[Mapserver-users] MapServer 4.2.0 released
Paul Spencer
spencer at dmsolutions.ca
Mon Jun 14 16:30:44 EDT 2004
fyi I did actually put together an ms4w package with the 4.2.0 update,
you can download it at:
http://www.maptools.org/dl/ms4w/mapserver_ms4w-4.2.0-20040607.zip
I don't think the maptools website has been updated yet.
Cheers,
Paul
Daniel Morissette wrote:
>
> On behalf of all the developers, I am pleased to announce that MapServer
> 4.2.0 has been released earlier last week. I'm sorry if this
> announcement comes a bit late, I guess we just assumed that we didn't
> need a formal announcement since we talked so much about the new release
> on the list, but some questions that I've received recently have proven
> me wrong.
>
> This new release resolves several issues that were found in version 4.0,
> and adds a bunch of enhancements and new features. The relevant portion
> of the HISTORY.TXT is included below.
>
> Users of 4.0 are encouraged to upgrade to 4.2 as it is a much more
> stable in my opinion. The migration from 4.0 to 4.2 should be very easy:
> there should not be any backwards compatibility issues contrary to what
> some of you may have experienced when migrating from 3.6 to 4.0.
>
> This release is available for download at the usual location on the UMN
> website:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dload.html
>
> Windows binaries including PHP MapScript are also available on
> maptools.org:
> http://maptools.org/php_mapscript/index.phtml?page=downloads.html
>
> And an update for the MS4W package (http://maptools.org/ms4w/) will also
> be available soon.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Daniel
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Daniel Morissette dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
> DM Solutions Group http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Version 4.2.0 (2004-05-25)
> --------------------------
>
> - Postgis: added "WHERE false" to query that looks up the schema for item
> queries. This should greatly improve performance for complex queries.
>
> - Mapscript: fixed the shape copy test in mapscript tests.
>
> - Mapscript: replaced bad PNG file in tests with one that reads on win32.
>
> - mapresample.c: Ensure background value is properly initialized in
> case of rgb or rgba resampled rasters.
>
>
> Version 4.2-beta3 (2004-05-14)
> ------------------------------
>
> - Fixed another write past end of buffer in INIMAGE WMS errors (bug 644)
>
> - Removed "xbasewohoo" debug output when using JOINs and fixed a few
> error messages related to MySQL joins (bug 652)
>
> - No more Python-stopping but otherwise benign errors raised from
> msDrawWMSLayer() (bug 650).
>
> - Finished prototyping all MapServer functions used by SWIG-Mapscript
> and added 'void' to prototypes of no-arg functions, eliminating all
> but two SWIG-Mapscript build warnings (bug 658).
>
> - Fixed mapwcs.c so that gdal.h and cpl_error.h are not included if
> USE_WCS_SVR is not enabled ... which is never is in 4.2.
>
> - msBuildPath() no longer used with temporary filenames when saving images
> via GDAL.
>
> - Bug 493: fix the raster cracking fix. The last fix introduced a serious
> heap corruption / errant pointer problem in some render cases.
>
> - Resolved issue with pens and dynamically drawing points (bug 663).
>
> - Removed unused metadata gml_uri in WFS code (Bug 527)
>
>
> Version 4.2-beta2 (2004-05-03)
> ------------------------------
>
> - Map cloning fixed. However, users must now set the cloned map's fontset
> and symbolset explicitly (see bug 557). A new testcopy program has
> been added as a target for make.
>
> - Fixed problem with PHP's pasteImage() method when angle=0
>
> - Fixed build problem in mapresample.c when compiling without GDAL.
>
> - Fixed possible crash when producing WMS errors INIMAGE (bug 644)
>
> - Fixed automated generation of onlineresource in OWS GetCapabilities
> when the xxx_onlineresource metadata is not specified: the map= parameter
> used to be omitted and is now included in the default onlineresource if
> it was explicitly set in QUERY_STRING (bug 643)
>
> - Fixed an issue with annotation label overlap. There was an issue with
> the way msRectToPolygon was computing it's bounding box. (bug 618)
>
> - Fixed "raster cracking" problem (bug 493)
>
>
> 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)
>
>
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