[MapProxy] New MapProxy 1.0.0 beta 1 release

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi everyone,

we are ready to announce a first beta release of MapProxy 1.0.0. It
contains lots of major and minor improvements.

The latest release is available at: http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-1.0.0b1.tar.gz

To update within you virtualenv:

   $ pip install -U --no-deps http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-1.0.0b1.tar.gz

Updated documentation is available at: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0b1/

Some noteworthy improvements are:

mapproxy-seed
-------------

mapproxy-seed got a new, flexible configuration format (the old format is
still supported). You can now define multiple seed and cleanup tasks and call
each separately from the command line interface (--seed and --cleanup
options).

It is now possible to reseed specific areas without triggering any cleanup.

There are also two new --summary and --interactive options that help to
understand what the seed tool will do.

http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0b1/seed.html

FeatureInfo XSL transformations
-------------------------------

MapProxy now supports content aware merging of multiple HTML/XML
feature responses and it supports XSL transformations.
http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0b1/configuration_examples.html#featureinformation

Image manipulation
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You can now make non-transparent layers transparent.
Either with an opacity value, with blends the layer over the others,
or with a color value that should be converted to transparent.
http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0b1/sources.html#image-transparent-color

Authentication
--------------

There is a new powerful authentication interface.
http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0b1/auth.html

Changelog
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For a more complete list see: http://bitbucket.org/olt/mapproxy/src/1.0.0b1/CHANGES.txt

Regards,
Oliver

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Oliver Tonnhofer    | Omniscale GmbH & Co KG    | http://omniscale.de
http://mapproxy.org | https://bitbucket.org/olt