[MS4W-Users] version 4.0.0 released!

[Venka]

Hi Jeff,

Congratulations!!

Thanks to you and Gateway Geomatics for all this
tremendous effort.

Best

Venka

On 3/13/2019 7:45 AM, Jeff McKenna via MS4W-Users wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Today is a big day as Gateway Geomatics is truly proud to announce that 
> MS4W 4.0.0 is finally available! This is a huge release of changes, as 
> every library (over 200 now) has been upgraded and built with a new 
> compiler (Visual Studio 2017), and contains many great additions 
> overall.  Get it now at https://ms4w.com
> 
> Please see MS4W's HISTORY.txt for all of the changes (or the bottom of 
> this email for the full list), but here are some of the highlights:
> 
>   - PHP7 mapscript support (using the SWIG API)
>   - PHP 7.2.16
>   - embedded Python 3.7.0
>   - running pycsw Catalogue Server
>   - expanded ZOO-Project WPS support (all GDAL/OGR services, Python, 
> PHP, CSharp, Java)
>   - new Matomo Analytics package
>   - simple map viewer on the localhost page
>   - GDAL 2.4.0
>   - MapServer 7.4.0-dev
>   - mod_wsgi for Apache
>   - Mapbox Vector Tile output through MapServer (demo included)
>   - osm2pgsql commandline utility
>   - many HTTPS config changes and fixes (including a workaround for a 
> show-stopping MapCache issue on some systems)
>   - enhancements to the setup.exe installer
>   - and many more...
> 
> You can see that MS4W-4.0.0 is a full SDI for Windows environments, with 
> ~40+ working mapfiles and over 1.7GB of files, empowering DevOps and 
> organizations worldwide.  Also note that this is a major release for 
> MS4W, meaning that some things have changed dramatically (PHPmapscript 
> will now use the SWIG API for example), so please follow MS4W's README 
> for specific instructions for the many plugins and mapscripts.
> 
> When installing, it is very important that (if you are using the .zip) 
> your server must have the C++ Redistributable installed on it 
> beforehand: execute the local file /ms4w/tmp/vcredist_x86.exe 
> (alternatively if you use MS4W's setup.exe installer this is done 
> automatically)
> 
> As always please provide your requests for enhancements and issues 
> through the MS4W tracker (so the feedback is not lost or forgotten): 
> https://ms4w.com/trac/  You can also contact me directly for support.
> 
> Thank you all for sharing your spatial information with MS4W !!
> 
> "MS4W: open doors and as well as windows"
> 
> 
> -jeff
> 
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