GRASS GIS 6.4.0RC7 Release

Release

• Release date: xx August 2010
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.0RC7.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.0
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_201008xx_grass_6_4_0RC7
• SVN Checkout 6.4.0 RC7:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_201008xx_grass_6_4_0RC7
  

• SVN Checkout 6.4.0 release branch:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4
  

Overview of changes since 6.4.0RC6

For changes between 6.2.3 and 6.3.0, see the ​6.3.0 release announcement. Since the 6.3.0 release in April 2008 more than 2,700 source code modifications have been made to the 6.4.0 release branch. Between 6.4.0RC6 and the current 6.4.0RC7 more than 180 updates have been included.

New modules

• g.extension: Add community sourced modules from the GRASS add-ons collection

better support for Pulkovo Datum 1942(58) better support for South American Datum 1969 d.text: added support for background color improved 64 bit support for NVIZ improved process launching, fixes a number of WinGrass issues r.external: Create imagery group for imagery with multiple bands r.grow.distance: bugfix for distance calculation r.in.gdal: adjustable memory cache r.out.gdal: improved export checks r.terraflow: fix for WinGrass r.watershed: upgraded to improved version r.what: support one year of daily maps support for wxPython 2.8.11 v.extract: extract centroids for type=area and layer=-1 v.generalize: bugfix for Chaiken method v.hull: support for vector lines v.out.ogr: add support for 3D points and faces v.random: tighten up column type setting v.split: copy tables v.split: full 3D support wxGUI: SubGroup support wxGUI: zoom to imported maps automatically

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