.. _announce-7-2:

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Version 7.2.0 Announcement
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: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 :ref:`changelog-7-2`.

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Major New Features in MapServer 7.2
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- :ref:`rfc119`

- :ref:`rfc118`

- :ref:`rfc82`

- :ref:`rfc112`

- :ref:`rfc114`

- :ref:`rfc120`

- support C-style multi-line and single-line comments (`#5362 <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/5362>`_)

- Implement chainable compositing filters (adding to the previous changes originally through :ref:`RFC 113 <rfc113>`)

- improved handling of advertizing WMS queryable layers or sublayers (`#5570 <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5570>`_) 

- improved PostGIS layer filter use (`#5584 <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5584>`_)

- improved CLUSTER performance (`#5503 <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5503>`_)

- MapScript support for Python 3

- WMS 1.3.0 client support (`#3039 <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/3039>`_)

- LABEL->PARTIALS set to false by default (`#5198 <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5198>`_)

Migration Guide
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Head to :ref:`migration`

Source Code Download
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The source for this release can be downloaded at:

    http://mapserver.org/download.html

.. TBD
    Binary Distributions
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    Binary distributions will be available in the coming days:

    - ``MS4W`` users will soon be able to upgrade to this MapServer 7.0 release:
      http://ms4w.com
    - ``Ubuntu`` binaries for lucid, precise and quantal are also built and available
      in the unstable PPA of UbuntuGIS. See details and instructions at:
      http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/
    - ``RHEL and CentOS`` TODO
    - OpenSUSE rpm binaries are available from Open Build Service (Application:Geo)
      `official repository <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=mapserver&project=Application%3AGeo>`_.
      There is also a `One-Click Installer <http://software.opensuse.org/package/mapserver>`_.

The other binary distributions listed in the download page should also be updated
with binaries for the new release shortly.

Thanks
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Thank you to all of the users, developers, and supporters of MapServer. Enjoy!

*The MapServer Team*

