[MS4W-Users] 5.0.0 release candidate available now

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Mon Oct 2 09:54:07 UTC 2023


Hi everyone!

MS4W 5.0.0-RC1 is available now for your testing, at 
https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w_5.0.0_rc1.zip

There are only a few missing Oracle, Java plugins, but I wanted to get 
this out the door for your eyes.

As usual please follow the Migration Guide, at 
https://ms4w.com/trac/wiki/MigrationGuide5.x


Here is the recent changelog:


          - upgraded Apache HTTP Server to 2.4.57 (security release)
            with Visual Studio 2019 compiler (trac ticket 339)
          - upgraded MapServer and MapScript (PHP, Python) to today's 
8.2.0-dev
          - upgraded GDAL to 3.8.0-dev (including Python bindings, ECW 
plugin)
            with Visual Studio 2019 compiler (trac ticket 211)
          - upgraded MapCache to 1.15-dev (git-master-2023-10-01)
          - upgraded PHP to 8.2.11 security release (trac ticket 304) 

          - upgraded Python to 3.11.5 (trac ticket 331)
          - added Windows PowerShell scripts to setenv, install/restart 
Apache,
            install PROJ grid files, etc.
          - upgraded libjpeg-turbo support to 3.0.0 with Visual Studio 
2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 328)
          - upgraded zlib support to 1.2.13 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - upgraded libPNG support to 1.6.40 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 385)
          - rebuilt Esri LERC compression plugin for GeoTIFF  with 
Visual Studio
            2019 compiler
          - upgraded Zstandard compression support (for TIFF) to 1.5.5 

            with Visual Studio 2019 compiler (trac ticket 313)
          - upgraded libdeflate support to 1.18 with Visual Studio
            2019 compiler (trac ticket 292)
          - upgraded WebP support to 1.3.2 with Visual Studio 2019
            compiler (trac ticket 359)
          - upgraded libTIFF support to 4.6.0 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 327)
          - upgraded SQLite support to 3.43.1 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 329)
          - upgraded OpenSSL to 3.1.3 security release with Visual
            Studio 2019 compiler (trac ticket 310)
          - upgraded cURL support to 8.3.0 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 308)
          - upgraded PROJ support to 9.3.0 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 198)
          - added new environment variable PROJ_DATA to point to 
/ms4w/share/proj/
            (which replaces the former PROJ_LIB variable)
          - rebuilt GeoTIFF support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - added JSON-C 0.16 support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - rebuilt ECW support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - upgraded Expat support to 2.5.0 Security Release with Visual
            Studio 2019 compiler (trac ticket 319)
          - upgraded Xerces support to 3.2.4 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 384)
          - upgraded HDF5 support to 1.14.1 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 349)
          - upgraded HDF4 support to 4.2.16 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 350)
          - upgraded libxml2 support to 2.11.5 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 355)
          - added xmlcatalog.exe and xmllint.exe libxml2 utilities
          - upgraded NetCDF support to 4.9.2 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 284)
          - upgraded PostgreSQL support to 15.4 with SSL enabled
            with Visual Studio 2019 compiler (trac ticket 352)
          - upgraded GEOS support to 3.12.0 with Visual Studio
            2019 compiler (trac ticket 309)
          - upgraded FreeXL support to 2.0.0 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 353)
          - rebuilt ReadOSM support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - upgraded SpatiaLite support to 5.1-dev with Visual Studio 
2019 compiler
          - rebuilt SpatiaLite-tools support with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
          - added LZ4 compression support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 387)
          - upgraded FITS support to 4.2.0 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 388)
          - upgraded uriparser support to 0.9.7 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
          - rebuilt LibKML support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - added Crypto++ support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 390)
          - added QHULL support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 391)
          - upgraded Shapelib support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 392)
          - upgraded KEA support to 1.5.1 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 266)
          - upgraded FreeType support to 2.13.2 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 396)
          - upgraded Pixman support to 0.42.2 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
          - rebuilt Cairo support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - upgraded Poppler support to 23.09.0 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 138)
          - added OGDI support and commandline utilities with Visual Studio
            2019 compiler (trac ticket 362)
          - rebuilt HarfBuzz support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - upgraded FriBidi support to 1.0.13 (trac ticket 357)
          - switched to leverage PCRE2 support with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
            (trac ticket 400)
          - rebuilt libSVG support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - rebuilt libSVG-Cairo support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - upgraded Protocol Buffers support to 24.3 with Visual Studio 
2019 compiler
          - upgraded protobuf-c support to 1.4.1 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
          - upgraded APR support to 1.7.4 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - upgraded APR-util library to 1.6.3 with Visual Studio 2019 
compiler
          - rebuilt APR-iconv support with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - upgraded Lua support to 5.4.6 with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 399)
          - added http2 support for Apache with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 395)
          - added Brotli compression support for Apache with Visual 
Studio 2019 compiler
            (trac ticket 401)
          - added Jansson compression support for JSON data for Apache with
            Visual Studio 2019 compiler (trac ticket 402)
          - updated cURL certificates bundle
          - rebuilt mod_fcgid with Visual Studio 2019 compiler
          - rebuilt Apache H264 Streaming Module
          - upgraded APCu to 5.1.22 (for PHP)
          - upgraded to Oracle SDK 21.10.0.0.0
          - rebuilt PHP_OGR extension
          - set MS_OPENLAYERS_JS_URL through Apache conf
          - updated the VC Redistributable in /tmp
          - upgraded to TinyOWS 1.3-dev
          - updated /ms4w/msplugins/mapscript/python/quickmap.py
          - upgraded mod_wsgi to 4.9.2
          - added missing SpatiaLite commandline tools
            (trac ticket 403)



-jeff


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