[MapProxy] New MapProxy 0.9.1rc1 release

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi everyone!

Time for a second release candidate for the upcoming 0.9.1 release of MapProxy.

The latest release is available at:

http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-0.9.1rc2.tar.gz

To update within your virtualenv:

$ pip install http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-0.9.1rc2.tar.gz

Updated documentation is available at:

http://mapproxy.org/docs/0.9.1rc2/


Changes since 0.9.1rc1:

Improvements:
- Allow nested layer configurations (layer groups/trees)
- Support custom path to libproj/libgdal with MAPPROXY_LIB_PATH environ
- Look for xxx if libxxx returned no results.
- Limit lat/lon bbox in WMS capabilities to +-89.999999 north/south values

Fixes:
- bug fix for threshold_res that overlap with the stretch_factor


Here is a list with all noteworthy changes to MapProxy since 0.9.0:

Features:
- WMS 1.1.0 support
- Coverage support (limit sources to areas via WKT/OGC polygons)
- new base option to reuse configurations
- ScaleHint support (min/max_res, min/max_scale)
- Support for multiple MapProxy configurations in one process with distinct
 global/cache/source/etc. configurations
- New MultiMapProxy: dynamically load multiple configurations (experimental)
- treshold_res option for grids: switch cache levels at fixed resolutions
- seed_only option for sources: allows offline usage
- GetLegendGraphic support
- SLD support for WMS sources

Improvements:
- concurrent_requests limit is now per unique hostname and not per URL
- concurrent_requests can be set with globals.http.concurrent_requests
- font_size of watermark is now configurable
- improved configuration loading time and memory consumption
- make use of PyYAML's C extension if available
- cache projection attributes in SRS objects for better performance
- try system wide projection definitions first, then fallback to defaults
 (e.g. for EPSG:900913)
- trailing slash is now optional for /tms/1.0.0
- support for http.ssl_ca_cert for each WMS source
- support for http.client_timeout for each WMS source (Python >=2.6)

Fixes:
- removed start up error on systems where proj4 misses EPSG:3857
- fixed color error for transparent PNG8 files
- fixed links in demo service when URL is not /demo/
- removed memory leak proj4 wrapper
- fixed mapproxy-seed -f option
- tests work without Shapely



Regards,
Oliver

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