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This is to announce that the MapGuide Open Source project team has made MapGuide Open Source 1.2.0 Release Candidate 2 available.<BR>
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The following notable ticket fixes were done between RC1 and RC2:<BR>
#125 - AJAX Viewer: Selecting result of custom search zooms to wrong location - update<BR>
#142 - Part 2 - Fix validation code that wasn't using localized decimal and thousand separators<BR>
#184 - Update schema report pages to handle restricted character escaping used by FDO in DescribeSchemaAsXml<BR>
#195: GetFeature GET request returns no features if MAXFEATURES is not set<BR>
#196 - Some polyline labels are inverted<BR>
#198 - 1.2.0 RC1 Custom Search causes error in task pane<BR>
#200 - MapAgent Test Page Failures on .net<BR>
#201 Repository Admin scripts fail when using PHP4<BR>
#202 - Daily log archiving failing to archive on a daily basis<BR>
#204 Buffer on RDBMS polygon layers fail with coordinate system conversion error<BR>
#206 - WMS: getfeatureinfo error on 1.2.0 RC1<BR>
#207 - mapadmin/constants.php file name is different in Win and Linux<BR>
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Release notes: <A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/1.2/Notes">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/1.2/Notes</A><BR>
Documentation: <A HREF="http://mapguide.osgeo.org/1.2/documentation.html">http://mapguide.osgeo.org/1.2/documentation.html</A><BR>
Downloads: <A HREF="http://mapguide.osgeo.org/downloads.html">http://mapguide.osgeo.org/downloads.html</A><BR>
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Summary of the new features as well as updated components in this release (also listed at http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/roadmap):<BR>
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Cartographic Enhancements - Phase I<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc14">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc14</A><BR>
* Ability to define simple and composite symbols as XML resources<BR>
* Ability to use new symbols for Points and Labeling Linear Features (e.g. Highway Shields)<BR>
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Pragmatic Load Balancing<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc3">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc3</A><BR>
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Feature Join Enhancements<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc5">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc5</A><BR>
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Support coordinate system overrides on feature sources<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc6">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc6</A><BR>
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Support for Unmanaged Data Sources<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc2">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc2</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc12">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc12</A><BR>
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Web interface for previewing a feature source<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8</A><BR>
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Extrusion support for KML<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc16">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc16</A><BR>
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Line widths specified in map space<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc17">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc17</A><BR>
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Tile handling enhancements<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc11">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc11</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc13">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc13</A><BR>
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API enhancements<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc9">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc9</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc15">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc15</A><BR>
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Significant performance enhancements in<BR>
* Rendering<BR>
* Tile Serving<BR>
* Joins<BR>
Component Updates<BR>
* FDO 3.2.2<BR>
* GDAL 1.4.0<BR>
* PROJ.4 4.5.0<BR>
* PHP 5.2.1<BR>
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Please enter any defects you might find using the instructions found at <A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/SubmitTicket">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/SubmitTicket</A>.<BR>
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Special thanks to some of our new code contributors for this release:<BR>
Jose Manuel Cerrejon Gonzalez - for the loading status indicator, mouse wheel support and scale status bar work.<BR>
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Atanas Rusev - submitting fixes for compilation issues on FC 6.<BR>
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Chris Goutanis - submitting fixes for compilation issues on Gentoo.<BR>
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Rex Szeto - for submitting the code for<BR>
<A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8</A><BR>
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Helio Chissini de Castro - for creating Mandriva binaries.<BR>
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There are probably others that I have missed. If you know of anyone I have missed or if I have missed you, please send me an email and I'll make sure to update the next notice.<BR>
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