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)
- (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
6.2.2
This version has not yet been released
6.2.2-cvs
Fixed
DB bug(Radim) [please expand]
r.proj bilinear: Fix interpolation expression (row/column were swapped)(Glynn)
Allow r.profile data from stdin(Hamish)Slovakia Hermannskogel datum (bug #5396)(Jaro Hofierka/Dr. Klobusiak/Martin)ps.map: 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)added missing SQL TIME support for DBF driver(Markus)2 bugs in v.build.polylines #4247 #4249(MartinL)
TODO
Bugs:
- backport false easting/northing test from lib/gis/
- backport ogsf fix
- remove "let" bashisms from d.vect.thematic
Enhancements:
- backport in EPSG code search tool from CVS/HEAD
- see lib/init/epsg_option.tcl.in versions 1.11 - 1.15
Final details:
- Generate inter-release ChangeLog:
gzip -d ChangeLog_6.2.1.gz cp ChangeLog_6.2.1 ChangeLog_6.2.0-6.2.1 vi ChangeLog_6.2.0-6.2.1 # /6.2.0 release # j (down a line) # 50000dd # :wq gzip ChangeLog_6.2.0-6.2.1
- Prepare release announcement and blurb
WONTFIX? Later?
- r.out.gdal region sensitive (backport new r.out.gdal from CVS HEAD?)
- NVIZ volume problem (test with slovakia3d dataset) - sometimes it works
- HB: fails from command line; ok if the volume added within NVIZ (bug #4725)
G_warning() message suggesting a work-around added to 6.2 release branch.
- HB: fails from command line; ok if the volume added within NVIZ (bug #4725)
- r.distance null distance
- This is in 6.3 and will be tested
Releases
- 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