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

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<h2>GRASS GIS 6.0.2 released 22 December 2005</h2>

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A bugfix release of <a href="http://grass.itc.it">GRASS GIS</a>
has been published today.

<p>The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as
GRASS GIS, is a Geographical Information System (GIS) used for data
management, image processing, graphics production, spatial modeling, and
visualization of raster, vector and sites data. It is open source
Free Software released under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU 
General Public License (GPL)</a>. The new features of GRASS 6 cover
a new topological 2D/3D vector engine and support for vector network analysis.
Attributes are now managed in an SQL-based DBMS. A new display manager has been
implemented. The NVIZ visualization tool was enhanced to display 3D vector data
and voxel volumes. Messages are partially translated (i18N) with support for
FreeType fonts, including multibyte Asian characters. New LOCATIONs can be
auto-generated by EPSG code number. GRASS is integrated with GDAL/OGR libraries
to support an extensive range of raster and vector formats, including 
OGC-conformal Simple Features.

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

<p>GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris (SPARC/Intel), Silicon Graphics Irix, 
Mac OS X/Darwin, Microsoft Windows with Cygwin, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, AIX, BSD,
iPAQ/Linux and other UNIX compliant platforms (32/64bit).</p>

<h3>Software download/CDROM:</h3>

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<li><a href="http://grass.itc.it/download/index.php">http://grass.itc.it</a></li>
<li><a href="http://grass.ibiblio.org/download/index.php">http://grass.ibiblio.org</a></li>
<li>various <a href="../mirrors.php">mirror sites</a></li>
<li><a href="../download/cdrom.php">GRASS on CDROM/DVD</a></li>
</ul>

<p>The new source code is available now, and selected binary distributions for
major operating systems will be published shortly.</p>

<p>For details on GRASS software capabilities please refer to:
<a href="../intro/general.php">http://grass.itc.it/intro/general.php</a>,
the previous <a href="announce_grass600.html">GRASS 6.0.0 Announcement</a>,
and the previous <a href="announce_grass601.html">GRASS 6.0.1 Announcement</a>.</p>

<h3>What's new in GRASS 6.0.2</h3>

<p><b>Selected Bugfixes</b>

(see ChangeLog for details)

<ul>
<li> no longer ring the bell for messages which just inform
<li> gis library: fixed (rare) bug where row pointers were enlarged to 8 bytes, overwriting the beginning of the data
<li> sites library: bugfix for gstat interface
<li> Documentation: updates
<li> New mapset creation: pre-define DBF default settings for attributes
<li> ps.map: region command fixed
<li> r.fillnulls: extended ring to 3 pixels, MASK management fix; resolution < 1 fix
<li> r.regression.line: functional now
<li> r.stats: fixed segmentation fault in certain cases
<li> v.in.e00: do rebuild topology
<li> Scripts: Fixed remaining awk related calculation problems in scripts for various locales
</ul>

<P>
For a more comprehensive list of changed modules see the 
<a href="../grass60/source/">ChangeLog_6.0.2.gz</a>.</p>

<P>
For a complete list of command in GRASS 6.0.2, see  
<a href="../grass60/manuals/html60_user/index.html">HTML manuals</a>.</p>

<p><BR><i>We are always looking for both testers and developers to
<a href="../devel/index.php">help</a> us maintain and accelerate this 
development cycle.</i></p>

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Release history:
<br>GRASS GIS 6.0.0beta1 released 12 January 2005
<br>GRASS GIS 6.0.0beta2 released 4 February 2005
<br>GRASS GIS 6.0.0 released 10 March 2005
<br>GRASS GIS 6.0.1RC1 released 3 August 2005
<br>GRASS GIS 6.0.1RC2 released 8 August 2005
<br>GRASS GIS 6.0.1 released 22 August 2005
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