[GRASS-user] [GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released

[Paulo van Breugel]

Congratulations on this milestone!

On February 3, 2022 6:28:47 PM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> GRASS GIS 8.0.0 released
>
> Overview of changes
> After more than 3 year of development the first stable release GRASS GIS 
> 8.0.0 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.
> Breaking news: new graphical user interface with entirely rewritten startup 
> sequence!
> This re-establishes user experience compatibility with QGIS and other 
> connected software packages.
> The GRASS GIS 8.0.0 release provides more than 1,400 fixes and improvements 
> with respect to the release 7.8.6.
> 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 
> t.upgrade. If users want to read newly created space-time datasets back in 
> GRASS 7.x, they can run t.downgrade.
> Launching the software
> The user experience of the graphical user interface has been completely 
> rewritten: no more clumsy selection screens - just enter the menu system 
> directly!
> And on command line, GRASS GIS now starts versionless, i.e. as grass.
> Downloads
> Source code (zip) | Source code (tar.gz)
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass80/source
> Binaries: https://grass.osgeo.org/download/
> Visit the release page for detailed release notes.
> Thanks to all contributors!
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