GRASS 6.4.0 RC1 released

A first release candidate of GRASS 6.4.0 is now available:

https://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/
-> grass-6.4.0RC1.tar.gz

To get the RC1 source code from SVN:
  svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20081223_grass_6_4_0RC1/ grass64_rc1

An initial announcement has been drafted at
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.0RC1-News

Key fixes include improved portability for MS-Windows (native support),
hundreds of fixes, wxPython based portable graphical interface and much
new functionality.

Release candidate management at
https://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_6.4_Feature_Plan

Please test, test, test...

Thanks to all contributors!

Markus
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MapServer Graduates OSGeo Incubation

OSGeo is pleased to announce that the MapServer project has graduated from the incubation process and is now a full fledged OSGeo project with Steve Lime appointed as project representative (Vice President, MapServer).

MapServer is a web map server for building spatially enabled web applications. MapServer excels at rendering spatial data (maps, images, and vector data) for the Web, supporting a wide variety of geospatial input formats, and Web output formats. MapServer supports a pure CGI mode, as well as developing server applications in languages such as Python, Perl, Java and C#.

https://mapserver.osgeo.org/

Graduating incubation includes requirements for open community operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance and license verification and general good project operation. Graduating incubation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project and gives potential users of the project added confidence in the viability and safety of the project (see https://www.osgeo.org/incubator).

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GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 Released

The GDAL/OGR project team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.6.0. This release represents 11 months of new feature development since the GDAL/OGR 1.5.0 release, as well as many bug fixes. The release source code is available as described at:

https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource

The new release includes the following feature highlights, with detailed information on changes at:

https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.6.0-News

New Raster Drivers:

  • BLX Magellan Topo Driver (New)
  • EIR Erdas Imagine Raw Driver (New)
  • Oracle GeoRaster Driver (New)
  • GRIB Driver (now part of standard distribution)
  • LCP (FARSITE) Driver (New)
  • Terralib driver (New)

New Vector Drivers:

  • Geoconcept Export Driver (New)
  • INGRES RDBMS Driver (New)
  • XPlane/Flightgear Driver (New)

General:

  • RFC 20: Preliminary support for alternate axis orientations in SRS.
  • On the fly access to data in .zip and .gz compressed files.
  • RFC 22: Support for reading from, and warping with RPC (Rational Polynomial Coefficients) from various formats.
  • Gaussian and Mode resampling added for overview generation.
  • Added raster to vector (polygon) conversion utility.
  • Added raster proximity utility.
  • Added raster sieve filtering utility.
  • Added -expand rgb/rgba ability to gdal_translate
  • Added cutline / blend support to gdalwarp.
  • Added -segmentize option to ogr2ogr to break long line segments.
  • RFC 23: Preliminary support for character set transcoding (in OGR for now).
  • RFC 21: OGR SQL supports type casting and field name aliasing
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