[mapguide-users] MapGuide Open Source 1.2.0 Beta 1 available for testing

[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 Beta 1 available for testing. 

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 continue to enter defects by creating a new ticket in Trac
(http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/). Tickets can be entered anonymously,
but since we may need further information please ensure that you login
or enter contact information. A login ID can be created using the
following link http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid/.


Also, special thanks to some of our new code contributers 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. (We
may need to do some more tweaks for this.)
Rex Szeto - for submitting the code for
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc8

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.