[GRASS-announce] GRASS GIS 7.6.0 released

[Markus Neteler]

 * We are pleased to announce the GRASS GIS 7.6.0 release *

*What's new in a nutshell*

After almost 1 year of development the *new stable release GRASS GIS 7.6.0*
is available. Efforts have concentrated on making the user experience even
better, providing many new useful additional functionalities to modules and
further improving the graphical user interface. Furthermore, ZSTD has been
added a new raster compression method which is an improvement over ZLIB's
deflate method, providing both faster and higher compression than ZLIB.
Also a new raster map type has been added: GRASS virtual raster (VRT) which
is a virtual mosaic of the list of input raster maps. In addition, support
for PROJ v. 5 has been implemented.

An *overview* of the *new features* in the 7.6 release series is available
at new features in GRASS GIS 7.6
<https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures76>.
*Binaries/Installer download:*

   - winGRASS 7.6.0: 32bit standalone installer
   <https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/binary/mswindows/native/x86/WinGRASS-7.6.0-1-Setup-x86.exe>
   | 64bit standalone installer
   <https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/binary/mswindows/native/x86_64/WinGRASS-7.6.0-1-Setup-x86_64.exe>
   - winGRASS 7.6.0 OSGeo4W: 32bit OSGeo4W installer
   <http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup-x86.exe> | 64bit
   OSGeo4W installer
   <http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup-x86_64.exe>
   - Fedora and EPEL7
   <https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/neteler/grass76/> (CentOS7,
   RHEL7, ...)
   - Linux Mint: see Ubuntu
   - Ubuntu
   <https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable>
   (ubuntugis-unstable)
   - Max OS X <http://grassmac.wikidot.com/downloads> (fully bundled
   binaries)
   -
*... further binary packages for other Linux distributions will follow
   shortly, please check at software downloads
   <https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/#g76x>. *

*Source code download:*

   - https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/
   - https://grass.osgeo.org/grass76/source/grass-7.6.0.tar.gz
   - To get the GRASS GIS 7.6.0 source code directly from SVN, see here
   <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.6.0-News#SVNSourceCode>.

*More details:*

See also our detailed announcement:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.6.0-News
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures76 (overview of new 7.6
stable release series)
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass7/manuals/addons/ (list of available addons)

First time users may explore the first steps tutorial
<https://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/first-time-users> after installation.

*About GRASS GIS*

The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (https://grass.osgeo.org/),
commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is an Open Source Geographic Information
System providing powerful raster, vector and geospatial processing
capabilities in a single integrated software suite. GRASS GIS includes
tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data,
management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite
and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce
sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS GIS has been
translated into about twenty languages and supports a huge array of data
formats. It can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend
for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is
distributed freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
GRASS GIS is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
(OSGeo).

*The GRASS Development Team, January 2019*
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