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* gis.m: meaningful error messages on startup (Michael)
* gis.m: meaningful error messages on startup (Michael)
* v.db.select: fix SQL where= option error (Hamish)
* v.db.select: fix SQL where= option error (Hamish)
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Revision as of 09:17, 5 December 2006

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

(not released yet, testing candidate planned for end of Nov. 2006)

Get source code diff's to 6.2.0

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)

Other:

  • v.in.db: with where="condition" it still copies the entire attribute table

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)
      G_warning() message suggesting a work-around added to 6.2 release branch.
  • 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