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<b>The GRASS Development Team announces:</b>

<h2>GRASS GIS 5.0.3 released 6 November 2003</h2>

A new release of GRASS 5.0.x has been published.  This is the
stable release branch of the GRASS project.  V5.0.3 is a bugfix release.<br>

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>).

<h3>Platforms supported by GRASS:</h3>

GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris (SPARC/Intel), Silicon Graphics Irix, 
Mac OS X/Darwin, MS-Windows NT/2000/XP with Cygnus, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, AIX, BSD,
iPAQ/Linux and other UNIX compliant platforms (32/64bit).

<h3>Software download:</h3>

<a href="http://grass.itc.it/download.html">http://grass.itc.it</a> ,
<a href="http://grass.ibiblio.org/download.html">http://grass.ibiblio.org/</a>
and from various <a href="../grass.mirrors.html">mirror sites</a>.

The new source code is available now, and selected binaries will be published 
shortly.

<h3>Documentation download:</h3>

Module documentation is available in different formats:
<a href="../gdp/html_grass5/index.html">HTML</a> and
<a href="../grass5/manuals/">PDF</a>.

<br>For details on GRASS software capabilities please refer to:
<a href="../general.html">http://grass.itc.it/general.html</a>.

<h3>Changes in GRASS 5.0.3:</h3>
A <a href="../grass5/source/NEWS.html">NEWS</a> file briefly describes the
major changes, the full <a href="../grass5/source/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a>
is also available.

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

<p>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.

<p>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.

<p>We are always looking for both testers and developers to help us maintain
and accelerate this development cycle.
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<a href=http://grass.itc.it>GRASS Development Team</a> <br>
Date: 6 November 2003 (last changed: $Date: 2003/11/11 20:21:53 $)
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