GRASS GIS 7.8.8 released

Sunday, August 6, 2023

What’s new in a nutshell

The GRASS GIS 7.8.8 release provides more than 80 improvements and fixes compared to the 7.8.7 release. This release is expected to be the last 7.8 release. Development continues with GRASS GIS 8.x.

The overview of features in the 7.8 release series is available at new features in GRASS GIS 7.8. See also our detailed announcement with the full list of changes and bugs fixed at https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/7.8.8.

Binaries/Installer download:

winGRASS 7.8.8/standalone: 64bit standalone installer
winGRASS 7.8.8/OSGeo4W: 64bit OSGeo4W installer
Mac
- forthcoming at Official Application Bundle
- MacPorts
Linux
- Debian
- Fedora/Centos/EPEL
- Ubuntu
- … further binary packages for other Linux distributions will follow shortly, please check at software downloads

Source code download:

https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/
https://grass.osgeo.org/grass78/source/grass-7.8.8.tar.gz
To get the GRASS GIS 7.8.8 source code directly from GitHub, see here.

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

About GRASS GIS

The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (https://grass.osgeo.org/), commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is an Open Source Geographic Information System providing powerful raster, vector and geospatial processing capabilities. It can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics or in the cloud. It is distributed freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). GRASS GIS is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

The GRASS Development Team, Aug 2023