Release0.6.1

Mapnik 0.6.1 Release Changelog

Announcement: http://mapnik.org/news/2009/jul/14/release_0_6_1/

Overview of the 0.6.1 Milestone: milestone:0.6.1

Complete list of tickets closed against this milestone

• XML: Fixed serialization and parsing bugs related to handling of integers and Enums (#328,#353)
• SCons: Added the ability to set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH env setting (#217)
• SCons: Improved linking to only required libraries for libmapnik (#371)
• Shape Plugin: Added compile time flag to allow disabling the use of memory mapped files (r1213) (#342)
• Core: Improved support for PPC (Big endian) architectures (r1198 -> r1213)
• Scons: Improved auto-detection of boost libs/headers (r1200) (#297)
• Plugins: Exposed list of available/registered plugins (r1180) (#246)
• SCons: Improve build support for SunCC (patches from River Tarnell) (r1168, r1169)
• Python: Fixed icu::UnicodeString to PyObject converter (r1240)
• Python: Pickling support for text_symbolizer (r1164) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for proj_transform and view/coord_transform (r1163) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for parameters (r1162) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for stroke objects (r1161) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for line_symbolizer (r1160) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for projection objects (r1159) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for shield_symbolizer (r1158) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for polygon_symbolizer (r1157) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for query objects (r1156) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for pattern symbolizers (r1155) (#345)
• Python: Pickling support for raster_symbolizer (r1154) (#345)
• Python: Exposed dash_array get method (r1151) (#317)
• Python: Pickling support for Coord objects (#345)
• GDAL Plugin: Added an experimental option to open files in 'shared mode' (r1143)
• Python: Exposed RasterSymbolizer options in Python (r1139)
• Plugins: Fixed support for non-file based sources in GDAL and OGR plugins (#336,#337)
• Plugins: Formal inclusion of new plugin for Kismet server (r1127) (#293)
• Python: Made access to features and featuresets more Pythonic (r1121) (#171,#280,#283)
• XML: Ensured relative paths in XML are interpreted relative to XML file location (r1124) (#326)
• XML: Added ability to serialize all default symbolizer values by passing third argument to save_map(m,'file.xml',True)(r1117) (#327)
• Core: Added support for alpha transparency when writing to png256 (patch from Marcin Rudowski) (#202)
• SCons: Ensured ABI compatibility information is embedded in libmapnik.dylib on Mac OS X (#322)
• SCons: Ensured that the full 'install_name' path would be added to libmapnik.dylib on Mac OS X (#374)
• Tests: Added testing framework in Python using nose (r1101-r1105)
• Raster Plugin: Added a tile/bbox-based read policy for large (rasters width * height > 1024*1024 will be loaded in chunks) (r1089)
• OGCServer: Made lxml dependency optional (r1085) (#303)
• Rasters: Handle rounding to allow better alignment of raster layers (r1079) (#295)
• AGG Renderer: Added option to control output JPEG quality (r1078) (#198)
• Plugins: Fixed segfault in OGR Plugin with empty geometries (r1074) (#292)