Sent to you by Hugo via Google Reader: MapServer 5.6.0 Released via Slashgeo by Satri on 12/22/09 The OSGeo announced the release of MapServer 5.6.0. From the announcement: "This new release contains a few new features and performance enhancements. Here is a quick summary: New features in 5.6: * MS RFC 51: XML Mapfile schema and XSLT (see http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/XMLMapfiles) * MS RFC 52: One-pass query processing, making WFS queries on database backends much much faster * MS RFC 55: Improve control of output resolution, allows printing maps at printer resolution using a mapfile defined for screen resolution * MS RFC 57: Labeling enhancements: ability to repeat labels along a line/multiline (RFCs are available online at http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/) Other notable enhancements include: * Security fixes (also backported to 5.4): o Improved security relative to untrusted directories and mapfiles (RFC 56) o Fixed several security issues found in an audit of the CGI application (#2939, #2941, #2942, #2943, #2944) * Performance optimizations: o Load all GDAL image bands in one pass for faster processing (r9260) o Optimized access to very large shapefiles (#2930) * Several enhancements/fixes to OGC Web Services specs support * Several enhancements/fixes to all flavors of MapScript " Read more of this story at Slashgeo.
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