[GRASSweb-list] markus: web/announces abstract_grass610.txt, 1.1,
1.2 announce_grass610.html, 1.26, 1.27
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Fri Aug 11 05:58:26 EDT 2006
Author: markus
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Log Message:
GRASS 6.1.0 released
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GRASS GIS releases version 6.1.0
-[DAY] [MONTH] 2006
+11 August 2006
http://grass.itc.it
This new release includes hundreds of new features and support for the
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+++ announce_grass610.html 11 Aug 2006 09:58:23 -0000 1.27
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="Author" content="GRASS Development Team">
- <title>GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released [DAY] [MONTH] 2006</title>
+ <title>GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../sitestyle.css">
</head>
<body>
@@ -14,13 +14,11 @@
[ <a href="../index.php">HOME</a> ]
</div>
-<i>THIS IS A DRAFT DOCUMENT ONLY</i>
-
-<h2>GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released [DAY] [MONTH] 2006</h2>
+<h2>GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006</h2>
<p>
-A new version of <a href="http://grass.itc.it">GRASS GIS</a> is being
-released today in preparation for the next benchmark release, GRASS 6.2.
+A new technology preview version of <a href="http://grass.itc.it">GRASS GIS</a>
+is being released today in preparation for the next benchmark release, GRASS 6.2.
This feature release, version 6.1.0, improves upon the previous stable
version of GRASS by adding hundreds of new features as well as support
for the latest GIS data formats.
@@ -54,12 +52,12 @@
The NVIZ visualization tool has been enhanced to display 3D vector data
and voxel volumes and supports the creation of on-the-fly MPEG animations.
Additional improvements include substantial message translation
-(i18n) with support for FreeType fonts, including multibyte Asian
+(i18n) with support for FreeType fonts, including multi-byte Asian
characters, and tools to allow new project locations to be automatically
generated from input data or EPSG code.
<P>
-This is the first release of GRASS as a founding project of the new
+This is the first release of GRASS as a proposed founding project of the new
<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/">Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a>.
In support of the movement towards consolidation in the open source geospatial
software world, GRASS is tightly integrated with the latest GDAL/OGR libraries.
@@ -69,6 +67,11 @@
and the easy definition of new and rare map projections via custom
parameterization.
+<h3>Screenshots</h3>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://grass.itc.it/grass61/screenshots/index.php">Screenshots</a> of GRASS 6.1 in action
+</ul>
<h3>Platforms supported by GRASS:</h3>
@@ -107,7 +110,7 @@
<ul>
<li>Numerous bug fixes
<ul>
- <li>see ChangeLog for details
+ <li>see <a href="http://grass.itc.it/grass61/source/ChangeLog_6.1.0.gz">ChangeLog</a> text file for details
</ul>
<li>Source code quality/libraries:
<ul>
@@ -115,7 +118,7 @@
<li> Ported <a href="http://mpa.itc.it/radim/wingrass/">natively to MS-Windows</a> (MinGW based)
<li> Included header files improved, many compiler warnings fixed
<li> Compilation: compatibility with GCC 4
- <li> Programmer's Manual: continued doxygen integration and automated extraction into
+ <li> <a href="http://grass.itc.it/devel/index.php#prog">Programmer's Manual</a>: continued doxygen integration and automated extraction into
PDF/HTML formats. Publicly available for download and perusal.
<li> SUBMITTING, SUBMITTING_SCRIPTS, SUBMITTING_TCLTK: Improved instructions for code submission
<li> GRASS-SWIG prototype interface added (library bindings for PERL and Python)
@@ -129,18 +132,18 @@
<li> Display: 100% CPU use during interactive mouse functions fixed
<li> Projection code database: updated to EPSG 6.9
<li> TclTk 8.4 supported for Debian and other platforms using threaded libraries
- <li> Full FFTW3 support for faster Fourier Transforms
+ <li> Full FFTW3 support for fast Fourier Transforms
<li> NetBSD configuration fixes
</ul>
<li> New Quality control systems:
<ul>
<li> New internal GRASS test suite (scripts collection in testsuite/)
<li> New external <a href="http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/GRASS_TestSuite/html/Summary.html">GRASS test suite</a> (TU Berlin)
- <li> New external <a href="http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-qa">GRASS Quality Assessment and monitoring system</a> (École Polytechnique de Montréal, ITC-irst)
+ <li> New external <a href="http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-qa">GRASS Quality Assessment and monitoring system</a> (École Polytechnique de Montréal and ITC-irst)
</ul>
<li> Graphical User Interface (GUI):
<ul>
- <li> Major improvements in the Tcl/TK based GUI
+ <li> Major improvements in the Tcl/TK based autogenerated GUI
<li> <b>gis.m</b>: new GIS manager added as an optional replacement for d.m
<li> <b>d.m</b>: Legacy support provides access to the latest features
together with continued system maturity
@@ -321,12 +324,13 @@
<ul>
<li>GRASS GIS 6.1.0beta1 released 14 July 2006
<li>GRASS GIS 6.1.0RC1 released 2 Aug 2006
+<li>GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006
</ul>
<hr>
<address>
<a href=http://grass.itc.it>GRASS Development Team</a> <br>
-Date: [DAY] [MONTH] 2006 (last changed: $Date$)
+Date: 11 August 2006 (last changed: $Date$)
</address>
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