The changes are fully described at
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.8.0-News
However, the following are the highlights.
In a nutshell:
* New GDAL drivers : GTX, HF2, JPEGLS, JP2OpenJPEG, JPIPKAK,
KMLSUPEROVERLAY, LOS/LAS, MG4Lidar, NTv2, OZI, PDF, RASDAMAN,
XYZ
* New OGR drivers : AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML,
MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS
* Significantly improved OGR drivers : DXF, GML
* New implemented RFCs:
o RFC 7: Use VSILFILE for VSI*L Functions
o RFC 24: Progressive data support in GDAL
o RFC 28: OGR SQL Generalized Expressions
o RFC 29: OGR Set Ignored Fields
o RFC 30: Unicode Filenames
o RFC 33: GTIFF - Corrected !PixelIsPoint Interpretation
* New utility : gdallocationinfo
Backward compatibility issues:
* MITAB driver: use "," for the OGR Feature Style id: parameter
delimiter, not "." as per the spec. Known impacted application:
MapServer?
* RFC 33 changes the way PixelIsPoint? is handled for GeoTIFF
* GML driver: write valid <gml:MultiGeometry> element instead of
the non-conformant <gml:GeometryCollection>. For backward
compatibility, recognize both syntax for the reading part
* Fixed scale calculation problem caused by mapscale.c's inchesPerUnits
array being out of synch with MS_UNITS enum
* Fixed bitmap text font rendering (tiny was not working)
Changes 5.6.4:
IMPORTANT SECURITY FIXES:
* Disabled some insecure (and potentially exploitable) mapserv command-line
debug arguments.
* Fixed possible buffer overflow in msTmpFile()
Other fixes:
* Fixed possible race condition with connectiontype WFS layers
* Modified mapserver units enum order to fix some problems with external
packages
* fix blending of transparent layers with AGG on MSB archs
* Fixed imageObj->saveImage() sends unnecessary headers
* Correct PropertyName parsing for wfs post requests
* Ensure mapwmslayer.c does not unlink file before closing connection on it
* Fix security exception issue in C# with MSVC2010
* Write out join CONNECTIONTYPE when saving a mapfile.
* Fixed attribute queries to use an extent stored (and cached) as part of
the queryObj rather than the map->extent.
* Reverted msLayerWhichItems() to 5.4-like behavior although still supporting
retrieving all items
* Grid layer: remove drawing of unnecessary gird lines
* OGC Filters for spatial dbs should be enclosed in parentheses
* Improve the handling of simple string comparisons for raster classified
values
* Add the ogc namspace to filters generated by Mapserver
* Fix MS_NONSQUARE to work in mode=map
* Improve error message when loadQuery() filename extension check fails
* Fix GetLegendGraphic using keyimages
* Fix getFeatureInfo queries on WFS layers
* Fixed mapstring.c build problem related to errno
* Correct ungeoreferenced defaults via GetExtent() on raster layer
* More adjustments to how TLOCK_GDAL held around msGetGDALGeoTransform
- Fixed XML transformation issues with expressions and symbols
- Fixed problem with PostGIS SQL bbox introduced in 5.6.2
- Fix backwards handling of iconv errors (w/ SDE) introduced in 5.6.2
Changes 5.6.2:
- Check error returns from mapstring functions
- Correct mutex locking problem with rasters with no inherent georef.
- Fixed problem with isValidItem vs OGR special attributes
- Support wrap character for SVG output
- Fixed msMSSQL2008CloseConnection() to free the statement handle properly
- Fixed PHP MapScript's metadata.nextkey() that was sometimes skipping some
entries on first call because the NULL arg was not properly handled
- Fixed the query handling with the MSSQL2008 driver
- Fixed swig zoomRectangle() method: the maxy in the rect object have to
be < miny value
- Backport fix for SLD filters column names detection
- Backport fix for WFS OGC filters regex tests
- Changed msSaveImageBufferGD to be in accordance with msSaveImageGD
- Changed the query map rendering implementation without adding extra layers
to the map
- SQL Server 2008 plugin is not handling null field values correctly
- Hatch symbol not properly saved
- Expose symbolObj.inmapfile to the SWIG API, have already been exposed to PHP
- Expose getGeomTransform/setGeomTransform to SWIG instead of exposing the
private vars for rfc48
- Fixed writeSymbol to support writing 'ANGLE AUTO'
- Fixed problems with point queries not working via the CGI (mode=query
or mode=nquery)
Changes 5.6.0:
- Fixed potential leak of env. vars through msEvalRegex()
- WFS hits count is incorrect if the request contain 2 layers or more
- Fixed a problem with layer plugin where copyVirtualTable didn't copy
the LayerResultsGetShape function pointer
packages with the modular Xorg equivalent. Those are falling back
to the old location by default, so this commmit doesn't change
dependencies.
graphics/xpm ==> x11/libXpm
fonts/Xft2 ==> x11/libXft
x11/Xfixes ==> x11/libXfixes
x11/xcursor ==> x11/libXcursor
x11/Xrender ==> x11/libXrender
x11/Xrandr ==> libXrandr
Several changes are involved since they are all interrelated. These
changes affect about 1000 files.
The first major change is rewriting bsd.builtin.mk as well as all of
the builtin.mk files to follow the new example in bsd.builtin.mk.
The loop to include all of the builtin.mk files needed by the package
is moved from bsd.builtin.mk and into bsd.buildlink3.mk. bsd.builtin.mk
is now included by each of the individual builtin.mk files and provides
some common logic for all of the builtin.mk files. Currently, this
includes the computation for whether the native or pkgsrc version of
the package is preferred. This causes USE_BUILTIN.* to be correctly
set when one builtin.mk file includes another.
The second major change is teach the builtin.mk files to consider
files under ${LOCALBASE} to be from pkgsrc-controlled packages. Most
of the builtin.mk files test for the presence of built-in software by
checking for the existence of certain files, e.g. <pthread.h>, and we
now assume that if that file is under ${LOCALBASE}, then it must be
from pkgsrc. This modification is a nod toward LOCALBASE=/usr. The
exceptions to this new check are the X11 distribution packages, which
are handled specially as noted below.
The third major change is providing builtin.mk and version.mk files
for each of the X11 distribution packages in pkgsrc. The builtin.mk
file can detect whether the native X11 distribution is the same as
the one provided by pkgsrc, and the version.mk file computes the
version of the X11 distribution package, whether it's built-in or not.
The fourth major change is that the buildlink3.mk files for X11 packages
that install parts which are part of X11 distribution packages, e.g.
Xpm, Xcursor, etc., now use imake to query the X11 distribution for
whether the software is already provided by the X11 distribution.
This is more accurate than grepping for a symbol name in the imake
config files. Using imake required sprinkling various builtin-imake.mk
helper files into pkgsrc directories. These files are used as input
to imake since imake can't use stdin for that purpose.
The fifth major change is in how packages note that they use X11.
Instead of setting USE_X11, package Makefiles should now include
x11.buildlink3.mk instead. This causes the X11 package buildlink3
and builtin logic to be executed at the correct place for buildlink3.mk
and builtin.mk files that previously set USE_X11, and fixes packages
that relied on buildlink3.mk files to implicitly note that X11 is
needed. Package buildlink3.mk should also include x11.buildlink3.mk
when linking against the package libraries requires also linking
against the X11 libraries. Where it was obvious, redundant inclusions
of x11.buildlink3.mk have been removed.
in the process. (More information on tech-pkg.)
Bump PKGREVISION and BUILDLINK_DEPENDS of all packages using libtool and
installing .la files.
Bump PKGREVISION (only) of all packages depending directly on the above
via a buildlink3 include.
brook at biology dot nmsu dot edu and his team at NMSU.
MapServer is an OpenSource development environment for building spatially
enabled Internet applications. It now supports MapScript which allows popular
scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Tk/Tcl, Guile and even Java to
access the MapServer C API. MapScript provides a rich environment for
developing applications that integrate disparate data.
