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@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ <h3>Navigation</h3>
 <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>2026-05-07</p>
+<dd class="field-odd"><p>2026-07-15</p>
 </dd>
 </dl>
 <nav class="contents" id="table-of-contents">
@@ -618,19 +618,19 @@ <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServ
 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">&quot;C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscriptng-swig/include/mapscript.php&quot;</span><span class="p">);</span>
+<div class="highlight-php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="x">// required SWIG include (contains MapServer constants for PHP7)</span>
+<span class="x">include(&quot;C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscriptng-swig/include/mapscript.php&quot;);</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
-$oMap = new mapObj(&quot;C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscriptng-swig/sample.map&quot;);
+<div class="highlight-php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="x">// open map</span>
+<span class="x">$oMap = new mapObj(&quot;C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscriptng-swig/sample.map&quot;);</span>
 </pre></div>
 </div>
 <p>instead of the former way:</p>
-<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>// open map
-$oMap = ms_newMapObj(&quot;C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscript/sample.map&quot;);
+<div class="highlight-php notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="x">// open map</span>
+<span class="x">$oMap = ms_newMapObj(&quot;C:/ms4w/apps/phpmapscript/sample.map&quot;);</span>
 </pre></div>
 </div>
 </li>
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServ
 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>
+occur if used in conjunction with COMPOSITE blocks.</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>
@@ -692,6 +692,10 @@ <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServ
 <span class="k">END</span>
 </pre></div>
 </div>
+<div class="admonition seealso">
+<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
+<p><a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-113.html#rfc113"><span class="std std-ref">MS RFC 113: Layer Compositing Pipeline</span></a></p>
+</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
@@ -748,9 +752,10 @@ <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#table-of-contents" role="doc-backlink">MapServ
 </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>
+see <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/4596">#4596</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/4604">#4604</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/4608">#4608</a>, 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>
+feature). See <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/4180">#4180</a>
+for external references.</p></li>
 <li><p>Template substitution tags were case-sensitive, they are now
 case-insensitive.</p></li>
 </ul>
@@ -788,30 +793,33 @@ <h3>Rendering changes<a class="headerlink" href="#rendering-changes" title="Link
 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>
+See ticket <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/3867">#3867</a>
+for more information.</p>
 <p>In order to get the same effect with 6.2 as with 6.0, STYLE-&gt;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-&gt;GAP).  This has been discontinued in 6.2.
-See ticket #3868 for more information.</p>
+See ticket <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/3868">#3868</a>
+for more information.</p>
 <p>In order to get the same effect with 6.2 as with 6.0, STYLE-&gt;GAP
 must be increased with one pixel.</p>
 </li>
 <li><p>STYLE-&gt;INITIALGAP introduced
 Support for more powerful line styling has been provided with the
-introduction of STYLE-&gt;INITIALGAP.  See ticket #3879 and the
-documentation for more information.</p></li>
+introduction of STYLE-&gt;INITIALGAP.  See ticket <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/3879">#3879</a>
+and the documentation for more information.</p></li>
 <li><p>SYMBOL-&gt;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>
+positioning of symbols.  See ticket <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/4066">#4066</a>
+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>
+See ticket <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/4116">#4116</a>
+for more information.</p>
 <p>In order to get the shifting effect that could be obtained using
 negative coordinate values, SYMBOL-&gt;ANCHORPOINT should be used
 instead.</p>
@@ -845,8 +853,10 @@ <h3>Mapfile Changes - Expression Parsing<a class="headerlink" href="#mapfile-cha
 </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>
+<div class="admonition seealso">
+<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
+<p><a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-64.html#rfc64"><span class="std std-ref">MS RFC 64 - MapServer Expression Parser Overhaul</span></a> and ticket <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/3736">#3736</a></p>
+</div>
 </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>
@@ -932,7 +942,8 @@ <h3>CGI Changes<a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Link to this heading">¶
 <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>
+ticket <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/3522">#3522</a>
+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
@@ -949,7 +960,10 @@ <h3>OGC Web Services<a class="headerlink" href="#ogc-web-services" title="Link t
 <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="s2">&quot;ows_enable_request&quot;</span>   <span class="s2">&quot;*&quot;</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>
+<div class="admonition seealso">
+<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
+<p><a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-67.html#rfc67"><span class="std std-ref">MS RFC 67:  Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services</span></a></p>
+</div>
 </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>
@@ -1102,7 +1116,10 @@ <h3>MapScript (All Flavors)<a class="headerlink" href="#mapscript-all-flavors" t
 <span class="nv">$layer</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="nb">close</span><span class="p">();</span>
 </pre></div>
 </div>
-<p>See <a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-65.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-65.html</a> for more information.</p>
+<div class="admonition seealso">
+<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
+<p><a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-65.html#rfc65"><span class="std std-ref">MS RFC 65 - Single-pass Query Changes for 6.0</span></a></p>
+</div>
 </section>
 <section id="outputformat">
 <h3>OUTPUTFORMAT<a class="headerlink" href="#outputformat" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
@@ -1160,7 +1177,10 @@ <h3>MapScript changes related to single pass queries<a class="headerlink" href="
 on the data instead of two passes. This is transparent for CGI applications,
 but MapScript scripts must be modified to use the layer.resultsGetShape()
 method instead of layer.getShape().</p>
-<p>See also: <a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-52.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-52.html</a></p>
+<div class="admonition seealso">
+<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
+<p><span class="xref std std-ref">rfc52</span></p>
+</div>
 <p>(Note: the new resultsGetShape() method is not yet available for PHP MapScript
 in 5.6.0-beta1)</p>
 </section>
@@ -1178,7 +1198,7 @@ <h3>WFS 1.1 axis orientation<a class="headerlink" href="#wfs-1-1-axis-orientatio
 <section id="change-of-mime-type-for-the-imagemap-outputformat">
 <h3>Change of mime-type for the imagemap outputformat<a class="headerlink" href="#change-of-mime-type-for-the-imagemap-outputformat" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
 <p>RFC 36 added support for templated outputformats, but this new feature
-was not available for WMS GetFeatureInfo output (see ticket #3024).
+was not available for WMS GetFeatureInfo output (see ticket <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/3024">#3024</a>).
 In MapServer 5.6 this has been resolved by implementing lookup of output
 formats for query templates by mime-type. However this caused a conflict
 for the text/html mime-type between the actual text/html query
@@ -1217,7 +1237,10 @@ <h3>New requirements for mapfiles, symbolsets and templates<a class="headerlink"
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
-<p>See also: <a class="reference external" href="https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-56.html">https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-56.html</a></p>
+<div class="admonition seealso">
+<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
+<p><a class="reference internal" href="development/rfc/ms-rfc-56.html#rfc56"><span class="std std-ref">MS RFC 56: Tighten control of access to mapfiles and templates</span></a></p>
+</div>
 </section>
 </section>
 <section id="mapserver-4-10-to-5-0-migration">
@@ -1600,7 +1623,7 @@ <h3>Navigation</h3>
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