[MapProxy] New MapProxy 1.0.0 beta 2 release

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi everyone,

we are ready to announce another beta release of MapProxy 1.0.0. It
contains some minor improvements and a major bug fix. Please read
the warning below.

The latest release is available at: http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-1.0.0b2.tar.gz

To update within you virtualenv:

  $ pip install http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-1.0.0b2.tar.gz

Updated documentation is available at: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0b2/


Warning: A bug, introduced in a previous release, prevented that the tile
  locks get removed. This issue is now solved and MapProxy will remove
  existing lock files on the first access to the cache. This might take
  a while if the directory already contains a lot of lock files (probably
  thousands).

  We suggest that you remove the complete lock directories by hand:
    rm -r cache_dir/*/tile_locks


For a complete list of changes see:
http://bitbucket.org/olt/mapproxy/src/1.0.0b2/CHANGES.txt

Some noteworthy improvements since 0.9.1 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/1.0.0b2/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/1.0.0b2/configuration_examples.html#featureinformation

Image manipulation
------------------

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/1.0.0b2/sources.html#image-transparent-color

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

There is a new powerful authentication interface.
http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0b2/auth.html


Regards,
Oliver

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