Platforms supported by GRASS:
Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris/Intel,
Silicon Graphics Irix, HP-UX, DEC-Alpha, PowerPC, MacOS X, AIX, BSD, CRAY
and other UNIX compliant platforms (32/64bit), experimentally Windows NT/2000/XP
running Cygnus.
Where to get the new release:
http://grass.itc.it
http://www.baylor.edu/grass/
and on the mirrors
(Australia (local only) | Belgium | Croatia | France | Germany | Italy
| Japan | Namibia | Poland | Slovakia | South Korea | South Korea (KSIC
Ltd.) | Taiwan | Thailand (NECTEC) | Turkey)
The new source code is available, selected binaries will be built the next days.
The general focus of this release is stability
and reliability. Proposed major changes in vector and attribute management
are scheduled for GRASS 5.1 which has been started in December 2001.
For details on GRASS software capabilities
please refer to: http://grass.itc.it/general.html.
The full ChangeLog is also available.
What's new in GRASS 5.0.0pre3:
Why still no stable version?
... because is is not stable yet. We first
want to sort out the remaining critical bugs which are listed at
GRASS bugtracker.
Don't hesitate to report a bug which you find in the new release.
In case you are interested to join the
developers team, and/or share algorithm or ideas with the GRASS community,
contact us!
http://grass.itc.it/grassdevel.html
http://www.baylor.edu/grass/grassdevel.html
We hope you enjoy the ongoing development!
On behalf of the GRASS Development Team