[mapserver-dev] MapServer 5.2 Beta 2 Available

[Steve Lime]

Hi folks: MapServer 5.2 Beta 2 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 5.2-beta1 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 now to have 3 beta releases, 1 release candidate 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-beta2 (2008-06-18):
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- Fixed possible buffer overrun with Oracle Spatial driver (#2572)

- mapogcsos.c: support srsName in GetObservation (#2414)

- Filter Encoding: Modify DWithin definition (#2564)

- Added webObj legendformat and browseformat mapping in PHP MapScript (#2309)

- Removed static buffer size limit in msIO_*printf() functions (#2214)

- Fixed libiconv detection in configure for OSX 10.5 64 bit (#2396)

- mapstring.c: possible buffer overflow in msGetPath (#2649)

- maputil.c: Correct expression evaluation with text containing 
  apostrophes (#2641)

- mapwfs.c: Possibly generate an error message when applying filter 
  encoding (#2444)

- Added MS_LABEL_BINDING constants for SWIG MapScript (#2643)

- mapogcsos.c: fix POST support (#2379)

- maplibxml2.c: helper functions XML POST fix (#2379)

- mapwfs.c: fix segfault when srsName is not passed on BBOX Filter (#2644)

- mapwfs.c: do not return error for empty query results (#2444)

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

- mapwfs.c/mapwfs11.c: set GML MIME type correctly

- mapogcsos.c: advertise supported SRS list via
  MAP.WEB.METADATA.sos_srs (#2414)

- mapwfs.c: set layer extent to map extent for default
  GetFeature requests with no spatial predicates (#1287)