[MapServer-users] MS4W 5.0.0 (final) released!

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi everyone,

After many many betas and release candidates, I'm very proud to announce 
that MS4W 5.0.0 is available at https://ms4w.com

Important: you must be sure to run the file "/tmp/vc_redist.86.exe" 
before installing Apache, if you are using the zip archive.

The history of changes is too long to paste here, so see it at 
https://ms4w.com/HISTORY.html

A significant effort was put into upgrading the setup.exe installer, to 
code sign it for Windows security approval, and also updating the many 
MS4W apps & their mapfiles, as well as handling ms4w.conf, for the 
recent MapServer version.  It should install nicely into the beloved 
path of C:/Program Files/, but installing at the root of a drive is 
always best.

Please see the Migration Guide for upgrading to 5.0, with many important 
notes and steps, at https://ms4w.com/trac/wiki/MigrationGuide5.x

The README has been also updated of course, with special notes for 
enabling MapCache, pycsw, Oracle/Java/Python plugins, GDAL/MapServer 
plugins etc. at https://ms4w.com/README_INSTALL.html

The timing on this release is special, as it is also 20 years since 
Venka, Markus and I met in Bangkok, and agreed to create an annual 
"FOSS4G" event.

(the MS4W dev server has also been updated, showcasing many MS4W apps at 
https://ms4w.dev )

Happy MapServ-ing to all,

-jeff



-- 
Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, & offering MapServer Consulting/Dev
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/