GRASS GIS 7.8.4

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.8

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: XX Nov 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.4.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.4
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.4.tar.gz (md5sum)

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 26 Sep 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.4RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.4RC1
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.4RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)

Git Source Code

• Milestone: 7.8.4
• 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• Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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 wxGUI stability fixes, now wxPython 4.1 is supported.

GRASS GIS terminal prompt has now full support for Z shell (Zsh).

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The GRASS GIS 7.8.4 release provides more than ​280 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.3.

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New modules

• n/a

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• raster module memory management: enable gisrc variable to set new value globally (​PR:922)

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G78:d.rast.arrow: Fix negative drainage directions (​PR:777)
• G78:g.extension: fix module launch with compile '-i' or download '-d' flag (​PR:938)
• G78:g.gui.iclass: replace dist_point_to_segment() removed from matplotlib (​PR:645)
• G78:g.gui.timeline: improve missing package msg
• G78:g.proj: fix segfault when reading proj info from georef file (​PR:599)
• G78:g.search.modules: without keywords, list all modules (​PR:989)
• G78:i.pansharpen: fix encode string (​PR:745)
• G78:r.category: G_debug added in parsing section
• G78:r.category: more specific parse error message
• G78:r.cost (​PR:846)
• G78:r.geomorphon: Spell "flatness" correctly (​PR:982)
• G78:r.grow.distance: update module description with value raster (​PR:983)
• G78:r.import: do not reproject when projection matches (bug #547) (​PR:659)
• G78:r.in.wms BaseCapabilitiesTree: fix init ElementTree class (cap file/cap file str arg) (​PR:651)
• G78:r.in.wms.py: improve user msg (​PR:616)
• G78:r.in.wms.py message improvement (​PR:613)
• G78:r.out.gdal: fix building overviews
• G78:r.plane manual: example improved (​PR:900)
• G78:r.region: add geometry keyword
• G78:r.univar: support large regions with more than 2 billion cells (​PR:672)
• G78:r.volume manual: example and screenshot added (​PR:903)
• G78:t.rast.out.vtk manual: fix example
• G78:v.cluster manual: added note about cluster IDs
• G78:v.import: Do not reproject if projections match (​PR:845)
• G78:v.info/v.proj: fix printing UTM zone (​PR:892) (​PR:977)
• G78:v.in.wfs: add options to set user and password (​PR:808)
• G78:v.in.wfs manual: fix example (​PR:809)
• G78:v.kernel: fix inconsistent msg (​PR:825)
• G78:v.net manual: link to Vector Network Analysis Tool
• G78:v.surf.bspline: fix method selection (​PR:727)
• G78:v.to.db: Add --overwrite to help and GUI (​PR:807)

GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• Startup: Avoid a race condition (​PR:548)
• backport changes for wx4.1.0 #570
• images2gif: PILLOW_VERSION is obsolete (​PR:899)
• G78:wxGUI Add web service layer: Fix dialog layout (​PR:627)
• G78:wxGUI AddWSDialog: fix 'Access window out of range in RasterIO()' error (​PR:693)
• G78:wxGUI AddWSDialog: fix render WMTS layer with OGC:CRS84 coor system (​PR:674)
• G78:wxGUI AddWSDialog: fix setting output layer name, after selecting another layer (​PR:667)
• G78:wxGUI AddWSDialog RenderWMSMgr: fix render WMS jpeg source format (​PR:640)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: add export output animation file validation, before export file (​PR:839)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix export (run as background thread) output animation file to avi format (​PR:840)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix 'RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration' (​PR:908)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix validation of extension of exported file (​PR:907)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix wxPyDeprecationWarning (​PR:854)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: fix wxPyDeprecationWarning (​PR:910)
• G78:wxGUI/animation: set default export file type choice option (​PR:838)
• G78:wxGUI: avoid flush clipboard if not opened (​PR:819)
• G78:wxGUI/composer: use integers instead of wx id, which can't be pickled and cause error (​PR:641)
• G78:wxGUI/datacatalog: fix display 3D raster (​PR:889)
• G78:wxGUI/datacatalog: Fix error after right click on grass database tree item (​PR:736)
• G78:wxGUI/datacatalog: Fix layout flag in reprojection dialog for wx 4.1.0 (​PR:806)
• G78:wxGUI dbmgr: Fix dbmgr widgets layout on the wxMSW (​PR:637)
• G78:wxGUI d.histogram: Set default font (​PR:695)
• G78:wxGUI d.mon: Fix launch light-weight wx monitor without toolbars and statusbar (​PR:678)
• G78:wxGUI, d.rast.edit: remove 'wxversion' module (​PR:713)
• G78:wxGUI: fix atexit error in debug mode when exiting GUI (​PR:772)
• G78:wxGUI: fix bad indentation (​PR:784)
• G78:wxGUI: fixes incomplete map display when opening from gxw workspace (​PR:500)
• G78:wxGUI: fix g.gui.vdigit on windows #530 (​PR:572)
• G78:wxGUI: fix inconsistent layer sizes during rendering (​PR:552)
• G78:wxGUI: fix layout flags for wx 4.1.0
• G78:wxGUI: Fix layout flags in vector field statistics dialog for wx 4.1.0 (​PR:821)
• G78:wxGUI: fix RunCommand to decode also empty string to return unicode (​PR:702)
• G78:wxGUI: fix wx4.1 support for About GRASS GIS dialog (​PR:901)
• G78:wxGUI/gcp: adding the option/show overwrite confirm dialog to overwrite the result map (​PR:912)
• G78:wxGUI gcp: fix adding vector map to group when no vector maps exist (​PR:685)
• G78:wxGUI gcp: fix checking vector map existence in the group (​PR:680)
• G78:wxGUI/gcp: fix launch add vector map to group dialog (​PR:924)
• G78:wxGUI g.gui.animation: fix wx.CheckBox widget deprecation warning (​PR:718)
• G78:wxGUI g.gui.rlisetup: fix get rectangle sample units size (​PR:633)
• G78:wxGUI GroupDialog: fix StaticText widget existence check (​PR:647)
• G78:wxGUI lmgr: fix cancel save workspace dialog (​PR:628)
• G78:wxGUI lmgr: Fix position of layer image button overlaid map layer name (​PR:669)
• G78:wxGUI lmgr: fix remove both selected parent/children group layer (​PR:642)
• G78:wxGUI/lmgr: fix return 'Layer' class str value if map layer name is None (​PR:820)
• G78:wxGUI location wizard: fix title layout, bug introduced in changes for wxPython 4.1 (​PR:661)
• G78:wxGUI locdownload: fix missing flush method (​PR:634)
• G78:wxGUI: macOS use default output font dialog (​PR:760)
• G78:wxGUI/mapdisp: fix double click on the overlays in the 3D view (​PR:872)
• G78:wxGUI/mapswipe: call dialog Uninit only when dialog was actually created, fix for #833 (​PR:836)
• G78:wxGUI/mapswipe: fix wx.CheckListBox widget wxPyDeprecationWarning (​PR:773)
• G78:wxGUI/mapwin: fix saving the position of overlays after changing their position with the mouse pointer tool (​PR:817)
• G78:wxGUI mapwin: fix show/hide vdigit toolbar (​PR:578)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: fix failed map centring on mac with pre-wx4.1 (​PR:895)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: fix relative import from 'wxnviz' module (​PR:887)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: fix reopening 3D by reloading layers (​PR:953)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: fix update list of surface in vector page during delete constant surface (​PR:881)
• G78:wxGUI/nviz: SetMaskColour causes problems on macos with wx 4.1.0 (​PR:787)
• G78:wxGUI rdigit: fix quitting behavior when no map edited (​PR:594)
• G78:wxGUI rdigit: update list of available raster map layers, when map layers tree changed (​PR:707)
• G78:wxGUI rendering: when deleting layer check if .legrow file exists (​PR:691)
• G78:wxGUI r.li.setup: Show message dialog if removed config file isn't selected from the list (​PR:631)
• G78:wxGUI/startup: fix terminate location download dialog download thread (​PR:832) (​PR:873)
• G78:wxGUI tplot: fix an error when exporting csv file from g.gui.tplot (​PR:690)
• G78:wxGUI: update wx4.1.0 support for FlatNotebook (​PR:856)
• G78:wxGUI vdigit: fix Undo/Redo tool when no map edited (​PR:586)
• G78:wxGUI vdigit: fix wx.CheckBox widget deprecation warning (​PR:700)
• G78:wxGUI vdigit: update list of available vector map layers, when map layers tree changed (launch 'd.vect map=mapname' from the wxGUI Console page) (​PR:708)
• G78:wxGUI vnet: fix ctypes c_char_p arg type (bytes object) (​PR:687)
• G78:wxGUI WSPropertiesDialog: fix applying ws panel widgets updates, after panel is the shown (​PR:665)
• G78:wxGUI WSPropertiesDialog: fix closing dialog (​PR:684)
• G78:wxGUI WSPropertiesDialog: Fix showing selected layer in wms layer tree (​PR:666)
• G78:wxGUI WSPropertiesDialog: fix updating ws map layer if map layer changed (​PR:668)
• G78:wxGUI/wxpyimgview: Fix wxpyimgview for Python3/wxPython4 (​PR:735)

Python scripting

• libpython: fix Iterable import in pygrass/vector (​PR:734)
• libpython: mapcalc_start fix encode string (​PR:738)

Projection support

• fix proj 6+ support for share/proj/epsg (​PR:183)
• datum.table: add RGFG95 (​PR:813)

GDAL support

• ...

Database support

• ...

Library changes

• init: ensure zsh environment variable SAVEHIST is set (​PR:857)
• Add zsh terminal prompt support (​PR:722)
• lib/init: fix run py script with CRLF line terminators ('grass --exec file_with_CRLF.py') (​PR:860)
• libgis parser: an empty string is not an answer (​PR:958)
• color table percentage forest cover (​PR:894)
• Add national land cover dataset color table (​PR:518)

JSON / REST support

• n/a

Unit tests / CI

• Add ​GitHub Actions with build, test, and Python static code analysis (​PR:583)
• gunittest docs: fix broken links (​PR:934)
• gunittest: Non-zero return code on certian percetage of tests failing (​PR:377)
• CI: Use a specific Flake8 version (​PR:626)

User Manuals - Documentation

• various updates
• G78:helptext.html: improved wording (​PR:614)
• G78:g.version manual: explain "revision=exported"
• G78:i.pansharpen manual: updated North Carolina example
• G78:rasterintro manual: mention various raster stats modules
• G78:r.category manual: minor addition
• G78:r.carve manual: fix example for stream vector (​PR:968)
• G78:r.clump manual: screenshots added (​PR:902)
• G78:r.horizon manual: explain negative values (​PR:754)

Portability

• use ${CC} instead of "cc" for linking on macOS (​PR:611)
• macOS: modernize app bundle info (​PR:941)
• macos: update app icon for hi-res support (​PR:829)
• grass.spec: enable EPEL8
• env.bat.tmpl: Deal with blanks in OSGEO4W_ROOT (​PR:859)

Docker support

• alpine docker: install git before build (​PR:990)
• docker: fix GRASS lib path detection (​PR:883)
• docker: fix README.md names (​PR:984)
• singularityfile: fix GRASS lib path detection

Message Translations

• i18N: added new translations from Transifex (​https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass7/dashboard/)
• i18n: Translation update of Latvian language (​PR:876)

New Addons since GRASS 7.8.3

• TODO

Closed tickets

See ​GitHub.

Old trac tickets below.

Closed bugs since the last release

No results

Closed wishes since the last release

No results