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GRASS GIS 6.4.4

Release

Release date: 25 June 2014
Source code: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.4.tar.gz (md5sum)
Binaries: http://grass.osgeo.org/download/

SVN Source Code

Milestone: 6.4.4
Browse Source: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20140625_grass_6_4_4

SVN Checkout 6.4.4:

  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20140625_grass_6_4_4

SVN Checkout latest 6.4 release branch (including unreleased bugfixes):

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

Overview of changes

Key improvements of the GRASS GIS 6.4.4 release include a complete rewrite of the r.li suite, major fixes for buffers (v.buffer, now based on GEOS library), major speedup for some vector modules (v.rast.stats and v.in.gpsbabel), various fixes for the wxPython based portable graphical interface (wxNVIZ, Location Wizard or Cartographic Composer), enabled Cairo dependency for MS-Windows, and more message translations.

Since its initial release in September 2010 more than 2400 source code modifications have been made to the 6.4 release branch. Between 6.4.3 and the current 6.4.4 more than 340 updates have been applied.

Full details of all changes can be viewed in the ChangeLog since 6.4.3.

New modules

none

Major module changes

r.li suite: backport of complete rewrite from GRASS GIS 7
v.buffer: fixed (now requires the GEOS library)
v.voronoi: backport fixes for bug tickets #957, #1682, #2019

Minor module changes

d.correlate: Added option to draw a trend line and calculate linear regression formula
d.profile: close file once done with it (#1323), quote path
d.shadedmap: Added option to save draped image to a new raster map
g.extension.py: fixes for bug ticket #2138
g.extension.py: modify bat files similarly to bash scripts, use GRASS_ADDON_PATH instead of hardcoded path
g.mkfontcap: Also scan for locally installed fonts on Linux systems
g.mlist, g.mremove: examples improved
g.setproj: Added option to print and reset the Location's one-line description
i.his.rgb: Added support for NULL cells
i.landsat.toar: fixes for Landsat-8 metadata file support (author: E. Jorge Tizado)
i.rgb.his: Added support for NULL cells
r.contour: write attributes in one commit (speed-up)
r.horizon: added sanity check for dist parameter
r.li.setup: fix creation of configuration file using circle
r.out.gdal: close raster band
r.out.xyz: Added support for multiple file export
r.ros: do not double close spotdist map (fixes crash)
r.watershed: standardize basin parameter description
v.colors: Added option to name placeholder map containing data for creating a legend
v.colors: add v.colors placeholder raster map naming option (#1693)
v.external: remove formats from module description (#2159), backport -f flag
v.in.dxf: fixed possible infinite loop
v.in.gpsbabel: Major speedup, better support for MS Windows (spaces in paths)
v.patch: create index for table (speed-up)
v.rast.stats: use DB TRANSACTION (speed-up)
v.to.db: fix perimeter
v.transform: Added option to swap x for y coordinates
v.vol.rst: finally fixed mask issue

Many more; see the detailed ChangeLog

GUI changes

wxGUI: check for invalid map size
wxGUI: fix for not closing of attribute dialog
wxGUI: show GRASS version in Layer Manager and Map Display frame title
wxGUI/d.histogram: fix export histogram on Windows
wxGUI/location wizard: fixes for wxPython 3
wxGUI/psmap: update PIL import for pillow
wxGUI: more GUI sections for various dialogs
wxNviz: point size and height are float (fix #2072)
wxNviz: fix displaying 3d points on surface and with z coordinate
wxNviz: fix error when switching to 3D second time for 3d raster maps

Library changes

Vlib: fix linkm usage (fixes spurious segfaults in special cases)
libgis: backport fix FPE error tolerance for plotting
diglib: fix support for BIG ENDIAN
ogsf: change field size to prevent crash, see #1736
libgis: Protect against fatal error handlers calling G_fatal_error() (#1073)

Map projection changes

none

Portability changes

(MS-Windows)

fix msvcrt path (32bit)
unix2dos on bat files
Major clean up of standalone installer
Cairo dependency enabled
Better handle spaces in GISDBASE (#1683)
Installer - copy DLL files to extrabin, remove extralib
Fix msvcrt path (32bit)

(Mac OSX)

Compilation fixes in build scripts

(IBM AIX)

Compilation fixes

(All)

Support for newer svnversion output string (#587)
Also search for locally installed fonts
Don't encourage bashism
Update config.guess/config.sub

Message translation updates

French updated
Latvian translation added
Italian updated
Korean updated
Portuguese updated
Greek updated

Documentation

RFCs (rfc/) moved to Trac: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/RFC

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#86: d.rast.edit.tcl: doesn't start from wxPython without aspect map
#383: change fprintf to G_debug in do_proj.c
#390: r.viewshed precision bug
#413: doxygen comments in get_row.c are wrong?
#560: WinGRASS not deleting temp ppm files from map display
#576: i.pca fails to center data prior to analysis
#675: r.proj's "use different location" error while working in different dbases
#718: r.li forgets mask/illegal filename
#721: r.li.setup: don't modify the WIND file
#747: v.rast.stats to table connected to layer 2 fails
#776: wxvdigit not functional with 3D vector maps
#807: r.watershed doesnt consider longer distance to diagonal neighbouring pixels
#957: v.voronoi has extra lines in output
#1073: G_fatal_error segfault outside of GRASS session
#1114: Thematic map layer problem
#1214: r.li.edgedensity: segmentation fault
#1321: DebCheck QA: Passing value -1 to sqrt() leads to undefined result
#1328: v.in.ogr: bogus table connection created when input Shapefile has spaces in it's name
#1358: WinGRASS 6.4.1: SQLite driver errors: `Unable to open database'
#1413: r.to.vect overwrite problem
#1430: Buffer overrun in vector/diglib dig__fread_port_L with big-endian negative values on LP64 systems
#1451: r.li.mps (mean patch size): SIGPIPE at ipc.c:31
#1452: wx location wizard doesn't ask for datum transform options because proj4 4.7.1's epsg file is broken
#1555: python-scripts in wingrass64svn
#1644: OS X: Files are installed outside of --prefix
#1682: incorrect output from v.voronoi
#1716: Bulk import from multilayer geotiff adds wrong map names to layer tree
#1736: wxNVIZ volume display crashes Mac
#1747: v.rast.stats on dbf shapefile not enough precision even with DOUBLE PRECISION
#1768: wingrass6.x: python addon scripts aren't working
#1797: r.li.padcv broken
#1865: WinGrass v.buffer memory issue
#1963: wxGUI command console: "ls -" causes a traceback error
#1975: v.overlay.and gets "stuck"
#2012: d.vect wx module GUI forgets column names
#2016: v.surf.idw: very incorrect results
#2019: v.voronoi Segmentation fault
#2023: r.li.edgedensity
#2024: r.li.setup generates incomplete r.li conf file
#2031: G_legal_filename() cleanup patch for GRASS 6
#2036: Failed watershed analysis on Grass
#2047: GRASS doesn't build on FreeBSD
#2054: d.barscale module gui doesn't start from the command line
#2063: Memory leak in Rast_read_color_rules() ?
#2068: Saving the display as an image in wxGUI fails
#2085: diglib build failure on IBM s390x and ppc64
#2087: grass64 man page: missing words
#2093: --interface-description option broken for some commands
#2116: r.kappa: call to r.stats fails if spaces in path
#2138: winGRASS6.4.svn - addon python script status?
#2144: winGRASS6.4.svn - GUI problems with postgres as database backend
#2159: v.external gui exceeds the border of the screen
#2161: "About GRASS GIS" - invalid column index
#2162: can't close vector map query results window
#2167: Support for wxWidgets/wxPython 3.0
#2179: r.li.shannon - r.li.pielou
#2180: r.li.shannon - r.li.pielou
#2186: missing ) in ./lib/ogsf/gsd_legend.c
#2245: Run properly v.clean in v.mkhexgrid
#2276: r.covar: output N (number of cells considered)
#2335: Unable to locate GDAL library (installed on the system)

Closed wishes since the last release

#722: r.li.daemon: respect for WORKERS enviro var
#1103: WinGrass64 - windows-commandline not released
#1467: include/gis.h hard-coding version a the SVN revision level
#1693: v.colors placeholder raster map naming option
#1717: layer remove does not work on multiple selections
#1925: Inherited Verbosity level for grass array .write()
#1965: wingrass wx carto composer: please add grid and geogrid
#2207: provide downloadable tar balls of html man pages
#2222: Typo in v.overlay HTML description

Closed tasks since the last release

#88: opt->guisection and opt->label for a better GUI world
#2002: The ordinal 32 could not be located in the dynamic link library proj.dll

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