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<span id="migration"></span><h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer Migration Guide</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-migration-guide" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<dl class="field-list simple">
<dt class="field-odd">Last Updated<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="field-odd"><p>2026-05-01</p>
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<p class="topic-title">Table of Contents</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-migration-guide" id="id3">MapServer Migration Guide</a></p>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-8-4-to-8-6-migration" id="id4">MapServer 8.4 to 8.6 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-8-2-to-8-4-migration" id="id5">MapServer 8.2 to 8.4 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-8-0-to-8-2-migration" id="id6">MapServer 8.0 to 8.2 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-7-6-to-8-0-migration" id="id7">MapServer 7.6 to 8.0 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-7-4-to-7-6-migration" id="id8">MapServer 7.4 to 7.6 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-7-2-to-7-4-migration" id="id9">MapServer 7.2 to 7.4 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-7-0-to-7-2-migration" id="id10">MapServer 7.0 to 7.2 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-6-4-to-7-0-migration" id="id11">MapServer 6.4 to 7.0 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-6-2-to-6-4-migration" id="id12">MapServer 6.2 to 6.4 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-6-0-to-6-2-migration" id="id13">MapServer 6.0 to 6.2 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-5-6-to-6-0-migration" id="id14">MapServer 5.6 to 6.0 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-5-4-to-5-6-migration" id="id15">MapServer 5.4 to 5.6 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-5-2-to-5-4-migration" id="id16">MapServer 5.2 to 5.4 Migration</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="#mapserver-4-10-to-5-0-migration" id="id17">MapServer 4.10 to 5.0 Migration</a></p></li>
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<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>Review MapServer’s <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/main/SECURITY.md/">Security Policy</a>,
and also check if there are any recently published <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/security/advisories?state=published/">vulnerabilities</a>.</p>
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<section id="mapserver-8-4-to-8-6-migration">
<span id="migration-8-6"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 8.4 to 8.6 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-8-4-to-8-6-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<li><p>The 8.6.2 release includes a fix for a security flaw in the OpenLayers viewer
(see MapServer’s <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/security/advisories/GHSA-4g9f-ph64-hg2x">Security Advisory</a>)</p></li>
<li><p>The 8.6.1 release includes a fix for a security flaw in the SLD parser
(see CVE record: <a class="reference external" href="https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-33721">CVE-2026-33721</a>,
or see MapServer’s <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/security/advisories/GHSA-cv4m-mr84-fgjp">Security Advisory</a>)</p></li>
<li><p>You can now enable an automatically generated index page, that lists
all of your OGC services and endpoints, for each mapfile that you
defined in your CONFIG file. To enable the index, add <cite>MS_INDEX_TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY</cite>
to your environment variables section of the <a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/config.html#config"><span class="std std-ref">CONFIG</span></a> file, such as:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">ENV</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># Index page</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="n">MS_INDEX_TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY</span> <span class="s2">"/ms4w/share/ogcapi/templates/html-index-bootstrap/"</span>
<span class="n">END</span>
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<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="output/index-page.html#index-page"><span class="std std-ref">Index Page</span></a> & <a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-140.html#rfc140"><span class="std std-ref">MS RFC 140: MapServer Index Page</span></a></p>
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<li><p>A new <a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/identify.html#identify"><span class="std std-ref">IDENTIFY</span></a> object can be used in a mapfile to control how features are
found through queries, to account for the actual symbol being used for
that CLASS. This could be useful for WMS GetFeatureInfo requests.</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">MAP</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">WEB</span>
<span class="k">METADATA</span>
<span class="s">"wms_title"</span> <span class="s">"My WMS Server"</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#metadata</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#web</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">SYMBOL</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"mysvg"</span>
<span class="k">TYPE</span> <span class="nb">svg</span>
<span class="k">IMAGE</span> <span class="s">"./ttt.svg"</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#symbol</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="k">IDENTIFY</span>
<span class="k">CLASSGROUP</span> <span class="s">"test"</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#identify</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="k">GROUP</span> <span class="s">"test"</span>
<span class="k">STYLE</span>
<span class="k">ANGLE</span> <span class="mi">30</span>
<span class="k">SYMBOL</span> <span class="s">"mysvg"</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#class</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#map</span>
</pre></div>
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<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<p>original Pull Request <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7318/">#7318</a></p>
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</li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/class.html#mapfile-class-fallback"><span class="std std-ref">FALLBACK</span></a> has been added to the CLASS object, to allow that class to be used
if no other class can be applied.</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">MAP</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"test1"</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#class</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"test2"</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#class</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"test3"</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="err">FALLBACK</span> <span class="nb">TRUE</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#class</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#map</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<p>original Pull Request <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7309/">#7309</a></p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="ogc/ogc_api.html#ogcapi"><span class="std std-ref">OGC API : Features</span></a> has been enhanced to allow the appending of additional
query parameters to all URLs generated through the API, by
defining the <cite>ows_extra_params</cite> parameter in the mapfile’s WEB.METADATA object.</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">MAP</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">WEB</span>
<span class="k">METADATA</span>
<span class="s">"ows_title"</span> <span class="s">"My OGCAPI Server"</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="s">"oga_html_template_directory"</span> <span class="s">"../../share/ogcapi/templates/html-bootstrap/"</span>
<span class="s">"ows_extra_params"</span> <span class="s">"token=123"</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#metadata</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#web</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#map</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>All subsequent URLs available through OGCAPI: Features will contain that
<cite>token=123</cite>, such as:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe/local-demo/ogcapi/collections/ocean/items?f=json&token=123
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>For sensitive parameter values, you should enable <a class="reference internal" href="cgi/runsub.html#runsub"><span class="std std-ref">Run-time Substitution</span></a> to
not store passwords and other tokens in mapfiles. See steps at <a class="reference internal" href="ogc/ogc_api.html#ogcapi-metadata"><span class="std std-ref">OGCAPI: Features metadata</span></a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<p>original Pull Request <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7360/">#7360</a></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-8-2-to-8-4-migration">
<span id="migration-8-4"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 8.2 to 8.4 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-8-2-to-8-4-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p>The 8.4.1 release includes a fix for a security flaw for WFS filter requests to
an OGR backend connection (see CVE record: <a class="reference external" href="https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59431">CVE-2025-59431</a>,
or MapServer’s <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/security/advisories/GHSA-256m-rx4h-r55w">Security Advisory</a>)</p></li>
<li><p>MapServer now requires at least <a class="reference external" href="https://cmake.org/">CMake</a> version 3.16
for building</p></li>
<li><p>you can now build against the PCRE2 library (WITH_PCRE2=ON)</p></li>
<li><p>reminder that since the PROJ 9.1 release, the former <cite>PROJ_LIB</cite> variable has
been replaced with <cite>PROJ_DATA</cite></p>
<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<p><cite>Setting the location of PROJ files</cite> in <a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/projection.html#projection"><span class="std std-ref">PROJECTION</span></a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>For Windows users, MS4W >=5 leverages the <cite>PROJ_DATA</cite> environment variable,
which points to <cite>/ms4w/share/proj/</cite></p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-8-0-to-8-2-migration">
<span id="migration-8-2"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 8.0 to 8.2 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-8-0-to-8-2-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>The 8.2 release includes a fix for a security flaw for regex validation
(CVE has been requested)</p></li>
<li><p>The GitHub <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/">repository</a> has been
restructured to move all source code into the <em>/src</em> folder</p></li>
<li><p>The unused <cite>sym2img</cite> commandline utility has been removed</p></li>
<li><p>support for GDAL < 3 has been removed</p></li>
<li><p>support for PROJ < 6 has been removed</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-7-6-to-8-0-migration">
<span id="migration-8-0"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 7.6 to 8.0 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-7-6-to-8-0-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p>The former <cite>shp2img</cite> commandline utility has been renamed to <a class="reference internal" href="utilities/map2img.html#map2img"><span class="std std-ref">map2img</span></a></p></li>
<li><p>Every MapServer installation as of the 8.0.0 release will require a
<a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/config.html#config"><span class="std std-ref">CONFIG</span></a> file.</p>
<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>For example, compiling from source on Ubuntu, by default MapServer will install
a sample config file at <em>/usr/local/etc/mapserver-sample.conf</em>, and you must
rename that file to <em>mapserver.conf</em>.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>For MS4W users (version >= 5), the config
file can be found at <em>/ms4w/ms4w.conf</em></p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>Old native PHP MapScript has been removed, in place of PHPNG (SWIG) MapScript.
Follow the MapScript <a class="reference internal" href="mapscript/mapscript-api/index.html#swig"><span class="std std-ref">SWIG API</span></a> documentation. Compiling SWIG <cite>master</cite>
from <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/swig/swig">GitHub</a> is recommended.</p>
<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>The MS4W community has produced many code examples of PHPNG (SWIG) MapScript:
<a class="reference external" href="https://ms4w.com/trac/wiki/MigrationGuide5.x">https://ms4w.com/trac/wiki/MigrationGuide5.x</a></p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>To follow the WMS specification, the <cite>STYLES</cite> parameter will now be required for
GetMap requests. To bypass this requirement, you can set <cite>wms_allow_getmap_without_styles</cite>
in your <a class="reference internal" href="ogc/wms_server.html#wms-server"><span class="std std-ref">WMS Server</span></a> mapfile, such as:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">MAP</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">WEB</span>
<span class="k">METADATA</span>
<span class="s">"wms_title"</span> <span class="s">"My WMS Server"</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="s">"wms_allow_getmap_without_styles"</span> <span class="s">"true"</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#metadata</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#web</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#map</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>Several deprecated mapfile parameters have been removed, and will throw an
error if you still specify them now. The following are specific examples
to be aware of (but be sure to review the <a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-133.html#rfc133"><span class="std std-ref">full list</span></a>), taken from the
MS4W <a class="reference external" href="https://ms4w.com/trac/wiki/MigrationGuide5.x">migration guide</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>DUMP TRUE</strong></p>
<p>Instead, you can configure querying of your layer by using METADATA instead, such as:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">METADATA</span>
<span class="s">"wms_title"</span> <span class="s">"Populated Places"</span>
<span class="s">"wms_include_items"</span> <span class="s">"all"</span>
<span class="s">"gml_include_items"</span> <span class="s">"all"</span>
<span class="s">"gml_featureid"</span> <span class="s">"ogc_fid"</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#metadata</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p><strong>OPACITY</strong> at the <strong>LAYER-level</strong></p>
<p>Instead it must be inside a <a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/composite.html#composite"><span class="std std-ref">COMPOSITE</span></a> object:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">COMPOSITE</span>
<span class="k">OPACITY</span> <span class="mi">40</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#composite</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p><strong>COLOR</strong> at the <strong>CLASS-level</strong></p>
<p>Instead it must be inside the class’ <a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/style.html#style"><span class="std std-ref">STYLE</span></a> object:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">STYLE</span>
<span class="k">COLOR</span> <span class="mi">120</span> <span class="mi">120</span> <span class="mi">120</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#style</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#class</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p>Direct changing of mapfile parameters through the URL has been removed
as of the 8.0.0 release. You can still however handle this through
<a class="reference internal" href="cgi/runsub.html#runsub"><span class="std std-ref">Run-time Substitution</span></a>, but with a more limited list of supported mapfile
parameters (see related <a class="reference external" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2022-October/082758.html">discussion</a>).
Here is an example CGI request pre-8.0 release:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">...&</span><span class="nb">map</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">layer</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">county</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">class</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">label</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">SIZE</span><span class="o">+</span><span class="mi">24</span><span class="o">&...</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>Using the <a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/label.html#label"><span class="std std-ref">LABEL</span></a> WRAP parameter with <em>MAXLENGTH 0</em> to always wrap at the wrap character
is no longer supported (as there are more strict checks in MapServer >= 8 for negative or
zero values), so instead you can remove (or comment) that <em>MAXLENGTH 0</em> line, and MapServer
will wrap at the character, such as:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"wrap-no-maxlength"</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="k">LABEL</span>
<span class="k">TYPE</span> <span class="nb">truetype</span>
<span class="k">ANGLE</span> <span class="nb">follow</span>
<span class="k">FONT</span> <span class="s">"dejavu"</span>
<span class="k">SIZE</span> <span class="mi">8</span>
<span class="k">COLOR</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="c1">#MAXLENGTH 0 #would cause error in MapServer >=8</span>
<span class="k">WRAP</span> <span class="s">"|"</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#label</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#class</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">FEATURE</span>
<span class="k">POINTS</span>
<span class="mi">50</span> <span class="p">-</span><span class="mi">450</span> <span class="mi">150</span> <span class="p">-</span><span class="mi">450</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#points</span>
<span class="k">TEXT</span> <span class="s">"W: WrapSpace|With Pipe"</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#feature</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>so the label will appear in the map image as:</p>
<img alt="_images/label-wrap-with-pipe.png" class="no-scaled-link" height="59" src="_images/label-wrap-with-pipe.png" width="187" />
</li>
<li><p>Reminder: every mapfile <a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/layer.html#layer"><span class="std std-ref">LAYER</span></a> should include a <strong>NAME</strong> parameter.
The NAME should <strong>not contain</strong> special characters, or spaces, or begin with
a number. This simple name is important for your downstream users (such as
through OGC services).</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"mylayer"</span> <span class="c1">#strongly recommended</span>
<span class="k">GROUP</span> <span class="s">"mygroup"</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-7-4-to-7-6-migration">
<span id="migration-7-6"></span><h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 7.4 to 7.6 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-7-4-to-7-6-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p>MapServer now requires at least <a class="reference external" href="https://cmake.org/">CMake</a> version 3.0
for building</p></li>
<li><p>PointZM data support (X,Y,Z,M coordinates) is now enabled by default</p></li>
<li><p>the PROJ 6 API is now supported. Read about the many changes in PROJ since
the <a class="reference external" href="https://proj.org/news.html">PROJ 6.0 release</a>. Note that older
PROJ versions such as 5.2.0 will still work with MapServer.</p>
<div class="admonition tip">
<p class="admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p>Here are the (as of 2021-07-13) optimal combinations of MapServer with GDAL & PROJ:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">MapServer</span> <span class="mf">7.6.4</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">GDAL</span> <span class="mf">2.4.4</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">PROJ</span> <span class="mf">5.2.0</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">GDAL</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="n">series</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">MapServer</span> <span class="mf">7.6.4</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">GDAL</span> <span class="mf">3.3.1</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">PROJ</span> <span class="mf">8.1.0</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">GDAL</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="n">series</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>CONNECTIONOPTIONS parameter has been added in the mapfile LAYER, to take
advantage of GDAL/OGR driver options. (see <a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-125.html#rfc125"><span class="std std-ref">RFC 125</span></a>) such as:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"test"</span>
<span class="k">CONNECTIONTYPE</span> <span class="nb">OGR</span>
<span class="k">CONNECTION</span> <span class="s">"./data/nested_attrs.geojson"</span>
<span class="k">CONNECTIONOPTIONS</span>
<span class="s">"FLATTEN_NESTED_ATTRIBUTES"</span> <span class="s">"YES"</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="nx">[...]</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>new processing directive <cite>RENDERMODE</cite> (added through <a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-124.html#rfc124"><span class="std std-ref">RFC 124 SLD changes</span></a>)
to enable a ‘painters model’ where all classes for a layer are drawn at once with a
<cite>ALL_MATCHING_CLASSES</cite> setting, such as:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"test"</span>
<span class="k">CONNECTIONTYPE</span> <span class="nb">OGR</span>
<span class="k">CONNECTION</span> <span class="s">"./data/nested_attrs.geojson"</span>
<span class="k">PROCESSING</span> <span class="s">"RENDERMODE=ALL_MATCHING_CLASSES"</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">CLASS</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>More information in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/5839">issue 5839</a>.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>RFC 124 (SLD improvements) has been implemented except PR#5832:
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/5832">SLD: Improve WMS GetStyles request</a>.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>WMS client layers can be set to essential, with the new <cite>wms_essential</cite> metadata item,
which will cause MapServer to fail and report an error (normally MapServer would just
ignore that layer).</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>enabling <cite>wms_essential</cite> means that if there is a problem with the connection,
(such as the <cite>CONNECTION</cite> url cannot be reached, or an incorrect <cite>wms_name</cite>
or <cite>wms_format</cite>) an XML error will be returned in the browser. If you are calling
MapServer through commandline, your <a class="reference internal" href="mapfile/map.html#map"><span class="std std-ref">MAP</span></a> setting for <cite>CONFIG “ON_MISSING_DATA”</cite>
will still be leveraged for how that error is handled locally.</p>
</div>
<p>Here is an example of the new <cite>wms_essential</cite> parameter:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="k">NAME</span> <span class="s">"country_bounds"</span>
<span class="k">TYPE</span> <span class="nb">RASTER</span>
<span class="k">STATUS</span> <span class="nb">ON</span>
<span class="k">CONNECTION</span> <span class="s">"https://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wms?"</span>
<span class="k">CONNECTIONTYPE</span> <span class="nb">WMS</span>
<span class="k">METADATA</span>
<span class="s">"wms_srs"</span> <span class="s">"EPSG:4326"</span>
<span class="s">"wms_name"</span> <span class="s">"country_bounds"</span>
<span class="s">"wms_server_version"</span> <span class="s">"1.1.1"</span>
<span class="s">"wms_format"</span> <span class="s">"image/png"</span>
<span class="s">"wms_essential"</span> <span class="s">"1"</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>Windows users can now use umlauts (special characters such as ä ö ü) in their
directory paths and filenames, such as:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">..</span>
<span class="k">DATA</span> <span class="s">"ä1-test.tif"</span>
<span class="p">..</span>
<span class="k">END</span> <span class="c1">#layer</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-7-2-to-7-4-migration">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 7.2 to 7.4 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-7-2-to-7-4-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p>PHP 7 MapScript support: users are recommended to switch to MapServer’s new <a class="reference internal" href="mapscript/mapscript-api/index.html#swig"><span class="std std-ref">SWIG</span></a> API
support of PHP 7+ (reason for recommendation: as we saw with the breaking PHP 7 changes,
managing PHP through SWIG will be easier on the MapServer maintainers in the long run.)
Some important SWIG notes:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>you will require at least <a class="reference external" href="https://www.swig.org/download.html">SWIG-3.0.11</a>
(but 4.0.0 is recommended).</p></li>
<li><p>if you notice any missing functions that were available in the old native PHP MapScript API,
first please check the <a class="reference internal" href="mapscript/mapscript-api/index.html#swig"><span class="std std-ref">SWIG API</span></a> reference document for an alternative function to use,
and if there is nothing similar available then <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues">file a ticket</a>
for each function that you require.</p></li>
<li><p>all of your PHP scripts (that leverage MapServer objects and functions) must now always
first include the generated <cite>mapscript.php</cite> file containing MapServer constants:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o">//</span> <span class="n">required</span> <span class="n">SWIG</span> <span class="n">include</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">contains</span> <span class="n">MapServer</span> <span class="n">constants</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">PHP7</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">include</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscriptng-swig/include/mapscript.php"</span><span class="p">);</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>take note of the change in how to declare your new objects:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>// open map
$oMap = new mapObj("C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscriptng-swig/sample.map");
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>instead of the former way:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>// open map
$oMap = ms_newMapObj("C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscript/sample.map");
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-7-0-to-7-2-migration">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 7.0 to 7.2 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-7-0-to-7-2-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>LABEL->PARTIALS now defaults to “FALSE” instead of “TRUE” which implies that
by default labels that do not fully fit in the map image will be discarded.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-6-4-to-7-0-migration">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 6.4 to 7.0 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-6-4-to-7-0-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p>The predefined field names for the union and cluster layers have been changed.
Colons in the field names have been replaced with underscores to avoid producing
invalid GetFeatureInfo results. The field names in the mapfiles should be modified
according to this change.</p></li>
<li><p>Layer FILTERs <em>must</em> use MapServer expression syntax only. Drivers will attempt to translate
from MapServer syntax to native syntax (e.g. SQL). Native expressions can still be set either
using: 1) sub-selects in the DATA statement or 2) using the new NATIVE_FILTER processing key.</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># OGR Layer Before</span>
<span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">FILTER</span> <span class="s">'where id=234'</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="c1"># OGR Layer After</span>
<span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">PROCESSING</span> <span class="s">'NATIVE_FILTER=id=234'</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>MapServer attribute queries (e.g. mode=item[n]query) <em>must</em> be specified using MapServer
expression syntax (qstring and qitem (opt)). For RDBMS backends you no longer send SQL snippets,
rather the underlying driver will attempt to translate the expression to native syntax (e.g. SQL).
If translation fails (or the driver doesn’t support translation) then MapServer will evaluate
the expression instead.</p></li>
<li><p>Layer opacity is now deprecated a result of RFC 113 - Layer Compositing. The mapfile parser
and MapScript getter/setter functions will continue to function but unpredictable results will
occur if used in conjunction with COMPOSITE blocks. For more information see <a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-113.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-113.html</a>.</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># Before</span>
<span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">OPACITY</span> <span class="mi">70</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="c1"># After</span>
<span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">COMPOSITE</span>
<span class="k">OPACITY</span> <span class="mi">70</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>Handling of non UTF-8 encoded datasources has changed with RFC103. Mapfiles
now <em>must</em> be saved in UTF-8 encoding, and requests returned by MapServer
will always be UTF-8 encoded. Various “xxx_encoding” metadata entries used to
hack around non UTF-8 encoded datasources are now obsolete, and have been
replaced by a LAYER-level ENCODING keyword.</p></li>
<li><p>Native ESRI SDE layers are no longer supported (see <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/5068">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/5068</a>).
OGR remains an alternative for those that really need it although the OGR/SDE driver suffers from the
same issues that prompted the removal from MapServer.</p></li>
<li><p>GD graphics library support was removed (<a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-99.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-99.html</a>) and
had been optional since 6.2.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li><p>GIF output cannot be produced from MapServer although 8-bit PNG output can be be produced using the AGG/PNG8 driver.</p></li>
<li><p>Bitmap fonts have been replaced with an embedded TrueType font (see <a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-104.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-104.html</a>)</p></li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
</li>
<li><p>RFC 98 - Label/Text Rendering Overhaul (<a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-98.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-98.html</a>) may
result in subtle label/character placement changes. Support for negative MAXLENGTH that implied forced
linebreaks is not supported anymore, workaround implies pre-processing such labels to include linebreaks
or wrap characters.</p></li>
<li><p>ExternalGraphics added through SLD must now validate against the
“sld_external_graphic” entry of the MAP->WEB->VALIDATION block</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">MAP</span>
<span class="k">WEB</span>
<span class="k">VALIDATION</span>
<span class="s">"sld_external_graphic"</span> <span class="s">"^/path/to/symbols/.*png"</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-6-2-to-6-4-migration">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 6.2 to 6.4 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-6-2-to-6-4-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p>MapServer now must be built with the CMake tool. Build instructions
are included in the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/main/INSTALL_CMAKE.md">INSTALL_CMAKE.md</a>
file in the source directory. You will need to have CMake installed
on your system. Users of mapscripts (except PHP) will also need <a class="reference external" href="https://www.swig.org/">SWIG</a>
to be installed.</p></li>
<li><p>The “ows_extent” layer metadata is not used anymore to obtain georeferencing
information for unreferenced raster data. Please use the “extent” layer key
instead</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LAYER</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">EXTENT</span> <span class="p">-</span><span class="mi">180</span> <span class="mi">90</span> <span class="mi">180</span> <span class="mi">90</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>Validation patterns cannot be specified in metadata blocks (i.e. using
xxx_validation_pattern and default_xxx metadata entries), use VALIDATION blocks.
see #4596 #4604 #4608 or <a class="reference internal" href="cgi/runsub.html#runsub"><span class="std std-ref">Run-time Substitution</span></a></p></li>
<li><p>WFS paging parameter startIndex changed to base on 0 instead of 1 (0 is the first
feature). See #4180 for external references.</p></li>
<li><p>Template substitution tags were case-sensitive, they are now
case-insensitive.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-6-0-to-6-2-migration">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 6.0 to 6.2 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-6-0-to-6-2-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>This section documents the changes that must be made to MapServer
applications when migrating from version 6.0.x (or earlier versions)
to 6.2 (i.e. backwards incompatibilities), as well as information
on some of the new features.</p>
<section id="build-system-changes">
<h3>Build system changes<a class="headerlink" href="#build-system-changes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>If you are building MapServer from source, then the following may be of interest to you:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Use of libtool: In version 6.2, the Unix/Linux build scripts and Makefiles were converted to use libtool. One impact of this change is that the ‘mapserv’ file in the main source tree is a libtool wrapper script and not the actual binary. To use ‘mapserv’ you actually have to use ‘make install’ and then point to the installed binary. More info is available in the Compiling on Unix document at <a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/installation/unix.html#installation">https://mapserver.org/installation/unix.html#installation</a></p></li>
<li><p>The –with-php configure option has been changed to point directly to the php-config script instead of to the directory where the PHP headers are located.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="cgi-changes">
<h3>CGI Changes<a class="headerlink" href="#cgi-changes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Changing MIN/MAXSCALE or MIN/MAXSCALEDENOM via URL is no longer supported.</p></li>
<li><p>The syntax for changing a LABEL with CGI commands has changed along with the
ability to support multiple labels
The previous syntax …&map.layer[0].class[0]=label+color+255+0+0+end&… is
replaced with …&map.layer[0].class[0].label[0]=color+255+0+0&…
Note that cgi label modifications are/were broken in 6.2.0 and fixed in 6.2.1</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="rendering-changes">
<h3>Rendering changes<a class="headerlink" href="#rendering-changes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p>STYLE->GAP interpretation
Starting in 6.2, STYLE->GAP specifies the gap between the symbols
using the centre to centre distance.
In earlier versions of MapServer, GAP was used as the approximate
distance between the symbol boundaries.
See ticket #3867 for more information.</p>
<p>In order to get the same effect with 6.2 as with 6.0, STYLE->GAP
must be increased with the size of the symbol.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Removal of one pixel gap between symbols
In earlier versions of MapServer, an extra gap of one pixel was
added between the symbols (in addition to the gap specified in
STYLE->GAP). This has been discontinued in 6.2.
See ticket #3868 for more information.</p>
<p>In order to get the same effect with 6.2 as with 6.0, STYLE->GAP
must be increased with one pixel.</p>
</li>
<li><p>STYLE->INITIALGAP introduced
Support for more powerful line styling has been provided with the
introduction of STYLE->INITIALGAP. See ticket #3879 and the
documentation for more information.</p></li>
<li><p>SYMBOL->ANCHORPOINT introduced
A symbol anchorpoint has been introduced to facilitate precise
positioning of symbols. See ticket #4066 and the documentation for
more information.</p></li>
<li><p>Change in vector symbol size calculation.
In 6.2, vector symbol coordinates are shifted to get rid of
negative x and y coordinate values.
See ticket #4116 for more information.</p>
<p>In order to get the shifting effect that could be obtained using
negative coordinate values, SYMBOL->ANCHORPOINT should be used
instead.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section id="mapserver-5-6-to-6-0-migration">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServer 5.6 to 6.0 Migration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#mapserver-5-6-to-6-0-migration" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>This section documents the changes that must be made to MapServer
applications when migrating from version 5.6.x (or earlier versions)
to 6.0 (i.e. backwards incompatibilities), as well as information
on some of the new features.</p>
<section id="mapfile-changes-expression-parsing">
<h3>Mapfile Changes - Expression Parsing<a class="headerlink" href="#mapfile-changes-expression-parsing" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Version 6.0 features an extensive reworking of the expression parsing capabilities.
While this adds functionality it also introduces a couple of regressions:</p>
<p>Logical Expressions</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>a regex is now delineated as a string (e.g. ‘^a’ rather than /^a/)</p></li>
<li><p>the regex operator is ~ for case sensitive comparisons and ~* for case insensitive</p></li>
<li><p>case insensitive string comparison operator is =*</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Class text expressions are true expressions in 6.0. This allows for fancy formatting
of numeric data but also means string operators must be used to concatenate attribute
values and string literals.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Old/bad: TEXT ([area] acres)</p></li>
<li><p>New (option 1)/good: TEXT (‘[area]’ + ‘ acres’)</p></li>
<li><p>New (option 2)/good: TEXT ‘[area] acres’</p></li>
</ul>
<p>On the plus side you can now control the number of decimal places, round and even commify
the area value for display.</p>
<p>See <a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-64.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-64.html</a> and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/3736">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/3736</a>
for more information.</p>
</section>
<section id="mapfile-changes-label-styles">
<h3>Mapfile Changes - Label Styles<a class="headerlink" href="#mapfile-changes-label-styles" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>As the need for more and more control of label drawing increased it became apparent that
we couldn’t extend labelObj’s endlessly. In 6.0 we introduce the idea of label styles, that
is, a styleObj inside a labelObj. The styles can be used to add accompanying markers or
bounding box elements to a label- kinda like annotation layers. The big benefit is that
it’s done in one pass. So you can draw complex roadwork and shields all at the same time.
Pretty neat huh? Plus you can do attribute binding for any of the styleObj attributes that
support it.</p>
<p>As a result the parameters BACKGROUNDCOLOR, BACKGROUNDSHADOWCOLOR, BACKGROUNDSHADOWSIZE
are no more. To draw a label “box” in 6.0 you’d do:</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">LABEL</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">STYLE</span> <span class="c1"># a shadow</span>
<span class="k">GEOMTRANSFORM</span> <span class="s">'labelpoly'</span>
<span class="k">COLOR</span> <span class="mi">222</span> <span class="mi">222</span> <span class="mi">222</span>
<span class="k">OFFSET</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">STYLE</span> <span class="c1"># bbox</span>
<span class="k">GEOMTRANSFORM</span> <span class="s">'labelpoly'</span>
<span class="k">COLOR</span> <span class="mi">255</span> <span class="mi">255</span> <span class="mi">255</span>
<span class="k">OUTLINECOLOR</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>More verbose but <em>much</em> more flexible in the long run.</p>
</section>
<section id="mapfile-changes-label-maxoverlapangle">
<h3>Mapfile Changes - Label MAXOVERLAPANGLE<a class="headerlink" href="#mapfile-changes-label-maxoverlapangle" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-60.html#rfc60"><span class="std std-ref">MS RFC 60: Labeling enhancement: ability to skip ANGLE FOLLOW labels with too much character overlap</span></a> introduced a new MAXOVERLAPANGLE keyword to filter out ANGLE
FOLLOW labels in which characters overlap. This new option is enabled by
default in 6.0 with a default value for MAXOVERLAPANGLE of 22.5 degrees.</p>
<p>As per <a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-60.html#rfc60"><span class="std std-ref">MS RFC 60: Labeling enhancement: ability to skip ANGLE FOLLOW labels with too much character overlap</span></a>, it is possible to set MAXOVERLAPANGLE to 0 to fall back
on pre-6.0 behavior which was to use hardcoded maxoverlapangle = 0.4*MS_PI
(40% of 180 degrees = 72 degrees).</p>
</section>
<section id="core-changes-rendering-overhaul">
<h3>Core Changes - Rendering Overhaul<a class="headerlink" href="#core-changes-rendering-overhaul" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The rendering backends for MapServer have been refactored for version 6 to
allow us to support all features across all rendering drivers (GD,AGG,PDF,SVG, etc…).</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>PDF support is output through the cairo library. The dependency on the non-free
pdflib library has been removed.</p></li>
<li><p>SVG support is output through the cairo library. The native mapserver SVG driver
has been removed.</p></li>
<li><p>AGG support is compiled in by default (no external dependency) and is the
default renderer for png and jpeg outputs.</p></li>
<li><p>GD support is limited to PC256 imagemodes, i.e. png or gif. It is the default
renderer for gif output.</p></li>
<li><p>SWF (flash) support has been dropped.</p></li>
<li><p>Header files for libpng, libjpeg and giflib are now required for building MapServer.
Install the -devel packages of these libraries.</p></li>
<li><p>All symbols now rotated anticlockwise following the ANGLE parameter. Previous versions
rotated vector symbols clockwise.</p></li>
<li><p>Polygon fills with vector symbols will not cleanly join at tile boundaries. For hatching
type symbology, use the HATCH symbol instead of a diagonal vector symbol.</p></li>
<li><p>Some inconsistencies between renderers have been ironed out. People relying on precise
symbol placement should check those, as there may have been some subtle changes in symbol
sizes and widths, or spacing between symbols on lines.</p></li>
<li><p>Style blocks with no associated symbol on point layers will produce no output, as opposed
to a single pixel in previous versions. Use an ellipse symbol instead.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="mapfile-changes-line-styling">
<h3>Mapfile Changes - line styling<a class="headerlink" href="#mapfile-changes-line-styling" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>All line styling must now be specified in class STYLEs in the layer definition.</p>
<p>The following parameters/keywords have been moved from SYMBOL
to STYLE:</p>
<p>PATTERN POSITION GAP LINECAP LINEJOIN LINEJOINMAXSIZE</p>
<p>The SYMBOL STYLE parameter/keyword was renamed to PATTERN in
version 5.</p>
<p>The SYMBOL TYPE cartoline has been removed.</p>
<p>LINECAP triangle is not supported by AGG or Cairo, and is no longer
available. The triangle line end effect can be achieved using
GEOMTRANSFORM start and end with a (filled) vector triangle symbol and
ANGLE AUTO. This will only work for the line ends, and not for
dashes.</p>
</section>
<section id="id1">
<h3>CGI Changes<a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>Runtime substitution now <em>requires</em> a validation pattern be present before the
substitution will take place (this had been optional). This can be done via
a layer metadata tag as before or within layer or web VALIDATION blocks. See
ticket #3522 for more information.</p>
<p>All of the query map related modes (e.g. NQUERYMAP, ITEMQUERYMAP, etc…) have
been removed in favor of using the “qformat” parameter. That parameter takes
an output format name or mime/type as a value and uses that to process a set
of query results. For example:</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>…&mode=nquerymap&… would become …&mode=nquery&qformat=png24&…</p>
</div></blockquote>
</section>
<section id="ogc-web-services">
<h3>OGC Web Services<a class="headerlink" href="#ogc-web-services" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>All OGC Web Services are now disabled by default. If you want to enable them as
they were in MapServer 5.6 and older releases, add the following metadata in the
MAP::WEB section:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="s2">"ows_enable_request"</span> <span class="s2">"*"</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>See also: <a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-67.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-67.html</a></p>
</section>
<section id="mapfile-changes-wcs-metadata">
<h3>Mapfile Changes - WCS Metadata<a class="headerlink" href="#mapfile-changes-wcs-metadata" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>To avoid confusion only “wcs_*” and “ows_*” prefixed metadata entries
are evaluated in OGC WCS services. Previous versions used “wms_*”
prefixed entries as fallback which is dropped in version 6.0 in favor of
forcing explicit decisions.</p>
</section>
<section id="mapfile-changes-ogc-requests-dump-parameter-removed">
<h3>Mapfile Changes - OGC requests - DUMP parameter removed<a class="headerlink" href="#mapfile-changes-ogc-requests-dump-parameter-removed" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>The DUMP LAYER parameter has been removed. To enable output of
geometries in WMS getfeatureinfo requests - GML
(INFO_FORMAT=application/vnd.ogc.gml), LAYER METADATA is used
instead.</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">METADATA</span>
<span class="err">gml_geometries</span> <span class="s">"geom"</span>
<span class="err">gml_geom_</span><span class="k">type</span> <span class="s">"polygon"</span>
<span class="p">...</span>
<span class="k">END</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="mapfile-changes-ability-to-escape-single-double-quotes">
<h3>Mapfile Changes - Ability to escape single/double quotes<a class="headerlink" href="#mapfile-changes-ability-to-escape-single-double-quotes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<p>We can now escape single and double quotes in strings and logical
expressions. Examples:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">NAME</span> <span class="s2">"RO</span><span class="se">\"</span><span class="s2">AD"</span> <span class="c1"># double quote inside a a double quote delimited string</span>
<span class="n">NAME</span> <span class="s1">'RO</span><span class="se">\'</span><span class="s1">AD'</span> <span class="c1"># single quote inside a a single quote delimited string</span>
<span class="n">FILTER</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'[CTY_NAME]'</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'Ita</span><span class="se">\'</span><span class="s1">sca'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># logical expression that contains a single quote</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>NOTE: The escape character (backslash) will only work if the
following character is “, ‘ or .</p>
<p>For Windows users: if you have a path string delimited by single/double
quotes that ends with , you will have to escape the last backslash.</p>
<div class="highlight-mapfile notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">SHAPEPATH</span> <span class="s">"C:\ms4w\shapefiles</span><span class="se">\"</span>
<span class="c1"># should be modified to...</span>
<span class="k">SHAPEPATH</span> <span class="s">"C:\ms4w\shapefiles</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s">"</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="php-mapscript-changes">
<h3>PHP MapScript Changes<a class="headerlink" href="#php-mapscript-changes" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p>PHP 5.2.0 or more recent is required.</p></li>
<li><p>PHP/MapScript now uses exceptions for error report. All errors are catchable.</p></li>
<li><p>Object properties can be set like all other php object. ie. myObj->myProperty = 10;</p>
<p>NOTE: The set/setProperty methods are still available.</p>
</li>
<li><p>All object constructors throw an exception on failure</p></li>
<li><p>Objects can be created with the php “new” operator. ie.
$myShape = ms_newShapeObj(MS_SHAPE_LINE); // or
$myShape = new shapeObj(MS_SHAPE_LINE);</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>NOTE: “ms_newSymbolObj()” and “new symbolObj” are different:</dt><dd><ul class="simple">
<li><p>ms_newSymbolObj() returns the id of the new/existing symbol.</p></li>
<li><dl class="simple">
<dt>new symbolObj() returns the symbolObj. You don’t need to</dt><dd><p>get it with getSymbolObjectById().</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</dl>
</li>
<li><p>Cloneable objects should be cloned with the PHP clone keyword. There is no more clone methods.</p></li>
<li><p>Class properties that have been removed</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>mapObj: imagetype, imagequality, interlace, scale, transparent</p></li>
<li><p>classObj: maxscale, minscale</p></li>
<li><dl class="simple">
<dt>layerObj: labelsizeitem, labelangleitem, labelmaxscale, labelminscale,</dt><dd><p>maxscale, minscale, symbolscale, transparency</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</li>
<li><p>legendObj: interlace, transparent</p></li>
<li><p>scalebarObj: interlace, transparent</p></li>
<li><p>symbolObj: gap, stylelength</p></li>
<li><p>webObj: minscale, maxscale</p></li>
</ul>