[GRASS5] release announcement for grass 5.0.3

[Scott Mitchell]

Last chance for suggestions / objections:

(html/formatted version temporarily available at
http://rideau.carleton.ca/~smitch/announce_grass503.html )

The GRASS Development Team announces:
GRASS GIS 5.0.3 released 11 November 2003
A new bugfix release of GRASS 5.0.x has been published today.
The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to 
as GRASS GIS, is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for data 
management, image processing, graphics production, spatial modeling, 
and visualization of many types of data. It is Free Software released 
unter GNU General Public License (GPL).
Platforms supported by GRASS:
GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris/Intel, Silicon Graphics Irix, Mac 
OSX, MS-Windows NT/2000/XP with Cygnus, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, PowerPC, AIX, 
BSD, CRAY, iPAQ/Linux and other UNIX compliant platforms (32/64bit).
Software download:
http://grass.itc.it , http://grass.ibiblio.org/ and from various mirror 
sites. The new source code is available now, and selected binaries will 
be published shortly.
Documentation download:
Module documentation is available in different formats: HTML and PDF.
For details on GRASS software capabilities please refer to: 
http://grass.itc.it/general.html.
Changes in GRASS 5.0.3:
A NEWS file briefly describes the major changes, the full ChangeLog is 
also available.

GRASS 5.0.3 fixes only major bugs. There are no further scheduled 
releases in the 5.0.x series. Exception might be made for critical bug 
fixes.

The next planned stable release is 5.4.0. The corresponding development 
series 5.3.x features substantial improvements in projection 
capabilities, visualization ("nviz"), and has several new modules.

Major changes to the vector engine and attribute management system have 
been implemented in the 5.7.x line, which will become the next major 
production series as 5.8.x.

We are always looking for both testers and developers to help us 
maintain and accelerate this development cycle.
GRASS Development Team
Date: Mon, 6 November 2003 (last changed: $Date: 2003/11/11 19:06:33 $) 01:00:00 +0000 (GMT)


On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 04:08 Canada/Eastern, Bernhard Reiter 
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:54:18PM -0500, Scott W Mitchell wrote:
>> I'm trying to answer Markus' call for help on the picky details of
>> finishing the release of 5.0.3.  I'm editing the 5.0.2 release
>> announcement to create a version for 5.0.3, which is mostly trivial,
>> except for the paragraph describing development branches - it was
>> written before the new roadmap.
>>
>> So.  What should it say ?
>
> That is 5.8.x now.
> We probably should rephrase it to say the following
>
> 	GRASS 5.0.3 only fixes major bugs.
> 	There are no further scheduled releases in the 5.0.x series.
> 	Exception might be made for critical bug fixes.
>
> 	The next planned stable release is 5.4.0. The corresponding
> 	development series 5.3.x features improvements in ...
>
> 	Note that the majorly improved vector engine
> 	and attribute management systems are already in the
> 	experimental 5.7.x line.
>
> 	We always look for testers, and developers
> 	helping us to maintain a  faster release cycle.
>
> Just a suggestion.
>
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Scott W. Mitchell		Scott_Mitchell at carleton.ca
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
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