[Mapbender-users] Fwd: MS4W version 4.0.0-beta1 available

[Astrid Emde]

Hello Jeff,

thanks for integrating the actual Mapbender 3.0.7.7 version to the MS4W 
package. Great!

See you Astrid

Am 2019-02-05 02:43, schrieb Jeff McKenna:
> Forwarding the announcement below to the Mapbender community, as
> MS4W-4.0.0-beta1 contains a packaged Mapbender 3.0.7.7     Note that
> MS4W-4.0.0 contains PHP 7.2.14 and its performance enhancements are
> very noticeable.
> 
> (I am aware that Mapbender does not officially support PHP 7.2.x yet,
> but this will give users and devs a Windows environment to test and
> help improve Mapbender for PHP 7.x)
> 
> thanks, -jeff
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> On 2019-02-04 8:46 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> Many Windows users will be very interested that MS4W-4.0.0-beta1 is 
>> available now, which will be a huge release of changes, as every 
>> library
>> (over 200 now) has been upgraded and built with a new compiler (Visual 
>> Studio 2017), and contains many great additions overall.  You can test 
>> the beta at:
>> 
>>   - installer: 
>> https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w-4.0.0-beta1-setup.exe 
>> (recommended)
>>   - archive: 
>> https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w_4.0.0_beta1.zip
>> 
>> Please see MS4W's HISTORY.txt for all of the changes, but here are 
>> some of the highlights:
>> 
>>   - Mapbox Vector Tile output through MapServer (demo included)
>>   - PHP7 mapscript support (using the SWIG API)
>>   - usual mapscripts available (Java, Python, CSharp)
>>   - embedded Python 3.7.0
>>   - running pycsw Catalogue Server
>>   - expanded ZOO-Project WPS support (all GDAL/OGR services, Python, 
>> PHP, CSharp, Java)
>>   - new Matomo Analytics package
>>   - simple map viewer on the localhost page
>>   - GDAL 2.4.0
>>   - MapServer 7.4.0-dev
>>   - mod_wsgi for Apache
>>   - and many more...
>> 
>> You can see that MS4W-4.0.0 will be a full SDI for Windows 
>> environments, with ~40+ working mapfiles and over 1.7GB of files, 
>> empowering DevOps and organizations worldwide.  Also note that this is 
>> a major release for MS4W, meaning that some things have changed 
>> dramatically (PHPmapscript will now use the SWIG API for example), so 
>> please follow MS4W's README for specific instructions for the many 
>> plugins and mapscripts.
>> 
>> When installing, it is very important 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 
>> (alternatively if you use MS4W's setup.exe installer this is done 
>> automatically)
>> 
>> Please provide your 4.0.0 testing feedback through the MS4W tracker 
>> (so the feedback is not lost or forgotten): http://www.ms4w.com/trac/
>> 
>> Thank you all for sharing your spatial information with MS4W.
>> 
>> 
>> -jeff
>> 
>> 
> 
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