./geography/mapserver, Environment for building spatially enabled Internet apps

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 8.6.3nb1, Package name: mapserver-8.6.3nb1, Maintainer: gdt

MapServer is an OpenSource development environment for building spatially
enabled Internet applications. It now supports MapScript which allows popular
scripting languages such as Perl, Python, Tk/Tcl, Guile and even Java to
access the MapServer C API. MapScript provides a rich environment for
developing applications that integrate disparate data.


Required to run:
[textproc/libxml2] [converters/fribidi] [graphics/gd] [graphics/freetype2] [graphics/png] [graphics/cairo] [geography/gdal-lib] [geography/geos] [x11/libXpm] [geography/proj]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [x11/xcb-proto] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto]

Package options: fastcgi, pgsql

Master sites:

Filesize: 2935.556 KB

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   2026-05-14 18:42:34 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (1335)
Log message:
*: Recursive revbump from security/nettle-4.0
   2026-05-08 21:59:04 by Greg Troxel | Files touched by this commit (3)
Log message:
geography/mapserver: Update to 8.6.3

Upstream NEWS since 8.2.2, less bugfixes, minor enhancements, and
pkgsrc-irrelevant deprecations:

Major New Features in MapServer 8.6

    allow append of additional query parameters for OGCAPI: Features (#7360)

    new MapServer index page (#7350)

    WMS GetFeatureInfo: add options to precisely identify points through their \ 
symbols (#7318)

    add FALLBACK parameter for CLASS object, to be applied if none of the \ 
previously defined classes has been applied (#7309)

    add vendorSpecificParameters to OpenAPI document (#7295)

Major New Features in MapServer 8.4

    add option to build against the PCRE2 library (#7073)

    add CONNECTIONTYPE RASTERLABEL (#7135)

    set MS_LEGEND_KEYSIZE_MAX to 1000 (#7154)

    add 4 new COMPOSITE.COMPOP blending operations (#7065)

    allow encryption key files to use paths relative to a mapfile (#7181)

    allow use_default_extent_for_getfeature to be used for OGC Features API and \ 
PostGIS (#7197)
   2026-02-06 11:06:21 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1305)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for nettle 4.0 shlib major bump
   2026-01-27 09:41:10 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1344)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for removal of cairo's xcb option
   2026-01-14 13:57:37 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (66)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for abseil-20260107.0 shlib version bump
   2026-01-07 09:49:50 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2525)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for icu 78.1
   2025-10-23 22:40:24 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2999)
Log message:
*: recursive bump for pcre2

Running an old binary against the new pcre doesn't work:
/usr/pkg/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0: version PCRE2_10.47 required by \ 
/usr/pkg/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 not defined
   2025-10-05 21:26:29 by Jonathan Schleifer | Files touched by this commit (485)
Log message:
*: rev bump for curl