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Published January 15, 2022 | Version 8.0.0RC2
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OSGeo/grass: GRASS GIS 8.0.0RC2

Description

Overview of changes

After more than 3 year of development the first stable release GRASS GIS 8.0.0 is available. Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience even better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to modules and further improving the graphical user interface.

Breaking news: new graphical user interface with entirely rewritten startup sequence!

This re-establishes user experience compatibility with QGIS and other connected software packages.

The GRASS GIS 8.0.0 release provides more than 1,300 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.6.

With the introduction of the semantic label raster metadata class, the temporal database was modified to version 3. Hence, to be able to read and process GRASS 7.x space-time datasets, users will be prompted to run t.upgrade. If users want to read newly created space-time datasets back in GRASS 7.x, they can run t.downgrade.

New Contributors

(in alphabetical GitHub user name order)

Launching the software

The user experience of the graphical user interface has been completely rewritten: no more clumsy selection screens - just enter the menu system directly!

And on command line, GRASS GIS now starts versionless, i.e. as grass.

New modules Major module changes Minor module changes GUI: Improvements in the Graphical User Interface

_New first time user startup and dark theme support

Python scripting Binder Jupyter Notebooks User Manuals - Documentation Projection support GDAL support Database support Library changes Changes to software start JSON / REST support Code quality Unit tests / CI Portability

MS-Windows:

Mac:

FreeBSD:

Docker support

New: Docker images are now built for the 8.0 branch.

Docker:

Singularity:

Message Translations Packaging GitHub related Restructuring of the GRASS GIS Addons repository New Addons since GRASS 7.8.6
  • v.greedycolors: Creates greedy colors for vector areas.
  • d.region.grid: Drapes a color raster over an shaded relief or aspect map.
Closed GitHub tickets since the last release

See https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/milestone/4?closed=1

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