GRASS GIS 6.4.4 RC1 released

GRASS GIS 6.4.4RC1 released

First release candidate of GRASS GIS 6.4.4 with improvements and stability fixes.

After months of development a first release candidate of GRASS GIS 6.4.4 is now available.

Source code download:

• https://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/
• https://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/grass-6.4.4RC1.tar.gz

Binaries download:

• winGRASS 6.4.4RC1 standalone installer
• winGRASS 6.4.4RC1 in OSGeo4W installer
• Arch Linux
• openSUSE One-Click installer
• Ubuntu
• ... further packages will follow shortly.

To get the GRASS GIS 6.4.4RC1 source code directly from SVN:

svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/tags/release_20140614_grass_6_4_4RC1

Key improvements of this release include a complete rewrite of the r.li suite, major fixes for buffers (v.buffer, now based on GEOS library), major speedup for some vector modules (v.rast.stats and v.in.gpsbabel), various fixes for the wxPython based portable graphical interface (wxNVIZ, Location Wizard or Cartographic Composer), enabled Cairo dependency for MS-Windows, and more message translations.

See also our detailed announcement:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/6.4.4RC1-News

First time users should explore the first steps tutorial after installation.

Release candidate management at
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass6Planning

Please join us in testing this release candidate for the final release.

Consider to donate pizza or beer for the next GRASS GIS Community Sprint:
https://grass.osgeo.org/donations/

Thanks to all contributors!