<div dir="ltr"><div><h3>GRASS GIS 8.0.0RC2 released</h3><h3>Overview of changes</h3>
<p>After more than 3 year of development the <strong>first stable release GRASS GIS 8.0.0</strong>
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.</p>
<p><strong>Breaking news: new graphical user interface with entirely rewritten startup sequence!</strong></p>
<p>This re-establishes user experience compatibility with QGIS and other connected software packages.</p>
<p>The GRASS GIS 8.0.0 release provides more than <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/compare/7.8.6...8.0.0RC1">1,300 fixes and improvements</a> with respect to the release 7.8.6.</p>
<p>With the introduction of the semantic label raster metadata class,
the temporal database was modified to version 3. Hence, to be able to
read and process GRASS 7.x space-time datasets, users will be prompted
to run <code>t.upgrade</code>. If users want to read newly created space-time datasets back in GRASS 7.x, they can run <code>t.downgrade</code>.</p><h4>Release details</h4><p><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.0.0RC2">https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.0.0RC2</a></p><h4>Launching the software</h4>
<p>The user experience of the graphical user interface has been
completely rewritten: no more clumsy selection screens - just enter the
menu system directly!</p>
<p>And on command line, GRASS GIS now starts versionless, i.e. as <code>grass</code>.</p> <h3 class="gmail-d-inline">Assets</h3><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/archive/refs/tags/8.0.0RC2.zip" rel="nofollow"><span class="gmail-px-1 gmail-text-bold">Source code</span>
(zip)
</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/archive/refs/tags/8.0.0RC2.tar.gz" rel="nofollow"><span class="gmail-px-1 gmail-text-bold">Source code</span>
(tar.gz)
</a></li><li><a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass80/source/">https://grass.osgeo.org/grass80/source/</a></li></ul><div>Thanks to all contributors!<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>