Version 7.2.0 Announcement

Authors:

Project Steering Committee

Released:

2018-07-27

The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the release of MapServer 7.2.0

This 7.2.0 release brings a number of major new features that are summarized in this document. The full list of changes can be found in MapServer 7.2 Changelog.

Major New Features in MapServer 7.2

• MS RFC 119: Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) Support

• MS RFC 118: Support Vendor-Specific OGC FILTER parameter in WMS requests

• MS RFC 82: Support for Enhanced Layer Metadata Management

• MS RFC 112: Retry « Follow » label positioning after maxoverlapangle colision

• MS RFC 114: Faster retrieval of shape count

• MS RFC 120: INSPIRE download service support for WCS 2.0

• support C-style multi-line and single-line comments (#5362)

• Implement chainable compositing filters (adding to the previous changes originally through RFC 113)

• improved handling of advertizing WMS queryable layers or sublayers (#5570)

• improved PostGIS layer filter use (#5584)

• improved CLUSTER performance (#5503)

• MapScript support for Python 3

• WMS 1.3.0 client support (#3039)

• LABEL->PARTIALS set to false by default (#5198)

Migration Guide

Head to MapServer Migration Guide

Source Code Download

The source for this release can be downloaded at:

https://mapserver.org/download.html

The other binary distributions listed in the download page should also be updated with binaries for the new release shortly.

Thanks

Thank you to all of the users, developers, and supporters of MapServer. Enjoy!

The MapServer Team