[mapserver-dev] MapServer 6.0.0-beta5 release

[Daniel Morissette]

The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the release of MapServer 
6.0.0-beta5. This is the latest beta on our way to a final 6.0 release. 
Once again this beta contains several important fixes and we encourage 
you to test it and continue to provide feedback.

The 6.0 release introduces important changes in key components of the 
MapServer core (rendering, query and expressions), and for this reason 
we count on you, MapServer power users, to help test the release in your 
respective environments and provide feedback (through the users list or 
Trac tickets).

If all goes well, the plan is to have a final 6.0 release around the end 
of April. The full release plan which also includes the list of new 
features and changes in this release is available at:
   http://mapserver.org/trunk/development/release/release-plan-6.0.html

The list of fixes since beta1 is attached at the end of this message. 
For a complete list see the HISTORY.TXT file at:

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/tags/rel-6-0-0-beta5/mapserver/HISTORY.TXT

We have started working on a 5.6 -> 6.0 migration guide. This document 
contains important notes on backwards incompatibilities or other changes 
required when upgrading to 6.0. It is not complete yet but we strongly 
recommend that you review the latest version online at:

     http://mapserver.org/trunk/MIGRATION_GUIDE.html

The source for this release can be downloaded at:

     http://mapserver.org/download.html
or
     http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-6.0.0-beta5.tar.gz

The binary distributions listed in the download page should be updated 
with binaries for the new beta release in the next day or so.

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

Thanks! - The MapServer Team



Version 6.0.0-beta5 (2011-04-06)
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- Fix setting of top-level mapObj member variables in PHP MapScript (#3815)

- More robust OpenGL context creation on older video cards and drivers 
(#3791)

- Allow users to set the maximum number of vector features to be drawn 
(#3739)

- Fixed FCGI on Windows problem related to lexer (#3812)

- KML: Add ows/kml_exclude_items (#3560)

- Removed all refs left to MS_SYMBOL_CARTOLINE (#3798)

- Removed GAP, PATTERN, LINECAP/JOIN and POSITION from symbolObj (#3797)

- Fixed handling of STYLEITEM AUTO label position codes 10,11,12 (#3806)

- Fixed msGEOSGeometry2Shape to handle 'GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY'
   as null geometry instead of raising an error (#3811)

- Re-added the MYSQL JOIN support. Had been removed with the MYGIS
   deprecated driver.

- Add opacity to legend (#3740)

- Updated PHP/MapScript with the new objects properties (#3735)

- KML: set layer's projection when it is not defined (#3809)

- Updated xml mapfile schema and xsl with the new lexer properties (#3735)

- Updated PHP/MapScript for MS RFC 69: clustering. (#3700)

- Move allocation of cgiRequestObj paramNames/Values to msAllocCgiObj() 
(#1888)

- Add support for simple aggregates for the cluster layer attributes (#3700)

- Improved error reporting in msSaveImage() (#3733)

- configure: look for libxslt.so under lib64 as well

- added missing ';' before charset in WFS DescribeFeatureType header (#3793)

- add brushed line support for agg renderer (#3792)

- fix bug with marker symbols along offset line

- fix for the cluster layer returning invalid feature count (#3794)

- remove some compiler warnings

- fix incorrect scaling of hatch symbol spacing (#3773)

- fix incorrect background color for INIMAGE exceptions (#3790)