GeoServer 2.4-RC1 released

GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.4-RC1. This release contains a set of bug fixes and minor improvements compared to 2.4-beta, including:

• Some love to the layer group edit page, fixing style editing

• Improvements in the CSS extension editor

• A number of fixes in the CSW community module (scheduled to graduate to extension real soon now)

• Making GML3 GetFeatureInfo output work against rasters too

• A bunch of minor fixes to the new KML module

See the GeoServer 2.4-RC1 release notes for more details.

The next release candidate is scheduled in two weeks. If we don’t hear about major bugs reported against 2.4-RC1, we’ll release it as 2.4.0:  user community, your turn, please test RC1 now and let us know if anything major does not work as you expected. If you discover any issue, report it in our bug tracker and if you still do not have a login, you can create one at Codehaus (valid for all Codehaus services, including the GeoServer bug tracker they are graciously hosting for us).

About the GeoServer 2.4 series

GeoServer 2.4 continues our 6-month release cycle.

Volunteer opportunities:

• We strongly encourage all interested parties to take part in testing GeoServer 2.4-RC1

The following change control requests were completed during the development of GeoServer 2.4:

• Replace old KML module with new one (GSIP 98)

• Allow plugins to modify WMS MapContent before map rendering (GSIP 92)

• Machinery to pass thread locals down in thread pools (GSIP 96, fixes WPS asych requests security issues) - also available in 2.3.4

• Promote CSS Styling module from Community to Extension (GSIP 97) - also available in 2.3.2

• Graduate the INSPIRE module to extension status (GSIP 94) - also available in 2.3.2

• Promote XSLT community module to extension (GSIP 93) - also available in 2.3.1

• The shapefile datastore was completely rewritten (mostly as a code cleanup)

Articles and blogs during GeoServer 2.4 development:

• GeoServer in a clustered configuration (Part 1, Part 2)

• New GeoServer community on Google+

• How to publish GDAL/MrSID image formats on a production GeoServer

• GeoServer crunch time (Part I, Part II and Part III)

• FOSS4G-NA slides (GeoServer In Production, GeoServer CSS Module, Scripting GeoServer with GeoScript, The State of GeoServer 2013)

• INSPIRE Conference 2013 slides (Analysing GeoServer compatibility with INSPIRE requirements)

• FOSSGIS 2013 slides (Introduction to GeoServer)