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=== Opportunities to Help === | === Opportunities to Help === | ||
| − | + | ''list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report'' | |
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=== Outlook for 2009 === | === Outlook for 2009 === | ||
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* MapServer 5.4 to be released in early March | * MapServer 5.4 to be released in early March | ||
* Strong presence at the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | Toronto Code Sprint]] in March where we will focus on 6.0 release features | * Strong presence at the [[Toronto_Code_Sprint_2009 | Toronto Code Sprint]] in March where we will focus on 6.0 release features | ||
Revision as of 20:30, 3 March 2009
MapServer
- Contact name: Steve Lime
Key Accomplishments
the top 5-10 key items that the project or PSC accomplished this period
- MapServer 5.2 released in July:
- Nearly 200 tickets were closed as part of this effort.
- Notable features and enhancements include:
- Performance enhancements for large shapefile handling (following Geoserver comparison)
- Performance enhancements for AGG rendering (an order of magnitude faster in some cases)
- Rendering improvements:
- fuzzy label outlines for AGG
- style-level opacity for AGG
- quantization and palette support for PNGs and RGBA modes
- pre-clip label point computation (helps in tile generation)
- OGC Web Services:
- WCS 1.1.0 support (RFC-41)
- SOS 1.0.0 support
- WFS 1.1.0 support
- Compliance testing (WMS 1.1.1 ready to certify)
- proxy and http authentication support for cascaded WMS requests
- Support for auth cookie forwarding (RFC-42)
- Direct tile generation for Google Maps API (RFC-43)
- Native Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Support (RFC-38)
- extent (e.g. shpext, mapext) template tag attribute handling
- Simplified Template Support for Query Output (MS RFC 36)
- New website launched in December! Quite an improvement for usability and maintainability over the previous site
- We moved from the UMN to OSGeo infrastructure (thanks to UMN for hosting us for all those years!)
- We finally got a hold of the mapserver.org domain which has become our new home
Areas for Improvement
any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help
- ...
Opportunities to Help
list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report
- ...
Outlook for 2009
this is the motivational part that is meant to inspire readers to keep their eyes open for great stuff in 2009 :)
- MapServer 5.4 to be released in early March
- Strong presence at the Toronto Code Sprint in March where we will focus on 6.0 release features
- MapServer 6.0 release sometimes in the fall (hopefully before FOSS4G)