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# 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.

Table of Contents

- Major New Features in MapServer 7.2

- Migration Guide

- Source Code Download

- Thanks

## 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:

> http://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