MapServer 4.4.0 released

Janeks Kamerovskis janeks.kamerovskis at SILVA.LV
Wed Dec 1 00:31:43 PST 2004


Sorry for disturbance about second part...
I accidentaly didn't copiy some dlls to right place.

But the first question is still actual!

brgds
Janeks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]On Behalf Of Janeks Kamerovskis
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:50 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer 4.4.0 released
>
>
> In readme I found:
> The php_mapscript_44.dll was compiled with libconv library to be able
> to support internayional languages.
>
> Where could I find more details regarding this international language
> support?
>
> I tried PHP extension of 4.4.0. and got following message when call
> dl('php_mapscript_44.dll'):
> Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library
> 'c:\php\extensions\php_mapscript_44.dll' - The specified
> procedure could not
> be found. in E:\webFolders\ipasumi\test1.php on line 10
>
> Also I tested mapserv.exe and got the message:
> CGI Error
> The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a
> complete set of
> HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:
>
> When I launch mapserv.exe directly I got message attached in error.gif.
>
> My system Win2000.
> I copied all dlls from 440 package. And mapserver beta1 is working...
>
>
> Looking forward for replay...
> Janeks
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: UMN MapServer Users List
> > [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 6:59 AM
> > To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> > Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer 4.4.0 released
> >
> >
> > Good evening,
> >
> > The MapServer 4.4.0 release is now officially available, thanks to the
> > hard work of everyone involved.
> >
> > Here is a very quick summary of what's new in version 4.4:
> >
> > * Added WCS support (server only)
> >
> > * Added support for Time dimension in WMS
> >
> > * Lots of fixes/improvements to the OGC WMS and WFS interfaces (too many
> > to list here). MapServer 4.4 passes all the tests of the OGC WMS 1.1.1
> > test suite and is ready to be certified (Formal "WMS Compliance"
> > certification with OGC is in the works).
> >
> > * Added FastCGI support
> >
> > * Lots of fixes to allow running in long-lived processes and
> > multithreaded environments (memory leaks, mutex locking, etc.).
> >
> > * Added connection pooling (implemented for SDE and PostGIS).
> >
> > * Lots of improvements to SWIG MapScript API and docs.
> >
> > * Support for i18n encodings in map labels. Tested with Chinese,
> > Japanese and Thai.
> >
> > * Added ability to produce rotated maps (i.e. North is not at the top)
> >
> > * Completion of SDE versioned query support
> >
> > ... and many many more fixes and enhancements. See the HISTORY.TXT that
> > comes with the source package for the complete list (relevant parts
> > included below).
> >
> > The source code package is available for download on the MapServer
> > download page at http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dload.html and the default
> > documentation pages should be switched to use version 4.4
> > documents shortly.
> >
> > Windows binaries should also be available shortly at the usual
> > locations. I would invite those producing prebuilt binaries to please
> > reply to this email and announce the availability of their binaries and
> > their URL.
> >
> > As we've done for previous releases, we will produce 4.4.x bugfix
> > releases as required in the coming months. With respect to 4.2.x: we
> > will not produce any more 4.2.x releases unless major issues (e.g.
> > security issues) are ever found in 4.2.5.
> >
> > What about the next release? The consensus seems to be to aim for a 4.6
> > release in the next 4-6 months. There are no major changes or new
> > features planned for 4.6 at this point, mostly improvements of existing
> > features. We'll try to document our plan for 4.6 and share it with this
> > list when it's available.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > Daniel
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >   Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
> >   DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > Complete list of changes since 4.2 (excerpt from HISTORY.TXT)
> >
> >
> > Version 4.4.0 (2004-11-29)
> > --------------------------
> >
> > - Fixed WMS GetCapabilities 1.1.0 crash when wms_style_<...>_legendurl_*
> >    metadata were used (bug 1096)
> >
> > - WCS GetCapabilities : Added ResponsibleParty support.
> >
> > - WMS GetCapabilities : Service online resource was not url encoded (bug
> > 1093)
> >
> > - Fixed php mapscript problem with wfs_filter selection : Bug 1092.
> >
> > - Fixed encoding problem with WFS server when wfs_service_onlineresource
> >    was not explicitly specified (bug 1082)
> >
> > - Add trailing "?" or "&" to connection string when required in WFS
> >    client layers using GET method (bug 1082)
> >
> > - Fixed : SLD rasters was failing when there was Spatial Filter
> (Bug 1087)
> >
> > - Fixed mapwfslayer.c build error when WFS was not enabled (bug 1083)
> >
> > - Check that we have vsnprintf in mapimagemap.c before using it.
> >
> >
> > Version 4.4.0-beta3 (2004-11-22)
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > - Added tests to mimimize the threat of recursion problems when
> evaluating
> >    LAYER REQUIRES or LABELREQUIRES expressions. Note that via
> MapScript it
> >    is possible to circumvent that test by defining layers with problems
> >    after running prepareImage. Other things crop up in that case too
> > (symbol
> >    scaling dies) so it should be considered bad programming practice
> >    (bug 1059).
> >
> > - Added --with-sderaster configure option.
> >
> > - Make sure that msDrawWMSLayerLow calls msDrawLayer instead of
> >    msDrawRasterLayerLow directly ensuring that some logic (transparency)
> > that
> >    are in msDrawLayer are applied (bug 541).
> >
> > - Force GD/JPEG outputFormatObjects to IMAGEMODE RGB and TRANSPARENT OFF
> >    if they are RGBA or ON.  Makes user error such as in bug 1703 less
> > likely.
> >
> > - Advertize only gd and gdal formats for wms capabilities (bug 455).
> >
> > - Pass config option GML_FIELDTYPES=ALWAYS_STRING to OGR so that all GML
> >    attributes are returned as strings to MapServer. This is
> most efficient
> >    and prevents problems with autodetection of some attribute types (bug
> > 1043).
> >
> > - msOGCWKT2ProjectionObj() now uses the
> > OGRSpatialReference::SetFromUserInput()
> >    method.  This allows various convenient setting options,
> including the
> >    ability to handle ESRI WKT by prefixing the WKT string with "ESRI::".
> >
> > - Fixed GetLegendGraphic in WMS Capabilities that were missing the '?'
> >    or '&' separator if it was not included in wms_onlineresource
> > (bug 1065).
> >
> > - Updated WMS/WFS client and server code to lookup "ows_*"
> metadata names
> >    in addition to the default "wms_*" (or "wfs_*") metadatas (WCS was
> > already
> >    implemented this way). This reduces the amount of duplication
> > in mapfiles
> >    that support multiple OGC interfaces since "ows_*" metadata
> can be used
> >    almost everywhere for common metadata items shared by multiple OGC
> >    interfaces (bug 568).
> >
> > - Added ows_service_onlineresource metadata for WMS/WFS to distinguish
> >    between service and GetMap/Capabilities onlineresources (bug 375).
> >
> > - Added map->setSize() to PHP MapScript (bug 1066).
> >
> > - Re-enabled building PHP MapScript using PHP's bundled
> regex/*.o. This is
> >    needed to build in an environment with PHP configured as an
> Apache DSO
> >    (bugs 990, 520).
> >
> > - Fixed problem with raster dither support on windows (related to ascii
> >    encoding pointers) (bug 722).
> >
> > - Moved PHP/SWIG MapScript layer->getExtent() logic down to
> > msLayerGetExtent()
> >    to avoid code duplication (bug 1051).
> >
> > - Added SDE Raster drawing support (experimental).
> >
> > - HTML legends: Added [leg_header_html] and [leg_footer_html]
> (bug 1032).
> >
> > - Added "z" support in SWIG MapScript for pointObj (bug 871).
> >
> > - In PHP Mpascript when using  ms_newrectobj, the members minx, miny,
> >    maxx, maxy are initialized to -1 (bug 788).
> >
> > - Write out proper world file with remote WMS result, it was off by half
> >    a pixel (bug 1050).
> >
> > - Send a warning in the wms capabilities if the layer status is set
> >    to default (bug 638).
> >
> > - Fixed PHP MapScript compile warnings: dereferencing
> type-punned pointer
> >    will break strict-aliasing rules (bug 1053).
> >
> > - Added $layer->isVisible() to PHP MapScript (bug 539).
> >
> > - Ported $layer->getExtent() to PHP MapScript (bug 826).
> >
> > - wms_group_abstract can now be used in the capabilities (bug 754).
> >
> > - If wms_stylelist is an empty string, do not output the <StyleList> tag
> >    for MapContexts (bug 595).
> >
> > - Avoid passing FILE* to GD library by utilizing GD's gdIOCtx interface
> >    (bug 1047).
> >
> > - Output warning in wms/wfs capabilities document if layer,group,map
> > names have
> >    space in them (bug 486, bug 646).
> >
> > - maporaclespatial.c: fixed declarations problems (bug 1044).
> >
> > - Allow use of msOWSPrintURLType with no metadata. In this case
> > the default
> >    parameters will be used (bug 1001).
> >
> > - Ensure the outputFormatObj attached to msImageLoadGDStream() results
> > reflect
> >    the interlacedness of the loaded image.  Also ensure that the RGB PNG
> >    reference images work (make imagemode match gdImg) (bug 1039).
> >
> > - Fixed support for non-square pixels in WCS (bug 1014).
> >
> > - Expose only GD formats for GetLegendGraphic in the capabilities (bug
> > 1001).
> >
> > - Check for supported formats when process a GetLegendGraphic request
> >    (bug 1030).
> >
> > - mapraster.c: fixed problem with leaks in tileindexed case where the
> >    tile index is missing (bug 713).
> >
> > - Oracle Spatial: implemented connection pool support for
> Oracle Spatial.
> >    New layer data parameters to support query functions, added
> >    "using unique <column name>".  Added "FILTER", "RELATE" and
> > "GEOMRELATE"
> >    parameters, now permit users to choose the Oracle Spatial Filter.
> > Modified
> >    the internal SQL to always apply FILTER function. And improve
> > the Oracle
> >    Spatial performance.
> >
> > - Centralize "stdout binary mode setting" for win32 in
> > msIO_needBinaryStdout().
> >    Use it when writing GDAL files to stdout in mapgdal.c.  Fixes
> > problems with
> >    output of binary files from GDAL outputformat drivers on win32 via
> > WMS/WCS.
> >
> > - MapServer now provides one default style named (default), title and
> >    LegendURL when generating capabilities.  Added also the possibility
> > to use
> >    the keyword default for STYLES parameter when doing a GetMap
> >    (..&STYLES=default,defeault,...) (bug 1001).
> >
> > - Add xlink:type="simple" in WMS MetadataURL (bug 1027).
> >
> >
> > Version 4.4.0-beta2 (2004-11-03)
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > - free mapServObj properly in mapserv.c in OWS dispatch case to
> fix minor
> >    memory leaks.
> >
> > - modified msCloseConnections() to also close raster layers so that
> >    held raster query results will be freed.
> >
> > - modified raster queries to properly set the classindex in the
> > resultcache.
> >
> > - modified msDrawQueryCache() to be very careful to not try and lookup
> >    information on out-of-range classindex values.  This seems to
> > occur when
> >    default shapes come back witha classindex of 0 even if there are no
> > classes.
> >    (ie. raster query results).
> >
> > - the loadmapcontext function has changed it behaviour.  Before the 4.4
> > relase
> >    when loading layers from a map context, the layer name was
> built using
> >    a unique prefix + the name found in the context (eg for the
> > 2nd layer in
> >    map context named park, the layer name generated would possibly be
> > l:2:park).
> >    Now the loadmapcontext takes a 2nd optional argument to force the
> > creation
> >    of the unique names. The default behaviour is now to have the
> > layer name
> >    equals to the name found in the context file (bug 1023).
> >
> > - Fixed problem with WMS GetCapabilities aborting when
> wms_layer_group is
> >    used for some layers but not for all (bug 1024).
> >
> > - Changed raster queries to return the list of all pixel values as an
> >    attribute named "value_list" rather than "values" to avoid
> > conflict with
> >    special [values] substitution rule in maptemplate.c.
> >
> > - Fixed raster queries to reproject results back to map
> projection, and to
> >    do point queries distance checking against the correct projection
> > (bug 1021).
> >
> > - Get rid of WMS 1.0.8 support. It's not an officially supported verison
> >    of the spec anyway: it's synonymous for 1.1.0 (bug 1022).
> >
> > - Allow use of '=' inside HTML template tag parser (bug 978).
> >
> > - Use metadata ows_schema_location for WMS/WFS/WCS/SLD (bugs 999, 1013,
> > 938).
> >    The default value if metadata is not found is
> >    http://schemas.opengeospatial.net.
> >
> > - Generate a RULE <Name> tag when generating an SLD (bug 1010).
> >
> > - WMS GetLegendGraphic uses now the RULE value to return an icon for
> >    a class that has the same name as the RULE value (bug 843).
> >
> > - Add msOWSPrintURLType: This funciton is a generic URL printing fuction
> > for
> >    OGC specification metadata (WMS, WFS, WCS, WMC, etc.) (bug 944).
> >
> > - Support MetadataURL, DataURL and LegendURL tags in WMS capabilities
> >    document and MetadataURL in WFS capabilities.
> >
> > - SWIG mapscript: clone methods for layerObj, classObj, styleObj
> > (bug 1012).
> >
> > - Implemented an intarray helper class for SWIG mapscript which
> allows for
> >    multi-language manipulation of layer drawing order (bugs 853, 1005).
> >
> > - Fixed WMS GetLegendGraphic which was returning an exception (GD error)
> >    when requested layer was out of scale (bug 1006).
> >
> > - Fixed maplexer.l to work with flex 2.5.31 (bug 975).
> >
> > - WMS GetMap requests now have MS_NONSQUARE enabled by default.
> This means
> >    that if the width/height ratio doesn't match the extent's x/y
> > ratio then
> >    the map is stretched as stated in the WMS specification (bug 862).
> >
> > - In WMS, layers with no explicit projection defined will receive a copy
> >    of the map's projectionObj if a new SRS is specified in the GetMap
> > request
> >    or if MS_NONSQUARE is enabled. This will prevent the problem
> > with layers
> >    that don't show up in WMS request when the server
> administrator forgets
> >    to explicitly set projections on all the layers in a WMS mapfile (bug
> > 947).
> >
> > - Implemented FastCGI cleanup support for win32 and unix in mapserv.c.
> >
> > - Solved configure/compile issues with libiconv (bugs 909, 1017).
> >
> >
> > Version 4.4.0-beta1 (2004-10-21)
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > - "shared" compilation target now supports some kind of versioning,
> >    should at least prevent libmap.so version collisions when upgrading
> >    MapServer on a server (bug 982).
> >
> > - When no RULE parameter has been specified in the WMS request
> >    a legend should be returned with all classes for the specified LAYER.
> >    Changes has been made in mapwms.c (bug 653). Also if the SCALE
> > parameter
> >    is provided in the WMS request is will be used to determine whether
> >    the legend of the specified layer should be drawn in the
> case that the
> >    layer is scale dependant (big 809).
> >
> > - Nested layers in the capabilities are supported by using a
> new metadata
> >    tag WMS_LAYER_GROUP (bug 776).
> >
> > - Added greyscale+alpha render support if mapdrawgdal.c (bug 965).
> >
> > - Added --with-fastcgi support to configure.
> >
> > - support OGC mapcontext through mapserver cgi (bug 946).
> >
> > - support for reading 3d shape file (z) (bug 869).
> >
> > - add php mapscript functions to expose the z element (bug 870).
> >
> > - imageObj::write() method for SWIG mapscript (bug 941).
> >
> > - Protect users from 3 potential sources of threading problems: parsing
> >    expression strings outside of msLoadMap, evaluating mapserver logical
> >    expressions, and loading symbol set files outside of msLoadMap
> > (bug 339).
> >
> > - Various fixes allowing unit tests to run leak free under valgrind on
> >    i686.  Memory is now properly freed when exiting from common error
> >    states (bug 927).
> >
> > - Restored ability to render transparent (indexed or alpha)
> pixmap symbols
> >    on RGB map images, including annotation layers and embedded
> scalebars.
> >    This feature remains OFF by default for map layers and is enabled by
> >    specifying TRANSPARENCY ALPHA (bugs 926, 490).
> >
> > - mapserv_fcgi.c removed.  Committed new comprehensive FastCGI support.
> >
> > - New mapserver exceptions for Java mapscript thanks to Umberto
> Nicoletti
> >    (bug 895).
> >
> > - Removed mapindex.c, mapindex.h, shpindex.c components of old unused
> >    shapefile indexing method.
> >
> > - Use the symbol size instead of 1 for the default style size
> > value. This is
> >    done by setting the default size to -1 and adding
> > msSymbolGetDefaultSize()
> >    everywhere to get the default symbolsize (Bug 751).
> >
> > - Correct Bug with GML BBOX output when using a <Filter> with a
> >    GetFeature request (Bug 913).
> >
> > - Encode all metadatas and mapfile parameters outputed in a xml document
> >    (Bug 802).
> >
> > - Implement the ENCODING label parameter to support
> internationalization.
> >    Note this require the iconv library (Bug 858).
> >
> > - New and improved Java mapscript build provided by
> unicoletti at prometeo.it
> >    and examples by Y.K. Choo (bug 876).
> >
> > - MapContext: Cleanup code to make future integration more easily and
> > output
> >    SRS and DataURL in the order required by the spec.
> >
> > - Fixed issue with polygon outline colors and brush caching (bug 868).
> >
> > - New C# mapscript makefiles and examples provided by Y.K. Choo
> >    <ykchoo at geozervice.com> committed under mapscript/csharp/ (bug 867).
> >
> > - Renamed 'string' member of labelCacheMemberObj to 'text' to avoid
> >    conflicts in SWIG mapscript with C# and Java types (bug 852).
> >
> > - Fixed Bug 866 : problem when generating an sld on a pplygon layer
> >
> > - SWIG mapscript: map's output image width and height should be set
> >    simultaneously using new mapObj::setSize() method.  This performs
> >    necessary map geotransform computation.  Direct setting of map width
> >    and height is deprecated (bug 836).
> >
> > - Fixed bug 832 (validate srs value) : When the SRS parameter
> in a GetMap
> >    request contains a SRS that is valid for some, but not all of
> > the layers
> >    being requested, then the server shall throw a Service Exception
> >    (code = "InvalidSRS"). Before this fix, mapserver use to reproject
> >    the layers to the requested SRS.
> >
> > - Fixed bug 834: SE_ROW_ID in SDE not initialized for unregistered SDE
> > tables
> >
> > - Fixed bug 823 : adding a validation of the SRS parameter when doing
> >    a GetMap request on a wms server. Here is the OGC statement :
> >    'When the SRS parameter in a GetMap request contains a SRS
> >    that is valid for some, but not all of the layers being requested,
> >    then the server shall throw a Service Exception (code =
> "InvalidSRS").'
> >
> > - Set the background color of polygons or circles when using transparent
> >    PIXMAP symbol.
> >
> > - SWIG mapscript class extensions are completely moved from mapscript.i
> >    into separate interface files under mapscript/swiginc.
> >
> > - Overhaul of mapscript unit testing framework with a comprehensive test
> >    runner mapscript/python/tests/runtests.py.
> >
> > - Modified the MS_VALID_EXTENT macro to take an extent as its argument
> >    instead of the quartet of members. MapServer now checks that extents
> > input
> >    through the mapfile are valid in mapfile.c (web, map, reference,
> >    and layer).  Modified msMapSetExtent in mapobject.c to use the new
> >    macro instead of its home-grown version. Modified all cases that used
> >    MS_VALID_EXTENT to the new use case.
> >
> > - Layers now accept an EXTENT through the mapfile (bug 786). Nothing
> >    is done with it at this point, and getExtent still queries the
> >    datasource rather than getting information from the mapfile-specified
> >    extent.
> >
> > - Fixed problem with WMS GetFeatureInfo when map was reprojected. Was a
> >    problem with msProjectRect and zero-size search rectangles (bug 794)
> >
> > - MapServer version now output to mapscriptvars and read by Perl
> > Makefile.PL
> >    and Python setup.py (bug 795).
> >
> > - Map.web, layer, and class metadata are exposed in SWIG mapscript as
> >    first-class objects (bug 737).
> >
> > - Add support for spatial filters in the SLD (Bug 782)
> >
> > - A few fixes to allow php_mapscript to work with both PHP4 and PHP5.
> >    PHP5 support should still be considered experimental. (bug 718)
> >
> > - Fixed SDE only recognizing SE_ROW_ID as the unique column (bug 536).
> >    The code now autosenses the unique row id column.
> >
> > - Enhanced SDE support to include support for queries against
> >    user-specified versions.  The version name can be specified as the
> >    last parameter of the CONNECTION string.
> >
> > - Fixed automated generation of onlineresource in OWS GetCapabilities
> >    when the xxx_onlineresource metadata is not specified: the
> > map= parameter
> >    used to be omitted and is now included in the default
> onlineresource if
> >    it was explicitly set in QUERY_STRING (bug 643)
> >
> > - Fixed possible crash when producing WMS errors INIMAGE (bug 644)
> >
> > - Fixed automated generation of onlineresource in OWS GetCapabilities
> >    when the xxx_onlineresource metadata is not specified: the
> > map= parameter
> >    used to be omitted and is now included in the default
> onlineresource if
> >    it was explicitly set in QUERY_STRING (bug 643)
> >
> > - Fixed an issue with annotation label overlap. There was an issue with
> >    the way msRectToPolygon was computing it's bounding box. (bug 618)
> >
> > - Removed "xbasewohoo" debug output when using JOINs and fixed a few
> >    error messages related to MySQL joins (bug 652)
> >
> > - Fixed "raster cracking" problem (bug 493)
> >
> > - Improvements to Makefile.vc, and nmake.opt so that a
> mapscriptvars file
> >    can be produced on windows.
> >
> > - Updated setup.py so Python MapScript builds on win32.
> >
> > - Added preliminary raster query support.
> >
> > - No more Python-stopping but otherwise benign errors raised from
> >    msDrawWMSLayer() (bug 650).
> >
> > - Finished prototyping all MapServer functions used by SWIG-Mapscript
> >    and added 'void' to prototypes of no-arg functions, eliminating all
> >    but two SWIG-Mapscript build warnings (bug 658).
> >
> > - Mapscript: resolved issue with pens and dynamic drawing of points (bug
> > 663).
> >
> > - Mapscript: fixes to tests of shape copying and new image symbols.
> >
> > - Mapscript: new OWSRequest class based on cgiRequestObj structure in
> >    cgiutil.h is a first step to allow programming with MapServer's OWS
> >    dispatching (bug 670).
> >
> > - Mapscript: styles member of classObj structure is no longer exposed to
> >    SWIG (bug 611).
> >
> > - Implementation geotransform/rotation support in cgi core, and
> > mapscript.i.
> >
> > - Testing: fixed syntax error, 'EPSG' -> 'epsg' in test.map (bug 687).
> >    Added an embedded scalebar which demonstrates that bug 519 is fixed.
> >    The test data package is also made more complete by
> including two fonts
> >    from Bitstream's open Vera fonts (bug 694).
> >
> > - Mapscript (SWIG): remove promote and demote methods from
> layerObj.  Use
> >    of container's moveLayerUp/moveLayerDown is better, and this brings
> >    the module nearer to PHP-Mapscript (bug 692).
> >
> > - mapogr.cpp: Now echos CPLGetLastErrorMsg() results if OGR open fails.
> >
> > - mapraster.c: fixed tile index corruption problem (bug 698)
> >
> > - Mladen Turk's map copying macros in mapcopy.h clean up map cloning and
> >    allow for copying of fontset and symbolset.  Added cloning tests in
> >    python/tests/testCloneMap.py and refactored testing suite (bugs 640 &
> > 701).
> >
> > - Mapscript: removing obsolete python/setup_wnone.py file.
> >
> > - CONFIG MS_NONSQUARE YES now enables non-square pixel mode (mostly for
> > WMS).
> >    Changes in mapdraw.c (msDrawMap()) to use the geotransform "hack" to
> > allow
> >    non-square pixels.
> >
> > - When using the text/html mime type in a GetFeature request, if the
> >    layer's template is not set to a valid file, errors occur.
> >    Correction is : the text/html is not advertized by default and
> >    will only be advertized if the user has defined
> >    "WMS_FEATURE_INFO_MIME_TYPE"  "text/html" (bug 736)
> >
> > - Make PHP MapScript's layer->open() produce a PHP Warning instead of a
> >    Fatal error (bug 742)
> >
> > - MapServer hash tables are now a structure containing a items pointer
> >    to hashObj. See maphash.h for new prototypes of hash table functions.
> >    In SWIG mapscript, Map, Layer, and Class metadata are now instances
> > of the
> >    new hashTableObj class.  fontset.fonts and Map.configoptions are also
> >    instances of hashTableObj.  The older getMetaData/setMetaData and
> >    metadata iterator methods can be deprecated (bug 737).
> >
> > - Mapscript-SWIG: made the arguments of mapObj and layerObj constructors
> >    optional.  A layerObj can now exist outside of a map and can be added
> >    to a mapObj using the insertLayer method.  mapObj.removeLayer now
> >    returns a copy of the removed Layer rather than an integer (bug 759).
> >
> > - Fixed $map->processTemplate() which was always returning NULL.
> >    Bug introduced in version 4.0 in all flavours of MapScript (bug 410)
> >
> >
> > Version 4.2-beta1 (2004-04-17)
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > - Added support for WMS 1.1.1 in the WMS interface.
> >
> > - Added support for WMS-SLD in client and server mode.
> >
> > - Added support for attribute filters in the WFS interface.
> >
> > - WMS Interface: several fixes to address issues found in running tests
> >    against the OGC testsuite. One of the side-effects is that incomplete
> >    GetMap requests that used to work in previous versions will produce
> >    errors now (see bug 622).
> >
> > - Modified configure scripts to be able to configure/build PHP MapScript
> >    using an installed PHP instead of requiring the full source tree.
> >
> > - Added ability to combine multiple WMS connections to the same server
> >    into a single request when the layers are adjacent and compatible.
> > (bug 116)
> >
> > - Support POSTed requests without Content-Length set.
> >
> > - Added support for proper classification of non-8bit rasters.
> >
> > - Added support for BYTE rawmode output type.
> >
> > - Added support for multiple bands of output in rawmode.
> >
> > - MySQL joins available
> >
> > - Fixed problems with detection of OGRRegisterAll() with GDAL 1.1.9 in
> >    configure due to GDAL's library name change. Fixed a few other minor
> >    issues with GDAL/OGR in configure.
> >
> > - Modified configure to disable native TIFF/PNG/JPEG/GIF support
> > by default
> >    if GDAL is enabled.  You can still enable them explicitly if
> you like.
> >
> > - Replace wms_style_%s_legendurl, wms_logourl, wms_descriptionurl,
> > wms_dataurl
> >    and wms_metadataurl metadata by four new metadata by metadata
> > replaced. The
> >    new metadata are called legendurl_width, legendurl_height,
> > legendurl_format,
> >    legendurl_href, logourl_width, etc...
> >    Old dependancy to the metadata with four value in it , space
> > separated, are
> >    not kept.
> >
> > - Implement DataURL, MetadataURL and DescriptionURL metadata in
> >    mapcontext.c (bug 523)
> >
> > - PHP MapScript's pasteImage() now takes a hex color value
> (e.g. 0xrrggbb)
> >    for the transparent color instead of a color index. (bug 463)
> >
> > - OGR data sources with relative paths are now checked relative to
> >    SHAPEPATH first, and if not found then we try again relative to the
> >    mapfile location.  (bug 295)
> >
> > - There is a new mapObj parameter called MAXSIZE to control
> maximum image
> >    size to serve via the CGI and WMS interfaces. The default is 2048 as
> >    before but it can be changed in the map file now. (bug 435)
> >
> > - Added simple dataset for unit and regression tests (bug 453)
> >
> > - PostGIS: added postresql_NOTICE_HANDLER() sending output via msDebug()
> >    and only when layer->debug is set (bug 418)
> >
> > - Added Apache version detection in configure and added
> non-blocking flag
> >    on stderr in msDebug() to work around Apache 2.x bug (bug 458)
> >
> > - MapScript rectObj: added optional bounding value args to
> constructor and
> >    extended rectObj class with a toPolygon method (bug 508).
> >
> > - MapScript pointObj: added optional x/y args to constructor (bug 508).
> >
> > - MapScript colorObj: added optional RGB color value args to colorObj
> >    constructor, and extended colorObj class with setRGB,
> setHex, and toHex
> >    methods.  The hex methods use hex color strings like '#ffffff' rather
> >    than '0xffffff' for compatibility with HTML (bug 509).
> >
> > - MapScript outputFormatObj: extended with a getOption method (bug 510).
> >
> > - MapScript imageObj: added optional mapObj argument to the save method
> >    resolving bug 549 without breaking current API.  Also added optional
> >    driver and filename arguments to constructor which allows imageObj
> >    instances to be created with a specified driver or from files on disk
> >    (bug 530).  Added new code to Python MapScript which extends the
> >    filename option to Python file-like objects (bug 550). This means
> >    StringIO and urllib's network objects!
> >
> > - MapScript classObj and styleObj: added a new styleObj shadow class and
> >    extended classObj with getStyle, insertStyle, and
> removeStyle methods.
> >    MapScript now supports multiple styles for dynamically
> created classes
> >    (bug 548).
> >
> > - MapScript layerObj: added getExtent, getNumFeatures extension methods,
> >    allowing getShape to access inline features (bug 562).
> >
> > - Added fixes for AMD64/Linux in configure (bug 565)
> >
> > - Removed OGR_STATIC stuff in configure script that used to allow us to
> >    build with OGR statically by pointing to the OGR source tree.  That
> >    means you can only build with OGR when *installed* as part of GDAL,
> >    but that's what everyone is doing these days anyway.
> >
> > - Mapscript outputFormatObj: extended constructor to allow format names,
> >    and mapObj methods to append and remove output formats from the
> >    outputformatlist (bug 511).
> >
> > - New SWIG mapscript development documentation in the spirit of the
> >    PHP-Mapscript readme file, but using reST (bug 576).
> >
> > - Paving way for future changes to SWIG mapscript API with new features
> >    enabled by NEXT_GENERATION_API symbol (bug 586).
> >
> > - Added ability to set string member variables to NULL in PHP MapScript
> >    (bug 591)
> >
> > - New key iterators for map, layer, and class metadata hash tables
> >    (bug 434) and fontset fonts hash table (bug 439).
> >
> > - Fixed potential crash when using nquery with a querymap enabled and
> >    some layers have a template set at the layer level instead of inside
> >    classes (bug 569).
> >
> > - New CONFIG keyword in the MAP object in a .map file to be used
> >    to set external configuration parameters such as PROJ_LIB and control
> >    of some GDAL and OGR driver behaviours (bug 619)
>



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