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GRASS GIS 8.0.0
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 7.8.7
- Closed GitHub tickets since the last release
A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 8.0
Releases
Stable Release
- ...
Release Candidate 2 (RC2)
- ...
Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
- Release date: DD MM 2021
- Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass80/source/ChangeLog_8.0.0RC1.gz
- Binaries: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g80x
- Source code:
Git Source Code
- Milestone: 8.0.0
- 8.0 release branch created on Nov 13, 2021 (https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tree/releasebranch_8_0)
- Git clone of latest 8.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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
After more than 3 year of development the first stable release GRASS GIS 8.0.0 is available. Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience even better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to modules and further improving the graphical user interface.
Breaking news: new graphical user interface with entirely rewritten startup sequence!
This re-establishes user experience compatibility with QGIS and other connected software packages.
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
- ...
Projection support
- ...
GDAL support
- ...
Database support
- n/a
Library changes
- ...
JSON / REST support
- ...
Code quality
- ...
Unit tests / CI
- ...
User Manuals - Documentation
- ...
Portability
- ...
Docker support
- Docker images are now built for the 8.0 branch
- ...
Message Translations
- i18N: sync from Transifex (https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass7/dashboard/) (PR:xxx)
Packaging
- ...
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
