[GRASS-announce] GRASS 6.4.2RC1 released

[Markus Neteler]

A first release candidate of GRASS 6.4.2 is now available.

Source code:
 http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/
 http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.2RC1.tar.gz

Selected binaries will become available shortly.

To get the RC1 source code from SVN:
 svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20111010_grass_6_4_2RC1/

An announcement has been drafted at
 http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.2RC1-News

Key improvements of the GRASS 6.4.2 release include enhanced
portability for MS-Windows (native support), major fixes for the new
wxPython based portable graphical interface, and new functionality
(new network tools, zonal support for univariate statistics, image
processing improvements, GRASS Python Library extensions,
an embedded interactive Python Shell, an experimental Graphical
Modeler, and new Cartographic Composer front-end to ps.map).

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

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

Thanks to all contributors!