GeoServer 2.3.1

v2.2.4 [01-27-13]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.2.4, now available for download. This is the latest release of the stable 2.2 series. The changes that might interest the most users are:

• the monitoring extension module just got promoted to official extension [GEOS-5538]
• the status page does not throw errors after catalog reloads anymore [GEOS-5371]
• one critical fix in the REST configuration of freemarker templates [GEOS-5533]

• [GEOS-5338] – Filter function IEEERemainder mishbehaves in SLD
• [GEOS-5537] – Tiling artifacts with RasterSymbolizer using bilinear interpolation (when oversampling raster)
• [GEOS-5551] – WFS 1.0 capabilities will NPE with misconfigured OGR and XSLT output formats
• [GEOS-5565] – workspace admin unable to create sql view
• [GEOS-5570] – QueryProcess fails if called with an OGC filter (either 1.0 or 1.1)
• [GEOS-5197] – Use the layer abstract as the GeoRSS channel description
• [GEOS-5561] – Missing i18n support for ReprojectPage
• [GEOS-5562] – Missing i18n support for WorkspaceEditPage
• [GEOS-5563] – slight mixed up order of Y-parameters in AffineTransformPanel

• improvements in the WFS cascading, we can now better interact with remote WFS servers running on TinyOWS and ArcGIS
• imageio-ext was upgraded to version 1.1.6, which means from now on GeoServer uses GDAL 1.9 to extends the range of raster formats it supports

v2.2.3 [12-30-12]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.2.3, now available for download. This is the latest release of the stable 2.2 series and contains some small new features and interesting fixes:

• [GEOS-3885] – Update Freemarker templates through REST API
• [GEOS-5325] – Add title and abstract to LayerGroupInfo
• [GEOS-5462] – The rendering thread can block forever under request cancellation
• [GEOS-5479] – Error in Documentation: tag used instead of
• [GEOS-5483] – json output in WPS extension does not work due to missing library
• [GEOS-5485] – Border artifacts when reprojecting single banded (scientific) raster data

• better support for chaining rendering transformations
• fixes to time/date handling in CQL
• Oracle specific SDO_NN function to find the N nearest objects to a given location

v2.2.2 [11-30-12]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.2.2, now available for download. This is the latest release of the stable 2.2 series and contains a number of good fixes and improvements including:

• [GEOS-5157] – Can’t configure MediaType in INSPIRE extension
• [GEOS-5376] – Line sizes with UOM in legend decoration are doubly scaled when using DPI
• [GEOS-5377] – WMS GetFeatureInfo fails when post filter required
• [GEOS-5388] – Confusing ‘Bad credentials forroot’ exception in verbose_logging mode when logged in as admin or root
• [GEOS-5395] – Catalog reload breaks GWC integration, update sequence upgrade and namespace/workspace consistency
• [GEOS-5402] – Subclasses of GeoServerPreAuthenticationFilter do not map local admin roles to global admin roles
• [GEOS-5366] – Better heuristic for OWS Request filenames

• Image mosaic filtering fixes
• Removing json-lib conflict with GWC
• Property handling of POST/PUT requests for proxy module

• XSLT output format generator plugin for WFS
• JSR-223 based scripting extension

v2.2.1 [10-26-12]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.2.1, now available for download. A lot of fixes, improved security sub-system and new stable version of GeoWebcache included. Enjoy! The GeoServer Team. Changes

v2.2 [10-04-12]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce to the release of GeoServer 2.2 and encourage you to download it and try out the great new features. The release of a new major version update is a big deal (the last one was over 16 months ago) and, while you may have heard about some of the new features on the developer list, here are the highlights all in one place: Referencing

• NTv2 and NADCon Support allows for datum transformations with cm level precision (instead of the usual 4m, when all goes well). Both will activate only if the grid files are present in the data dir, so by default the mere presence of the method is harmless, but generally speaking this is very good news for whoever needs to increase reprojection accuracy. Thanks to Oscar Fonts and Andrea Aime.
  
• Continued work for supporting high accuracy datum transformations that now allow for user defined transformations supplied via WKT. Thanks to the Catalan Cartographic Institute for funding the work and to Oscar and Andrea for doing the development.
• A new reprojection console allows users to interactively test transformations of points and other geometries back and forth between the chosen CRS, and also to verify the transformation method used matches the user expectations. Thanks Andrea.
• Better support for un-referenced data with the new EPSG:40400 code that identifies a coordinate system made up of a generic 2D Cartesian plane. As well as support for EPSG:102113 as an alias for Web Mercator.

• Database-level security implements the ability to use DBMS session startup and teardown scripts to alter user access the database during a specific request while falling back on connection pooling when the request is complete. Thanks to Astrium GEO-Information Services for sponsoring GeoSolutions to make this improvement.
• Sorting and paging is now available in all WFS versions (in 1.0 and 1.1 as a vendor param) via the sortBy and startIndex/maxFeature parameters. Thanks to Justin Deoliveira and Andrea.
• A new lenient capabilities mode that allows the GeoServer capabilities documents to remain functioning despite the presence of misconfigured layers. Thanks to David Winslow for this work.
• A new experimental OGR data store provides access to  a rich set of readable formats without needing special bridge libraries.
• The image collection coverage store allows users to serve un-referenced data through WMS using image/pixel space as the coordinate system. Thanks to SFMTA for sponsoring OpenGeo to complete this work.
• Application schema support has performance, stability, and functional improvements including reduced memory footprint, SQL joining support for more efficient queries of complex information models, support for WMS, and support for GML 3.2 application schemas. Thanks to Rini Angreani, Niels Charlier, Victor Tey, Ben Caradoc-Davies, and the rest of the team at CSIRO. This work was funded through AuScope by the Australian Government.
• BigTiff support has received some performance and scalability improvements courtesy of upgrade to imageio-ext 1.1.5.

• A major retrofit of the GeoServer security subsystem adding support for a number of new authentication mechanisms including LDAP, digest and X.509 certificate authentication, and more. These improvements also includes the addition of user groups. This is a continuation of work started by Christian Mueller as a Google Summer of Code project;  thanks to NOAA for sponsoring OpenGeo to help Christian and Justin bring it to completion.

• Support for WFS 2.0 adds some interesting new capabilities to the WFS protocol such as paging, stored queries, and extended operators. Thanks to IGN France and Géoportail for sponsoring OpenGeo to make this improvement.
• Along with WFS 2.0 comes support for GML 3.2.

• Support for additional dimensions brings time and elevation support to both vector and raster data. And, with support for time, comes support for animation in WMS. Thanks to Andrea, Alessio and GeoSolutions on both counts.
• Rendering transformations provide a bridge between WPS and WMS and allow for very powerful visualization capabilities for processing through normal WMS. Thanks to GeoSolutions for sponsoring this work (and Andrea for implementing it).
• Support for 8-bit PNG output with transparency resulting in a nice tradeoff of performance and appealing visualization. Special thanks to Andrea for this new feature.

• New WPS features include support for asynchronous process execution and a variety of new processes.

• Virtual services allow GeoServer to support the notion of multitenancy, enabling a single GeoServer instance to publish multiple service endpoints. Thanks to NOAA for sponsoring OpenGeo to complete this improvement and a special thanks to Micah Wengren of NOAA for his leadership on the project.
• Workspace local settings allow for specifying service settings such as contact information,  proxy settings, and output format settings on a per workspace basis.
• Styles and layer groups can also now be defined on a per workspace basis.

• A GeoWebCache configuration GUI is now available directly from within the GeoServer web admin interface, including: the ability to define new grid sets, specify which layers to cache, seed or truncate the cache, and more. Big thanks to Gabriel and the GeoWebCache team for furthering improving integration between GeoWebCache in GeoServer.

v2.1.4 [06-12-12]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.1.4, now available for download. For the most part this is a maintainance release consisting of bug fixes, but as usual a few new features and improvements have managed to creep in. The release contains a total of  46 between bug fixes and improvements. Some of the new and noteworthy include:

• various improvements to the SQL server data store extension
• snappier GUI when working with data whose coordinate system cannot be direclty matched to a native EPSG code
• more accurate GetFeatureInfo
• support for geography columns in SQL views against PostGIS
• GetLegendGraphics now takes into account UOM and DPI parameters
• ip based control and blacklisting in the control-flow extension
• before/after custom sql statements when hitting DBSMs (session oriented sql, can be used to switch authentication in the database

• Lars Lingner for addding the “forceLabel” parameter to GetLegendGraphic
• Rudi Hochmeister for speeding up the JSON output format on large layers
• Robert Coup for making SQL views parameters easier to pass in
• Tony Young for making WCS 1.0 DescribeCoverage support the “all coverages” description mode
• Hajo Kliemeck for making GetFeatureInfo work properly with user defined SLDs, and for improving legend decoration code
• Tim Shaub for making the OpenLayers preview work with Firefox 10+

v2.1.2 [10-10-11]

Close on the heels of the release of our newest stable branch, the GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.1.1. While primarily a bug-fixing release, a number of enhancements have been made, including support for the upcoming PostGIS 2.0, the addition of a number of new WPS processes and the addition of the Teradata database extension to the release. As always, there are a great many people to thank for the successful release. Our contributors continue their tireless efforts to move GeoServer forward. Our users and advocates provide invaluable feedback and direction to the project. Sponsoring companies and groups provide much needed funding to drive the addition of new functionality.  This release I would like to draw special attention to a few contributions.

• Rudi Hochmeister has contributed a patches to our logging system to simplify debugging and to fix a number of issues in our developer documentation.
• Gianni Barrotta, Andrea Di Nora, and Pietro Arena have contributed a number of new WPS processes to the project.
• Robert Coup has identified inconsistencies in the handling of URLs in the KML and GeoRSS output formats and has contributed patches to bring those in line with the rest of the code base.
• Matt Bertrand has added support for the definition of character set during shapefile uploads and associated testing.

v2.1.1 [07-15-11]

Close on the heels of the release of our newest stable branch, the GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.1.1. While primarily a bug-fixing release, a number of enhancements have been made, including support for the upcoming PostGIS 2.0, the addition of a number of new WPS processes and the addition of the Teradata database extension to the release. As always, there are a great many people to thank for the successful release. Our contributors continue their tireless efforts to move GeoServer forward. Our users and advocates provide invaluable feedback and direction to the project. Sponsoring companies and groups provide much needed funding to drive the addition of new functionality.  This release I would like to draw special attention to a few contributions.

• Rudi Hochmeister has contributed a patches to our logging system to simplify debugging and to fix a number of issues in our developer documentation.
• Gianni Barrotta, Andrea Di Nora, and Pietro Arena have contributed a number of new WPS processes to the project.
• Robert Coup has identified inconsistencies in the handling of URLs in the KML and GeoRSS output formats and has contributed patches to bring those in line with the rest of the code base.
• Matt Bertrand has added support for the definition of character set during shapefile uploads and associated testing.

v2.1.0 [05-16-11]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the fifth release candidate for 2.1, now available for download. This release brings some bug fixes and addresses a few residual regressions compared to the old 2.0.x series. In no particular order:

• While GeoServer 2.1 uses extended CQL (ECQL) for all the CQL related activities, it now also preserve backwards compatibility with the old CQL language (in particular, new keywords in ECQL might have conflicted with valid CQL statements).
• The compatibility towards Google Earth 6 was improved too, making Google Earth 6 properly display KMZ files with embedded images.
• The querylayer module, allowing for cross layer filtering, was promoted from community to extension module and is thus available as an official extension in the release.
• Finally, GeoServer 2.1-RC5 avoids HTTP session creation on all OGC service paths, even when using basic authentication, providing better overall scalability.

v2.1-RC5 [05-03-11]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the fifth release candidate for 2.1, now available for download. This release brings some bug fixes and addresses a few residual regressions compared to the old 2.0.x series. In no particular order:

• While GeoServer 2.1 uses extended CQL (ECQL) for all the CQL related activities, it now also preserve backwards compatibility with the old CQL language (in particular, new keywords in ECQL might have conflicted with valid CQL statements).
• The compatibility towards Google Earth 6 was improved too, making Google Earth 6 properly display KMZ files with embedded images.
• The querylayer module, allowing for cross layer filtering, was promoted from community to extension module and is thus available as an official extension in the release.
• Finally, GeoServer 2.1-RC5 avoids HTTP session creation on all OGC service paths, even when using basic authentication, providing better overall scalability.

v2.1-RC4 [04-09-11]

The GeoServer team is happy to announce the fourth release candidate for 2.1, now available for download. This release brings some important bug fixes and addresses a few regressions discovered in RC3. This includes a new parameter that will once again allow multiple GeoServer instances to run from a single data directory. This parameter, named “GWC_DISKQUOTA_DISABLED”, will disable the GeoWebCache disk quota module preventing it from maintaining a lock in the data directory. Other key fixes include an issue with the alternate and more performant method of raster reprojection that comes with the GeoServer 2.1 series, as well as some fixes for WMS 1.3 support surrounding axis ordering issues. Check out the change log for the full list. Thanks to everyone who tested RC3 and helped us flush out these last few issues. You can continue to help us get to the official 2.1 release by downloading and trying out RC4. Be sure to report any issues in the bug tracker or on the mailing list. Thanks for using GeoServer!

v2.0.3 and GeoServer 2.1-RC3 [04-03-11]

This week has been a busy one for the GeoServer team with two releases coming out. The community is happy to announce the release of both 2.0.3 and 2.1-RC3. GeoServer 2.0.3 is a maintenance release for the 2.0.x branch and contains over 60 fixes and a few small new features. For those who have already upgraded to 2.1 there is nothing new but those still on 2.0.2 will find:

• Ability to limit the amount of raster data read and delivered in each WCS request
• A host of stabilization improvements in the WFS department, allowing GeoServer to widthstand higher WFS workloads
• The new control flow extension allowing administrators to exert finer control over the number of parallel requests a GeoServer will handle, to ensure the server cannot be overloaded by malicious users or by a spike in traffic
• Ability to read the GeoServer log file directly from the user interface, without the need to hunt it down in the data directory
• Improvements to the ogr2ogr extension, allowing for the use of the famous ogr2ogr utility to extend the number of GeoServer WFS output formats
• Finer control over shapefiles returned by the SHAPE-ZIP output format

• The querylayer module which is a powerful extension that allows for cross layer filtering
• Support for GML3 encoding in Atom/RSS output formats
• Raster to vector conversion processes for WPS
• Inclusion of WMS decorations in PDF output

v2.1-RC1 [02-01-11]

The GeoServer community is happy to announce that the first release candidate of GeoServer 2.1 is now available for download. The team has been busy working on some great new improvements and features since 2.1-beta3. First up is GeoWebCache integration, allowing clients to enjoy the benefits of tile caching through the regular GeoServer WMS endpoint. This enables GeoWebCache to transparently proxy for the GeoServer WMS without the need for a separate service endpoint. Taking advantage of the recently added disk-quota functionality, GeoWebCache now provides the ability to set limits on the amount of disk space used for storing tiles, allowing users to control and limit the size of the tile cache on disk. Big thanks to Gabriel Roldán for the great GeoWebCache improvements. This release also brings some improvements to RESTConfig, which is now shipped with GeoServer by default so users need no longer install it as a separate plugin. Improvements to the API include the file upload operation that now allows for uploading files into an existing data store. This addition allows users to upload a shapefile and have it converted automatically into a PostGIS database, publishing it as a PostGIS layer rather than as a Shapefile layer. Finally, the API also supports recursive DELETE operations, making it more convenient to remove resources that contain other resources like stores or workspaces. Thanks to David Winslow and Justin Deoliveira of OpenGeo for these improvements. Thanks to some great work from the folks at GeoSolutions, raster reprojection performance has improved significantly by using linear appoximations of transformation functions. This improvement was initially added in 2.1-beta3 but has continued to be improved for 2.1-RC1. Those interested should checkout this article that links to a white paper with the full technical details. Last but certainly not least, thanks to Andrea Aime for the addition of a Web Coverage Service request builder, a handy tool for graphically building WCS requests to test a coverage service. As clients for WCS have always been sparse, this tool goes a long way for making the service more usable. We are happy to report the contribution of yet another translation of the web admin interface—special thanks to Oscar Fonts for submitting a Catalan translation and to Geodata Sistemas for funding the work. Also worthy of thanks this round is Ivan Grcic who has submitted some excellent patches, including bug fixes for WMS layer functionality. Thanks Ivan! As always, a number of other bug fixes and improvements have made it into this release. Check out the change log for all new and noteworthy changes. Download and try 2.1-RC1 now. You can help us reach the final 2.1 release by reporting any bugs in the issue tracker and sending feedback to the mailing list. Thanks for supporting GeoServer!