MapServer 4.6.0-beta3 released

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Daniel,

will there be new Windows binaries on maptools.org?

Or do people need to compile their own since the release cycles are so short?

Best regards,
Bart

Bart van den Eijnden
Syncera-ITSolutions
Postbus 270
2600 AG  DELFT

tel.nr.: 015-7512436
email: BEN at Syncera-ITSolutions.nl

>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> 05/31/05 12:32am >>>
MapServer 4.6.0-beta3 is now available for download on the MapServer
website (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dload.html). This should be the
last beta before the release candidate (early next week) and the final
release just in time for MUM3. Once again, we invite experienced users
to contribute to the release process by testing the betas with their
applications and reporting any issues via bugzilla.

The list of fixes since beta2 is included below.

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca 
  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ 
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Version 4.6.0-beta3 (2005-05-27)
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- Bug 1298 : enable Attribution element in wms Capabilities XML

- Bug 1354: Added a regex wrapper, allowing MapServer to build with PHP
   compiled with its builtin regex

- Bug 1364: HTML legend templates: support [if] tests on "group_name" in
   leg_group_html blocks, and for "class_name" in leg_class_html blocks.

- Bug 1149: From WMS 1.1.1, SRS are given in individual tags in root Layer
   element.

- First pass at properly handling XML exceptions from CONNECTIONTYPE WMS
   layers. Still needs some work. (bug 1246)

- map.h/mapdraw.c: removed MAX/MIN macros in favour of MS_MAX/MS_MIN.

- Bug 1341, 1342 : Parse the unit parameter for DWithin filter request.
   Set the layer tolerance and toleranceunit with paramaters parsed.

- Bug 1277 : Support of multiple logical operators in Filter Encoding.

- mapwcs.c: If msDrawRasterLayerLow() fails, ensure that the error message
   is posted as a WCS exception.

- Added experimental support for "labelcache_map_edge_buffer" metadata to
   define a buffer area with no labels around the edge of a map (bug 1353)