From warmerdam at pobox.com  Thu Apr 23 05:57:47 2009
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:57:47 -0400
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] MapServer Version 5.4.0 Source Released
Message-ID: <49F065CB.5060107@pobox.com>

The MapServer PSC is proud to announce the release of MapServer version 5.4. 
The source code is available for download at:

   http://mapserver.org/download.html

Binary distributions will follow shortly as will a new demo. Nearly 100 tickets 
were closed as part of this effort. Major feature additions include:

     * MS RFC 30: Support for WMS 1.3.0
     * MS RFC 40: Label text alignment and wrapping
     * MS RFC 44: Restore URL modification of mapfiles to pre-5.0 levels
     * MS RFC 47: Move IGNORE_MISSING_DATA to run-time configuration
     * MS RFC 48: GEOTRANSFORM Geometry operations
     * MS RFC 49: Symbology, Labeling, and Cartography Improvements
     * MS RFC 56: Improved security relative to untrusted directories and mapfiles

Full RFC text can be found at:

   http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/

Other notable enhancements include:

    * improved polygon label placement
    * re-write of much of the PostGIS driver code

The full 5.4.0 change log can be found at: 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/tags/rel-5-4-0/mapserver/HISTORY.TXT

I would like to thank all the folks that worked hard on this release, your 
efforts are greatly appreciated!

Steve Lime



From warmerdam at pobox.com  Fri Apr 24 13:44:50 2009
From: warmerdam at pobox.com (Frank Warmerdam)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:44:50 -0400
Subject: [OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Welcomes Twenty Students for Google Summer
	of Code
Message-ID: <49F224C2.7080903@pobox.com>

OSGeo has selected twenty students to participate in development efforts
spread across 11 OSGeo projects as part of the Google Summer of Code for
2009. Google is providing funding for the selected students, while the
project communities are providing mentors to assist the students. A full
list of students, mentors and planned developments is available at:

   http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/osgeo

OSGeo thanks Google for its support of this great program, and looks
forward to the participation of these students in our community.

The 11 projects that participate this year are:
* uDig
* GDAL
* OpenRouter
* GRASS
* GeoServer / GeoTools
* Quantum GIS
* MapServer
* Laval Uni
* gvSIG
* Mapbender
* OpenJUMP/Deegree

The project subjects range from improving web administration of
Mapbender to integrating OssimPlanet to Quantum GIS and GRASS GIS. We
also had many returning students from previous years.