wiki:Release/7.4.2-News

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GRASS GIS 7.4.2

NOTE: PLANNED RELEASE

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.4

Releases

SVN Source Code

  • Milestone: 7.4.2
  • SVN Checkout latest 7.4 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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 7.4.2 release provides more than 100 fixes and improvements with respect to the stable release 7.4.1.

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

  • Command prompt - Log files produces empty log files, closes #3657
  • attribute table manager fails to start from new mapset, closes #3658
  • wxGUI: wx4 doesn't have Image.GetHandlers, fixes #3617
  • G_OPT_DB_WHERE - non-functional 'table' icon in gui, closes #3619
  • G74:v.out.ogr: do not modify OGR dsn
  • wxGUI: fix m.nviz.image command building
  • wxGUI: use simpler widget for MapsetSelect to avoid wxWidgets bug
  • wxGUI/rdigit: fix raster digitizer toolbar on mac

Scripting

  • pygrass wrongly reports lines for point vector maps, closes #3549
  • libpython: by default, no error output is produced even though the output in case of failure

Projection support

Library changes

  • libraster: improved error msg if compression is not supported
  • Vlib, Vect_merge_lines(): use correct line type in messages
  • lib/dbmibase: fix get/set connection parameters, clarify default and current parameters

User Manuals - Documentation

Portability

  • Dockerfile: have UTF8 defined
  • Dockerfile: 'set ENV SHELL' to avoid /bin/sh fallback in interactive GRASS GIS sessions in docker
  • wingrass: wxpython packages rename to python-wx
  • winGRASS: add python-ply as a dependency
  • winGRASS: add pip as dependency
  • Fedora RPM SPEC: fix wxGTK-devel and cairo-devel dependencies
  • Dockerfile: added ncurses dependency since tput is used in lib/init/grass.py

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#1231
v.parallel2 cycles
#2101
Different results from m.proj in different locations
#2114
m.nviz.image does not work on Windows
#2631
Future winGRASS needs python-ply package
#3066
g.gui.gcp not handling vectors
#3102
v.to.db compactness and fractal dimension
#3358
t.rast.what: null_value is insensitive to passed strings
#3441
Use some UTF-8 locale for en language
#3470
3D mode menubuttons for fly through and rotate scene not destroyed when switching back to 2D mode
#3498
Can't open NetCDF file
#3549
pygrass wrongly reports lines for point vector maps
#3564
Inconsistent results from qsort callback in g.mkfontcap
#3591
r.import does not recognize selected file
#3601
db.connect: default answers depend on current DB settings
#3606
m.nviz.image produces a screenshot
#3617
save display to image button broken
#3619
G_OPT_DB_WHERE - non-functional 'table' icon in gui
#3621
Cannot create map frame in cartographic composer
#3630
cannot set symbol interactively in d.vect
#3657
"Command prompt - Log files" produces empty log files
#3658
attribute table manager fails to start from new mapset
#3676
Errors when running r.li.* modules

Closed wishes since the last release

#2231
v.split not working in expecting way
#2461
GRASS 7: i.ortho.photo suite completion
#2873
Simplify usage of GRASS in Python from outside
#3305
r.mapcalc raster region handling of input maps
#3361
v.select: very slow using GEOS operators

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