wiki:Release/7.8.4-News

GRASS GIS 7.8.4

Table of Contents

    1. Releases
      1. Stable Release
      2. Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
    2. Git Source Code
    3. Overview of changes
      1. New modules
      2. Major module changes
      3. Minor module changes
      4. GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface
      5. Python scripting
      6. Projection support
      7. GDAL support
      8. Database support
      9. Library changes
      10. JSON / REST support
      11. Unit tests / CI
      12. User Manuals - Documentation
      13. Portability
      14. Docker support
      15. Message Translations
    4. New Addons since GRASS 7.8.3
    5. Closed tickets
      1. Closed bugs since the last release
      2. Closed wishes since the last release

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.8

Releases

Stable Release

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

Git Source Code

  • Milestone: 7.8.4
  • 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  • Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes): 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.

Important wxGUI stability fixes, now wxPython 4.1 is supported.

GRASS GIS terminal prompt has now full support for Z shell (Zsh).

The GRASS GIS 7.8.4 release provides more than ​170 fixes and improvements with respect to the previous 7.8.3 release.

This minor release again focuses on wxGUI fixes, especially in the animation export, the layer management, 3D visualization and the data catalogue. Many display modules received fixes as well, and the vector digitizer now works as expected.

New modules

  • n/a

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

  • raster module memory management: enable gisrc variable to set new value globally (​PR:922)

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

Python scripting

  • libpython: fix Iterable import in pygrass/vector (​PR:734)
  • libpython: mapcalc_start fix encode string (​PR:738)

Projection support

GDAL support

  • n/a

Database support

  • n/a

Library changes

  • init: ensure zsh environment variable SAVEHIST is set (​PR:857)
  • Add zsh terminal prompt support (​PR:722)
  • lib/init: fix run py script with CRLF line terminators ('grass --exec file_with_CRLF.py') (​PR:860)
  • libgis parser: an empty string is not an answer (​PR:958)
  • color table percentage forest cover (​PR:894)
  • Add national land cover dataset color table (​PR:518)

JSON / REST support

  • n/a

Unit tests / CI

User Manuals - Documentation

Portability

  • use ${CC} instead of "cc" for linking on macOS (​PR:611)
  • macOS: modernize app bundle info (​PR:941)
  • macos: update app icon for hi-res support (​PR:829)
  • grass.spec: enable EPEL8
  • env.bat.tmpl: Deal with blanks in OSGEO4W_ROOT (​PR:859)

Docker support

  • Alpine docker: install git before build (​PR:990)
  • Alpine docker: gdal-tools added
  • docker: fix GRASS lib path detection (​PR:883)
  • docker: fix README.md names (​PR:984)
  • singularityfile: fix GRASS lib path detection

Message Translations

New Addons since GRASS 7.8.3

  • wx.metadata/m.csw.update: module for adding new csw connections resources candidates (​PR:238)

Closed tickets

See ​GitHub.

Old trac tickets below.

Closed bugs since the last release

No results

Closed wishes since the last release

No results

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