[gdal-dev] MS4W version 3.2.2 available

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi all, see below for news of today's MS4W release, containing GDAL 
2.2.1 for Windows users, and many upgrades to its libraries.  Thanks to 
Even and the whole GDAL team.  -jeff




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Hello everyone,

MS4W version 3.2.2 is now available at http://www.ms4w.com  This 
contains security releases of Apache, PHP, and upgrades to the MapServer 
7.0.6 & GDAL 2.2.1 releases.  Several changes were also made to 
libraries for performance improvements (such as libjpeg-turbo and 
SQLite).  Several packages were upgraded for the installer including 
GeoMOOSE 3.0.0-beta (new backend engine, give it a try!), Mapbender 
3.0.6.1 (now super fast), OpenLayers 4.2.0 (when you goto the OpenLayers 
examples page and search for "mapserver" you can find a local MS4W 
example).  This a substantial MS4W release.  Here is the full list of 
changes:

    - upgraded MapServer and MapScript (CSharp, Java, Python, PHP) to 7.0.6
    - upgraded GDAL to 2.2.1 (trac ticket 111)
    - upgraded PHP to 5.6.31 (trac ticket 122)
    - upgraded Apache to 2.4.27 (trac ticket 119)
    - enabled OPcache PHP extension for Mapbender performance (trac 
ticket 63)
    - built MapServer with support for Z geometry values (trac ticket 120)
    - updated cURL certificates bundle
    - rebuilt mod_fcgid
    - rebuilt Apache H264 Streaming Module
    - rebuilt MapCache
    - rebuilt TinyOWS
    - changed JPEG library to libjpeg-turbo (trac ticket 121)
    - upgraded libPNG support to 1.6.29
    - upgraded libTIFF support to 4.0.8 (trac ticket 114)
    - upgraded GeoTIFF support to SVN-trunk-20170623
    - rebuilt HDF4 support
    - upgraded HDF5 support to 1.10.1
    - upgraded PostgreSQL support to 9.6.3
    - upgraded MySQL support to 5.7.18
    - upgraded SQLite support to 3.19.3 (trac ticket 107)
    - rebuilt SpatiaLite support
    - upgraded OpenSSL support to 1.0.2l (trac ticket 116)
    - upgraded cURL support to 7.54.1
    - added curl.exe utility into /tools
    - rebuilt NetCDF support
    - upgraded Freetype support to 2.8
    - upgraded Cairo support to 1.14.10
    - rebuilt Poppler support
    - upgraded to Esri File Geodatabase 1.5 API support (trac ticket 109)
    - upgraded to Oracle SDK 12.2.0.1.0
    - upgraded PCRE support to 8.40
    - upgraded HarfBuzz support to 1.4.6
    - rebuilt libSVG support
    - rebuilt libSVG-Cairo support
    - upgraded Shapelib support to 1.4.0 (trac ticket 72)
    - rebuilt shp2tile utility
    - renamed Apache access and error log files

Please note that (if you are using the .zip) your server must have the 
C++ Redistributable installed on it beforehand: execute the local file 
/ms4w/tmp/vcredist_x86.exe

Please don't be afraid to also provide feedback and requests through the 
MS4W tracker (so the comments and requests are not lost or forgotten): 
http://www.ms4w.com/trac/

Thank you all for sharing your spatial information with MS4W.

And happy MapServing!


-jeff

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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/