[mapserver-dev] MapServer 6.0.0-beta2 release

[Alan Boudreault]

UbuntuGIS MapServer packages have been updated for the beta2 release.

Alan

On March 18, 2011 03:48:25 pm Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Thanks to the hard work from everyone during the Montreal Code Sprint
> this week (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Montreal_Code_Sprint_2011), the
> MapServer Team is pleased to announce the release of MapServer
> 6.0.0-beta2. This is the latest beta on our way to a final 6.0 release,
> and includes a large number of fixes made during the Montreal Code Sprint.
> 
> 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).
> 
> This is the second of four planned beta releases and if all goes well a
> final release should occur 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-beta2/mapserver/HIST
> ORY.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-beta2.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-beta2 (2011-03-18)
> --------------------------------
> 
> - correct scaling of symbol GAP and PATTERN (#3752)
> 
> - remove references to SWF/MING
> 
> - CGI runtime substitution requires a validation pattern (was optional
>    before) (#3522)
> 
> - add a default png8 outputformat that uses AGG/PNG with quantization
> 
> - change MS_INIT_COLOR to take alpha as a parameter
> 
> - stop using style->opacity in rendering code, use alpha from colorObjs.
> 
> - Fixed big Oracle memory leak when rendering in KML (#3719)
> 
> - avoid linking in postgres dependencies unnecessarily (#3708)
> 
> - don't initialize outputformats until they are selected
> 
> - use "seamless" creation of tiles for polygon fills with vector symbols
> 
> - Ability to escape single/double quotes inside a string (#3706)
> 
> - Globally replace msCaseFindSubstring with strcasestr (#3255)
> 
> - support GROUP layers in shp2img (#3746)
> 
> - Honour MAXSIZE for WCS 2.0 responses (#3204).
> 
> - fallback to ows_title for WCS ows:Title of CoverageDescription (#3528)
> 
> - Added msIO_stripStdoutBufferContentHeaders() to strip off all
>    Content-* headers from a buffer (#3673, #3665).
> 
> - Added raster classification support for STYLE level OPACITY.
> 
> - Allow attribute references, that is [itemname], within a TEXT string
> (#3736)
> 
> - Fixed segmentation fault when parsing invalid extent arguments in
>    shp2img (#3734)
> 
> - Make "openlayers mode" work even without OWS support (#3732)
> 
> - Add a static table to define the axis order for soem epsg codes (#3582)
> 
> - Add possibility to use KML_NAME_ITEM (#3728)
> 
> - Fixed mapfile parsing error when a label angle referenced an attribute
>    (e.g. ANGLE [angle]) #3727
> 
> - Removed executable flag on some source files (#3726)
> 
> - Fixed SQL Spatial to be able to use UniqueIdentifier field as unique
>    key (#3722)
> 
> - Fix PHP Windows build (#3714)
> 
> - Fixed --with-opengl build issue: Look for OpenGL libs under /usr/lib64 as
>    well (#3724)
> 
> 
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