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7.4.1 (to be backported)

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 7.0 (already implemented)
3D raster library and modules in version 7 (finished)
Introduction of temporal modules | Available temporal modules | Tutorials (user contributed content)
New features in version 7.2
New features in version 7.4

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?)~~ (done)
Documentation: update HTML manual pages to more recent technology (see examples by Vaclav Petras) and #151

trunk

preserve EPSG code when creating a new location from WKT (Well Known Text) or GDAL/OGR input (applies to gis library, general, raster, and vector modules)

7.4.1 (to be backported)

i.atcorr: backport S2B support, S2A update and other fixes
libraster: backport zstd compression
libinit: init: more messages for invalid location or mapset (r72203)
i.ortho.photo: complete documentation update, see
- "man page of g.gui.image2target" - https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2017-November/086676.html
- fix #3467
Transifex sync
- important: grass*_lv.po are more recent in SVN! Do not overwrite from Transifex but put into Transifex~~
- all others: update from Transifex

7.2.3 (to be backported)

i18N: Install gettext to Python script modules to use translated strings extracted by r70817: r70818
r.grow.distance: clean up after r68611: r69327
lib/python/temporal: major differences to be checked TODO
~~vector modules: Added layer specific database information to v.info extended metadata flag: r69535~~ done in r72023
~~r.in.srtm: Print an error instead of failing in a XY location: r70819~~ done in r72022

postponed:

~~d.linegraph: a series of improvements, see https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/log/grass/trunk/display/d.linegraph/main.c~~ (wenzeslaus: most are improvements/features, a lot of code changed, leaving it for 7.4)
~~i.atcorr: Sentinel-2A r70161 (Test feedback in ML needed first, leaving it for 7.4)~~
~~r.in.lidar: Storage type~~ (wenzeslaus: not sure what it is, but code is not identical in 7.2 and trunk, leaving it for 7.4)
~~v.what.strds: add capabilities to use names also for temporal dataset with minutes and seconds granularity: r69331 (leaving it for 7.4)~~

Blockers

No results

Critical issues

No results

Further issues

Open bugs concerning GRASS 7
List Open Enhancement Requests

Addon candidate to be moved to trunk

Comment from Moritz: At one point we said that only addons that have tests should go into core. AFAICS, none of the below have tests [edit: r.object.geometry now has some tests]...

Interesting:

G7A:r.object.geometry - +/- equivalent to v.to.db, but for raster objects: very useful for many other modules (notably OBIA)
G7A:r.vect.stats - very simple, but nice functionality to have in core
G7A:v.centerpoint - basic GIS functionality

Maybe, if stable enough

General strategy

... regular publication of stability releases:

7.y.x ... 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