[mapserver-users] MapServer 6.0.0-beta5 release

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

openSUSE packages for beta5 can be found here:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tzotsos/

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenSUSE_Geo_Repositories

Regards,
Angelos

On 04/07/2011 06:29 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the release of MapServer 
> 6.0.0-beta5. This is the latest beta on our way to a final 6.0 
> release. Once again this beta contains several important fixes and we 
> encourage you to test it and continue to provide feedback.
>
> The 6.0 release introduces important changes in key components of the 
> MapServer core (rendering, query and expressions), and for this reason 
> we count on you, MapServer power users, to help test the release in 
> your respective environments and provide feedback (through the users 
> list or Trac tickets).
>
> If all goes well, the plan is to have a final 6.0 release around the 
> end of April. The full release plan which also includes the list of 
> new features and changes in this release is available at:
> http://mapserver.org/trunk/development/release/release-plan-6.0.html
>
> The list of fixes since beta1 is attached at the end of this message. 
> For a complete list see the HISTORY.TXT file at:
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/tags/rel-6-0-0-beta5/mapserver/HISTORY.TXT 
>
>
> We have started working on a 5.6 -> 6.0 migration guide. This document 
> contains important notes on backwards incompatibilities or other 
> changes required when upgrading to 6.0. It is not complete yet but we 
> strongly recommend that you review the latest version online at:
>
> http://mapserver.org/trunk/MIGRATION_GUIDE.html
>
> The source for this release can be downloaded at:
>
> http://mapserver.org/download.html
> or
> http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-6.0.0-beta5.tar.gz
>
> The binary distributions listed in the download page should be updated 
> with binaries for the new beta release in the next day or so.
>
> Once again we need your help to ensure a high quality product, so 
> please help out by testing your applications with this new code base.
>
> Thanks! - The MapServer Team
>
>
>
> Version 6.0.0-beta5 (2011-04-06)
> --------------------------------
>
> - Fix setting of top-level mapObj member variables in PHP MapScript 
> (#3815)
>
> - More robust OpenGL context creation on older video cards and drivers 
> (#3791)
>
> - Allow users to set the maximum number of vector features to be drawn 
> (#3739)
>
> - Fixed FCGI on Windows problem related to lexer (#3812)
>
> - KML: Add ows/kml_exclude_items (#3560)
>
> - Removed all refs left to MS_SYMBOL_CARTOLINE (#3798)
>
> - Removed GAP, PATTERN, LINECAP/JOIN and POSITION from symbolObj (#3797)
>
> - Fixed handling of STYLEITEM AUTO label position codes 10,11,12 (#3806)
>
> - Fixed msGEOSGeometry2Shape to handle 'GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY'
>   as null geometry instead of raising an error (#3811)
>
> - Re-added the MYSQL JOIN support. Had been removed with the MYGIS
>   deprecated driver.
>
> - Add opacity to legend (#3740)
>
> - Updated PHP/MapScript with the new objects properties (#3735)
>
> - KML: set layer's projection when it is not defined (#3809)
>
> - Updated xml mapfile schema and xsl with the new lexer properties 
> (#3735)
>
> - Updated PHP/MapScript for MS RFC 69: clustering. (#3700)
>
> - Move allocation of cgiRequestObj paramNames/Values to 
> msAllocCgiObj() (#1888)
>
> - Add support for simple aggregates for the cluster layer attributes 
> (#3700)
>
> - Improved error reporting in msSaveImage() (#3733)
>
> - configure: look for libxslt.so under lib64 as well
>
> - added missing ';' before charset in WFS DescribeFeatureType header 
> (#3793)
>
> - add brushed line support for agg renderer (#3792)
>
> - fix bug with marker symbols along offset line
>
> - fix for the cluster layer returning invalid feature count (#3794)
>
> - remove some compiler warnings
>
> - fix incorrect scaling of hatch symbol spacing (#3773)
>
> - fix incorrect background color for INIMAGE exceptions (#3790)
>
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-- 
Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos