[mapserver-dev] MapServer 5.6.0-beta2 released

[Daniel Morissette]

MapServer 5.6.0-beta2 has just been released and is available for 
download at

   http://mapserver.org/download.html OR
   http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-5.6.0-beta2.tar.gz

The list of fixes since beta1 is included at the end of this message.

Once again, we need your help to ensure a high quality product so please 
help out by testing your applications with this new beta.

One area that need special testing is the queries, to catch and fix any 
possible side-effects of the new one-pass query implementation in RFC 
52. Here are a list of things to test for those interested:

1- Test regular CGI applications with queries, with and without 
querymaps, and with various data sources (shapefiles, OGR, PostGIS, 
Oracle Spatial, SDE, etc.)

2- In the MapScript case, a change is required: MapScript applications 
will need to be modified to use the new layer.resultsGetShape() method 
to read query results instead of the layer.getShape/getFeature() methods 
that were used in previous versions. It is also no longer required to 
call layer.open() before reading query results as this is now handled by 
the query functions. With that little change, MapScript applications 
should work properly, if not then please let us know ASAP.

3- WFS services use the query mechanism as well internally, so it would 
be good to have reports of tests of WFS GetFeature requests with various 
data sources.

Thanks for your help

The MapServer development team.




Version 5.6.0-beta2 (2009-10-01):
---------------------------------

- Fixed a couple of issues with Oracle Spatial and single pass queries 
(#3069)

- Added layer.resultsGetShape() to PHP MapScript for use with queries 
(#3069)

- Fixed query maps under the new single pass query process (#3069)

- WFS Client seg fault (OGR layer not opened) (#3136)

- Reduce use of sqrt() calls when determining distances (#3134)

- support axis ordering for WFS 1.1 (#2899)

- const changes to avoid warnings with msLoadProjectionString()

- mapgd.c: removed unused drawVectorSymbolGD() function.

- Use http://www.mapserver.org/mapserver namespace URI in XML mapfile
   schema (#3142)

- Fixed issue with PHP_REGEX_INC in mapscript/php3/Makefile.in (#3078)