[GRASS-SVN] r31038 - grass-web/trunk/announces
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Sat Apr 19 10:06:47 EDT 2008
Author: hamish
Date: 2008-04-19 10:06:47 -0400 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008)
New Revision: 31038
Modified:
grass-web/trunk/announces/announce_grass630.html
Log:
first set of announcement changes
Modified: grass-web/trunk/announces/announce_grass630.html
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--- grass-web/trunk/announces/announce_grass630.html 2008-04-19 11:57:11 UTC (rev 31037)
+++ grass-web/trunk/announces/announce_grass630.html 2008-04-19 14:06:47 UTC (rev 31038)
@@ -19,19 +19,51 @@
<b>The GRASS Development Team announces</b>
-<h2>GRASS GIS 6.3.0 released [DATE]</h2>
+<h2>GRASS GIS 6.3.0 released 19 April 2008</h2>
</center>
<BR>
-We are happy to announce that a new technology preview version of
-<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">GRASS GIS</a> has been released today.
-This release adds hundreds of new features, support for the latest GIS
-data formats, and includes new translations for many languages.
+We are happy to announce the latest release of
+ <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">GRASS GIS</a>, the first major release
+with new features since GRASS 6.2 first arrived in October 2006.
+<P>
+Officially this is a "technology preview" release, the first beta on the
+path to GRASS 6.4-stable, and it also marks the start of work on GRASS 7.
+As such GRASS 6.3.0 is not intended to be a stable release with ongoing
+support, but after five months of quality-assurance review we are very
+pleased with the results. Users can be confident to use this version for
+their day to day work, indeed due to the open development model many
+already do.
+
+<P>
+Besides the hundreds of new module features, supported data formats, and
+language translations, GRASS 6.3 brings a number of exciting enhancements
+to the GIS. A prototype of the new wxPython user interface is debuted, and
+for the the first since its inception with a port from the VAX 11/780 in
+1983, GRASS will run on a non-UNIX based platform: MS-Windows. This is
+currently still in an experimental state and we hope that widespread
+testing of 6.3.0 will mean the 6.4 release of WinGRASS will be fully
+functional and robust. Existing UNIX and Mac users will be happy to
+know that these new features are modular add-ons and the base GIS remains
+as solid as ever.
+
+<P>
+Several infrastructure changes accompany this release with the project
+becoming a founding member of the <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/">Open
+Source Geospatial Foundation</a> (OSGeo).
+This includes a new home for the <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org">website</a>,
+the <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wiki help system</a>,
+<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk">source code repository</a>,
+integrated <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/report">bug tracking system</a>,
+and formal membership in a non-profit legal entity. We hope that these
+changes will guarantee that the GRASS community will be well supported
+and vibrant well into the future.
+
<p>
The <i>Geographic Resources Analysis Support System</i>, commonly referred to
as GRASS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) combining powerful raster,
-vector, and geospatial processing engines into a single integrated software
+vector, and geospatial processing engines in a single integrated software
suite. GRASS 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
@@ -44,34 +76,8 @@
software released under the terms of the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>.
-<P>
-Joining GRASS's well-developed raster engine, the GRASS 6 series introduced
-a new topological 2D/3D vector engine featuring support for vector network
-analysis and SQL-based DBMS management of linked attributes.
-This new release improves the integration and functionality of the raster and
-vector engines, and greatly enhances 3D raster volume (voxel) support.
-<P>
-Additionally, this release debuts a new graphical GIS manager and menu system,
-while an improved version of the old GUI display manager has been retained for
-legacy support. The NVIZ visualization tool has been enhanced to display 3D
-vector data and voxel volumes, and now supports the creation of on-the-fly
-MPEG animations. Further improvements include substantial message translations
-(i18n) with support for FreeType fonts, including multi-byte Asian characters,
-and the inclusion of tools to create new project locations automatically
-given a georeferenced data file or EPSG code.
-<P>
-This is the second release of GRASS as a proposed founding project of the new
-<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/">Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a>.
-In support of the movement towards consolidation in the open source geospatial
-software world, GRASS is tightly integrated with the latest GDAL/OGR libraries.
-This enables access to an extensive range of raster and vector formats,
-including OGC-conformal Simple Features. GRASS also makes use of the highly
-regarded PROJ.4 software library with support for most known map projections
-and the easy definition of new and rare map projections via custom
-parameterization.
-
<h3>Screenshots</h3>
<ul>
@@ -115,6 +121,16 @@
<h3>What's new in GRASS 6.3.0</h3>
+
+
+features
+-swig and automatic script creation support
+-quiet/verbose
+-new drivers ps, cairo, png?
+-new modules like r.li.*, v.edit, v.lidar?
+
+
+
(selected improvements)
<!--
@@ -133,6 +149,7 @@
<ul>
<li>Source code quality/libraries:
<ul>
+<!--
<li> Many fixes for native support on MS-Windows (MinGW based)
<li> <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/">Programmer's Manual</a>:
continued Doxygen integration and automated generation into PDF and HTML
@@ -156,10 +173,12 @@
#5118, #5158, #5176, #5179, #5205, #5206, #5209, #5210, #5212, #5248, #5341, #5361,
#5387, #5396
<li> fixed GRASS-trac bugs: <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/query?status=closed&milestone=6.3.0">#1, #3, #6, #9, #11, #12, #21, #27, #39, #42</a>
+-->
</ul>
<li> Graphical User Interface (GUI):
<ul>
+<!--
<li> <b>gis.m</b>:
<ul>
<li> replacing x11 displays with TclTk canvases. This allows controls to go on the map display window, including zooming, panning, measure, profile, query, and autolaunching of NVIZ to display all active map layers.
@@ -181,16 +200,59 @@
<li> changed limited Tcl HTML browser to system wide HTML browser for help system
<li> updated descriptive text on GRASS intro screen
<li> major clean-up to the display architecture (libraries and drivers): the drivers no longer maintain a palette; all colours are specified directly as R/G/B values.
+-->
</ul>
<li> Drivers:
<ul>
+<!--
<li> DBF driver: drop column support, TIME type support
<li> display driver: major cleanup
+-->
</ul>
<li> Modules/Scripts:
<ul>
+<li> <b>db.dropcol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>db.droptable</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>db.in.ogr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>db.out.ogr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>d.shadedmap</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>g.dirseps</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>g.findetc</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>g.gui</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>g.message</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>g.mkfontcap</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>i.atcorr</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r3.gwflow</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r3.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r3.univar</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r.category</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r.gwflow</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r.li suite</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+ r.li.cwed, r.li.dominance, r.li.edgedensity, r.li.mpa, r.li.mps, r.li.padcv,
+ r.li.padrange, r.li.padsd, r.li.patchdensity, r.li.patchnum, r.li.richness,
+ r.li.setup, r.li.shannon, r.li.shape, r.li.simpson, r.mfilter.fp
+<li> <b>r.out.gdal.sh</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r.out.xyz</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r.resamp.interp</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r.resamp.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r.support.stats</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>r.what.color</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.db.dropcol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.db.join</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.db.renamecol</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.db.univar</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.edit</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.generalize</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.in.wfs</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.net.visibility</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.out.svg</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+<li> <b>v.support</b>: <font color="red">NEW</font> -
+
+
+
+<!--
<li> Message translation (i18N): translations continued, new language Vietnamese, Arabic
<li> All modules: keywords added in description
<li> Documentation/man pages: various fixes and improvements (more examples added, including graphics, improved style, new introductory pages)
@@ -244,7 +306,9 @@
<li> <b>v.proj</b>: leave z co-ordinates in 3-D vectors untouched by default
<li> <b>v.support</b>: <font color=red>NEW</font> - set/update vector map metadata in the header file
<li> <b>v.surf.bspline</b>: <font color=red>NEW</font> - bspline interpolation
- <li> <b>v.surf.idw</b>: don't require topology to be built for input vector points file</ul>
+ <li> <b>v.surf.idw</b>: don't require topology to be built for input vector points file
+ -->
+ </ul>
</ul>
<P>
@@ -280,18 +344,22 @@
<li> GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC3 released 30 Nov 2007
<li> GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC4 released 9 Jan 2008
<li> GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC5 released 19 Feb 2008
+<li> GRASS GIS 6.3.0RC6 released 21 Mar 2008
+<li> <B>GRASS GIS 6.3.0 released 19 Apr 2008</B>
</ul>
<hr>
-<a href="abstract_grass630.txt">Short version</a> |
+<a href="abstract_grass630.txt">Short version</a>
+<!-- |
<a href="abstract_grass630_CZ.txt">Short version (CZ)</a> |
<a href="abstract_grass630_DE.txt">Short version (DE: Kurzfassung)</a> |
<a href="riassunto_grass630.txt">Short version (IT: riassunto)</a>
+-->
<hr>
<address>
<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/community/team.php">GRASS Development Team</a><br>
-Date: [DATE] (last changed: $Date$)
+Date: 19 April 2008 (last changed: $Date$)
</address>
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