wiki:Release/8.0.0-News

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Docker images are now built for the 8.0 branch

GRASS GIS 8.0.0

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 8.0

Releases

Stable Release

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Release Candidate 2 (RC2)

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Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

Git Source Code

  • Milestone: 8.0.0
  • Release branch created on Nov 13, 2021
  • Git clone of latest 8.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):
      git clone https://github.com/OSGeo/grass.git
      cd grass
      git checkout releasebranch_8_0
    

Overview of changes

The focus of this release is on stability fixes, documentation improvements and updated message translations. ...

The GRASS GIS 8.0.0 release provides more than XXX fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.7.

New modules

  • G80:...

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

  • G80:...

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

  • entire rewrite of GRASS GIS startup (PR:XXX)
  • wxGUI/...

Python scripting

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Projection support

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GDAL support

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Database support

  • n/a

Library changes

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JSON / REST support

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Code quality

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Unit tests / CI

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User Manuals - Documentation

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Portability

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Docker support

  • Docker images are now built for the 8.0 branch
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Message Translations

Packaging

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New Addons since GRASS 7.8.7

Closed GitHub tickets since the last release

See GitHub.

For old trac tickets, see below.

Closed trac bugs since the last release

#3295
GRASS GIS fails to start without terminal
#3637
Use the system temporary directory for all GUI rendering files
#3870
add missing depencencies into winGRASS
#3900
Go back to using community version of ctypesgen
#3912
r.in.gdal: Error messsge link to gdalwarp fails
#3913
new feature band reference breaks space time vector datasets
#3924
Port r.in.lidar to PDAL

Closed trac wishes since the last release

#542
grass7 vector libraries modifications
#764
Can the install process accept a DESTDIR additional variable?
#3084
i.segment: allow more than 2147483647 cells
#3474
Change the GRASS GIS start up to more beginner friendly
#3575
Associate database/location/mapset with workspace file
#3578
Add New Location action to the Datacatalog
#3585
Don't require -c for --tmp-location
#3926
allow limit viewshed computation by angle
#4006
Add option for vector types to v.rast.stats

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