The most important news of the GRASS project is that it has
sucessfully passed the OSGeo incubation process. The graduation
suggested by the Incubation committee has been approved in the 33rd
board meeting on Feb. 8th, 2008. A lot of energy was necessary from
the GRASS developers and the community during the two years to meet
the requirements of the OSGeo Foundation.

Another import news is the migration of the GRASS CVS server (hosted
by Intevation, Germany) into a SVN server on  OSGeo infrastructure
(\url{https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass}). The decision has been made
after a vote by the GRASS Project Steering Committee. The GRASS
community would like to thank the team from Intevation for hosting the
GRASS CVS server and bugtracker for the past seven years. Their work
has been a great benefit and has had a large share on the success of
the project.

GRASS 6.2.3, which included only several bugfixes, was published on
Nov. 27th, 2007. The fifth release candidate of the technology preview
version GRASS 6.3.0 was published on Feb. 19th, 2008. GRASS 6.3.0 RC5
adds hundreds of new features, support for the latest GIS data
formats, and includes new translations for many languages. It is the
first version which also runs natively on MS-Windows. Additionally,
the prototype of a new Python based user interface is included.
The start of the GRASS 7 development is scheduled for February 2008.

On the project website, the screenshot section was rebuild
(\url{http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots}). For more information
please visit the GRASS news item.