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
(not yet released, planned after 18th October 2006)
- 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)
- test gis.m
- missing Polish EPSG codes
- r.distance null distance
- write impressive press release (best done in CVS Web)
WONTFIX? Later?
- r.out.gdal region sensitive
- NVIZ volume problem (test with slovakia3d dataset) - sometimes it works
Final
(not yet released, planned after 18th October 2006)
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