We are pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.18.1 with downloads ( war | bin ), documentation and extensions.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 24.1 and GeoWebCache 1.18.1. This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, and Alessandro Parma, Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions) for making this release.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements. Notable improvements:

  • New option allow to tile cache WMS requests that align to gridsets, even if tiled=true is not present.
  • New process grouping features by attribute, and then selecting a single one out of the group, in particular, the feature with the min or max value of a given attribute. Can be used either as a rendering transformation or a stand-alone WPS process.
  • GeoFence integrated UI allows to configure security rules by IP address ranges.

Fixes included in this release:

  • Better WPS packaging, including the required CSV libraries.
  • Better support for WMS XML post requests in workspace local services.
  • Addressed incompatibility with macOS 11 preventing startup

For more information check the 2.18.1 release notes.

Community Updates

For developers building from source, our community modules are a great place to collaborate on functionality and improvements.

  • The “feature template” module has received assorted improvements

About GeoServer 2.17

Additional information on GeoServer 2.18 series: