v.db.dropcolumn: preserve field length for field type CHARACTER
• G74:v.in.ogr: fix duplicate column names
• G74:v.out.ogr: create and write a new feature only once to avoid duplicate FID's which resulted in an incomplete export in some cases for some output formats, e.g. GPKG.
• G74:v.random restrict wrong categories assigned, see #3524

Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• Graphical Modeler: print computational time elapsed

• Graphical Modeler: delete intermediate data when computation finished

• Graphical Modeler: mark data to be displayed

• New SQL where query widget

• G74:wxGUI: fix problem with Python addons not showing up on Windows, see #3177
• G74:wxGUI: fix d.vect dialog when loading layer without db connection
• G74:wxGUI: correctly delete layertree, see #3505
• G74:wxGUI: fix font dialog on mac, #3542
• wxGUI/dbmgr: improve get values speed
• G74:g.gui.tplot: resolved problem with stdvs when no categories are set, see #3294
• wxGUI/preferences: add new option for random colors (vector)
• wxGUI/datacatalog: zoom to first added map (sync with lmgr behaviour)
• wxGUI/datacatalog: display layer on double click

Scripting

• pygrass: add Module support to underscore in parameter's name
• PyGRASS: Category.init expects map name to be provided (r72227 backport)

Projection support

• Read EPSG codes with PROJ v.5 fail fixed (#3514)

Library changes

• libgis: more informative messages when (de)compression fails
• init: more messages for invalid location or mapset
• libgis: use G_vasprintf() to avoid buffer overflow

User Manuals - Documentation

• doc: show modules without img in graphical index
• G74:i.atcorr manual: added example to process Sentinel bands (contributed by Zofie Cimburova); general manual clean-up
• G74:i.vi: corrected MSAVI2 equation according
• G74:r.colors manual: decipher 'nv' color
• G74:r.in.wms manual: some WMS examples updated
• G74:r.series.accumulate manual: update manual explaining accumulation
• G74:r.stats.zonal manual: added link to r.stats.quantile
• G74:t.rast.algebra manual: add NDVI example; use subsections for examples
• G74:t.rast.algebra manual: formatting fixed + See also section added
• G74:t.register manual: added example to register vector layers (contributed by Ondrej Pesek) and other minor changes/typos
• G74:v.select: make it clear that 'overlap' is 'intersects' in GEOS, not 'overlaps'

Portability

• bump supported Python version to 2.7
• store grass.appdata.xml under share/metainfo/org.osgeo.grass.appdata.xml
• G74:r.random.surface: rename variable Surface to RSurface to avoid variable clash with GDAL on EPEL7

Message Translations

• i18N: msg update in PO files from source code
• i18N: added Hungarian from Transifex (​https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass72/dashboard/)
• i18N: sync from Transifex (​https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass72/dashboard/) except for Latvian; Latvian sync'ed from trunk files

New Addons since GRASS 7.4.0

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#2790

Output of t.rast.list with method=comma and columns=name does not differ from output with columns=id

#3059

r.external.out does not write CRS information

#3151

raster digitizer crashes GUI in trunk

#3223

r.info displays wrong timestamp after t.rast.series with a where clause

#3332

v.proj - Error in pj_do_transform

#3344

r.stream.slope Segmentation fault: 11 error

#3450

7.4.0 new modules missing in GUI menus

#3469

i.atcorr: Sentinel-2 support broken on some systems

#3484

Patch to fix spelling errors

#3488

v.in.ogr mangeling of column names when imporing OSM geojson extracts

#3492

r.texture overwrites without --o flag and without any warning when map exists

#3493

Compilation error with python 2.6

#3496

v.in.pdal: does not compile with PDAL 1.6.0

#3505

Opening a workspace file

#3514

Read EPSG codes with PROJ v.5 fails

#3536

python library db_table_in_vector function

#3542

cannot set default font in preferences

#3546

t.rast.what: issues in one_point_per_col_output()

#3557

Patch to fix spelling errors

#3567

v.select: doubtful result with the default overlap operator selecting areas with lines

Closed wishes since the last release

#789

g.region option to expand the computational region of about "some" pixels?

#1878

Metric distance option for v.distance in latlon regions

#2122

v.to.db: new variables to add

#2183

v.centerpoint: category values in ascii output should include original cat values

#2234

wxGUI d.mon and g.gui monitor rendering is slow

#2368

Python version of r.grow does not support shrinking

#2417

r.profile should report distance in location units

#2896

Allow installation of specific versions of GRASS addons

#3416

t.list: add mapset option as in g.list

#3482

i.atcorr: Add Sentinel-2B

#3511

[patch] v.buffer: allow squared buffers around points