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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(Sent to MapGuide Announce and MapGuide Users)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">This is to announce that the MapGuide Open Source project </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">team has made MapGuide Open Source 1.2.0 Beta 2 available </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">for testing. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Release notes:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/1.2/Notes"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/1.2/Notes</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">has information about the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">current status of</FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">MrSID and ECW support).</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Documentation:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://mapguide.osgeo.org/1.2/documentation.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://mapguide.osgeo.org/1.2/documentation.html</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Downloads:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://mapguide.osgeo.org/downloads.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://mapguide.osgeo.org/downloads.ht</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">ml</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Summary of the new features as well as updated components </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">in this release (also listed at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/roadmap"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/roadmap</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">):</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Cartographic Enhancements - Phase I </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc14"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc14</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * Ability to define simple</FONT> <FONT FACE="Calibri">and composite symbols as XML </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> resources </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * Ability to use new symbols for Points and Labeling </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Linear Features (e.g. Highway Shields) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Pragmatic Load Balancing </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc3"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc3</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Feature Join Enhancements </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc5"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc5</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Support coordinate system overrides on feature sources </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc6"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc6</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Support for Unmanaged Data Sources </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc2"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc2</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc12"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.os</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">geo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc12</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Web interface for previewing a feature source </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Extrusion support for KML </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc16"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc16</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Line widths specified in map space </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc17"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://t</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">rac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc17</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Tile handling enhancements </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc11"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc11</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc13"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc13</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT FACE="Calibri">API enhanc</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT FACE="Calibri">e</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ments </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc9"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc9</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc15"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc15</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="fr"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Significant performance enhancements in</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * Rendering </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * Tile Serving</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * Joins</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Component Updates </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * FDO 3.2.2 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * GDAL 1.4.0 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * PROJ.4 4.5.0 </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> * PHP 5.2.1</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Please continue to enter</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri"> defects by creating a new </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ticket in Trac (</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">). Tickets </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">can be entered anonymously, but since we may need further </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">information please ensure that you login or enter contact </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">information. A login ID can be created using the fo</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">llowing </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">link</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid/"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us">.</SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">A summary of the fixed defects in beta 2 can be found at </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/query?status=closed&group=component&resolution=fixed&milestone=1.2&order=status"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/query?status=closed&group=component&resolution=fixed&milestone=1.2&order=status</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(also available from the release not</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">es at the top of this email.)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Also, special thanks to some of our new code</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">contributors</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">for this release:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Jose Manuel Cerrejon Gonzalez - for the loading status indicator, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">mouse wheel support and scale status bar work.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Atanas Rusev - submitting fixes for compilation issues on FC 6.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chris Goutanis - submitting fixes for compilation issues on Gentoo. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">(We may need to do some more tweaks for this.) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Rex Szeto - for submitting the code for </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"><A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/w">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/w</A></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri">iki/MapGuideRfc8</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">There are probably others that I have missed. If you know of anyone </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have missed or if I have missed you, please send me an email and </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I'll make sure to update the next notice.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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