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# 6.4 Announcement

Authors

  Project Steering Committee

Released

  2013-09-17

The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the release of MapServer 6.4.0 and MapCache 1.2.0

This 6.4 release brings a number of major new features that are summarized in this document. The full list of changes can be found in MapServer 6.4 Changelog.

Table of Contents

- Major New Features in MapServer 6.4

- Migration Guide

- Major New Features in MapCache 1.2.0

- Source Code Download

- Binary Distributions

- Thanks

## Major New Features in MapServer 6.4

- MS RFC 101: Add Support for Content Dependent Legend Responses. Funding by local government Netherlands (gemeenten Cuijk, Grave, Mill en Sint Hubert).

- Add Support for librsvg as an alternative to libsvg-cairo. Funding by Kanton Basel-Landschaft.

- MS RFC 100: Support for tile index with mixed SRS in raster layers.

- MS RFC 94: Shape Smoothing

- MS RFC 95: Support for lists in expression parser

- MS RFC 92: Migrating from Autotools to CMake

- MS RFC 88: Saving MapServer Objects to Strings

- MS RFC 90: Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services by IP Lists

- MS RFC 85: Vector Contour Rendering (CONNECTIONTYPE CONTOUR)

- MS RFC 89: Layer Geomtransforms

- MS RFC 86: Scale-dependant String Substitutions. Funding by swisstopo.

- Implementation of layer masking for WCS coverages (#4469)

- Implementation of offsets on follow labels (#4399)

## Migration Guide

Head to MapServer Migration Guide

## Major New Features in MapCache 1.2.0

- MS RFC 96: Time Dimension Support in MapCache Tilesets.

- MS RFC 97: Dynamic creation of higher zoom levels tiles.

- Migration to cmake

## Source Code Download

The source for this release can be downloaded at:

> http://mapserver.org/download.html

## Binary Distributions

Binary distributions will be available in the coming days:

- TBD

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