MapGuide 2.6 Release Notes

MapGuide Open Source 2.6 Preview release is now available

• Milestone: ​2.6
• ​Resolved Tickets

Installation

Windows 32 bit installer:

• ​MapGuideOpenSource-2.6.0-Trunk-en-US-Release-x86.exe
  • Size: 147,016,434 bytes
  • md5: ee8cba7acf7ba902624402e5182976de

Windows 64 bit installer:

• ​MapGuideOpenSource-2.6.0-Trunk-en-US-Release64-x64
  • Size: 152,732,183 bytes
  • md5: 0282d10b792ad62633ce201053f58138

Windows Compatibility

IMPORTANT: Due to upgrading to VS 2012 as the default compiler on Windows, MapGuide Open Source 2.6 will no longer support Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 in either IIS or Apache configurations. ​MapGuide Open Source 2.5 is the last release to support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003

32-bit		64-bit
Windows Vista	Maybe+	Maybe+
Windows 7	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2008	Yes+	Yes+
Windows Server 2008 R2	N/A	Yes
Windows 8	Yes1	Yes1
Windows Server 2012	N/A	Yes1
Windows 8.1	Maybe1	Maybe1

+ Not tested, but similar enough to Windows 7 to theoretically work

• IIS configuration will probably not work. Apache config should work due to its self-contained nature

1 IIS/.Net successfully tested on Windows 8 64-bit and Windows Server 2012. Windows 8 32-bit is similar enough to theoretically work. Apache config untested

Windows RT (ie. Windows 8 on ARM devices) is not a supported platform for installing MapGuide Open Source

Major New Items

• TBD

Please report any defects.

FDO Compatibility

TBD

Installer notes

Installing MGOS 2.6 (via the windows installer) alongside MGOS 2.5 or older releases is not a currently supported configuration. Consider using the MgInstantSetup bundle instead if you desire side-by-side installation

The installer does not currently support IIS Express as an IIS configuration option.

Please observe the updated software requirements if you are using .net and/or IIS configuration:

• IIS (all versions) require FastCGI for IIS to be installed.
  • For IIS6 and below, download and install the FastCGI extension from ​this link
  • For IIS7 and above, you can install FastCGI by enabling the CGI feature of your IIS installation. See ​this link for more information.
• The supported .net Framework version for the MapGuide .net API is 4.0. You must have this version of the .net Framework installed before proceeding with installation.

Java configuration requires Java 6 (1.6.0) or higher.

The MgInstantSetup bundles only work with IIS7 or higher if you choose to use this web server. You must still satisfy the .net and FastCGI software requirements required for this configuration.

To assist new MapGuide users and developers, the installer also now bundles the following optional components:

• .net/PHP/Java viewer samples
• MapGuide Developer's Guide in HTML format with updated content
• .net/PHP/Java Developer's Guide Samples

All bundled samples require the ​Sheboygan dataset to be loaded into the MapGuide Server.

Finally, due to coordinate system dictionary paths no longer tied to a global environment variable (RFC 122) a mandatory system reboot after installation is no longer required for all supported versions of Windows. However, a restart of Apache and/or IIS may be required for PHP to work.

For the InstantSetup bundles, the MgInstantSetup utility requires .net Framework 3.5 to run. This is in addition to whatever existing software requirements imposed by this release of MapGuide Open Source.

For Tomcat configuration, the installer currently does not install Tomcat as a service (#953). You will have to do this manually post-installation.

Also ensure that you install the JVM of the same bitness as your installation of MapGuide. For example, you will get a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError if you attempt to run a Tomcat from a 32-bit MapGuide installation on a 64-bit JVM. If you have both 32 and 64-bit JVMs installed, you must ensure that the Tomcat bundled with MapGuide is using the correct one. Tomcat will generally use the one indicated by the JAVA_HOME environment variable, so this may have to be set and/or overridden.

Known Issues

• Fusion: Bing/VirtualEarth commercial layers may conflict with Google layers if they are both specified in a Flexible Layout. If you have a Bing/VirtualEarth layer as the default, switching to a Google layer in your Fusion application will cause the Google layer to be displaced and vice versa.
• #2252: It is not possible to call MgFeatureService::UpdateFeatures() with a NULL MgTransaction in the PHP API
• x86 installer may not install the Visual C++ 2008 runtime library properly
• Installer may generate a providers.xml entry for the ArcSDE provider if all providers are enabled in the "Feature Selection" dialog even if the installer does not actually bundle the ArcSDE provider. You can simply remove this entry from providers.xml after installation if this is the case.
• Ubuntu: Failure to install some pre-requisite packages may derail the install script. You may need to update your apt package database (apt-get update) before running the install script
• Ubuntu: Install script may put duplicate FDO provider entries into providers.xml if the file already exists (eg. From a previous installation)
• CentOS: SELinux security settings will prevent MapGuide from loading FDO and other shared libraries. The CentOS install script will fix the security contexts of the so files within these extracted tarballs that it will download.
• CentOS: mgserver may throw double-free errors on service startup or server shutdown. Should not affect server behaviour.
• The Performance Profiler on Linux may not work due to insufficient permissions to save the generated report files. To fix this, ensure the directory /usr/local/mapguideopensource-2.6.0/webserverextensions/www/mapadmin/profilingmapxml on linux has sufficient write permissions for the user account that the PHP executable runs under.
• For an InstantSetup-based install with an Apache configuration, the Performance Profiler is ​hard-coded to always use mapviewerjava if it exists for displaying the map viewer for capturing extents for profiling. If you did not choose a Java configuration you will get the ajaxviewer.jsp source instead of the expected map viewer. To resolve this, delete the mapviewerjava directory
• Uninstallation can leave "ghost" IIS virtual directories behind, which currently is any virtual directory / application you create inside the mapguide virtual directory that was not created by the installer These "ghost" directories may impact on future installations. To ensure these "ghost" directories are completely gone after uninstallation, use the appcmd.exe utility to remove these virtual directories. You can find out what virtual directories are still there by running

appcmd.exe list vdir

• PHP Viewer and Developer's Guide samples will not work if the PHP viewer feature is not enabled. Likewise for .net and Java. Nothing in the installer will prevent you from making such a choice.
• For the IIS configuration or Apache configuration with a custom http port, you will have to update the WFS and WMS server name configuration properties via the MapGuide Site Administrator after installation if you intend to use such features. This is currently set to localhost:8008 for both.
• We have used a non-standard binary build of Apache/PHP to produce this installer, as a result some PHP extensions and Apache modules may not be available.

API changes and notes

TBD