[GRASS5] Final additions to 5.4.0

Paul Kelly paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk
Sun Oct 31 12:00:05 EST 2004


Last call (almost) for changes to NEWS.html: see current version below.
To make changes and corrections, check out from CVS with the releasebranch 
sticky tag:
cvs co -r releasebranch_5_4 grass/NEWS.html
is one way to do this (in a different directory from the normal CVS HEAD 
version of grass).

What's new in GRASS 5.4.0 compared to 5.3.0

[GRASS 5.4.0 released xx November 2004]

Modules fixed/updated (major changes only)

      d.zoom: fixes (Hamish Bowman)
      g.mlist: sort output (Hamish Bowman)
      nviz: some bugfixes (Glynn Clements, Hamish Bowman)
      PNGdriver: can now also write PPM images and optionally supports 
incremental writing of PNG after each display
      operation (Glynn Clements)
      ps.map: floating point legend fixes (Hamish Bowman)
      rgb.hsv.sh: bugfix (Glynn Clements)
      r.buffer: nautical miles support (Hamish Bowman)
      r.colors: new format for rules files (Hamish Bowman, Glynn Clements)
      r.univar: faster C implementation now operational and script version 
renamed to r.univar.sh (Hamish Bowman)
      v.in.garmin.sh: now operational (Hamish Bowman)

Source Code:

      New modules now built by default: d.info, d.nviz, r.grow2, r.in.mat, 
r.out.mat, r.series
      Alternate Build system now default (Glynn Clements, Paul Kelly)
      Support for zlib compression in integer/CELL maps (GRASS_INT_ZLIB 
environment variable) (Glynn Clements)
      Cygwin and Mac OSX shared library compilation working (Paul Kelly)
      Longer names for database, location and mapset allowed in start-up 
screen (Markus Neteler, Glynn Clements)
      Doxygen comments in libraries for improved Programmers' Manual 
(Markus Neteler)
      Raster map titles standardised to 1024 characters in all relevant 
modules and libraries (Hamish Bowman)
      Various compiler warnings fixed (Glynn Clements)
      r3.mapcalc: now built using 2-D r.mapcalc code instead of duplicate 
version (Glynn Clements)
      g.pnmcomp: Added for internal use (Glynn Clements)




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