GeoServer 2.4.2 released

The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.4.2:

• GeoServer 2.4.2 download page

This is a stable release containing bug fixes and incremental improvements, including:

• Total matched feature count available in JSON output (contributed by Paul Biskup)

• Ability to control how scale hints are computed in WMS 1.1 (contributed by Roy Braam and Mauricio Pazos)

• Support for randomized symbol fills in both SLD and CSS (thanks to New South Wales Geological survey for sponsoring it)

• Better support for data with 3D coordinates using GML3/GeoJSON, and associated improvements in the SQL Server backend (thanks to IGEA, Croatia, for sponsoring this work)

• WCS 1.0 can be disabled

• Several translation updates and improvements, thanks to the translation team. In no particular order: Polish, Korean, German, Lithuanian, Spanish, Romanian, French

• Several small fixes in the docs (thanks to all the good people that contributed them!)

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.2.

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About the GeoServer 2.4 series

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 2.4.0 Release Highlights

• GeoServer FOSS4G 2013 (State of GeoServer, Introduction, Steroids, GeoFence, RasterData, Spatio-Temporal, Cartographic Rendering )

• Translation Interview

• 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)