GeoServer 2.17.2 Released

This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 23.2 and GeoWebCache 1.17.2. This is a stable release recommended for production systems.

Thanks to everyone who contributed, and Jody Garnett (GeoCat) for making this release. Additional thanks to everyone who participated in the July bug-fix sprint organized by GeoSolutions.

Improvements and Fixes

This release includes a number of improvements, including:

• GetFeatureInfo templates can now be used for GeoJSON output
• The WPS download community module can now generate elevation models accounting for vertical grid shift when changing datum.
• Oracle extension now ready to use with included JDBC driver, the driver changed to a “Oracle Free Use Terms and Conditions” license allowing us to distribute.
• PostreSQL driver, Oracle driver, Eclipse EMF library, spring-framework, and spring-security version updates.
• Image Mosaic REST API can now be used to update the native bbox when harvesting or deleting granules

Fixes included in this release:

• GetFeatureInfo fixed to work on raster layer dynamically produced by a rendering transformation.
• Lots of WMTS fixes resolving SRS list duplicates and handling of otherSrs.
• SLD Service handling of percentages with custom classes
• Layer preview fix, was miscounting number of pages when security restrictions used to limit number of layers available
• Binary download on windows fixed to autodect Java when spaces used in path
• WFS Cascade fixed to remove duplicate SRS elements when connecting to WFS 2.0.0 layer
• MongoDB extension fixed, was missing a jar
• Database use of select distinct in the WPS Unique process fixed
• Image mosaic fixes for WPS download process bbox generation, and WMS GetMap respect of CLIP vendor parameter,
• GeoPackage supports raster tables with special characters

For more information check the 2.17.2 release notes.

Community Updates

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

• The JSON-LD module is under active development with templating now supporting filtering, environmental variable substitution. Thanks to the sponsorship of the French geological survey – BRGM and the French environmental information systems research center – INSIDE.
• The GSR community module working on packaging, addressed a startup problem.

About GeoServer 2.17

Features, presentations and reference material on the 2.17 series:

• New security tab on each layer, layer group and workspace page
• Option to use date created and date modified to sort UI lists
• New resource browser extension
• New Mapbox style extension

• FOSDEM GeoServer Orientation presentation (slides

  video)

• Full OSM data directory for GeoServer available on GitHub
• Code of Conduct

• Release Notes (2.17.2

  2.17.1

  2.17.0

  2.17-RC)