The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the release of MapServer 6.4.0-beta1. This is the first beta on our way to a final 6.4 release, that we are targeting for mid-September before FOSS4G.
This new release introduces a number of new functionalities and a major change to the build system, using cmake instead of the previous autoconf. The INSTALL.CMAKE file (https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/blob/rel-6-4-0-beta1/INSTALL.CMAKE) should get you started, please bring up any issues you may have if those instructions need expanding. Here is a quick list of RFCs documenting some of the new features or important changes in 6.4. - RFC100: Add support for raster tile index with tiles of mixed SRS (TILESRS keyword) - RFC94: Shape Smoothing - RFC95 : add EXPRESSION {value1,value2,...} support to parser (#4648) - RFC92: Migration from autotools to cmake (#4617) - RFC88: Saving MapServer Objects to Strings (#4563) - RFC90: Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services by IP Lists - RFC85,89 Added Simplify,SimplityPT and Generalize geomtransform, implementation of geomtransform at the layer level - RFC86: Scale-dependant token replacements (#4538) - Fix symbol scaling for vector symbols with no height (#4497,#3511) - Implementation of layer masking for WCS coverages (#4469) - Implementation of offsets on follow labels (#4399) (RFCs are available online at http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/) The complete changelog is available at http://mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-6-4.html We have started working on a 6.2 -> 6.4 migration guide. This document contains important notes on backwards incompatibilities or other changes required when upgrading to 6.4. http://www.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-6.4.0-beta1.tar.gz The binary distributions listed in the download page should be updated with binaries for the new 6.4.0-beta1 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 _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
