Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Release/6.4.5-News

Timestamp:

07/12/15 08:30:33 (9 years ago)

Author:

neteler

Comment:

GRASS GIS 6.4.5 released

Release/6.4.5-News

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+= GRASS GIS 6.4.5 =
+
+[[TOC]]
+
+=== Release ===
+
+ * Release date: 12 July 2015
+ * Source code: http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.5.tar.gz ([http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.5.md5sum md5sum])
+ * Binaries: http://grass.osgeo.org/download/
+
+=== SVN Source Code ===
+
+ * Milestone: [milestone:"6.4.5"]
+ * Browse Source: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/tags/release_20150712_grass_6_4_5
+ * SVN Checkout 6.4.5:
+{{{
+  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20150712_grass_6_4_5
+}}}
+ * SVN Checkout latest 6.4 release branch (including yet unreleased bugfixes):
+{{{ 
+  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4
+}}}
+
+=== Overview of changes ===
+
+'''Key improvements''' of the GRASS GIS 6.4.5 release include stability fixes (esp. vector library), some fixes for wxPython3 support, some module fixes, and more message translations.
+
+Since its [http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass640.html initial release] in September 2010 more than ''2500'' source code modifications have been made to the 6.4 release branch.
+Between [wiki:Release/6.4.4-News 6.4.4] and the current 6.4.5 about ''90'' updates have been applied.
+
+Full details of all changes can be viewed in the [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/ChangeLog_6.4.5.gz ChangeLog].
+
+==== New modules ====
+
+ * ''none''
+
+==== Major module changes ====
+
+ * v.mkgrid: optionally generate lines instead of areas (new -l flag); precision fixes (more vertices)
+ * v.rast.stats: fix wrong SQL TRANSACTION implementation for DBF driver
+ * r.carve: Add points closest to the center of each stream grid rather than adding each vertex multiple times at the same location
+
+==== Minor module changes ====
+
+ * d.vect.chart: bugfixes
+ * i.smap: larger default block size for speed
+ * r.li.edgedensity: fix edge count
+ * v.distance: adding geodesic point to boundary distance measurement for lat-long locations
+ * v.in.ogr: OFTStringList is supported column type
+ * v.univar: remove duplicate layer option
+
+ * Many more; see the detailed [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/ChangeLog_6.4.5.gz ChangeLog]
+
+==== Command line changes ====
+
+ * batch job: do not show welcome message and require 'hit return' when running a batch job
+
+==== GUI changes ====
+
+ * wxGUI: wxpython 3 compatibility patches from Debian project applied + some more
+ * wxGUI: added v.vect.stats to menu
+ * wxGUI: fix v.surf.rst window too wide
+
+==== Library changes ====
+
+ * dblib: no more db driver zombies in wingrass
+ * dglib: fix sp cache initialization
+ * libvector: numerical stability fixes for topology; fix reattaching centroids and isles; fix memory leak
+
+Colors:
+ * elevation: elevation color table: brighten up high values
+
+==== Portability changes ====
+
+(MS-Windows)
+
+ * enabled r.li modules
+
+(Mac OSX)
+
+ * n/a
+
+(All)
+
+ * n/a
+
+==== Message translation updates ====
+
+ * user message harmonization update (to reduce number of similar but slightly different messages)
+ * Chinese updated
+ * French updated
+ * German updated
+ * Italian updated 
+ * Spanish updated
+
+See also [http://grass.osgeo.org/development/translations/#statistics statistics]
+
+==== Documentation ====
+ 
+ * RFCs (rfc/) moved to Trac: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/RFC
+ * r.walk manual updated
+
+=== Closed tickets ===
+
+==== Closed bugs since the last release ====
+
+[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=6.4.5&type=defect&order=priority)]]
+
+==== Closed wishes since the last release ====
+
+[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=6.4.5&type=enhancement&order=priority)]]
+
+==== Closed tasks since the last release ====
+
+[[TicketQuery(status=closed&milestone=6.4.5&type=task&order=priority)]]