= GRASS GIS 7.8.4 =

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A short summary of changes: '''[wiki:Grass7/NewFeatures78 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 ([https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.4.md5sum 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 ([https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.4RC1.md5sum md5sum])

=== Git Source Code ===

 * Milestone: [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 * Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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 [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/compare/releasebranch_7_8@%7B05-05-20%7D...releasebranch_7_8@%7B09-26-20%7D 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)
 * raster module memory management: enable gisrc variable to set new value globally (#922)

==== Minor module changes ====

(see also below for closed bugs)

 * G78:d.rast.arrow: Fix negative drainage directions (#777)
 * G78:g.extension: fix module launch with compile '-i' or download '-d' flag (#938)
 * G78:g.gui.iclass: replace dist_point_to_segment() removed from matplotlib (#645)
 * G78:g.gui.timeline: improve missing package msg
 * G78:g.proj: fix segfault when reading proj info from georef file (#599)
 * G78:g.search.modules: without keywords, list all modules (#989)
 * G78:i.pansharpen: fix encode string (#745)
 * G78:r.category: G_debug added in parsing section
 * G78:r.category: more specific parse error message
 * G78:r.cost (#846)
 * G78:r.geomorphon: Spell "flatness" correctly (#982)
 * G78:r.grow.distance: update module description with value raster (#983)
 * G78:r.import: do not reproject when projection matches (bug #547) (#659)
 * G78:r.in.wms BaseCapabilitiesTree: fix init ElementTree class (cap file/cap file str arg) (#651)
 * G78:r.in.wms.py: improve user msg (#616)
 * G78:r.in.wms.py message improvement (#613)
 * G78:r.out.gdal: fix building overviews
 * G78:r.plane manual: example improved (#900)
 * G78:r.region: add geometry keyword
 * G78:r.univar: support large regions with more than 2 billion cells (#672)
 * G78:r.volume manual: example and screenshot added (#903)
 * G78:t.rast.out.vtk manual: fix example
 * G78:v.cluster manual: added note about cluster IDs
 * G78:v.import: Do not reproject if projections match (#845)
 * G78:v.info/v.proj: fix printing UTM zone (#892) (#977)
 * G78:v.in.wfs: add options to set user and password (#808)
 * G78:v.in.wfs manual: fix example (#809)
 * G78:v.kernel: fix inconsistent msg (#825)
 * G78:v.net manual: link to Vector Network Analysis Tool
 * G78:v.surf.bspline: fix method selection (#727)
 * G78:v.to.db: Add --overwrite to help and GUI (#807)

==== GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface ====

 * Startup: Avoid a race condition (#548)
 * backport changes for wx4.1.0 #570
 * images2gif: PILLOW_VERSION is obsolete (#899)
 * 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 ====

 * libpython: fix Iterable import in pygrass/vector (#734)
 * libpython: mapcalc_start fix encode string (#738)

==== Projection support ====

 * proj 6+ support (#183)
 * datum.table: add RGFG95 (#813)

==== GDAL support ====

 * ...

==== Database support ====

 * ...

==== Library changes ====

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

==== JSON /  REST support ====

 * n/a

==== Unit tests / CI ====

 * Add [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/actions/ GitHub Actions] with build, test, and Python static code analysis (#583)
 * gunittest docs: fix broken links (#934)
 * gunittest: Non-zero return code on certian percetage of tests failing (#377)
 * CI: Use a specific Flake8 version (#626)

==== User Manuals - Documentation ====

 * various updates
 * G78:helptext.html: improved wording (#614)
 * G78:g.version manual: explain "revision=exported"
 * G78:i.pansharpen manual: updated North Carolina example
 * G78:rasterintro manual: mention various raster stats modules
 * G78:r.category manual: minor addition
 * G78:r.carve manual: fix example for stream vector (#968)
 * G78:r.clump manual: screenshots added (#902)
 * G78:r.horizon manual: explain negative values (#754)

==== Portability ====

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

==== Docker support ====

 * alpine docker: install git before build (#990)
 * docker: fix GRASS lib path detection (#883)
 * docker: fix README.md names (#984)
 * singularityfile: fix GRASS lib path detection

==== Message Translations ====

 * i18N: added new translations from Transifex (https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass7/dashboard/)
 * i18n: Translation update of Latvian language (#876)

=== New Addons since GRASS 7.8.3 ===

 * TODO

=== Closed tickets ===

See [https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/milestone/1?closed=1 GitHub].

Old trac tickets below.

==== Closed bugs since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.8.4&type=defect&resolution=fixed&order=priority)]]

==== Closed wishes since the last release ====

[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=7.8.4&type=enhancement&resolution=fixed&order=priority)]]