GRASS GIS 7.0.5

New features in GRASS 7

Binaries: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x

Releases

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 27 Aug 2016
• Announcement: TODO
• Changelog: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.5RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​​http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70x
• Source code: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.5RC1.tar.gz (​md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.0.5RC1:

    svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20160827_grass_7_0_5RC1
  

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 7.0.5
• SVN Checkout latest 7.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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

A series of stability fixes, manual improvements and a few language translations have been added.

The GRASS GIS 7.0.5RC1 release provides more than 100 fixes and improvements with respect to GRASS GIS 7.0.4.

New modules

Major module changes

Minor module changes

• G70:g.region: fix uninitialized struct - fixes convergence angle, #1500
• G70:d.northarrow: fix multiplication of arrow in latlon regions, see #1242 and #1410
• i.eb.* + i.evapo.*: fix for MegaJoules per meter square per day
• G70:i.segment: fix manhattan distance
• G70:i.vi: writing of color table fixed
• G70:r.mapcalc: fix wrong result when neighborhood modifier takes a cell above first
• G70:v.category: fix Windows bug
• G70:i.vi: print msg which index is actually calculated; fix ARVI name; apply standard NDVI color table in case of viname=ndvi
• G70:d.barscale/northarrow: fix layout when using frame, see #3121
• G70:r.out.gdal: enhance compatibility WRT metadata
• G70:d.histogram: fix x axis labels for small numbers, see #2463
• G70:v.in.ogr Segmentation fault (fix #2868)
• G70:r.to.vect: delete output on error (see #2394)
• G70:v.in.ogr key flag does not change category values and you loose connection between features and attributes (fix #1494)

GUI changes

• wxgui: fix for profile surface map, bivariate scatter plot, histogram of raster map broken with wxPython 3.0.2 (#2558)
• wxGUI: fix font dialogs on Mac, see #3046
• wxGUI/nviz: when showing legend parameter at can have floats not just int
• wxGUI: catch also UnicodeDecodeError when reading current directory as GISDBASE
• G70:g.gui.gmodeler: substitute all occurrences of variable in command (bugfix)
• wxGUI: fix escape button to close dialogs and fix keyboard shortcuts on Mac, see #797
• wxGUI: solve #2558 and #3112 by distributing wx.lib.plot.py with GRASS
• wxGUI web_services: archived NASA OnEarth replaced with NASA GIBS WMTS
• G70:g.gui.gmodeler - not possible to remove data from model (trac #2947)
• wxGUI: escape single quotes when editing attributes from GUI, see #2252

PyGRASS changes

• python script: backported raster_what function to work with or without localized labels fixed #2912

Library changes

• Gtempfile() lacks perror support (fix #2278)

Map projection changes

• libgis: register NAD83/2011 datum (EPSG:6543)

Portability changes

• Patches to make the build reproducible (fileordering, randomness)

MS Windows

Manual pages

• G70:r.watershed: update manual
• G70:r.univar/G70:r3.univar manuals: examples improved
• G70:v.distance manual: explain units of dmin and dmax
• G70:r.import manual: SRTM V3 example added
• G70:r.import manual: fix WorldClim import example
• G70:i.atcorr manual, imageryintro: clarify TOAR part; cross links added; keywords added
• G70:r.in.gdal manual: add Worldclim import trick
• G70:r.mapcalc manual/rasterintro: explain precision differences
• G70:r.neighbors manual: fix average example (was wrongly in maximum)
• G70:r.statistics + r.stats.quantile + r.stats.zonal manual: extended
• G70:v.overlay: remove duplicated notes about olayer option from the manual, figure caption cosmetics

Message translation updates

• Spanish translation

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#590

wxGUI vector display forgets layer selection

#797

Cmd-C on Mac closes display

#909

FTBFS: r.mapcalc in trunk

#960

Some hotkeys disabled in 6.5 wxgui

#965

Location wizard: doesn't create MYNAME

#1242

vector fills and line widths not displaying in latlon regions

#1258

Trouble with external OGR sources and relative paths (v.external)

#1410

scalebar displays multiples north arrows

#1427

strange, low res display output behavior

#1442

GRASS 7: d.grid layout suboptimal

#1474

random color -c flag broken in d.vect

#1494

v.in.ogr key flag does not change category values and you loose connection between features and attributes

#1568

'make install' results in an installation dependent upon temporary build directories

#1574

WXGUI Launch script: "output already exists"

#1593

location wizard setting default extents broken

#1705

i.group segfaults on empty input

#1804

r.clump NULL handling

#1857

Correction help file r.colors

#1863

DBMI Protocol Error in v.extract

#1873

winGrass hangs when issuing exit command from the console if not GUI hasn't been closed first

#1876

pressing "save" on Digitization settings dialog raises error

#1909

remove deleted layer from layer tree

#1920

create IPython magic to launch GRASS wxGUI components Ipython qt console

#1921

create IPython magic to control from IPython Notebook

#1966

filesystem cruft from wingrass installer

#1988

towgs84 datum transform options not maintained with shapefile export

#2028

SetVirtualSizeHints is deprecated in wxWidgets 2.9

#2058

Example instructions in (grass/trunk) d.graphs' manual refer to d.frame

#2097

r.modis install using g.extension fails

#2099

G_OPT_M_COLR not recognized in Python script

#2115

wxgui renders disabled layers on map change

#2119

wxgui: attribute table manager fails with "Inconsistent number of columns in the table"

#2140

m.proj does not handle cs2cs failure

#2147

db.databases not working in GRASS 7

#2178

No polygon fill when using the png display driver

#2252

wxGUI vector digitizer passing unescaped text to database

#2272

Improve consistency in random generator usage

#2278

G__tempfile() lacks perror support

#2360

grass startup script and wx preference file: language setting in wx does not contain country specific language code

#2389

Error in Grass-gis 7.1. svn

#2398

grass.exec_command should add .exe where needed

#2406

wxview compilation error

#2438

Vect_get_line_type cannot handle line out of range

#2452

v.surf.rst option devi Windows problem

#2463

d.histogram x-axis numbering incorrect

#2469

Zoom to saved region in Map Display not working

#2480

v.class.ml: ImportError: No module named training_extraction

#2481

g.gui.iclass: cannot display analysis results because of "No graphics device selected"

#2506

g.rename fails to rename map when there is already map of the same name in PERMENENT

#2509

d.mon output overwrite

#2513

v.colors freezes using the pg driver and attr

#2514

G_OPT_C_BG and G_OPT_C_FG differ in support of color_none

#2540

[PATCH] Add options to r.out.gdal to suppress GRASS specific metadata items

#2586

Display of labels in raster query results window is limited to the first 60 characters

#2594

r.univar output error

#2605

d.rast.leg: invalid literal for float(): rectangle

#2623

GRASS won't start after creating addons

#2658

[PATCH] v.to.db compactness gives wrong results in feet location

#2659

replace function bug in t.rast.mapcalc.py

#2664

The r.watershed module documentation has the wrong value for cells that do not get included in a complete watershed.

#2683

grass 7 doesn't start in text mode on CentOS 7

#2710

vector digitizer: new vector layer is not checked in layer manager

#2730

wxGUI: wx.metadata/wx.mwprecip/etc: Unable to fetch interface description for command 'wx.metadata'

#2817

Adding multiple raster/vector maps is slow

#2848

g.gui.vdigit: snapping distance seems to only be defined in map units, not screen pixels

#2854

results in winGRASS7 32bit vs 64bit: should they be identical?

#2868

v.in.ogr Segmentation fault

#2893

Specify crs when exporting to GeoJSON

#2902

i.segment.hierarchical: Execution of subprocesses was not successful

#2912

raster_what() not compliant with localised version of GRASS

#2934

Documentation error in i.vi WRT to MSAVI parameters

#2947

g.gui.gmodeler - not possible to remove data from model

#2968

g.extension problem with module containing various python files: "ImportError: No module named"

#2981

r.watershed & blocking

#3012

g.region -p reporting correct projection, but unknown datum NAD83(2011) /North Carolina (USft)

#3030

v. generalize fails to generalize polygons in a random manner

#3036

Bug with location wizard on OSX (version 7, homebrew)

#3039

"Analyze map" not working with GRASS 7.0.4 (OSX - homebrew)

#3040

<m.nviz.script> - old manuals?

#3041

Grass Nviz crashes

#3042

Patches to make the build reproducible (fileordering, randomness)

#3045

OSX: command-C closes window instead of copying text

#3046

Cannot set display font

#3049

g.proj.html: remove link to g.setproj in GRASS 7

#3052

Watts to MegaJoules/Day conversion issue

#3067

r.mapcalc gives wrong result when neighborhood modifier takes a cell above first

#3070

Update link in r.param.scale

#3072

ddd

#3073

addons installl error

#3085

Batch import with import raster data tool does not recognize projection information

#3088

Patch to fix various spelling errors

#3089

exec_command fails if '.exe' not included in filename.

#3105

r.stats.zonal parameter description

#3108

db selection: integer overflow

#3112

wxgui scatterplot tool: C++ assertion "m_window" failed at ../src/gtk/dcclient.cpp(2043) in DoGetSize(): GetSize() doesn't work without window

#3133

v.what output is not valid JSON format

#3135

Pressing Run button in GUI dialogs open a new dialog

#3138

Patch to fix various spelling errors

#3144

i.segment.hierarchical: RuntimeError: Execution of subprocesses was not successful

#3147

d.wms entry in workspace file is not well formed

#3148

d.wms cannot move temp file with os.rename

#3163

Patch for spelling errors

#3165

v.out.ogr -c seg fault

#3167

db.connect: connection to remote database does not work

Closed wishes since the last release

#84

scritps for converting raster maps into GRASS 7 format, and back

#307

v.in.dxf: output name should be required

#386

Thematic grouping of grass modules in the command line

#742

v.coregister / v.align : A module to translate and rotate a point cloud to best match one another

#1209

v.random, restrict output

#1236

r.in.wms sleep parameter

#1376

Interactive spectral plot gui

#1377

wingrass7 hotkey Ctrl+V an have unexpected behaviour from windows user point of view

#1390

fully qualified name on g.mlist

#1703

wxGUI vector and raster querying

#1719

GRASS 7 Monitor command line support

#1732

r.colors feature request (add flag to copy categories without having to run r.category separately)

#1923

add "area" to head in r.report

#1980

Multiple time stamp support for raster and 3D raster maps

#1984

i.pca should accept also group names as input (like r.out.gdal)

#2045

r.to.vect: use less memory

#2143

d.legend: add option to output legend definition as text

#2148

wxGUI modeler: allow to name elements in the model schema

#2208

r.in.gdal/v.in.ogr: reprojection at import

#2952

g.gui.gmodeler - global overwriting option is not respected

#3060

Create location from command line using "r.in.gdal" and similar

Closed tasks since the last release

#1107

r.terraflow: consistent type for D8CUT

#1446

add --with-opencl support to ./configure

#2196

g.manual on Windows opens extra file explorer window

#2657

pygrass: remove RasterNumpy references