GRASS GIS 7.6.2

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.6

Releases

Stable Release

• TBD

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: DD MMM 2019
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/ChangeLog_7.6.2RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g76x
• Source code: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/grass-7.6.2RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)
• SVN Source Code Checkout 7.6.2RC1:

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_2019XXXX_grass_7_6_1RC2
  

SVN Source Code

• Milestone: 7.6.2
• Release branch created in r73210
• SVN Checkout latest 7.6 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_6
  

Overview of changes

A series of new features and stability fixes, manual improvements, and a few language translations have been added. Importantly, the new version is backward compatible with older 7.x releases.

The GRASS GIS 7.6.2 release provides more than XX fixes and improvements with respect to the stable release 7.6.1.

Important change: The default raster compression has been changed back to ZLIB, even if ZSTD compression is available, because not all currently supported systems provide ZSTD with standard package management tools, and because problems were encountered regarding compatibility with different ZSTD 1.3.x versions.

New modules

• n/a

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G76:v.external: enable GRASS-internal PostGIS driver again

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G76:r.buildvrt: manual cosmetics
• G76:r.compress: print which compression method is actually applied; update documentation with regard to ZSTD as default compression if available, see #3758
• G76:r.kappa: Pass correct map@mapset combo to the r.stats call
• G76:v.in.ogr: set spatial filter to correct geometry field if geometry option is given
• G76:v.out.lidar: print names of column/table in error messages

Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• n/a

Python scripting

• n/a

Projection support

• configure: nad2bin check no longer needed; (user custom) grids are used via PROJ

Library changes

• Important change: The default raster compression has been changed back to ZLIB, even if ZSTD compression is available, because not all currently supported systems provide ZSTD with standard package management tools, and because problems were encountered regarding compatibility with different ZSTD 1.3.x versions.

Unit tests

• ...

User Manuals - Documentation

• G76:r.compress manual: ZLIB is no longer the default compression method (ZSTD is the default), updated reverted

Portability

• ...

Docker support

• updated docker image available at ​https://hub.docker.com/r/mundialis/grass-gis-stable/

Message Translations

• i18N: translations updated (XXXXXX TODO) from Transifex (​https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass7/dashboard/)

New Addons since GRASS 7.6.1

• G7A:...

Closed tickets

Closed bugs since the last release

#2040

g.mapset does not create WIND file if new mapset is created in other location

#2141

Linking or importing raster with non-ascii characters in filename fails in wxGUI with UnicodeEncodeError

#2348

r.stream.order Error finding nodes.

#2548

map display 3d view: error to display vector point

#2742

r.fill.dir crash with larger dataset

#3235

Vect_cidx_find_all should not allow mixing GV_AREA with other geometries

#3326

using g.mapset to create new mapset in another location fails

#3409

d.what.vect JSON issue with OSM data

#3513

WinGRASS 7.5 installation error: missing ZSTD

#3592

cmd-c (copy on Mac) closes dialog in r.import

#3820

Error i.pansharpen in grass76 relbranch

#3846

r.contour started producing broken/segmented contour lines since 7.4

#3852

PyGRASS GridModule silently ignores when module has no output defined

#3854

r.stream.extract does not support fully qualified map names

#3856

implement svn keyword substitution

Closed wishes since the last release

#1910

GIS manager: allow dataset managing directly

#2268

t.list.rast where sensitivity

#2526

extend r.slope.aspect to compute the values at the edges

#3139

v.in.ogr UI flaws

#3375

t.rast.univar: add info on number of non-null cells

#3528

v.random restrict join attributes

#3697

sqlite db: automatically enable vacuum

#3713

add powershell shell support to grass74.py