GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC1 Release

~ NOT YET RELEASED: this page is a work in progress ~

• (check ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/ChangeLog.gz to update this page)
• (check the ​6.4 feature plan from the GRASS MediaWiki)

Release

• Release date: ?? Month 200?
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.0RC1.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php

Overview of changes since 6.3.0

For changes between 6.2.3 and 6.3.0, see the ​6.3.0 release announcement.

New modules

• d.split.frame (Hamish)
• g.mlist, g.mremove replaced with faster C version (Huidae Cho)
• r.colors.stddev (Hamish)
• r.grow.distance (Glynn)
• r.sun2, r.horizon (Jaroslav Hofierka, Marcel Suri, Thomas Huld)
• v.buffer replaced with improved version (Rosen Matev; Google SoC 2008 project)
• v.colors (Hamish)
• v.delaunay replaced with improved version (Martin Pavlovsky; Google SoC 2008 project)
• v.out.gpsbabel (Hamish)
• v.parallel replaced with improved version (Rosen Matev; Google SoC 2008 project)
• v.to.3d (Martin Landa)

• NVIZ for wxPython and nviz_cmd module (Martin Landa; Google SoC 2008 project)

Major module changes

• r.cost: Sped up by >50x (Glynn)
• r.watershed: Sped up by orders of magnitude (Markus Metz)
• v.random: Ability to generate random attribute data (Maris)
• v.extract: Random feature extraction support (Maris)
• v.out.ascii: New parameters 'columns' and 'where' - merged from addons module v.out.ascii.db (Martin Landa)

• wxGUI digitizer improvements including 'undo' (Martin Landa)

Library changes

• Vector library: new Vect_line_get_intersection function (Maris)
• Vector library: new Vect_restore_line function (Martin Landa)
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Build changes

• Improved generation of Python/SWIG interface
• New grass.py Python library giving standardized access to GRASS modules
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SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.0
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_200ymmdd_grass_6_4_0RC1/
• SVN Checkout:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_200ymmdd_grass_6_4_0RC1