GRASS 7 Release Planning

• Release scope: new display architecture, new raster library, new features such as temporal data handling...
• The SVN trunk corresponds to GRASS 7 (for access, see here)
• ​http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_7_ideas_collection (to be merged into trac)

Already implemented

• New features in version 7 (already implemented)
• 3D raster library and modules in version 7 (finished)
• ​Introduction of temporal modules | ​Available temporal modules | ​Tutorials (user contributed content)

Planning & ongoing

Source code changes:

• Display library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Raster library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Vector library in GRASS 7 (planning & ongoing)
• Temporal extension for GRASS 7 (core functions are implemented, ongoing improvement)
  • ​Temporal Library API
  • Temporal GIS Algebra for Raster and Vector Data GSoC project 2013

Documentation

• Use Sphinx for Python API (complete?)
• Documentation: update HTML manual pages to more recent technology (see examples by Vaclav Petras) and #151

Trunk

• move ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/grass7/imagery/i.spec.unmix/la_extra.c (and la_extra.h) to lib/gmath/

7.0.1 (to be backported)

Please check:

• r65343 - vector/v.random/main.c: martinl Date: 2015-05-31
• r64404 - libpython: move cmd list <-> tuple from wxGUI: martinl Date: Feb 2, 2015
• r62091, r62045, r62089, r63830 (only the change in intersect2.c)- vector/v.select: speed up OP_OVERLAP - Author: mmetz 2014-09-26 | tested, new version takes 5% of time compared to older version
• r64834 - lib/python/script/core.py: fix gettext behaviour - Author: glynn Date: 2015-03-11

7.0.2 (to be backported)

Please check:

• r64877 - grass/trunk/raster/r.patch: call Rast_cell_size just once, not for every cell - Author: wenzeslaus Date: 2015-03-16
• r62162 - vector/v.generalize: add test for self-intersection, use Vect_line_intersection2() - Author: mmetz Oct 2, 2014

Blockers

No results

Critical issues

No results

Further issues

• Open bugs concerning GRASS 7
• List Open Enhancement Requests

General strategy

7.0.0

• released, see Release/7.0.0-News

7.0.0RC 1-3 releases

• released, see Release/7.0.0RC-News

7.0.0Beta 4 release: planned as last beta before RC1

• released, see Release/7.0.0beta-News

7.0.0Beta 1-3 releases

• See "New features" above and Release/7.0.0beta-News

History notes

• GRASS 6.3.0 has been released from the releasebranch_6_3 branch
• a new develbranch_6 branch has been created (for access, see here)
• a new releasebranch_6_4 branch has been created (for access, see here)
• ​Announcement (2008, GRASS 7 development started)
• branches/releasebranch_7_0 has become GRASS 7.0.svn
• trunk has become GRASS 7.1.svn