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)

• what about the lib/proj/ update concerning the .lla files etc?
• libgis: set valid ZLIB compression level: r69388
• parser: add standard option for 2D raster map type: r68867
• use cats title as primary, see #3035 (r68746, r68747, r68748, r69645)
• man pages: misc --> miscellaneous: r69585, r69587, r69588, r69589, r69709

• d.barscale: improve layout, use variables instead of magick numbers, add width_scale variable to scale barscale for different resolutions: r69619

• r.grow: +shrink (r69110)
• r.out.xyz: new -i flag to include no data values: r70017
• r.what: print labels also for FCELL/DCELL maps: r69356
• r.grow.distance: clean up after r68611: r69327
• r.in.lidar: Storage type
• r.in.xyz: unify keywords and method descriptions with r.in.lidar (r68596): r68600
• r.quantile: fix memory violations: r69774
• simlib: give more control over seeding of random number generator: r69620
• r.stats.quantile: fix memory violations, optimize for a large number of base categories: r69776
• r.texture fixes?

• v.in.ascii: add text=none to restore geonames import: r69354
• v.in.lidar: check for valid LAS reader as in r.in.lidar r68982
• vector modules: Added layer specific database information to v.info extended metadata flag: r69535
• v.out.postgis doesn't export attribute table (see #2460): r69672
• v.proj: add no topology flag: r69960
• v.vol.rst: improve wording of warning (#3100): r69439
• v.to.rast: fix category labels for use=attr: r69357
• v.to.rast: just leave the color table to be the default: r69326
• wxGUI/location wizard simplification: r69985

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