GRASS GIS 6.4.4 Release Candidate 1

Release

• Release date: 14 June 2014
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.4RC1.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_20140614_grass_6_4_4RC1
• SVN Checkout 6.4.4RC1:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20140614_grass_6_4_4RC1
  

• 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 6.4.4RC1 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 the 6.4.0 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 6.4.4RC1 more than 340 updates have been applied.

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 rasters

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)

• 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

(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

See also ​statistics

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