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30 Dec 15:52

neteler

8.0.0RC1

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GRASS GIS 8.0.0RC1 Pre-release

Pre-release

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.

With the introduction of the semantic label raster metadata class, the temporal database was modified to version 3. Hence, to be able to read and process GRASS 7.x space-time datasets, users will be prompted to run t.upgrade. If users want to read newly created space-time datasets back in GRASS 7.x, they can run t.downgrade.

New Contributors

(in alphabetical GitHub user name order)

@aaronsms made their first contribution in #1514
@agiudiceandrea made their first contribution in #1336
@aroche made their first contribution in #288
@attilaolah made their first contribution in #1376
@baharmon made their first contribution in #518
@bmwiedemann made their first contribution in #251
@byronbest made their first contribution in #113
@CarlosGrohmann made their first contribution in #1857
@chaedri made their first contribution in #1603
@cwhite911 made their first contribution in #1026
@ecodiv made their first contribution in #1246
@ggardet made their first contribution in #565
@griembauer made their first contribution in #983
@infrastation made their first contribution in #972
@jentjr made their first contribution in #650
@jidanni made their first contribution in #208
@KolesovDmitry made their first contribution in #361
@lbartoletti made their first contribution in #301
@lrntct made their first contribution in #734
@Lucifergene made their first contribution in #1812
@mankoff made their first contribution in #91
@MikaelUrankar made their first contribution in #1936
@mmacata made their first contribution in #151
@mwort made their first contribution in #85
@nobeeakon made their first contribution in #1089
@ocsmit made their first contribution in #1431
@shubhamshah14102 made their first contribution in #1951
@ShubhamSwati made their first contribution in #1608
@SunveerSingh made their first contribution in #1464

Launching the software

The user experience of the graphical user interface has been completely rewritten: no more clumsy selection screens - just enter the menu system directly!

And on command line, GRASS GIS now starts versionless, i.e. as grass.

New modules

g.download.location: moved to core, create grass.utils lib by @wenzeslaus in #1715
i.band.library - Prints available semantic label information used for multispectral data.
r.in.pdal: a PDAL based replacement of r.in.lidar by @marisn in #1200
r.object.geometry: move from addons by @petrasovaa in #1918
r.semantic.label - Manages semantic label information assigned to a single raster map or to a list of raster maps
t.upgrade: added from addons by @neteler in #1438) and by @landam #1468

Major module changes

db.in.ogr: Add gdal_config= and gdal_doo= by @HuidaeCho in #1425
g.extension: #3902 multiple metadata entries by @anikaweinmann in #138
g.extension: add branch option by @ninsbl in #1130
g.extension: add '-j' flag which generates JSON file containing the download URLs of the official Addons by @tmszi in #1009
g.extension: allow to install extensions from a fork of the official repo by @ninsbl in #1177
g.extension: change to python3 by @anikaweinmann in #83
g.extension: check if svn program is installed by @neteler in #1145
g.extension: distinguish between extensions and modules by @metzm in #582
g.extension: dont expand db modul class by @ninsbl in #424
g.extension: Fix installation from gitlab repositories by @tmszi in #683
g.extension: fix 'rate limit exceeded' http error during request json file (add-ons paths) from the official add-ons github server url by @tmszi in #1106
g.extension: get branch from version by @ninsbl in #1700
g.extension: improve way how to parse module name from makefile by @tmszi in #1142
g.extension: match module files on Windows by @ninsbl in #1565
g.extension: only warn when non-essential files are missing by @wenzeslaus in #164
g.extension: remove branch from Windows-function by @ninsbl in #1151
g.extension: workaround to use grass7 addon repo by @neteler in #1612
g.extension -i (compile), -d (download) flag by @tmszi in #496
g.extension -l ValueError by @landam in #1849
g.extension test by @petrasovaa in #1364
g.parser: Add G_OPT_M_NPROCS by @HuidaeCho in #1652
i.ortho.photo: Add optional correction for panorama cameras by @metzm in #401
i.tasscap: support for Worldview-2 added by @neteler in #186
r.colors: add offset and scale by @metzm in #954
r.external: add flag to read min/max from metadata by @metzm in #1856
r.external: read "nan" as nan by @metzm in #338
r.external: transfer_colormap added by @landam in #337
r.external: major speed-up by @metzm in #1305
r.geomorphon: add two more comparison modes by @infrastation in #1096
r.geomorphon: fix an out-of-bounds read w/multires by @infrastation in #995
r.geomorphon: fix landform category names by @infrastation in #1421
r.geomorphon: fix shape calculations by @infrastation in #1040
r.geomorphon: implement a new "one-off" mode by @infrastation in #1157
r.geomorphon: remove multires-specific code by @infrastation in #1570
r.geomorphon: separate input from output by @infrastation in #1052
r.grow.distance: add minimum and maximum distance options by @metzm in #1453
r.in.wms: gdal user:password support by @anikaweinmann in #196
r.in.wms: enable CreateOptions for GDAL driver by @neteler in #1558
r.neighbors: add option for exponential weighting by @ninsbl in #597
r.neighbors: add testsuite by @ninsbl in #729
r.random: Add -s flag, remove -i flag, redo interface by @wenzeslaus in #1054
r.univar: support large regions with more than 2 billion cells for extended stats by @metzm in #672
r.viewshed: limit viewshed horizontally by specifying two angles by @petrasovaa in #180
v.db.select: Add -e flag (escape newlines and backslashes) and -j flag (JSON output) by @HuidaeCho in #476
v.db.select: Handle all formats through option, add CSV by @wenzeslaus in #1121
v.distance: Linear matrix becomes default, new -s flag for square matrix [API change] by @mlennert in #601
v.neighbors: add aggegate statistics on attribute column [NEW FUNCTIONALITY] by @mlennert in #534
v.in.wfs: add options to set user and password by @anikaweinmann in #808
v.report: Add separator= option by @HuidaeCho in https://github.com/OSGeo/gras...