For those who are running a Ubuntu machine and would like to test the mapserver 5.6.0-rc1 release, you can simply add the following line in the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-testing/ubuntu <codename> main
(Where codename is hardy, jaunty or karmic.)
and type: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cgi-mapserver

Alan

Daniel Morissette wrote:
MapServer 5.6.0-rc1 (release candidate 1) has just been released and is available for download at

  http://mapserver.org/download.html OR
  http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-5.6.0-rc1.tar.gz

Please also keep an eye on the 5.4 to 5.6 Migration Guide where we are documenting migration issues for this release: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/browser/trunk/mapserver/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT

We have fixed the blocker issues that were holding the release, and hope that this release candidate can be promoted to final release next week if no blocker issues are found.

Please test this release candidate with your applications. We need your help to ensure a high quality product, and you can help out by testing your applications with this release candidate and reporting your results.

Thanks for your help

The MapServer development team.


Version 5.6.0-rc1 (2009-11-27):
-------------------------------

- Fixed a problem with shape-based queries against projected layers when
  using a tolerance (#3211)

- Fixed long expression evaluation (#2123)

- Added simplfy and topologyPreservingSimplify to MapScript (#2753)

- Fixed Oracle FastCGI memory leak (#3187)

- layer->project flag not being reset properly for drawquerylayer (#673 #2079)

- OGC SLD: support multi-polygons geometries for filters embedded in
  an SLD (#3097)

- [WMC] embedded SLD in context does not work with namespace prefix (#3115)

- Support name aliases used in sld text symbolizer (#3114)

- decode html and unicode entities for polygon truetype symbol fills (#3203)

- Parse PropertyName parameter for wfs requests (#675)

- Fixed when saving a map, layer->transform isn't written properly in
  all cases. (#3198)

- Fixed buffer overflow in oracle spatial driver with large sql data (#2694)

- Improve FastCGI include file finding logic (#3200)

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