GRASS GIS 7.6.0

NOTE: PLANNED RELEASE

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.6

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: DD MM 2018
• Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/TODOTODO/GRASS-GIS-7-6-0-released/
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/ChangeLog_7.6.0.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g76x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/grass-7.6.0.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.6.0:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2018XXYY_grass_7_6_0
  

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: DD MM 2018
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/ChangeLog_7.6.0RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g76x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/grass-7.6.0RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.6.0RC1:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2018XXYY_grass_7_6_0RC1
  

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 7.6.0
• SVN Checkout latest 7.6 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_6
  

Overview of changes

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

The GRASS GIS 7.6.0 release provides more than XXX fixes and improvements with respect to the stable release 7.4.2.

New modules

• ...

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G76:...

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G76:r.colors and G76:r3.colors: new flag -d to list available rules with description (e.g. "srtm: color palette for Shuttle Radar Topography Mission elevation [range: -11000 to 8850]")
• G76:r.slope.aspect: add -n option to create aspect as degrees clockwise from North (azimuth), with flat = -9999

Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• G76:wxGUI: ...

Scripting

• pygrass: ...

Projection support

• Support of PROJ v.5

Library changes

• ...

User Manuals - Documentation

• G76:...

Portability

• ...

Message Translations

• i18N: ...

New Addons since GRASS 7.6.0

• G7A:...
• TODO

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