MapServer 5.0.0-beta3 released

[Daniel Morissette]

I forgot to mention that we are working on a MapServer 4.10 -> 5.0 
migration guide which is available online at 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/release_plans/mapserver_5_0/migration_guide_410_50

You are strongly advised to review it before starting to use 5.0.
(A copy is also included in the source as MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT)

Daniel


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> MapServer 5.0.0-beta3 has just been released. The source package is 
> available at:
> 
>   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/download/beta
> 
> The page above also contains links to binary distributions. They should 
> be updated with binaries for this beta in the next few days.
> 
> The list of changes/fixes since beta2 is included at the bottom of this 
> email.
> 
> As was mentioned before, we plan to have one beta per week until the 
> final release of MapServer 5.0 which is planned for the week of 
> September 12, 2007. More details can be found in the 5.0 release plan at 
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/release_plans/mapserver_5_0/release_plan/ 
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> Version 5.0.0-beta3 (2007-08-08)
> --------------------------------
> 
> Known issues:
> 
> - This beta contains significant improvements and fixes on the AGG
>   rendering front. However some build issues remain on some platforms.
>   Please see ticket #2215 if building with AGG support doesn't work with
>   the default configure script: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2215
> 
> Bug fixes:
> 
> - mapagg.cpp rewrite - the AGG renderer should now support all the GD 
> features
> 
> - Use AGG when requested for drawing the legend
> 
> - Fixed problems with very large HTML legends producing no output (#1946)
> 
> - Use OGR-specific destructors for objects that have them rather than
>   'delete' (#697)
> 
> - Include style-related info in HTML legend icon filenames to solve 
> issues with
>   caching of icons when the class or style params are changed (#745)
> 
> - Fixed issues with wms_layer_group metadata in WMS GetCapabilities (#2122)
> 
> - Use msSaveImageBufferAGG for AGG formats in getBytes (#2205).
> 
> - Make sure to emit $(AGG) to mapscriptvars because of conditional 
> inclusion
>   of stuct members to imageObj. (#2205)
> 
> - Make imageextra field in imageObj not conditional (not #ifdef'ed) (#2205)
> 
> - AGG/PNG and AGG/JPEG are the only valid agg drivers.
>   Imagetypes aggpng24 and aggjpeg can be used to refer to the
>   default output formats. (#2195)
> 
> - Fix memory leak with labepath object (#2199)
> 
> - Fix memory leak msImageTruetypePolyline (#2200)
> 
> - SWF: Fix incorrect symbol assignements (#2198)
> 
> - Fixed memory leaks in processing of WFS requests (#2077)
> 
> - Avoid use of uninitialised memory in msCopySymbol() (#2194)


-- 
Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/