State of 8.5?

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Hello !

Preparing my State of GRASS talk for next weeks foss4g.be, I was wondering: what is the current roadmap for 8.5 and are there already some draft release notes or some info on the main changes that I could cite from ? I cannot find messages about it here, nor in Github discussions. Any pointers would be welcome.

Thanks !
Moritz

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I’ll let others chime in, but we decided to delay 8.5 to after the end of this summer’s GSoC to have more JSON output in modules for that release. It will be a release on the bigger side, nice python improvements, great new and soooo beautiful docs (take a look on the grass-devel instead of grass-stable in the docs website) + markdown based docs instead of HTML (easier for writing docs when contributing addons for example), experimental CMake build system support, loads and loads of code quality improvements, both in C and in Python.

For changes to the actual modules (what’s new, what’s changed), I don’t have a summary in mind, someone else will need to answer

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And if you wanted to see a preview of what the release notes would look like before manually selecting highlights and fixing classification issues, we run the script that creates the markdown in CI, but on the 31 last commits. It would be possible to run it with all history to see all of what changed:

An example of the workflow definition:

And the resulting markdown snippet:

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Hello Moritz,

some (not well structure but at least any) info about plans for 8.5 is available at last PSC notes PSC Meeting 2025-08-08 - GRASS-Wiki. Regarding the release I think we agreed that 8.5 could be released in November.

From the GUI side, the biggest thing planned for 8.5 is the support for working with Jupyter notebooks (
wxGUI: Initial support for Jupyter-based workflows by lindakarlovska · Pull Request #5901 · OSGeo/grass · GitHub).

Linda
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echoix
September 18

And if you wanted to see a preview of what the release notes would look like before manually selecting highlights and fixing classification issues, we run the script that creates the markdown in CI, but on the 31 last commits. It would be possible to run it with all history to see all of what changed:

An example of the workflow definition:

github.com

CI(deps): Lock file maintenance (#6361)Additional Checks #13172

And the resulting markdown snippet:

github.com

CI(deps): Lock file maintenance (#6361)Additional Checks #13172

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echoix
September 18

I’ll let others chime in, but we decided to delay 8.5 to after the end of this summer’s GSoC to have more JSON output in modules for that release. It will be a release on the bigger side, nice python improvements, great new and soooo beautiful docs (take a look on the grass-devel instead of grass-stable in the docs website) + markdown based docs instead of HTML (easier for writing docs when contributing addons for example), experimental CMake build system support, loads and loads of code quality improvements, both in C and in Python.

For changes to the actual modules (what’s new, what’s changed), I don’t have a summary in mind, someone else will need to answer

mlennert
September 17

Hello !

Preparing my State of GRASS talk for next weeks foss4g.be, I was wondering: what is the current roadmap for 8.5 and are there already some draft release notes or some info on the main changes that I could cite from ? I cannot find messages about it here, nor in Github discussions. Any pointers would be welcome.

Thanks !
Moritz

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Thanks a lot to both of you ! Very helpful :slightly_smiling_face: