This is a DRAFT page for the future release of GRASS GIS 7.4

List of new features in GRASS GIS 7.4

AT TIME: trunk

GRASS GIS 7.4 is the version of active development with a first 7.4.0 stable release in December 2017. In total, it comes with more than XXX fixes and improvements with respect to the stable releases 7.2.x. The development was officially moved to a dedicated release branch in XXX (rXXX). This page summarizes the manifold new features which have been added to GRASS 7.4.

What's new in a nutshell

After almost XXX years of development the new stable major release GRASS GIS 7.4 is available. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. For details see below.

Releases

• See list here: Release/7.4.0-News

Graphical User Interface

GRASS GIS 7.4 graphical user interface comes with a new ....

• Data Catalog (available in the Data tab) can now move and copy data between mapsets and locations, reproject rasters and vectors. This can be performed using right mouse click or drag and drop.
• Show computational region function is now available also from menu Settings > Computational region > Show current region extent in Map Display.
• Selected sample locations can be now downloaded from the Startup windows using a Download button next to location selection.
• The GRASS GIS Spatial Database Directory is now automatically filled (if available on disk) when user starts GRASS GIS for the first time.
• Access errors for creating location are now shown in the GUI instead of a traceback in the command line.
• Map Display title is now more readable and says GRASS GIS Map Display: name - location/mapset.
• Simple Python Editor is now available from the File menu.

Modules (commands)

A series of new modules has been added and many improved.

Display modules

• ...

General modules

New:

• G74:...

Improved:

• G7:g.proj: When a new location is created from vector data, use the default region s=0 n=1 w=0 e=1 res=1 to avoid potentially invalid region settings (r71491)

Raster modules

New:

• fixed longitude wrapping for lat/lon locations
• support import of raster maps exceeding 90N or 90S or with an EW extent larger than 360 degrees
• lat/lon: automatically fix floating point precision errors in the grid geometry of imported raster maps created with GIS software that uses limited floating point precision (common problem).
• ...

Improved:

• G7:r.clump: fuzzy clumping, multispectral clumping, minimum clump size
• G7:r.sim.water: added parallelization support
• G7:r.sim.sediment: added parallelization support
• G7:r.in.lidar: added -d flag to use base raster resolution instead of computational region
• G7:r.import: added support to subset to region boundaries when importing (extent=region)
• G7:r.mapcalc: implemented computational region settings based on disjoint union and intersection computation from all input raster maps in an expression

Raster3D modules

New:

• G7:r3.null: unit tests added

Vector modules

New:

• G7:v.vect.stats: New cat and where options for area and point vector maps to perform counts or estimate statistics only with selected points over selected areas (r71543)
• G7:v.out.ogr: New -l flag to list supported formats (r71552)
• G7:v.out.ogr: Default format changed from Esri Shapefile to OGC GeoPackage (#3428)
• G7:v.profile: Vector point and line profiling tool complementing G7:r.profile. Moved from add-ons (r71609)
• ...

Improved

• G7:v.in.ogr: Fix import of OSM data (r71464)
• G7:v.in.ogr: When a new location is created, use the default region s=0 n=1 w=0 e=1 res=1 to avoid potentially invalid region settings (r71490)
• G7:v.in.ogr: Support new curve geometry types starting with GDAL 2.0 (r71508, r71514)
• G7:v.in.ogr: code restructuring (r71550)
  • projection checks are now performed for all input layers, not only the first layer
  • projection checks are a bit more strict and more verbose in case of trouble
  • the new GDAL 2.2 API is used where possible, avoiding deprecated functions
  • OSM import is properly working, also with spatial filters and with GDAL < 2.2
  • attribute import and table creation is finished before cleaning to avoid lengthy cleaning if tables can not be created, and to avoid a rare segfault when opening a GRASS database driver
  • the code has been restructured to make it a bit less unreadable and to fix the logic of steps (e.g. check output only if output is created)

Imagery modules

New:

• G7:i.segment: new mean shift algorithm
• G7:i.atcorr: added support for Pleiades1a, Pleiades1b, Spot6, Spot7
• ...

Temporal GIS modules

• G7:t.rast.series: added quantile option with test
• G7:t.rast.mapcalc: added warning before removing empty (null) maps
• G7:t.rast.export: added GDAL options to support GeoTiff compression
• G7:t.info: Add test to verify the support of non ascii code

Scripting

New:

• PyGRASS: MultiModule class

User Manuals - Documentation

• Translations now managed in Transifex (please join and translate messages): ​https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass72

GRASS 7 Library changes

• Implemented temporal algebra complement tests that show the current condition bugs
• Added spatial topological operators to the temporal algebra (r71369)
• ...

Source Code Portability

...

GRASS GIS 7.4 Addons

More than XXX new addons are now enlarging the already impressive list of extensions available:

• see ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/

Migrating from GRASS GIS 6 to version 7.x

• see here for changes in parameter names and changed flags
• see here for removed modules and renamed modules
• see here for renamed options