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GRASS GIS 7.8.6
Table of Contents
- Releases
- Git Source Code
- Overview of changes
- New modules
- Major module changes
- Minor module changes
- GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface
- Python scripting
- Projection support
- GDAL support
- Database support
- Library changes
- JSON / REST support
- Code quality
- Unit tests / CI
- User Manuals - Documentation
- Portability
- Docker support
- Message Translations
- Packaging
- New Addons since GRASS 7.8.5
- Closed GitHub tickets since the last release
A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.8
Releases
Stable Release
- Release date: 10 Oct 2021
- Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.6.gz
- Binaries: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
- Source code:
Release Candidate 3 (RC3)
- Release date: 01 Oct 2021
- Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.6RC3.gz
- Binaries: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
- Source code:
Release Candidate 2 (RC2)
- Release date: 10 Aug 2021
- Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.6RC2.gz
- Binaries: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
- Source code:
Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
- Release date: 19 May 2021
- Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.6RC1.gz
- Binaries: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
- Source code:
Git Source Code
- Milestone: 7.8.6
- 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- Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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. Importantly, PROJ6+ / WKT2 are now supported. Further stability fixes, documentation improvements and updated message translations are included. The raster data link module r.external
is now notably faster. And a new module to downgrade a temporal DB from version 3 to 2 has been added. Eventually, a series of new add-ons has been made available as well.
The GRASS GIS 7.8.6 release provides more than 140 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.5.
New modules
- G78:t.downgrade: downgrade a temporal DB from version 3 to 2 (PR:1449)
Major module changes
(see also below for closed bugs)
- G78:g.extension: updated to match new addon repository structure (PR:1762)
- G78:g.extension: match module files on Windows (PR:1575)
- G78:r.external major speed-up (PR:1305)
Minor module changes
(see also below for closed bugs)
- NC full sample dataset: new URL (PR:1463)
- G78:d.mon: do not clear an existing output file on fatal error (PR:1475)
- G78:g.extension: ignore cruft pycache files (PR:1496)
- G78:g.proj: fix segfault issue #1163 (PR:1170)
- G78:g.proj: fix reading input WKT (PR:1582)
- G78:i.vi: fix check input 'red' param arg (PR:1353)
- G78:i.vi: fix the check for the existence of the 'redchan' variable (PR:1378)
- G78:m.proj: fix PROJ URL in error message
- G78:psdriver: write data to a tempfile before closing (rel78) (PR:1506)
- G78:r.in.wms: enable CreateOptions for GDAL driver
- G78:r.out.gdal: fix xy export (PR:1564)
- G78:t.register: strip newline from list of maps to avoid error (PR:1295)
- G78:v.colors: fix v.colors cannot properly copy color table (#1297, PR:1429)
- G78:v.colors: Fix color inversion (PR:1478, PR:1479)
- G78:v.import: add layer to the projection check (PR:1328)
- G78:v.net.visibility: fix coordinates parameter (PR:1336)
- G78:v.out.ogr: fix xy export (PR:1564)
- G78:v.patch: v.patch: fix segmentation fault when DB table absent in one input map (#1488, PR:1492)
- G78:v.surf.idw: less confusing error message (PR:1332)
- G78:v.surf.idw: fix uninitialized ret value for 2D without column specified (PR:1548)
GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface
- wxGUI/dbmgr: fix calculate column values (PR:1370)
- wxGUI/dbmgr: fix click on the 'Modify layer' button if vector map doesn't have any layers (PR:1334)
- wxGUI/dbmgr: fix hit 'Refresh' button if vector map doesn't have any layers (PR:1371)
- wxGUI/dbmgr: fix insert record for each category into table (PR:1333)
- wxGUI: fix another wx flag assertion error in iclass (PR:1471)
- wxGUI: fix calling coordselect validator (PR:1455)
- wxGUI: fix cmd-c closing interactive colour table on mac (PR:1293)
- wxGUI: fix d.out.file command parsing with --overwrite (PR:1284)
- wxGUI: Fix key binding issues on mac (PR:818 #1160)
- wxGUI: fix search field in location wizard (PR:1322)
- wxGUI: fix validators (partial backport of #1069 and #1418) (PR:1427)
- wxGUI: fix 'wxPyDeprecationWarning: Call to deprecated item. Use FindItem instead.' (PR:1344)
- wxGUI: fix parsing GDAL/OGR formats which contains a colon in a description (PR:1226)
- wxGUI: fix wx flag assertion error in DefaultFontDialog (PR:1545) * wxGUI/forms: fix Python 3.8 integer warning (PR:1302)
- wxGUI: update Slovakia 3D precipitation voxel sample dataset URL (PR:1292)
- wxGUI/animation: fix 3D rendering (PR:1551)
- wxGUI/g.extension: fix failure to uninstall addon (PR:1524)
- wxGUI/dbmgr: fix get statistics for character column type if it contains NULL value (PR:1574)
- wxGUI/gcmd: fix read command stdout (PR:1228)
- wxGUI/locwizard: fix flags for wxPython 4.1 (PR:1330)
- wxGUI/locwizard: fix more flags for wxPython 4.1 (PR:1343)
- wxGUI/locwizard: remove unneeded +ellps proj4string tag (PR:1550)
- wxGUI/mapwin: check if 'BufferedMapWindow' instance exist before calling '_runUpdateMap()' method (PR:1456)
- wxGUI/rlisetup: dissociate the managed window from the manager ('wx.aui.AuiManager' instance) before destroy wizard window (PR:1196)
- wxGUI/tplot: fix x, y coordinates validation (PR:1199)
- wxGUI/vselect: fix delete row from selected features list (PR:1231)
- wxGUI/WMS: replace broken URLs with alternative WMS (PR:1674)
Python scripting
- remove deprecated py 'PIL' module 'fromstring', 'tostring' method call (removed from 'PIL' module version >= 8.0.0) (PR:1223)
- pygrass: backport #1407 Module fix (PR:1606)
- ctypes: fix Callable for Python 3.10 (PR:1673)
Projection support
- PROJ6+ / WKT2 support (PR:1240)
- libproj: added alias for ITRF92 (PR:1460)
- libproj: change warning to debug message (PR:1337)
- lib/proj: fix results for ll equivalents (PR:1444)
- datum: add support for D_Rauenberg_1983 (PR:1331)
GDAL support
- GDAL 3.3.0 introduces the use of standard C bool type, compatibility added (PR:1567)
Database support
- n/a
Library changes
- make: add support for Makefile variable DESTDIR (PR:1234)
- libgis: add test for invalid value to parser (PR:1459)
- libgis: enable the C99 bool type (PR:1567)
- libgis: fix reading of WKT and SRID
- libgis: add read/write functions for WKT and srid (PR:976)
- parser: accept
#-space-%
to allow writing PEP8-compliant Python code (PR:1446) - parser: add a standard option for nprocs= (G_OPT_M_NPROCS) (PR:1648, PR:1652)
JSON / REST support
- json parser: fix mapsets in tokenizing (PR:1252)
Code quality
- Add missing
#include <stdlib.h>
to display/d.where/main.c. (PR:1377) - Allow parsing long GISDBASE paths (PR:1376)
- Imagery lib: Add notes to documentation about I_get_*2() functions (PR:1250)
Unit tests / CI
- CI: make test report available as artifact (PR:1484)
- GitHub action CI: drop ubuntu-16.04 (PR:1254)
- testsuite: fix libgis/parser_json.c and r.fillnull (PR:1346)
User Manuals - Documentation
- CONTRIBUTING.md: intro added for newcomers (PR:1566)
- G78:g.gui manual: example load workspace from command line
- G78:r.import manual: explain missing resampling methods (PR:1557)
- r.random*/r.surf.* manuals: examples and screenshots added (PR:1542)
- G78:r.out.gdal manual: added COG example (PR:1554), fix LZW export example
- G78:r.series: manual update (PR:1246)
- G78:r.stream.extract: fix typos in the manual (PR:1352) (PR:1383)
- G78:t.register manual: add link to r.timestamp
- G78:t.select manual: add scientific paper ref
- G78:v.in.ogr manual: update old GDAL links
Portability
Docker support
Message Translations
- i18N: sync from Transifex (https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass7/dashboard/) (PR:1520)
- i18n: Sync from Transifex for rel78 (PR:1340, PR:1466, PR:1593)
- i18n: Remove duplicate messages from po files (PR:1397)
- Sync Transifex; labelcolumn => label_column for v.to.rast (PR:1385)
- Updated translators.csv file (PR:1249)
Packaging
- make: Add support for Makefile variable DESTDIR (PR:1234)
- Hint for Debian:
INST_DIR=/usr/lib/$(BASE_NAME) UNIX_BIN=/usr/bin
- Hint for other Linux distros: TBD
- Hint for Debian:
- configure: updated to autoconf 2.69 (PR:1867)
New Addons since GRASS 7.8.5
- G7A:i.landsat toolset: G7A:i.landsat.download, G7A:i.landsat.import, G7A:i.landsat.qc
- G7A:m.csv.clean: Cleaning of CSV files
- G7A:r.bearing.distance: Find the bearing and/or straight-line distance from all non-null cells to the specified point.
- G7A:r.centroids: Creates vector map of centroids from raster of "clumps".
- G7A:r.extract: Extracts specified categories of an integer input map.
- G7A:r.in.ogc, G7A:r.in.ogc.coverages: OGC API support
- G7A:r.skyline: Compute the skyline index and / or find the horizon cells in a raster viewshed.
- G7A:v.in.csv: Easy import of CSV as vector points
- G7A:v.in.ogc, G7A:v.in.ogc.coverages: OGC API support
- G7A:v.percolate: Continuum percolation analysis
Closed GitHub tickets since the last release
See GitHub.
For old trac tickets, see below.
Closed trac bugs since the last release
No results
Closed trac wishes since the last release
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