GeoServer 2.4.3 Released

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

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

A great performance improvement for those using sql views
Fix for defining a workspace style using CSS extension
Workspace styles can now manage their own images and graphics
Thanks to all those who contributed fixes, and documentation corrections, for this release.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.3.

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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: