MapServer 5.2 Release Plan
The release plan for MapServer 5.2
Proposed Feature Set and Major Bug Fixes
(most items on this list were uncompleted items reported from the 5.0 release plan)| Performance Features | Developers | Funded? |
|---|---|---|
| thread-safety improvements | Szekeres/Nicoletti | |
| feature cache for long running processes and query processing | Szekeres/Lime? | |
| RFC 22: data adapters | Szekeres | |
| Convert mapogr.cpp to use OGR C API (ticket 545) | Morissette | Y |
| Presentation Features | Developers | Funded? |
| query presentation via OGR (e.g. result set to shapefile) | | |
| class or style-level transparency | Lime / Bonfort | Y (AGG only) |
| RFC 21: Raster Color Correction | Wamerdam | |
| Configuration/Management Features | Developers | Funded? |
| XML mapfile support (in addition to existing file format) | Lime? | |
| binary mapfile serialization | Szekeres? | |
| range support for thematic mapping, auto classification | Binko | |
| OGC Services Features | Developers | Funded? |
| WFS 1.1 support | Assefa | Y |
| Filter 1.1 support | Assefa | ? |
| SOS 1.0.0 support | Kralidis | |
| WCS 1.1.0 support | Warmerdam | Y |
| WMS 1.3 client and server support | Morissette | Y |
| LibXML re-write, when applicable, for OWS implementations (WCS is a particularly good candidate) | Kralidis? | |
| ows_service metadata to define applicable services | Nadeau | |
| Optimize lookup of EPSG codes (ticket 1976) | Morissette | Y |
| MapScript Features | Developers | Funded? |
| make sure PHP/MapScript and Swig-based MapScript APIs align | | |
| Documentation | Developers | Funded? |
| General updates | McKenna | Y |
| Downloadable users manual | McKenna | Y |



