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The GRASS Development Team announces:&nbsp; 
GRASS GIS 5.0.0pre5 released 25&nbsp; June 2002</h1>
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 (<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>).
Platforms supported by GRASS:
 GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris/Intel,
Silicon Graphics Irix, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, PowerPC, MacOS X, AIX, BSD, CRAY
, iPAQ/Linux and other UNIX compliant platforms (32/64bit), Windows NT/2000/XP
running Cygnus.
Where to get the new release:
<blockquote><a href="http://grass.itc.it/download.html">http://grass.itc.it</a>
 <a href="http://www3.baylor.edu/grass/download.html">http://www3.baylor.edu/grass/</a>
 and through the <a href="../grass.mirrors.html">mirrors</a>
(Argentina | Australia (local only) | Brazil | Croatia | Finland | France
| Germany | Italy | Japan | Namibia | Poland | Slovakia | South Africa
| South Korea | Taiwan | Thailand (NECTEC) | Turkey | Uruguay | U.S.A.
(ibiblio.org))</blockquote>
The new source code is available, selected
binaries will be built the next days.
 A <a href="../grass5/source/NEWS.html">NEWS</a>
file briefly describes the major&nbsp; changes, the full <a href="../grass5/source/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>
is also available.
The general focus of the GRASS 5.0.x series
is stability and reliability. Proposed major changes in vector and attribute
management are scheduled for the next stable series, planned as GRASS 5.2.x.
Work for this has started by developers using an experimental series numbered
5.1.x since December 2001.
 For details on GRASS software capabilities
please refer to: <a href="../general.html">http://grass.itc.it/general.html</a>.
What's new in GRASS 5.0.0pre5:
<ul>
<li>
Details: please read <a href="../grass5/source/NEWS.html">NEWS</a></li>

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<font face="Arial, Helvetica">Improvements (excerpt only, for details see
NEWS above):</font></li>

<ul>
<li>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica">implemented NAD/NAD datum transformation
for r.proj, s.proj, v.proj</font></li>

<li>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica">fixed nasty installation bug</font></li>

<li>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica">implemented "Krovak" and "Krovakgis" projection
for Czechia and Slovakia</font></li>
</ul>

<li>
updated module documentation (<a href="../gdp/html_grass5/index.html">HTML</a>
and <a href="../grass5/manuals/">PDF</a>)\</li>
</ul>
GRASS 5 Upgrade NOTE:
 Only, in case you upgrade from GRASSbeta1..beta11,
you have to convert the floating point raster data. <a href="announce_lzw_removal.html">Find
more here</a>.
Why is 5.0.0 not yet released?
 The developers want to ensure that 5.0.0
is a stable release. With the current GRASS development team the way GRASS
is development has been changed significantly. It mostly relies on people
willing to help. This 5.0.0pre4 release is a candidate for becoming the
5.0.0 release. It can only be made stable if it enjoys a lot of testing.
Please give it a spin. Report bugs to the <a href="http://grass.itc.it/bugtracking/bugreport.html">GRASS
bugtracker</a>. Don't hesitate to
report a bug which you find in the new release.
In case you are interested to join the
developers team, and/or share algorithms or ideas with the GRASS community,
contact us!
 <a href="http://grass.itc.it/grassdevel.html">http://grass.itc.it/grassdevel.html</a>
 <a href="http://www3.baylor.edu/grass/grassdevel.html">http://www3.baylor.edu/grass/grassdevel.html</a>
We hope you enjoy the ongoing development!
 On behalf of the GRASS Development Team
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="mailto:neteler at itc.it">Markus
Neteler</a>
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 Date: 26 June 2002 (last changed: $Date:
2002/05/13 19:01:29 $)
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