GRASS GIS 8.4.1RC1 released

Release candidate 1

The GRASS GIS 8.4.1RC1 release provides more than 70 improvements and fixes with respect to the release 8.4.0. Please support us in testing this release candidate.

Highlights

  • r.sim.water: tool and its documentation received various updates
  • GUI: stability fixes
  • manual pages: many minor corrections including external URL updates
  • Mac binaries are now notarized

New Addon Tools

  • r.slopeunits: toolset that creates, cleans and calculate metrics for slope units
  • r.watersheds: New addon for OpenMP parallel watershed delineation based on Cho (2025)
  • r.in.vect: new addon to import a vector map as raster layer
  • r.maxent.setup: new addon and refactoring r.maxent.predict and r.maxent.train
  • r.buildvrt.gdal: Create GDAL VRTs for GDAL linked raster maps

What’s Changed

See https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.4.1RC1

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Thanks to all contributors!