[MapProxy] New MapProxy 1.5.0rc1 release

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Hi there,

it is time for a new release of MapProxy. We start with a release candidate.

The latest release is available at:
http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz

To update within you virtualenv:

$ pip install http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-1.5.0rc1.tar.gz

The current documentation is available at:
http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/

Some new features since 1.4:


Clipping WMTS/TMS/KML requests to polygons
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The security API now also supports limiting requests to polygon geometries
for all tile services.

See:  http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/auth.html#limited-to


Mixed image mode
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The mixed image mode automatically chooses between PNG and JPEG format
depending if the image has transparency or not. This is a great feature
for aerial images with transparency at the image boundaries. Thanks to
Thomas Bonfort for the idea.

See: http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/configuration.html#format

Caches as source for other caches
---------------------------------

You can now use a cache as a source for another cache. You can use this
to directly reproject tiles or to make changes to your grid configuration
without losing your existing cache.

See: http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/configuration_examples.html#using-existing-caches
and http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/configuration_examples.html#reprojecting-tiles


New tools
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There are three new tools:

- `mapproxy-util grids`: debug and analyze grid configuration
- `mapproxy-util wms-capabilities`: get bbox and min/max_scales of existing WMS
- `mapproxy-util export`: export (parts) of your cache to MBTiles or a TMS directory

See: http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/mapproxy_util.html


Other features
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- use_grid_names option to access Tiles/TMS/KML layers by grid
  name instead of EPSGXXXX
- origin option for TMS to change default origin of the /tiles service
- continue stopped/interrupted seed processes
- support min_res/max_res for tile sources

Improvements
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- do not show layers with incompatible grids in WMTS/TMS demo
- make 0/0/0.kml optional for the initial KML file
- use BBOX of coverage for capabilities in seed_only layers
- ignore debug layer when loading tile layers
- simplified coverage configuration
- add reloader option to make_wsgi_app()
- add MetadataURL to WMS 1.1.1 capabilities
- improved WMTS services with custom grids (origin)
- use in_image exceptions in WMS demo client
- larger map in demo client
- always request with transparent=true in WMS demo client
- use in_image exceptions in WMS demo client


Other fixes and changes
-----------------------

For a complete list of changes see:
https://github.com/mapproxy/mapproxy/blob/master/CHANGES.txt


Regards,
Oliver

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Oliver Tonnhofer    | Omniscale GmbH & Co KG    | http://omniscale.de
http://mapproxy.org | https://github.com/olt    | @oltonn