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

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[ <a href="../index.php">HOME</a> ]
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<h2>GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released xxx 2005</h2>

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

<ul>
<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>
and the previous <a href="announce_grass600.html">GRASS 6.0.0 Announcement</a>.</p>

<h3>What's new in GRASS 6.1.0</h3>

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

(see ChangeLog for details)

<ul>
<li> Compilation: lots of ANSI C fixes including gcc4 compatibility
<li> Documentation/MAN: various fixes and improvements (support of expressions etc)
<li> Programmer's Manual: continued doxygen integration and automated extraction into
     PDF/HTML formats
<li> Translation:: added and extended various languages
<li> raster maps: optionally large file support (LFS) for maps &gt; 2GB
<li> DBMI: sqlite driver added; sql parser extended
<li> Support of long map/mapset names
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<li> d.correlate: added
<li> d.grid: added geographic grid support
<li> d.m: improved layout; added functionality
<li> d.mvmon: added
<li> d.out.file: added
<li> d.text: text rotation added
<li> d.vect: variable vector line width added
<li> d.vect.thematic: added
<li> g.html2man: fixes for MAN output
<li> i.in.spotvgt: added
<li> i.ortho.photo/i.rectify: no longer email notification
<li> nviz: integrated into single user interface; animation labels; new flythrough navigation
<li> ps.map: various improvements (RGB etc)
<li> r.flow: disabled LatLong support
<li> r.in.srtm: add flag to also read in US 1-arcsec tiles
<li> r.out.vtk: added
<li> r.profile: data input improved
<li> r.sim.sediment: added
<li> r.sim.water: added
<li> r.sun: fixed units in description
<li> r.support: re-added
<li> r3.*: code improvements and extended functionality for voxel data
<li> r3.out.vtk: added
<li> v.db.addcol: added
<li> v.db.addtable: added
<li> v.db.droptable: added
<li> v.db.reconnect.all: added
<li> v.db.select: multiple column support added
<li> v.db.update: added
<li> v.in.e00: fixed and speedup
<li> v.in.gns: added
<li> v.in.mapgen: added
<li> v.rast.stats: added
<li> v.report: added
<li> v.surf.rst: default npmin fixed; fix for reading spatially variable smoothing
<li> v.to.rast: added option to compute the direction (angle) of lines
<li> v.to.rast3: added
<li> v.univar.sh: added
<li> Scripts: Again fixes 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_6.1.0.gz</a>.</p>

<P>
For a complete list of command in GRASS 6.1.0, see  
<a href="../grass60/manuals/html61_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 6.0.1beta1 released xxx
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<a href=http://grass.itc.it>GRASS Development Team</a> <br>
Date: 30 September 2005 (last changed: $Date: 2005/09/30 16:09:34 $)
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