[MS4W-Users] version 4.0.5 released

[Venka]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for all you efforts in brining out the new MS4W release.

Have great vacation and looking forward to a great year
ahead for the MS4W community.

Venka

On 12/18/2020 8:41 AM, Jeff McKenna via MS4W-Users wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> MS4W 4.0.5 is now available, which contains many critical updates, such 
> as the OpenSSL high-level security release, as well as an important 
> upgrade to the PHP 7.4 series (as PHP 7.2 is no longer receiving 
> security releases), into the Python 3.9 series also, plus rebuilds of 
> the entire stack for the new pycsw version, Mapbender 3.2.x version, 
> fast compression through Zstd for tiffs, latest PDAL, osm2pgsql, 
> TinyOWS, and much more!   Get it now at https://ms4w.com
> 
> 
> Please see MS4W's HISTORY.txt for all of the changes, but here are some 
> of the highlights:
> 
>           - upgraded MapServer and MapScript (CSharp, Java, Python, PHP) 
> to today's 7.7.0-dev
>           - upgraded PHP to 7.4.13 security release (trac ticket 243)
>           - upgraded MapCache to 1.11dev (git-master-20201214)
>           - upgraded to TinyOWS git-master-20201216
>           - modified TinyOWS config.xml to disable 'check_schema' to 
> avoid HTTPS issues
>           - added content encoding declaration to TinyOWS demo template
>           - upgraded Apache HTTP Server to 2.4.46 (trac ticket 281)
>           - upgraded Python to 3.9.1 (trac ticket 245)
>           - upgraded pycsw to 2.6.0 (trac ticket 300)
>           - re-set pycsw to use Apache mod_wsgi instead of CGI (trac 
> ticket 262)
>           - upgraded OpenSSL to 1.1.1i HIGH level security release (trac 
> ticket 296)
>           - upgraded SWIG support to git-master-20201215
>           - rebuilt GDAL (including CSharp/Java/Python bindings, 
> ECW/Oracle plugins)
>           - set PYTHONHOME in setenv.bat for the installer (trac ticket 
> 285)
>           - minor updates to local.map
>           - change quickmap.php to use local.map
>           - added mention of Notepad++ syntax file into README_INSTALL 
> (trac ticket 298)
>           - upgraded libjpeg-turbo support to 2.0.6 (trac ticket 294)
>           - rebuilt libTIFF support
>           - added libTIFF utilities into /tools (trac ticket 297)
>           - upgraded SQLite support to 3.34.0 (trac ticket 286)
>           - upgraded cURL support to 7.74.0 (trac ticket 279)
>           - rebuilt GeoTIFF support
>           - changed site link in README-geotiff.txt (trac ticket 283)
>           - upgraded Expat support to 2.2.10
>           - rebuilt HDF4 support
>           - rebuilt NetCDF support
>           - upgraded PostgreSQL support to 13.1 with SSL enabled (trac 
> ticket 291)
>           - upgraded GEOS support to 3.9.0 (trac ticket 299)
>           - upgraded ICONV support to 1.16 (trac ticket 295)
>           - upgraded FreeXL support to 1.0.6
>           - rebuilt libxml2 support
>           - rebuilt SpatiaLite support
>           - rebuilt SpatiaLite-tools
>           - upgraded FITS support to 3.490
>           - added CFITSIO utilities into /tools
>           - upgraded Freetype support to 2.10.4
>           - rebuilt Cairo support
>           - rebuilt Poppler support
>           - upgraded Zstandard compression support (for TIFF) to 1.4.7
>           - upgraded to Oracle SDK 19.9.0.0.0
>           - rebuilt HarfBuzz support
>           - upgraded FriBidi support to 1.0.10 (trac ticket 215)
>           - rebuilt libSVG support
>           - rebuilt libSVG-Cairo support
>           - updated cURL certificates bundle
>           - rebuilt mod_fcgid
>           - rebuilt Apache H264 Streaming Module
>           - upgraded APCu to 5.1.19
>           - rebuilt php_ogr extension
>           - rebuilt mod_wsgi
>           - upgraded PDAL utilities to git-master-20201217
>           - properly enable the laz-perf library for the PDAL build
>           - upgraded osm2pgsql commandline utility to git-master-20201216
>           - updated the VC Redistributable in /tmp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Wishing everyone a nice Christmas holiday,
> 
> 
> Thank you for using MS4W.
> "MS4W: open doors as well as windows"
> 
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
>