GRASS 6.2 Feature Plan

GRASS 6.2.x feature plan

There is the release branch for 6.2.x, see details at CVS: tags and branches. A release branch is considered as "frozen", only bugfixes can be done.

GRASS 6.2.0

In general 6.2 does not deviate too much from the 6.1.0 to avoid a major delay.

Beta0

(never released)

• unlimited number of raster map (r.patch, r.series etc) (Glynn)
• several MinGW fixes for native MS-Windows support (Glynn)
• several fixes for MS-Windows/Cygwin support (Huidae)
• no hardcoded ARCH for Python-SWIG (Markus)
• vector/lidar: added missing includes (Markus)
• g.region b>t bug fixed (Martin)
• GRASS_PAGER (Glynn)
• r.mapcalc rand() (Glynn)
• tcl i18n install fix (Markus)
• LOCALE awk fixes to some scripts (Markus)
• SUN compilation fixes (Glynn)
• user docs fixes (Maciek)
• r.bilinear: Read/write maps as DCELL; Remove +0.5 from result (Glynn)
• NVIZ height update to avoid scene jump (Bob)
• Add the new v.lidar.* tools (needed for FOSS4G2006) (Roberto A. + Markus)
• lidar and simwe compilation issues on MacOSX fixed (William)
• Makefile cleanup for extra libraries (lidar, simwe, lrs) (Glynn + Markus)
• keywords backported from 6.3-CVS (Markus)
• renamed dbmi driver html files to include 'grass-' to avoid package conflicts (Markus)

Beta 1

• v.digit: split icons into two rows for 800x600 screens (backport) (Michael, Hamish)
• gis.m fixes (Michael)
• v.proj: treat z as ellipsoidal height (Paul)

Beta 2

• g.proj compile fix (Markus)
• NVIZ: Tk8.5 fix (Markus)

Beta 3

• docs improvements (Eric, Trevor, Moritz, Michael)
• v.digit cosmetics (Hamish)
• v.outlier: parameter fix (markus)
• NVIZ: off-screen rendering fix for broken openGL drivers
• grass-xterm-wrapper: simplified for broken gnome-terminal (markus)
• rename v.bspline to v.surf.bspline for consistency
• further gis.m fixes (moritz, michael, cho)
• d.barscale segfault fix (hamish)
• d.grid segfault fix (hamish)
• d.graph segfault fix (hamish)
• r.buffer, r.what: docs fixes (hamish)
• added v.centroids and v.dissolve scripts (hamish)
• Czech translation updated (Martin)
• nviz: off-screen fixes (Glynn)

RC1

• d.vect.thematic -s fixes (michael)
• Vietnamese translation (Bui Huu Manh)
• reverted Pbuffer changes in NVIZ (Brad)
• projection codes updated to EPSG 6.11 (Markus)
• g.region zoom= off by one error (Glynn)
• fix hardcoded Helvetica tcl fonts to a single file setting (in $GISBASE/etc/gtcltk/options.tcl) (michael)

RC2

• r.random on MacOSX (Glynn)
• document improvements (various)
• v.in.ogr: check valid output filename (Brad)
• various r.le fixes (Hamish)
• MinGW fix (Radim)

RC3

• r.le.setup fixes (Glynn, Hamish)
• default color map range (bug #5212) (Glynn)
• fix v.digit/toolbox.tcl for tcl8.3 (Hamish)
• update to EPSG 6.11.1 (Markus)
• close GRASS after creating new location from file (Markus)
• Fine tune intro text when launching GRASS in text mode (Paul)
• gis.m zooming in mapcanvas.tcl (Michael)
• missing Polish EPSG codes
• initial Arabic translation (Alaa Masoud)

Final 6.2.0

(released 31 Oct 2006)

• continued Polish translation (Artur Niescior)
• r.watershed slowliness due to long color tables (C. Ehlschlaeger)
• gis.m broken for Tcl/Tk 8.3 (Hamish, Michael)
• test gis.m
• write impressive press release (best done in CVS Web)
  • also prepare the short abstract version.
  • HB: I did some work on this the other day, of course it can always be better!

6.2.1

6.2.1RC1

(released 6 Dec. 2006)

Bugs:

• gis.m fixes for geo rectifier (Michael)
• gis.m zoom fixes (Michael)
• install of include files problem on Solaris (Glynn)
• Handle non-standard ETRS_1989 datum name (Paul)
• d.histogram: clear just the current frame, not the full screen (Hamish)
• i.group: fix subgroup listing (Hamish)
• ps.map: broken for named paper sizes (Hamish, Glynn)
• gis.m: meaningful error messages on startup (Michael)
• v.db.select: fix SQL where= option error (Hamish)
• Add module r.to.rast3elev
• crash v.in.ogr with gcc4.1.x and non-C locale (Andrey Kiselev)
• v.in.db: with where="condition" it copies the entire attribute table (Martin)

Final 6.2.1

(released 12 Dec. 2006)

• Download source code
• Download source code diff's to 6.2.0

(to be changed to 6.2.1 diffs? HB: can we have both? include binary file changes? [diff -a?])

Bugs:

• d.frame: bugfix: make -l list map names flag work (Hamish)
• Latvian translation update: Maris Nartiss

press release (abstract)

6.2.2

This version has been released

6.2.2RC1

(released 29 May 2007)

Bug fixes:

• DB bug, fixed https://svn.qgis.org/trac/ticket/448 (Radim)
• DBMI/SQL parser: added missing TIME support (Markus)
• DBF Driver: add missing SQL TIME support (Markus)
• r.proj bilinear: Fix interpolation expression (row/column were swapped) (Glynn)

old version vs. new version

• r.profile: Allow data from stdin (Hamish)
• r.profile: Die if coordinate request outsite current region settings, was reporting bogus data (Hamish)
• Slovakia Hermannskogel datum (bug #5396) (Jaro Hofierka/Dr. Klobusiak/Martin)
• ps.map: Fix landscape mode. Fix map scaling when map projection is not measured in meters (Hamish)
• r.tileset: Fix break due to platform specific units parsing; Requires Bash (Hamish)
• v.build.polylines: two bugs: #4247 #4249 (MartinL)
• d.vect.thematic: remove Bashisms (Daniel)
• lib/gis: backport false easting/northing test (Markus, Paul)
• d.vect: display also nodes in topo mode (Markus)
• g.mremove: work also in gis.m (Hamish)
• r.flow: 3d length fix; 64bit segfault fix (Helena, Brad, Glynn)
• r.in.bin: honour -s flag for 2-byte and 4-byte data (Glynn)
• r.reclass.area: don't leave clump file behind (Markus)
• scripts/: various fixes backported (Markus)
• v.in.region: add additional vertex if necessary to ensure line segments don't exceed 180 degrees longitude (Glynn)
• v.report: backported fixes for RT bug #4459 and [grass-code I][#301] (Markus)
• v.to.db: fix compactness formula parentheses to match actual formula
• d.labels: backport rotation fixes (Hamish)
• r.contour: fix segfault (Martin)
• v.in.ascii: skip blank lines, (std mode) error on broken header info (Hamish)
• v.what: fix for multiple input coords (Hamish)
• sqlite driver: 'date' support (Markus), views support (Moritz), field size fix to avoid v.digit form crash (Markus)
• NVIZ: volume problem (test with slovakia3d dataset) bug #4725 (Bob)

Still some NVIZ volume segfaults remain?

• GUI menu: remove non-functional font setting entries (bug#5489) (Hamish)
• v.segment: Make side_offset functional (Hamish)
• v.in.gpsbabel: attribute import fixed for tracks and routes (Markus)
• RT #4247 v.build.polylines: fails to build a polyline out of a closed boundary (Martin)
• RT #4249 v.build.polylines: vertices are doubled at each node (Martin)
• GF #342 v.clean tool=snap: doubled vertices in the output (Martin)
• v.lidar.*: various fixes backported (Markus)
• Remove all bashisms from Bourne scripts. (bug#5499) (Various contributors)
• Fix broken CVS tags on new files (Hamish)
• v.type: Wrap it so it works from the GUI menus (Hamish)

Enhancements:

• r.reclass.area: label support added (Markus)
• GUI startup: backport Michael's new EPSG code search tool (Hamish)
• Backport various GIS.m GUI enhancements from Michael (Hamish)

Clickable GUI buttons; More robust error handling; Main window cosmetics; Fix "lwidth" bug; Typos

• v.dissolve: dissolve common boundaries by attribute (Markus)
• r.distance null distance for area in area (-o) (Jachym)

6.2.2

(released 16 July 2007)

Fixed post-RC1

• DBF driver: fix semicolon problem (Glynn Clements)
• SQLite transactions to speed up execute (Antonio Galea)
• SQLite: don't crash with SQLITE_NULL (Markus Neteler)
• GUI startup: fixes browsing for EPSG file not updating path to it (Maris Nartiss)
• GUI startup: fixes browsing for new location path (Maris Nartiss)
• nviz compilation fix for MacOSX (Markus Neteler)
• r.in.gdalwarp: remove bashisms (Hamish Bowman)
• r.median: fix broken internal r.stats call (Markus Neteler)
• v.db.addtable: fixed error treatment when wrong SQL types were defined (Markus Neteler)
• v.dissolve: fix for DBMI error if input map is specified with @mapset (Markus Neteler)
• Czech translation updated (Jachym Cepicky)
• v.in.gpsbabel: portablity fixes (so it works with a Mac) (Hamish Bowman)
• v.in.gns: fixed format incompatibility with current GNS format (Artur Wroblewski)
• v.lrs.* fixes backported + new documentation (Markus Neteler)

6.2.3

This version has not yet been released

6.2.3cvs

Bug fixes:

• gis.m: georectifier tool documented (Markus Neteler)
• r.out.bin: fixed too short buffer which would sometimes crash R-GRASS interface (Roger Bivand)
• v.db.update: backported fixes for numeric value types (Debian #434897) (Markus Neteler)
• GUI crash of g.region with accented characters (non English locale) (Maris Nartis, Hamish Bowman)

TODO

• Further investigate NVIZ raster volume segfaults.

Final details:

• Prepare release announcement and blurb

• Update cron scripts so cvs snapshot patch set diff.gz is vs. 6.2.3.

• Generate inter-release ChangeLog:

gzip -d ChangeLog_6.2.3.gz
cp ChangeLog_6.2.2 ChangeLog_6.2.1-6.2.2
vi ChangeLog_6.2.1-6.2.2
# /6.2.2 release
# j (down a line)
# 50000dd
# :wq
gzip ChangeLog_6.2.1-6.2.2

then move ChangeLog_6.2.1-6.2.2.gz to web/grass62/source/

WONTFIX? Later?

Bug fixes:

• NVIZ: fix Max Res PPM for offscreen rendering (Glynn)

6.2 branch currently defaults to working onscreen rendering, so not release-critical

• v.buffer: fix bug #2765

Enhancements:

• r.out.gdal region sensitive (backport new r.out.gdal from CVS HEAD?)

-- We can just take enhanced shell version from CVS HEAD (r.out.gdal.sh) --Jachym 10:00, 12 March 2007 (CET)

-- IMO r.out.gdal should remain shell script version in 6.2.x, but be updated to be the most modern version of that we have. Leave the C version to 6.3+. --Hamish, 23 Apr 2007

Releases

• Latest 6.2 branch Source Code Snapshot

• 6.2.0beta1 released 28 August 2006
• 6.2.0beta2 released 30 August 2006
• 6.2.0beta3 released 18 September 2006
• 6.2.0RC1 released 26 September 2006
• 6.2.0RC2 released 6 October 2006
• 6.2.0RC3 released 24 October 2006
• 6.2.0 released 31 October 2006
• 6.2.1 released 12 December 2006
• 6.2.2RC1 released 29 May 2007