GRASS GIS 8.0.0

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 8.0

Releases

Stable Release

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Release Candidate 2 (RC2)

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Release Candidate 1 (RC1)

• Release date: DD MM 2021
• Changelog: https://grass.osgeo.org/grass80/source/ChangeLog_8.0.0RC1.gz
• Binaries: ​https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g80x
• Source code:
  • ​https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.0.0RC1
  • https://grass.osgeo.org/grass80/source/grass-8.0.0RC1.tar.gz (md5sum)

Git Source Code

• Milestone: ​8.0.0
• Release branch created on Nov 13, 2021
• Git clone of latest 8.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):

    git clone https://github.com/OSGeo/grass.git
    cd grass
    git checkout releasebranch_8_0
  

Overview of changes

The focus of this release is on stability fixes, documentation improvements and updated message translations. ...

The GRASS GIS 8.0.0 release provides more than ​XXX fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.7.

New modules

• G80:...

Major module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G80:...

Minor module changes

(see also below for closed bugs)

• G80:i.vi: fix PVI formula (​PR:1985)

GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

• entire rewrite of GRASS GIS startup (​PR:XXX)
• wxGUI/...

Python scripting

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Projection support

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GDAL support

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Database support

• n/a

Library changes

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JSON / REST support

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Code quality

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Unit tests / CI

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User Manuals - Documentation

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Portability

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Docker support

• Docker images are now built for the 8.0 branch
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Message Translations

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

Packaging

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New Addons since GRASS 7.8.7

• G7A:xxx

Closed GitHub tickets since the last release

See ​GitHub.

For old trac tickets, see below.

Closed trac bugs since the last release

#3295

GRASS GIS fails to start without terminal

#3637

Use the system temporary directory for all GUI rendering files

#3870

add missing depencencies into winGRASS

#3900

Go back to using community version of ctypesgen

#3912

r.in.gdal: Error messsge link to gdalwarp fails

#3913

new feature band reference breaks space time vector datasets

#3924

Port r.in.lidar to PDAL

Closed trac wishes since the last release

#542

grass7 vector libraries modifications

#764

Can the install process accept a DESTDIR additional variable?

#3084

i.segment: allow more than 2147483647 cells

#3474

Change the GRASS GIS start up to more beginner friendly

#3575

Associate database/location/mapset with workspace file

#3578

Add New Location action to the Datacatalog

#3585

Don't require -c for --tmp-location

#3926

allow limit viewshed computation by angle

#4006

Add option for vector types to v.rast.stats