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GRASS GIS 8.0.0

A short summary of changes: New features in GRASS 8.0

Releases

Stable Release

Release Candidate 2 (RC2)

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
8.0 release branch created on Nov 13, 2021 (https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tree/releasebranch_8_0)

Git clone of latest 8.0 release branch (including yet unpublished bugfixes):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

After more than 3 year of development the first stable release GRASS GIS 8.0.0 is available. Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience even better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to modules and further improving the graphical user interface.

Breaking news: new graphical user interface with entirely rewritten startup sequence!

This re-establishes user experience compatibility with QGIS and other connected software packages.

The GRASS GIS 8.0.0 release provides more than 1,300 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.6.

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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

Projection support

GDAL support

Database support

Library changes

JSON / REST support

Code quality

Unit tests / CI

User Manuals - Documentation

Portability

Docker support

Docker images are now built for the 8.0 branch
...

Message Translations

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

Packaging

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

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