[mapserver-dev] MapServer beta 4 released

[Steve Lime]

MapServer 5.6.0-beta4 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-beta4.tar.gz

Please also keep an eye on the 5.4 to 5.6 Migration Guide where we will
document migration issues for this release:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/trunk/mapserver/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

Some great progress has been made since beta3 as you can tell from the
list of fixes included at the end of this message. We hope this is the final beta
and are planning for the first release candidate late next week.

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

Thanks for your help

The MapServer development team.

Version 5.6.0-beta4 (2009-10-18):
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- Allow processing of single shapefiles with no items (e.g. an empty dbf file) (#3147)

- Added resolution scaling for swf, svg, pdf and imagemap drivers (#3157)

- Correct cases where a valid WFS Layer might return errors if
  map extent does not overlap the layer extent (#3139)

- fix problem with 0-length line patterns in AGG

- Fixed problem of text/html WMS GetFeatureInfo which was returning HTML 
  image map output instead of the expected text/html template output.
  This was done by changing the imagemap outputformat to use the 
  "text/html; driver=imagemap" mime type (#3024)

- more resolution fixes for resolution scaling (symbolscale case) (#3157)

- Make sure layer extents are saved when a mapfile is written (#2969)

- Fixed CurvePolygons from oracle not drawn (#2772)

- Fixed raster queries (broken by RFC 52 changes) (#3166)

- Fixed coordinate projection problem in some cases with WMS GetFeatureInfo
  output in GML2 format (#2989)

- Added resolution scaling of some properties for GD driver (#3157)

- Modified GD functions API to be consistent with all others drivers (#3157)

- OGC Filter: strip all namespaces (not only ogc, gml) (#1350)

- Use decimal values for size and width in SVG output format (#2835)

- Correct invalid test when loading movies in an swf ouput (#2524)

- Return WMS GetCapabilities v1.3.0 by default as required by spec (#3169)

- Fixed mapObj.zoomScale() and mapobj.zoomRectangle() scaling problem in
  Mapscript (#3131)

- Few more fixes for high res output (#3157)

- Allow "DRIVER 'TEMPLATE'" or "DRIVER TEMPLATE" in output formats

- Correct sld generated from mapserver classes (#3133) 

- Correct libjpeg v7 compatability issue in old jpeg interface code (#3167)

- Correct FEATURE_COUNT limits on WMS GetFeatureInfo raster queries (#3168)

- Correct SCALE_BUCKETS issue with 16bit raster scaling (#3174)