GRASS GIS 7.8.4

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.8

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: XX Nov 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.4.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.4
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.4.tar.gz (md5sum)

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 26 Sep 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.4RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.4RC1
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.4RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)

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• Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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

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The GRASS GIS 7.8.4 release provides more than ​280 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.3.

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New modules

• n/a

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G78:... (​PR:236)
• G78:...

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• ...

GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• G78:Startup: Avoid a race condition (#548)
• G78:wxGUI Add web service layer: Fix dialog layout (#627)
• G78:wxGUI AddWSDialog: fix 'Access window out of range in RasterIO()' error (#693)
• G78:wxGUI AddWSDialog: fix render WMTS layer with OGC:CRS84 coor system (#674)
• G78:wxGUI AddWSDialog: fix setting output layer name, after selecting another layer (#667)
• G78:wxGUI AddWSDialog RenderWMSMgr: fix render WMS jpeg source format (#640)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: add export output animation file validation, before export file (#839)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix export (run as background thread) output animation file to avi format (#840)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix 'RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration' (#908)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix validation of extension of exported file (#907)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix wxPyDeprecationWarning (#854)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix wxPyDeprecationWarning (#910)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: set default export file type choice option (#838)
• G78:wxGUI: avoid flush clipboard if not opened (#819)
• G78:wxGUI/composer: use integers instead of wx id, which can't be pickled and cause error (#641)
• G78:wxGUI/datacatalog: fix display 3D raster (#889)
• G78:wxGUI/datacatalog: Fix error after right click on grass database tree item (#736)
• G78:wxGUI/datacatalog: Fix layout flag in reprojection dialog for wx 4.1.0 (#806)
• G78:wxGUI dbmgr: Fix dbmgr widgets layout on the wxMSW (#637)
• G78:wxGUI d.histogram: Set default font (#695)
• G78:wxGUI d.mon: Fix launch light-weight wx monitor without toolbars and statusbar (#678)
• G78:wxGUI, d.rast.edit: remove 'wxversion' module (#713)
• G78:wxGUI: fix atexit error in debug mode when exiting GUI (#772)
• G78:wxGUI: fix bad indentation (#784)
• G78:wxGUI: fixes incomplete map display when opening from gxw workspace (#500)
• G78:wxGUI: fix g.gui.vdigit on windows #530 (#572)
• G78:wxGUI: fix inconsistent layer sizes during rendering (#552)
• G78:wxGUI: fix layout flags for wx 4.1.0
• G78:wxGUI: Fix layout flags in vector field statistics dialog for wx 4.1.0 (#821)
• G78:wxGUI: fix RunCommand to decode also empty string to return unicode (#702)
• G78:wxGUI: fix wx4.1 support for About GRASS GIS dialog (#901)
• G78:wxGUI/gcp: adding the option/show overwrite confirm dialog to overwrite the result map (#912)
• G78:wxGUI gcp: fix adding vector map to group when no vector maps exist (#685)
• G78:wxGUI gcp: fix checking vector map existence in the group (#680)
• G78:wxGUI/gcp: fix launch add vector map to group dialog (#924)
• G78:wxGUI g.gui.animation: fix wx.CheckBox widget deprecation warning (#718)
• G78:wxGUI g.gui.rlisetup: fix get rectangle sample units size (#633)
• G78:wxGUI GroupDialog: fix StaticText widget existence check (#647)
• G78:wxGUI lmgr: fix cancel save workspace dialog (#628)
• G78:wxGUI lmgr: Fix position of layer image button overlaid map layer name (#669)
• G78:wxGUI lmgr: fix remove both selected parent/children group layer (#642)
• G78:wxGUI/lmgr: fix return 'Layer' class str value if map layer name is None (#820)
• G78:wxGUI location wizard: fix title layout, bug introduced in changes for wxPython 4.1 (#661)
• G78:wxGUI locdownload: fix missing flush method (#634)
• G78:wxGUI: macOS use default output font dialog (#760)
• G78:wxGUI/mapdisp: fix double click on the overlays in the 3D view (#872)
• G78:wxGUI/mapswipe: call dialog Uninit only when dialog was actually created, fix for #833 (#836)
• G78:wxGUI/mapswipe: fix wx.CheckListBox widget wxPyDeprecationWarning (#773)
• G78:wxGUI/mapwin: fix saving the position of overlays after changing their position with the mouse pointer tool (#817)
• G78:wxGUI mapwin: fix show/hide vdigit toolbar (#578)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: fix failed map centring on mac with pre-wx4.1 (#895)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: fix relative import from 'wxnviz' module (#887)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: fix reopening 3D by reloading layers (#953)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: fix update list of surface in vector page during delete constant surface (#881)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: SetMaskColour causes problems on macos with wx 4.1.0 (#787)
• G78:wxGUI rdigit: fix quitting behavior when no map edited (#594)
• G78:wxGUI rdigit: update list of available raster map layers, when map layers tree changed (#707)
• G78:wxGUI rendering: when deleting layer check if .legrow file exists (#691)
• G78:wxGUI r.li.setup: Show message dialog if removed config file isn't selected from the list (#631)
• G78:wxGUI/startup: fix terminate location download dialog download thread (#832) (#873)
• G78:wxGUI tplot: fix an error when exporting csv file from g.gui.tplot (#690)
• G78:wxGUI: update wx4.1.0 support for FlatNotebook (#856)
• G78:wxGUI vdigit: fix Undo/Redo tool when no map edited (#586)
• G78:wxGUI vdigit: fix wx.CheckBox widget deprecation warning (#700)
• G78:wxGUI vdigit: update list of available vector map layers, when map layers tree changed (launch 'd.vect map=mapname' from the wxGUI Console page) (#708)
• G78:wxGUI vnet: fix ctypes c_char_p arg type (bytes object) (#687)
• G78:wxGUI WSPropertiesDialog: fix applying ws panel widgets updates, after panel is the shown (#665)
• G78:wxGUI WSPropertiesDialog: fix closing dialog (#684)
• G78:wxGUI WSPropertiesDialog: Fix showing selected layer in wms layer tree (#666)
• G78:wxGUI WSPropertiesDialog: fix updating ws map layer if map layer changed (#668)
• G78:wxGUI/wxpyimgview: Fix wxpyimgview for Python3/wxPython4 (#735)

Python scripting

• ...

Projection support

• G78:proj 6+ support (#183)

GDAL support

• ...

Database support

• ...

Library changes

• ...

JSON / REST support

• .

Unit tests / CI

• ...

User Manuals - Documentation

• various updates
• G78:rasterintro manual: mention various raster stats modules
• G78:r.category manual: minor addition

Portability

• G78:Use ${CC} instead of "cc" for linking on macOS (#611)
• G78:macOS: modernize app bundle info (#941)
• G78:macos: update app icon for hi-res support (#829)

Docker support

• G78:singularityfile: fix GRASS lib path detection

Message Translations

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

New Addons since GRASS 7.8.3

• TODO

Closed tickets

See ​GitHub.

Old trac tickets below.

Closed bugs since the last release

No results

Closed wishes since the last release

No results