[MS4W-Users] MS4W 3.0.5 available (security release)

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Fri May 25 15:01:50 EST 2012


Hello everyone,

MS4W 3.0.5 is available now at:
http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html

The relevant MS4W changelog is:

  * ms4w version 3.0.5 created. Notable changes are:
         - upgraded MapServer and MapScript to 6.0.3 (ticket 2393)
         - upgraded GDAL to 1.9.1 (ticket 2387)
         - upgraded PHP to 5.4.3 (ticket 2368)
         - security: - moved php.exe from the cgi-bin to the /tools
                       directory
                     - renamed \Apache\htdocs\phpinfo.php to
                       phpinfo.php.rename
                     - thank you to Mike Arnold
         - upgraded Apache to 2.2.22, with OpenSSL 0.9.8t (ticket 2392)
         - upgraded mod_fcgid to 2.3.7
         - upgraded the CA bundle file in \Apache\conf\ca-bundle\
         - upgraded to jpeg 8d support for GDAL and MapServer
         - upgraded to zlib 1.2.7 support for GDAL and MapServer
         - upgraded to libPNG 1.5.10 support for GDAL and
           MapServer
         - upgraded to libTIFF 4.0.1 support for GDAL
         - upgraded to GeoTIFF 1.4.0 support for GDAL (ticket 2391)
         - upgraded to expat 2.1.0 support for GDAL
         - upgraded to MrSID SDK 8.5 support for GDAL
         - upgraded to PostgreSQL 9.1.3 support for GDAL
         - upgraded PROJ.4 to 4.8.0 (ticket 2366)
         - upgraded to Oracle SDK 11.2.0.3.0 for GDAL and MapServer
         - upgraded to ESRI File Geodatabase 1.2 API support for GDAL
         - upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1c support for GDAL
         - upgraded to CURL 7.25.0 support for GDAL and MapServer
         - upgraded to GEOS 3.3.3 support for GDAL and
           MapServer (ticket 2377)
         - upgraded to libKML svn-05242012 support for GDAL
         - upgraded to Freetype 2.4.9 support for MapServer
         - replaced GNU RegEx library with PCRE library (ticket 2365)
         - upgraded to libxml2 2.7.8 support for MapServer

You will notice that this is a substantial release.  Thank you to Mike
Arnold for performing a security analysis on MS4W; it is for this reason
that I recommend that all instances be upgraded to this release as soon
as possible.

If you need custom builds or any changes I encourage you to contact me
directly; it is through your support that this hugely popular product
can be maintained.

Thank you.

-jeff

-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/










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