GeoServer 2.4.4 Released

The GeoServer team is pleased to announce the release of GeoServer 2.4.4:

• GeoServer 2.4.4 download page

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

• Role service implementation based on LDAP

• CSV output for app-schema simple features level zero

• WPS GeoTiff tiling improvements

• Layer rendering robustness issues relating to mis specified fonts

• Fixes to Symbology Encoding Halo parsing

• And more! Checkout of the change log for the full list

Thanks to all those who contributed fixes, and documentation corrections, for this release. This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 10.4.

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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)