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 (to be backported)

• nothing left?

7.2.1 (to be backported)

• r.grow: +shrink (r69110)
• use cats title as primary, see #3035 (r68746, r68747, r68748, r69645)
• d.barscale: improve layout, use variables instead of magick numbers, add width_scale variable to scale barscale for different resolutions - r69619
• man pages: misc --> miscellaneous: r69585, r69587, r69588, r69589, r69709
• wxGUI/location wizard simplification: r69985

7.0.5 (to be backported)

• parser fixes: r68057, r68059, r68060, r68061
  • ML: r68057, r68059 are useless; r68060 is hard to backport (code changed too much)
• fix mySQL support: ​2 tickets
• graphic identity - ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2016-January/078528.html
  • ML: I wouldn't touch splashscreen in rel70, uppercase version will come will 7.2.0
• #3042

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