To make GRASS releases more often and more predictable, here is GRASS next releases feature plan. This feature plan has to be filled by developers working on GRASS 6.4.

There is the release branch for 6.4.x - releasebranch_6_4. See details at ​tags and branches. A release branch is considered as "frozen", only bugfixes can be done.

To be released

GRASS 6.4.1

• Milestone 6.4.1
  • Release critical issues to be fixed before release
  • Outstanding issues concerning this release

• Any open Trac bugs which are blockers for 6.4.1 should be flagged as such in the bug report.
• Look over old ​Gforge and ​RT bug trackers. Refile in trac as blockers if they are release-critical and close old reports with a link to the new one. Copy over all past discussion so it has context and history.

• Test and improve stability of the standalone ​winGRASS package (both TclTk and wxPython GUIs)
• Test and improve stability of the ​GRASS-OSGeo4W package (both TclTk and wxPython GUIs)

Already released

GRASS 6.4.0

• 6.4.0 (3 Sep 2010)
• 6.4.0RC7 (27 Aug 2010)
• 6.4.0RC6 (20 March 2010)
• 6.4.0RC5 (9 Jun 2009)
• 6.4.0RC4 (12 Apr 2009)
• 6.4.0RC3 (26 Jan 2009)
• 6.4.0RC2 (12 Jan 2009)
• 6.4.0RC1 (23 Dec 2008)

Can do

Merge in replacements from Addons:

Modules to consider:

• r.pack rewrite using method similar to r.convert ({{trac|84}}) + tar.gzip?
  • script written as r.pack2, but not for inclusion in 6.4.0 to ensure compatibility with future gr7 raster file layout, which is not yet defined.

Delayed:

• r.viewshed: note that there are precision issues to be fixed by Laura, see #390

Done, but test

• Prepare release announcement (compile from RC announcements)
• r.out.gdal: NoData & type limits
• v.out.ogr, r.out.gdal: datum transform parms saved to WKT
• 6.4.0RC1 (23 Dec 2008)