[mapguide-internals] MapGuide Open Source 4.0 Preview 4 available

[Gordon Luckett]

Thanks Jackie,
I have updated the https://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/WikiStart page to
reflect the release of Preview 4

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 6:44 AM Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> After a long and arduous development journey, the 4th preview release of
> MapGuide Open Source 4.0 is now finally available!
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/Release/4.0.0/Preview4/Notes
>
> This release is for *testing purposes* and use in a production environment
> is not encouraged.
>
> This release overhauls all of our language bindings to now be generated
> with the official version of SWIG instead of our ancient and heavily
> modified copy. This means we are no longer shackled to PHP 5.6 and for this
> release, we are now bundling PHP 8.1.
>
> Use this release as an opportunity to get your MapGuide applications ready
> for 4.0 final release by getting your code working against the new bindings
> and doing whatever migrations needed.
>
> These new language bindings are the last major feature in the 4.0
> timeframe. It's all bug fixes and (any required) thirdparty library updates
> going forward. So I am expecting a relatively short Beta > RC > Final cycle
> after this.
>
> - Jackie
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