[Mapbender-users] Fwd: MS4W version 4.0.0-beta1 available

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Astrid, I have also integrated 3.0.7.7 into the stable MS4W 3.3.0 
release: https://ms4w.com/release/ms4w-3.3.0-setup.exe

-jeff



On 2019-02-05 2:35 AM, Astrid Emde wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> thanks for integrating the actual Mapbender 3.0.7.7 version to the MS4W 
> package. Great!
> 
> See you Astrid
> 
> Am 2019-02-05 02:43, schrieb Jeff McKenna:
>> Forwarding the announcement below to the Mapbender community, as
>> MS4W-4.0.0-beta1 contains a packaged Mapbender 3.0.7.7     Note that
>> MS4W-4.0.0 contains PHP 7.2.14 and its performance enhancements are
>> very noticeable.
>>
>> (I am aware that Mapbender does not officially support PHP 7.2.x yet,
>> but this will give users and devs a Windows environment to test and
>> help improve Mapbender for PHP 7.x)
>>
>> thanks, -jeff
>>
>>
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>> On 2019-02-04 8:46 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Many Windows users will be very interested that MS4W-4.0.0-beta1 is 
>>> available now, which will be a huge release of changes, as every library
>>> (over 200 now) has been upgraded and built with a new compiler 
>>> (Visual Studio 2017), and contains many great additions overall.  You 
>>> can test the beta at:
>>>
>>>   - installer: 
>>> https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w-4.0.0-beta1-setup.exe 
>>> (recommended)
>>>   - archive: https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w_4.0.0_beta1.zip
>>>
>>> Please see MS4W's HISTORY.txt for all of the changes, but here are 
>>> some of the highlights:
>>>
>>>   - Mapbox Vector Tile output through MapServer (demo included)
>>>   - PHP7 mapscript support (using the SWIG API)
>>>   - usual mapscripts available (Java, Python, CSharp)
>>>   - embedded Python 3.7.0
>>>   - running pycsw Catalogue Server
>>>   - expanded ZOO-Project WPS support (all GDAL/OGR services, Python, 
>>> PHP, CSharp, Java)
>>>   - new Matomo Analytics package
>>>   - simple map viewer on the localhost page
>>>   - GDAL 2.4.0
>>>   - MapServer 7.4.0-dev
>>>   - mod_wsgi for Apache
>>>   - and many more...
>>>
>>> You can see that MS4W-4.0.0 will be a full SDI for Windows 
>>> environments, with ~40+ working mapfiles and over 1.7GB of files, 
>>> empowering DevOps and organizations worldwide.  Also note that this 
>>> is a major release for MS4W, meaning that some things have changed 
>>> dramatically (PHPmapscript will now use the SWIG API for example), so 
>>> please follow MS4W's README for specific instructions for the many 
>>> plugins and mapscripts.
>>>
>>> When installing, it is very important that (if you are using the 
>>> .zip) your server must have the C++ Redistributable installed on it 
>>> beforehand: execute the local file /ms4w/tmp/vcredist_x86.exe 
>>> (alternatively if you use MS4W's setup.exe installer this is done 
>>> automatically)
>>>
>>> Please provide your 4.0.0 testing feedback through the MS4W tracker 
>>> (so the feedback is not lost or forgotten): http://www.ms4w.com/trac/
>>>
>>> Thank you all for sharing your spatial information with MS4W.
>>>
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>

-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
https://gatewaygeomatics.com/