[MapProxy] New MapProxy 1.6.0rc1

[Oliver Tonnhofer]

Of course it is 1.6.0rc1 and not 1.5.0rc1. So please ignore the subject of the first mail :)

Regards,
Oliver

On 15.08.2013, at 14:42, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> it's finally time to prepare the next MapProxy release. As usual we start with
> a release candidate first.
> 
> The latest release is available at:
> http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-1.6.0rc1.tar.gz
> 
> To update within you virtualenv:
> 
> $ pip install http://mapproxy.org/static/rel/MapProxy-1.6.0rc1.tar.gz
> 
> The current documentation is available at:
> http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/
> 
> 
> == New features ==
> 
> Some noteworthy improvements since 1.5.0 are:
> 
> 
> === New decorate image API ===
> 
> There is a new API to decorate or manipulate the images returned by MapProxy.
> It allows you to apply image filters or to add watermarks.
> The API is similar to the security API.
> 
> See: <http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/decorate_img.html>
> 
> === New SQLite and Riak cache backends ===
> 
> There are two new cache backends. Riak is a distributed key-value store
> that can be used to create high-available caches.
> The new SQLite cache is similar to MBTiles, but it adds timestamps for
> proper tile expiration and it uses one database file for each level.
> This makes it easy to remove complete levels without needing to VACUUM
> the database.
> 
> See: <http://mapproxy.org/docs/nightly/caches.html>
> 
> === Improved image processing ===
> 
> MapProxy now supports Pillow the successor of PIL. Pillow contains
> improvements in PNG encoding performance and support for alpha image
> composition, which improves overlays of multiple transparent layers.
> 
> 
> === Usability improvements ===
> 
> There are multiple smaller changes that improve the overall usability
> of MapProxy. The deployment documentation was updated and
> `mapproxy-util create -t base-config` now creates a minimal MapProxy
> configuration and a full configuration with nearly all available options.
> Most configuration erros should now give a friendly error message instead
> of a stack trace.
> 
> === Other fixes and changes ===
> 
> There are many more change, improvements and changes. The complete list:
> 
> Features:
> 
> - new `sqlite` cache with timestamps and one DB for each zoom level
> - new `riak` cache
> - first dimension support for WMTS (cascaded only)
> - support HTTP Digest Authentication for source requests
> - remove_all option for seed cleanups
> - use real alpha composite for merging layers with transparent
>  backgrounds
> - new tile_lock_dir option to write tile locks outside of the cache dir
> - new decorate image API
> - new GLOBAL_WEBMERCATOR grid with origin:nw and EPSG:3857
> 
> Improvements:
> 
> - speed up configuration loading with tagged sources
> - speed up seeding with sparse coverages and limited levels
>  (e.g. only level 17-20)
> - add required params to WMS URL in mapproxy-util wms-capabilities
> - support for `@` and `:` in HTTP username and password
> - try to load pyproj before using libproj.dll on Windows
> - support for GDAL python module (osgeo.ogr) besides using gdal.so/dll
>  directly
> - files are now written atomical to support concurrent access
>  to the same tile cache from different servers (e.g. via NFS)
> - support for WMS 1.3.0 in mapproxy-util wms-capabilities
> - support layer merge for 8bit PNGs
> - support for OGR/GDAL 1.10
> - show TMS root resource at /tms
> 
> Fixes:
> 
> - support requests>=1.0 for CouchDB cache
> - HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST can be a list of hosts
> - fixed KML for caches with origin: nw
> - fixed 'I/O operation on closed file' errors
> - fixed memory leak when reloading large configurations
> - improve handling of mixed grids/formats when using caches as
>  cache sources
> - threading related crashes in coverage handling
> - close OGR sources
> - catch IOErrors when PIL/Pillow can't identify image file
> 
> Other:
> 
> - update example configuration (base-config)
> - update deployment documentation
> - update OpenLayers version in demo service
> - use restful_template URL in WMTS demo
> - update MANIFEST.in to prevent unnecessary warnings during installation
> - accept Pillow as depencendy instead of PIL when already installed
> - deprecate use_mapnik2 option
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver
> 
> -- 
> Oliver Tonnhofer    | Omniscale GmbH & Co KG    | http://omniscale.com
> http://mapproxy.org | https://github.com/olt    | @oltonn
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