[Mapnik-users] Upcoming 0.7.0 release

[Dane Springmeyer]

Mapnik-users,

There has been a lot of great progress in trunk [1] and emerging in  
new branch Artem has been working on [2] (thanks to the funding of  
several visionary Mapnik supporters).

Mapnik 0.7.0 will be a stability and usability release for the Core  
library while bringing many enhancements to the datasource plugins and  
python bindings.

Everyone is strongly encouraged to upgrade to Mapnik 0.7.0 as soon as  
it is released. If you are interested in seeing details on some of the  
changes track the CHANGELOG as we update it: http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/CHANGELOG

There have been no backwards incompatible changes to general usage and  
the python API, but changes to the C++ ABI warrant a new minor version.

The Dev team is planning to release our current trunk as Mapnik 0.7.0  
as soon as next week.

During the release process over the next week we will also be merging  
Artem's 'mapnik2' branch into trunk. If you are running from trunk  
prepare for instability with backwards incompatible changes. So, for  
those of you running production systems on trunk you will likely want  
to begin pulling from the 0.7.0 branch (which will be created  
tomorrow). However, the new features that will come to trunk are  
exciting and we encourage you to follow along :).

There are still a few open tickets against 0.7.0 if you have the time  
to help:

http://trac.mapnik.org/milestone/0.7.0

If you want to help, but don't see an obvious way how, feel free to  
contact me off-list.

Thanks!

Dane

http://dbsgeo.com

[1] http://bit.ly/closed_mapnik_tickets
[2] http://bit.ly/mapnik_of_the_future