GRASS GIS 7.8.5

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.8

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: DD MMM 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.5.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.5
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.5.tar.gz (md5sum)

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 6 Dec 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.5RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.5RC1
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.5RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)

Git Source Code

• Milestone: ​7.8.5
• 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• Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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.

The GRASS GIS 7.8.5 release provides more than ​240 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.4.

New modules

• n/a

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G78:

GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• G78:wxGUI

Python scripting

• libpython:

Projection support

GDAL support

Database support

Library changes

JSON / REST support

Unit tests / CI

User Manuals - Documentation

• various updates
• G78:...

Portability

Docker support

Message Translations

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

New Addons since GRASS 7.8.5

• ...

Closed tickets

See ​GitHub.

Old trac tickets below.

Closed bugs since the last release

No results

Closed wishes since the last release

No results