[Mapserver-users] MapServer 4.2.0 released

[Paul Spencer]

fyi I did actually put together an ms4w package with the 4.2.0 update, 
you can download it at:

http://www.maptools.org/dl/ms4w/mapserver_ms4w-4.2.0-20040607.zip

I don't think the maptools website has been updated yet.

Cheers,

Paul

Daniel Morissette wrote:

> 
> On behalf of all the developers, I am pleased to announce that MapServer
> 4.2.0 has been released earlier last week. I'm sorry if this
> announcement comes a bit late, I guess we just assumed that we didn't
> need a formal announcement since we talked so much about the new release
> on the list, but some questions that I've received recently have proven
> me wrong.
> 
> This new release resolves several issues that were found in version 4.0,
> and adds a bunch of enhancements and new features. The relevant portion
> of the HISTORY.TXT is included below.
> 
> Users of 4.0 are encouraged to upgrade to 4.2 as it is a much more
> stable in my opinion. The migration from 4.0 to 4.2 should be very easy:
> there should not be any backwards compatibility issues contrary to what
> some of you may have experienced when migrating from 3.6 to 4.0.
> 
> This release is available for download at the usual location on the UMN 
> website:
>   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dload.html
> 
> Windows binaries including PHP MapScript are also available on 
> maptools.org:
>   http://maptools.org/php_mapscript/index.phtml?page=downloads.html
> 
> And an update for the MS4W package (http://maptools.org/ms4w/) will also
> be available soon.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Daniel
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Version 4.2.0 (2004-05-25)
> --------------------------
> 
> - Postgis: added "WHERE false" to query that looks up the schema for item
>   queries.  This should greatly improve performance for complex queries.
> 
> - Mapscript: fixed the shape copy test in mapscript tests.
> 
> - Mapscript: replaced bad PNG file in tests with one that reads on win32.
> 
> - mapresample.c: Ensure background value is properly initialized in
>   case of rgb or rgba resampled rasters.
> 
> 
> Version 4.2-beta3 (2004-05-14)
> ------------------------------
> 
> - Fixed another write past end of buffer in INIMAGE WMS errors (bug 644)
> 
> - Removed "xbasewohoo" debug output when using JOINs and fixed a few
>   error messages related to MySQL joins (bug 652)
> 
> - 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).
> 
> - Fixed mapwcs.c so that gdal.h and cpl_error.h are not included if
>   USE_WCS_SVR is not enabled ... which is never is in 4.2.
> 
> - msBuildPath() no longer used with temporary filenames when saving images
>   via GDAL.
> 
> - Bug 493: fix the raster cracking fix.  The last fix introduced a serious
>   heap corruption / errant pointer problem in some render cases.
> 
> - Resolved issue with pens and dynamically drawing points (bug 663).
> 
> - Removed unused metadata gml_uri in WFS code (Bug 527)
> 
> 
> Version 4.2-beta2 (2004-05-03)
> ------------------------------
> 
> - Map cloning fixed.  However, users must now set the cloned map's fontset
>   and symbolset explicitly (see bug 557).  A new testcopy program has
>   been added as a target for make.
> 
> - Fixed problem with PHP's pasteImage() method when angle=0
> 
> - Fixed build problem in mapresample.c when compiling without GDAL.
> 
> - 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)
> 
> - Fixed "raster cracking" problem (bug 493)
> 
> 
> 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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