The GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.7.4. Download bundles are provided (zip, war, dmg and exe)  along with documentation and extensions.

GeoServer 2.7.3 is a maintenance release of GeoServer recommended for production deployment. Thanks to everyone taking part, submitting fixes and new functionality including:

Bug

  • [GEOS-3228] - Empty filter causes IndexOutOfBoundsException

  • [GEOS-3432] - RESTConfig “styles” list does not get generated if a style is missing its associated sld file

  • [GEOS-4986] - Creating SQL Views via RESTConfig as JSON fails

  • [GEOS-6768] - externalGraphic with relative path and query parameters problem

  • [GEOS-7045] - Layer Security - Catalog Mode

  • [GEOS-7243] - Render (or transform) fails on Multipolygon but not on polygon

  • [GEOS-7256] - Maven Cobertura plugin does not work

  • [GEOS-7259] - JMS based cluster should use qualified names for Layers and Layergroups

  • [GEOS-7267] - JMS Clustering should prefix Styles names with workspace

  • [GEOS-7295] - OpenLayers preview does not work if authkey community module is enabled

  • [GEOS-7302] - Using on the fly meta tiling in WMS request may result in rendered images not being disposed of

  • [GEOS-7312] - RawDataPPIO does not close InputStreams it opens

  • [GEOS-7314] - GeoTiffPPIO can return the source file of a processed coverage

Improvement

  • [GEOS-4762] - WCS should force usage of imageread

  • [GEOS-7150] - Features counted twice for WFS queries with GeoJSON responses

For a full list, see the release notes.

Also, as a heads up for Oracle users, the Oracle store does not ship anymore with the JDBC driver (due to redistribution limitations imposed by Oracle). For details see the updated the oracle installation instructions here.

Thanks to Alessio Fabiani (GeoSolutions) for this release.

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 13.4 and GeoNode 2.4.