[mapserver-users] MapServer 5.6.0-rc1 released [Ubuntu package]

[Alan Boudreault]

For those who are running a Ubuntu machine and would like to test the 
mapserver 5.6.0-rc1 release, you can simply add the following line in 
the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing/ubuntu 
<codename> main
(Where codename is hardy, jaunty or karmic.)
and type: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cgi-mapserver

Alan

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> MapServer 5.6.0-rc1 (release candidate 1) has just been released and 
> is available for download at
>
>   http://mapserver.org/download.html OR
>   http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-5.6.0-rc1.tar.gz
>
> Please also keep an eye on the 5.4 to 5.6 Migration Guide where we are 
> documenting migration issues for this release:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/trunk/mapserver/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT 
>
>
> We have fixed the blocker issues that were holding the release, and 
> hope that this release candidate can be promoted to final release next 
> week if no blocker issues are found.
>
> Please test this release candidate with your applications. We need 
> your help to ensure a high quality product, and you can help out by 
> testing your applications with this release candidate and reporting 
> your results.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> The MapServer development team.
>
>
> Version 5.6.0-rc1 (2009-11-27):
> -------------------------------
>
> - Fixed a problem with shape-based queries against projected layers when
>   using a tolerance (#3211)
>
> - Fixed long expression evaluation (#2123)
>
> - Added simplfy and topologyPreservingSimplify to MapScript (#2753)
>
> - Fixed Oracle FastCGI memory leak (#3187)
>
> - layer->project flag not being reset properly for drawquerylayer 
> (#673 #2079)
>
> - OGC SLD: support multi-polygons geometries for filters embedded in
>   an SLD (#3097)
>
> - [WMC] embedded SLD in context does not work with namespace prefix 
> (#3115)
>
> - Support name aliases used in sld text symbolizer (#3114)
>
> - decode html and unicode entities for polygon truetype symbol fills 
> (#3203)
>
> - Parse PropertyName parameter for wfs requests (#675)
>
> - Fixed when saving a map, layer->transform isn't written properly in
>   all cases. (#3198)
>
> - Fixed buffer overflow in oracle spatial driver with large sql data 
> (#2694)
>
> - Improve FastCGI include file finding logic (#3200)
>
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-- 
Alan Boudreault
Mapgears
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