[GRASS-announce] GRASS GIS 7.0.0 RC1 released

[Markus Neteler]

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming
GRASS GIS 7.0.0 version.
Between 7.0.0beta4 and the current 7.0.0RC1 about 200 updates have been applied.


MOST IMPORTANT CHANGES in RC1:

* Completion of the major efforts in standardization of parameter and
flag names for a better user experience; See also
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures#Optionschanges
* wxPython 3 compatibility fixes;
* Various bugfixes, see Changelog below
* user messages updated from template (please assist with translation:
http://grass.osgeo.org/development/translations/)

Related updates in QGIS:
* QGIS Processing interface updated to GRASS GIS 7


DOWNLOAD

Binaries:
 http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g70rcx

Source code:
 http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0RC1.tar.gz
 http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0RC1.md5sum

Changelog:
 http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/ChangeLog_7.0.0RC1.gz


See also our detailed announcement:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.0.0RC1-News
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures

Please test on "any" platform which is supported (GNU/Linux,
MS-Windows, Mac OSX, *BSD, ...).

The GRASS Development Team