GRASS GIS 7.8.2

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.8

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: 11 Dec 2019
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.2.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.2
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.2.tar.gz (md5sum)

Release Candidate 2 (RC2)

• Release date: 7 Dec 2019
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.2RC2.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.2RC2
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.2RC2.tar.gz (md5sum)

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 28 Nov 2019
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.2RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.2RC1
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.2RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)

Git Source Code

• Milestone: 7.8.2
• Release branch created on 4 Aug 2019 (GH d4879d4)
• Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    git clone https://github.com/OSGeo/grass.git
    cd grass
    git checkout releasebranch_7_8
  

Overview of changes

The focus of this release are stability fixes.

Breaking news: Python 3, PROJ 6 and GDAL 3 compatibility in 7.8. Important fixes for the datum management with all supported PROJ versions.

The GRASS GIS 7.8.2 release provides more than ​51 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.1.

New modules

• n/a

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G78:r.import: updated to be used in parallel jobs
• G78:r.topidx: ​r.topidx: fix bug which shows up with very steep slopes
• G78:v.in.ogr: important fix for PostGIS connections: the order of features as returned by OGR might change in the second pass when assigning centroids to areas (triggered in parallelized PostGIS access). Fixed by using binary balanced search tree to map fid to cat

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• grass startup: added support for Google chrome and Chromium browsers
• G78:g.mapsets: fixed missing checkboxes
• G78:i.tasscap: support for Worldview-2 added
• G78:r.in.wms: added GDAL driver user:password support; added wms_version 1.1.0; write string not bytes to capabilities file
• G78:r.topidx: fix bug with steep slopes (#193); fix bug which showed up if there are negative TWI values

Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• wxGUI: fixed "ImportError: cannot import name 'NewIdRef' on some systems
• wxGUI: do not fail on invalid RC file
• wxGUI: replace obsolete !wx.BitmapFromImage
• wxGUI wxplot: use wxpython plotting instead of old local copy

Python scripting

• stability fixes regarding the Python 3 support

Projection support

• Important fixes for datum support (PROJ 4, 5, 6)

GDAL support

• GDAL 3 support: fixed missing gdal300.dll error

Database support

• n/a

Library changes

• libraster gdal.c: add .so/.dll for GDAL 3.0

JSON / REST support

• n/a

Unit tests / CI

• n/a

User Manuals - Documentation

• Cleanup of multiple manual pages

Portability

• osgeo4w: fix postinstall

Docker support

• n/a

Message Translations

• i18N: added new translations from Transifex (​https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass7/dashboard/)

New Addons since GRASS 7.8.1

• n/a

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#3914

v.import/r.import error: "No layer selected. Operation cancelled"

#3934

wxGUI: Python error on "Set color table interactively" tool

#3935

grass-doc/html/r.sunhours.html says NOTESS

#3937

Histogram tool in the GUI: save button gives error

#3942

r.geomorphon compiler warnings

#3944

Manage access to mapsets gui missing checkboxes

#3948

v.to.points man page: <map> is not a valid parameter

#3962

GRASS 7.8.1 GUI doesn't run on Pop! OS 18.04 (Ubuntu 18.04) because of "ImportError: cannot import name 'NewIdRef'"

#3972

Every single doc page has raw 'Last changed: $Date$' still stuck in it

#3976

g.manual: say "displays"

#3981

winGRASS: defining a new location by EPSG code: TypeError: invalid result from TransList.OnMeasureItem(), an integer is required (got type NoneType)

Closed wishes since the last release

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