[mapserver-dev] 5.4 Release Tomorrow?

[Jeff McKenna]

> We installed 5.4 RC2 and stumbled over a nasty incompatibility. It seems
> that RC2 now requires the keywords MAP and SYMBOLSET in MapFiles which
> were nicely ignored before ... (even in beta2, so it seems a very last
> minute change). For us and our clients it would mean updating hundreds
> of MapFiles as we ignored them since we use MapServer (2001 or so)......
> 

Hi Flavio,

I did voice your same concerns privately regarding these changes (as 
every mapfile that I have touched since 2000 doesn't meet these new 
standards)...but in the interest of security it's worth the pain.

-jeff


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