[mapserver-dev] MapServer 5.2 Beta 1 Available

[Steve Lime]

Hi folks: MapServer 5.2 Beta 1 has just been released. The source package is available for download at:

  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/download/beta

The list of changes/fixes since 5.0 can be found at the end this message. This is a significant release so 
we need your help in testing. 5.2 should compatible with any 5.0 applications/mapfiles so it should be 
relatively easy for folks to test. Please let us know how it goes!

The plan is to have 2 beta releases, two release candidates with a final release the first week in July. 
More details can be found in the 5.2 release plan at:

  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/release_plans/mapserver_5_2/release_plan/

Steve

Version 5.2.0-beta1 (2008-06-11):
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- WMS/WFS layers can now specify a proxy servert (#571)

- mapwmslayer.c: set QUERY_LAYERS correctly (#2001)

- mapwcs.c: handle PARAMETER values correctly (#2509)

- SOS: fix various memory leaks (#2412)

- mapwcs.c: advertise temporal support in GetCapabilities (#2487)

- Fixed flaw in findTag() in maptemplate.c that prevented multiple tags 
  on the same line being processed under certain conditions. (#2633)

- Return results even when extents are missing (#2420)

- Avoid displaying OGR connection strings in error messages (#2629)

- WCS: respect wcs_name metadata for GetCoverage and DescribeCoverage 
  requests (#2036)

- CGI: added -nh option to allow for the suppression of content headers from
  the command line (#2594)

- PostGIS: fix postgis idle-in-transaction problem (#2626)

- AGG: enable ellipse symbol rotation for POINT/ANNOTATION layers (#2617)

- RFC36: add more extensions to support templates (#2576)

- AGG: allow dashed hatch symbols (#2614)

- AGG: enable offset lines of type x -99 (#2588)

- AGG: use an agg specific label size calculation function where 
  possible (#2357)

- mapogcsld.c: fetch TextSymbolizer/Label/ogc:PropertyName correctly (#2611)

- Don't ignore .qix file when DATA reference includes .shp extension (#590)

- CGI able to alter layers with space and underscores (#2516)

- WFS Multipoint query with PostGIS bug fixed (#2443)

- Tiling API (RFC 43) mode=tile, tilemode=spheremerc, tile=x y zoom (#2581)

- Remove C++-style comments and most other warnings thrown by -pedantic (#2598)

- Fix PostGIS transaction behavior in fcgi situations (#2497, #2613)

- Improve performance for large shape files (#2282)

- encode WMS parameters correctly (#1296)

- Added alignment option within a scalebar (#2468)

- RFC-42 HTTP Cookie Forwarding (#2566)

- Fixed handling of encrypted connection strings in postgis driver (#2563)

- mapagg.cpp: AGG: add opacity at the style level (#1155)

- mapwms.c: add Cache-Control max-age HTTP header support (#2551)

- mapogcsos.c: support URI encoded procedures correctly (#2547)

- Added support for EMPTY template with WMS GetFeatureInfo (#546)

- Throw an exception if the WCS request does not overlap layer (#2503)

- Acquire TLOCK_PROJ for pj_transform() calls (#2533).

- Fixed problem with large imagemaps generating no output (#2526)

- mapwms.c: make version optional for GetCapabilities again (#2528)

- support URN scheme for components of observed property elements (#2522)

- Fixed gdImagePtr gdPImg memory leak in msSaveImageBufferGD() (#2525)

- mapogcsos.c: handle invalid POST requests (#2521)

- mapogcsos.c: handle ACCEPTVERSIONS parameter (#2515)

- mapwcs.c/mapwcs11.c: s/neighbour/neighbor/g (#2518)

- mapwms.c: relax FORMAT parameter restrictions for GetFeatureInfo (#2517)

- mapwcs.c: support COVERAGE lists for DescribeCoverage (#2508)

- mapwcs.c: fix lonLatEnvelope/@srsName (#2507)

- mapwcs.c: omit VendorSpecificCapabilities (#2506)

- mapwcs.c: test for either resx/resy OR width/height (#2505)

- mapwcs.c: make GetCoverage demand one of TIME or BBOX (#2504)

- mapwms.c: make GetLegendGraphic listen to TRANSPARENT in OUTPUTFORMAT (#2494)

- OWS: support updatesequence (#2384)

- mapwms.c: test VERSION after service=WMS (#2475)

- OWS: output Capabilities XML updateSequence if set (#2384)

- mapwcs.c: better handling of REQUEST parameter (#2490)

- mapwcs.c: point to correct exception schema (#2481)

- mapows.c: add version negotiation (#996)

- mapwfs.c: return default GML2 when invalid OUTPUTFORMAT passed (#2479)

- mapowscommon.c: add OWS Common style version negotiation (#996)

- mapwcs.c: better section parameter handling for CITE (#2485)

- mapwfs.c: point to the correct schema for exceptions (#2480)

- shp2img.c/shp2pdf.c: clean up usage text, check for invalid layers (#2066)

- completed implementation of RFC24 (#2442, #2032)

- mapwcs.c: require VERSION parameter for DescribeCoverage and 
  GetCoverage (#2473)

- mapwcs.c: change error token to MS_WCSERR instead of MS_WMSERR (#2474)

- mapwcs.c: set exception MIME type to application/vnd.ogc.se_xml 
  for 1.0.0 (#2470)

- mapwcs.c: Generate a decently formatted exception if an WCS XML POST request
  is received (#2476).

- mapowscommon.c: support OWS Common 1.1.0 as well (#2071)

- mapogcsos.c: support SOS 1.0.0 (#2246)

- Implement mapObj.setCenter, mapObj.offsetExtent, mapObj.scaleExtent, 
  rectObj.getCenter at the SWIG API (#2346)

- mapogcfilter.c: use USE_LIBXML2 in ifdefs (#2416)

- clean up naming conventions of Shapefile API (#599)

- use msComputeBounds() instead, since it's already in the codebase (#2087)

- set shapeObj bounds from WKT (#2087)

- fixed issue where path following labels sometimes used the supplied
setting for position. In all cases with ANGLE FOLLOW we want to force
position MS_CC regardless of what is set in the mapfile.

- enforce (-99 -99) to be the penup value for vector symbols (#1036)

- Support for labeling features (polygon & line) prior to clipping. This
results in stable label positions regardless of map extent. (#2447)

- Support for quantization and forced palette png output with RGBA images
  (#2436)

- SLD using a single BBOX filter should generate an SQL ststement for 
  oracle/postgis/ogr (#2450)

- Accurate Calculation of legend size for WMS LegendURL (#2435)

- Converted mapogr.cpp to use OGR C API instead of C++ classes to allow
  GDAL/OGR updates without having to recompile MapServer (#545, #697)

- add missing space on dashed polygon outlines with svg (#2429) 

- Restored behavior of MS 4.10 and made WMS STYLES parameter optional
  again in GetMap and GetFeatureInfo requests (#2427)

- Speed up forced palette rendering (#2422)

- WMS GetFeatureInfo: honour FEATURE_COUNT for any INFO_FORMAT and 
  apply the FEATURE_COUNT per layer instead of globally (#2423, #1686)

- enable soft outlines on truetype labels. This is triggered with a new 
  keyword OUTLINEWIDTH for the LABEL block (#2417) 

- fix clipping rectangle to take width as well as size into account (#2411)

- AGG: added and use a line and polygon adaptor to avoid copying shapeObj
  points to an agg path_storage. avoids a few mallocs and a few copies.

- fixed symbolsetObj not to set the SWIG immutable flag permanently
  don't expose refcount and the symbol attributes (Ticket #2407)

- fix for support of entity encoded text in angle follow text (#2403)

- AGG: initial support for native computation of label sizes (#2357)

- AGG: support text symbols specified by their character number (#2398)  

- AGG: fix angle orientation for various symbols

- allow scientific notation for attributes binded to an int (#2394)

- merge GD and AGG label cache drawing functions (#2390)

- Enable AGG rendering of bitmap font labels instead of falling back to
  GD (#2387)

- clean up treatment of encoding and wrap caracter

- Fix legend label placement for multiline labels (#2382)

- enforce WRAP parameter in legend label (#2382)

- AGG: pixel level simplification for line and polygon shapes (#2381)

- fixed blue/green color swapping for space delimited strings bound to an
  attribute. (bug 2378)

- don't remove points that are checked as being colinear (#2366)

- mapowscommon.c: fix namespace leak issues (#2375)

- mapogcsos.c: add SWE DataBlock support (#2248)

- mapogcsos.c: fix build warnings, namespace and schema pointers (#2248)

- mappdf.c: support output in fastcgi case via msIO_fwrite() (#2406)

- mapogcsos.c: Initial support for POST requests (#2379) and updated
  msSOSDispatch() handling

- mapogr.cpp: Use pooling api to ensure per-thread sharing of connections
  only (#2408)

- mapogcsos.c: change substituted variable from sensorid to procedure (#2409)

- maplibxml2.c: Initial implementation of libxml2 convenience functions

- configure: Modified so libxml2 support is requested for WCS and SOS,
  and is indicated by USE_LIBXML2 definition.  Use @ALL_ENABLED@ in
  DEFINEs and mapscriptvars generation.

- mapresample.c: Fixed support for multi-band data in RAW mode for bilinear
  and nearest neighbour resamplers (#2364).

- mapdraw.c: Improve error reporting if a raster layer requested in
  a query map (#1842).

- mapfile.c: add simple urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC::CRS84 support.