release 3.0.3 post

Author: artemp

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+layout: 01_post
+title: "Mapnik 3.0.3 Release"
+author: Artem Pavlenko
+category: Mapnik
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+As promised in our last post, the next release of Mapnik was to follow shortly. This release focuses on having a well tested and functional SVG parser. While SVG functionality was present in earlier releases, this is a vast improvement in speed and efficiency over the previous parser. Additionally, as part of this release we have removed the dependence on libxml2 from the mapnik library.
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+Very pleased to announce 3.0.3 release! This release adds three new image-filters to simulate types of colour blindness - great work [Blake](https://github.com/flippmoke)! We restored support for legacy format for setting JPEG output quality - welcome back `jpeg85`. As always the main focus is on stability, performance and addesssing issues which we discovered while testing. Check out [v3.0.3 Changelog](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#303) for more details.
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+## Download
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+Follow links to [download the official source](https://mapnik.s3.amazonaws.com/dist/v3.0.3/mapnik-v3.0.3.tar.bz2) directly or you can grab it from our [downloads page](/pages/downloads.html).