[GRASS-announce] GRASS GIS 6.4.4RC1 released

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Wed Jun 18 11:15:17 PDT 2014


After months of development a first release candidate of GRASS GIS
6.4.4 is now available.

Source code download:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/
  http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.4RC1.tar.gz

Binaries download:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g64x

To get the GRASS GIS 6.4.4RC1 source code directly from SVN:
  svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20140614_grass_6_4_4RC1

Key improvements:
Key improvements of this release include a complete rewrite of the
r.li suite, major fixes for buffers (v.buffer, now based on GEOS
library), major speedup for some vector modules (v.rast.stats and
v.in.gpsbabel), various fixes for the wxPython based portable
graphical interface (wxNVIZ, Location Wizard or Cartographic
Composer), enabled Cairo dependency for MS-Windows, and more message
translations.

See also our detailed announcement:
  http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.4RC1-News

First time users should explore the first steps tutorial after installation:
  http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Quick_wxGUI_tutorial

Release candidate management at
  http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass6Planning

Please join us in testing this release candidate for the final release.

Consider to donate pizza or beer for the next GRASS GIS Community Sprint:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/donations/

Thanks to all contributors!

GRASS Development Team


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