Hi all,
(although the email forum has been quiet, the feedback & testing done by
the community recently through the issue tracker on the 5.2.0 betas has
been excellent, so I wanted to get this release candidate out before the
holidays)
This contains a fully upgraded MS4W, including all of the plugins, and
has been tested with Apache, PHP & Python Mapscript, Oracle, MSSQL,
PostgreSQL, MapCache, TinyOWS, etc. A number of very important security
fixes in several libraries are included.
My plan is to release the final 5.2.0 in early January. Please provide
your testing feedback here or in the issue tracker:
- download 5.2.0-rc1 :
https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w_5.2.0_rc1.zip
- issue tracker:
https://ms4w.com/trac/report/1?sort=created&page=1&max=200
You *must* first run the VC redistributable exe, in /tmp (follow the
steps in /REQUIREMENTS.txt)
Here is a snippet of the HISTORY.txt :
2025-12-14 GatewayGeo
* ms4w version 5.2.0-rc1 created. Notable changes are:
- upgraded MapServer and MapScript (PHP, Python, CSharp, Java)
to today's 8.7.0-dev
- rebuilt MapServer plugins (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server)
- upgraded Apache HTTP Server to 2.4.66 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler (trac ticket 437)
- upgraded GDAL to 3.13.0-dev (including Python/Java/CSharp
bindings,
ECW & Oracle plugins) with Visual Studio 2022 compiler (trac
ticket 430)
- upgraded PHP to 8.4.15 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 427)
- added PHP extensions (you will have to enable/uncomment these
extensions in php.ini) :
- Sodium (trac ticket 428)
- Xdebug (trac ticket 422)
- parallel (trac ticket 421)
- xsl, xmlrpc (trac ticket 379)
- sync (trac ticket 438)
- sqlsrv, pdo_sqlsrv (trac ticket 481)
- upgraded MapCache to 1.15-dev (git-main-2025-12-07)
- upgraded Python to 3.12.12 (trac ticket 436)
- added MS_INDEX_TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY to ms4w.conf (disabled by
default)
- added MVT to included OUTPUTFORMAT file at
/ms4w/apps/includes/outputformat.include
(trac ticket 468)
- added variable MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE for the FastCGI module in
Apache's httpd.conf (trac ticket 425)
- added PLUGINS section to ms4w.conf
- upgraded libjpeg-turbo support to 3.1.2 with Visual Studio
2022 compiler
(trac ticket 453)
- upgraded libPNG support to 1.6.53 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 443)
- upgraded Esri LERC compression plugin for GeoTIFF to 4.1.0-dev
with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- upgraded Zstandard compression support (for TIFF) to 1.5.7
with Visual Studio 2022 compiler (trac ticket 445)
- upgraded libdeflate support to 1.25 with Visual Studio
2022 compiler (trac ticket 452)
- upgraded WebP support to 1.6.0 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler (trac ticket 454)
- upgraded libTIFF support to 4.7.1 with Visual Studio 2019
compiler
(trac ticket 415)
- upgraded ICONV support to 1.18 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 455)
- upgraded libxml2 support to 2.15.1 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 441)
- upgraded OpenSSL to 3.5.4 security release with Visual
Studio 2022 compiler (trac ticket 426)
- upgraded nghttp2 to 1.68.0 security release with Visual
Studio 2022 compiler (trac ticket 423)
- upgraded cURL support to 8.17.0 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 416)
- upgraded SQLite support to 3.51.0 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 433)
- upgraded PROJ support to 9.7.1 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 434)
- upgraded GeoTIFF support to 1.7.4 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 442)
- upgraded JSON-C support to 0.18 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- upgraded Expat support to 2.7.3 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 441)
- upgraded Xerces support to 3.3.0 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 456)
- upgraded HDF5 support to 2.0.0 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 458)
- upgraded HDF4 support to 4.3.1 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 466)
- upgraded NetCDF support to 4.9.3 with Visual Studio 2019
compiler
(trac ticket 457)
- upgraded PostgreSQL support to 18.1 with SSL enabled
with Visual Studio 2022 compiler (trac ticket 444)
- upgraded GEOS support to 3.14.1 with Visual Studio
2022 compiler (trac ticket 418)
- rebuilt FreeXL support with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- rebuilt RT Topology Library support with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
- rebuilt ReadOSM support with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- rebuilt SpatiaLite support with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- rebuilt SpatiaLite-tools support with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
- upgraded FITS support to 4.6.3 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 459)
- upgraded uriparser support to 0.9.9 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 474)
- upgraded Boost support to 1.89.0 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
- rebuilt LibKML support with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- upgraded FreeType support to 2.14.1 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 475)
- upgraded Pixman support to 0.46.4 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
- upgraded Cairo support to 1.18.4 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
- upgraded Poppler support to 25.12.0 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 429)
- upgraded KEA support to 1.6.2 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 451)
- upgraded OGDI commandline utilities with Visual Studio
2022 compiler (trac ticket 460)
- upgraded Shapelib support with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- upgraded PCRE2 support with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- upgraded to Oracle SDK 21.18.0.0.0
- upgraded SWIG support to 4.4.1 (trac ticket 424)
- added muparser support for GDAL's VRT driver with Visual Studio
2022 compiler (trac ticket 461)
- added LZMA compression support for GDAL's /vsirar/ driver with
Visual Studio 2022 compiler (trac ticket 478)
- added libarchive support for GDAL's /vsi7z/ & /vsirar/
drivers with
Visual Studio 2022 compiler (trac ticket 476)
- added Blosc compression support for GDAL's Zarr driver with
Visual
Studio 2022 compiler (trac ticket 477)
- upgraded HarfBuzz support to 12.2.0 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 449)
- upgraded FriBidi support to 1.0.16 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
(trac ticket 462)
- upgraded fcgi2 support to 2.4.7 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
(trac ticket 473)
- rebuilt libSVG support with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- rebuilt libSVG-Cairo support with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- upgraded Protocol Buffers support to 33.1 with Visual Studio
2022 compiler
- upgraded protobuf-c support to 1.5.2 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
- upgraded APR support to 1.7.6 with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- upgraded Lua support to 5.4.8 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
- updated cURL certificates bundle
- rebuilt mod_fcgid with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- rebuilt Apache H264 Streaming Module
- rebuilt PHP_OGR extension with Visual Studio 2022 compiler
- updated the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable in /tmp
- upgraded embedded OpenLayers viewer to 10.5.0 and set
MS_OPENLAYERS_JS_URL in ms4w.conf (instead of Apache's
httpd.conf)
- upgraded mod_wsgi to 5.0.2 (trac ticket 482)
- upgraded pycsw to 3.0-dev (trac ticket 447)
- upgraded to TinyOWS 1.3.0-dev
- upgraded PDAL utilities to 2.9.3 with Visual Studio 2022
compiler
- prevent .ini files being read by Apache HTTP Server (trac
ticket 483)
Thanks, and merry Christmas to the MS4W community,
-jeff
--
Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, & offering MapServer Consulting/Dev
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/
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