GRASS GIS 7.8.5

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 7.8

Releases

Stable Release

• Release date: 21 Dec 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.5.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.5
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.5.tar.gz (md5sum)

Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: 6 Dec 2020
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/ChangeLog_7.8.5RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g78x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.5RC1
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.5RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)

Git Source Code

• Milestone: ​7.8.5
• 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• Git clone of latest 7.8 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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. It fixes startup issues in the graphical user interface with recent Python 3 versions. Furthermore, the addon extension manager received several updates. Further stability fixes, documentation improvements and updated message translations are included.

The GRASS GIS 7.8.5 release provides more than ​80 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.4.

New modules

• n/a

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G78:g.extension: add branch option (​PR:1130)
• G78:g.extension: add '-j' flag which generates JSON file containing the download URLs of the official Addons (​PR:1009)
• G78:g.extension: fix get add-on module name on Win platform (​PR:1143)
• G78:r.geomorphon: Fix shape calculations (​PR:1040)
• G78:r.pack/r.unpack: fix pack and unpack VRT raster map with tiled raster maps (​PR:1074)
• G78:v.random: Fix segfault (​PR:1025)

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G78:d.correlate: fix for Python 3 (​PR:1149)
• G78:d.legend: Fix position of units and background (​PR:1075)
• G78:d.polar: fix launch module (py3) and write output EPS file (​PR:1107)
• G78:d.polar: testsuite added (​PR:1108)
• G78:d.rast.edit: fix launch wxGUI (py3/wxPy4) (​PR:1085)
• G78:g.extension: allow register add-on if makefile PGM var is 'PGM=module_name' ('=' char without space around) (​PR:1142)
• G78:g.extension: fix 'rate limit exceeded' http error during request json file (add-ons paths) from the official add-ons github server url (​PR:1106)
• G78:g.extension: set request header (allow downloading addon from gitlab repository) (​PR:683)
• G78:g.extension: fix parse PGM variable from Makefile (​PR:1181)
• G78:i.image.mosaic: fix encode, decode string (​PR:1035)
• G78:r.contour: fix an error message text (​PR:1014)
• G78:r.pack/r.unpack: fix packing/unpacking vrt map if some of tiled rasters doesn't have color table (​PR:1116)
• G78:r.sim: dynamic allocation of walkers
• G78:r.sim: fix r.sim.sediment segfault, memory freeing was in wrong place (​PR:1094)
• G78:r.stats.zonal and v.vect.stats: Improve documentation and interface (​PR:1114)
• G78:v.vect.stats: Add current mapset in msg, fixes for doc (​PR:1137)

GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• wxGUI: add env parameter in gcmd.py RunCommand (​PR:1113)
• wxGUI: always show preferences dialogs as modeless (​PR:1132)
• G78:g.gui.iclass: fix copy vector features from vector map (​PR:1020)
• G78:g.gui.image2target: fix close window (dissociate the managed window from the AuiManager) (​PR:1038)
• G78:g.gui.image2target: fix show Settings dialog (​PR:1037)
• G78:g.gui.mapswipe: fix hit Apply button if first and second raster aren't chosen (​PR:1042)
• G78:g.gui.psmap: add checking map frame exists if you add labels (​PR:1048)
• G78:g.gui.psmap: fix add legend error message (​PR:1041)
• G78:g.gui.psmap: fix double click on the map frame with vector map (​PR:1055)
• G78:g.gui.psmap: fix move line object error message (​PR:1031)
• G78:g.gui.psmap: fix move point object error message (​PR:1033)
• G78:g.gui.psmap: fix preview orientation if page orientation is landscape (​PR:1056)
• G78:g.gui.psmap: fix resize line object (​PR:1032)
• G78:g.gui.psmap: fix using draw graphics tool on the preview page (​PR:1057)
• wxGUI: Remove calls of unicode function which don't work in Python 3 (​PR:1111)
• wxGUI: Replace getchildren and getiterator from ElementTree (​PR:1120)
• wxGUI: fix wxPython 4.1 support (​PR:1161)
• wxGUI/gselect: fix select widget for wxGUI 'd.vect' module (​PR:1195)
• wxGUI/lmgr: fix add group layer during vector map editing (​PR:1109)
• wxGUI/lmgr: fix get layer name if layer is group (​PR:1066)
• wxGUI/mapwin: fix correct horizontal raster legend position after apply new legend setting (​PR:1080)
• wxGUI/mapwin: fix rendered image size according actual map display size (​PR:1064)
• wxGUI/psmap: properly isolate region setting from the rest of GUI (​PR:1127)
• wxGUI/vselect: fix show error message if selected map layer type is not vector (​PR:1059)
• wxGUI/Save display to file dialog: add wxPython 4.1 support (​PR:1175)
• wxGUI/tplot/timeplot: fixes for Matplotlib 3.3+ (​PR:1191)

Python scripting

• libpython: explain verbosity levels

Projection support

• libproj: fix crs modification with PROJ6+ (​PR:1007)
• libproj: fix test for PJ_TYPE_BOUND_CRS (​PR:1013)

GDAL support

• n/a

Database support

• n/a

Library changes

• libgis: Use the full string length in strncmp() calls (​PR:1060)

JSON / REST support

• n/a

Unit tests / CI

• Update setting env vars, Ubuntu 20.04 (​PR:1098)

User Manuals - Documentation

• various updates
• gislib/dox: Refine the command line parsing doc for C (​PR:1010)
• add 'plot' keyword (​PR:1087)
• manuals and docs: update broken URLS (​PR:1003)
• mkhtml: enable path setting for footer html pages (topics.html...) on add-on manual page (​PR:1122)
• G78:r.buildvrt example beautified
• G78:t.vect.algebra: Remove paragraph about raster dataset types (​PR:1089)
• G78:v.to.rast manual: update example to NC dataset (​PR:1053)

Portability

• config.guess + config.sub: updated from ​http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git/plain/ (​PR:1154)

Docker support

• docker: update Ubuntu based images to 20.04 (​PR:1180)

Message Translations

• i18N: sync from Transifex (​https://www.transifex.com/grass-gis/grass7/dashboard/) (​PR:1152)

New Addons since GRASS 7.8.4

• G7A:i.sentinel.coverage
• G7A:i.sentinel.parallel.download

Closed tickets

See ​GitHub.

Old trac tickets below.

Closed bugs since the last release

No results

Closed wishes since the last release

No results