GRASS GIS 7.4.1

DRAFT ONLY!

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.4

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: XX May 2018
• Announcement: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/71/15/GRASS-GIS-7-4-1-released/
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/ChangeLog_7.4.1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g74x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/grass-7.4.1.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.4.1:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_201805XX_grass_7_4_1
  

Release Candidate 2 (RC2)

• Release date: XX Apr 2018
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/ChangeLog_7.4.1RC2.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g74x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/grass-7.4.1RC2.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.4.1RC2:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_201804XX_grass_7_4_1RC2
  

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: XX Apr 2018
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/ChangeLog_7.4.1RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g74x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass74/source/grass-7.4.1RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.4.1RC1:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_201804XX_grass_7_4_1RC1
  

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 7.4.1
• SVN Checkout latest 7.4 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_4
  

Overview of changes

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

The GRASS GIS 7.4.1 release provides more than XXX fixes and improvements with respect to the stable release 7.4.0.

New modules

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G7:i.atcorr: sync to trunk (updated spectral curves for various satellites; fix band order for Worldview2; addition of Sentinel-2B, improvement of numerical stability

Minor module changes

• raster and vector export (r.out.gdal, r.external.out, v.out.ogr, v.external.out) now includes a CRS EPSG code if available

(see also below for closed bugs)

Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• Graphical Modeler: print computational time elapsed

• Graphical Modeler: delete intermediate data when computation finished

• Graphical Modeler: mark data to be displayed

Scripting

Projection support

Library changes

User Manuals - Documentation

Message Translations

New Addons since GRASS 7.4.0

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#2790

Output of t.rast.list with method=comma and columns=name does not differ from output with columns=id

#3059

r.external.out does not write CRS information

#3151

raster digitizer crashes GUI in trunk

#3223

r.info displays wrong timestamp after t.rast.series with a where clause

#3332

v.proj - Error in pj_do_transform

#3344

r.stream.slope Segmentation fault: 11 error

#3450

7.4.0 new modules missing in GUI menus

#3469

i.atcorr: Sentinel-2 support broken on some systems

#3484

Patch to fix spelling errors

#3488

v.in.ogr mangeling of column names when imporing OSM geojson extracts

#3492

r.texture overwrites without --o flag and without any warning when map exists

#3493

Compilation error with python 2.6

#3496

v.in.pdal: does not compile with PDAL 1.6.0

#3505

Opening a workspace file

#3514

Read EPSG codes with PROJ v.5 fails

#3536

python library db_table_in_vector function

#3542

cannot set default font in preferences

#3546

t.rast.what: issues in one_point_per_col_output()

#3557

Patch to fix spelling errors

#3567

v.select: doubtful result with the default overlap operator selecting areas with lines

Closed wishes since the last release

#789

g.region option to expand the computational region of about "some" pixels?

#1878

Metric distance option for v.distance in latlon regions

#2122

v.to.db: new variables to add

#2183

v.centerpoint: category values in ascii output should include original cat values

#2234

wxGUI d.mon and g.gui monitor rendering is slow

#2368

Python version of r.grow does not support shrinking

#2417

r.profile should report distance in location units

#2896

Allow installation of specific versions of GRASS addons

#3416

t.list: add mapset option as in g.list

#3482

i.atcorr: Add Sentinel-2B

#3511

[patch] v.buffer: allow squared buffers around points