GeoServer 2.16.2 released

This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• Support for vector custom dimensions (in addition to time and elevation)
• Allow limiting the number of concurrent jobs in the importer extension
• Default style descriptions wording improvement (as they are visible in capabilities documents)

Fixes included in this release:

• The REST API fixes regarding datastore and feature type handling (see notes for details)
• Fixed 100% CPU usage at idle on data directories with tens of thousands of layers
• Don’t delay startup on an unresponsive cascaded WMS server
• Make sure to truncate fully tile caches with parameters
• Make GWC caching kick in also when using local workspaces along with non qualified layer names
• And various others!

For more information check the 2.16.2 release notes.

Community Updates

For developers building from source, our community modules are a great place to collaborate on functionality and improvements.

• The templated JSON-LD output format, supporting both simple and complex features, has been backported to 2.16.x. We are grateful for the sponsorship of the French geological survey – BRGM and the French environmental information systems research center – INSIDE, which made its development possible.

About GeoServer 2.16

Features, presentations and reference material on the 2.16 series:

• State of GeoServer 2.16 (video|slides)
• GeoServer Feature Frenzy 2019 (video|slides)
• New SLDService extension using data classification for style generation
• New authentication key extension available
• Server status page now includes system status details
• GDAL 2.x binaries are now used for GDAL image formats along with OGR WFS output and WPS output formats
• Release Notes ( 2.16.2 | 2.16.1 | 2.16.0 | 2.16-RC1 )