diff --git a/doc/rst/source/changes.rst b/doc/rst/source/changes.rst index c78ac2407d8..96c980f751e 100644 --- a/doc/rst/source/changes.rst +++ b/doc/rst/source/changes.rst @@ -6,6 +6,100 @@ Changelog ========= +New Features in GMT 6.5 +======================= + +GMT 6.5 includes multiple new supplement modules, many new features, general code and documentation improvements, and numerous +bug fixes! Here are the general updates included in 6.5: + +* Add legend symbol for confidence lines (`#6890 `_) +* Allow format flags F and G in ``FORMAT_GEO_MAP`` to come first or last (`#7215 `_) +* Allow ``MAP_FRAME_TYPE=graph-origin`` (`#6824 `_) +* Enhance -o common option to accept the same transformations as -i (`#7887 `_) +* Improve support for GMT one-liners (`#7105 `_), (`#7099 `_) +* Improve support for guessing the date format (`#7901 `_) +* Let -U common option take +ttext to override time stamp (`#7127 `_) +* Support filling the area between two time- or space-series (`#7900 `_) +* Support leading zeros in the map frame(`#7655 `_) +* Update Scientific Color Maps to version 8 (`#7575 `_) + +New Core Module Features in GMT 6.5 +----------------------------------- + +* :doc:`batch`: Allow -F to set a more specific naming template (`#6934 `_) +* :doc:`batch`: Let -D drop the mandatory moving of product files (`#6933 `_) +* :doc:`gmtspatial`: Augment with -N+i to treat each point individually (`#7747 `_) +* :doc:`grdcut`: Let -E extract a vertical slice from a 3-D cube (`#7961 `_) +* :doc:`movie`: Let -A handle addition of audio track (`#7461 `_) +* :doc:`psconvert`: Add option to transpose a dataset (`#7478 `_) +* :doc:`sample1d`: Add -Fe for step-up sampling (`#7488 `_) + +Supplement updates in GMT 6.5 +----------------------------- + +* New supplement modules for the Global Seafloor Fabric and Magnetic Lineations (``_) +* New supplement to plot symbols for the wind direction and wind speed +* New supplement modules **grdshake** and **grdvs30** to build shake-maps + +Enhancements in GMT 6.5 +----------------------- + +* :doc:`clear`: Allow removing any one dataset and listing directories to be deleted (`#7740 `_) +* :doc:`colorbar`: Add -LI to label first and last panel with < and > (`#8246 `_) +* :doc:`colorbar`: Add modifer +r to -S to only annotate the CPT limits (`#7728 `_) +* :doc:`colorbar`: Default to color bars with gaps for categorical CPTs (`#7831 `_) +* :doc:`colorbar`: Make sure only low and high contributes to decimal count in -S+r (`#7730 `_) +* :doc:`events`: Enhance the curves to do linear, quadratic or cosine ramp (`#7680 `_) +* :doc:`gmtmath`: Allow trailing text to be kept for output (`#7759 `_) +* :doc:`gmtlogo` Add modifier +hheight to set logo height instead of width (`#7458 `_) +* :doc:`gmtselect`: Add modifier +h[k|s] to -Z to pick z-value from segment header (`#7309 `_) +* :doc:`grdclip`: Enhance -Sa -Sb with modifier +e for equality (`#7858 `_) +* :doc:`grdmix`: Add -C[cpt] to build an image directly from a grid and a CPT (`#8193 `_) +* :doc:`grdimage`: Allow processing byte images without indexed colors, via CPT (`#7827 `_) +* :doc:`grdimage`: Handle mask grids with automatic CPT (`#6930 `_), (`#6931 `_) +* :doc:`grdimage`: Share -T with :doc:`grdview` (`#7315 `_) +* :doc:`grdinfo`: Add -Io for oblique format (`#7413 `_) +* :doc:`grdmath`: Control what happens to grid CPT settings (`#6916 `_) +* :doc:`grdpaste`: Add option to only report the "pasting" side. (`#7368 `_) +* :doc:`grd2cpt`: Support features from makecpt and improve docs (`#8138 `_) +* :doc:`grd2xyz`, :doc:`sample1d`: Add -Ccpt option to sample colors (`#8195 `_) +* :doc:`greenspline`: Add new option -K for statistics output to file or stdout (`#8162 `_) +* :doc:`greenspline`: Implement -Q for 1d (`#7155 `_) +* :doc:`image`: Allow -D+w to specify just height (`#7447 `_) +* :doc:`makecpt`: Add mechanism for passing -Tlist via a file (`#7569 `_) +* :doc:`makecpt`, :doc:`grd2cpt`: Let -Fx write hex CPT tables (`#7019 `_) +* :doc:`mapproject`: Add -Wm|M to get the rectangular region in projected coordinates (`#7611 `_) +* :doc:`mapproject`: Determine bounding box for oblique area (`#7657 `_) +* :doc:`movie`: Open and play movie if gmt end show is used (`#7456 `_) +* :doc:`plot`: Allow +apangle for decorated lines (`#8182 `_) +* :doc:`plot`, :doc:`plot3d`: Allow plot -Z to also control line/polygon transparency (`#7767 `_), (`#7765 `_) +* :doc:`plot`: Let box-and-whisker symbols take separate width and cap (`#7072 `_) +* :doc:`plot`: Treat stroke symbols like other symbols (`#7789 `_) +* :doc:`psconvert`: Let -N+kfill set alternate fade fill (`#7972 `_) +* :doc:`pslegend`: Let -D+w accept a percentage relative to map width (`#7909 `_) +* :doc:`sphdistance`: Check that -Q is given a file (`#7619 `_) +* :doc:`triangulate`: Enhance -S with modifier +z so we can write -Zvalue in headers (`#7815 `_) +* :doc:`/supplements/seis/meca`, :doc:`/supplements/seis/coupe`: Enhance meca and coupe w.r.t. adjusting positions and connecting with a line (`#7778 `_) +* :doc:`/supplements/potential/gravfft`: Clarify what happens with NaNs (`#6937 `_) +* :doc:`/supplements/potential/gravprisms`: Enhance -D with +c for computing contrasts (`#6894 `_) +* :doc:`/supplements/potential/gravprisms`: Add +b modifier to -H to boost the seamount height (`#6875 `_) +* :doc:`/supplements/potential/gravprisms`: Allow -Drho to be used with -H for density contrasts (`#6837 `_) +* :doc:`/supplements/potential/gravprisms`: Handle interfaces (`#6829 `_) +* :doc:`/supplements/potential/grdflexure`: Better handle combination of -H and -W (`#6809 `_) + + +Maintenance updates in GMT 6.5 +------------------------------ + +* Allow xxx.yyy.zzz as dataserver format (`#7753 `_) +* Simplify handling of ``USERDIR`` and ``CACHEDIR`` (`#7879 `_) + +Deprecations in GMT 6.5 +----------------------- + +* :doc:`grdinterpolate`: Fix mistake in using +1|2 instead of +d1|2 (`#6958 `_) +* :doc:`psconvert`: Deprecates -N+i for ancient ghostscript versions (`7972 `_) + New Features in GMT 6.4 ======================= @@ -76,8 +170,8 @@ Enhancements in GMT 6.4 * Handle longer strings for netCDF history, remark and title (`#6084 `_) * Let -X -Y also handle multipliers and not just divisors (`#6305 `_) -Maintenance updates in GMT 6.4.0 --------------------------------- +Maintenance updates in GMT 6.4 +------------------------------ * Initialize data version control for managing test images (`#5888 `_) diff --git a/doc/rst/source/supplements/module_supplements_purpose.rst_ b/doc/rst/source/supplements/module_supplements_purpose.rst_ index 4ca2cd3f8db..a8a2181346f 100644 --- a/doc/rst/source/supplements/module_supplements_purpose.rst_ +++ b/doc/rst/source/supplements/module_supplements_purpose.rst_ @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ .. |barb_purpose| replace:: Plot wind barbs in 2-D and 3-D +.. |psbarb_purpose| replace:: Plot wind barbs in 2-D and 3-D + .. |grdshake_purpose| replace:: Compute Peak Ground Acceleration/Velocity and Intensity .. |grdvs30_purpose| replace:: Convert topographic slope to Vs30 velocities