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The MapGuide Open Source developers and project steering committee are pleased<BR>
to announce the release of MapGuide Open Source 1.2.0. This release contains<BR>
many performance improvements, bug fixes and the following enhancements:<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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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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Plus other enhancements detailed at <A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/1.2/Notes">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/1.2/Notes</A><BR>
and <A HREF="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/milestone/1.2">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/milestone/1.2</A>.<BR>
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The latest release can be found at <A HREF="http://mapguide.osgeo.org">http://mapguide.osgeo.org</A>.<BR>
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