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# Version 7.0.0 Announcement

Authors

  Project Steering Committee

Released

  2015-07-24

The MapServer Team is pleased to announce the release of MapServer 7.0.

This 7.0 release brings a number of major new features that are summarized in this document. The full list of changes can be found in MapServer 7.0 Changelog.

Table of Contents

- Major New Features in MapServer 7.0

- Migration Guide

- Source Code Download

- Thanks

## Major New Features in MapServer 7.0

- MS RFC 113: Layer Compositing Pipeline

- MS RFC 109: Optimizing Runtime Substitutions

- MS RFC 108: Dynamic Heatmap (Kernel Density Estimation) Layers

- MS RFC 106: Support of Geomtransform JavaScript Plugin

- MS RFC 105: Support for WFS 2.0 (server side)

- MS RFC 104: Replace BITMAP labels with embedded Truetype font

- MS RFC 103: Layer Level Character Encoding Handling

- MS RFC 102: Support of Styleitem JavaScript Plugin

- MS RFC 99: Remove support for GD renderer

- MS RFC 98: Label/Text Rendering Overhaul

- MS RFC 93: UTF Grid Support

- MS RFC 91: Layer Filter Normalization

- Implement WCS20 Extensions (#4898)

- Require validation of ExternalGraphic OnlineResource (#4883)

- Require validation on the CGI queryfile parameter. (#4874)

- Apply RFC86 scaletoken substitutions to layer->PROCESSING entries

## 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