6.0 Announcement

Authors:Project Steering Committee Released:2011-05-12

Table of Contents

• 6.0 Announcement
  • Core Changes in MapServer 6.0 Which Could Affect Existing Applications
  • New Features and Notable Enhancements in MapServer 6.0
  • Migration Guide
  • Source Code Download
  • Binary Distributions
  • Documentation

The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the long awaited release of MapServer 6.0.0.

The 6.0 release introduces important changes in key components of the MapServer core, as well as a large number of new features and enhancements. The complete list of changes and enhancements is too long to include here, so here is a quick list of RFCs related to this release:

Core Changes in MapServer 6.0 Which Could Affect Existing Applications

• MS RFC 54: Rendering Interface API
• MS RFC 64: MapServer Expression Parser Overhaul
• MS RFC 65: Single-pass Query Changes for 6.0

New Features and Notable Enhancements in MapServer 6.0

• MS RFC 50: OpenGL Rendering Support
• MS RFC 58: Kml Output
• MS RFC 60: Labeling enhancement: MAXOVERLAPANGLE
• MS RFC 61: Enhance MapServer Feature Style Support
• MS RFC 62: Support Additional WFS GetFeature Output Formats
• MS RFC 63: Built-in OpenLayers map viewer
• MS RFC 66: Better handling of temporary files
• MS RFC 67: Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services
• MS RFC 68: Support for combining features from multiple layers
• MS RFC 69: Support for clustering of features in point layers

More details are also available in the 6.0 Release Plan.

Migration Guide

Users upgrading to 6.0 from an older 5.x release are strongly encouraged to start by reviewing the 5.6 -> 6.0 Migration Guide. This document contains important notes on backwards incompatibilities or other changes required when upgrading to 6.0.

Source Code Download

The source for this release can be downloaded at:

http://mapserver.org/download.html

or

http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-6.0.0.tar.gz

Binary Distributions

• MS4W users can upgrade to this MapServer 6.0.0 release by following instructions at: http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=RELEASE_mapserver_ms4w3.x_dev-6.0.0.html
• Ubuntu binaries for hardy, lucid, maverick and natty are also built and available in the unstable PPA of UbuntuGIS. See details and instructions at: http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/
• RHEL and CentOS 5.6 packages can be downloaded from the http://elgis.argeo.org/ testing repository. Scientific Linux need php53 packages in order to install php-mapserver6. Users who have mapserver6 beta and rc packages installed are advised to remove those before installing MapServer 6.0.0 packages.

The other binary distributions listed in the download page should also be updated with binaries for the new release shortly.

Documentation

The MapServer documentation team is continuing to update and maintain documents, and are happy to announce that MapServer documentation is now available in English, German, French, and Spanish. Volunteers are always needed to help translate documents and update the documentation. The documentation team asks those volunteers interested in translating documents to please introduce yourself on the mapserver-dev email list.

Finally, thank you to all of the users, developers, and supporters of MapServer. Enjoy!

The MapServer Team