GeoServer

This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• New “clip” vendor option in WMS GetMap.
• The SLD generation service can now create classified styles with per class percentages of occupation.
• Various WMS cascading improvements, including:
  • Options to configure min/max scale denominator for cascaded WMS layers, as well as to limit the cascading requests to the declared BBOX.
  • Options to configure formats and styles used in cascading.
  • GetLegendGraphic now works with external WMS layers too.
• The configuration UI got improved too, in particular:
  • It’s possible to show dates of creation and last modification in the resource lists (layers, stores, and so on).
  • Search filters in lists are now remembered when moving across pages.
  • Data level security can be edited in a new dedicated tab at the single resource level (e.g., while in the layer page).
• Mass truncation requests added to GWC, and the tile layer page lists layers faster
• Monitoring can now skip post-processors, and can log the time needed to render each layer in a multi-layer request.
• WFS supports per workspace stored queries.
• The SQL Server now ships with the latest open source JDBC driver by Microsoft, no longer need to fetch it separately.
• The download process (community module) can now return image mosaic single granules in their native CRS, when requesting a single one out of a heterogeneous CRS mosaic.
• Layer level CQL filter is now respected by complex feature layers too.

Fixes included in this release:

• WMS legend decorations got some attention, improving their size management
• Improved support for map wrapping while using rendering transformations generating raster data (raster to raster or vector to raster ones)
• And various others!

For more information check the 2.16.3 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 ( 2.16.3  | 2.16.2 | 2.16.1 | 2.16.0 | 2.16-RC1 )