[Mapserver-users] 4.2 beta 1 released...
Steve Lime
steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Mon Apr 19 11:50:23 EDT 2004
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Hi Folks: The first beta for 4.2 was posted last night on the UMN
website. Should everything be ok (it's not, one potential bug was
reaffirmed this morning) we'll do a production release in a week or so.
Your feedback is important, so please fire the new version up and let us
know how it goes. I would imagine Windows binaries would be available
from the usual sources very soon.
I've attached the HISTORT.TXT file from the distribution so folks can
see the changes.
Steve
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MapServer Revision History
==========================
This is a human-readable revision history which will attempt to document
required changes for users to migrate from one version of MapServer to the
next. Developers are strongly encouraged to document their changes and
their impacts on the users here. (Please add the most recent changes to
the top of the list.)
For a complete change history, please see the CVS log comments. A copy of
the CVS logs is updated daily at the following URL:
http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/mapserver/dl/mapserver_changelog.txt
Version 4.2-beta1 (2004-04-17)
------------------------------
- Added support for WMS 1.1.1 in the WMS interface.
- Added support for WMS-SLD in client and server mode.
- Added support for attribute filters in the WFS interface.
- WMS Interface: several fixes to address issues found in running tests
against the OGC testsuite. One of the side-effects is that incomplete
GetMap requests that used to work in previous versions will produce
errors now (see bug 622).
- Modified configure scripts to be able to configure/build PHP MapScript
using an installed PHP instead of requiring the full source tree.
- Added ability to combine multiple WMS connections to the same server
into a single request when the layers are adjacent and compatible. (bug 116)
- Support POSTed requests without Content-Length set.
- Added support for proper classification of non-8bit rasters.
- Added support for BYTE rawmode output type.
- Added support for multiple bands of output in rawmode.
- MySQL joins available
- Fixed problems with detection of OGRRegisterAll() with GDAL 1.1.9 in
configure due to GDAL's library name change. Fixed a few other minor
issues with GDAL/OGR in configure.
- Modified configure to disable native TIFF/PNG/JPEG/GIF support by default
if GDAL is enabled. You can still enable them explicitly if you like.
- Replace wms_style_%s_legendurl, wms_logourl, wms_descriptionurl, wms_dataurl
and wms_metadataurl metadata by four new metadata by metadata replaced. The
new metadata are called legendurl_width, legendurl_height, legendurl_format,
legendurl_href, logourl_width, etc...
Old dependancy to the metadata with four value in it , space separated, are
not kept.
- Implement DataURL, MetadataURL and DescriptionURL metadata in
mapcontext.c (bug 523)
- PHP MapScript's pasteImage() now takes a hex color value (e.g. 0xrrggbb)
for the transparent color instead of a color index. (bug 463)
- OGR data sources with relative paths are now checked relative to
SHAPEPATH first, and if not found then we try again relative to the
mapfile location. (bug 295)
- There is a new mapObj parameter called MAXSIZE to control maximum image
size to serve via the CGI and WMS interfaces. The default is 2048 as
before but it can be changed in the map file now. (bug 435)
- Added simple dataset for unit and regression tests (bug 453)
- PostGIS: added postresql_NOTICE_HANDLER() sending output via msDebug()
and only when layer->debug is set (bug 418)
- Added Apache version detection in configure and added non-blocking flag
on stderr in msDebug() to work around Apache 2.x bug (bug 458)
- MapScript rectObj: added optional bounding value args to constructor and
extended rectObj class with a toPolygon method (bug 508).
- MapScript pointObj: added optional x/y args to constructor (bug 508).
- MapScript colorObj: added optional RGB color value args to colorObj
constructor, and extended colorObj class with setRGB, setHex, and toHex
methods. The *Hex methods use hex color strings like '#ffffff' rather
than '0xffffff' for compatibility with HTML (bug 509).
- MapScript outputFormatObj: extended with a getOption method (bug 510).
- MapScript imageObj: added optional mapObj argument to the save method
resolving bug 549 without breaking current API. Also added optional
driver and filename arguments to constructor which allows imageObj
instances to be created with a specified driver or from files on disk
(bug 530). Added new code to Python MapScript which extends the
filename option to Python file-like objects (bug 550). This means
StringIO and urllib's network objects!
- MapScript classObj and styleObj: added a new styleObj shadow class and
extended classObj with getStyle, insertStyle, and removeStyle methods.
MapScript now supports multiple styles for dynamically created classes
(bug 548).
- MapScript layerObj: added getExtent, getNumFeatures extension methods,
allowing getShape to access inline features (bug 562).
- Added fixes for AMD64/Linux in configure (bug 565)
- Removed OGR_STATIC stuff in configure script that used to allow us to
build with OGR statically by pointing to the OGR source tree. That
means you can only build with OGR when *installed* as part of GDAL,
but that's what everyone is doing these days anyway.
- Mapscript outputFormatObj: extended constructor to allow format names,
and mapObj methods to append and remove output formats from the
outputformatlist (bug 511).
- New SWIG mapscript development documentation in the spirit of the
PHP-Mapscript readme file, but using reST (bug 576).
- Paving way for future changes to SWIG mapscript API with new features
enabled by NEXT_GENERATION_API symbol (bug 586).
- Added ability to set string member variables to NULL in PHP MapScript
(bug 591)
- New key iterators for map, layer, and class metadata hash tables
(bug 434) and fontset fonts hash table (bug 439).
- Fixed potential crash when using nquery with a querymap enabled and
some layers have a template set at the layer level instead of inside
classes (bug 569).
- New CONFIG keyword in the MAP object in a .map file to be used
to set external configuration parameters such as PROJ_LIB and control
of some GDAL and OGR driver behaviours (bug 619)
Version 4.0 (2003-08-01)
------------------------
- Fixed problem with truncated expressions (bugs 242 and 340)
- Attempt at fixing GD vs libiconv dependency problems (bug 348)
- Fixed problem with invalid BoundingBox tag in WMS capabilities (bug 34)
- Fixed problems with SIZEUNITS not working properly (bug 373)
- Fixed MacOSX configure problems for linking php_mapscript (bug 208)
- Fixed problem with reference map marker symbol not showing up (bug 378)
- Use <Keywords> in WMS 1.0.0 capabilities instead of <KeywordList> (bug 129)
- One-to-one and one-to-many joins now work for Xbase files and are available
to query templates. Low level one-to-one Xbase joins are available via
OGR.
Version 4.0-beta2 (2003-07-11)
------------------------------
- Added prototype of FastCGI support in mapserv_fcgi.c (not built by default).
- Report full error stack in the mapserv CGI and PHP MapScript (bug 346)
- Old index (.qix) format is deprecated (bug 273)
- Fixed problem with embedded legend and scalebar that would result in
layers being added to the HTML legends (bug 171)
- Changed joins (XBase only at this point) over to the open-prepare-next...
next-close way of doing things. Compiles fine, but needs more testing.
One-to-many support should work now but it needs to be hooked into the
template code yet. Last thing before a candidate 4.0 release.
- Added ability to generate images in MapScript processQueryTemplate (bug 341)
- Added saving of output formats in msSaveMap()
- Fixed problem in PHP MapScript with variables that were not dereferenced
before their values were changed by the MapScript wrappers (bug 323)
- Added support for Web Map Context 1.0.0
- Treat zero-length template values as NULL so that it's possible to
set("template", "") from MapScript to make layer non-queryable (bug 338)
- Ditched the shapepath argument to the shapefileObj constructor
- CARTOLINE join style default changed to MS_CJC_NONE
- Tweaked code in legend builder to handle polygon layers slightly different.
Now if a polygon layer contains only outlines and no fills (i.e. a polyline)
then it is drawn using the zigzag legend shape rather than the box. I'll
add legend outlines back in shortly.
- Restored legend key outlines (triggered by setting OUTLINECOLOR). If an
outline is requested then line symbols are clipped to the outline,
otherwise lines are allowed to bleed a pixel or two beyond those
boundaries- for most cases this looks fine but for fat lines it is
gonna look goofy regardless. In those cases use the KEYIMAGE.
- Fixed a bug in the scanline writer so that x coordinates can be in any
order when passed in to the function. (bug 336)
- Updated loadExpressionString in mapfile.c to be a bit more tolerant of
input. Now if a string does not match the logical or regex pattern it is
automatically cast as a string expression. Removes the need for silly quotes.
Version 4.0-beta1 (2003-06-06)
------------------------------
- Added imagemap outputformat, which makes possible use of client-side
imagemaps in browsers
- Added MySQL support for non-spatial OpenGIS Simple Features SQL stored data
- msQueryByShape and msQueryByFeature honor layer tolerances. In effect you
can to buffered queries now. At the momoment only polygon select features
are supported, but there's nothing inherent in the underlying computations
that says lines won't work as well.
- Simple one-to-one joins are working again. Reworked the join code so that
table connections are persistant within a join (across joins is a todo).
Joins, like layers are wrapped with a connection neutral front end, that
sets us up to do MySQL or whatever in addition to XBase.
- Removed shapepath argument to all layer access functions (affects MapScript).
It's still used but we leverage the layer pointer back to the parent mapObj
so the API is cleaner.
- Changed default presentation of feature attributes to escape a few
problematic characters for HTML display (eg. > becomes >).
Added [itemname_raw] substitution to allow access to unaltered data.
- Added initial version of Jan Hartman's connection pooling code.
- Replaced libwww with libcurl for WMS/WFS client HTTP requests.
(libcurl 7.10 required, see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/)
- Added CONNECTION to the list of mapfile parameters that can accept
%variable% substitutions when processed by the cgi version. This is useful
for passing in username and/or passwords to database data sources.
- Added support for DATA and TEMPLATE (header/footer/etc...) filtering using
an regex declared in the mapfile (DATAPATTERN and TEMPLATEPATTERN).
Certain parameters in a mapfile cannot be changed via a URL without first
being filtered.
- Added support for enviroment variable MS_MAPFILE_PATTERN. This allows you to
override the default regex in favor of one more restrictive (I would hope) of
your own.
- Disabled CGI SAVEMAP option.
- Removed CGI TEMPLATE option since you can use the map_web_template syntax.
Simplifies security maintenance by only having to deal with this option
in a single place.
- Added offset support (styleObj) for raster based output (GD for sure, not
quite sure how OGR output is created although I believe is uses GD anyway).
This allows for feature drop shadows and support for cool linear symbols
like used to be supported in pre-3.4 versions. These offsets are not
scalable at the moment.
- Null shapes (attributes but no vertices) are skipped for shapefiles using
the msLayerNextShape interface. Otherwise applications should check the
shapeObj type member for MS_SHAPE_NULL.
- Changed where label cache is allocated and cleared. Now it isn't allocated
until drawing takes place. Any old cache is cleared before a new one is
allocated. The cache is still intact following rendering for post-processing
using MapScript.
- Fixed screw up in pre-processing of logical expressions for item lists.
Under certain circumstances that list could get corrupted and expressions
would fail.
- Added NOT operator to expression parser.
- Added layer and map level DEBUG options to map file.
- Major changes to support vector output (PDF, SWF, GML, ...):
- imageObj is used by all rendering functions instead of gdImagePtr
- New msSaveImage() prototype
- Support for GD-2.0, including 24 bits output. Dropped support for GD 1.x
- Support for output to any GDAL-supported format via the new OUTPUTFORMAT
object.
- New styleObj to replace the OVERLAY* parameter in classes.
- PostGIS: Added Sean Gillies <sgillies at i3.com>'s patch for "using unique
<column name>". Added "using SRID=#" to specify a spatial reference
for an arbitrary sql query.
- ... and nuerous fixes not listed here...
Version 3.6.0-beta1 (2002-04-30)
--------------------------------
- MapScript: qitem and qstring params added to layer->queryByAttribute().
Instead of being driven by the layer's FILTER/FILTERITEM, the query by
attribute is now driven by the values passed via qitem,qstring, and the
layer's FILTER/FILTERITEM are ignored.
- Symbol and MapFile changes:
ANTIALIAS and FILLED keywords now take a boolean (TRUE/FALSE) argument
i.e. ANTIALIAS becomes ANTIALIAS TRUE
and FILLED becomes FILLED TRUE
- Reference Map:
Added options to show a different marker when the reference box becomes
too small. See the mapfile reference docs for more details on the new
reference object parameters (MARKER, MARKERSIZE, MAXBOXSIZE, MINBOXSIZE)
- Added MINSCALE/MAXSCALE at the CLASS level.
- Support for tiled OGR datasets.
- PHP 4.1.2 and 4.2.0 support for PHP MapScript.
- Added LAYER TRANSPARENCY, value between 1-100
- Fixes to the SWIG interface for clean Java build.
- New HTML legend templates for CGI and MapScript. See HTML-Legend-HOWTO.
- WMS server now supports query results using HTML query templates instead
of just plain/text.
- Added support functions for thread safety (--with-thread). Still not
100% thread-safe.
Version 3.5.0 (2002-12-18)
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- No Revision history before version 3.5
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