[GRASS-user] GRASS GIS 6.2.1 released

[Markus Neteler]

Michael,

everything is well documented here:
http://grass.itc.it/
-> Intro (top menu)
 -> History (left menu)
      http://grass.itc.it/devel/grasshist.html
 -> Releases (left menu)
      http://grass.itc.it/devel/grassreleases.html

We started the year 2006 with 6.0.2RC2, followed by RC3, RC4, then
6.0.2 in February (so 1st official), three 6.1.x releases as
technology preview, 6.2.0beta1, beta2, RC1-RC3, then
6.2.0 end of October, 6.2.1RC1 and now 6.2.1!
We are well experienced now and have meanwhile a functional
release cycle. The release tarball preparation plus Web site
update takes me now only 30 minutes, for major releases
I post around press releases which takes 2 hours to fill
all the various forms.

Outstanding problems are documented in the Wiki:
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.2_Feature_Plan#TODO_for_6.2.2

Altogether, this only works due to the great feedback of
the power users (and "normal" users of course) to the
developers and the growing group of developers.

To answer your question: 6.0.2 and 6.2.0/6.2.1 in this year.

cheers
Markus

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:47:47PM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> Good going Markus. This must be some kind of record.  How many stable
> releases have there been this year already?
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> On 12/12/06 2:22 PM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler at itc.it> wrote:
> 
> > GRASS GIS releases version 6.2.1
> > 12 December 2006
> > http://grass.itc.it
> > 
> > GRASS 6.2.1 is a new stable release which fixes several bugs discovered in
> > the 6.2.0 source code. This release is solely for stability purposes and adds
> > no new features. Besides bug fixes it also includes a number of new message
> > translations, updates for the help pages, and will better handle errors
> > caused by missing or incorrectly installed support software. It also
> > introduces a new 3D raster module which was left out of the last release
> > due to time constraints.
> > 
> > Full story at http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass621.html
> > 
> > 
> 
> __________________________________________
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> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
> Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
> Arizona State University
> 
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