GRASS GIS 6.4.1 Release

Release

• Release date: 12 April 2011
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.1.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 6.4.1
• Browse Source: ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20110412_grass_6_4_1
• SVN Checkout 6.4.1:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20110412_grass_6_4_1
  

• SVN Checkout latest 6.4.x release branch (with future bugfixes):

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

Overview of changes

Since the 6.4.0 release in September 2010 more than 560 source code modifications have been made to the 6.4.x release branch.

Between 6.4.1RC2 and the current 6.4.1 more than 20 updates have been applied.

New modules

• v.in.lines: Creates a lines vector map from an ASCII x,y points file.
• r.colors.out: Exports the color table associated with a raster map.
• r.li.pielou: new landscape fragmentation index
• r.li.reny: new landscape fragmentation index

Major module changes

• i.ortho.photo: several resampling methods implemented; artifacts removed; command line support added; photo.* commands renamed to i.photo.*
• r.kappa: error matrix had the rows/columns labels reverted
• r.proj: fix off by half pixel
• v.out.ogr: also export attributes if multiple features share the same cat
• v.select: added support for new GEOS operators

Minor module changes

• d.vect: Ability to take per-feature symbol size and rotation from attribute columns (#600)
• i.atcorr: AVNIR and IKONOS sensors added (some filter function fixes yet pending); added sensors' raw CSV data
• g.mapsets: sort list (-l) output
• g.extension: fixes and support for install system-wide
• g.transform: add new options to dump coefficients and transform arbitrary points, both fwd and reverse
• r.distance: output correct precision for different projection types (bugs #654 and #335)
• r.info: export floats with correct precision (trac #335)
• r.in.gdal: flag to force the import of lat/lon imagery which is missing georef
• r.neighbors: Gaussian and range method
• r.out.arc: flag added to refer to cell center in header
• r.out.ascii: output correct precision for different projection types (bugs #654 and #335)
• r.out.png: Worldfile and transparency flags added for use with KML/web tiles
• r.param.scale: write more metadata
• r.proj: add flags to print source map region, simplifying workflow; cache fix; fix segfault when mapset is not given, be less verbose
• r.random: improve metadata writing; -b flag added to avoid generating vector topology
• r.series: threshold and quantiles
• r.stats: output correct precision for different projection types (bugs #654 and #335)
• r.statistics: attempt to fix bug #1090
• v.db.select: optional file output added
• v.db.dropcol: recreate the index on the key column of the table
• v.edit: set up default DB if it doesn't exist
• v.generalize: do not crash, give out of memory informational messages
• v.in.ascii: accept D:M:S coords in standard mode
• v.in.ogr: faster polygon import, cleaner and smaller output
• v.info: topology level 1 support added
• v.mkgrid: optional line support added
• v.split: do not attempt to read dead line
• v.surf.rst: z-coordinate and zcol support
• v.to.db: line azimuth support
• v.transform: fix dim of output vector map
• v.univar: added optional geometry distances instead of table data
• v.vol.rst: new npmax parameter added
• v.voronoi: much less memory, a bit faster
• v.what: shell script style output added

Library changes

• cairo driver fixes
• dglib: graph library cache activated
• gis/raster: Fix bugs in reclassed_to handling
• pythonlib: improved
• PNG driver: Use 64-byte header to ensure frame buffer alignment (bug #937)
• RST interpolation library: running out of memory problem fix
• vlib: normalize path for Windows

GUI changes

• Major wxGUI update (based on GRASS 6.5) - r43911
• Completely rewritten wxGUI Georectifier
• Fixed segfault which appears while automated GUI creation (bug #928)
• TclTk startup screen is now more friendly on small screens
• gis.m remembers last used directory when saving files
• gis.m menus updated to contain some of 6.4.0 new modules
• gis.m instances are terminated on exit from GRASS CLI. No more crashes on gis.m exit.
• gis.m PS label feature now is usable (bug #819)
• gis.m Don't fail on wxGUI broken .grassrc6 file
• v.digit fixed mouse wheel handling (#638)
• v.digit fixed ability to create single boundary areas (#1255) and not leave lines/boundaries with single node (#1256)
• wxGUI: import dialog fixed
• wxGUI: fix adding legend/barscale from command prompt
• wxGUI: some new icons by Robert Szczepanek
• wxGUI: catch error that geodetic distance is currently not yet supported

Map projection changes

• added Geostationary Satellite View support

Portability changes

• r.sim.sediment, r.sim.water: fix MacOSX and winGRASS crashes
• v.in.garmin, v.in.mapgen: fixes for MacOSX

Message translation updates

• message catalog updated
• Extract NVIZ messages to separate message catalog
• Several other language translations improved
  • German: Helmut Kudrnovsky, Robert Nuske
  • Chinese: Shulin Yang
  • Polish: Milena Nowotarska, Maciej Sieczka
  • Italian: Luca Delucchi, Marco Curreli

WinGRASS changes

• installer updates
• Major update of OSGeo4W environment and support scripts, GRASS compiled against GDAL 1.8
• fix popen function
• see closed tickets below

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#73

r.out.gdal tiff output does not work

#181

tac command missing in OSX

#224

cache bug in DGLib

#626

layers re-renamed after change properties (wxpython)

#638

Tk interface does not handle mouse wheel events in v.digit

#713

OSGeo4W patch for g3d lib

#788

r.out.gdal and nodata

#819

Problems in displaying postscript labels layer

#865

vector libs: select 3D lines with 2D polygon

#870

Duplicate Legend layer in tcltk

#959

r.surf.contour. Resulting range of values has an incorrect 0 minimum.

#994

v.buffer2 creating wrong buffer around polygon edges.

#1003

WxGUI measure tool activation should switch Map Display to "Pointer" tool

#1045

strange behaviour in v.net.path

#1051

wxgui: SEARCH_PATH corruption

#1102

Subgroup option is not "inserted" in command-line

#1142

r.in.poly fails in LL

#1151

v.extract: where letting all pass on double prec

#1152

d.out.file + cairo: errors writing the image

#1155

GRASS Working Environment - Mapset Access is Broken

#1157

WinGrass-Installer should include a working gdal-version which is built against

#1159

v.in.ascii points import fails in WinGRASS-6.4.0-1

#1161

g.region and r.info decimal issue when using grass python libs

#1162

g.message: unwanted expansion

#1164

newlines in sed scripts not portable for wingrass

#1165

wingrass: cs2cs fails from the msys command line

#1167

wx location wizard: proj4 terms fall off edge of window

#1169

wget misses libssl32.dll (affects r.in.wms)

#1174

Set zoom to/from computational region in display map does not work

#1177

r.in.gdal gives an error when adding a mutiband raster to the layers tree.

#1179

daily wingrass binary snapshots are down

#1180

g.extension fails on install step when GRASS is launched from source directory

#1185

v.in.ogr on WinGrass: "Bad file descriptor"

#1187

TclTk digitizer does not recognize right-click

#1190

Error on compiling GRASS in Windows using osgeo4w

#1192

wxGUI: propagate option key_desc

#1194

v.build opt=dump does not report the Z coord

#1197

d.grid fails with -g flag in winGRASS

#1198

Error while parsing file paths in WinGRASS with Scripts

#1199

3D points with attributes is broken

#1202

Error after loading projection

#1207

installation incomplete/messed

#1208

v.to.db option=start/end fails to populate database

#1210

g.remove fails to remove vector files under GRASS/OSgeo4w

#1211

freeze of wxgui when changing properties of a displayed vector map

#1212

ESRI ASCII-Rasterimport

#1220

Error when creating vector(areas) from raster

#1232

gui modeler don't works as aspected

#1233

MacOSX: layer manager and mapdisplay - bad startup position

#1240

wxGUI: attribute manager reports db connection not set while existing

#1245

v.db.connect parsing

#1249

unexpected error from the wxguy using "show attribute table" from the toolbar.

#1255

v.digit line snapping fails to snap to it self

#1256

leftover node when deleting boundaries vertex-by-vertex

#1257

Georectifier is broken

#1262

r.proj broken in all dev versions

#1264

Error v.clean by menu

#1273

profile analysis plot scaling not converting from meters when PROJ_UNITS is feet

#1278

d.mon strings from grassmods po files not localised at runtime

#1280

problem about the output of g.parser

#1284

'v.vol.rst --help' fails

#1287

Windows native installers TCL lacks .enc files for non-latin 1 encodings

#1295

Wx location wizard fails to create location if it's title contains non-latin letters

#1298

v.digit crashes dbf.exe on Windows when creating attribute table

#1299

Provide user-friendly error message when trying to edit vectors in Windows

#1300

WxGUI measure tool gives wrong results

#1301

wingrass: db.in.ogr fails to load .csv file

#1303

v.in.ogr leaves TMP file after import

#1308

wingrass - dbf.exe-crash

#1332

wingrass: during install generating font configuration file fails

#1335

g.region compilation fails with recent proj

#1336

wxgui crashes with wx 2.9.1.1

#1340

wxGUI uses improper .grassrc syntax and may cause .grassrc file corruption

Closed wishes since the last release

#983

sort g.mapsets -l output

#1016

v.info support for level 1 (patch)

#1104

rfe: easier to read wx map layer list

#1108

packaging osgeo4w-gdal18 in WinGrass-installer

#1171

wingrass: include a gpsbabel with XML support

#1201

wingrass, gdal, proj4

#1268

r.out.vtk does not work as desired for RGB images

#1271

osgeo4w patch update

Closed tasks since the last release

#1127

new nViz tcl messages are not indicated for gettext