GRASS GIS 7.8.3

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.8

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: DD MMM 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.3.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.3
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.3.tar.gz (md5sum)

Release Candidate 2 (RC2)

• Release date: 1 May 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.3RC2.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.3RC2
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.3RC2.tar.gz (md5sum)

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 26 Apr 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.3RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.3RC1
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.3RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)

Git Source Code

• Milestone: 7.8.3
• Release branch created on 4 Aug 2019 (GH d4879d4)
• Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    git clone https://github.com/OSGeo/grass.git
    cd grass
    git checkout releasebranch_7_8
  

Overview of changes

The focus of this release are stability fixes.

Important stability fixes across the tree related to Python 3.

The GRASS GIS 7.8.3 release provides more than ​206 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.2.

A number of Mac-specific, more or less critical bugs have been fixed. The perhaps more notable improvement is the now working vector digitizer (G78:g.gui.vdigit).

New modules

• n/a

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G78:i.vi: write out FCELL instead of DCELL (​PR:236)

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• grass startup script: refactoring
• G78:g.extension: less confusing metadata warning
• G78:r.import: Use temp region for resolution=value (​PR:197)
• G78:v.in.ogr: fix usage of OGR_G_HasCurveGeometry()
• G78:v.to.rast: fix WHERE selection
• Add ​CONTRIBUTING file with a standard contributor Git how-to (​PR:237)

Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• wxGUI: ...

Python scripting

• stability fixes regarding the Python 3 support
• replace obsolete time.clock() in Python 3.3 (​PR:244)

Projection support

• ...

GDAL support

• ...

Database support

• ...

Library changes

• Vectlib: fix usage of vector cats in constraint (​PR:262)

JSON / REST support

• ...

Unit tests / CI

• ...

User Manuals - Documentation

• manual: put module name at first position (​PR:248)
• Cleanup of multiple manual pages
• G78:m.measure manual: mention square feet
• full index manual: add missing pages (​PR:258)

Portability

• OSGeo4W: ...
• Mac: Ctypes related compilation failure fix #3883
• Mac: Vector digitizer crash fix #3487
• Mac: G78:g.gui.iclass crash fix #3472
• Mac: Removing map layer from button in layer manager crashes GUI #3607
• Mac: Copy-to-clipboard key binding (make CMD+C copy, not clear panel) #3008 and #3592
• Mac: G78:v.in.pdal compilation failure fix (​PR:475)
• Do not install config.status (​PR:263)
• Sort file lists in doc and tr stats (​PR:247)

Docker support

• Updates to Alpine docker files: use proj 6.2.1 in Alpine Dockerfile (​PR:255)
• Alpine docker image: added subversion package for g.extension (​PR:261)
• docker: image with Ubuntu 19:10 (​PR:260)

Message Translations

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

New Addons since GRASS 7.8.2

• TODO

Closed tickets

See ​GitHub.

Old trac tickets below.

Closed bugs since the last release

#3009

"Quit GRASS GIS" button only exits GUI

#3487

vector digitizer unstable

#3502

v.proj location not set in dialog

#3558

wx.metadata: several issues in syntax

#3607

Removing map layer crashes wxGUI

#3652

Map display exception when switching to vector digitizer mode

#3677

v.surf.idw does not respect mask

#3691

addon r.connectivity.distance not working

#3740

The "Quit GRASS GIS" button does not close the GRASS shell/session

#3800

g.gui.gcp Wizard fails

#3818

Bug in modules.xml (double man1 in path)

#3838

r74307 breaks GUI: UnicodeDecodeError

#3874

Encode error in g.extension, add-ons not written in GUI

#3880

update/drop revision check after git switch

#3883

GRASS master does not compile with Python 3 on Mac

#3901

Addons missing in Makefile

#3927

r.external vs r.in.gdal under Windows

#3991

m.measure: mention square feet

#4001

grass78 --config broken

#4004

"Add web service layer" broken with Python3

#4018

GRASS ctypes fail with Python 3.7.6+

#4019

g.gui.iclass: Unable to import packages needed for scatter plot

#4021

r.import/v.import: confusing error message "ERROR: proj"

Closed wishes since the last release

#572

Remember recent GIS Data Directory

#1421

scalability of r.terraflow

#3827

Activate Python 3 tests on the inofficial testing site (fatra)

#3964

Update browser list to check for chrome

#3993

v.import: document snap=-1