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

• NULL compression, make default ~and backport to 7.0 for compatibility~
• RLE/DEFLATE/LZ4 compression: #2750: LZ4 when writing raster rows; better than double I/O bound r.mapcalc speed
• r.mapcalc / r3.mapcalc: new variables to access current region dimensions in cells (nrows, ncols, ndepths) (r67664)

7.2.0

• before creating releasebranch_7_2
  • make scripts importable in python3 r68140 and r68178.
  • make temporal python library importable in python3 r68139 and r68177.
  • clean up lidar modules: put the new category/layer options to flag(s) in v.in.lidar/v.out.lidar, remove vector output from r.in.lidar
  • consider moving of some functions in lidar modules to the library
  • ...

7.0.4 (to be backported)

• parser fixes: r68057, r68059, r68060, r68061
• fix mySQL support: ​2 tickets
• graphic identity - ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2016-January/078528.html
• r66379: vector/v.random/main.c
  • This is a feature (increasing limit of generated points), no backport.
• r66460: vector/v.distance/distance.c (see #2734) backported in r68143 and r68146.
• import changes: r67285, r67628, r67631, r67633
  • martinl: I suggest to avoid this backport, this part of wxGUI code base changed a lot, there is large number of conflicts

Blockers

No results

Critical issues

No results

handpicked issues:

• #2456: read CSV from GDAL data directory

Further issues

• Check overview in: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/milestone/7.0.4
• Open bugs concerning GRASS 7
• List Open Enhancement Requests

General strategy

... regular publication of stability releases:

7.0.x ... 7.0.1 ... 7.0.0:

• all released, see Release

Historical notes

• a releasebranch_6_4 branch has been created (for access, see here) - used to release GRASS GIS 6.4.x
• a develbranch_6 branch has been created (for access, see here) - unused since 2015
• trunk has become GRASS 7.1.svn
• branches/releasebranch_7_0 has become GRASS 7.0.svn
• ​Announcement (2008, GRASS 7 development started)
• GRASS GIS 6.3.0 has been released from the releasebranch_6_3 branch

See also

• ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass8Planning