Mapnik Releases

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Upgrade Notes

Backwards Incompatibility

0.5.x -> 0.6.1

  • No known backward incompatible changes

0.7.0

  • Major behavior change: PostGIS plugin now throws mapnik::datasource_exception when queries fail.
  • Width/height/type attributes of PointSymbolizer and ShieldSymbolizer now optional (auto-calculated).
  • Text vertical_alignment now dependent on dy (#485, r1527).

0.7.1

  • Behavior change in SCons build, should now prefer linking to user installed libraries over system libs.
  • Width/height/type attributes of PolygonPatternSymbolizer and LinePatternSymbolizer now optional (auto-calculated).
  • Better quantized PNG output

0.8.0

  • Currently working trunk
  • This release will include significant refactoring in Mapnik core.
  • This release may bring potentially numerous deprecation warnings and backward incompatible changes.

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