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

• 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!
  • WONTFIX? Later?

• r.out.gdal region sensitive
  • port r.reclass flag 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)

• r.distance null distance
  • JC: This is in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/15982/match=r+distance, but nobody reported successful test.

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