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<div style="font-family:sans-serif;overflow:auto;width:100%;margin: 0px 10px"><h2 style="margin: 0.25em 0 0 0"><div class=""><a href="http://technology.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/22/1757252&from=rss">MapServer 5.6.0 Released</a></div></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em">via <a href="http://slashgeo.org/" class="f">Slashgeo</a> by Satri on 12/22/09</div><br style="display:none">
The OSGeo announced <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/node/984">the release of MapServer 5.6.0</a>.
>From the announcement: "<i>This new release contains a few new features and performance enhancements. Here is a quick summary:
New features in 5.6:
* MS RFC 51: XML Mapfile schema and XSLT (see http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/XMLMapfiles)
* MS RFC 52: One-pass query processing, making WFS queries on database backends much much faster
* MS RFC 55: Improve control of output resolution, allows printing maps at printer resolution using a mapfile defined for screen resolution
* MS RFC 57: Labeling enhancements: ability to repeat labels along a line/multiline
(RFCs are available online at http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/)
Other notable enhancements include:
* Security fixes (also backported to 5.4):
o Improved security relative to untrusted directories and mapfiles (RFC 56)
o Fixed several security issues found in an audit of the CGI application (#2939, #2941, #2942, #2943, #2944)
* Performance optimizations:
o Load all GDAL image bands in one pass for faster processing (r9260)
o Optimized access to very large shapefiles (#2930)
* Several enhancements/fixes to OGC Web Services specs support
* Several enhancements/fixes to all flavors of MapScript
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