[mapguide-announce] MapGuide Open Source 1.2.0 Release Candidate 1

[Tom Fukushima]

(Sent to MapGuide Announce and MapGuide Users)

This is to announce that the MapGuide Open Source project team has made MapGuide Open Source 1.2.0 Release Candidate 1 available. 

Release notes: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/1.2/Notes
Documentation: http://mapguide.osgeo.org/1.2/documentation.html
Downloads: http://mapguide.osgeo.org/downloads.html

Summary of the new features as well as updated components in this release (also listed at http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/roadmap):

Cartographic Enhancements - Phase I 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc14
    * Ability to define simple and composite symbols as XML resources 
    * Ability to use new symbols for Points and Labeling Linear Features (e.g. Highway Shields) 

Pragmatic Load Balancing 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc3

Feature Join Enhancements 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc5

Support coordinate system overrides on feature sources 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc6

Support for Unmanaged Data Sources 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc2
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc12

Web interface for previewing a feature source 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8

Extrusion support for KML 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc16

Line widths specified in map space 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc17

Tile handling enhancements 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc11
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc13

API enhancements 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc9
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc15

Significant performance enhancements in
    * Rendering 
    * Tile Serving
    * Joins
Component Updates 
    * FDO 3.2.2 
    * GDAL 1.4.0 
    * PROJ.4 4.5.0 
    * PHP 5.2.1

Please enter any defects you might find using the instructions found at http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/SubmitTicket.


Special thanks to some of our new code contributors 
for this release:
Jose Manuel Cerrejon Gonzalez - for the loading status indicator, 
mouse wheel support and scale status bar work.

Atanas Rusev - submitting fixes for compilation issues on FC 6.

Chris Goutanis - submitting fixes for compilation issues on Gentoo. 

Rex Szeto - for submitting the code for 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8

Helio Chissini de Castro - for creating Mandriva binaries.

There are probably others that I have missed. If you know of anyone 
I have missed or if I have missed you, please send me an email and 
I'll make sure to update the next notice.

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