[mapserver-users] MS4W version 4.0.0-beta1 available

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello everyone,

Many Windows users will be very interested that MS4W-4.0.0-beta1 is 
available now, which will be a huge release of changes, as every library
(over 200 now) has been upgraded and built with a new compiler (Visual 
Studio 2017), and contains many great additions overall.  You can test 
the beta at:

  - installer: 
https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w-4.0.0-beta1-setup.exe 
(recommended)
  - archive: https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w_4.0.0_beta1.zip

Please see MS4W's HISTORY.txt for all of the changes, but here are some 
of the highlights:

  - Mapbox Vector Tile output through MapServer (demo included)
  - PHP7 mapscript support (using the SWIG API)
  - usual mapscripts available (Java, Python, CSharp)
  - embedded Python 3.7.0
  - running pycsw Catalogue Server
  - expanded ZOO-Project WPS support (all GDAL/OGR services, Python, 
PHP, CSharp, Java)
  - new Matomo Analytics package
  - simple map viewer on the localhost page
  - GDAL 2.4.0
  - MapServer 7.4.0-dev
  - mod_wsgi for Apache
  - and many more...

You can see that MS4W-4.0.0 will be a full SDI for Windows environments, 
with ~40+ working mapfiles and over 1.7GB of files, empowering DevOps 
and organizations worldwide.  Also note that this is a major release for 
MS4W, meaning that some things have changed dramatically (PHPmapscript 
will now use the SWIG API for example), so please follow MS4W's README 
for specific instructions for the many plugins and mapscripts.

When installing, it is very important that (if you are using the .zip) 
your server must have the C++ Redistributable installed on it 
beforehand: execute the local file /ms4w/tmp/vcredist_x86.exe 
(alternatively if you use MS4W's setup.exe installer this is done 
automatically)

Please provide your 4.0.0 testing feedback through the MS4W tracker (so 
the feedback is not lost or forgotten): http://www.ms4w.com/trac/

Thank you all for sharing your spatial information with MS4W.


-jeff


-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
https://gatewaygeomatics.com/