MapServer 5.0.0-rc1 released

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi everyone,

MapServer 5.0.0-rc1 has just been released. Yes, that's a release 
candidate, and hopefully the right one! The source package is available at:

   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/download/beta

The page above also contains links to binary distributions. They should 
be updated with binaries for this beta in the next few days.

If no critical issue is found in this release candidate, then we will 
officially release MapServer 5.0.0 next week. Thanks a lot to all those 
who have tested previous betas and have reported their results, either 
via the list or directly in Trac (bug tracker). That helps a lot... 
please keep testing and sending feedback.

The complete list of changes/fixes since beta6 is included at the bottom 
of this email.

As was mentioned before, our plan was to have one beta per week until 
the final release of MapServer 5.0 which is planned for the week of 
September 12, 2007. More details can be found in the 5.0 release plan at 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/release_plans/mapserver_5_0/release_plan/

Daniel


Version 5.0.0-rc1 (2007-09-05)
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- Fixed "MinFeatureSize AUTO" labeling for polygon layers, works for polygon
   annotation layers too (#2232)

- Fixed path following labels with short (2/3 character) strings (#2223)

- AGG fix a bug when rendering polygons with tiled pixmaps

- Added requirement to provide validation pattern for cgi-based attribute
   queries using the layer metadata key 'qstring_validation_pattern' (#2286)

- Fixed msDebug causing a crash with VS2005 (#2287)

- Added stronger checks on libpdf version in configure script (#2278)

- Added msGetVersionInt() to MapScript (ms_GetVersionInt() in PHP) (#2279)

- _isnan prototype for MSVC builds from <float.h> #2277

- AGG: Fix a bug when rendering brushed lines with vector or pixmap symbols
   (artifacts could appear on outline)

- AGG: Adjust symbol height when brushing a line with a vector symbol so 
that
   the line width isn't truncated

- Only include process.h on win32 (non-cygwin) systems, moved from
   maptemplate.h to mapserver.h.  (#2276)