Thanks Seth. RE: deprecation, we should also consider WMS Context (anything < 1.1.0), and communicate as part of the survey to mapserver-users.
Thanks ..Tom On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM Seth G via MapServer-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Jeff. > https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7360 was the last feature I had > planned for the 8.6 release. I have a few other bug fixes that require tests > that I might try and get into the beta. > > One item that we discussed at the codesprint was deprecating features, with a > view to removing them in a future 9.0 release. Possible suggestions included: > > - XML Mapfile support (the .xsd is very out-of-date) > - SOS support > - Some CGI modes > - Native KML output > - The JS V8 support (no-one has been able to compile this since ~2016) > > Are you aware of any usage of the above? It was suggested that a survey be > sent to the mapserver-users list. > > Seth > > -- > web:https://geographika.net & https://mapserverstudio.net > mastodon: @[email protected] > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025, at 1:30 PM, Jeff McKenna via MapServer-dev wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > Sorry for the last minute notice (I had edited the release plan page > > with these dates, but not shared it through email), here is the proposed > > release schedule for 8.6.0 : > > > > > > Feature freeze: Fri. Oct 10, 2025 > > 8.6-beta1: Fri. Oct 17, 2025 > > 8.6-rc1: Fri. Oct 24, 2025 > > 8.6 (final): Fri. Oct 31, 2025 > > > > If you feel these dates need to be delayed, as you are working hard on > > something, let me know. (but it seems that it is good timing) > > > > thanks everyone, and have a nice weekend, > > > > -jeff > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MapServer-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev > _______________________________________________ > MapServer-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev
