GRASS 6.2 Feature Plan

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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

press release (abstract)

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)
old version vs. new version
  • 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?) -- We can just take enhanced shell version from CVS HEAD (r.out.gdal.sh) --Jachym 10:00, 12 March 2007 (CET)
  • 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
  • 6.2.1 released 12 December 2006
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