GRASS GIS 7.8.7RC1

This is an update release of the GRASS GIS 7.8 series.

Download source code tarball at

• https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.7RC1.tar.gz
• https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.7RC1.md5sum

For further release details (bug fixes and enhancements), see

• https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures78

The GRASS GIS 7.8.7 release provides more than 40 fixes and improvements with respect to the release 7.8.6.

What's Changed

Modules:

• g.extension.all: fix reinstall multi-addons #2082
• g.extension: disable checking multi-addon addons metadata #2090
• g.extension: fix get get_addons_paths func json_file attribute #2094
• g.extension: fix link generation in multi-addon man page for addons #2097
• i.spectral: show error message if one of the supported monitor isn't running #1991
• i.vi: fix PVI formula #1985
• r.sun: Fix metadata update on parallel computation #1514
• tgis db version mismatch: promote t.downgrade by @landam in #2002

wxGUI:

• wxGUI: font size Python 3.10 fix #2036
• wxGUI: no is_shell_running available by @neteler in #2056
• wxGUI: fix unexpected type float error with Python 3.10 #2030
• wxGUI/gui_core: fix change opacity level dialog min/max size #2067
• wxGUI: more Python 3.10 fixes #2050
• wxGUI/preferences.py: fix loading default user settings #2041
• wxGUI/splashscreen: use standard one, try to show it before main app, increase timeout #1718
• wxGUI/xml/toolboxes.xml: add missing 'r.fill.stats' module item inside 'InterpolateSurfaces' toolbox #1977
• remove .setpdfwrite option on MS Windows by @ninsbl in #1962

Translations

• i18n: Update for release branch 7.8 by @HuidaeCho in #2104

Unit tests/CI:

• grass.gunittest: Use collections.abc for Iterable (#2006) by @wenzeslaus in #2008
• CI: Remove Ubuntu 16.04 from GH Actions for 7.8 branch by @wenzeslaus in #2009
• grass.gunittest: Use collections.abc for Iterable #2008

GRASS GIS addons management:

• tools/mkhtml.py: fix module/official addons source code and history URL branch by @tmszi in #2038
• tools/mkhtml.py: replace f-string with format() function to maintain compatibility with Python 3.5/2.7 version by @tmszi in #2077
• tools/mkhtml.py: fix git cherry-pick commit cba6a7a by @tmszi in #2110

Portability:

• Fix linker flags on FreeBSD. #1936
• winGRASS: GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl to change form BU Execute to S-1-5-32-545 Generic User Read and Generic User Execute #2068
• OSGeo4W: add recent GDAL dlls #1874

Docker:

• Docker: Remove custom pip install for Alpine docker #2028

libgis:

• parser: Show error for option file #1433
• tools/mkhtml.py: fix get core modules commit from local git repo and remote GitHub API server #2113
• tools/mkhtml.py: fix module/official addons source code and history URL branch #2038
• tools/mkhtml.py: fix setting source code and history URL #2037
• tools/mkhtml.py: get and set git commit and commit date in addon manual page #2100
• tools/mkhtml.py: replace f-string with format() function #2077
• utils/mkhtml.py: fix get and set addon manual page source and history URL link #1892

New addons since GRASS GIS 7.8.6:

• d.region.grid: Add new tool to display grids
• v.to.rast.multi: create raster maps for multiple attributes of a vector map
• v.what.rast.label: Uploads raster values and labels to vector point layer

Full Changelog: 7.8.6...7.8.7RC1