[Mapserver-dev] ready for 4.2.4

[Sean Gillies]

Fernando,

I'm talking about a 4.2.4 release.  Your new oraclespatial work should 
be
committed to the CVS head, also known as 4.3, and will be released in 
4.4.0.

Sean

On Oct 6, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Fernando S. wrote:

> Hi,
>    I already finished the new features for maporaclespatial.c. But I 
> don't know if I can finish the OracleSpatial/FastCGI until 4.2.4 
> release. Only for 4.2.6 version. Any problem?
>    I'm writing a MapOracleSpatial guide with the new features, so how 
> and where I post this guide?
>    I intend to commit in CVS this friday.
>    Any hint?
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Fernando Simon - simon at inf.univali.br
> Mapserver and Oracle Spatial developer
> G10 - Laboratorio de Computacao Aplicada
> http://g10.cttmar.univali.br
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Sean Gillies wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The work I wanted to complete before a 4.2.4 release is done.  My 
>> unit tests
>> pass and are leak free.  This doesn't mean that the software is 100% 
>> leak free,
>> but it no longer leaks memory when exiting from common error states.
>>
>> I don't have any idea what others are using for regression tests, but 
>> will
>> you run them and see if they pass?
>>
>> Below is an excerpt from HISTORY.TXT showing changes since 4.2.3.  
>> I'd also
>> like to include with this release a file that describes known bugs.
>> According to Bugzilla, there are 32 unresolved bugs in the 4.2 
>> version.
>> Of these, only 7 have been assigned.  The rest remain with status 
>> "New".
>> I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but if we all acted a bit more 
>> quickly
>> to change status to "Assigned" or "Unconfirmed", it would be a lot 
>> easier
>> to enumerate the known bugs in mapserver.  I have a suggestion on 
>> this in
>> another email.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sean
>>
>> Version 4.2.4
>> --------------------------
>>
>> - Various fixes allowing unit tests to run leak free under valgrind on
>>   i686.  Memory is now properly freed when exiting from common error
>>   states (bug 927).
>>
>> - Restored ability to render transparent (indexed or alpha) pixmap 
>> symbols
>>   on RGB map images, including annotation layers and embedded 
>> scalebars.
>>   This feature remains OFF by default for map layers and is enabled by
>>   specifying TRANSPARENCY ALPHA (bugs 926, 490).
>>
>> - New and improved Java mapscript build provided by 
>> unicoletti at prometeo.it,
>>   and examples contributed by Y.K. Choo (bug 876).
>>
>> - Fixed bug 863: Output MapContext parameters (SRS and DataURL) in 
>> the order
>>   required by the spec.
>>
>> - searchImageCache() in mapgd.c now checks all three style colors 
>> before
>>   using a cached brush image (bug 868).
>>
>> - Fixed bug 857: Fix msDecodeHTMLEntities to not skip characters 
>> after each
>>   decoding.
>>
>> - Fixed bug 834: SE_ROW_ID in SDE not initialized for unregistered 
>> SDE tables
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Sean Gillies
>> sgillies at frii dot com
>> http://users.frii.com/sgillies
>>
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