GRASS GIS 7.0.1 Release Candidate

What's new in a nutshell

TODO

Releases

Release Candidate 1 (RC1):

• Release date: DD MONTH 2015
• Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
• Changelog: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.1RC1.gz
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.1RC1.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.1RC1:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2015MMDD_grass_7_0_1RC1
  

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 7.0.1
• SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0
  

Overview of changes

Major module changes

Minor module changes

GUI changes

• g.mapsets: dialog must be destroyed, app.MainLoop seems not necessary here

Library changes

• PyGRASS: fix exception check, remove unused or duplicated code
• PyGRASS: removed references to RasterNumpy
• PyGRASS: add VARCHAR column support on Table
• PyGRASS: fix undefined limits in the Parameter class
• dbmilib: fix db_copy_table() - overwrite existing table

Map projection changes

Portability changes

• Rename _n macro to n_ to avoid clashes with other libs

Manual pages

• wxGUI vdigit manual: expanded
• r.relief manual: added Exporting shaded relief maps to GeoTIFF
• g.mapsets manual: screenshot added for g.mapsets GUI; text improvements; HTML cosmetics

Message translation updates

• Many languages updated with many new translations (​see stats)

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#1819

problems compiling map swipe, animation, modeler, and r.li.setup

#2577

d.info: entire screen version frame

#2597

v.surf.bspline fails on windows

#2602

GUI preferences dialog fails to open

#2603

grass 7 startup problem

#2614

wxgui Output save fails with UnicodeEncodeError

#2616

grass.script.array cannot write raster

#2619

v.in.gps compile error

#2621

r.random.cells should use NULL instead of 0

#2624

r.horizon problem in Windows (horizon_zud)

#2630

startup screen i18n

#2634

'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 8: invalid start byte

#2642

Profile surface map not working

#2648

v.concave.hull fails with small number of points

#2661

sqlbuilder: verify button

#2662

v.in.proj crashes on Windows (v.in.ogr problem)

#2682

Gtk critical message starting grass

#2686

r.hazard.flood error output

#2689

handling nulls warning on Windows

#2695

Error loading extension. File is not zip file

#2703

'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)

#2704

Various typo fixes

#2707

pygrass ignores option rules

#2723

error when running v.krige

#2724

gdal-grass: Wrong return type in ogrgrass.h

#2802

Examples in r.reclass.area not updated

Closed wishes since the last release

#665

enable copying from statusbar

#2437

order parameters in g.remove window

#2690

PEP8 like code styling for the i.tasscap.py script

#2786

grass-7.0.1: libraries built and installed with no SONAME

Closed tasks since the last release

#2337

t.list hangs on newly created temporal DB